Jokes aside:
Instead of boiling that water to run a turbine perhaps we could use a Thermal Electric Generator to extract energy without said turbine and everything that comes with it.
Dont know how well this would scale or what it’s hard use limits would be. But I hear a common solution to “too much solar” is to run the excess energy into heating a pool.
A Thermo Electric Generator could allow people to recapture that energy in their pool.
Yea I came across this story a few weeks ago after seeing the body cam footage of that woman arrested at her house with the cop insisting they had her on video but the footage he was referencing clearly showed a different person.
ACAB.
IMO we need a Department of Digital Fluency, Competence, and Oversight.
Basically a department tasked on making sure government policies don’t lead to fuck ups on dumb shit like miscounting underscores and going on a wild goose chase. (I might be confusing this instance with a different but similar one)
Besides providing oversight on legislation, internal policies, and judicial investigations; they could also provide mandatory training to any legislators or officials.
We simply can’t be trusting these dusty ass judges, life appointed senators, or anyone with tenured employment to maintain the digital fluency todays world necessitates.
Avi is a step in the right direction but I agree NDP is still way too “LPC-lite.”
Cuz yea exactly. A NDP with vision would be pushing small business in tandem with social safety net programs. Empowering people to help themselves.
I’m not blind to the fact that Carney’s economics carves out a big chunk of our productivity for the same Epstein-billionare class that is destroying the planet.
But in the face of MAGA-USA imperialism the NDP is not a hill I’m willing to die on.
So the author is blaming Carney for the job losses US tarriffs are causing; Is upset Carney isn’t expanding the EI program, and then accuses Carney of corporatizing Canada for short term miniscule reprieve.
This is what I mean when I say a lot of progressives have lost the plot: Our entire political discussion for most Canadians’ living memory has occurred in the sandbox of US hegemony. Carney didn’t destroy that, Trump did. Carney is diversifying the supply chains Trump is using to threaten us.
The author calls for an alternate response to Trump based on working class solidarity. But they undermine their own credibility by calling Carney our enemy instead of actually being the response they’re calling for.
I’m not giving Carney a free pass, but I voted for someone who could mitigate the harm MAGA-USA is causing and Carney is doing exactly that. As much as I’ll be voting (indirectly) for Avi Lewis next federal election, the fact of the matter is that NDP under Singh wasn’t up to this task.
After Carney has done his job the NDP can step in and fix our domestic policies.
I think some progressive people are losing the plot and forgetting the bigger picture. There is a global, historical, and logistical context to all of this.
As much as I would have preferred a NDP government, with a strong socialist platform; if that were to result in supply chain breaks several years later that prevent my loved ones from getting their life saving medications or medical devices… I would regret that vote.
I foresee 2 major global supply chain interruptions on the horizon:
Global food supply - climate change
Global electronics supply - China invading Taiwan
Once those supply chains break our ability to build new ones before there is a considerable human cost, becomes very questionable. So like yes we need to hold Carney accountable to his environmental and ethical promises; BUT this blanket opposition to everything he does is IMO misguided, short sighted, and lacks alternative solutions.
We need to mobilize in a way that’s productive, not just reactive and obstructive.
Some things simply have no dollar value.
Not getting disappeared for being the ‘wrong’ colour
Not worrying about your kid being shot at school (or even thinking about guns in general)
Not having to avoid food containing chemicals or made with processes banned everywhere but the USA for health reasons.
Only have to use imperial for bodyweight and height
Little to no anti-piracy enforcement (YAR)
Being smug about not being American
everyone
It’s the everyone part. You need to get everyone on board. That is A LOT of ducks to line up; to put it lightly. Forcing it via prohibitions without first addressing the underlying needs;
incentivizes non participation by both opponents who stand to lose and would-be supporters negatively effected by my 2nd point.
Has unforeseen outcomes resulting the same working class casualties we wanted to avoid in the first place
Basically it’s easier said than done and there’s no shortcuts like, 'outlawing for-profit". There are real logistical challenges are completely outside of capitalism at play. We have to do the hard work of building a self sustaining society first. Than we can remove vestigial constructs like capital and profit.
We need to outlaw for-profit companies.
Marx was pretty clear that’s not how communism manifests. It’s the final evolution state of socialism.
What you’re suggesting is an inverse of what needs to happen in order to achieve the outcome you’re seeking.
Only by creating a society that provides for every member within it can a context arise where there is no direct incentive to pursue for-profit ventures.
Outlawing profit, will just create demand for law enforcement without doing anything to replace the mechanism driving people to seek profit in the first place.
Really what needs to happen is they need to close tax loopholes and actually administer corporate income taxes responsibly instead of incompetantly like they are now.
Totally but those are net profits. If it’s produced here part of the gross revenue is staying here in the form of labour costs, utilities, and taxes.
Ultimately the demand for 100% Canadian products will drive supply and we’ll have more better options in the future.
If they didn’t I wouldn’t be surprised if they saw a sudden increase in “undeliverable” packages.
The only effective enforcement is us voting with our wallets anyways.
Plus standardizing is also kinda pointless cuz people are drawing their own lines. Like if you live near a Canadian manufacturing plant that makes an American branded product you’ll probably be more inclined to purchase those brands that are at least produced here, if not fully owned.
Meanwhile others are going eschew everything not 100% Canadian.
I think naming and shaming brands that deceptively adopt Canadian branding is the best way forward.
Winnipeg Free Press
Fair. Canadians only gave USA a free pass cuz until now we’ve been their evil sidekicks.
The thing I hate most about Americans is that I was genuinely not racist before MAGA USA.
I unfortunately am now racist against Americans and feel bad about not feeling bad about it anymore.
Like nothing against the cool one’s but holy shit 9/10 of them suck ass.
edit: I don’t actually hate americans… but American culture is absolute shit and Americans should all hang their heads in shame.
It will end when America ends. I said this on July 19, 2016 when Trump first won the GOP nomination: “Historians will mark this day specifically as the beginning of dissolution of the united states of America.”
Mark my words, Trump’s death will trigger a doubling down on fascism to fill the vacuum left by his populism. They will exact revenge on anyone who celebrated Trumps death, just like after Charlie Kirk died. The concentration camps full of ‘immigrants’ will be vacated to make room for the political enemies of the Post-Trump-Regime.
The USA as we know it is in it’s final decade. What’s happening now will be taught in history books right after the chapter on Nazi Germany.
Corporate CEOs can all have 1 camera each, on their front lawn, for them to hang from.
They’re just pissed because they’re losing JTF2.
Seriously Canadas special forces are literally the most elite in the world.
When they need it done with zero mistakes, they send JTF2.