Or at least demanding she resign. I bet there’s more support for that than for separation. You should all do it.

It’s the 5th largest of Alberta’s 37 ridings. I doubt it’s even in the top 20 nationwide, but I can’t be bothered to go compare areas that long.

I’d say it’s more like insisting your parents legally give you their basement as a separate property.

Yeah, the cost is so incredibly tiny. To take the full general election as an example, it cost each of us about $20. Is a fair and democratic election not worth $20 to you? It sure as heck is to me.

Maybe not PR. But ranked choice voting sure would have!

Yeah, this might actually be convincing to those in power now. The eternal problem with electoral reform is: why would you change a system which you just won with?

Thanks for the explanation! I’m familiar with the voting reform issue (and still salty Trudeau didn’t carry through on it), but some other readers might not be.

That reminds me - what the heck is up with the candidates in Carlton? Who are all these independents?

I had a past employer tell employees in a group meeting that you should stay home when sick, because coming to work just spreads it around and has a worse impact on the whole team, and therefore the business. We all stood there thinking, “OK, that makes sense… so why are you not paying for sick days, again?”

That’s not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?

Except when asked point-blank what his position is on his party wearing MAGA gear, Poilievre refuses to address it. Silence is complicity, plus Poilievre has been doing everything he can over the past several years to ape Trump.

Kind of splitting hairs, but a company that can let go of “scores” of employees and still exist is not a small business.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/

As a software developer, it perfectly summarizes my position.

Yoga is correct - the average riding is 100-120k people. The smallest riding in BC currently is 89k, so unless they were going to give BC more ridings it makes sense.

The only ridings which are significantly below that mark are:

• Labrador, it’s an entire island
• The territories, with 1 riding each

Labrador is perhaps debatable because Newfoundland has other ridings it could join, but I think the case for having a riding cross a strait is much weaker than splitting a city in a remote area. This is not unique to Prince George, and sharing a riding with people 600km away is just reality when you’re talking about remote, sparsely populated areas.

Yes, you’re anthropomorphizing far too much. An LLM can’t understand, or recall (in the common sense of the word, i.e. have a memory), and is not aware.

Those are all things that intelligent, thinking things do. LLMs are none of that. They are a giant black box of math that predicts text. It doesn’t even understand what a word is, orthe meaning of anything it vomits out. All it knows is what is the statistically most likely text to come next, with a little randomization to add “creativity”.

Yeah, 100%. This is the town’s fault IMO - not maintaining the markings in the first place (it’s not the contractor’s fault that the old marking is non-existent), and then probably refusing to pay the contractor “extra” to repaint the whole thing.

I don’t know about the regulatory side, but Boeing gutted their experienced engineering corps starting about 10 years ago. In the pursuit of profit of course. I think we’re seeing the effects of that finally coming to the fore.

My understanding of the role of the regulatory agencies for stuff like this is that they can ground a model of plane if they believe there’s a systemic issue. Like we saw with the MAX.

In any industrial context, a “robot” is short for robotic arm. Those things you see in footage of automotive factories.

They also don’t have any kind of AI. It’s just a regular (if specialized) computer in control.

“Just stop considering it scandalous” is a severe lack of imagination. Even if/when the stigma of “having a sex life” is gone, the great majority of people consider their sex life to be private. Video floating around that looks like you having sex is a very different thing to hearsay rumors.

Keep in mind that the exact same techniques could be used to sabotage adult relationships, marriages, careers, just as easily as teenage bullying. This isn’t a problem society can shrug away by saying sex should be less stigmatized.

Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.