Avid Amoeba @ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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It seems to me that a large portion of people who might vote NDP are also very aware of the realities of climate change. How do you hope to appeal to them?

I have a good example about this. My union ships coal out, both metallurgical coal, that makes steel, and thermal coal, which is burned. We’re supposed to phase out coal by 2030.

If we were to end coal shipping today, probably about 100 of my members would be out of work. But by giving us five years to phase it out, our union and employers can transition to shipping other products mined in Canada.

That’s a perfect example of identifying a product that is harmful to the environment and moving gently and safely so that workers are protected. The environment is going to be protected.

Goddamn this guy gets it! I was literally making this argument in another thread.

He hits most important notes correctly from a working class perspective. He looks and sounds genuine. Donated to his campaign. I am hopeful!

That point about the donors playing into the stereotypes is something that I keep coming to myself as they move to shore up support for their cause.

Cries in longest undefended border in the world

That PS warrants an upvote.

Free movement of capital and consolidation strike again. As someone who has worked with Qualcomm, the company, this is not good, very bad indeed.

Not quite. Paralegal and juniors in software are two off the top of my head that are here and affected. Maybe the nums are too small to register.

Wow, that's some seriously bad faith crap.

Link to the official blog post: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

Link to the feedback form shared on the blog post: https://goo.gle/Android-verification-feedback

Make use of that second link.

That's my understanding as well. Whatever the contribution deadline is. I check every year in case it's been moved.

Iiinteresting.

Even BYD itself (as well as other Chinese car makers) admits this, with one of its executives literally warning of a "bloodbath" in China's domestic car market.

I'm aware of the sitiatuion and my reading is not that BYD's execs are complaining that they're getting too much money from subsidies. Instead they're complaining that the subsidies have created an ultracompetitive market which drives prices down. Generally what's bad for a firm's exec in a competitive market is good for the rest of the economy, in every country. It means people aren't overpaying for the product, paying for profits that often aren't reinvested into the local economy.

Agreed, not everything is about price. However some prices in some countries drive regime changes. The rising cost of living has driven many Canadians to homelessness. After housing, transport and groceries are the second and third most significant living expenses for Canadians. That's where vehicle (and gas) prices come in. We very narrowly avoided electing the Canadian version of the fascists running the US right now. We did a lot of work and spent good money to avoid it. But nothing has changed for the better yet and Canadians are not less willing to get maple maga in office. Some polls already show them leading and we are likely to get another election within 2 years. And they will bust unions, make working conditions worse across the economy, increase oil and gas subsidies, steamroll indigenous people, and go after all sorts of vulnerable social groups. American exploitation of Canadian labour and resources would increase. And so you see, all else being equal, Canadian vehicle prices are related with Canadian labour and other rights, and they're going in the wrong direction.

What do you mean "despite"?

This person sells cars. ☝️

Skill issue

All the buttons are of the bank's color.

I mean, university itself tries hard to create the perception of a meritocratic system through its testing and filtering mechanisms. You can go through a complete undergrad degree not only without having the inequities around you pointed out, but the opposite - having a strenghtened feeling of meritocratic success. I know I did. Unlearning that took many years and a lot of luck. Of course some programs wouldn't let you get away like that but the curriculum contradicts many of the university's processes. I wish a specially crafted minor in humanities was mandatory for every university grad but also a version of such curriculum should be taught even in high school. A pipe dream.

Best I can do is rolling coal in a RAM 1500 through the 401 tunnel for $100B. 🤭

Make the factories here, would solve most of that and take care of Unifor's workers.

I get the frustration but unions are generally on our side of economic issues. Unifor doesn't care what autos we produce, EVs, big or small. Or whether their members produce autos at all. They care about Unifor members having well paying jobs through getting a larger share of the corporate profits they generate. This is in the majority of Canadians' interest. That money is recycled throughout the economy and it lifts other wages too.

Whenever the interest of a particular union in an industry comes in contradiction with the rest of us, it's important to keep in mind that those workers interest isn't the same as the corporatiom they work for, and that if we throw them under the bus because they aren't unionized, they'd make their anger known at the election polls. This is where considering their interest being distinct from their bosses is useful. We can and should take care of workers whose industries harm the rest of us. Unions can actually be allies in this. If we make workers whole, through concrete programs of retraining, retirement, we'd face a lot less resistance to tackling harmful industries. We could even get productive cooperation and spare us the backlash come election time. Of course that requires dialing down free market fundamentalism a few notches.