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Yeah likely would need to create a special system of refugee status or similar. Maybe around the concept of escaping “woke-ism”?

That’s the perfect meme, because I do feel guilty about how this fucks over my friends and family in the US. But as they don’t seem motivated to fix their own country, I feel like this may be a good way to at least help some people

If possible yes, or if not possible I’m interested in seeing what is closest to providing an experience like that.

I’ve been daily driving desktop Linux for the last 5y and off and on for 25y plus a lot of professional sysadmin experience so I’m pretty familiar with fiddling and such.

So I don’t need a turnkey experience but I do want a pleasant and reliable experience once it’s all setup.

Interestingly, neither Carney’s nor Poilievre’s perspectives acknowledge that higher program spending and larger headcounts has not led to significant improvement in public service delivery, as shown by a recent analysis by Jennifer Robson, one of our co-authors.

I disagree with this take. My interpretation of Carney’s plan is that it’s squarely aimed at improving productivity of the public sector. This speaks directly to this point — we need our public sector to be focused on delivering results. The main cost is headcount so the cost-efficiency without layoffs that is Carney’s plan will require improvements to delivery.

So it’s far from a done deal and I largely agree with the author about this being the important thing to work on. I just also think that what is being described is already the plan.

I’ll beat this drum again: I would fully support a program where we exchange equal numbers of MAGA loyalists in Canada for trained doctors, engineers, and tradespeople looking to escape fascism.

The Americans have already shown interest in this with their idea of importing white South Africans. Is this an impossible idea?

This is unambiguously correct, but it’s a dangerous line to tread as many bad actors will seize on any opportunity to push antisemitism.

So we both need to ensure that people can freely express political opposition to the actions of the country and government of Israel, but still ensure that these bad actors who are just looking for any opportunity to spread antisemitism don’t have room to breathe.

Requires a deft hand.

I’m going to honest and say that I really don’t understand what you’re getting at. Either you misunderstood what I’m saying, or i misunderstood you and still don’t understand; or both.

A proper accounting of the emissions generated in Canada is what’s important. Averaging our emissions down because of all our vast expanses of empty land is disingenuous at best and false propaganda at worst.

For industrial uses an ideal accounting would be look at who consumes the byproducts of those products. If we ship oil to the US we could allocate those emissions to the US and if China or India has emissions to serve our demand then we could be allocated this to us.

A consumption-based accounting in combination with the current per-capita accounting would give a decently accurate representation of where and why the emissions are occurring. Per-sq-km emissions have zero place in any reasonable discussion.

It matters when it’s the people and their activities causing the emissions. A bunch of unused land doesn't make the pollution that the people actually do where they live any less bad.

This is a truly bad take, it comes across as the most desperate attempt to minimize a problem that instead we deserve to look at head on

I don’t think most people are trying to reduce emissions to improve the view of their region from space.

Most people are focusing on, you know, the carbon emissions which are heating the planet, and the downstream effects from the changes that incurs?

Emission levels per capita is absolutely a better metric than “the view from space”. It’s perhaps a bit misleading— should the emissions from China that go to making disposable shit for europe and North America be attributed to their production or our consumption? (Obviously China should own the fraction for their own domestic consumption regardless)

But yeah, the emissions per capita is a good metric even if my country doesn’t look good in it. Because even if you’re fooling yourself with this view from space nonsense you’re not fooling anyone else

Canada will be mainly looking for skilled workers in the coming years. Being trained in healthcare or trades or engineering might give you a leg up, but it can’t be guaranteed

But overall Canada is reducing our overall immigration levels due to our previous government allowing many more immigrants than homes to house them.

Why do you feel pollution per km is an appropriate metric?

Cohen said Trump’s bluster and brow-beating should not be taken seriously. “My advice to my Canadian friends is: Don’t give him the pleasure of getting upset.”

Fuck that.

I’m staying upset and I’m channeling all that upsettedness into doing my damnedest to defend my country and push me out of my comfort zone.

I’m channeling it into optimism and hope for the Canada we can build together after we kick our dependence on the Americans to the curb.

For sure but I want to be explicit they are only right by coincidence.

As I said, I don’t believe cons are saying this from a place of good intentions. So I agree with that. Yes, the complaints are hypocritical.

But I also don’t think it’s at all funny to joke about how the Chinese government puts a bounty on our people. In our own country! This is a real thing that is happening to real people.

That said, I’m wiling to hear out the full context on it. I can’t imagine a context that would make it okay, but there are lots of things I can’t imagine. But as it stands with the context I’m aware of it’s completely unacceptable.

So it’s not about agreeing with the conservatives or not. I don’t. I’m literally going door-knocking in a few hours to help get the vote out to ensure they do not win. A friend of mine who is rather old is volunteering in Carleton trying to unseat PP and I donated heavily to that riding in order to support them.

But also, I do not accept that we should allow our candidates from any party to make light of the abuses that the Chinese government is heaping on Canadians. Even candidates from a party I explicitly am supporting .

“Schadenfreude” would be a great name for a roller coaster

An obscenely rich asshole — one who is currently dismantling the democratic institutions of a country where many my friends and family live — is asking who derives joy from his company collapsing around him.

The answer to his question is… us. We do. The punchline is that the people taking joy in his self-inflicted failure are the entirety of his former customer base and beyond.

When I posted this in bsky last night it found some extremely modest virality so I thought some folks here might enjoy as well.

The Conservatives are not doing this to stand up on principle against China or stand with Chinese Canadians. They are doing this to help them win a seat, and to embarrass Carney to help win them seats elsewhere. Period.

This candidate should resign or be involuntarily replaced. This should not be considered a partisan issues, because while I am supporting the liberals in this election these types of vile “jokes” are unacceptable.

Vendors are not out there for fun, they sell goods for profit.

Price caps on groceries will result in either the companies hiding profits upstream; or food shortages. We don’t need feel good economics policies that do nothing at best and harm at worst.

This is irresponsibly dangerous policy. The socialist response to market failure should be providing a government alternative for food distribution if the market fails. To heavily fine and break up or disband the companies which cheat and steal.

We deserve better, do better

Instead of and not in addition to? Hell yes.

Please send them a message of support for doing this

I like your idea of setting self goals with a built-in reminder system. This is a mindset I’ve been trying to adopt more in my life and it’s been very successful when applied.

However I also want to counterbalance that against an impact of replacing my existing device which is not compatible with those and is a perfectly usable machine. Particularly because of the costs and the waste from upgrading devices before it’s needed.

But maybe I’m under-thinking this because of inertial and it just being easy to punt it to another day. I could sell my current device and buy a used compatible device and this wouldn’t be an excessive cost nor generation of electronic waste

Thank you for the push.