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  • The key is action. As a society, we made the "case that climate change is a threat that needs to be prioritized in government action" since at least the Kyoto protocol, which was almost 30 years ago. Since then, we've repeatedly missed our own targets, and failed to significantly reduce our emissions.

    I really like that Carney admits climate change is a thing, but it isn't gonna matter to my kids. His organizations need to do something about it. From what I've read, the Glasgow Alliance was ineffectual at best, and a marketing exercise at worst.

    The proof will be in Carney's actions over the next few months. I hope he's able to put his words into action, but I'm not holding my breath.

  • Times definitely have changed.

    Also, Google was "Do no Evil"

    At the time Google seemed awesome. Gmail was a game changer - a usable webapp that was better than maybe clients.

    Firefox was good, but not great.

    Firefox was the best of a bad bunch. It was so easy for devs to move to Chrome because the experience on every other browser was bad.

  • Yeah. They're both establishment/status quo parties, that aren't going to address root causes of problems. The Liberals may make minor improvements, but it's still the path to oligarchy and climate crisis.

    The Liberals are definitely better than the Conservatives, but only by degrees.

  • A good while back, Chrom(ium) was just flat-out faster

    Performance was huge.

    I was willing to put up with a little jank from my browser because I wanted a diverse browser ecosystem, but Chrome felt much, much now performant. After I switched to Chrome, browsing felt noticably better.

  • It was too noisy. My wife and I used to live in a small apartment. I'd leave my Linux box on all the time. Running Firefox, it'd periodically spin up the fan, which was loud enough to annoy my wife at night, and me during the day. Chrome didn't spin up the fan. I switched and we stopped hearing my noisy computer.

    This was a while ago. I can't remember if it was Firefox or Mozilla at that point.

  • Canada is still first past the post.

    "Better" depends on what you're talking about.

    They promised similar things: tax cuts, more housing. IMO it's fair to say that the Liberals said more about their policies (although I only looked at the Conservative housing platform).

    They're both pretty corporate. I don't think either of them will shrink the growing disparity between rich and poor, or do anything to mitigate climate change.

  • I'd enjoy the schadenfreude of watching the Conservatives go through another Reform/PC split, but that gave the Liberals an easy decade. It would be better for the country if CPC could grow a brain, accept climate change exists, and focus on real issues (affordability and healthcare), rather than the culture war.

    It would be amazing if the NDP filled that role, but they don't get votes on a lot of ridings.

    Like another commenter said, I might as well wish for a pony.

  • Hey, I'd love a pony too.

    I totally agree. I'm not sure I'd ever vote CPC, but a party that is less about imported anti-woke culture wars and more about taking care of what we have would be good.