Ferengi rule of aquision #285: “No good deed ever goes unpunished”.

How many decades do we have to burn on this lie of a two-state solution before we admit that it’s always been a way for Israel to continue squeezing Palestinians off their lands?

There should be one secular state, free of apartheid.

As Trudeau once said: “I’ve been called worse things by better people”.

Neat project, but it appears to be using (L)GPL code in a bunch of places while being licensed under MIT. That’s a big no-no.

This reminds me of an excellent video I saw about “AI” the other day: “We are so deeply steeped in bullshit that we have forgotten that there used to be such a thing as ‘truth’”. It’s long, but maybe you’ll like it too.

There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.

Social media is great for kids or adults when compared to the monolithic groupthink alternative. The problem isn’t social media, it’s the companies behind it, driving engagement through hate and outrage.

This is a big reason why nonprofit, fediverse options are healthier spaces for everyone: no one is profiting off of making you hate anyone else.

Yes, if you go looking, you’ll definitely find content that’s unhealthy or even dangerous, but (a) federated systems tend to protect against this with defederation, but critically (b) it’s not pushed into your eyeballs by a third party motivated to do so. In this way, nonprofit social media is a lot like real life: sure you can meet Terrible People, but that’s just existing in society.

We’re not grading on a curve, and simply having reserves doesn’t obligate us to burn them.

You can’t call yourself a “leader” on the climate when you’re routinely winning “Fossil of the Day” awards during international climate talks. That’s not a champion of the climate, it’s a villain.

Being the best of a list of villains (and we’re not even that) doesn’t make you the good guy. We’re burning the world. We’re the bad guys. The only area we’ve been leaders is in obstruction of progress, though we often have to fight for this title with the US.

It’s a lack of education combined with willful ignorance. No one wants to accept that the Canadian way of life: monster trucks connecting suburbs masquerading as cities, massive energy waste combined with fossil fuel underpinning the economy – is in direct contradiction to a habitable planet… so they pretend it’s not a problem.

Source: my whole family lives in the Okanagan. They all think like this, regardless of their political spectrum.

Canada was never a climate leader.

Sure, we had a tiny carbon tax, but any honest assessment of the facts would include the billions spent on fossil infrastructure at the same time.

Carney has merely done away with Trudeau’s pretence of climate responsibility. If we wanted action on climate, we wouldn’t elect Liberals.

#Solarpunk!

I got my MRI in a matter of days, not because my case was dire (it was just a routine screening) but because I paid for private health care through my employer.

We need to have a grown up conversation in this country about how fucked up it is that private companies have injected themselves into our “single payer” system to create two-tiered care.

You cannot share this space with private companies. The only mode capitalism has is stratification and enshittification.

Seems to me a better system would be a licensing/deposit system for such events. You can’t pitch a tent unless you’ve paid a deposit that’s refundable a week after the event should your tent not show up in the debris.

A partnership with Decathlon could be made to attach scannable serials to various parts to aid in identification of the debris.

Ah, so he’s just like his other friends in what’s left of Labour. Lacking principles, conviction, or courage in the face of obvious injustice.

Just what we need in a Prime Minister.

Who could possibly have seen this coming? It’s not like we re-cast childbirth as something that can be managed by barely-trained hippies pitching crystals and hypnobirthing… oh wait.

I’ve already responded to this once, but I watched a short YouTube series this week that has really helped me understand some of the social barriers to being the person I want to be in the world the way that it is, so I thought I’d share it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_oyuWOgHUlqcAcDjo1774TxCjo9ZvJ-8

It’s a short series about activism: the different kinds, how they can all be helpful, how to engage and grow in your own role as antagonist to the status quo. It’s really quite excellent. I think you’ll appreciate it.

Stopping short of admitting they were moving too fast or too far, the government said that it would extend the public engagement period until July 22.

Yeah this sounds more like he’s going to allow the plebs to yell a bit more so he can later run through whatever he wants claiming he “consulted”.

He’s already got the CBC running headlines suggesting that this isn’t just a meaningless pause. Don’t fall for it.

That was truly excellent. Thank you for sharing!

This is absolutely delicious. The whole time companies like Microsoft have been pushing this bullshit, people who understand it have been saying the same thing: it’s unsustainable both environmentally and financially.

Now Microsoft are trialling actually charging for this thing – arguably still below cost – and people are losing their shit about their tools suddenly being too expensive. Positively delicious consequences.

They fucked around with dependency on big tech and they’re finally finding out. I have zero sympathy. When you rent your tools and your agency from an amoral megacorp, this is what you get.

Wow, Markdownr is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!