mostly inactive, lemmy.ca is now too tainted with trolls from big instances we’re not willing to defederate
And why are they trying to politicize this so hard
how much people are jumping on the government bandwagon
hmmmmm
fires have been started by people during the ban… so what has the ban accomplished in terms of actually preventing fires?
Banning fires? Of course. Banning smoking and motor vehicles on trails and in woods? Absolutely.
You’re almost there, if only some more dots are connected
Only conspiracy nuts would entertain the possibility that this isn’t getting lifted whenever the wildfire risk goes down
I don’t consider Bluesky/ATProto open enough
No thank you, resetting the enshitiffication clock by choosing a brand new corporate social media isn’t enough.
I’d rather stick to a Canadian-hosted federated platform with lower switching costs / lock-in.
If it requires an opt in bridge, it’s not federation
I agree. I watch CBC Vancouver News everyday and even for a local edition they are dedicating time to point out the relevant facts. Yesterday they had a segment on the hugely high fatality rates of journalists and interviewees didn’t pull any punches, explicitly stating that Israel’s behavior is intent on getting rid of the witnesses of a massacre. They compared the death of journalists to other wars to show this is not “normal” or just “accidents”. Dare I say it was a pretty decent and damning report.
It’s provinces run by people who cater to rightwing nut jobs so there’s no conspiracy to uncover. The pattern is pretty clear.
Fortunately my parents have no expectations that I’ll be the caregiver, they both went through a lot with their parents and they know the role is absurd. They will appreciate a hefty contribution to a fancy retirement home though so I have a decade or two to save up
It was definitely something that came out of conversations with Macron and friends. I think it’s a part of closing ties with key figures of the EU, but can’t honestly say if it’s playing out well because the gram of goodwill acquired in the EU has to balance against the ounce of aggression, bullying and pettiness coming from the USA
Well it’s supposedly hard to do the right thing when doing the bad thing is going to be cheered by your peers and put hefty sums in your pockets
Even if they do give a little of shit sometimes, they’re ready to look the other way.
I think the real problem with the world right now is aging demographics
Is this even a sensible framing? To seek the one main thing wrong with the world right now?
It’s a variation of that silly debate game of choosing “money, sex or power” as the thing that “moves the world”.
Did I say otherwise? If you can get in touch with Mr Ahmadinejad maybe yeah you can find someone to answer your question, but still, everything I said stands.
No friendship required to get them to build the fleet we need, just capital
Okay? Point still stands. Would take years to build that capacity. By all means let’s do it, but BC Ferries can’t wait.
some (strongly) believe they should be wiped off the earth. Why?
I don’t know if you’ll find devil advocates willing to entertain such a hyperbolic frame of reference.
There are people out there who also think that Arabs should be wiped off the earth, but I don’t think it’s worth asking why. Makes more sense to shun those people off than giving them space for discourse.
I would see this more like that if Rustad actually presented environmental and human rights as the reasoning behind his preference, but we actually know that it a combination of racism and just run of the mill anti-China (from red-scare) because it’s Rustad. He never showed signs of caring about China’s emissions or Uyghurs or anything else that might actually be valid criticism.
No ship builders in BC presented a bid because they’re all busy. So saying that these ships should be built in BC is effectively saying that we should wait for it them to be buildable in BC, and with that you’re telling the people who depend on BC Ferries that they’ll have to suck it up being served by a derelict fleet because we don’t want to do business with China.
This is all pretty silly to be honest. Chinese shipyards presented a bid. They won the bid. That’s all there is to it.
That’s how you end up with Fascism
It really wasn’t how we ended up with fascism in the actual instance of fascism so…
they are called coops
No they are not.
Of course coops exist in Canada but it’s not the same thing
Just don’t bite the bait of alternative investments. Stay away from options and trading and you’re good.