It’s so obsessed with UX and negative space, even on a 4k monitor at full screen you still only get like 100 characters line width. It’s a fucking joke.

I guess on the one hand, it wouldn’t make a material difference because the US can and would criminalize it and the American market for the product would be non existent…

But on the OTHER hand it would make very little impact in terms of dollars and cents…

But I guess on the OTHER hand it would trigger disproportional responses because Trump is heavily funded by tech bros…

I suppose on the other hand, though, we could pivot our tech sector creating a product that will need to be locally dismantled once a friendlier president gets elected…

But, on the other hand…

I’m all for FOSS, jailbreaking, owning what is yours, right to repair… Etc etc, but trying to frame this as an appropriate or meaningful response to terriffs is nonsense. It’s drawing a line between two things that aren’t connected. And nobody would give this proposal the time of day on its own merits, the only reason it’s even making the rounds on the socials is that Cory said it.

I need to crack my neck frequently and I can confidently say that isn’t what’s happening here.

For sure, if you want to lay out alternative explanations, feel free, but he 100% is not cracking his neck.

I’m not following the logic, do they censor content differently based on the country of the account holder??

Thankfully it didn’t take a tv host to get it done like 20 years after the fact.

Pretty much everything the UCP has ever done has been strictly to prop up o&g.

Pause on renewable power generation, despite AB having tons of sun and wind? Tf? Nobody is asking you to pay for it, simply approve the projects! AB was responsible for 92% of renewable growth in Canada in 2023. It’s there, it makes sense.

Inviting AI data centers? The notoriously power hungry ones? When you’ve kneecapped renewable gen growth?

Trying to self manage the AB pension fund? Gee I wonder what industries the government would target for investment w/ that fund. Probably strictly the ones with the highest rates of return for the investors… Or… Maybe you’d cherry-pick investments with a worse long-term return to prop a specific industry. Who knows.

It’s worse than that: It was on track to be, in 2023 AB accounted for 92% of renewables growth in Canada.

Then Smith put on the “renewables pause”…

And now AB is courting AI companies to build datacenters in southern AB.

Like, it’s all such a fucking scam to induce demand on oil and gas.

That being said, I really really wish we could actually export at scale. Canada could absolutely kneecap Russias ability to wage war simply by undercutting their oil and gas sector.

We don’t have to artificially create local demand. We could/should service legacy demand and fuck Putin while doing it.

I agree that it’s a disgrace that Smith is breaking ranks, I agree that Canada is better together. She’s clearly angling to try and cut her own deals with Trump, which is laying directly into the plan of any fascist playing the divide and conquer game.

I mean, in fairness, bombardier shed 1000 jobs and the federal government couldn’t show up fast enough with bags of money. Suncor shed 1000 jobs like the same day, not a peep.

So just to be abundantly clear, the feds absolutely play favourites, but if you think it’s in the west then you haven’t been paying attention.

Beyond the other suggestions, your OS might have incoming network rules that are blocking the requests (a firewall).

I haven’t ever even broached Tibet because I don’t think I could stomach witnessing the ensuing trainwreck of logic.

It’s just so incredibly intellectually disingenuous. I got in it with one at one point (big mistake on my part) saying that no country or system is perfect, and a meaningful indicator evidencing critical thought is the capacity to criticize your own system. What, in their mind, were the top issues with China?

1. Too much freedom in the market.
2. Doesn’t project it’s system outside it’s border enough.

Ok. I’m talking to a rational actor. Lol.

Critical is that HOW you learn this is trial and error.

Most people can imagine the result of combining two images, say a frog riding a turtle. We can imagine what a handful of wet spaghetti might sound like being dropped onto the hood of a car. We can imagine what a fluffy bunny that’s been rolling in sand might feel like.

But that isn’t just because those senses are somehow intrinsically better for synthesis and prediction. We just got a ton more practice with them. As kids we got to draw, we got to play with toys, we touched everything, we bashed all kinds of stuff together.

But most of us, we just got the food prepared for us with no awareness of the properties of the constituent ingredients.

You gotta act like a toddler in the kitchen to grow that part of your brain.

That’s like saying the road is the cause of all car crashes.

The road is the context in which all (mostly all) crashes occur, its contours or grading maybe contributed to the crash, but it almost never would be the sole cause.

Most people who just wave their hands and say “patriarchy” are parrots who just know they get a cracker when they say the line. It’s resulted in trash discourse.

It’s resulted in people just tuning out when they hear the word, too.

Kinda sucks, because it’s a really useful foundation to talk about society through a certain lens. It’d be hard to talk about traffic if I didn’t understand what a road was.

But, I admit, many people who pipe up with “patriarchy” don’t really want to talk any farther, and that does make dealing with those people pretty frustrating. Like if a cop showed up at every crash and excitedly pointed out the existence of a road and then left.

I refuse to believe that you don’t already know the answers to 1 and 2 and that you don’t have an inkling about 3