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In 2022, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre threatened to fire the governor of the Bank of Canada
It’s as if someone asked ChatGPT to write an article suggesting that Carney, of all the prospective PMs, poses some kind of threat to central bank independence and even the AI was like no dude, you’re thinking of Poilievre.
It’s not yet anywhere near the level of human consciousness, but it looks like it’s reached the point where it can experience some cognitive dissonance.
Okay, so if crashing the global economy is the first step, what’s the follow-up?
… and by the time I can copy and paste that from the git log, Phoronix already has a post about it.
Smoking saves money for the healthcare system in the long run. When all costs are included the research supports the idea that people who smoke tend to die more quickly and inexpensively than those who don’t. There are obviously some very good reasons to be opposed to tobacco use but that isn’t one of them.
The health disadvantages of vaping on the other hand are small enough that (so far) they don’t make any detectable difference to healthcare costs. It’s probably not good for you but it’s nothing like smoking. So long as substantial numbers of people are smoking, the way to save lives is to encourage them to switch to nicotine vapes as a first step. It is by far the most effective tool to help people quit.
There are better ways to vape. There’s no need for that disposable plastic shit to exist at all.
The “defeat big tech for justice and freedom” story is somewhat undermined by being published on substack.
Since you’re already on btrfs it’s probably better to actually use the features it has to expand your existing filesystem to cover both drives.
But if you just want to mount it somewhere and not worry about figuring out anything complicated, what I did is mount my big new cheap disk at /home/bigdisk and then have symlinks pointing to it such as ~/Videos -> /home/bigdisk/Videos.
What systemd really needs is a Doom-based UI, so I can run up to named and kick it when necessary, and track down systemd-resolved to exterminate it.
Did you listen to the interview before posting that? Just wondering.
Carney is remarkably good at presenting himself as a competent manager of the status quo. A competent manager may not be what we need, but I guess it’s better than what we’ve got.
Chrystia Freeland of 2025 fighting hard to defeat Chrystia Freeland of 2024.
So the normal “I just want to watch netflix” price has gone from $8 to $18. A 125% increase.
the way that it should be
From each according to his wealth, to each according to his payment.
So giving! And so honest, which is why you guys know exactly how they think. They’re happy to tell us all about it.
The average business owner maybe, but I think by the time you get to Jeff Bezos levels of avarice he knows he’s not on the side of good.
Make America Great Depression Again
It’s true there are many parts of the world where they’re glad that Donald Trump is back. The parts that hate America, mostly.
No word yet on whether he’ll launch a land invasion of Greenland this week?
I’m not so sure about this approach. Everyone seems quite eager to demonstrate to Trump that making threats is a great way to get whatever he wants out of Canada.