one caveat: I was talking about Canada where those things are not so deep-rooted

While I dislike what those individuals stand for, their attitude and their ignorance, I do not think violence towards them will change things for better but rather aggravate things.

One has to look at the root of the problem. Why are they angry etc.? Fact that we have vast economic disparity within our society breeds this kind of behavior. When resources are plenty and everyone gets their fair share and doesn’t need to live loan-to-loan people don’t usually care about exclusion of others (well, there are always zealots with loose screws) and those movements to not gain traction. Look at fascism in last century: it has risen on the back of economic collapse of society when it became easy to accept “you can’t eat because he took your food” kind of messaging.

Bottom line to stamp out those thugs we need to change our society drastically with a sharp turn left but we’re keep on veering to the right with each election, which will end up in violence one way or another. Someone however has to be focused on the target though: political and economic system in Canada is broken and needs to be rebuilt, until then we will be miserable and thugs will proliferate

businesspeople differ from billionaires in that they don’t get to impact policies and they don’t run multinationals milking both sides of the border

as article points out: that one person is supported by a whole class of Americans - the billionaires. And those in turn are supported by not insignificant portion of American population. So plural is very apropos here.

From reading about Omarchy and community reactions it sounds like DHH is a successful grifter, milking money from corps with pictures of agentic promised land. HOWEVER grift will go bust at some point: does anyone remember SaaSpocalipse that did not materialize,along with numerous articles from people with degrees pointing out that there’s no data supporting claim that AI is actually making money for it’s peddlers or consumers. AI grifts will continue until “market” will finally acknowledge it for what it is (it’s just a new shiny tool, no more) and all the myths go bust and investors will want their money back. So - yes money got “stolen” from actual OSS projects that keep world’s lights on, yes vibecoding has not been proven to scale or endure multiple decades like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc. so it’ll collapse from technical standpoint, but it WILL collapse unless DHH will start applying those grants towards hiring engineers. Token money are not worth paper they are printed on so everybody just chill and let this trainwreck go off the cliff on it’s own. Shame DO got into it though… but for all the major cloud platforms who isn’t supporting fascism? What differs is the scale.

exactly that. It’s about personal attachment of sorts. If you don’t feel passionate about it chances of you sticking around are slim. Depending on what your setup is - attempt to expand range of OpenSource tools you use daily, and in the process you may find tools that look great to you but lack function or polish or something else, so that would be the first “dive” and from there it would be easier to expand further

favella dwellers are people with virtually no rights, i.e. no “democracy” for them, fact that someone would weaponize democratic processes to get rid of democracy is the problem with latest scandals. In terms of corruption, anecdotally I hear stories from (ex)Brazilians that I cannot draw parallels to in Canada

we can start with favellas which have no equivalent in Canada (treatment of indigenous people is a separate issue and looks to be similarly bad in both cases). Then we can look at Brazilian latest election scandals etc. which have no equivalents in modern Canadian elections. Then we can look at corruption levels in politics.

I’m a bit put off by our rating now placing behind Brazil as I’m pretty sure in practical terms Canada is still more Democratic in many aspects. Does it mean we’re not sliding? I’m certain we are,but I think methodology might be flawed and as a result we’ve got sensational-ish content.

TBF - yes democracy is sliding in Canada, just look at recent government moves i Quebec and Alberta as a sample. Meaning we have to fight for it at the polls and on the streets. It’s far from “game over” but it could be at some point.

thank you folks. Your input gives me a decent starting point. I’ll start digging based on info/experiences shared, maybe I can find someone locally selling old GPU with enough ram for cheap

well, I intend on scavenging for parts as I can’t really afford today’s prices. And since I don’t really know what should I grab as minimum specs I don’t even know what to look for. I could try to look for old(er) gaming rigs people sell or maybe there are some business workstations that may be sold in bulk. Either way, knowing what’s the minimum viable set of specs for running qwen or claude locally would be helpful

I’ve got some circa 2010 cards laying about with a 32Gb server that already has 8Gb carved out for TrueNAS, so essentially I could squeeze 16-24Gb out of it, but it’s an older i5 Intel CPU

Mulcair advises ring shallow as we saw NDP contract under him and not thrive at all. I’d love to hear Jack Layton on the subject but alas…

sorry,what is unethical? proposal is to stop teaching religion in schools (different from teaching about religion) and now allow religious beliefs to be base for laws. all quite reasonable and no unethical bits as far as I can see. Nobody aims to persecute believers or ban faith, just stop making an arbitrarily selected religion the one driving policies. What is unethical is disregarding beliefs of people who’s religion doesn’t line up with religion taught at schools or making inroads i politics.

We’ve got a “range” but most fall into friendly category. People will stop to help you when you’re stuck.

alberta politics is awkward but people are friendly in larger communities. Some remote small communities may be awkward but not always.

will we be going back to Sheer? I mean their past several generations of leaders were all with Carisma in sub-zero territory, I think Harper kind of set the trend there.

identity politics is the easiest way to give populous something they didn’t ask for but feel like they always needed it

no. greens always suffered from identity crisis oscillating between libertarian and socialist values. Not to say that NDP didn’t completely lost their social democratic way etc. but to save the province we’d need an entity with core values unshakable and guided by firm principals,not flip-floping in the wind. I will vote for progressive candidate under any banner provided their party allows free voting for them which is rare in today’s politics.

agreed