Whatever Spotify wants, probably our best interests are the opposite.

You seem to be saying that CP is losing money on their revenue-generating business facing services like flier delivery. What’s your source?

A year ago you’d probably get heckled for posting that. Rightfully, but probably for the wrong reasons. And since then the fashion has shifted again and people don’t so much mind looking like colonialist apologists for exploitation.

An “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AZZVnNw60&t=26s

No sympathy for parents whose ignorance got their own child killed? None? I mean, that’s a way to go about life, but IMHO it’s a pretty fucked up one.

It doesn’t directly affect the parents whether randos have or withhold sympathy for them. That’s a choice that we make about what kind of people we want to be and how we relate to the world. “lmao boohoo” is not an appropriate, sane response when a fucking infant dies. Not in any context. Seeing that dehumanizing shit like that being normalized harms everyone who comes into contact with it. I cannot believe this even has to be argued to more than that one person.

Having sympathy for a person, or better yet, having empathy for a person does not mean that you excuse their actions. It doesn’t reduce you. It isn’t letting them get away with something. It is not unfair, it is not unjust. It grants insight to make better decisions. It enriches you with wisdom and robs the feelings of disgust, reproach, and righteousness we all naturally experience from their ability to warp our own perceptions and decisions.

Jumping to unsupported conclusions, emotional thinking, and lashing out like that makes me wonder if you are in pain [sorry, edited]. So I’ll drop the rhetoric and just say plainly: I am fully vaccinated, and I support mandatory vaccination for measles. But that is only responding to an ad hominem. My views and vaccination history have nothing to do with whether laughing and mocking grieving parents is ghoulish or not. That has fucking nothing to do with me and nor should any argument on the subject. Clean your shit up.

One thing has nothing to do with the other. A fucking infant died and he’s fucking crowing about it. Oh but I guess that infant was a fucking antivaxxer??? What the actual fuck are you saying here?

What about my post leads you to assume I am not fully vaccinated? Because, wow.

Seeing sports exclusively through the lens of competition is toxic masculinity.

PRIDE IS A PROTEST. IT WAS THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT WE WERE LARGELY PROTESTING. If they backslide, we will fuck their shit up all over again.

Don’t be a complete monster where strangers have to see it. Keep this shit to your fellow sociopathic homies.

I get a lot of hostility when I try to engage with FN people socially in public. Which, fair enough. I try to learn the right lessons from bad experiences and the lesson I choose to learn is that I’m doing it wrong.

How can I help these efforts?

It was an ersatz cooperative, where the executives attempted to respect member’s interests, paid dividends, etc; but there was no legal protection or ownership.

When MEC incorporated, there was not an option under Canadian law to have a legal cooperative. They attempted to conduct themselves as one, but in the end, members were not owners, so it was never a cooperative. That situation did eventually change, but MEC didn’t restructure to take advantage of the new laws.

They are mad because when they were children, their daddy was mad at Trudeau.

Never stole a thing in my life before 2022. Would never have even considered it. Now? I think of it as a class-conscious thing to do at a supermarket.

It happens now in rarefied cases, but in general, it is not a practical option. It doesn’t merely have to be physically possible, it has to be economically competitive.

the energy we get from Niagara Falls is 2400 MW

Holy shit

All you need to counter the baseload though is a shit ton of batteries.

This is not presently a practical option. That’s why it’s almost never attempted. The best “batteries” we have right now are things like reservoirs with a pump and a dam.

“We are the most European of the non-European countries,” was maybe not a winner.