I understand write-offs could be justified under some scenarios, but if they’re kept under wraps, we won’t know if the system is being abused.

It’s great to see multi-party support for the bill.

2028

tl;dr: we found one expert who says yes, and another expert who says no. 🤷‍♂️

She was one of the smartest in Trudeau’s crew.

Faint praise.

It’s bizarre that most of the comments here are shitting on the US/China when the op-ed is clearly stating that we need to get closer to our eurobros.

No trading partner can be fully trusted, but our friends in the Schengen are smaller (so they can’t bully us as easily), have similar values (much of the time), have similar environmental and labour laws.

We should be building bridges with smaller players (including smaller Asian economies) rather than (again) putting all our eggs in a single daddy state.

Edit: included asiabros explicitly.

It’s weird that I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to see the policy changes and the author weirdly doesn’t name the politicians or political parties.

I suggest Peter Watts.

most SF stories there are usually one or two central issues to grapple with—an evil AI, an empire, climate collapse—but rarely the overwhelming stack of interlocking failures we see in reality. Even dystopias often feel strangely cleaner and more legible than real life.

Writers try to build tight narratives. Portraying a polycrisis is hard. It’s even harder if you want to focus on one or two factors. Decent editors try to cut extraneous stuff out of stories, so they’ll try to trim out factors that aren’t necessary to the main story arc.

And then you need to consider the audience. Can a writer portray a polycrisis in a way that viewers or readers will stick with? Or will the audience get tired of a laundry list of problems?

I suggest Peter Watts because he writes (wrote?) good genre fiction that’s depressing and includes multiple reasons to be depressed.

I really wouldn’t bank in that.

Most nations are also required to prevent or punish genocide when they recognize it. And yet…

Given Musk’s hard right turn, I’m not sure I’d trust Starlink with much.

Works for me.

What would it entail?

We’ve been here all along!

The article discusses time spent with friends, including time online. We’re doing less of it, including online.

Agreed. It’s definitely newsworthy, but not in this community.

“Adrian and Jan suddenly freeze” 🥶

Is anyone else getting audio screwiness on this? First they lost the mic feeds from the hosts, then they mixed the descriptive audio into the regular feed.

My posts and comments linking to Lemmy have stayed up, and received comments.

Maybe it’s true for some subreddits as a mod choice, but it isn’t true for all subreddits.

I’m referring to Reddit: niche subreddits didn’t get a lot of traffic, and prolific posters wouldn’t see money for their efforts.

I have nothing but respect for the users who are posting stuff into otherwise dead communities for months on end. Sadly, I don’t have that kind of dedication.

The subreddits that I’m part of are too small for monetization. There are prolific posters (like our pugjesus), but nobody is making money from it.