You mean like Alto?

I’ll assume you are asking in good faith / out of innocence, because this isn’t a question that typically needs to be asked if you’ve lived with any group of people for some time.

Let’s put laws aside for now, cause they can make this explanation more complicated than it needs to be.

Suppose you like jumping off cliffs for fun, and you’ve been skillful enough to not fall to your death. You jump off, feel the thrill, and you land safely — nothing bad happens. All is good.

One windy day, branches were flying around, and it was dark out. You wanted to jump anyway because, well, why not?

You jump.

A branch hit your face and scraped near your eye. You winced. And because you couldn’t see well enough, you couldn’t land like you always would. You didn’t die, but you certainly got hurt, bad.

So you thought to yourself after that incident: maybe I shouldn’t jump when it’s windy and dark out, or maybe I’ll wear eye protection when I jump.

You’ll tell others not to do the same. Not everyone listens to you, because they thought, well, maybe you just weren’t “careful enough”. Maybe you don’t care enough if they would believe or listen to you. But some people that you do care, say, your kids, also don’t seem to listen to you. Despite your warnings, they’d still sneak out at night, on windy days, to go jump off the cliff for fun.

So what would you do?

“Poaches”? Who uses that word? Like researchers are animals for poaching?

Sees URL

Ahhh

FP, if you don’t like what you’re seeing so much, go back and tell your masters to properly support researchers, like they’re humans with lives, and not fuck em over.

But oh wait, your masters fucking hate that!

Well, go pound sand then I guess.

My favourite is still Drug Fraud

I had an older cousin that I looked up to a lot as a kid. They went to work with Google, and, over many years when we get together, kept praising Google and parroting the shit they say. They’ve left Google now for their own exploits, but still remain a Google ambassador, and somewhat frequently still posts about things that Google ships and just echo the empty shit Google says.

It’s a terrible feeling. I lost a cousin, and someone whom I looked up to. Haven’t talked to them in years and don’t really want to either. Knowing them, I’ll just be chided for not being serious about life and living.

I wasn’t raised in LGBT, wasn’t born in a place there it’s supported either (and it still isn’t there), and am not LGBT+ myself. But I wholeheartedly support their right to whichever it is they’re born to do.

But that one time I didn’t update my dictionary and just said LGBT+ and one of em came to me to basically reprimand me saying I should be using LGBT with the right suffixes, that was not cool.

I still support their cause, but it’s good to remember that there are assholes in every imaginable group of people, regardless of whether or not they’re discriminated against. And they should also just gtfo of their bubbles more. And yes, that comfort zone is a dang bubble by definition.

I snorted at the driver’s license. This is such a fun gem from the past.

Invalid if licked!

also readable as

Invalid if looked down upon!

Sorry, but he’s just not Poillievre. Whether he’s Harper or O’Toole tho, shrug. Indigenous leaders and MPs, including those in the Liberal party, have literally said that Carney’s approach to push policies in parliament is reminiscentof Harper, and some have gone so far to say it’d make Harper blush. Article

So sorry buddy. Idk if Carney’s “doing VERY well at not being them”.

Missing a link?

Was it this article: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/british-columbia-and-time-zone-changes ?

My tinfoil hat theory has been that this is just another way for them to cool down the housing crisis by just a bit, not by virtue of the policy being good, but instead by increasing the share of homeowners in the country to tilt the conversation slightly more towards The Haves. It achieves nothing significant aside from just another kicking of the can down the road.

But this. This just shows that they really aren’t that smart.

Folks, you can understand why someone decided to kill themselves: e.g. a tragic life, and from their perspective, there’s no one to support them, no one to love them, no one for them to love.

But it doesn’t mean you agree with their decision to kill themselves.

If understanding = agreeing, a lot more people would be committing suicide while trying to understand why such a person would kill themselves. It makes no logical sense. Or it means that those alive is either of these: they either don’t understand it out of naivety, or choose to not understand it to not kill themselves. Assuming it’s an adult with their full faculty, who witnessed such a tragedy, that’s just… such a sad world.

Thanks. I’m definitely on the verge of a burnout but it’s also where I find that I sort of know how to keep myself on the safe side for just a while longer. I have talked to my manager, and he’s working with the others on reducing my load, but this isn’t always easy, even with supposedly nice people. And perhaps ironically, I’m supposedly the most junior of the team, at least in terms of title, though I’m sometimes not sure if anyone actually knows that.

Surely the invisible hand will slap us!

Don’t @ me. Just needed to be pointlessly funny for my own sake.

I feel you on that. I’m generally wasted after work cause my work demands a lot of my brain power and ability to context switch quickly. I’m also an immigrant, wasn’t born rich, came here alone for university and continued working, with no family here, and still single too thanks to not having the mental energy to socialize on most days. My work pays well too, and the people are nice to work with, but it’s not something that really fits my vision for the future, and, while my they are nice, I don’t think my coworkers share the same kind of thoughts for the future. That said, I can live somewhat comfortably now, from near nothing to something, thanks to my job, from not needing to drive, and just needing little to live on.

I’ve been wanting to join my local Makerspace, but I don’t know how well that’ll work out if I can’t show up consistently enough. To make things even harder, I’m quite the introvert too, so socializing is bad on my social fuel.

But I know I gotta push myself and try at some point, and the sooner the better, not just for my whole spiel earlier, but also for expanding my somewhat small social circle (at least, I think it’s pretty small, but dang, it’s so hard to keep those connections afresh).

I’m actively trying to push my work env to essentially lessen my burden so that I’d have more energy left for myself after work. It’s not really working though, cause I’m just rewarded with more work after a job well done in getting more people to be able to share my work, and now I ended up as the expert whom all these people go to for help.

I yapped there, but my point is to say thay I’m trying myself too and I know it’s not necessarily easy. But I’m determined to find some way.

I’ve recently been thinking more about ways humanity can survive even as this dumb house of cards that capitalism has built collapses. Small communities with the ability to produce their own food through means that they understand well and can control will persist as the collapse happens. The ability to make their own tools, practice the sort of farming that respects the limits of the land instead of pimping it up with ammonia, minimizing external dependencies that rely on fragile systems that define those of suicidal capitalism — those that prioritize short term monetary gains over long term resiliency — and instead find ways to create tools, techniques, and systems that endure, from the ability to make your own rake to till the soil to creating machineries that one can fix themselves. A community that understands their own stack of cards is one that owns it and thus control their own destiny, instead of sourcing their cards from sources that rely on long, fragile supply chains typically seen from companies that bank on the economies of scale to price themselves lower to subvert their competitors.

And it turns out there already are such movements; they just don’t neccessarily stand right in your face and market to you about it because not only is it still rather fragmented, it’s highly decentralized. Eco-villages, the Slow Food movement (RIP to their founder, who passed away just 3 days ago), Transition Towns, Hackerspace / Makerspace + the Open Source movement + Right to Repair, etc. They may not all be thinking that they’re building against collapse of the capitalistic system, but they’ll quite likely survive for longer. It doesn’t mean that it’ll be easy, that there won’t be a lot of suffering going around; there will be plenty, and there will likely be more violence (more wars, crimes, people finding desperate ways to gain food and resources from others), but resilience for those that are more prepared is the point.

When we know that the existing system that supports the world we live in is cracking and is showing no will of fixing itself, it’s important to remember thay we can still take matter into our own hands and help ourselves and those around us. We don’t have to give up on those we love and love us. And, this is cheesy to say, but tragedy is not the end; it’s the beginning of hope. At least that’s what I tell myself.

Hoping this would help give you some light in these dark times. Cheers.

To people who keeps thinking that Carney’s playing along with realpolitik given the situation we’re in, I for one don’t buy that playing according to these realities and trying to move the country away from fossil fuel is mutually exclusive. You can play along with Smith, Poilievre, Trump, but you also have so many other provinces where you could be pushing towards that greener future. You’re governing a nation, not a city state with extremely limited resources and a small monocultural population.

Now, I’m not saying that nothing is done by Carney’s gov. They’ve been doing some stuff, but they’re mostly financial instruments aimed at industries. The approaches so far have been largely crticized as insufficient to highly insufficient. The theme from the government seems to be this: they want both green and fossil fuel industries to thrive. I find that grossly naive: green industries are young and budding and it’s difficult for them to survive, whereas fossil fuel industries are established and have the space and resources to keep finding ways to kill green industries to prevent them green industries from eating their pie.

To clarify, one of the things Carney’s gov is doing in the green space is to offer grants for companies looking to go into green battery tech. This is a pretty important piece of technology that’s still quite the question mark to be fair: as in, what even is this? Many look to hydrogen and I know a professor who’s actively working on hydrogen batteries, but it’s gonna take a good while to get that to a place where we as end consumers see it in our day-to-day. Meanwhile, it seems like we’re building a gigefactory to produce EV batteries in St Thomas, Ontario, with Volkswagen, but that’s likely using tech we already know, i.e. lithium-ion. It also seems like the planned primary supplier of lithium is going to be from a company in Quebec, which uses mines around North America.

Now, I’m not saying Carney’s recent O&G-friendly posture is not abhorrent to see; I’m actually appalled by it. There’s a part of me that hopes that this is the feds trying to throw Alberta a lifeline to get them out of the O&G hellhole by trying to push them towards so-called “Blue Hydrogens” (which I know isn’t a great resource given the reliance on O&G still and having to rely on these industries in making sure harmful emissions like methane are properly contained), which will later bring them to green once they have more infra to support a less carbonated society, but the way Carney’s gov has handled the messaging does not stoke any confidence in that being the case. I mean, if that is the goal, why aren’t they saying it, right? And from what we know about Smith, there’s no guarantee that Alberta will going to work towards Blue Hydrogens, and we’d just be giving O&G companies freebies to continue tearing our lives apart.

I remember Carney “parising” Trump on some show, not directly but just to the host, about how Trump’s strategy of “flooding the zone” and calling that a good tactic or something. And then some months later, we gpt Bill C-2.

So I don’t think it’s impossible to say that they aren’t learning from that.

Worth calling out who “they” are, cause I know a LOT of people who don’t want this.

The federal government certainly doesn’t seem like they’re doing much to reduce car dependency right now with the motion to fast track oil and gas pipelines. (Worth editing in this part for those in the UK: Yes, the current government is led by the same Carney you might know.)

The provincial government, where this highway is situated, proposed adding a tunnel, yes you read that right, A FUCKING TUNNEL!, underneath this highway TO ALLOW MORE CARS ON THE ROAD.

The Toronto City Council (which, to be fair, has less sway here) is filled with car-brained nutjobs from the suburbs who oppose every measure that they perceive makes it harder for them to get into the city.

I don’t think complaining and wanting better is a bad thing though. If anything, I often find that a society that doesn’t complain and say things like “it’s better than nothing” often ends up with something shitty and putting up with it for far too long. Sure, appreciate the fact that we have what we do, especially cuase there were people that fought really hard for it, but we mustn’t get complacent.