They should spin off and call themselves Webesoft.

Same

I just wish I could have had a better health story. Tumor as a baby, shunt breaking at 32, and numerous mental health crises in between.

I’m waiting to see if the budget actually passes. If not, NDP is heading into an election without an official leader (although I think Don Davies has done serviceably well as interim leader, I don’t imagine he wants the gig full time).

That would mean aligned with Russia. So…not exactly wrong any more, I guess? Lol

Ha, and I actually used to know the difference between typeface and font, but my memory of graphic design classes has waned a bit since 2005 when I took that program in college, so I had to look it up and refresh myself, full disclosure. More to the point - I think we can both agree that USA is democratically backsliding. Part of that is a lack of education being trusted by many. If we can’t even remember what terms like First and Second World were supposed to mean, it just feeds into the misinformation maelstrom that produces far-right types calling anything exhibiting human decency “communist”, “woke”, or other inaccurate terms meant to belittle them.

Agreed

Well, skibidi 6 7 to you, then.

If we are going to have a conversation about an important topic, we have to use up to date terminology to do so. Third world ain’t it. The USA was the fricking anchorpiece of the First World. Calling it third world is just lazy and stupid. I won’t stand for it.

Just a point of order:

The terms First, Second and Third World were cold war references to the power blocs (Allies, Soviets, unaligned).

If you mean to say backsliding in terms of development, say that.

Third world is an inaccurate description for ‘undeveloped’ countries.

I’m not suggesting we look into above-ground sewer systems. It just seems laughable to me, a person who has lived in a city centered on mines that can go 3 km into the earth (into that ‘impossible to build’ Canadian Shield), that we cannot spare some of that mining expertise to safely bury our power infrastructure and still leave adequate space in ready access tunnels to service it when required. We get the same kinds of severe weather that Quebec does. It’s stupid that we don’t plan ahead because it might cost more up front.

Yes, but I mean… We still build sewer systems in Canadian cities on the Canadian Shield. I think it is fair to have the conversation as to why we cannot follow through with power transmission infrastructure as well. We all witnessed the effects of the 1998 ice storm. The fact that 27 years after that, things like this are still occurring is shameful.

This outage is effecting Montreal - one of our major population centers. I think if anything qualifies for Carney’s planned infrastructure investments, this ought to.

Bye bye bye!

Thank you for speaking out, OP.

I don’t hate people from X place because they are from X place. I hate people who refuse to change their destructive ways in the face of overwhelming evidence that doing A,B,C is harmful to oneself or to others. Most often, that seems to align with conservatives. I’m also grouping some centrists in there as well, because they tend to both-sides a lot of issues when that isn’t helping. “Well, maybe not all pollution is bad”. No, you hypothetical fuckwit, ALL pollution is bad.

I’m glad you are speaking out for the sensible people who live in Alberta.

Signed, a progressive from Ontario.

The thing is, we don’t want ANYONE to be a billionaire. It’s unjust.

It would take a person earning a million dollar salary a thousand years to earn that much.

Good for you. The problem is that not all landowners have the same commitment.

The First Nations never had our concept of owning land. The land owns us. So we should respect it - or it will all end up looking like a strip mine eventually.

YES YES YES. Use LVT to replace one of the awful taxes Canadians gripe about (maybe GST, maybe income tax?)

Most people (I would say 90%) are not what we would call ‘political junkies’.

The only time they seriously think about anything political is when it effects them directly.

I probably devote more time than the average schmuck to politics because I operate my own business and I can set my own hours (plus, fall-winter is quiet in my line of work).

But for most people who work 12 months of the year, they are too tired at the end of the workday to care about whether or not fascism is slowly taking over, because the kids need to get to karate class, dinner needs to be made, and they need to sit down and forget about the horrible incident at work today. So I get why most people only really pay attention to politics when it is dressed up as entertainment.

It is a sad indictment of society that life is this way for so many of us, because it just allows the powers that be to keep their boots firmly on our collective necks.

Crossposting to r/fuckcars…lol

Sadly, yes