Artificial intelligence may have it’s weaknesses, but you’ve got to admit it does have some kind of strange power to drain all the human intelligence out of the minds of business and political leaders.

2% is quite a lot. 5% is madness. I hope that the costs of it start to become apparent to everyone and they reverse course well before they go that far.

Seeing that headline after hearing on the radio news this morning that Carney is going to make some kind of “military announcement” makes me nervous.

The basic principle they agree on: We’re going to keep doing methane emissions.

Fuck Israel. Holy shit.

How to fix the economy? Tax cuts for rich people!

How to fix climate change? Subsidies for rich people!

How to fix the housing market? Tax cuts for home buyers!

Is there anything that cutting taxes can’t solve? Unlikely.

I don’t know anything specific about how bad the Chinese EVs typically are, but they should definitely ban Teslas.

an anti-establishment, working class perspective

It’s interesting to see the proliferation of these “anti-imperialist” propaganda mills seemingly imitating the successful model of grift made famous by the alt right. They’ve nothing to say about socialism, but spend all their energy on emotional appeals to get people focusing on how bad the bad guys are based on the most attention-grabbing news headlines they can find or invent. It’s so carefully designed to provoke dissent, distrust, and polarization with only the barest pretense of being about anything more substantial or constructive.

This one doesn’t have much to do with Canada. Even those of us who aren’t professional military analysts should probably find better sources to inform our opinions on the martial capabilities of different kinds of ridiculously expensive airplanes.

Tetris has a CEO? Does she hang out with the President of Pong and the Mayor of Space Invaders?

Oh great it’s time for that again. So many things they might try to do to protect the children. So few of them that would not do more harm than good.

Please let this government fall before they fuck it up too badly, and the same to its successor. Delay is all we can do, and hope we can hold them off long enough for the utter stupidity of “age verification” systems to become obvious to even the politicians as its failure in e.g. the UK continues to play out.

He didn’t need to rule out the possibility of ruling it out. I heard him on the radio. He said in a direct way that he would not want to see a ceasefire at this time. Of course it wouldn’t be possible to have one right now in any case. Along with all the other things he’s said it very much looks like he’s still entirely supportive of this unprovoked war of aggression but belatedly understands that admitting to this might be politically disadvantageous.

This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.

Glad to see that in there because I was worried for a moment that my first reaction to seeing the headline being “this probably happens all the time and someone just decided that now is a good time to tell us all about it for some specific reason” was too cynical.

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I’ve been to Calgary. If there’s a war on cars there, the cars are definitely winning.

That remark was so outrageous that it only took two days of polling data for Poilievre to find out that he disagrees with it.

Why can’t civilians be brought in to manage cops, especially at a time when things have gone so spectacularly wrong?

I’ve been hearing horror stories about Toronto police for as long as I’ve lived in Canada but the repeated call for “civilian” oversight is confusing. The cops are civilians. That’s foundational to the definition of a police force in this country, isn’t it? Rein them in, disband them, do something about the problem — but the idea that they aren’t themselves civilians seems like false consciousness straight out of the mind of a misguided cop.

That a carbon tax would work is pretty clear according to both conventional economics and common sense. It needed to be much higher to be effective enough to clearly demonstrate that. Persuading people to accept that is the kind of “leadership” I had in mind.

Who could’ve known that abolishing the carbon tax, supporting the auto industry, cancelling the electric vehicle mandate, and subsidizing the oil industry would not lead to success in meeting those targets? It’s not as if we’ve all had thirty years to find out that getting to “net zero” is a difficult challenge that would require actual leadership in the right direction.

I was thinking more force his plane to land and arrest him.

Meanwhile I’m reading about the system where “favored courtiers were given free passes to violate the law” in a nearby country recently.