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Craftsperson, artist, labourer in #HamOnt
Fan of socialism environmentalism degrowth MMT RSS Hegel Marx Lacan
Luddite & tech tinkerer
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Well, looks like you were right all along about Wab Kinew, what a disappointment :(
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No appeasement.
No Golden Dome.
No fast-tracking of mining critical minerals for Trump's fascist war machine.
No expansion of domestic surveillance.
No withholding rights from migrants and asylum seekers.
No bulldozing over treaty rights.
No rollback of environmental regs.
Withdraw bills C2 & C5 NOW
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Thing is - and I double checked this w/ a few ppl who know these things - it's entirely possible to search text for "G*"
Maybe not in MS Word, but in any programming language you can use escape characters (eg. '\') to let the program know you want the actual '*' not a wildcard.
Example: "G\*"
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At the parliamentary level, bare minimum the NDP/Bloc/Greens need to force Cons to vote with the Libs on C-2, C-5 or frankly anything else. Too many ppl in Canada are still not getting the message abt Carney.
My fear is that a new elxn gives them a majority but idk what else parliament can do atm
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Right? So how in the fuck is our Information and Privacy Commissioner unable to do this?!? 😳😳😳
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I can see it quite clearly, it is shaped like a Mark Carney
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Poilievre can barely find anything to criticize. Carney is expanding the military, the surveillance state, pushing legislation that tramples treaty rights and environmental rules, and appointing asset managers to every position he can. In what world is this the middle of the political spectrum?
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Straight up the middle of what, Bay Street?
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Likewise!
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I'm sure he'll be very dignified as he sends the RCMP in to clear the way for pipelines
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Can't get a response on anything from @aslamrana.bsky.social in Hamilton Centre either, although I'm not going to give up trying
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Either this dude is very cocky or doesn't understand sarcasm, either way I rest my case
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Mark Carney only plays 4D chess against everyone else, not against us
(I am very smart and immune to propaganda)
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Jfc apparently every one of his appointments is either someone he regularly hangs out with at exclusive meetings, or is an exec at a massive asset management firm 🤯
I cannot believe how many people are still convinced he's playing 4D chess on our behalf rather than against us
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“the United States would be guaranteed first right of refusal on Canadian resources”
Omg no
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You may want to consider contacting safeguarding-research.discourse.group if you haven't already
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It's exactly the same position as Carney tying mining & fossil fuel projects to "national security" and "global stability". Stability and security for who - the people who will be most impacted by climate change or mining pollution? Or for the western 1%?
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"other disputes"
this honestly says it all to me. If our leaders cannot see Palestinians as human beings with dreams and hopes and friends and worries, with as much of a right to peace, security, and freedom to live as anyone else on this planet, then we have lost our moral standing completely.
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I guess ultimately my feeling is this: if Trump is getting upset over the smallest thing anyway, then why doesn't this coalition take a much stronger moral position? Is what Trump would (theoretically) do to us worse than what is (actually) happening to Palestinians?
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This is a good overview of the resource consumption, but I wish the author didn't fall for the hype about AI 'being manipulative' or 'lying to save itself' etc. Those were cases where the AI builders essentially prompted their chatbots to generate those kinds of responses. The machines don't think.
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I got put on some Canadian turbo-Lib's blocklist that has like 2000 Canadian turbo-Lib subscribers, and I no longer have to deal with any of them.
It's suddenly dawning on me that I should be incredibly thankful for this 😁
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I admire your optimism, but I don't share it. Anyway, Trump's still going to be in power after the G7, and is impossible to appease - not that we should be trying.
Carney is leveraging a perception that he's 'good in a crisis' to ram through his agenda & keep criticism at bay. Let's not enable him.
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The way these people are, I genuinely think you have better odds if you say you'll do it for $16B
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me too, it's hard to describe though, hmm ... urgh it's white on the tip of my tongue
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Carney is talking about Carbon Capture & Storage, and used the phrase "decarbonized oil" a couple days ago.
If that's the guy who is supposed to be knowledgeable about the environment, then we're in an enormous amount of trouble