kenny.macdermid.ca
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Settings -> Moderation -> Mute words & tags?
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I don't know if AI will get there, but the sooner we stop wasting our short lives with 'jobs' the better.
Was your last phone call made through the operator? Were the clothes you're wearing sewn by hand?
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Why in the would did the article pivot to talk about US tariffs instead of discussing the 100% tariff we put on BYD and co?
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No thank you. We shouldn't aim to emulate the US with protectionist buying policies. Trade makes us all richer. Instead just don't buy from our enemies.
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Part of the blame there falls at the feet of the LPC supporters. There was a ton of "don't split the vote, vote LPC" posts here. I was even called a troll and blocked by one for suggesting an LPC vote _was_ splitting the vote in some ridings.
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Anything regulatory related is too far buried beneath the authors own EV FUD campaign. Sure 'Nanny Hynes' living rurally doesn't have plugs now, and regularly drives over 370km each way for basic services.
Strange they don't mention anything about matching the EUs ~30% tariffs on EV's from China.
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It depends on the riding. For some ridings a Liberal vote is the one that'll increase CPC chances.
Check smartvoting.ca/ridings/fede... first.
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I checked your profile and concluded that I have misread your original intentions. I thought you wanted to prevent PP from being elected. I now see you don't actually care about that and just want to spread misinformation in an attempt to scare people in to voting for the Liberals. Please stop.
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It's great that you're trying to help, but would you consider your advice good if someone—after seeing your post—voted Liberal in a riding that would have went NDP leading to the Conservatives winning instead?
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This can be bad advice. Voting Liberal in a riding likely to be won by another non-Cons party will result in exactly the vote splitting you're trying to avoid.
Instead use smartvoting.ca and/or 338canada.com to strategically Vote ABC (Anything But Conservative)
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I think I showed there's lots you can 'use' a book for, none that requires permission. Cheryl, have you not used any textbooks or school books to further your career? I know I have book I paid ~$100 for that have earned me at least 10x that. Should I have gotten permission?
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So where do I apply for permission to read a book? Is there a different permission form if I just want to use it to hold a door open?
I'm open to listening but I really don't get this "they read my book without permission" standpoint.
(and no one better read this reply without my say so)
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I've said it before, but I don't get why some authors believe they should be able to control who reads their book and what they do with the information contained within.
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Strange you'd have to Google this, especially to then post a paper stating "It is also highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was released from a laboratory".
Anyway, I read the paper. It doesn't answer my previous question. If you come up with an actual answer in the future, I'm all ears to discuss.
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That sounds rather hand-wavy . How does knowing the origin affect how we make better vaccines? How does it affect preventing spread?
Can you give me one concrete thing we could do differently going forward depending on the origin?
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How? I'm actually asking. Please tell me how knowing the origin (if that's even possible) will save lives.
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To what end though? Say you spend a lot of money/effort and eventually it's found that it was a lab leak, how does that change anything going forward?
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Canada doesn't have felonies. We do have indictable offences. This isn't one though. It's a summary offence. See Elections Act sections 325 & 495.
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We need more trade, not protectionist trade-war policies. Are you happy with what the US is currently doing? Then please don't emulate them.
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As an author how much control do you think is reasonable for you to have over who reads your words and what is learned from them?
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I seriously don't get that view. Is it the cost of the twelve books that's the problem? Is it because they used the knowledge to make money?
We've all used knowledge from books we've read to make money.
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You say that but I've found it actually can fix it's own errors fairly frequently. While using Aider I've seen LLMs solve issues by do things like add debugging prints and asking for the output.
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We could have sold more to China but we followed the US in putting a 100% tariff on their EVs instead of going with a more reasonable ~30% like the EU. In response they added a tariff to our seafood.
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Keeping score 'eh. Are you British? No? Know why?
As to 'saved', you didn't, you helped
historyassist.com/why-do-ameri...
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Appreciate the sentiment. We know. We also know and are sorry you have to deal with this current mess at home.
And we need to thank you. Your mess has played a big part in it being at least possible that we don't elect our own nutjob soon.
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Which matters why? Either origin is entirely possible so what difference does it make which one occurred?
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And exactly where it came from matters how? I've found that the people that most seem to care are typically anti-science, anti-humans-born-elsewhere, or both.
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No thank you. Trade makes us all richer. We need to trade more with our other trading partners, not copy what the States is doing.
Don't 'Buy Canadian', instead be like this pizza shop and Boycott American.
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Looking at 338canada.com/ontario/ it seems the results came out pretty close to the polling data. I'm all for higher voter turnout, but in this case it doesn't look like it would have made any difference. (Please correct me if I'm wrong though)
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Is it true that the cause was the low turnout? How different were the results from polling data?
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Remember when we had Harper muzzling scientists? Have you seen what AB and NS govs have been up to lately? Did you see how much support PP had?
America can fuck right off and all, but it's important to remember that most of the people are good people just trying to get by.
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People in Boston have been booing the Canadian anthem? Why?
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Poland should have made a deal with Germany. Trump could have made one in a hour. /s
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Agreed that you'd have to go out of your way to be deficient in most, but for us 51st-staters it's not hard to be low of vitamin D during the winter.
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Just wait until your family members start getting scams calls from your voice. I've tried warning older family that it's coming, but I still suspect most will fall for it when 'I' call to say "there's a computer issue going around. You need to download this update".
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Fine Ms. Purdy, remain neutral as to whether Canada should remain a country. Don't leave X for 'political reasons'. Leave X because it is a closed platform which hinders accessible government communication by requiring accounts to even read.
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I like the _idea_, and maybe I'm just unlucky, but I have had a laptops charging circuit destroyed in what I suspect was the port wearing to allow just a little to much angle.
48v with half a mm pitch doesn't seem like a lot of margin for error.
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Bunch of silliness. 35lbs is a rounding error that neither country actually cares about. It's just an excuse to break new-NAFTA.
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Instead of 'buy Canadian' we should focus on 'boycott the US'. This is the perfect time to diversify our trade so we're less susceptible to the whims of the States. Trade makes us all richer and we don't want to harm our other relationships in the crossfire.
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This article fails to mention all the cyber espionage done by the American government (ahem Snowden). And China isn't currently threatening to annex my country.
As for the jailbreaks, I don't consider an llm actually answering my question a risk.
And now somehow open source is a bad thing? 😕
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If that was true it could be all the more reason to push EVs. You'd be adding tons of energy storage that if used smartly (with Vehicle-to-Grid) could be a stabilizing force.
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Are you being purposefully disingenuous in your replies? To me it seemed rather obvious that 'landlords' are in the case of buildings that include parking and 'city' is for on-street parking.
What would convince you that EVs are a step in the right direction?
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Please don't heart or click on spam replies like the above. It just results in more spam.
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While I understand your frustration with the sharing of screenshots, exaggerating it as "stealing" likely isn't productive and distracts from the real conversation about fair compensation for local journalism.
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You agree though that you haven't received prior consent to use the knowledge you've gained from reading in your own earnings, right? And haven't compensated the authors for those earnings? If so, why does scale make a difference?
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Would you be content if they bought one copy of each book? If not, how have you compensated the authors and have you asked their consent to use what you've learned from books?
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I love that he's actually posting screenshots of Bluesky's complaint form in response to the people posting screenshots.
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Please don't reply. That's what they want and the end result is this place becomes more like the bad place. Just block instead.