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So, is Danielle smith going to try and blame it on the little sprinkling of renewables that currently is active?

True. It's still a middling way of heating things, though, not the worst. A wood furnace would probably be the worst that still gets used.

And, uh, most people report a heat pump won't work at -35 right now anyway. I'm sure better ones are coming.

Those are answers that don't factor in immigration at all. And are still deceptively complicated.

Housing is an investment, just as much as the foundry that makes the front doorknob. Both are critical to our standard of living, but both also cost a lot of money to put in place. Somebody will have to pay to build more. That could be the government, like you're saying, or it could be developers who are looking to cache in on the high prices and therefor bring them down. Which one should do it is complicated.

Not intractable, though.

Lying is universal, and lying about the thing you attacked is trendy this century.

I wonder if the decision makers in this case knew it was a lie from the start, of if their intelligence people were giving them what they wanted to find. Or maybe both, like the Iraqi WMDs.

Ah, but who will build it? Obviously not immigrants. What if you build housing, but then they can't afford it? What if they're underhoused where they came from, too? And then of course, if we don't take in immigrants and the economy goes in the toilet, all the housing there is might get pretty run down for the elderly Canadians still left.

If you actually read the article, you'll see several examples of how it's complex.

Mostly true, but Stalin also came right out with an essay that called it a fake capitalist concept, so that was part of it. I imagine Truman wouldn't have gotten it either, but as you say in the US you don't need everyone to agree something is a good idea to try it out.

The root problem is having “a bicycle for the mind” in a country that restricts travel.

This is the one I'm less sure about. They had censors but reading and learning approved content was also very encouraged, and in the early days it was a machine mostly just for number crunching. AFAIK computing languished roughly the same way as most basic research did, and Kateryna Yushchenko managed to invent something early anyway.

And people are so conditioned to this they'll probably get away with it.

Maybe, but then they should really ask for my mailing address, which is different. Or, you know, just don't apply their contest policies to a legal settlement.

I had a bit of gas, but that could have just been the fiber. I think I'm good.

Messed up, but not really surprising. All the people evangelical churches send to Africa have made an impact.

That kind of makes sense, I guess. I wonder how expensive one of those machines is.

I always look forward to the stuff he writes, even if I occasionally read one and think he's missed the point.

Well you're in luck then, because I don't think it is either. Maybe they'd have a leg to stand on if they were actually Israeli ships, but it sounds like they've been attacking random ones and then declaring them Israeli. It's a stunt, and now the West is making it look even better.

The thing is, it's usually true. Even when it's not hard it's often complicated - just think about climate change over the last several decades, for example. I don't envy politicians, who have to keep everyone distracted and happy while their staffers do the real work. They seem to enjoy the gig though.

Lol, you really don't like the Houthis. Why do you care? It's a little ethnic paramilitary, like a bajillion others all across the MENA area and other unstable regions.

No, I'd say they should keep parking warships in the area and eating all the missiles. It's expensive as all get out, but said Gulf contries would be obliterated by mass bombardment on the first day if the region really goes boom, and a few more weeks to let things settle and ship Anthony Blinken around would have been great.

Shouldn't these be tagged "French"? I forget how it works now, but there's a little "English" next to it.

And I, at least, agree with Uncle Sam there. Do we really want WWIII over a stupid symbolic declaration?

No. The Soviets had one that was basically C but a decade early called Адрес (address). The higher-ups were skeptical of the concept of computers, though, so computing in the USSR languished anyway.

I think the Chinese have something going too. Mostly educated global people know some English anyway, though.

Yeah, the whole point of competitors is that you try and differentiate yourself as much as possible.