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  • Lemmy.ca is currently feeling smooth as butter for me, though there is indication that lemmy.world is having issues at the moment and some pictures are loading halfway. Not sure if it is related to or isolated from last night.

  • It's riskier, but Carney's got 20 years experience in managing financial risk. It's a bet I'm willing to take, since incentives to private developers have only gotten us so far. High risk high reward and all, and you can't get anything big done if you don't think big.

    Fraser Institute: "But what if, we could get tax breaks for the rich and disguise it as nation-building? Hohohoho, delightfully devilish, Fraser."

  • With the Nazi-bar argument that I presume you are making with Substack, where's the line?

    Should we stop using the Internet because Nazi views are expressed on it? Should we stop using our toilets because Nazis also flush their shit on the same sewage system?

  • With the exception of the blips of John Turner and Kim Campbell, both of whom did graduate work in England, the prime ministers between Pierre Trudeau and Mr. Carney studied exclusively at Canadian universities. They never had to defend the idea of Canada before know-nothing Yanks or haughty Brits. They swam in a university environment immersed in the finite ambitions, comfortable familiarity and ironic self-deprecation that can pervade daily life in Canada.

    This piece puts well why I have been very optimistic about Carney. He can dream bigger and actually realize that dream, far better than your average Canadian politician having Stockholm syndrome.

    archived version

  • Pros:

    • it makes weed cheaper, safer
    • you know exactly what you're getting since there's no incentive to illegally lace weed with other dangerous stuff
    • less need to prosecute drug possession "crimes" that hurt nobody
    • It makes it less appealing to young kids because the dangerous aspect is removed

    Cons:

    • Weed smells bad to many people, there are complaints from a lot who visit about how open weed smoking make some places smell awful
    • Legal Grow op greenhouses cause a lot of light pollution which is an annoyance for the local population
    • Some weed smokers joke around saying weed was more fun when it was illegal.
    • Harder to enforce impairment since weed takes much longer to stop registering on tests than you are affected by it

    I'm not a regular smoker, I think we are better off having it legal though.

  • The issue that is keeping Canadians away is not how long we can stay in the US visa free. It's the Trump administration and all the Republicans in Congress that haven't done a single thing to even try to keep Trump in check.

  • When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with things like that would be like...

    But I also wasn't inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend...