SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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Step one is to secede from the US. You aren't actually going to be part of Canada, but an EU style arrangement in North America could happen.

Unfortunately the tools of statecraft aren't all that granular. To make the Trump regime suffer, many Americans will suffer even if they don't support Trump.

Yeah but there wasn't an algorithm picking out all of that shit and giving us a constant stream of 100% pure troll heroin.

Seeing one post in fifty telling you garbage puts it into the context of "that guy is saying some weird shit". Seeing only garbage in your feed makes it seem normal and those opposed to it are the weirdos.

Nobody in Russia was desperate to invade Ukraine. But when your country is run by an idiot, any stupid thing is possible.

I think you're assuming that Russia is being led by super geniuses that are able to manipulate every possible narrative.

Russians aren't super geniuses. Trump is certainly not a super genius either. And we saw Putin make the completely stupid move of invading Ukraine.

Not saying the US will definitely do something like invade Canada. But when a country is run by idiots, we can't really predict anything they might do.

The problem with the subscription model is that it doesn't incentivize making improvements. If I buy a piece of software, I'm not going to buy the new version unless they make significant improvements. With a subscription model I have to continue paying for it even if they make no improvements to the software.

The customers just keep asking for new things. Does a meal planning app need to be a subscription service? Probably not. But anything that keeps on adding new features costs a lot of money. Software engineers aren’t cheap.

This is a problem of poor sales and marketing. The sales people should simply charge the customer for the changes that are asked for. Of course neither the sales people nor the customer understand the cost (they think it's just pushing one button). Sales people tend to have too much influence in a company (like they bring in the money, not the product, and developers are a cost) and they'll say yes to anything the customer asks for even if the customer may not even care all that much. But hey if this company is offering free software development services, why not take advantage of it?

A service model might make sense in some cases, but oftentimes it does not. Most definitely not in the consumer market, but we see that everywhere now.

As soon as you tell someone that there is bias in an article they'll likely ignore any facts in that article.

Really a major issue we have today is people falling down conspiracy rabbit holes. Are the likes of Alex Jones going to be telling people their bias honestly? So if we have all of the responsible journalists telling people their bias while those that peddle conspiracy theories don't, doesn't that just make it easier for those that peddle conspiracies? "This article debunking what I'm saying has a liberal bias, of course liberals are going to claim that I'm lying!"

I have a few family members with heat pumps (I'm in Canada) and they work well. They do need to be supplemented for the coldest days, but they have an electric heater integrated into the system for that. Last month was particularly cold (every day was below freezing) and resulted in some very high power bills, but still worked out to be less costly than oil or even wood.

In terms of EVs not working well in the cold... yeah and neither do Diesel engines. Need to plug in a block heater if you want your diesel engine to start on a cold morning. Seems a really easy fix to have something similar for an EV, and since you're plugging it in anyway, it shouldn't be a big problem.

EVs are kinda a no-brainer in terms of energy usage. Way cheaper than gas or diesel, only problem is there's a significant upfront cost at the moment. Once some lithium mines come online and we get some economies of scale going on making the batteries that upfront cost drops too. Other than the battery, an EV is way simpler than an ICE vehicle, and all studies have shown they will last significantly longer than an ICE vehicle. Electric motors aren't all that complicated, the batteries are getting to be mature tech now, so there's less that can go wrong with them than with complicated ICE powered vehicle.

A charging station operating on 100% diesel to power an EV is much less efficient than a modern ICE vehicle of a similar mass sans batteries.

Citation needed. Do ICE engines not get hot and therefore also have great losses because of waste heat?

Presumably a generator making electricity for a charging station would only run when electricity is needed, while an ICE engine would be losing energy to heat the entire time the vehicle is idling in traffic.

Why would a diesel generator not be made to efficient and why are ICE engines always made to be efficient? How do you know which kind of generator they were using? Why would they use the generator for 100% of the energy needed?

Are we criticizing women voice actors here or are we assuming voice actors are given direction to do this?

Probably will. But the library was built in the way it was as a symbol of peace and friendship between the US and Canada. I suppose the new entrance will symbolize the classlessness and pettiness of the US.

I think that's just how Australians refer to Canberra.

Oi it looks like a budgie slipped out if it's smuggler.

So depicting violence is fine because people don't do those violent things. Except people will do violent things (like Jan 6) but when that happens it's because they they saw a lap dance being depicted?

I agree we should be refraining from using US owned media, but it's a little confusing to comment about it on discussions about something else.

You've never seen the deleted episodes of Reading Rainbow? Way more hardcore than The Wire. Levar's comming, yo!

How could anyone know that a guy that was convicted of 34 counts of fraud was lying to people?

I doubt someone without depth perception would crash either. They'd notice the straps on the side, and things not being the exact colour shade. Might think it was a big piece of glass set up on the road, but that wouldn't be something you'd just plow through.

The linked article is from the CBC...

You're trying to pressure the President to freeze the accounts of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Have you checked on who the President currently is? I've got some bad news for you...