I can tell you for an absolute fact that every infanteer in the CAF is talking about how they would fight an American invasion to the bitter end, even if a surrender was called. Even the guys who are vocal Trump fans are ready to fight like hell for their country. Any one of these people would knock you the fuck out if you dared suggest they would turn traitor.
I've used single transferrable vote, and it's a genuinely fantastic system. You still get to vote in specific MPs, not just parties as a whole, and it does an excellent job of ensuring democratic outcomes. And despite fearmongering about it being "complicated" it just plain isn't; you list your choices in order of preference. That's it, that's the whole system.
For the record, Carney's new Minister of Democratic Institutions is a supporter of electoral reform. This is a really good time to be pushing for this, because we've clearly got allies at the top.
Contact your MPs, tell them how important electoral reform is to you.
Usually does. Absolutely expect some amount of bounceback from this. That being said, right now 338 is putting the cons odds of majority at sub 1%, so things are looking pretty fucking dire for them.
We've done far more for Ukraine by offering traiming, and that's something we can (and do) continue to offer. Canadian training has been instrumental in Ukraine's staunch resistance against the Russian assault and has directly enabled many of their victories. Even now Ukrainian troops are being trained by Canadian soldiers in the UK, and we have deployments for that mission scheduled for years out (assuming they're still needed by that point).
"If you ignore the staggering amount of human misery that I am directly and indirectly responsible for, and all the absolutely appalling things I advocate for, I've never done anything harmful."
Yeah, I'm used to Liberal PM's being overly cautious and hide bound. These are surprisingly strong moves for Carney to be making in his first few days in office and I'm all for it. He's clearly understood the gravity of the current situation.
Honestly, I don't really understand how people prefer the Plex UI to Jellyfin. No shade, it just doesn't make sense to me. Plex is incredibly cluttered and busy. Jellyfin is simple and clean. I like the latter a lot more.
This might be a good time to remind everyone that Jellyfin is open source, free (as in beer) and is, at this point, a better media streamer than Plex. No fees, no ads, no constant pushing of their streaming content, and still has the watch together feature that Plex went and removed.
I've also been comparing Element and Revolt. Both seem really solid, both are open source and both are self-hostable. Hard to find any downsides there.
There's a discord server that me and a bunch of friends use as our main hangout. They've raised the prospect of bailing before things enshittify, and of course I've been tasked with pitching a replacement. For my money, Revolt is the way I'm going to go, specifically because it's basically a one for one clone of Discord. The people I'm pitching this to are a mix of technical and non-technical, so I think something that looks and feels like what they're used to will be the easiest transition.
It also feels like Element is geared pretty heavily towards being a replacement for Slack / Teams rather than a replacement for Discord. Their pitch seems a lot more focused on the enterprise market. Revolt seems more focused on gaming, casual hangout, that sort of thing.
I like Element a lot, but for me it doesn't feel like the right solution to this specific problem. But if I was pitching something to my work as a Teams replacement, Element is definitely the way I'd go.
Actually thanks to the 2001 AUMF he doesn't need Congress as long as it's part of the (still ongoing, never officially ended) "war on terror". Which, presumably, would include stopping WMDs.
No, he did not effectively declare war on Venezuela, which is exactly why his use of the act was immediately blocked by courts. He's trying to use a law designed for times of war without actually being in a war with the people he wants to target.
Also, not everyone has time for stuff like this. Making your own pickles/ice cream/beef jerky/beer/whatever is a luxury. So is having a vegetable garden or whatever other hipster idea people suggest in this vein. Like, I do a lot of those things, because I have a house (because space is often a requirement) and I work from home so I have time. But most people aren't that fortunate and what free time they have should be spent on doing things they find fun.
They asked about the policies in the abstract, not "Do you agree with Trump's policies?" That means the phrasing of the questions would strongly impact the likelihood of people agreeing or disagreeing.
For example, when asking about Trump's immigration policies, did they ask if people supported "Reducing immigration" or "Deporting immigrants without due process or any consideration of their legal status, to countries where they will be incarcerated in prisons that are little more than concentration camps, without access to legal representation and with no guarantees of their human rights?"
Without seeing the specific questions this poll is meaningless, but given the results I think we can already guess how those questions were framed.
Self hosting email is, unfortunately, a fucking nightmare because you have to jump through a million hoops to get your server off of all the spam filters it will automatically wind up on.
Calibre can also be a server. And you can still put DRM free books on your Kobo device.