Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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Sir Pratchett was a genius. He will continue to be missed.

Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

Yeah, but it won’t fill the housing gap.

Those houses still have to be assembled somewhere.

The more likely solution is a big fibre optic rollout and getting all information workers out of the cities.

Every single time Russia has announced a ceasefire since it became a nation in the 90s, that’s been so they can move their troops into better positions unhindered. Often it has been followed by a brutal attack that cares nothing about civilian or Russian casualties.

I’m sure Ukraine knows this already.

The only problem now is we have to wait another 10+ days for the results.

Foxes in places where they’re the alpha scavenger; raccoons where they are. What other top scavengers are there globally?

COVID hasn’t gone away, and immunocompromised people can still die from it (or regular flu).

Although for people with regular immune systems, COVID seems no worse than the regular flu now; just in time for H5N1 and a measles mutation.

5 minute lineup voting today; went relatively smoothly.

Anyone voting in one of those ridings with more than 8 candidates? How did that go?

Threats and mixed messages? Is the US involved?

Trump getting elected turns out to be an inadvertent mistake….

Yet.

Or, more precisely, judge says they’re not allowed to do it. There’s no actual blocking going on here.

There’s an obvious solution to that.

If Quebec seceded, they would have no currency, no military, and no protection from the world’s superpowers. France thinks they’ve already deviated too far from French culture.

There’s zero benefit to the province if they secede. They’d likely cease to be a distinct culture within 50 years.

It would also be a loss to Canada, especially the francophone parts outside Quebec, but also everywhere else. Quebec keeps the country balanced.

I think in this case it’s like global warming; the “it’s gone too far to go back now” point has long passed, but it’s still possible to prevent potential unchecked snowballing harm.

There’s more than one way to leave a country.

Ah; but that’s the beauty of it.

Trump has been doing the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” thing so that others have to scramble to keep up.

If the courts start jailing everyone who follows his orders, someone has to fill out all that paperwork to get them released again. Meanwhile, those people go to jail too.

Marco Rubio isn’t Canadian… but Ted Cruz is, and I’m sure he’s got an honorary doctorate in something….

Ah; but they didn’t say that laws don’t apply to a sitting administration.

So don’t impeach Trump again. But jail everyone who followed his orders.

Paywall; all I get is the headline and a picture of Bedford.

First off, I’m Canadian, and yeah, you’ve pissed us off.

Secondly, read the lnk I linked; before Trump did this whole trade war thing, there was already almost a decade of work going into rebuilding the knowhow and supply chains needed. It takes time, but there are already companies who have been ramping up over the past 5-10 years — they just haven’t been able to compete with China on price or quality.

But now they’ll get their chance, as the US is running out of other options.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will hopefully also wean ourselves off of Chinese rare earths too, now that we’ve seen them actually weaponize them against the US.

Then again, rare earths processing is very environmentally destructive; there’s a reason China is doing it in Jilin and Mongolia.