Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Why would the Conservatives bring this government down, when it's doing everything they want and taking the blame?

Exactly this. I came to this conclusion a long time ago, so I guess it's nice to see others coming around to it.

Why do people constantly bring this up as if it was a valid argument? Of course the Conservatives wouldn't have been better. No one is saying that they would have. FFS you have other options.

Yes, I would have millions of Canadians suffer to maintain our right to set our own fiscal policy. The alternative is annexation. Have you seen what the US does to its own citizens? Can you imagine what they would do to Canada as a vassal state?

There's no need to cut trade entirely, simply mirroring their tariffs would be sufficient. If they want lower tariffs, they know what they need to do.

Would I start a war? Obviously not, but I'm not going to fool myself into thinking I'm avoiding one by giving them everything they demand. It has, after all, never worked with any dictator ever in the history of the world. If war is coming, it's because the Americans want it, and we should all be ready. That means building trade and military alliances with actual friends. I think re-tooling the nation's economy on a war-footing would be a good idea too, but before we go that far, I think I'd adopt Doctorow's advice and kill the legislation on digital locks. If the Americans want to treat us like enemies, they should see just what that means. We should "turn off the taps" for oil, gas, and electricity and start encouraging high-skilled Americans to resettle in Canada.

This could be a great opportunity for us: reverse the brain drain and get out from under the US thumb. They've demonstrated that there's no way to deal with them fairly, so now the alternative, albeit the more difficult route, is the only viable option.

What makes you think that he won't further a trade war or drop bombs on Vancouver if we do give him everything he wants? Placating bullies doesn't pacify them, it emboldens them. Canada should be pushing back against the US and dragging the rest of the world with us in the process. Instead, everyone is just falling in line while Trump walks all over us.

If we're really lucky, we'll get to keep some cosmetic sovereignty out of all of this, but I don't like our chances.

It will not work. It never works. Trump is a bully. When in the history of the universe has capitulating to a bully ever resulted in a fair deal?

You voted for Liberals. Their only persistent trait is lying to the public about who they are and then siding with big business once elected.

“To balance or to pay for these types of additional spending there would need to be severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts,” Giroux said.

This is a lie.

It's worse than a lie really. Behind this claim are two decisions that the Liberals have made in advance so that they can present this with the frame that cuts are "necessary":

1. The spending is required, despite not having it in the budget.
2. The budget may not be increased through taxing the rich.

In other words, Carney wants a pony and rather than make his rich friends pay for it, he's going to screw everyone else.

So yeah, conservatives.

I don't know about LaTeX support, but Joplin supports a lot of Markdown extensions out of the box (I've used it for Mermaid charts for example) and it's Free software.

Edit: it looks like Joplin supports something called Katex. I don't know if that does it for you.

Full details are here

So don't break Chrome and Android out the company, just force them to harass users with another popup? I'm sure this will do wonders for choice on the web. /s

[Liz Kendall] said the cuts were about “ensuring the welfare state survives” and that the government would always seek to protect those with the greatest need.

This bullshit has got to die, and shame on the Guardian for uncritically publishing it. The choice isn't between cutting welfare or watching it die. It's between taxing the rich or not.

The problem here is that they've already made that choice and are pretending that now we only have two choices, both of which amount to "screw the poor". There are massive amounts of wealth in this country and it's all going into the pockets of the rich and into bombs.

So let's do away with this "we have to cut or lose everything" lie already.

FFS this country needs a socialist party.

I have a few interesting ones.

Download a video:

 bash

    
alias yt="yt-dlp -o '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' "

  

Execute the previous command as root:

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alias please='sudo $(fc -n -l -1)'

  

Delete all the Docker things. I do this surprisingly often:

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alias docker-nuke="docker system prune --all --volumes --force"

  

This is a handy one for detecting a hard link

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function is-hardlink {
  count=$(stat -c %h -- "${1}")
  if [ "${count}" -gt 1 ]; then
    echo "Yes.  There are ${count} links to this file."
  else
    echo "Nope.  This file is unique."
  fi
}

  

I run this one pretty much every day. Regardless of the distro I'm using, it Updates All The Things:

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function up {
  if [[ $(command -v yay) ]]; then
    yay -Syu --noconfirm
    yay -Yc --noconfirm
  elif [[ $(command -v apt) ]]; then
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade -y
    sudo apt autoremove -y
  fi
  flatpak update --assumeyes
  flatpak remove --unused --assumeyes
}

  

I maintain an aliases file in GitLab with all the stuff I have in my environment if anyone is curious.

That Varoufakis speech was excellent. Thanks so much for sharing!

The Greens, and to a lesser extent, the NDP have never had the opportunity to demonstrate the flagrant duplicity of the Liberals because they've never held power. In fact, I'd argue that the Liberal/Conservative hold on power has a great deal to do with the public's intolerance for truth tellers in politics. I'd also argue that the PPC are likely quite honest... they're just also deplorable.

My experience with the BQ is limited by my abysmal French skills, but it seems to me that they've routinely campaigned on a largely separatist, francophone, socialist platform and have delivered on those promises.

Well I can't speak for all the parties, but it follows that if both the Conservatives and the Liberals regularly lie to the public and pursue neoliberal policy that's trying to kill us all, that maybe we should try voting for literally anyone else.

It's the Liberal Party. It's what they do.

Is anyone honestly surprised by this?

Any plan that starts with "If everyone can just..." is doomed to fail. This needs legislation and at least the threat of nationalisation if not the act.

That's been the whole point of the focus on identity politics.

Funny how cops manage to round up Just Stop Oil protestors for even talking about maybe being disruptive, but they let full-blown race riots carry on for five fucking days.