grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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Carbon capture is absolutely not the future in Canada, much as our elected officials may wish it so. It is a waste of time and money, subsidized reputation laundering for a powerful industry.

Postmedia now sells not just native ads but even news coverage and space on its opinion pages for those willing to pay, as a Canadaland investigation revealed in 2020. Its business model, as my recent book The Postmedia Effect shows, is simply to rake in as much cash as possible from all available sources in order to keep sending tens of millions of dollars a year in payments on its massive debt south to its US hedge fund owners/bondholders.

Lay off your journalists and sell preferential coverage to whichever organizations need to sanitize their message seems to be Postmedia's current business model. It's a lot cheaper when the stories come to you, I suppose.

It seems like the growth of trucks should play a big part of it, too. When I was young the majority of vehicles on the road were cars. Where I'm at, at least, it seems like the majority of people are driving trucks with a large minority of crossovers, and the occasional 10 year old car.

What magical era is this? Because the before-adblocker time I remember was a hellscape of pop-over popups, sometimes many of them from opening a single web page.

Who knew John Bolton was into federated social media.

If I'm going camping and want to keep things light I'll buy instant coffee and transfer it into a freezer bag.

Biden’s comments were offensive, Begin said. Suddenly he [Biden] said: “What did you do in Lebanon? You annihilated what you annihilated.”

I was certain, recounted Begin, that this was a continuation of his attack against us, but Biden continued: “It was great! It had to be done! If attacks were launched from Canada into the United States, everyone here would have said, ‘Attack all the cities of Canada, and we don’t care if all the civilians get killed.’”

The headline is not technically correct.

“Right now it’s serious. It’s really bad. If you look at the overall area of the sea ice, the area is almost one million square kilometres less than the previous lowest which was in 1986.”

It suggests that the ice had receded to a degree not seen since 1986, when in fact it's quite a lot worse.

When Sidney Powell and this guy were both angling for early trials I figured something was up. When the Kraken flipped the other day I figured it was only a matter of time before this news dropped.

That's great.

Also, an original piece by the original creator? This post is precious. I hope to see more.

The Israeli ambassador can mind his damned business.

Well the interesting thing about this article is that it's about a pair of bills, one in the HoC and one in the Senate, to implement a program rather than a study.

"This message is for Dr. Ben Thomson. Remove your post regarding Israel," a man's voice is heard saying in the recording. "It is disgusting, you are a disgusting human being, you do not know what you're saying, and if you do not remove it, I advise you and the rest of your staff to stay out of your office."

I wonder if these people ever stop for a moment to consider whether they might be the bad guy?

Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Dinesh D'Souza, and Peter Hitchens among names you may have heard of.

As well as an endless supply of idiots on web forums throughout the last 30+ years.

This is the right's favourite lie to distance themselves from the natural end result of their ideology.

Seeing as the government considers deflation to be not an option, the only practical fix to the crisis is a general wage gain across the entire workforce equivalent to the inflation we've been seeing the past couple of years. More, really, seeing as inequality had been growing prior to the pandemic as well. Prices are not going to go down. And if deflation is threatening to occur, the government will move heaven and earth to stop that from happening. Ergo, wages need to go up.

Or maybe we could move away from this irrational system, but one step at a time, I suppose.

Right, that makes sense. Smith really shot herself in the foot with this report, at least make it believable.

This is an easy slam dunk for Trudeau, honestly.

A) Every province that is not Alberta is obviously not going to look kindly on Alberta attempting to steal 53% of the CPP fund. Trudeau is running federally and isn't popular in Alberta anyways so, you know, duh. Easy fight to take on.

B) Any rational person in Alberta who sees that number is going to have their scam alarm going off. Too good to be true isn't the half of it. Many will still go for it because their team is proposing it, but I think even in Alberta this won't be popular.

Same. I'm wondering if it's limited to certain markets for the time being.

Proton has changed things pretty significantly over the last few years in this regard. Gaming should be a much more pleasant experience when you do decide you want to give it another go.

So, nothing to apologize for. Unfortunate she did.