jadero @ jadero @lemmy.ca

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And jobs shouldn't count as public benefit. It doesn't matter who built the pipeline, the workers were and are necessary.

If jobs were the primary benefit, they could have been created in renewable energy industries as easily as in climate and ecosystem destroying ones.

We should be counting up the number of schools, hospitals, and publicly owned renewable energy projects that are funded by pipeline revenues.

Lake Diefenbaker, SK. Here, too. And people are excited! :(

On the other hand, I like to know what kind of nutjobs are running around my country and what they're up to. I know that it gives them fuel, but I also have a legitimate right to know what's going on so that I can respond accordingly.

I obviously didn't write clearly. I'm not objecting to DST or timezones as they exist. I'm was trying to point out that there are unresolved disconnections between solar time and the ways we want to set our clocks.

There are actual health recommendations based on solar time. For example, we are cautioned to be especially careful of summer sun exposure between 10 am and 2 pm. As far as I know, that makes sense only in the context of solar time: the 2 hours on either side of when the sun is at it highest (solar noon.)

Unless there is something about the actual timing of the risk I don't understand, under DST the recommendation should be "between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm."

Where I am, in Saskatchewan, my local time is about 1.5 hours distant from solar time. Thus, that recommendation should be "between 11:30 am and 3:30 pm," although I suspect 11-3 is close enough.

This is great news.

Now we just need a follow up where the prosecutor and Attorney General rip the police department a new one for failing to adequately train their staff on the law.

True enough, and a valid consideration that must be accounted for in any actual change to building codes.

Keep in mind that I said "by now" not "starting today". Obviously, having done little to this point, we can't just jump to perfection in one step.

It's worth pointing out that Ford claims that their F-150 Lightning can provide up to 3 days of backup power to a household in some configurations. Given what seems to be a trend of building EVs that are capable of providing backup power to households, that should be factored in as we move forward.

And it doesn't have to be 3 days. Overnight in summer would be a good start, followed by overnight in winter, then moving on from there.

The real issue is that I see $350k houses being built in Saskatchewan with nothing. No solar, no heat pump, no passive heating or cooling, and sketchy insulation. The latter 2 were figured out in the 1980s and nothing has been done since at the building code level.

That same money would build a house 1/2 to 1/3 the size, a still adequate size, with solar, heat pumps, good insulation, and decent passive heating and cooling.

Retired. I should have included that in my comment. I'll go back and do that now.

Thanks.

Who gives a rat's ass what others are doing or not doing, getting or not getting, paying or not paying? Having a spine isn't about whining, it's about doing what is necessary in the face of opposition, even when it goes against personal self-interest.

It's necessary to decarbonise. Among those honest economists not under the thumb of or on the payroll of whiny babies, a carbon tax is one useful lever. Therefore, the ethical thing to do is implement and accept a carbon tax.

If our political and business leaders were ethical and had spines instead whatever whiny organ they use as a substitute, we'd be a lot better off.

Morons is being too nice.

Our annual rebate for a rural household of 2 adults is about $1000. That doesn't sound like much, but that represents 4% of our total pre-tax income from all sources.

Edit: we're retired, BTW.

Or that we use propane heaters on patios to heat the outdoors.

I get so cranky when I see those things. They are just... nonsensical. It's almost like there is something in the human psyche that is drawn to the abjectly useless, especially if it also happens to be wasteful beyond it's mere production and distribution.

Why not both? As a boomer myself (b. 1956), I'm confidently overconfident in saying that, at 91, she's actually too old to be a boomer. Less confidently, she missed being a boomer by about 10 years.

Oh for heaven's sake. By now, building codes should prohibit new single-family and low-density (< 12 units) multi-family construction with gas hookups, without solar that matches expected electrical demand, and without 3 days of battery backup.

If that means a 900 square foot house instead of a 2500 square foot house and no more low-density multi-family construction so be it.

Likewise, the building codes should require some of that stuff during certain kinds of renovations and repairs. For example, replacing a gas furnace with another gas furnace should be prohibited.

If the grid and manufacturing capacity won't handle it today, then they better damn well get going, because that's what it's going to take.

I live in a farming community. For the most part, the retired farmers know that the expression "million dollar snow" refers to the benefits of a late March storm that dumps a foot of snow on the fields, not the cost of digging out.

The younger ones definitely don't understand that Saskatchewan crops are about snow pack, not rainfall. The right rain at the right time can do wonders, but nothing beats reliable snowpack and some combination of occasional rain and moderate temperatures.

I find it interesting that it's the retired farmers who are more aware of and more concerned about climate change than their kids and grandkids.

News casters keep saying, "look at all of this wonderful weather we're having," but this is not the winter I would've signed up for.

I finally spoke my mind the other day when someone commented on the "beautiful" weather. It did not go well.

What the hell? Journalism really has disappeared. Why isn't there a single story from a major outlet that includes both results, explaining the differences and implications?

Thanks for the update.

Well, since there is no syphilis vaccine, nobody is vaccinated.

Also, for what it's worth, TD is not just the only bank I know of, but the only website I know of that allows for a user-generated username to be used for login. My TD username was generated by the password generator of my password manager :)

So they don't get it all wrong.

The inquiry into the invocation of the emergencies act found that it was justified, although not without problems. Those problems don't seem to have been in any way related to the freezing of accounts.

My opinion is that he's got, as we old-timers like to say, a tough row to hoe. (Or a snowball's chance in hell; take your pick.)

Over the years, I've been with all the big Canadian banks and a couple of different credit union networks. They're all trash, in my opinion. I've sent security notices to all of them and never had a response, nor any evidence that they addressed the problems. TD just happens to be the place we landed after giving up on everyone else.

As for transaction downloads, I couldn't tell you. I gave up on ever having access to my data, so I just record it manually.

Security notice examples:

TD was running their SSL/TLS in a way that made them vulnerable to downgrade attacks.

A credit union finally upgraded their login page to allow a real password instead of just a 6-digit PIN. It took repeated complaints and some customer lobbying to get that, but the new page also blocked access to pasting and autofill, negating the utility of a password manager.