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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please.

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Remind me, how was Doug Ford going to pay for that $100 billion highway?

well you know who

Yeah, the UK is pretty much in the same boat.

Liberal by name and conservative by nature, or Conservative by name and rageful extremist by nature. Which will it be, Canada? What a political dilemma. If only there were some kind of third option.

The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the United States, and was plagued by cost overruns, delays, leaks, design flaws ... $21.5 billion adjusted for inflation, a cost overrun of about 190%.

It's absurdly expensive even by the standards of absurdly expensive highway projects.

I think both points are defensible based on the facts. Carney appears to be quite clever, and has an impressive depth of knowledge when it comes to finance and economics. I feel that these are desirable qualities in a political leader. He's had quite a career and there's no shortage of examples of his speech and writing available to demonstrate that he has some capacity for independent thought within the bounds of his areas of expertise. He's not some ideologically blinkered Calgary School economist, he's the real thing. He's capable of giving a good speech and might even have what it takes to steer the government into doing a decent job of implementing his plan. I don't claim to be capable of guessing exactly how much good it would do, but at least it's aiming in the right direction.

Nonetheless it's certain that such a politically palatable scheme which bankers and economists can feel comfortable with will not produce the radical transformation of society that is demanded if we're to avoid the worst of climate change. More disruptive and forceful action than that would be required to get anywhere close to net zero carbon in the time available.

What's proposed might be enough to keep Canada looking internationally respectable for a little while, and many will argue that it's the best that can be done. If Jagmeet Singh, as suggested in the article, suddenly develops the ability to persuasively argue otherwise, coming up with a detailed, credible, and politically acceptable plan that puts Canada at the forefront of the revolution that will save the world from itself, it will be a welcome miracle. Failing that, Carney would be a competent manager of the unsustainable economic status quo while we await its inevitable end to be brought about by more ambitious nations, by a new great war, or by nature itself.

Carney's plan is sadly ineffectual compared to what ought to be done but the idea that it's "elitist" misses the mark. "Carbon border adjustment mechanisms to prevent carbon leakage and ensure fairness for energy-intensive trade-exposed sectors" sounds like a reasonable policy to me, and Carney sounds like he knows more about it than I do which is reassuring. It's not elitist to talk as if you know what you're talking about. It's a refreshing change from the vapid appeals to emotion we're more accustomed to.

Perhaps this will motivate makers of web browsers to finally get serious about making fingerprinting less easy. Looking at you, Mozilla.

Firefox (with good settings, or Librewolf) + uBlock Origin + Decentraleyes + NoScript (with default permissions removed) is probably > 80%.

Yeah, that's what I meant — whoever wrote the joke expected the answer to start with "it's very fucking important" or the like.

AI compute credits will be tied to printer ink, so if you run out of either one you need to buy more of both.

They did not expect him to give an actual answer before being rudely cut off as if to illustrate the absurdity of the policy.

the data will no longer be saved locally

You no longer need to know your location history, only Microsoft and its very close friends will have that data?

bad decisions -> fans complain -> AI analyzes sentiment -> you are all toxic

The chart there says 4 million barrels per day, so multiply that by 50 dollars a barrel times 365 days a year... 73 billion dollars, larger than the entire US trade deficit with Canada. If they want to eliminate it, all they have to do is stop buying oil.

Apparently what you fail to appreciate is that alcohol is bad, the concept of having regulations is good, and therefore the existing set of differently convoluted regulations in every province must remain as it is.

Policy barriers to selling Canadian goods and services across the country are so few that you can list them on a paper napkin.

[link is to a 17-page pdf which does not claim to be an exhaustive list and would be difficult to summarize on a paper napkin]

It's been ages since the Conservatives had a good leader, but I just realized who would be perfect for the job: Mark Carney.

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.

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