It’s moved a further right since the NDP/LPC supply and confidence agreement. The carbon tax became politically toxic. There’s no serious discussion of climate action - Alberta and Trump have seen to that. We aren’t talking about any kind of wealth redistribution or tax increases on the wealthy (remember the capital gains reform?). There’s no discussion of serious spending to directly alleviate the housing or healthcare crisis.
THUMB WRESTLING DOMINANCE
Have you considered tiny weights for your right hand?
It sounds like this has been planned for a while, and they’re hurrying it along. Like you say, I’m glad they’re covering the bases.
There’s more than just policing:
In addition, the city will investigate and establish new short-term shelter options, including $1.95 million for up to two managed, secure and short-term emergency shelter spaces, $850,000 for operations and $300,000 for property rentals.
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The plan includes $624,000 in additional support for existing housing non-profits to expand existing relocation services, but doesn’t specify which non-profits will receive funding.
I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.
That was an interesting Planet Money episode.
From the interview, it sounds like the DOGE employee (Sahil Lavingia) joined up based on the assumption that government departments weren’t already trying to modernize their IT infrastructure and fight fraud. In his case, he discovered that the VA was modernizing and preventing fraud, but it was hard, and time consuming.
It sounds like Dunning-Kruger at work. Musk and co think they know IT, so it should be possible to waltz into a large organization, throw some opensource/AI projects at it, and save a tonne of money. When they get inside, they discover that the systems are really complicated, and that there are existing initiatives to do exactly what they want. It turns out that most of the easy wins have already been won, and it’s only the hard tasks that are left.
It’s an interesting counterpoint to the modernization program that was started during Bill Clinton’s term. They took years to understand the systems they were trying to improve, and built incentives for people inside those systems to propose improvements.
I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.
As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.
People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.
Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is
attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend
from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.
Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.
Preach. Thanks for the kind words.
Over 20 years. We probably met through mutual acquaintances 30ish years ago, but that is lost to the mists of time.
I’m hoping to move back to the town where my friends and family live. I’ve been in my current place for a few years, and it’s fine, but I feel like my life is on hold.
I’m kind of looking forward to my kids getting a little more mature. Parenting lil kids is not what I’m cut out for. But it’s bittersweet - that gets them closer to moving out and starting their lives without me.
Do you still possess this talent?
weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Eh. Still seems pretty good.
I suspect a big part is tax and investment law.
A bunch of poors (like me!) who band together won’t have much capital to buy inventory or equipment. I doubt banks and investors would lend to the bunch of poors, since they have a non-standard decision making structure.
That’s gonna make it hella hard to get started.
How would you have phrased it?
It looks pretty reasonable to me.
What was once nerd is nerd no longer, but as the wheel turns, what was nerd will be next once again.
We’re early adopters. By definition: we’re nerds.
how do you try to discern in real time what is misleading?
That’s really hard. Unless you’re in a position where your opinion will have an influence (ie, you’re a judge, cop, or protestor who can take part in the event), you might as well wait a couple of days for more information to come out.
We’ve done ourselves a massive disservice by subjecting everything to constant, immediate analysis. Most of the time, we can afford to wait and learn more.
Sorry, is there a Project A-ko game?