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zephyreks,

I mean, I’m not surprised. The two of them had the perfect jobs for being spies.

NDP agree to help pass Liberal 'affordable housing and groceries' bill in exchange for amendments (www.ctvnews.ca)

With the parliamentary clock ticking down and the government yet to pass their 'affordable housing and groceries' bill—the first piece of federal legislation tabled in the fall sitting—the NDP have agreed to help the Liberals advance Bill C-56 in exchange for a series of amendments inspired by a similar bill from Leader...

zephyreks,

Especially if the NDP forms the minority. A Liberal/NDP minority represents more than 50% of all voters.

zephyreks,

Intel is still on 7nm. Samsung’s 5nm is basically 7nm+. The fact that SMIC can do 7nm without EUV is insanely impressive.

Intel took years and years of delays to achieve the same thing.

zephyreks,

AMD’s fabs became Global Foundries, who pulled out of the bleeding-edge node game once it became cost prohibitive to do so with 7nm.

zephyreks,

I’m not sure why people are surprised? Intel pulled off 7nm without EUV. It’s just classic “China stupid, only American company can do that” bullshit.

zephyreks,

ACAB

zephyreks,

Senior US officials have stated that they believe the Gaza Health Ministry to be underreporting casualties.

zephyreks,

How about nationalize our O&G, airline, and telecom?

zephyreks,

If the US continues to destabilize, we’re fucked anyway. Any aid we can provide to Ukraine is going to be us allocating funds to buy American weapons that we then ship off to Ukraine.

zephyreks,

Investing is supposed to be a risky venture. This is the risk.

zephyreks,

Eat the rich who exploit property for profits

zephyreks,

Canada got its key industries stripped away by the US (Boeing to Bombardier) and China (Huawei to Nortel). Now? All the jobs are fleeing South of the border and people are fleeing with it.

At least Huawei still employs a fuck ton of Canadian tech workers and is rapidly expanding. Huawei is footing the bill for a ton of big tech conferences in Canada. They’re sponsoring a bunch of projects for Canadian undergraduate engineering students. They’re hiring a sizable chunk of the graduates from Canadian universities in their focus areas and are happy to foot the bill for technical training. Frankly, Huawei is doing a better job of creating and keeping Canadian talent within Canada than most Canadian companies. They relinquished any IP control over research done in conjunction with Canadian universities.

Meanwhile, Microsoft uses it’s Canadian offices as visa waiting rooms before shipping them off to the US.

zephyreks,

Yeah, you’re right about that, my bad.

I was thinking more in terms of the core tech teams - there’s a decent EA presence here as well.

zephyreks,

Canada was known for helping to keep the peace and deliver humanitarian aid in the past.

Now? Well…

zephyreks,

We have fucking NAFTA and we could do so much economic development to export GHG emissions reductions to the US. The green tech industry is a massive employer and one of the biggest drivers of economic growth in China today, and we literally have a captive market that we can exploit to get the same economic growth driver in Canada.

IMO, reducing our top-line emissions is a lost cause. More than 80% of our electricity comes from clean sources. More than 50% of our emissions comes from O&G and transportation.

zephyreks,

One day I aspire to have as much influence on global politics as Adrian Zenz.

zephyreks,

But have you considered that white protestors in the Freedom Convoy can’t be Hamas because they’re white?

zephyreks,

China’s a leader in terms of actually hitting their emissions targets (they’re hitting peak oil earlier than expected, for example), but they aren’t able to use the natural gas crutch to drive down “emissions.”

Methane leaks absolutely destroy any GHGe advantage natural gas has in the short term, but it’s something that’s completely forgotten in emissions reporting. If you adjust for natural gas’ methane footprint, the GHGe reductions in the West start looking really depressing.

zephyreks,

Frankly, I think Canada would have a much greater impact on emissions if we put our highly-educated workforce towards developing clean technologies for export to the US. That’s what we should be working on, because we’re already operating in that weird part of the climate curve where it takes disproportionate investment to get any return in terms of GHGe.

If BYD opened an EV plant in Canada for export of $10k EVs to North American markets, we could wipe so may ICE vehicles off the roads across North America.

zephyreks,

I mean, if someone else wants to start producing solar panels and wind turbines…

zephyreks,

Well, I’ve already established you can’t take Western GHGe numbers at face value… What’s your point? Trust nobody and nothing?

zephyreks,

The West’s data is literally, demonstrably false to the point that it’s legitimately harmful to our climate goals. In the short-term, natural gas is indisputably worse than coal, maybe even 2-3x worse. Even in the long-term, natural gas is worse than coal when looking at observed methane leakage rates. The US’ emissions reductions are a fucking lie.

Meanwhile, China hasn’t exactly been hiding that they’re reliant on coal.

zephyreks,

And a good chunk of Canadian emissions (about half) are due to O&G extraction and burning fossil fuels for transportation. It’s a simple problem to solve.

zephyreks,

None of this solves the methane problem that has a disproportionate and untracked impact on Canada’s emissions.

Consider that 1.2% leakage means that natural gas is equally bad as coal over a 20 year period. Consider then that even the most optimistic estimates for leakage are higher than that. Might as well just burn coal.

zephyreks,

Jacobin is pretty reliable lol

zephyreks,

The CRTC can go fuck itself.

Grieving daughter says father might still be alive if Air Canada had diverted long-haul flight (www.cbc.ca)

Flight AC051 had left Delhi shortly after midnight local time. When Pant’s symptoms started seven hours later, it was over Europe. Pande says she pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital....

zephyreks,

Canada would operate perfectly fine with nationalized airlines, telecoms, and O&G. These are established industries that don’t need market effects to grow or remain profitable.

The only reason we don’t is because we’re fucking idiots beholden to capitalism.

zephyreks,

You can also ask yourself why the blockade on Cuba still exists despite every UN vote going the exact same way…

zephyreks,

Fuck Rogers.

It's not your imagination: Companies are more willing to raise their prices now — and it's because we let them (www.cbc.ca)

Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.

zephyreks,

Neoliberal policy is fucked. It’s rather telling that China’s economic environment is more conducive to startups and innovation than Canada’s.

zephyreks,

Nationalize it. This degenerate “business comes first” bullshit is costing us key talent.

zephyreks,

If the government could step in and just build housing instead of adopting neoliberal bullshit, that would be great thanks.

zephyreks,

Screw Bell. Nationalize telecoms.

zephyreks,

If we’re subsidizing O&G so much, why don’t we just nationalize?

zephyreks,

There’s already been a confirmed F-35 damaged by a “bird strike” over Syria… The F-35 was certified against bird strikes to a higher standard than most other American jets. Given the amount of lies coming out of the IDF in the Gaza conflict, I wouldn’t be surprised if the F-35 was targettable by Russian S-200/S-300 systems and the IDF is covering it up to avoid absolutely destroying the international reputation of the F-35.

The problem is, Canadian F-35 operations in the Arctic (really, the only area we have to defend against Russia) would almost certainly require drop tanks. In that scenario, the F-35 is fucked. This is even as F-35 maintenance requires the use of American military contractors that can be weeks or even months away, particularly if we do decide to operate F-35s out of Arctic bases.

zephyreks,

My complaint isn’t about immigration, but that we’re not using our immigration policy to attract top talent.

zephyreks,

Neither will Tim’s at this point

zephyreks,

Trudeau visiting Genocide Joe, right on schedule

zephyreks,

Highly skilled workers benefit our economy at large.

zephyreks,

If Chinese people were powerless, their protests wouldn’t have gotten the CPC to roll back the Zero COVID policy.

zephyreks,

Ads are a core component of how search makes money. They’re also a core component of how YouTube makes money.

zephyreks,

Ranked higher than a country where many believe there to only be one valid party and that if the other party gains power that the entire democratic system will collapse and bring Armageddon?

That’s who you’re comparing against?

zephyreks,

India, the country best known for being notoriously corrupt to the point where it’s very noticeably hindering progress?

zephyreks,

Honestly, this is a good thing.

The Maritimes are poor enough as it is.

zephyreks,

It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.

zephyreks,

Have you looked at what’s considered a valid “source” on Wikipedia?

The fact that there’s an odd good article does not make the site a reliable source of anything.

zephyreks,

By signing the peace deal back in 2022 that would have even kept Donbass in Ukraine (as an autonomous region, sure, but it’s damn well better than the current conflict borders).

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