Which is why "just build your own infrastructure" is never a good faith argument.
Your child is more at risk of being abducted by the State than some random stranger. That's why they don't go outside. You can teach them to run from the panel vans; teaching them to run from the police (who were called…
Sounds like you had a pretty lame childhood to me, and in the 30 years since it's only become worse. Much like panda bears in captivity, it is unusually difficult to give a human being a life that resembles what it…
>while cotton underpants will vary in fiber content So can old shirts, but those are bigger and harder to bury straight up and down. Yes, the data will be slightly noisier, but for that cost you get the benefit of…
Because cotton underwear is arguably the right answer: "Buy this item made out of this material, bury two of them in the ground" requires no further cutting or measuring, and most people would have to go to the store to…
>the broader country Not really, though. Despite what even a good chunk of Canadians (or yourself) might think, the country doesn't end at Toronto. If the government wasn't worried about the effects, they wouldn't be in…
>The Carney administration is on much firmer political ground I don't think so. Time really isn't on Carney's side either. Carney's new tariffs fall on those who, in aggregate, did not vote for him. The average Carney…
So long as the way to improve software is "just stack another VM on it", software will continue to get slower. Cutting edge development practice in 2025 was using a big JavaScript framework (not quite VMs, but they…
>Apparently the old way was to build in unauthorized locations and then pay the fines as part of the operating budget. Yes, that's called a "tax".
Just print more money and devalue the currency, which is how you currently budget anyway. That was the means by which relief funding was appropriated from the public in 2020, and it was a huge success. Most people don't…
>It feels like we do not have the money to begin to prepare and fix things that need fixing to continue the life we have. Oh, you have the money. You just don't want to spend it, for that would shift the balance of…
>The claim I'm making is that they are underprotected online. Yes, and not only is it wrong (they are protected sufficiently), but giving an inch to the same moral impulses and people that resulted in them being…
>Young people are barely living Yeah, I wonder what caused that? The most freedom they actually get is on the Internet, that's why they all hang out there.
We hope the social redistribution that would have to be there to help those that fail, and those employed to teach them, is less expensive than every citizen forced to sacrifice 8 years of prime life time and tens of…
Yes, and here "Canadians want" is used to say "the people within 100km of the St. Lawrence want". (That's actually part of the problem.) Claimed identity isn't a suicide pact and consent of the governed isn't equally…
>it's because chargebacks Sorry, but that's just bullshit. This is nothing more than your standard pseudogovernmental meddling in the "just build your own financial infrastructure" vein, and it's coming from foreign…
>A sign that we are approaching such levels would be nobody wants to enter those nations legally or illegally any more. That is already true of Canada, as it is no longer possible to live like a Canadian [in the way…
It's LPC policy to listen to these kinds of lobby groups, no matter how unhinged they might be. A significant participant in a lobby group with similar aims, Nathalie Provost, is actually a sitting MP in Quebec.
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Because there's zero electoral accountability, and the voting bloc that insist it be that way are so obsessed with importing all the bad parts of the Commonwealth here that this will not change for the foreseeable…
Most parents are too afraid of the State kidnappers (and the Karens who call them) for that.
No. Historically, this just ends up with Toronto and Montreal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver) treating the rest of the country as a resource colony. The pretense that consent of the governed is equally…
Legacy and marketing have as much to do with it as local variations in how bores are actually measured do. All the .38s and 9mms of the world are just slight variations on .36" round ball, .44 caliber pistols are…
>It’s not even clear that Boomers are that much more likely to be NIMBYs Most Boomers aren't NIMBYs, but most NIMBYs are Boomers. This is a thing that uniquely threatens them because their home is their primary…
Which is why "just build your own infrastructure" is never a good faith argument.
Your child is more at risk of being abducted by the State than some random stranger. That's why they don't go outside. You can teach them to run from the panel vans; teaching them to run from the police (who were called…
Sounds like you had a pretty lame childhood to me, and in the 30 years since it's only become worse. Much like panda bears in captivity, it is unusually difficult to give a human being a life that resembles what it…
>while cotton underpants will vary in fiber content So can old shirts, but those are bigger and harder to bury straight up and down. Yes, the data will be slightly noisier, but for that cost you get the benefit of…
Because cotton underwear is arguably the right answer: "Buy this item made out of this material, bury two of them in the ground" requires no further cutting or measuring, and most people would have to go to the store to…
>the broader country Not really, though. Despite what even a good chunk of Canadians (or yourself) might think, the country doesn't end at Toronto. If the government wasn't worried about the effects, they wouldn't be in…
>The Carney administration is on much firmer political ground I don't think so. Time really isn't on Carney's side either. Carney's new tariffs fall on those who, in aggregate, did not vote for him. The average Carney…
So long as the way to improve software is "just stack another VM on it", software will continue to get slower. Cutting edge development practice in 2025 was using a big JavaScript framework (not quite VMs, but they…
>Apparently the old way was to build in unauthorized locations and then pay the fines as part of the operating budget. Yes, that's called a "tax".
Just print more money and devalue the currency, which is how you currently budget anyway. That was the means by which relief funding was appropriated from the public in 2020, and it was a huge success. Most people don't…
>It feels like we do not have the money to begin to prepare and fix things that need fixing to continue the life we have. Oh, you have the money. You just don't want to spend it, for that would shift the balance of…
>The claim I'm making is that they are underprotected online. Yes, and not only is it wrong (they are protected sufficiently), but giving an inch to the same moral impulses and people that resulted in them being…
>Young people are barely living Yeah, I wonder what caused that? The most freedom they actually get is on the Internet, that's why they all hang out there.
We hope the social redistribution that would have to be there to help those that fail, and those employed to teach them, is less expensive than every citizen forced to sacrifice 8 years of prime life time and tens of…
Yes, and here "Canadians want" is used to say "the people within 100km of the St. Lawrence want". (That's actually part of the problem.) Claimed identity isn't a suicide pact and consent of the governed isn't equally…
>it's because chargebacks Sorry, but that's just bullshit. This is nothing more than your standard pseudogovernmental meddling in the "just build your own financial infrastructure" vein, and it's coming from foreign…
>A sign that we are approaching such levels would be nobody wants to enter those nations legally or illegally any more. That is already true of Canada, as it is no longer possible to live like a Canadian [in the way…
It's LPC policy to listen to these kinds of lobby groups, no matter how unhinged they might be. A significant participant in a lobby group with similar aims, Nathalie Provost, is actually a sitting MP in Quebec.
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Because there's zero electoral accountability, and the voting bloc that insist it be that way are so obsessed with importing all the bad parts of the Commonwealth here that this will not change for the foreseeable…
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Most parents are too afraid of the State kidnappers (and the Karens who call them) for that.
No. Historically, this just ends up with Toronto and Montreal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver) treating the rest of the country as a resource colony. The pretense that consent of the governed is equally…
Legacy and marketing have as much to do with it as local variations in how bores are actually measured do. All the .38s and 9mms of the world are just slight variations on .36" round ball, .44 caliber pistols are…
>It’s not even clear that Boomers are that much more likely to be NIMBYs Most Boomers aren't NIMBYs, but most NIMBYs are Boomers. This is a thing that uniquely threatens them because their home is their primary…