Nation-building but world-ending. That’s quite a shortsighted strategy to promote 3 high-pollution projects (LNG and 2 mines) and no green projects (nuclear is technically zero-emission but it’s still producing dangerous waste). Even including the second wave projects there’s still more environmental destruction than protection.
Seems like the union’s primary demand is better job security, which shouldn’t be hard to do. Being willing to give them the proper funding would’ve solved the problem before the strike. Funny how that’s almost always the case…
Technically free education and universal healthcare are more communist than socialist (as in, they achieve communal control/ownership over them instead of just social ownership). But broadly, communism is a form of socialism so…
And before anyone says that either of those examples aren’t controlled/owned by the government, let me point out that having a monopoly on who pays for something is an awful lot of control over it. You even see this with (nongovernmental) health insurance; they exert a lot of control on what doctors do by saying what they will and won’t pay for. Ownership is just the end game of control.
This, among other things, is what makes me wish nobody cared about branding. The trademark should be meaningless. It’s just another store with no real relation to the original other than the name.
Oh that might be a my-bad; it shows up as posted/updated 7 hours ago for me because the edit time replaces the original post time on Voyager (at least)
You clearly missed the news yesterday lol
This is the first time I’ve seen someone suggest PowerTools specifically to waste energy lol
It’s never really been about upfront price so much as longevity. If you can avoid a laptop upgrade e.g. every 5 years by upgrading just a few components instead, it’ll last you longer and cost you less longterm.
Fundamentally, the cheapest way to build electronics is with very little modularity. Making parts swappable is more complicated to design and needs more components to be included. Both drive up the cost of the product.
No sweat if it’s too expensive or that’s not what you care about (ok, though you should sweat not caring about longevity), but making it all about the price is sort of missing the point. Capitalism is a tool for improving our lives but is not the only tool for that.
What scenarios do you envision a Result<Result<T, E>, E> having a different meaning than a Result<T, E>? To me, the messy Result type just seems like a case of something that should’ve been handled already (or properly propagated up).
I don’t. Personally I think it has led to more proxy wars, as the stability-instability paradox suggests. I think the amount of actual aggression went down after WWII, but has since recovered and surpassed pre-WWII levels. But now everyone is afraid of declaring war on nuclear powers, so they’ll let the nuclear country get away with genocide or other atrocities instead. Look at Israel and Russia right now for easy examples. Seems like the winning strategy now is to convince your adversaries that you’re crazy enough to launch your nukes and then you can do whatever you want without other countries taking a strong enough stance to stop you. That’s not peace, that’s nuclear intimidation. I don’t even see a peaceful way out of it.
Agreed, but it’s up to the politicians (unfortunately) to fix the voting process. All we can do is sit back and enjoy the people pointing out the absurdities in the process.
Certainly a much better contender than the king of genocide enablement (Trump)
I understand what this is supposed to accomplish but what if they just permanently stopped delivering flyers? Imagine the savings in multiple industries.
Anyway, companies relying on the government violating workers’ rights to avoid having to satisfy union demands is disgusting. I’m surprised CUPW hasn’t been on strike the whole time.