I sometimes think that violence is seen as the easier answer. It is short term thinking, a big risk for an immediate possible reward versus a brutally long marathon of effort needed to enact real change non-violently. Statistically the long slog is the correct choice though.

You cannot keep fighting if you are dead from a violent act, but if you get up and apply pressure everyday it will add up. Be a warrior of great and enduring patience. Get up when you fail and try again. Learn and live a long time. And other words of motivation that are written on white ladies kitchen walls.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Game about cutting up spaceships with lasers and gravity tools with a bit of a narrative.

It’s not a great alignment for the types you identified, but I like all the things you mentioned and found this quite nice.

Isn’t it about time for him to generate mass civil unrest so he can cancel the midterms? Or is it too late for that already? I’m too tired to tell anymore.

This mansion and security detail could have been an email.

I imagine part of the problem the Democrats have in developing ready counter strategies is imagining the depths to which their opponent will sink.

Predictable tragedies that could have been avoided are the saddest.

The politician and the ‘health official’ are on the opposite sides of the issue that I assumed from the summary… what world.

If I were the boss here the first one would be to let people know this is the new normal, but I probably wouldn’t fire anyone or do much shuffling as a result of the first round, but otherwise conduct the process very seriously. Well, that’s what I’d want to do, but I have a lot of trouble with the word ‘serious’ and other such words that serious people hold court with.

I’d expect that someone like Carney will, at minimum, make an example of someone to put the fear into the others. That’s what TV and movie logic says to do anyway. I guess we’ll find out if he is a movie guy soon.

Well they had to be able to credibly threaten that they could build a windfarm, so that’s probably worth a few hundred grand to a some amount of millions depending on where they got to in the process.

I wonder if they’d like to sell the land rights they’d have lined up to someone else who might like to not do a wind farm.

If the government wanted the people to have it they could have stipulated that or, better yet, given it directly to the people. You need a complicit government for ‘privatized profit; socialized loses’

Being financial able to contribute is required to validate an opinion. Just like only the wealthy should vote.

Yep, even if we (humans) started doing everything right today, we’ll still be deteriorating for years. That is my very limited understanding.

Canadians might not lead the way on deaths by starvation in the coming years, but we are all on this ball together. It is our duty to act to prevent this disaster, and as a relatively young and relatively wealthy nation I would say our proportion of that duty should be greater than simply our percentage of causing it.

It seems these conservative parties are often, in the very beginning, a core group of fiscally-right people who actively decide they will strike a devil’s bargain with the social-right with the laughable intention that they could keep them in check.

Hey, it is difficult to reach your butthole when you are twice the healthy BMI. And the back inflexibility from sitting 16hrs a day doesn’t help either.

The albertan bootlicking politicians are pretty divorced from what the people actually need. If you aren’t wearing a $5000 or more suit they can’t hear you.

I would guess that is why. We should push for greater ideals, as you say, but I will begrudgingly accept tolerance as the minimum.

Agreed. Just because “everyone knows it” is no reason not to follow up with scientific study. It is good to be able to back up assumptions with data, and occassionally they find some very interest data points, or even find that “everyone was wrong”.

I feel they would rather us slowly starve to death, or aphixiated by smoke, in small manageable packets than be roused all at once to action. All hail netflix and doordash, the bane of revolution!

And don’t think I ascribe any higher status to myself. I am only another fool shouting into the wind, paralyzed, and unable to gather the mental resources to act.

Some do act, I think, build revolution, and fight their way out of comfort to face the hard shapes of reality where the battle must be taken, but I cannot imagine such a person. What do they feel? How were they raised to be this way?

I think Canada Post should be doing some kind of hyper-secure electronic messaging service for canadians, and also maybe internet for everyone as a utility, not selling random loose goods. Like, if a sci-fi writter from the 1800s imagined what a post office from the 2800s would be doing.