I keep saying.
The UK, the EU, Canada, and Australia have exactly zero actual leverage. None of them have the ability to develop their own platforms, because their overly regulated business environments have driven most of their native talent out, and what talent remains has its hands tied by endless regulation. They are wholly dependent on American tech companies. If those American tech companies pulled out, or if they were blocked by national firewalls, those highly regulated economies would collapse.
@avertcollapse@ChrisMartzWX I'm not surprised to see a Brit doesn't get the idea of free speech.
You get free speech to bloviate. We get free speech to tell you to pound sand. And no one is obligated to give you space.
@ShaMustard@ClydeDoSomethin https://t.co/OiVcMTMain
"Some people see that and say, “Japan is just bowing down to America.” No. We simply don’t mistake endless hatred for pride ... And if you can’t even understand something that basic, maybe that’s why your country is still stuck behind."
Japan FTW.
No Japanese person forgets Hiroshima.
No Japanese person forgets Nagasaki.
But that doesn’t mean I’m going to look at an American kid, student, tourist, or friend living today and aim 80-year-old hatred at them.
Some people see that and say, “Japan is just bowing down to America.”
No.
We simply don’t mistake endless hatred for pride.
Remembering the past and being ruled by the past are not the same thing.
And if you can’t even understand something that basic, maybe that’s why your country is still stuck behind.
@VinceBroderick2@Tablesalt13 This is canada. It will be welcomed with open arms.
Until they are the ones being hauled in and sued for spreading misinformation. Say, for example, the conservatives are going to ban abortion or roll back LGBT rights, etc.
This is crazy
Canadian ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
wrote a memo to Minister Joly
outlining a plan to make themselves the literal Ministry of Truth, and then use government lawyers to sue people.
The cops seem to genuinely think that they can just piss in everyone's ear and tell them it's raining.
Listen, moron, we've all seen the video. It's so blatant and egregious in how terribly your officers behaved that it could and should be used as teaching material for what policing should NOT look like.
A white man was being attacked by a pack of blacks. What did your officers do? The female cop jumped in to tackle the man who was attacked just seconds ago WHILE HE WAS STILL GETTING UP FROM BLOWS BY HIS ASSAILANTS. She did this without identifying herself and without any clear reason. The man had zero time or opportunity to process who this new assailant was and immediately stopped once he realised that this new person was in fact a police officer (a dumb and incompetent officer at that). Your officers then proceeded to arrest the man while letting his assailants leave the scene with zero attempts to apprehend them. During the arrest they behaved stupidly, unprofessionally and extremely incompetently - they swore at him, insulted him and try to cram him into a car the wrong way. At the time there was roughly 8 officers, all to arrest and swear at one man.
The fact that you see no issue with this conduct confirms that your entire force is unfit for purpose, should be disbanded and most of you should probably be in prison if we're honest.
The claim on this can is true.
A single nuclear fuel pellet the size of a gummy bear produces the same amount of energy as one ton of coal. The amount of nuclear fuel it would take to meet all of your energy needs for your entire life could fit in a soda can.
All of the waste from your usage would also fit inside a soda can.
If you had one can for every person in the United States today and stacked them into a cube, that cube would be 164 feet tall and 164 feet wide, or about half the length of a football field.
Yes, if 100% of our electricity was generated by nuclear power, the total lifetime nuclear fuel and waste produced by every single person in the United States right now would fit in a single football field.
Actually, since spent nuclear fuel is recyclable, the amount of waste would be a lot less than that. If we recycled all of it, we would have a shot glass worth of waste per person's entire lifetime.
We continue to get mixed messages from this provincial government.
We are told Alberta should become more self-reliant and that government wants to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that has always defined this province, yet we continue to tie that entrepreneurial spirit to decisions made in Ottawa.
We are told Alberta will have greater autonomy like Quebec, yet we continue to hesitate when it comes to exercising the provincial powers we already have.
Quebec has long negotiated and exercised greater control over its own affairs. It administers its own pension plan, maintains its own provincial police force, and has significant authority over immigration. Rather than waiting for permission, Quebec has consistently asserted provincial jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, Alberta is rich in natural resources, innovation, and hardworking people. We have everything needed to build a strong and prosperous future. What we need is the freedom to develop and export our resources without Ottawa attaching ideological conditions that increase costs, undermine competitiveness, and leave Albertans paying the price.
A pipeline is only meaningful if Alberta is free to produce, transport, and export its resources without unnecessary federal interference or conditions that leave taxpayers footing the bill.
If Alberta wants greater autonomy, then let’s start acting like it. Self-reliance means exercising our constitutional powers, making decisions in Alberta’s best interests, and reducing, not increasing, our dependence on Ottawa.
If Alberta can only have a pipeline by accepting Ottawa’s ideological agenda, that is not free enterprise. If Alberta can only develop its own resources by accepting costly ideological conditions that make those resources less competitive, that is not a real victory.
And if those closest to the Premier have to spend their time defending this deal on X and telling Albertans they simply don’t understand how good they have it, perhaps they should take the hint. When the people you were elected to serve are raising the same concerns over and over again, the answer is not to argue with them. It is to listen.
@langercarl@mapleblooded The more time that goes on, the more intolerable I'm finding cad boomers.
(Not including, of course, the semingly small percentage with moral code and a brain).
@lizsz55@FreeAlbertaRob@SamBlackettAB Hopefully they do. They'll have to. Private industry isn't going to touch this with a stick.
That is the price you pay for making deals with Libs.