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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

And jobs shouldn't count as public benefit. It doesn't matter who built the pipeline, the workers were and are necessary.

If jobs were the primary benefit, they could have been created in renewable energy industries as easily as in climate and ecosystem destroying ones.

We should be counting up the number of schools, hospitals, and publicly owned renewable energy projects that are funded by pipeline revenues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

LeBlanc said allowing voters to cast their ballot at any polling station in their riding would require Elections Canada to adopt new technology so that a person would be removed from the voter list across the district once their ballot is cast.

Alternatively, they could trust but punish:

Don't worry about the very small fraction of people who abuse this to cast multiple ballots. Without a fairly large scale, organized effort, it's extremely unlikely for multiple votes to change an outcome under any electoral system.

Use the records collected at polling stations to identify cheaters then to throw every one of the offenders and organizers in prison and permanently prohibit any future participation in the process at all: no voting, no running, no party membership, no volunteering, no working on campaigns either directly or indirectly. Nothing, not even working as the night cleaner for an advertising agency that has political clients or a media outlet that covers or reports politics and elections in any way.

In the unlikely case that the multiple ballots are in a high enough volume to require rerunning the election, charge it to the offenders. They won't be able to pay, of course, but they'll be on the edge of poverty for the rest of their lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but like it or not, that's not how people work. The people who take the time to discover and conform to the standards of a community they join will always be in the minority. If we don't account for that and take steps to reduce confusion right up front, then we just create the conditions to duplicate the toxicity that has destroyed every previous experiment in mass interpersonal communications going all the way back to BBS days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. Personally, I go instance shopping, but if federation is actually going to work in the long run for most people, community names will have to reflect their content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lake Diefenbaker, SK. Here, too. And people are excited! :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saskatchewan labour law is for meal breaks every 5 hours. Everything after the first meal break is at company expense (at least at every one of the couple of dozen employers I've had since 1974).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Canada deals with some of those problems by having a separation of state and medicine similar to our separation of state and church.

For example, I think we are the only country in the world with no abortion law. It's a medical procedure, so it's left to the medical community to develop standards of care and standards of practice.

It's not perfect, but it's worked out quite well since the 1980s. There were some major cases that led to our abortion laws being struck down by the courts and no government has yet had the courage to introduce new legislation of any kind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, I like to know what kind of nutjobs are running around my country and what they're up to. I know that it gives them fuel, but I also have a legitimate right to know what's going on so that I can respond accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I obviously didn't write clearly. I'm not objecting to DST or timezones as they exist. I'm was trying to point out that there are unresolved disconnections between solar time and the ways we want to set our clocks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are actual health recommendations based on solar time. For example, we are cautioned to be especially careful of summer sun exposure between 10 am and 2 pm. As far as I know, that makes sense only in the context of solar time: the 2 hours on either side of when the sun is at it highest (solar noon.)

Unless there is something about the actual timing of the risk I don't understand, under DST the recommendation should be "between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm."

Where I am, in Saskatchewan, my local time is about 1.5 hours distant from solar time. Thus, that recommendation should be "between 11:30 am and 3:30 pm," although I suspect 11-3 is close enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very good writeup. I agree that it's definitely possible. What I doubt is the necessary level of support or political will to make that scale of operations possible.

The only way I can imagine the necessary support and will would be to decide that the Israeli state is an evil and dangerous aggressor like the USSR was thought to be. I suspect that creating that perception, however accurate it might be, requires more time than the people have.

But I sure like the idea. It is, in a sense, war without guns.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is great news.

Now we just need a follow up where the prosecutor and Attorney General rip the police department a new one for failing to adequately train their staff on the law.

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