Less waffling and more shitty comms, which unfortunately has been a consistent problem with this government for years, particularly for files where Guilbeault is minister. That guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a microphone...
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I'd buy that argument if the house Republicans could actually come together and do, you know, anything with their (thin) majority. But they can't because they're now simply the party of "no".
And the root causes are obvious: the house GOP is the least experienced caucus in history with more freshman than ever. Those folks were voted in on a platform of obstruction and reactionary objection, not constructive policy positions.
And so now, with their hands on the tiller, they have no coherent platform or strategy.
You can see this in the recent border debacle where it was more important to deny Biden even the hint of a win than to pass any kind of legislation, even when it's policies they ostensibly support. That's the politics of obstruction at work.
Back when the Tea Party was the minority voice, that was fine. They could throw bombs from the back row and things would still get done.
Now that those folks are in charge, they're directionless.
Damn, yup, you are correct! My mistake. Poe's Law strikes again....
~~Man, Elon "hur hur I'm carrying a sink" Musk really has zero self-awareness....~~
Alas, got taken in by a parody account (not that the comment isn't accurate, it's just not applicable in this case).
Modern Republicans are like George on Seinfeld when he decides to do the opposite.
Everything they do, everything they believe, is purely in opposition to the Democrats (and the establishment consensus more broadly).
It's pure, kneejerk obstructionism.
Everyone else says Putin is bad? Well shit, he must be good.
Everyone else says Ukraine is good? Then they're evil.
Folks say Biden won? Nope, he lost.
Honestly, the left should just start using reverse psychology to get things done. If Biden came out against the trans community, you can bet the next day Trump would do a rally in drag.
That's a goal, but it's hardly the only goal.
My goal is to get a synthesis of search results across multiple engines while eliminating tracking URLs and other garbage. In short it's a better UX for me first and foremost, and self-hosting allows me to customize that experience and also own uptime/availability. Privacy (through elimination of cookies and browser fingerprinting) is just a convenient side effect.
That said, on the topic of privacy, it's absolutely false to say that by self-hosting you get the same effect as using the engines directly. Intermediating my access to those search engines means things like cookies and fingerprinting cannot be used to link my search history to my browsing activity.
Furthermore, in my case I host SearX on a VPS that's independent of my broadband connection which means even IP can't be used to correlate my activity.
I played D2 on the deck and it worked fine after tuning the graphics settings. Though I fully admit when things got tricky I docked and used kb&m.
TIL Hello Games wants to break up couples on Valentine's Day...