I think Carney and co think they have to prove they did an honest attempt before they ask Canadians for sacrifices. They probably fear they may quickly lose support if they don’t.

And in my opinion, Carney should lose support on his domestic economic policy if the projected cuts materialize. Not on his negotiations with Trump. Because that’s something other parties could potentially address. Trump negotiations are a long shot for anyone.

Yeah, same. So the quality isn’t too important. Sitting there wn for a coffee among people, even if alone is important for mental health. But then again there are some good places that are pleasure to be in and drink their stuff. I’m lucky to have one and a half at walking distance.

Wow, that was some supreme both-sides shit.

Hm. I guess that makws sense. So the Russians are in a better position technologically while probably weaker in manpower than in the beginning of the war. But the tech could probably offset that. Economically they’re probably overall benefitting from shifting directly to Chinese products that have much lower profit margins than what they used to pay for European and US goods that flooded in after 1991. So their PPP ratio is probably rising. Would be interesting to see if that’s borne out in data. If they’re able to make more missiles, drones and such for less, in a sustainable fashion, then I guess there is a reason for building up deterrent manufacturing in the EU to counter it.

On a Jan. 8, 2025 episode of Two Nice Jewish Boys, he said “the Gazans” should rule Gaza, and continued: “What they want is to survive like cockroaches. In other words, ‘you can’t destroy us,’ which is true, and they say cockroaches will even survive a nuclear war. But they have not done anything for themselves.”

“They’re not a productive people […] Whatever they have, they will weaponize.”

It’s like copy-pasta from the writings of European colonizers of North America on indigenous people, but worse.

Once you start making legitimately good espresso, drinking coffee out becomes problematic. 😂

Like a … taxi company or something.

This is fucking amazing.

E: The ratio… - https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1944832025652871492

So at least they’re half-honest about this not being a productivity thing. On one hand thay say - help with the turnaround (productivity), but on the other they contradict it with letting people quit voluntarily (cost saving). So then it’s pretty obvious it’s about the latter.

Final versions are an illusion. 😄

If the cost of panels drops significantly, there would be more capital available to spend on inverters, even if they stay at the current prices, still decreasing the cost of deployment. But yes. 😄

Correct me if I’m wrong but couldn’t the EU part of NATO have halted Russia’s “special military operation” in the very beginning, if they had actually decided to go in Ukraine? I seem to recall they didn’t want to go in because of various reasons, but I don’t think lack of military capability was one of them. Instead they decided to trickle in weapons as to “not be involved.” Did anything of significance change so that Europe is suddenly super weak militarily against Russia? I guess Europe is weak against the US, but that’s not quite the framing used.

Or perhaps replace the leadership that fucked up. Defunding the public broadcaster would likely result in more power to pro-Israeli capital over media, not less.

BTW, the nightly has been great for a while.

The only gripe I have with the 15 branch is there’s no way to put shortcuts from Private Space onto the home screen. I think that behaviour comes from Launcher3 and Lawnchair haven’t implemented / changed it to make it possible.

How’s the noise? Tolerable?

Keep telling people about Mastodon. Don’t push them. Just explain that this is a result of BlueSky being VC funded and more will follow just like it did with Twitter, Facebook and so on. Add that Mastodon is open source run by multiple non-profits around the world so if one fails, the rest would pickup the slack. Conclude with - if they want to stop having to uproot their network every so often, Mastodon is their best bet for microblogging.

How many times have we watched this movie? At this point these ceasefire negotiations feel more like hasbara than actual attempts to stop the killing.

Whatever the repo is setup with.

How do these compare to the DF64s?

Good thing the Bloc will never allow Carney to sell out our Dairy

How’re they gonna stop him if he decides to to that? The cons would back him. Sure he would probably lose the next election if he does that, but is there an actual mechanism for BQ to block such a move if he doesn’t care to win again?