I do not write to scold anyone; I write because fear is infectious. Let it spread, and it will paralyze us all.

The only antidote is courage. And that’s infectious, too.

Well said.

It’s the kind of liberalism that acts progressive until it might actually make a difference, then flees to the right. Although Macron has never really looked progressive.

Buying all the politicians?

OK, here’s some information: the shooter was dressed in black with a white backpack and white hands. Can I have $10,000?

Hopefully it’s just something like this, not a scam.

A food cart vendor near the scene told NBC News that he did not hear any gunshots but saw police vehicles and two helicopters in the area.

Why is news media so stupid?

My dad (in his mid 80s) told me proudly that he had just bought Linux and installed it on his computer. It’s great that he wanted to try Linux but I wonder what malware-riddled scam distro he found, and how I’ll sort it out on my next visit.

No, because the bill only forbids emissions made for the express purpose of changing the weather. Cruise ship emissions, they’ll argue, are done for the purpose of making the ship go.

No, because as the article says it’s only emissions done for the express purpose of changing the weather that the bill forbids. That’s how they make it legal to break things but illegal to even try to fix them.

It sounds like they’ve thought of that:

The “Weather Modification Activities” bill sets out that “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or the intensity of sunlight is prohibited.”

So it allows releasing pollution that causes climate change since it is a side effect of other things (transport, power generation, etc.), but forbids intentionally trying to mitigate climate change by releasing anything into the air. Sounds about right for Florida politics.

That said, there is a real uncertainty about the side effects of may experimental geoengineering techniques, so some regulation is probably in order. Preferable not from Republicans for ignorant or bad faith reasons though.

Left vs right is very real though. The left traditionally champions the workers, who are not well off because they’re being exploited by the capitalist darlings of the right. In fact, this class struggle has been the main point of both left and right politics for a long time, just on different sides.

They’re not talking enough of it, just piping it into a river near you.

Canadian media is almost wholly right wing and owned by billionaires. Where it isn’t (e.g. CBC) the Conservatives are intent on shutting it down.

Bully humor and “just joking” are characteristics of the far right though, and they deliberately blur the line between jokes and threats. I’m not particularly reassured that this is where Trump’s mind goes, even if he’d say it’s just a joke.

Don’t assume Canadians are well informed. The right-wing media and the Conservatives lie to Canadians too, and people believe what they’re told. In Ontario they have voted in, and voted back in, a government that is determined to dismantle public healthcare, and the voters seem not to even notice. At the federal level the Conservatives dishonestly blame the federal government for issues they know are provincial government matters, and people go along with that too and are all set to elect the Conservatives despite their having no positive proposals or intentions. Voters are easily duped.

At this rate, that means everyone gets new fascist overlords.

Ontarians and Albertans are already voting for Conservatives to dismantle their healthcare, and Canadians are about to vote in the furthest right Conservative federal government ever. As a wise man once said, people like Coldplay and voted for Hitler. You can’t trust people.

What is the weight of NATO without the USA? Especially against the USA?

Even so, it feels like Canada has to reconceive the purpose and scale of its military defenses. The USA can’t be trusted to always be an ally.

Mexico has already acted to reduce illegal immigrants entering the USA over its border by 76%, while Trump was lying about the problem being worse. None of it has anything to do with Trump, and he’s just making effective cooperative action more difficult with his bluster and threats.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-stick-with-policies-aimed-stopping-migrants-after-trump-win-2024-11-08/

Illegal immigration into the USA from Canada has increased but the numbers remain very small. Trump is lying when he claims it’s a big problem.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/illegal-migration-canada-united-states-1.7320623