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CedarTea

@CedarTea@social.coop

Earthy, lefty, and insufferable. Living in a windy rural Ontario town on the shores of Lake Huron (settler on Treaty 45-1/2 lands). Love to talk labour and ecology. Hell yeah punk DIY culture.

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johnefrancis, to random
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Poilievre is working hard to try to turn the political frame in Canada to the carbon tax. But not working so hard as to propose any alternative carbon pollution framework.

The carbon tax has had zero impact on my life. The volatility of gasoline and energy prices means that the value of the tax is completely lost in the noise. I cash the rebate cheques, but the cost and the rebate are couch coinage...too small to bother digging into to see if I'm ahead or behind.

CedarTea,
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@johnefrancis I have an alternative, but I reaaaally don't think he's gonna like it

CedarTea, to random
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One of the shitty things about living in a town with a lot of vacation properties is that Ontario allows people to vote in both their permanent and additional properties in municipal elections. So no matter what services the locals need, there's always a gaggle of bougie GTA fuckers who'll vote them all down because they want to keep property taxes low on the house that they use 8 weekends out of the year.

CedarTea,
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@mbrewer
Still limited to one vote in each election, but if you're a landlord in another municipality you still get to vote there even if you don't live there. Your spouse gets to vote there as well.

If you don't own any properties then you only vote where you live. In my case, this meant having to drive to the municipal office to register, since my card was mailed to my lord instead of me.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/2022-voters-guide-ontario-municipal-council-and-school-board-elections/eligibility-vote

Gigi, to random
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Me: Goddamn, are you ever an asshole.

Them: WAHHHHHH!! CAHN WAS MEAN TO ME!!

Me: I have abso-fucking-lutely zero to do with CAHN. Why else do you think your whining to them has had zero results as far as my "being mean" to you?

Them: You're CAHN!!

Me: Okay well, you just willed the Community Anarcho-Horticulturist Network into existence. Congrats.

Me: Guess who ALSO isn't going to stop me from calling you an asshole?

Them: [photo]

CedarTea,
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@Gigi Is the Community Anarcho-Horticulturist Network a membership org or can I just start saying I'm part of it?

johnefrancis, to random
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The NDP motion on the recognition of the State of Palestine illustrates how tenuous the control of the electorate & parliament is over the govt of Canada. Parliament can't really force the govt to do anything, except for forcing the govt to resign and call a general election.

The recognition of states is something done by the govt executive... probably on behalf of the crown. Parliament might be able to pass statutes to change that, but it would be a huge pile, and the govt would prob resign.

CedarTea,
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@johnefrancis Liberals love to confuse "can't" and "won't". Joly is playing procedural misdirection games to give the government cover.

CedarTea,
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@johnefrancis Agreed that it doesn't force them, I'm just pointing out that Joly's statement that they
"can't change foreign policy based on an opposition motion". They absolutely CAN. They won't, but they can.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/joly-ndp-motion-palestinian-state-recognition-1.7147521

CedarTea,
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@johnefrancis

Yeah, although we all know what the CPC policy is anyways.

https://www.idu.org/idu-mission-to-israel/

CedarTea, to random
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Hey, remember when the US freaked out about weather balloons and fired a rocket toward my house when they shot one down over Lake Huron? Loved that. A+ work. You're doin' terrific.

CedarTea, to folk
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Another fine folk tune to share today. This one by Sean McKenna of the Mary Wallopers, called The Idler. Reminds me of the old Bum on the Rods poem you hear in a lot of wobbly circles.

"Don't blame the idler who sits on the corner,
Sits on a corner, a cup in their hand.
But blame the idler who owns the apartments,
Built by his cronies on nicked public lands."

https://youtu.be/L-AyYMeNs70?si=FjL8HauKZmCAabBq

CedarTea, to random
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The problem is that the government is trying to make the housing commodity "affordable" (a nebulous term) rather than decommodifying housing. Liberal market logics will always fall victim to market behaviours, no matter how much you try to tweak and means test them. Likewise, this was done without going after landlords as a class.

Even the language - "participate in home ownership". Is this a hobby or are we housing people?

Abolish landlords.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/affordable-home-housing-lawsuits-1.7131524

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    CedarTea,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    This is the lawn equivalent of being able to do whatever you want if you walk around with high-vis and a clipboard and I love it.

    CedarTea, to random
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    Turns out I'm just gonna listen to The Clash for the rest of the evening. Pretty excited about it honestly.

    HeavenlyPossum, to random
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    Strangely, I just got blocked by @ciaranmak for noting the similarities between Israel’s violence against Gazans and the Asad regime’s violence against Syrians.

    Seems like the analogy made them really mad but they wouldn’t tell me what it was that made them so upset.

    CedarTea,
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    @HeavenlyPossum
    Tankie Assad apologist maybe?

    sidereal, to random
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    Why do people get so mad about the idea of using hydrogen for stuff?

    CedarTea,
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    @sidereal

    Hydrogen has some very good use cases imo. It's a good potential fuel for certain areas where electrification is challenging such as ships and planes. Not so good in broadly distributed applications like as a direct replacement for gasoline in personal automobiles. It's leaky and explodey, so you need a lot of maintenance effort, which is more feasible in centralized applications.

    People spend too much time moralizing specific technologies and trying to make them silver bullets.

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    @sidereal

    Of course HOW we make the hydrogen matters as well. Using electrolysis from a coal power plant to make it would obviously be missing the point, for example.

    Hydrogen is just a method of energy storage and transport which has pros and cons and should be assessed at a system level rather than in isolation.

    Catelli, to random
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    Ordered a bike today. And it’s surprisingly difficult to find a bike built for my needs.

    The biggest hold-up is I need an upright seating position on a hybrid bike. That limited me to 4 models available in Canada (as best as I could determine).

    Trek had two, and I almost ordered one, but they have custom forks that will not fit on my bike rack for transport. Only Trek does this.

    CedarTea,
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    @Catelli
    One of the things I really don't like about modern bike culture is how much is "bikes as personality", which drives people to these super high performance things. The idea should be much more "bikes as accessible active transportation option" but that doesn't seem to be the norm in bike evangelism or in the industry.

    violetmadder, (edited ) to random
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    Andrewism just learned that his work was mentioned in a post by Aaron Bushnell.


    @_saintdrew https://bird.makeup/users/_saintdrew/statuses/1762991395613126806

    CedarTea,
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    @violetmadder
    Likewise with @Anark. He actually put out a very good response this afternoon on yt.

    @_saintdrew

    jordinn, to random

    I'm spending a few minutes on New England's south coast, and continue (as someone from far away from any of these places) to find it hilarious and remarkable that Massachusetts likes to inscribe on rocks and monuments a story of how its white settlers were persecuted by England so they set up a new AND BETTER nation, and Rhode Island does exactly the same but its story is that it was persecuted by Massachusetts.

    This is greeted with a stoic silence from MA that I imagine has lasted 350 years

    CedarTea,
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    @jordinn

    I always find it hilarious that Americans repeating the myth of the persecuted religious minority never say what that persecution was lol

    CedarTea, to random
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    "They're taking our jobs!"

    Why the fuck would I want a job?

    18+ ai6yr, to random
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    Dog farted, so I opened a window, thus generating such a great pressure differential between the house and attic it pulled up the (flimsy) attic cover into the attic here!

    CedarTea,
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    @ai6yr

    Pressure differential multiplied by the area over which it's applied will give you the resultant force

    CedarTea,
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    @dogfox
    I'm assuming not a vacuum on the other side though, so differential pressure should be much lower than that. Unless @ai6yr has a very interesting attic.

    CedarTea, to random
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    I found myself overcome with sadness and hope reading Aaron Bushnell's words this morning. That he would hope to see his ashes one day reside in a free Palestine. A beautiful thought, asked in care.

    Something about those words and that feeling felt so familiar to me, and I think I've finally placed what it was reminding me of.

    CedarTea,
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    The final will of IWW organizer Joe Hill, written as he awaited execution by the state in 1915:

    My Will is easy to decide
    For there is nothing to divide
    My kin don't need to fuss and moan
    "Moss does not cling to rolling stone"
    My body?—Oh!—If I could choose
    I would to ashes it reduce
    And let the merry breezes blow
    My dust to where some flowers grow

    ⁠Perhaps some fading flower then
    ⁠Would come to life and bloom again.

    ⁠This is my Last and Final Will—
    ⁠Good Luck to All of you
    -Joe Hill

    c_9, to Toronto
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    This piece about Uber by @pluralistic contains just about the tightest and clearest description of how Toronto got where it is today.

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

    CedarTea,
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    @c_9 @pluralistic

    "The philanderer, the crackhead, the sexual predator" is a pretty inauspicious lineup of mayoral descriptions. You doin' okay down there Toronto?

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    @pluralistic
    I used to live in the 905 ring. Wouldn't wish that constituency on anyone.

    @c_9

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