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npilon

@npilon@cosocial.ca

Dad; software engineer; fan of giant robots in many contexts, board games, RPGs. Queer rights are not negotiable.

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/28/news/PBO-carbon-price-report-Liberals - turns out the PBO fudged the numbers the CPC's been citing for how horrible the consumer carbon price is, then quietly retracted their fudged numbers over a month ago. I'm sure we'll see this reported widely any second now...

npilon,
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"“There's always the concern that the long computer code that someone had to write had flaws,” said Rivers [a carbon price expert and professor at the University of Ottawa] in an interview with Canada’s National Observer."

A bug? In a computer program? Never.

tantramar, to ai
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There was a time when professional design & presentation helped separate the fly-by-night from the well-established. Even those who couldn’t articulate why or how one ad (commercial, website) was better than another could tell one was. It was no guarantee, but it was a helpful clue.

Facebook stripped all that away. On Facebook, the guy selling stolen shit from his van looks as legit as Target or Home Depot.

Google’s AI-generated search results do this, too.

npilon,
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@tantramar Amazon too - shopping for anything on Amazon is a constant game of Frogger, with multiple lanes of high-speed scams trying to crush the consumer. And Amazon gives no shits; even when a product is harmful or nonexistant, they'll maybe take down a listing, but do nothing to prevent it from popping up again.

ianbetteridge, to random
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Every time Elon Musk has run a software company he’s failed. So of course his VC mates are falling over themselves to give him money for xAI, because VCs make rational decisions.

npilon,
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@ReallyBlue2 @JonChevreau @dan613 triggering a massive bank run and crashing the bank they all had their business accounts at because one of them got heated in a group chat…

tantramar, to random
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The party of “fiscal responsibility”, my arse. https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/112482133543063939

npilon,
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@tantramar used. Teslas. Used. As in with run down batteries. Used. 🙃

npilon,
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@tantramar well they could turn on Autopilot and wind up stranded on one of those remote logging roads just as the snows start 🤔

npilon, to random
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Expect another delightful year of national horserace reporters asking “well you said you’re not going to fund anything else does that mean you’ll cut (popular program)?” and PP refusing to comment, and it getting reported as “CPC won’t cut (popular program)”.

From: @gemelliz
https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/112457507840217475

npilon,
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It’s probably best to look at this as a “literally but not seriously” thing; Poilievre is enumerating things that his conspiracy-poisoned social media bubble thinks government should be doing. Will he actually try to cut the subsidies that keep oil and airline companies above water? No. Will he actually trigger an economic collapse? No.

It’s performative seriousness; a fool’s image of a serious, rational leader.

npilon,
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And after nearly a year of grandstanding about housing prices, Poilievre’s six things he’d fund doesn’t include a cent for housing. Dude doesn’t have a single actual policy in his mind, he’s just free associating on fumes he’s huffed from right wing influencers. Pure toxic vibes.

Really hope the Liberals and NDP notice that omission and start crowing about it.

johnefrancis, to random
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PP going on an anti public service rant this morning, among other lies, claiming that the public service doesn't do anything more than it did in 2015.

Canada's population has grown by 15%.

Core inflation over that period is 28%.

The feds now run public dental, daycare, and pharmacare programs.

They built a $40B pipeline for Alberta.

They spent 3 years bailing out conservative commercial landlords during the pandemic.

Every dollar spent went into the private sector.

npilon,
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@johnefrancis well not getting anything done isn’t really a problem for a secessionist who wants to dissolve the government

npilon,
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@johnefrancis I mean, the west, particularly Alberta, from the rest of Canada. That’s always been the subtext of “western alienation” - that the west would do better without being weighed down by the decadent and suspiciously multicultural east.

tantramar, to random
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Good. “Education minister goes silent on Policy 713 dispute” | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bill-hogan-wont-comment-713-fight-1.7204096

npilon,
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@tantramar it's getting close to election time, gotta ratchet down the transphobia a few notches to avoid creeping out normal folks, maybe put a lid on the rampant anti-francophone bigotry for a few seconds.

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@tantramar “oh shit we’ve dropped into the audible range quick hide the tube and pretend we were taking deep breaths to appreciate the fine, layered complexity of the air from the Irving refinery”

tantramar, (edited ) to random
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Question for every candidate: are you running to make things better or to attain power? Because if your first job isn’t stopping Higgs, you’ve lost me. Ideological devotion to party over policy outcomes is disqualifying. #NBPoli “Why a Liberal-Green 'coalition campaign' to beat Higgs is an unlikely fantasy” | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/liberal-green-coalition-campaign-1.7203761

npilon,
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@tantramar it’s not even an effective protection of the party’s partisan interests, as those are best served by being part of a governing coalition, not an opposition.

On the other hand Canadians are bizarrely and consistently opposed to the idea of coalition governments or formal interparty alliances; they are, for some reason, seen as “unfair”.

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

npilon,
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@siracusa I borrowed this so often from my elementary school library!

johnefrancis, to random
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More lobbyist money into the CPC...

It's not a grassroots party.

The corporations are bringing the money. The neofacist hate groups like Campaign Life Coalition are bringing the noise.

The neofacists will be abandoned. They have the same uphill battle against mainstream conservatives and the charter. It would require frequent and regular federal use of the notwithstanding clause. I don't think PP will bother, it would interfere with the selling out of Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-fundraiser-lobbyists-1.7196143

npilon,
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@johnefrancis a lot of the hate groups he's courting are mobilized by opposition to the gov't. They don't want any particular outcome, ideology, or policy; rather, they oppose the existence of a central gov't.

Hard to see how a Prime Minister reliant on the support of those groups isn't going to be a disaster.

tantramar, to random
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Since when has the Higgs government been driven by data? https://oceanplayground.social/@news/112395799941607776

npilon,
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@tantramar I mean it's really easy to reduce a metric like "serious misbehavior" by 10% among students in the program, you just don't classify an incident as serious misbehavior if the student completes some correctional process under the program.

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@tantramar do I know that's what's happening here? No. But when you've got an open-to-interpretation metric like "serious misbehavior" and its increasing by a nice round number, odds are something's being gamed.

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@tantramar And part of his apparently longstanding anti-francophone prejudice; I noted the emphasis on anglo districts. I'm sure they just got first shot but still.

ottaross, to random
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Supper tonight, taking the easy way out and doing hot beef sandwiches.

It's that common dish elsewhere? A hot beef sandwich drowned in gravy?

It's a classic Canadian roadside or service station restaurant meal. Often it's an unattractive whole plate of beige food, if you get them with French fries. lol

We'll be a bit healthier and do it with fresh green beans. A real comfort food vibe tho.

?

npilon,
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@ottaross my partner grew up in California and had no idea it existed before I suggested making it . We’ve done chicken and pork variants; they’re all good!

johnefrancis, to random
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Had a visit to the dentist today. I did get a chance to ask the dentist if they had any patients yet under the new Canada Dental Care Plan. They don't, and are planning to wait until September.

Ontario dentists are upset that the CDCP won't adopt the ODA's fee recommendations.

There's always going to be a tension between insurers, public or private...trying to keep fees low...and the dentists, trying to keep fees high.

npilon,
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@johnefrancis iirc the history of why dental is a separate insurance system and professional organization from medicine is quite a load of nonsense.

npilon,
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@johnefrancis I'm not having luck in finding the article I'd read years ago, but it's to do with dentists splitting from barbers, who were workmen, while doctors were gentlemen. Doctors didn't consider dentistry real medicine, so excluded it from the construction of the medical profession and insurance system.

End result is that modern dentistry is very quack-heavy.

BarryCooke, to random

If you're older, you've got to stop scaring kids & young voters with statements like "we need huge systemic changes". We do and we don't. They are left with the mistaken impression that we need a violent revolution. We don't need that & we don't want it. Although our western democracies are imperfect, they're good enough to get the job done - if we would only use the levers available to us. Taxation and regulation are very, very powerful tools. That's why conservatives want to take them away.

npilon,
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@BarryCooke one of the most powerful conservative campaign tools is: “don’t bother voting; every option is imperfect, incremental progress is pointless, it’s so upsetting and just not worth it”. Voting is not speech, voting is power - a tiny scrap of power, but even that conservatives are desperate to keep from you.

npilon, to random
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Well I’ll admit I did not have “banks are actively hiding the carbon rebate payment” on my bingo card but I really should’ve.

Yet another case where going loud and picking a fight would’ve been much better than trying to quietly resolve it through back-channel negotiations.

From: @cbc_top_stories
https://mstdn.ca/

npilon,
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@Cassandra it appears that as soon as Guilbeault went public with the banks' recalcitrance, most have mysteriously found that they can adjust their transaction reporting after all. Weird, eh?

npilon,
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@Cassandra Parliaments aren't bound by precedent; they can do whatever they can assemble a majority for, subject to some judicial review. Recall the Harper gov't was already far more active with propaganda than this.

As for banks I'm sure it was some of both; they'd love the cons in power again, so it's easy to do nothing to support that.

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