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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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npilon, to random
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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...

mpjgregoire,
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@npilon And now there has been prominent reporting: it was on the #CBC At Issue Panel this week. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncS9EqBOBis

For reference for the curious, the Parliamentary Budget Office has announced that they miscalculated the effect of the #CarbonTax on Canadian citizens. A correction will be issued in Fall 2024.

#CanPol #cdnpoli #PBO

quixoticgeek, to random
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We've all been having a good laugh about sparkling autocarrot suggesting that people include glue in the cheese on pizza, and that we should all eat rocks.

But at the same time, you can buy mushroom identification books in Amazon that are "written" using sparkling autocarrot.

Actual printed books. On how to tell very similar poisonous and non poisonous mushrooms apart. Something that is really hard for skilled humans in some cases.

Who has liability when people start dying?

mpjgregoire,
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@quixoticgeek Don't trust any books printed after 2020.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How important is equality?

mpjgregoire,
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@evan To quote Harry Frankfurt, “If everyone had enough, it would be of no moral consequence whether some had more than others.”

sandlapper37, to random
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mpjgregoire,
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@sandlapper37
Marriage shouldn't be about waiting for "the one" who is absolutely perfect either. No one's absolutely perfect, neither are you. If you want to get married and have kids, find someone you think you'll be generally happy with and whom you think will be generally happy with you and choose to love that person as much as you can.

wjmaggos, to threads
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I want to know how fedi sharing got turned on for the @potus account. Basically, how is this outreach happening? In what circles are people being convinced that the decentralization of social media matters? Cause this is either a huge moment or more just nice/lucky.

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos I checked whether a few Twitter accounts I follow (yes, I still go there) also have accounts on Threads, and if so then I sent them messages in Twitter asking them to turn on sharing to the Fediverse. I mean, if you have a Threads account and you want to be widely read, why wouldn't you do so?

https://www.theverge.com/24107998/threads-fediverse-mastodon-how-to

One person tried to turn it on, but it hasn't worked for her as yet...

atomicpoet, to random

If you know a Chinese person, and you want to hit them right in the feels, put this song on.

They’ll probably have a story to tell about it too.

https://youtu.be/bv_cEeDlop0?si=bLTmjNz65NFkaL5X

mpjgregoire,
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@atomicpoet Recognised from the opening moments...

mike, to random
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There are now only effectively three telecom companies in Canada and collusion is rampant. The regulator is essentially absent from the market. Someone please tell me how privatization has fostered competition.

mpjgregoire,
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@mike The CRTC isn't designed to favour competition, it's designed to favour big companies managing telecommunications and broadcasting within a technocratic framework.

scalzi, to random
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One, the judges in the case very clearly were not buying it, and it doesn't seem likely that the US Supreme Court would either.

Two, let's be clear that if this argument did pass judicial review and Trump did become president, he would absolutely 100% start murdering people. He wouldn't even blink.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/

mpjgregoire,
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@csstrowbridge @scalzi
Don't American presidents claim that they can order the killing of people all over the world, including US citizens, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki ?

Now of course the targets are military enemies, not domestic political opponents, but it's still killing.

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos @csstrowbridge @scalzi
Also there's the pardon power. What stops a president from ordering the assassination of a person, and then pardoning himself? As President Ford showed, a pardon can be granted to a man hasn't even been convicted of a crime or admitted that he was guilty.

(It would be desirable for self-pardons to be unconstitutional, but I don't know if that's the case.)

futurebird, to random
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A 12 percent drop in the US murder rate is wild. And I say that as someone who has been spitting stats and rolling my eyes at people who say "crime has gotten so bad..."

It hasn't been "bad" by any real metric since the late 90s and even when it was "bad" if you're middle class (and not at risk of domestic violence*) you have zero things to worry about even in 1989.

*domestic violence improved for a few decades but then stalled. But, when people fret about crime this isn't what they mean.

mpjgregoire,
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@futurebird Wonderful news. I see there's a chart of recent US homicides at https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

(Preliminary figures for 2023.)

I hope the recent rise in traffic fatalities will end as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

darnell, to random
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I doubt nations on Earth will phase out fossil fuels in the next 50 years due to economic forces.

Yes, we have the technology (nuclear, solar, hydro, etcetera), as well as the raw materials (we have enough lithium sources on Earth), but there is no real political desire to do so in most countries (only talk of taking action—but no real action).

👉🏾 The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/23993937/dubai-un-climate-change-conference-cop28-united-nations-fossil-fuels

mpjgregoire,
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@darnell I came to the sad conclusion ten years ago or so that politicians were unlikely to solve the problem by a plan to phase out fossil fuel use. The only way humanity will decrease global carbon emissions is if non-carbon-emitting technologies become cheaper than fossil fuel ones. If that sort of transition occurs, then the politicians will come in at the end with policies to mop up.

Personally, I still support a to speed such a transition.

mpjgregoire, to random
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@evan George W.'s wars were much less militarily successful and more unilateral than his father's; if it's about the wars shouldn't Bush '43 be more disliked than Bush '41?

(Sorry for breaking the thread.)

heliomass, to transit

📖 “Britain's infrastructure is too expensive”

This is a must-read. Choice quote: “After adjusting for inflation, we found that tram projects in Britain are two and a half times more expensive than French projects on a per mile basis.”

What’s depressing – as Canadian transit advocates know all to well – is it’s even more expensive to build transit in North America than the UK.

https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/britains-infrastructure-is-too-expensive

mpjgregoire,
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@heliomass Do you follow Alon Levy, referred to in the report? He's been comparing international transportation construction costs for years.

It's staggering, really, how much costs vary. The big contractors are international, the consultants too, but we don't manage to build as cheaply as even the French.

mpjgregoire,
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@heliomass He has an account on the Fediverse as well, @Alon .

mpjgregoire, to RaspberryPi
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@Raspberry_Pi
Do you have any recommendations for software, for people wanting to use a to build a voice assistant?

I had been planning to use , but that project doesn't seem very active these days.

mpjgregoire, to random
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RIP, .

https://www.thesuburban.com/news/city_news/montreal-born-senator-hugh-segal-passes-away/article_544136b5-00ae-5da2-9882-33dbcfad2278.html

mpjgregoire,
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@MicroWave So the Biden Administration wants to spend $39B? Has Congress approved it?

mpjgregoire, to debian
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I have now installed Emacs 29.1 and , after enabling unstable on my otherwise stable box. Didn't pull in too many dependencies. Will see how it goes.

mpjgregoire, to random
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Alberta no longer pursuing plan to dump RCMP for provincial police
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/alberta-no-longer-pursuing-plan-to-dump-rcmp-for-provincial-police-force

I live in a province with a provincial police force. It works fine. But the transition difficulties of setting one up for Alberta were obviously a major issue.

Hmm. Is backing away from all hot-button issues, or has she picked just one on which she'll concentrate? It's generally unwise to battle on all fronts all at once.

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mpjgregoire, to Montreal
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« C’est vraiment un moment historique, il faut en profiter ! »: https://lp.ca/mfItur?sharing=true

"La « journée de découverte » du REM de samedi a été victime de son succès. En moins de trois heures en matinée, 20 000 passagers sont montés à bord, alors que la capacité journalière est de 30 000. En fin de journée, le bilan était monté à 60 000."


mpjgregoire, to random
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@bugaevc How's the port to amd64 coming along these days?

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to fediverse
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Journalistic organisations in Canada with official accounts on the :

I will update the list as I learn of other such accounts.

mpjgregoire, to random
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@coop Is there a policy, or preferred practice about CWs on ? In particular, I often post about Canadian and Québec politics, less frequently about uspol -- should I put a CW on such posts?

mpjgregoire, to Stoicism
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"If anyone can refute me—show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." —Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book VI

#MarcusAurelius #wisdom #truth

mpjgregoire, to random
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There's an old joke: Poor Canada! She was supposed to have French culture, British government and American can-do; instead she got American culture, French government and British can-do.

I still aim at the first three.

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