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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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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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@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.)

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, (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.

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

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to threads
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Some official accounts from news media and governments have become available through . I find:

Please reply if you find something similar, and I'll update my list.

(Boosts welcome)

mpjgregoire, to Ottawa
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"As first reported in the Globe and Mail, Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper have volunteered to lead a campaign to raise the money required to restore the official prime minister’s residence, each of them calling upon their wide network to do so."

Wonderful news. It's crazy that PMs have been too afraid of the optics to have 24 Sussex fixed up while in office...

https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/could-two-former-prime-ministers-help-rescue-24-sussex/wcm/0675f826-4d60-447b-b811-c8bc7d335eeb



mpjgregoire, to queen
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"On a fair day in 1838, barely two years into Queen Victoria’s reign [...] a young, confident and handsome Mississauga Ojibway chief named Kahkewaquonaby [...] came knocking at the doors of Windsor Castle dressed in his finest leather from head to toe and asked to make an appeal to his Sovereign. The door was opened and tea and sympathy were offered. [...] The Queen promised to look into the request and in due course the deeds were handed over."

https://thehub.ca/2024-05-20/john-fraser-canada-stands-alone-in-still-celebrating-queen-victorias-birthday/

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.

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.

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.

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.”

mpjgregoire, to random
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How do you politely suggest to someone that what he has posted on the Internet might get him in trouble at work, without sounding like you're making a veiled threat? Is staying quiet the best policy, unless the other person knows you well?

"Nice blog you've got here. Shame if someone were to let your boss know what you wrote..." <-- the impression I don't want to give.

mpjgregoire, to Parenting
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As the developed world has become richer and safer, our (fewer) children have become less and less free and independent.

https://www.freerangekids.com/how-children-lost-the-right-to-roam-in-just-4-generations/

mpjgregoire, to random
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Canada Post loses $750M. Taxpayers may be on the hook
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-post-bleeding-money-will-need-big-change

"During the 2015 election, the Liberals promised to end a Canada Post program, which was then underway, converting addresses from door-to-door home delivery to community mailboxes." A bad — but politically popular — decision of the Trudeau ministry.

For more radical change, @acoyne proposed many years ago that we give to the postal union and let them find solutions.


mpjgregoire, to ukteachers
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"Yes, it’s true that 6,399 Ontario students went to Quebec to study and benefitted from QC taxpayer dollars. But guess what? 6,456 Quebec students went to Ontario and benefitted from ON taxpayer dollars!"

https://higheredstrategy.com/follow-up-on-quebec/

mpjgregoire, to Israel
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Listening to on the way home this evening, of course they led off with the situation in . The stories of the attack by Hamas were so horrible, I turned it off so that my (small) children wouldn't hear too many details. That was the radio; it's easy to find even worse videos and images.

The Palestinians as a group deserve plenty of sympathy. Hamas does not.

May peace and justice come to that troubled corner of the world.

mpjgregoire, to politics
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It's always interesting when someone whose politics you think you know supports something unexpected: the NRA member who opposes capital punishment, the socialist who favours free trade, the pro-life feminist. How often are beliefs only found in a set because of a historical coalition, not any deeper principle? Do you hold any beliefs at variance with your political in-group?

mpjgregoire, to Montreal
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Who is Greg Fergus, the House of Commons' first Black Speaker?
https://nationalpost.com/news/greg-fergus-canada-first-black-speaker-of-the-house-of-commons

"Before the Second World War, Fergus’ grandfather swapped identities with his older brother in order to join the Royal Air Force and leave the British protectorate of Montserrat, in the Caribbean." Probably an interesting story there; what did his grandfather do with the RAF?

A graduate of in .


mpjgregoire, to Montreal
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"Le capitaine Eduard Voshchuk, à la barre du navire Helena G, a reçu mardi à Montréal la Canne à pommeau d’or. Ce navire océanique a été le premier de l’année 2024 à franchir – sans aucune autre escale – la limite des eaux du port de Montréal."

Un capitaine ukrainien reçoit la Canne à pommeau d’or 2024: https://lp.ca/nBXceM?sharing=true


mpjgregoire, to random
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龍年快樂 ! Happy Year of the Dragon! Bonne année du dragon !

mpjgregoire, to threads
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Is there a list somewhere of popular or notable accounts on that have enabled sharing to the ?

There's zuck and mosseri of course, but I'm thinking of accounts that are less tech-oriented... Where are you, or ?

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...

mpjgregoire, to threads
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An account I really wanted to follow has just begun sharing from . I updated my list: https://cosocial.ca/@mpjgregoire/112167134531406660


mpjgregoire, to Montreal
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Made In Canada (@MadelnCanada): "Montreal snow removal process 🤯" | nitter
https://nitter.net/MadelnCanada/status/1732865646780657758#m

Via @yuanyi_z

mpjgregoire, to random
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VIA Rail's new fleet makes its Toronto debut
https://nationalpost.com/news/via-rail-new-fleet-toronto


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