Send me magnet for the torrent, for poorly available stuff I set a 10:1 seed ratio, so I’ll be seeding it for a while. I don’t cap my upload speed, but it isn’t great

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/itappmonrobot

Is this similar to Trump’s populism strat?

Yeah

What is it that the conservatives are promising to be that popular?

They aren’t Trudeau, and they’re good at manipulating our dumbest with American-style politics

I wouldn’t say they believe opposite things; we keep flip-flopping between a pro-business party and an extremely pro-business party

Don’t most crown corporations even turn a profit anyways? Just not the obscene profit private companies want

That’s a long January

Yeah, but police in progressive cities are still generally regressive shitbags

This is Alberta, the conservative part of Canada

Our electricity isn’t expensive because of how it’s generated, it’s expensive for the same reason our insurance is expensive: our government opposes regulations and is pro-big-business

So they’re using the Scotties trade name instead (same company).

That’s not true.

Just wait till they get to air

Milk is generally better off in plastic than glass for emissions reasons, unfortunately. Glass is too heavy

I’d believe the NDP to be sincere in their promise to fix it, at least until they prove otherwise, but they won’t be elected so they won’t get the chance

And then use the tax income to fund construction of government housing, to rent out at cost

Just don’t paint it with thermite this time and we’re golden

The logical distinction between vacation time and a floating holiday would be employers being required to approve selected floating holidays, while they can generally deny vacation time at specific times.

Whether that’s how they’re typically used. I have no idea

I guess it’s the old “I’m not a racist, some of my best friends are [insert race identifier here], but…” has been around for a long time. This is just “I’m an LGBT supporter, but they shouldn’t be allowed to exist in polite society” or something.

Yup. “I don’t mind that they exist, as long as I don’t have to see them” is a shithead opinion as old as time. Sometimes it’s racist, sometimes it’s sexist, sometimes it’s classist, sometimes it’s homophobic, sometimes it’s transphobic, but it’s always the same thing. It’s 'other’ist, people looking for another group of people they can look down on and hate.

It’s a very good motivator, if you’re an unscrupulous politician looking to exploit people’s biases

You’d think that the legal system would punish police officers and people in power over others more harshly

You’d have to be very out of touch with reality to think that

The major problems with hydrogen-electric cars are that hydrogen tanks are expensive and difficult to build, and that refuelling stations aren’t exactly common.

Hydrogen-electric trains make much more sense, as the tanks scale well-- large tanks are more efficient storage than small ones-- and the fact that trains have set routes makes adding hydrogen infrastructure much simpler. As well, it likely wouldn’t be difficult to extend range by simply adding more tanker cars behind the engine.

This is great news, and I hope the pilot project goes well and is expanded