Yep, we’re stuck with it. It’s just depressing.

Your logic is even worse than mine! It’s quite an achievement.

Once the clean energy transition gets going, people come to their senses, and not everyone continues to drive cars every single time they want to go anywhere, what will all the newly unemployed auto workers do? Build parts for Korean attack submarines, of course! Every hundred billion dollars spent will be repaid many times over in enemy ships sunk when Canada becomes the naval military power it was meant to be and the next great war can finally begin. Submarines: the way of the future.

Not here. It’s probably more suited to mastodon or whatever.

Seems like dinosaur, isn’t: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TGwAAOSw9mFWHRS~/s-l400.jpg

Knowing absolutely nothing about you or your taste in movies other than that you’re on drugs, my recommendation is Lifeforce (1985).

There’s no need to resort to bluesky, @avilewis@mstdn.ca has a mastodon account.

I’m not a fan of having the government subsidizing new car purchases. It’s the last thing we need. The sale of cars that run on fossil fuels should be banned ten years ago or as soon as possible. If the government wants to spend more money it should go towards alternatives to cars, not to bribing the relatively wealthy people who shop for brand new cars to put even more of them on the roads.

Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates.

Of all the politicians, only Mr. Carney has the expertise, foresight, and economic sophistication to do exactly the wrong thing with such precision.

Oh, so that’s what they’re talking about when they say AI will enslave all humanity. I hope the fractured remains of non-assimilated human societies living on the streets among the security drones and human transport vessels will have enough to eat.

If Epic is a megacorp, then what is Valve?

It’s a marginally less problematic megacorp. Being stuck with three or four of them instead of the current one or two would not solve any problems and would make things substantially more annoying for their customers — both publishers and gamers. There’s currently no way for enough of them to exist in that market to provide meaningful competition. It’s the type of service where consolidation and market concentration is inevitable when they’re run the way they are now. You can’t reasonably be expected have 50 different equivalents to the Steam client on your PC; having both Steam and GOG is already a bit of a stretch.

Speaking of the fediverse though, if all the PC game stores were somehow federated such that listing your game on one automatically made it available on the others as well, and they could thus be constrained to compete fairly in a well-regulated market based on the fully interoperable services they provide, that would be a better world.

Tankies (for any reasonable definition of the word) and fascists should always shunned and opposed, by communists and anarchists alike.

The whole idea sucks. You know what would be worse than Steam having a monopoly on PC game stores? Five different megacorps each as untrustworthy as Epic dividing the market between them, each with their own exclusive deals so that people who want access to most things need to sign up for all of them. Like with the streaming services it would only drive people back to piracy.

Evan Solomon, minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, is very keen for Canada to become an “AI powerhouse,” calling this our “Gutenberg moment.”

Maybe it’s actually our Guttenberg moment, as in Steve Guttenberg in Police Academy (1984). AI plays the role of “Ax Murderer” of course. I’m keeping an eye out for the Michael Winslow character.

Growing by 3.6% less is not the same thing as shrinking by 3.6%, economists. Personally I’m for open borders and zero GDP growth, ideally.

One time there was an empty grassy field which was not a city park, and to make that clear — without engendering the local hostility that “no trespassing” would — it’s owners put up a sign reading: NO ACTIVITIES OF ANY KIND ALLOWED.

Most ominous sign I ever saw.

65 according to reddit.

Can’t say I have a whole lot of faith in the accuracy and diligence of the Todayville espionage section, but for a moment it did have me wondering if whoever controls China’s foreign influence operations shares my view that a Liberal majority would be bad news for Canada. But no, they probably don’t care. More likely they perceive the Liberals as more of an annoyance to the USA than the current opposition would be.

I wonder what’s the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.

I was watching a livestream the other day by someone who appears intelligent and knowledgeable enough to know that she should probably give up Windows and use Linux instead. So far as I could tell there isn’t really any reason why she shouldn’t. It was the kind of stream where she had plenty of time to just talk freely about whatever was on her mind, and usually that’s nothing to do with computers or their operating systems. But she was thinking of doing it. She worries about this and that. She wonders if OBS will work as well, she imagines it would be a lot of work, she seems unsure that her tech skills would be good enough, she worries that it might go wrong, that it might not be worth it, that she might pick the wrong distro, that her webcam wouldn’t work, that it might be a colossal waste of time for very little benefit.

People unaccustomed to software freedom find it hard to understand how it would benefit them. People are afraid of change.