I mean, if it’s happening regularly, I guess there is one upside to the whole flock clusterfuck - weeding out shitty police officers.

What’s important here is that NWT has a population just under 46 000 people, which means that having 19 MLAs is fine (it translates to just over 2000 population per MLA). When you look at a national scale, though, a number of legislators like that simply wouldn’t be enough to represent the country. Canada as a whole has 343 MPs, which translates to about 110 000 population per MP. I have a hard time seeing a system like this but with hundreds of legislators - “too many chefs”. Plus, coordinating that sounds like a nightmare. You could reduce the number of MPs to around 20, but I’m not sure that would do the diversity of the country justice - and I’m not sure it would be enough people to take care of the sometimes much more complex issues a federal government has to deal with. I also wonder how much the first-past-the-post problem would come into play.

Personally, I would rather see a ranked ballot style system with a second house which does proportional representation, with a Swiss-style possibility for the population to force referendums on important topics. But that’s just my opinion.

MS Teams just had a panic attack.

The report details several overlapping threats. Among them is a nonbinding resolution condemning offensive weapons shipments to Israel, currently stalled in at least three local DSA subcommittees waiting for each other’s amendments. An extended debate on electoralism that produced no fewer than forty permanent Bluesky suspensions. And a jurisdictional dispute among twelve separate organizations, each claiming to be the original Black Panther Party.

[…]

“The left has become an unmatched threat in its ability to wage internal warfare,” one senior DHS official told reporters. “The consequences would be catastrophic if that capability could somehow be redirected against core American values like liberal democracy or Trotskyism.”

Beautiful

Hence the “though”

Fair point about the Indian rail network

Mind you, Hydrogen is actually less dangerous than batteries. When there is a leak, it generally dissipates fairly quickly and fires or similar are quite rare. So in that case… Maybe it would be better if the Indian railways used Hydrogen after all

FYI this article, though, is satire

“I love the poorly educated”

Except you have that problem with everything that doesn’t somehow take power from a catenary or similar - in the case of diesel, you’re also moving your fuel, so I’m not sure how that would be different.

And I wouldn’t exactly say batteries are cheap or dangerous. Yes, when you do have problems, the fires are quite big, but it’s a rarity for problems to exist, especially with trains that are maintained to a much higher standard than your average car.

You don’t even have to fully electricity your network. Having battery electric trains run on a partially electrified network has proven to work fairly well. Charge when you’re running on an electrified section, and if you’re running on a line that mostly isn’t electrified, you can electrify individual stations to top up the batteries there.

Don’t get me wrong, I want hydrogen power to work, but I have yet to see anything that has reasonable promise to be better than a combination of electrification and battery electric trains.

Rule 1: your mother is the biggest object known to mankind.

Rule 2: despite that, everyone has had intercourse with her.

Really? Why did nobody tell us?

But seriously, if I had a dollar for every time scientists have said this, I could probably quit my job.

Ah crap that didn’t propagate properly. I hope it works now.

EDIT: it seems like propagating embedded videos from mbin to Lemmy is broken. Changed it to a link, it seems to work now.

Honestly, it’s not really a part of my vocabulary, but I think a bit of history on the term is interesting here.

The word “woke” actually came from a certain segment of the left, originally, to describe themselves. They were using it as to say “we’re awake and are aware of the way things are”, almost the way some people (with vastly different opinions) talk(ed?) about being redpilled. Mind you, it was often used as a kind of virtue signalling, which already gave it a fairly snobby undertone. Add to that that it implied that everyone else was asleep or dreaming, and it was not well received by many, not just amongst the right. That’s where it was picked up by the right to be used to this day as “anything that seems left of my position that I want to rail against”, taking advantage of that poorly received undertone and painting everything to the left of them with that brush. Meanwhile, it’s been ages since I’ve seen someone on the left use the term to describe themself unironically.

Everytime I hear about the Falkland Islands I can only think of this clip:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rXnmPHAhTxA

Wenn du das als falsche Dichotomie siehst, dann hast du mein Text nicht richtig gelesen. Ich habe nie gesagt, das eine oder das andere. Aber die Argumente von anderen falsch darstellen, das ist auch ein beliebtes Mittel für Desinformation, wenn wir schon gleich so einen Ton nutzen…

Ganz davon abgesehen, dass Tempolimit auf der Autobahn mit dem Tod von Radfahren rein gar nichts zu tun hat, die sind dort eh verboten. Oder arbeitest du etwa mit falschen Dichotomien und wirfst es einfach anderen vor, damit es nicht so auffällt?

Danke für die sachlichen Diskussionspunkte… /s

Ich kann das genauso umdrehen. Du bist gegen die Abschaffung des Straßenverkehrs? Du bist also dafür,

• Tausende Verkehrstote jährlich
• Die größten Emissionen im Verkehrssektor
• Überhaupt Aufwand für die Asphaltierung der Landschaft
• Wesentlich mehr Energiekosten ins Ausland

In Kauf zu nehmen für genau was? [Abwertende, sarkastische Vermutung hier einfügen]

Hier ist das Ding: die Straße ist immer noch ein Verkehrsträger, der selbst nach einer erfolgreichen Verkehrswende (wovon wir übrigens noch sehr weit entfernt sind) existieren wird und existieren soll, nur längst nicht in dem Maße. Und die Straße ist halt nun Mal gefährlich. Verkehr ist gefährlich. Selbst bei der Bahn, in Deutschland das sicherste Verkehrsmittel schlechthin muss man Abwägungen machen.

Sprich, man muss es ins Verhältnis setzen. Das schnelle Fahren hier in Deutschland hat durchaus seine Vorteile - und das sage ich als Autogegner, der selber auch kein eigenes Auto besitzt. Zum einen kommt man je nach Strecke schneller an - und nein, das ist nicht nur ein Placebo, ich habe selber schonmal verglichen.

Dann ist die Frage der Legitimation unter der Bevölkerung. Eins, was in Deutschland unheimlich gut funktioniert, ist die Einhaltung der Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen. Wenn hier 50 sind, wird auch wirklich 50 gefahren (abgesehen von ein paar Idioten, aber die hat man leider überall, sowie besondere Konstellationen - aber auch da sind wir beim Thema Legitimation). Im Ausland habe ich das durchaus sehr anders erlebt - da wird standardmäßig bis zu 20 km/h über die Geschwindigkeit gefahren. Fährst du Maximalgeschwindigkeit, bist du eine Verkehrsbehinderung. Das ist für mich anstrengend. Ich bin danach jedes Mal froh, wenn ich wieder in Deutschland bin und - oh, man kann sich auch an die Maximalgeschwindigkeit halten. Wie meckern halt in Deutschland auf sehr hohem Niveau, was das angeht. Und das hängt aus meiner Sicht sehr stark damit zusammen, dass wenn es in Deutschland eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung ist, gibt es wirklich einen Grund dafür, was nicht “wir haben da überall Mal 'ne Pauschale angesetzt” heißt. Das gibt dem Ganzen nochmal eine ganz andere Legitimation, und, dass es nur in bestimmten, begründeten Konstellationen auf der Autobahn Geschwindigkeitseinschränkungen gibt, trägt dazu bei, dass diese auch von der Allgemeinheit als legitim(er) wahrgenommen werden.

This… Almost makes it weirder.

To be fair, an hour long video about why C++ sucks maybe isn’t the best source if you’re trying to get a balanced view.

I’ll out myself: I kind of like C++. Yes, it definitely has its sharp edges, but I like how much you can do with it. You can do object oriented, functional, procedural, in fact there’s not much it can’t do. You can stay high level or you can go very low level (pretty much just drop into C if necessary). Yes, it’s complex, but once you have a decent feel for it you can do a massive amount with it, especially with the newest versions. And that despite it running on bare metal without any VM or anything. Probably the most frustrating part for me is that the standard library is in many cases stuck with old C++ paradigms. But otherwise, I like C++.