It’s time to recognize that the US is fully capable and has deployed propaganda operations throughout the world over the years. We may or may not have been a target so far, but the more we try to decouple, the more we’re becoming a likely target. And they’re not gonna come out and say we’re being targeted.
True. But I think to a great extent that’s the case because business funds the weak ones and spends good money to convince us to elect them. Then they keep the profits rolling. Rinse and repeat.
The mental trick that keeps on giving. When government does it - it’s automatically bad, but when a private business does it - it’s between the business and its customers. Then all the gov’t needs to do is become a customer on the B2B side.
Tesla is competing with itself. 😄
Yeah they’re not getting paid. I’ve been in a similar situation.
What it needs to do is start its version of the Bloc or actually start swinging from party to party. The Liberals have nothing to gain there (although it didn’t keep them from spending billions on a pipeline for Alberta, guess that’s what they mean by the Liberals not caring) and the Conservatives don’t need to make any effort to gain Alberta anyway (so they end up treating them worse than the Liberals even though Albertans don’t realize it).
I said the exact same thing some time ago!
I hope it is all that and I turn out to be a jaded cynic that’ll be proven wrong. :D
I highly doubt that practical fusion is going to emerge from a small scale private lab. The chances that they’re a hype-driven sinkhole for capital is high. Bezos pulling funding out raises my suspicions higher. This should be audited by fusion experts from Canadian public institutions and only if it doesn’t look like a scam, fund it.
I don’t know if CANDUs have pre-made components, I was just talking about their output power. I don’t know exactly why it’s lower than other designs but I know there are some fundamental differences like CANDU burning unenriched uranium as opposed to almost all other designs. It also uses heavy water to make that possible compared to the rest. I assume the lower power output is related to these differences. Or it could be arbitrary. We need someone working on nukes at OPG or SNC-Lavalin to chime in. 😂
Our reactors have lower output than the typical 1-1.5GW of foreign designs though. CANDU are in the the 500-800MW range. It’s why compared to CANDU, 300MW is significant.
The small modular reactor (SMR) would provide 300 megawatts of power, enough electricity to supply about 300,000 homes, according to briefing documents from Ontario’s Ministry of Energy and Mines.
300MW isn’t small at all. That’s half a CANDU block! I thought they would be significantly smaller and therefore not too significant for the grid until we build more units. This is the equivalent of 20-30 of the largest wind turbines available. Not sure if we have that large units installed in Canada.
I’m looking forward to this as it’ll be a litmus test for the approach to labour of the new government.
It’s so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.
Produce is e.coli Russian roulette.
Freeland has polled fairly poorly against Poilievre and this is what everyone i know voted on - who can defeat him. Then there’s some of the bad takes she made. She sounded austerity-ish, made some anti-woke statements which play right in the cons’ hands.
The major shareholders have voted down your proposal.
It seems like you already understand some of the limitations of capitalism. Look into why regulation has gradually been rolled back in the US since the 70s. Why did politicians start to agree with corporate execs demands for lower regulation. Keywords to look up - regulatory capture.
On a separate point, there’s plenty of famines that have occurred in capitalist economies due to capitalist exploitation - that is make more money, at the cost of of creating a famine. Some estimates put the deaths due to famines under capitalism higher than those under socialism. I used to simply know only of the famines under socialism and not know of the famines under capitalism.
Finally the capitalism we live in since the Great Depression is significantly different than the capitalism before it. Socialists, actual Marxists in western counties, yes the US included, were actively involved in the policies that created the welfare states across the west along with the regulatory regime. Some of FDR’s economic advisors were Marxian economists.
That was the compromise to save capitalism from imminent worker revolution. The unregulated, no-safety-net version of the system had lead to the conditions for such revolution. The socialist policies that averted the revolution in have slowly been dismantled over time and the system is reverting to the pre-Great Depression state. Faster in some countries than others.
If you want to reform capitalism to the point where it can no longer revert to economic liberalism (free market fundamentalism), you’d have to almost completely eliminate wealth accumulation. You could only do that by changing the ownership of the means of production. E.g. all employees in all corporations become equal owners (or controllers) of the machines and therefore the decisions on sharing the wealth those machines produce, instead of those decisions being made by a tiny number of major shareholders. You’d also have to significantly expand the industries operated by the government. At that point you end up with socialism. And yes socialism doesn’t mean central planning and no markets. Capitalism doesn’t mean no central planning and just markets. We do plenty of central planning in capitalist economies across governments and large corporations.
I’m not asking you to change your mind today. Just pointing out a few things to look into in case you haven’t.
On a personal level this is likely true. However he said that the average Canadian pays more taxes than they should and that wages are lower than they should be. Both of those statements go against that. What would the concrete policy would be? We don’t know yet. He’s yet to unveil anything specific. Would he follow through on anything he proposes? Won’t know unless we elect him a PM and see. I’m skeptical, but I’m triply so of PP.
Almost all laptops you’ve touched over the last decade are made in China or Vietnam. Most computer motherboards are made in China or Vietnam. My Framework laptop is made in Taiwan but its mainboard is Chinese. Most Android phones are made in China or Vietnam. So are most iPhones.
All of the factory software loading happens at the place of manufacture. Some of the software is made there too. Some of these computers have had compromised factory software which has been subsequently fixed. Cough… Lenovo… cough. Yet Lenovo is used at Canadian banks and other critical infrastructure places.
What I’m trying to say is that the computers on wheels aren’t a uniquely problematic domain. We have regulation for secure domains that systems have to pass audits and such. The same mechanism can be used for cars of any manufacture. I don’t know how BYD software updates work by default but for example Ford doesn’t do software updates without explicit agreement from the user letting them do it. If BYD works differently, it can be forced to change. Do you think the EU let BYD sell spying equipment on wheels that doesn’t comply with the GDPR? I doubt it. We can ask for the same software compliance.