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I researched this phone a bit and found a few hands-on reviews including this one

https://youtu.be/BIQdthHMrK4

Seems quite promising!

If it was just the Byrne one I’d give it a pass as a bad joke.

But the notion of the CPC undermining the electoral process here — a real threat, considering their maga ideology — is not a joke. We need to discourage those elements who seek to discredit the vote outcome, not stoke those elements for some short-term media cycle.

It’s an irresponsibility dangerous game. If this story is true, those partisans should be immediately fired and permanently barred from political involvement going forward by the party.

It’s a good start but these are rookie numbers.

Let’s say 50% worldwide for Q2? Feels quite achievable

I have repeatedly and consistently agreed that Israel uses human shields, because it is true.

You know just as well as I do that Hamas uses their own people as human shields. Their entire operation is to hide amongst their civilian population and infrastructure and use that as cover to attack and kill.

The difference is that you agree with the objectives of Hamas, and so you don’t want to acknowledge the horrors of the tactics they use. Seeing the situation as black and white with “your side” as the unassailable heroes and the “other side” as villains.

But I reject this childish outlook, because it’s not a movie it’s real life. The govt of Israel are indeed villains, but so are Hamas.

I’m blessed because BC grown lettuce is quite plentiful in our stores in Vancouver. And it’s not some specialty boutique product, I was doing that before the boycotts began not just because it was local but because it was good and reasonably priced.

There are several large-scale “vertical” hydroponic farms operating here in BC now, and I bet there are some in Quebec with its plentiful hydro power — or if not there will be more coming because they aren’t crazy hard to setup.

I see this at the grocery stores I frequent — lots more fresh produce coming in from Mexico and South America now.

I certainly haven’t purchased any American produce or meat since the 51st state threats began. I keep expecting that to be difficult but their stuff is becoming increasingly rare o the shelves.

We can go lower.

I disagree, I believe that both have well-intentioned people both amongst supporters and candidates. Many of these feel disenfranchised by the CPC and LPC, and have opposing interests and preferences which would otherwise go unheard.

But FPTP frames the voting process as a zero-sum game. In the current system they are incentivized to either abandon hope in an alternative to these or split the vote. They didn’t create the system to be how it is, and they both would very much prefer the system to be different.

So I reject the casual and dismissive nature of your reply here. May is using a cynical political calculus here to get what she wants — and it feels wrong to blame her for this in isolation when you can find the same types of behaviour from other leaders. Hell, even how Carney removed a carbon pricing policy that he assuredly still knew was the best policy — something I just endorsed in the parent comment — is the same sort of political calculus.

Do I wish that May wouldn’t be disengenous here for short-term political gains? Yes. Do I wish that Singh wouldn’t regurgitate CPC talking points he knows to be false? Again, yes. I hate that they are doing this, but it’s not because they are part of some conspiracy it’s because that’s what I assume they feel is the necessary evil to advance the causes they believe in.

TLDR can we just fucking kill FPTP please for just about anything else?

American policy is tearing apart homes, ruining people’s lives, causing harm to vulnerable people, triggering layoffs and upheaval worldwide, normalizing graft and corruption at the highest levels, and is putting an end the democratic process.

So yes, let’s talk about how some rich tourists feel a bit bad. It’s their struggles that we really need to focus on.

This feels like an overly simplistic analysis.

The conservatives successfully poisoned public perception of carbon pricing via willful lies, framing the (real) inflationary pressures felt around the world as being a locally Canadian issue and specially blamed on “the carbon tax”. This was aided by Trudeau’s lack of focus and his failing to ensure that the policy was a success, but PP and his legion of brain rotted influencers are the primary culprits.

Without ending the “carbon tax”, it was almost certainly inevitable that the CPC would win this election. It sucks, but it’s extremely difficult to paint a picture otherwise.

Carbon pricing is good policy. More than that, it’s the best “neoliberal” approach to controlling carbon emissions. Carney knows this as well as do, he argues for it quite persuasively in his book.

But it had to go, because letting PP win and sell the county to foreign oil extractors would be multiple orders of magnitude worse. And we will still get good carbon policy implemented by focusing on the industrial polluters with the stick and end consumers with the carrot. This doesn’t have the same market efficiency as carbon pricing, but it can be effective and will hopefully be more resilient against the attacks by the brain-rot peddlers.

I get it. May wants to pile on Carney because he’s winning and because there are scarce few voters who would be swayed from CPC to Green. But it sucks if these misleading messaging efforts take root — if they do, we all lose big.

The strategy of divide and conquer has unfortunately been quite successful throughout history.

Vulnerable groups find comfort in not being the group currently being targeted, and irrationally think their support will prevent them from being targeted in the future.

The burden is on us to keep underlining the point again and again, for all time, to all vulnerable groups: they will turn on you next.

Anyone who says otherwise is booted.

100% yes-men there