Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca), page 3

@evan @lazarukb Whenever people make claims about crime being up — or down —, the correct response is "Over what time frame?"

Homicide [0] in Canada was at a high of 755 in 1991, dropped to 511 in 2013, and rose to 882 in 2022. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510007101&pickMembers%5B0%5D=2.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1981&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2023&referencePeriods=19810101%2C20230101

[0] Homicide is easier to count consistently than other crimes.

#crime
#CanPol #cdnpoli #elxn45

@evan Congratulations!

Is the statue really so remarkable though? It's good to have a Wonder in South America, but larger statues exist elsewhere...

I see that an Australian economist shares @pluralistic 's idea that a suitable reaction to the #TrumpTariffs is to weaken IP laws benefitting US corporations.
https://gross.substack.com/p/the-smart-way-to-retaliate-against

Mr. Doctorow suggests cancelling legal penalties protecting DRM; Prof. Gross favours weakening patent protection of American pharmaceutical companies.

Unlike counter-vailing tariffs, these are measures that would hurt US business and benefit other countries.

#economics #uspol

@evan
* Fall of Civilizations podcast, https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

@evan @bobjonkman
I'm a member of two political parties, but with limited real involvement, so I didn't count them. There are phases in your life when you have more or less time for activities outside of home and work, and I'm at a low ebb now.

@timbray No, I'm not MAGA. You can't be a Republican if you're a monarchist.

@evan Americans, by all meams, do learn about the Canadian political system. It has value in its own right, but you'll even understand your own government better by understanding how others do things differently.

#parliament #ParliamentaryGovernment
#WestminsterModel

@evan Yes.

1. For Canada it's a good decision; one way or the other, we need a government with a new mandate to confront the #TrumpTariffs.

2. For the Liberals, it's a good strategy: #MarkCarney is still in his honeymoon period, election spending limits prevent the #CPC from using their full warchest, and it would concern Canadians to have Parliament resume with the PM outside of the House of Commons.

#CanPol #cdnpoli
#elxn45

@clacke How are BYD EVs as cars? Are they well-made, safe, comfortable, pleasant to drive?

We don't have any around here.

@evan Somewhat disagree. It's worse than usual now, but I'm not sure that US government ever worked well.

I have a long list of changes to make to the US Constitution.

@evan Excellent but insufficient.

@evan I picked the standard answer out of the three. But there are other valuable ways of judging a society beyond what Rawls suggests. Here's an amusing one: https://evetushnet.substack.com/p/a-habsburg-behind-the-veil-of-ignorance

#JohnRawls

@Infoseepage
You wouldn't happen to have a photo of the Nazi washtub? It must have been massive for it not to have been destroyed during WWII.

Or maybe it would be better not to pass around photos of Nazi items...

@bishop @noam @mekkaokereke

@Snowshadow @RulesBuster
The real gun problem in Canada is guns being smuggled in from the US. We need to strengthen the border to keep them out.

@evan Yes. Nothing exciting though: sweets, and meat on Fridays.

@evan My suggestion for a poll: How many movies did you see in the theatre in the last year?

I saw one, I think, and it wasn't nominated for an Oscar. Busy with things other than movies and TV at this point in my life.

My answer was "No".

@MichaelRoss
There are plugins for Kodi that allow you to connect to Netflix, Disney+ and other streaming services for which you have an account.

There are many free streaming services as well, including Plex and Tubi. Many more than I have time for these days...

@HistoPol

@MichaelRoss @HistoPol
I can confirm that #Jellyfin has apps, as well as being accessible via a browser.

It has a nice #plugin for #Kodi also. I have Kodi running on an old RaspberryPi hooked up to a large screen TV, and that I watch most of my movies on it using the Kodi/Jellyfin system.

If you have DVDs and CDs around, I think it makes a lot of sense to rip them to a drive and host them with Jellyfin.

@evan Yes. It was a close election, and there were many factors that, electorally minor in themselves, might have been enough to swing the election the other way.

To the specific question of "wokeness", there's polling evidence that "latinx" was opposed by Hispanics. Its use was a sign that Ds had grown disconnected from a significant voting bloc, and directly offensive to some.

(The big error of Ds was of course President Biden's not dropping out earlier.)

#uspol

@evan At least one text only browser: lynx, maybe.