@evan I'm not at all convinced that Canada shutting down domestic fossil fuel production is desirable. The burning of fossil fuels is not supply-constrained, and any decrease in Canadian production would merely be replaced by production elsewhere in the world.
We have to cut carbon emissions by reducing demand, since we have so little leverage over global supply.
"[T]he parliamentary budget officer, wrote in a report last year: “When both fiscal and economic impacts of the federal fuel charge are considered, we estimate that most households will see a net loss.” He estimated that for the 2024-25 fiscal year, the carbon tax would cost the average household between $377 and $911 after accounting for rebates and factoring in the economic cost of lower incomes."
Personally, I mostly agree with Minister Guilbeault: #ClimateChange is a serious problem for the world; Canadians ought to do our share to reduce carbon emissions; increasing the cost of emissions is in principle an economically efficient way to do so.
That said, there are empirical questions: How much is the #CarbonTax reducing emissions? Are there other measures that would have similar effects at lower cost? Premier Moe is not wrong when he says natural gas exports can be beneficial on net.
@evan I went travelling at one point in my life, and bought new shoes in preparation for all the walking I anticipated. I gradually broke them in, but the day before my departure I walked to the post office without socks. I blistered the backs of my ankles that day, and for the ensuing month my skin had no chance to heal.
@evan I was a delegate at a leadership convention in 2003, in Toronto. It's a perfectly legitimate process, and a lot of fun for party activists as well as the media.
But in the case you're thinking of, I think the real issue is not that pundits want an exciting convention, it's that they want a candidate with a higher likelihood of victory.
@evan I remember the conversation Prof. Cowen did with #JohnMcWhorter: he started with a question having to do with a relatively obscure part of Prof. McWhorter's research, and there was this... shocked pause as McWhorter realised that the interviewer had read a huge part of his writings.
@evan Did Internet users benefit from AOL providing access to the Web? There were pluses and minuses; it was good overall, I'd say. Did AOL users benefit from access to the Web? Unquestionably.
@evan Honestly, it's strange that so many programs have their own parser and config file format. After 60 years of UNIX, how is that no format has achieved dominance?
@evan No military strategy has ever had the main priority of minimizing civilian casualties: by its nature, the main priority of military strategy is to achieve some military objective, e.g. capturing a strongpoint. That said, we rightfully condemn those who do not make minimising civilian casualties a secondary priority, and disproportionate injury to civilians is contrary to international law [0].
@evan Somewhat negative. I subscribe to magazines and a newspaper so I don't object in practice to paying for regular content. I have no objection in principle to paying for longer form content such as blog posts, videos and newsletters, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile for the Fediverse to try to develop ways of distributing such items for money; free methods exist, and paid methods have been mostly unsuccessful.
For the Fediverse (or Twitter) as is, I haven't seen any feed I'd pay for.