Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca), page 5

Why I think the carbon tax is the right policy for Canada
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/steven-guilbeault-why-i-think-the-carbon-tax-is-the-right-policy-for-canada

#CarbonTax #StevenGuilbeault
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

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.

#uspol

@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.

#TylerCowen

@evan It's still possible to have another candidate take over, if President Biden decides not to run again.

#EzraKlein has an episode on the topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/ezra-klein-biden-audio-essay.html

#uspol

@evan One for work, one for personal.

@evan @megmac
And yet #JeanChrétien has not even been sub poena'd to testify about his involvement with #ResidentialSchools as Minister of Indian Affairs from 1968 to 1974...

#CanPol #cdnpoli

@evan Sometimes the way to support a friend is to tap him on the shoulder and to tell him to knock it off.

@coop @evan Have fun! I won't be going myself though — feeling under the weather today.

@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.

Strong agree.

@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?

@clacke This video, "Pop 101", by #MarianasTrench, has a similar concept: https://invidious.lunar.icu/embed/4kpWkV7IBUw?

#SelfReferential #recursion #PopMusic

@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].

[0] Discussed briefly at https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2024/on-international-law/ .

@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.

@evan It looks tasty, and, given that you posted it, I presume looks were not deceiving. Doesn't it require hours to make though?

@evan Have you considered changing your username to Evan *ActivityPub-Committee-Chair* Prodromou? ;)

@evan I voted neither. Almost never get reply guys (good), but get less engagement than I'd like. Not enough people with similar interests to mine present on the Fediverse as yet.

@evan @Sebprovencher
Catch the article's reference to "the University of Waterloo, California"? Because of course that must be the meaning of uwaterloo.ca...

"The United States is a heartbeat away from a world war that it could lose. There are serious conflicts requiring U.S. attention in two of the world’s three most strategically important regions. Should China decide to launch an attack on Taiwan, the situation could quickly escalate into a global war on three fronts"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/16/us-russia-china-gaza-ukraine-world-war-defense-security-strategy/

I tend to think the lack of Russian success in Ukraine inclines Beijing to be more cautious about invading #Taiwan.

#uspol
#ForeignPolicy