@promich
Canadian Swede. Multilateral Civil Servant. Information systems, tech ethics, data science, design research, multimodal mobility, social democracy, climate mitigation, just energy transitions, socio-techno-economic theory enthusiast. Opinions mine.
Extinctionist grievance grifting is like an addiction- there can never be enough. Satisfaction is always temporary, never achievable or even really desired. That’s why Carney was a chump to sign the MoU with Alberta. It just encourages their anti-science dementia.
Suburban dudes in their 40s in an Eagles covers band? That's not common anywhere but Canada. It's not even their generation's music (they're too young!) Boomer radio was a musical disease!
Kids today will never understand how dickhead white male boomer djs indoctrinated the masses through classic jock rock dogshit on corporate radio. No other country had it as bad as Canada in the 1980s. You still encounter a shocking number of Gen-Xers with their dads' horrible taste in music.
This is such a key point. The recent Paris and Milan metro extensions cost less than half per km what the Vancouver broadway skytrain is costing. Time to end the neoliberal surcharge of greedy middlemen.
The spiral of climate collapse.
Since then, the endless chaos brought by that orange fascist turd, have largely regulated climate to the backburner of the public discourse – temporarily. The violent and deadly chaos of climate collapse will be unavoidable. Consequences are coming home 4/4
Per capita carbon emissions, cumulative, 1850-2021.
Will we ever be ever be ready to address and reform the halfwit finance bro failson banker-lemmings running Canada's economy? With a former UN special envoy on Climate Science as PM, hopes were certainly raised last year. 3/4
Canada's banks and fossil fuels.
This distortion is at least partially due to the extinctionist obsession of Canada's big banks, who continue to bet large on anti-science destruction of our biosphere. 2/4
Canada's economy and oil and gas.
While oil & gas accounts for less than 5% of Canada's economy, it disproportionately applies far more pressure to the global performance of the Canadian dollar. Why? 1/4
Canada: "Hold my beer."
(Gifts big oil a $32B pipeline, expands sprawl encouraging highways and fails to build a single km of electric regional passenger rail).
*For billionaire fascists. Harmful for billionaire fascists. You skipped the important bit dipshits.
True dat.
He’s an MP yet cannot convince the govt to act to protect kids so instead supports civilian lawsuits? What a douche.
$10 is still too much. F these sleazy vultures.
Come on. Let’s not give the Biden regime this sort of revisionist credit. Biden happily helped Israel target hospitals, schools and intentionally massacre civilians.
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
Gosh, that PM Harper sure is a sleazeball. Oh wait, it's PM Carney. So it must be the act of a financial god super genius who will finally make blatant anti-labour neoliberal corruption benefit us all! Glory days! #ThankYouGodKingCarney
www.readthemaple.com/carney-gover...
The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist
True. Most autocracies still have pretend elections to give them the pretense of legitimacy. Russia, or Belarus for example. So the US would still go through the motions. It's also a good excuse for tRump to host parties in his new ballroom. There's no way he's building it to NOT use it.
A major attack on US soil would likely be the excuse to “postpone” then cancel the elections entirely. Easier than just rigging them. Then tRump can rule forever. A Mossad-KGB style false flag attack is also possible.
That’s Israel’s goal. Spread chaos and death and steal more land.
Not a single quote on transportation or transit? For shame! How about: “Blowing $5B widening highways and not investing a single penny on electric regional passenger rail is just encouraging the dangerous levels of forced car dependency. This is a driver supremacist budget. Unacceptable.” #EbySucks
Technically, if you start a war with a nation and they retaliate, it’s not a terrorist attack.
Will they? Those deathbed epiphanies are mostly a Hollywood trope, sadly.
Yet the recent metro expansions in Paris and Milan cost LESS THAN HALF per km than the Broadway line in Vancouver. Is it incompetence or corruption and how can it be reformed?
No. It’s been a century. That’s closer to 4 generations of indoctrination. Learn history. There were electric cars 100 years ago. We don’t counter lies with more lies.
Cheap gas is largely a cultural expectation. Most Europeans have been paying double per litre for generations, and still drive. The best modal shift motivator is safety. People cycle when it’s safe to do so, and pricy gas alone won’t end driver supremacism.
Working with losers is never easy. Stay strong.
That’s not how death works. And blood obsessed neonazis and zionazis will never stop themselves. They must be stopped. Who’s going to stop tRump’s axis of assholes?
