This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.

We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.

I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.

Superpower? Alright no need to chug the Kool aid this hard, let’s wait until you find a chapter where he wants to develop a nuclear triad.

He’s a traditional liberal which means not all that progressive beyond what’s popular socially. Good for the wealthy fiscally, and maintained decline for everyone else. If you want to see what it’ll be, look at the UK while he was heading up BoE. Or any Canadian Liberal government through the 90s-00s.

Despite all this he and his party obviously remain the superior choice to PP, but let’s not kid ourselves. He’s not going to neolib us into utopia.

Say “McDonald’s!” to continue ride

I’m not sure the answers so far get to the gist of the problem- how to create these institutions in balance of power, where they can’t just co-opt or capture one another.

I don’t think it’s possible to prevent one institution from actively deciding to give up and relinquish its responsibilities, without constraining or bolstering them to where they can’t act as balances.

If they want power they find a way.

Revenue stream

I wish there was a way out of this points hell being everywhere you go. Every item gets more expensive to pay for it whether you like it or not, so don’t lose out, collect today! Such a pain in the ass.

I don’t suppose this really applies anywhere outside of certain countries

Abrego Garcia was a permanent resident though, so it becomes more confusing.

I wonder if they know what the hell they’re doing. Or maybe they don’t care or keep track, it’s just “how much can we get away with this time”.

This week will be telling, unless dates get pushed back again in both cases. I guess we see if rule of law is just openly gone now, without even the usual pretenses.

I’ll take the parking lot of Crappy Tire and a 17mm wrench over a Canadian quick lube place. Shoddy work and shady upsells is the nature of that kind of business.

Changing your own oil isn’t an option for everyone, but don’t risk an engine at these places either. It’s not even cheaper than grabbing your own oil and filter retail and telling an independent shop to do it.

People do all kinds of strange things on the internet.

Yoga and athletics-wear company, though that’s broader now. They made it big on stretchy form fitting things made in sweatshops, just as the yoga industry began to boom.

Would it help if you told them you think Zuck is creepy? People often have a vague creeped out feeling about Facebook, Meta, and tracking. “I was messaging about (insert) here and started seeing ads for it on all my devices” might sell it and get them on your side.

Beyond that it’s the pain point of them installing another app to communicate with likely only you, so leaning on things they already have might work. SMS/MMS may be a viable alternative, or maybe Delta Chat if they’d be willing to share an email address.

It’s hard to deal with the saturation levels the big chat apps have so I wouldn’t rule out having to keep WhatsApp, unfortunately.

Big Pharma lobbies too hard for that to happen, it’ll be ok. I hope medication will help your situation.

More and more of these types every day

It looks like a vigorous potato, I hope you can find a place to put him outside

The markup on Amazon for the exact same cheap crap goods is insane. Recently got an hdd enclosure and some torx bits for 5-10% of the Amazon offer.

They’d have to connect to it, and possibly reconnect. That aspect is the issue.

My users aren’t going to figure that out.