I want to see something where funding is allocated now with no way to claw back the funding.

Offer huge rebates for solar installations on residences or commercial buildings, with ties to maximum $/kw install costs so its not just more profit.

Offer more funding for clean energy projects with requirements they’re under construction by the time they leave office.

Cancel tax breaks offered to o&g companies now, and force whoever comes in to justify adding the breaks back in.

Don’t drop your ZEV policy, but state it will be in force. Make car companies do the r&d now so they’ll be locked in anyway by the time you leave office.

Enshrine the right to the healthy environment for children in our charter, so any changes that damage that in the future will be challengeable legally.

To argue that he’s doing what he can, and if he doesnt toe the line of moderate (ie way too little action) well lose and things will rebound is ridiculous. There’s a non-zero chance things will rebound anyway. Take action that can’t be undone NOW, and make it harder for pp to undo.

The two aren’t comparable. You really want Doug Ford to decide what and who can be eligible for what treatments, only to have it overturned by the next premier?

Unelected, nonpartisan bureaucracy is what prevents those swings.

But you’re not wrong - Ford is smothering healthcare, as seen by the hospitals struggling with finances right now. Its a problematic sign if most of the major hospitals are all struggling at the same time. Less funds mean poorer service and less availability, and that part is directly driven by politics in the longrun.

Typically, civil engineers are the only ones who can stamp drawings, and the ones who take legal responsibility for the design. But I know there are some jurisdictions where eng techs can ‘design’ and take some level of responsibility, so wanted to leave that door open.

Something tells me you’re not in road design though, regardless of title.

Are you a civil engineer or technician?

In my area MOST small residential roads will already require semis to turn into oncoming in order to make tight turns - this is not uncommon, and a reason there’s additional licensing for those vehicles. They have a wide turning radius and should know where and how to make that maneuver safely.

There’s nothing wrong with this setup - speaking as a civil engineer in road design.

Nah, fuck that. Corporations regularly steal millions of dollars a year in wage theft from regular Canadians. We don’t need to be punishing people who did the work from getting paid for the work they already fucking did. The more we normalize people not getting paid fairly regardless of why, we make it less likely for others to get paid properly and less likely for them to go to court over it.

Regular domestic citizens get fucked.

I agree.

You reward them by paying them and then they and everyone back home sees its a viable approach to beat the system and they follow suit

So the fix here is to hit the employers so hard they don’t risk hiring illegal again. You’re not going to out-scare desperation in people with little to lose. But most business owners won’t risk it of there’s good fines that are regularly used.

Unless I’m mistaken, not knowing about it doesn’t mean you’re not responsible?

If you own a company and your employee does shady stuff for their subordinates, you are still responsible for what they do under the acting authority of your business.

Hopefully this is an easy decision for the labour board

I mean this is wine specific, but damn if that’s not a major part.

I think the part people are calling red-pill and incel-y from your post is not your sources. Its this section that is all your own opinion and conjecture after your actual backed-up points.

This puts these institutions squarely into the crosshairs of female supremacist organizations that deem any benefits for men as being “misogynistic”, deeply heretical, and a justification for social, economic, and political cancellation of whatever institution implements these programs.

And secondly, educated women now face a rapidly-shrinking pool of “economically attractive men” above them, as hypergamy prevents them from considering a massive oversupply of otherwise perfectly appropriate men who have black marks of socially unpopular careers or inadequate (lower) incomes.

I appreciate that you might have gone past the old testament, however it is still part of the book and would otherwise be considered safe speech protected from hate laws.

I’m sure you can agree that someone advocating murder of gay people should not be considered ‘protected speech’ solely because its written in the bible. And if we have to start picking and choosing which sections of the bible are protected and are not, that seems like a far more subjective line than ‘hate speech that can be backed up by the words of a holy book is still hate speech’.

The bar for hate speech in this country is way higher than most people seem to think it is. You need to be advocating for genocide, publicly inciting hatred likely to break the peace (ie a pastor preaching that its the responsibility of the congregation to murder gay people), or inciting hatred (again, private conversations are not included, but a pastor preaching ‘you should scorn, despise, and hate gay people’ would be).

Currently the ‘its a religious belief’ covers you from hate speech, but I dont think it should. If you’re preaching those, you’re not emulating or encouraging your congregation to emulate the works and teachings of Jesus.

If you’re arguing and inciting for someone to be put to death on the basis of their sexual orientation (“3 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”) then yes, that’s hate speech regardless of it being the bible.

If they epose neo-nazi talking points (holocaust denial being a big one), they’re probably questionable. Add onto that his regular jewish dog whistles (1, 2), he loves his over-simplified racist undertone statistics, anti-immgration, quasi-‘white replacement theory’ nonsense, or some race-related pseudoscience.

Man, its one thing to be arguing for slippery slope (which is literally a logical fallacy, meaning it shouldn’t be used in an argument), but stonetoss either promotes, or genuinely believes a number of neo-nazi views. To me, thats enough that I dont think his comics should be cross posted here.

I’m glad CBC still does fifth estate investigations. I can’t say I’m surprised that the farms claims don’t hold water - anyone promising “countless health benefits” from a single product should be viewed with heavy skepticism.

The pivot from Big Pharma to Big Govt for stealing or suppressing their research is kinda sad. Imagine how their life must look if they genuinely believe this.

Atoa’s initial mid-December arrest followed police finding…

I mean, who moves before looking at rental prices though??

NYC has ~3.75mil housing units.

Based on your 5amp draw, thats 600w, which a bit on the low side, but we can use it as an average. Assuming most (75%) of residences have AC units, 2.775 million AC units try to run at the same time, using 1665 MW.

Also, please stop using that 150MW usage of times square, particularly if you’re taking it from GoogleAI. I cannot find ANY data supporting that (see possible originating claim for its use here).

Data instead suggests ~35MW draw for the billboards, using a huge overestimation of the draw (since it assumes all buildings in times square have the same number/size of billboards as times square tower, which is false). This is ~2% of the energy required/used by AC units (not including starting draw), which is tiny.

Its worth us pushing for, but lets be clear about what kind of impact that will have on the grid.

I appreciate you finding that article - interesting one.

I’m very much amateur curler, and can’t see how that tiny touch would impact it, but maybe it does at that level of competition.

Using a perfect shot to stop on the button with no spin, and energy= all kinetic (1/2mv2) =friction energy(F*deltaX), we get a release speed of 1.8m/s (with a .006 coefficient), and a 2.98m/s speed (with a 0.016 coefficient).

Using the same equation, I go ahead and rerun the number, but adding a distance of 0.1m, a value I used as a good approximation of a reliable accuracy of an Olympic throw, and a time of 0.2s (the approximate time I estimated based on the video), which means a deltaX2 of 0.36m, or 0.596m.

1/2mv2+fapplieddeltaX2 = ffrictiondeltaX Fapplied comes out to 0.326N to 0.526N which is a miniscule amount.

That seems to indicate that a tiny touch DOES have the potential to make a significant difference. Some sources say 0.25 to 0.5N is required for a keyboard press, so its roughly on par with that

But, how much of a difference does the sweeping make on stone speed? Its easy to say that tiny change can impact things, but how does it compare to, say, sweeping hard vs not sweeping?

This study shows a sweeping change of 45+/-8mm. Thus a change of 25% on top of that is not insignificant.

So the last question is, does it make sense for someone to train specifically by cheating this way rather than doing it right and just pushing off with a more accurate force? That’s likely going to be subjective, but seems difficult to me.

Who knows, maybe this is a crutch and it is making a difference. Sounds like they need to stop doing it any case, whether a way they’ve trained or not. Or wear a camera showing they don’t touch the rock and just hover their finger behind it.

The problem I have is with how productivity is measured. Either GDP or GNI are both negatively impacted by positive planning and bureaucracy, but are driven positively on paper by cheap, breakable goods requiring regular repairs and replacement.

For example, City/designers of a road take an additional 500 hours to do design work which provides an increase of 10 years in lifespan. Now that doesn’t need to be repaired for longer, meaning less future costs (driving down the cost side), while at the same time increasing the hours spent. This has a negative impact on GNI, but is actually a GOOD thing by any rational persons view of the situation.

Or someone produces a set of clothes at a reasonable price that lasts twice as long. If people all move to that product, our GNI would drop despite that being a positive change.

Or thousands of frivolous or stupid lawsuits due to problems avoided by proper planning and/or bureaucracy show up as a benefit to GDP/GNI despite being a waste of time and money.

Using productivity as an end measure misses a lot of important points and measures that a modern society should be aiming for.

Sounds like the “loophole” we need to address is our lack of funding courts and justice systems - a problem seen Canada wide. Seems like a very easy and popular way to solve the issue.

Ontario only just allowed speed cameras at all, and specifically only in community safety zones recently, which would be why you haven’t historically seen them. Most municipalities only had a few so cycled them through their CSZs.