No buyers shouldn’t take responsibility. This is how we ended up here in the first place. Outsourcing work to people who aren’t equipped with the resources to do it. I wish everyone had a mass spectrometer at home but it’s likely impossible and that’s not the only tool we’d need in order to solve this problem. Also it would be grossly inefficient use of mass spectrometers.
Switching to a CU has been a quality of life improvement.
I recently learned we don’t have any nuclear weapons. I was shocked. I was also shocked that I didn’t know that. 🥹
Stay woke ✊
Any idea what “co-governing power” means in this context?
I see, thanks!
I mean, it’s not like finance ministers haven’t treated government finances this way with bad results for the average people.
I’m cautiously optimistic that Carney might have more progressive ideas around increasing median wages and taxing the rich. I’ve heard a few things from him during interviews and such that tell me he’s not the austerity type, but we’ll know when he lays out something concrete.
Can’t say anything about quality issues.
I can say a few things about the economics. It doesn’t matter whether some or all of this rail is economical or not. Countless infrastructure projects around the world are built without them being economical. The half-a-trillion US interstate highway network was likely not economical either. Infrastructure like that has two important purposes. One’s to support future use. Given the speed with which cities have appeared and filled with people in China, or expanded in the US, a rail line or a large highway corridor support this urbanization. Urbanization creates significant economic growth. The other purpose is finding work for people who then spend their wages in the rest of the economy. So long as there isn’t shortage in real resources - people, concrete, iron, etc. - spending money for this increases domestic consumption and therefore economic growth. Functionally doesn’t matter if the money was created via debt or printed. You can cancel or pay that debt by printing the amount. The debt is typically created out of thin air anyways. Western counties used to this too prior to the neoliberal era when there was slack in the economy. These days we have a lot of bullshit jobs that serve a similar purpose. I think both things considered, HSR buildout in China is solid long term planning, despite of its growing pains.
On what’s high speed rail, I’m thinking ETR500/1000 like the Frecciarossa 1000 in Italy. Those regularly go at 300kph. Looking at Amtrak’s wiki:
Amtrak’s network includes over 500 stations along 21,400 miles (34,000 km) of track. It directly owns approximately 623 miles (1,003 km) of this track and operates an additional 132 miles of track; the remaining mileage is over rail lines owned by other railroad companies. While most track speeds are limited to 79 mph (127 km/h) or less, several lines have been upgraded to support top speeds of 110 mph (180 km/h), and parts of the Northeast Corridor support top speeds of 160 mph (260 km/h).
It seems only parts of the Northeast Corridor get close to that. There’s plenty of geographic high speed rail opportunity in the US that would eliminate short haul flights which have the worst carbon footprint of all flights. There’s no public investment appetite for it. There’s barely enough public funding to maintain the existing roadway infrastructure. Plus I’m sure airlines donate good money to government officials to ensure HSR isn’t a threat to their profits.
… calculated using a weighted average of the median value of all housing types – rose 3.8 per cent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $819,600. That’s above Royal LePage’s previous estimates for Q4. On a quarterly basis, the increase was a more modest 0.5 per cent.
On a yearly basis. Not that it’s great but 3.8% quarterly would be dramatically bad.
Other than repetitions of “I will fight, we will fight, we will win, because Canadian” I heard:
I didn’t hear much about how she plans to tackle the economic issues facing us.
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38 minutes in and what a shit show… I think I understand why Carney did his in Edmonton. 😅
Did filter on Social category? I’m pretty sure the screenshot is for Social.
This is hownit works. On algorithm-driven platforms you don’t have to ban anything. You can both allow it, and have it not reach any meaningful audience. It’s brilliant really.
Some devs in China must be working overtime to create separate infrastructure for the US so that censors aren’t overwhelmed and miss things Chinese people aren’t supposed to see. 😂
They suck and excel at different things. For example the US doesn’t have high speed rail while China doesn’t have military bases around the globe.
It would be interesting to see what the effects are. I’ve heard that TikTok is the only mainstream social media where leftist content isn’t attenuated by the algorithm. Don’t know if that’s true or not, but if it is, and if we assume Red Note is similar in that regard, and if you bet right, they’ll keep getting exposed to leftism without corpo platforms being able to stop it. Unless they do another ban. I’m curious whether there would be a point when the TikTok > Red Note users would realize that and refuse to go back to the corpo propaganda machines.
People moving to Red Note aren’t tankies and I’ve only heard people who describe what tankies say that tankies think China is a utopia that our governments are hiding from us. Kinda like Ben Shapiro describing what “the left” people say or do.
They should probably make an exception for this.