I am beyond tired of this thoughtless take. “You can’t murder me, that’s illegal!” “You can’t harass me for being homosexual, that’s illegal!” “You can’t slam me into the ground and arrest me for nothing, that’s illegal!” Just. Fucking. Watch them. It was illegal the first time they did it too.

My #1 issue with the Democrats. I'm not sure how they talk about unprecedented times so much without actually acting on it.

I guess the crisis itself could be and was, but at the time nobody was really talking about the concept of a cold war, and the nuclear threat stayed heightened for decades. Actually, opinions vary on how long a nuclear-power conflict can reliably stay cold, even now.

AI and nuclear war seem like the main direct threats right now. Climate change will suck and I'll miss coral reefs, but it's not planet killing unless it sets something else more deliberate off. The world looks unstable, but I'm not expecting WWIII this year, and AI isn't going to be very dangerous by 2025 either. The Cuban missile crisis should have ended the world as we know it in the span of a few months. We basically just won a few coin flips in a row; I bet other parallel universes weren't so lucky.

The thing people always overlook is that these legacy systems are only still running because they're super important. Nobody's hiring a junior COBOL dev to maintain NORAD, and hopefully nobody's contemplating putting ChatGPT in charge either.

The move if you want this kind of job is to learn a language that's not quite a dinosaur yet, and have 20 years experience in 20 years. Perl or PHP maybe.

Hmm. What areas? AFAIK they're on all the same continents as humans, and a few species get as far north as places like Canada. I guess Ireland famously has no snakes, so maybe there. I'd expect northern Canada and Ireland could both get dragon myths by import from distant lands.

So, that's my attempt at an explanation.

I'm going to have to read this report. How does that work? There's no way cutting down a tree, shipping it and processing it requires a tree-worth of fuel. Yeah, you could let the forest keep growing, but from what I've heard it slows down pretty good at a certain point, and eventually starts decaying as well. Maybe way more of it is going to paper than I would have expected?

I mean, probably but:

foxnews.com

Really?

Yeah, OP didn't even phrase it like nobody else could have thought of it, which is a frequent pitfall for these kinds of questions. The experts that can give the best answers hate that. It's implicitly saying their years of study aren't worth much.

I'm biased, but Alberta is still reasonably cosmopolitan, at least. It's also not as cheap as we thought apparently, because of the other costs of living.

I don't know about Manitoba, but I would have to be truly damn broke to consider Saskatchewan.

Assuming they're checking the emails at all.

Remember when that guy decided to read a book while his Tesla was doing basic lane following, and merged into a semi? I 'member.

Yeah, we're maybe 15 years behind the US on that stuff. Of course, very few young people are into it, so there's a demographic headwind. We also have faster immigration, and if the US goes really ugly that's going to lead to a crackdown on the troglodytes here.

Wow, there's some serious paranoia here. When you shout Russian agents that easily you start to sound a bit like McCarthy.

I'm guessing it was just yet another way to bring up the carbon tax. If PP wins it'll be interesting to see how he governs, because he's been pretty serious about making everything an opposition campaign stop, including critical cooperation with Ukraine.

It's not working well, if so. Lemmy's still pretty left-wing relative to the overall population, and my comments defending communism as not evil are upvoted.