Yes but: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-china-and-india-for-first-time-in-52-years-after-clean-energy-records/

Good point, I added that to the descriptive text of the post.

Canadian conservatives talking about “Soviet style bread lines” in response to Avi Lewis proposing public grocery stores, while there are literal bread lines at food banks.

If the justice system in Germany is not completely compromised this should get thrown out at court the moment this video evidence is presented and the “media worker” should be charged instead.

The masks tell you everything you need to know.

There are better and worse democracies. Overall, democracy this decade is on the decline: https://www.v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/

Since it’s called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, why not pick up the extremely low hanging fruit and call it GNU Imp? It also comes with a free mascot.

Edit: And given that Wilber already has a cheeky smile and two horn-like ears, it wouldn’t even be that much of a new mascot either. I mean come on people, do I have to think of everything around here?

In modern Greek, singular: χταπόδι, plural: χταπόδια.

Transliterated using standard ELOT (that maps χ to ch) singular: chtapodi, plural: chtapodia.

The word is composite and contracted. First part originally is οχτώ (8) (transliteration: ochto) but has been uncommonly shortened to χτα (chta). Second part is the word for foot (singular: πόδι/podi, plural: πόδια/podia).

So without the uncommon shortening in more archaic Greek it would be: οχταπόδι (ochtapodi) and οχταπόδια (ochtapodia).

If ELOT is ignored and οχτώ is transliterated as octo, then you can get to octapodi, octapodia.

Shut up money hoarder.

As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than “octopuses” to be silly. In greek we don’t say (any more) octopodes, we say “chtapodia” (the “ch” is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).

Reconciliation doesn’t by default mean “Democratic government takes a back seat and does what FN demand, abdicating all authority to FN interests”.

No you wampus, the NDP party platform from 2017 onwards was “adopt both the TRC Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. That’s what British Columbians voted for, repeatedly, over more than one election.

What exactly is the “obvious” here, buddy? And what’s the “no democracy for you” bullshit? The BC NDP platform from 2017 onwards explicitly promised to adopt both the TRC Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which then became DRIPA by the Horgan government in 2019. Every step of the way the BC electorate has voted FOR this. Now the Eby government wants to tear it down, to BREAK election promises and BREAK their own party platform and you call this “no democracy”? And in fact not because of some popular demand but because of some shitty mines, so just to line the pockets of some fucking money hoarders while destroying BC. So what the actual fuck are you talking about? That’s your “democracy”?

Anyone calling First Nations a “non elected racially defined minority” needs to go read some fucking Canadian history.

All of this for a few shitty mines.

What a joke Eby is. Apadurai was a much better choice.

You’re misunderstanding the point of the BDS campaign. It is not about punishing the evilest country. It is about applying a type of pressure to that particular country that has a good chance of working.

This is not an absolute moral stance like “don’t buy from evil countries”. It is a specific call from Palestinian civil society as a specific political tactic against a specific situation.

Different situations require different tactics.

I don’t know, I’m just a citizen. My civics education tells me that holding the government’s feet to the fire with critical articles like this one should have some effect by creating a public sphere where the government doesn’t have the cover of obscurity. Informed citizenry and all that.

Good to see we got past the knee-jerk screams of “traitors”.

Look, I don’t disagree on the principle of Canada developing scary enough hedgehog spikes. The question is how do you do that. IMO, what Ukraine and Iran have both proven is that we are now in the era of drone warfare, where small powers can punch way above their weight by leveraging cheap hardware and applying pressure in the right spots. This actually aligns perfectly with the kind of warfare doctrines that the Canadian forces have traditionally been very good at (semi-guerilla tactics basically).

I would be 100% for a defense posture that prioritizes civil defence, and training the population to resist and fight any kind of US adventurism with drones and guerilla tactics. The great thing about it is that it could also double-use for climate resilience. But I am not convinced that the kind of big defense spending the Liberals are pushing for are in that direction. Instead they are pushing for an export oriented arms industry, that absolutely feeds in a “military keynesianism” kind of escalatory posture.

At the same time, the best way to not lose a war is not fighting one. And I am just not seeing Carney actively working to de-escalate the global situation. For example, what the actual fuck is he doing supporting the war in Iran? What the actual fuck is he doing by insisting on supporting the one major destabilizer in the MENA region, Israel?

EDIT: Oh and the article goes into quite a bit of depth about potential corruption and grift opportunities.

Cool. Then you should really care about it done without corruption and waste, right? Because that’s what about half of this long article is about.

I will take your objections to the article, they are legitimate opinions, and we can agree or disagree about them.

I do take quite a bit of exception on your “disingenuous” accusation. If you really think that the article is “assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception”, you are making quite the ridiculous and wild accusation and you are not discussing in good faith.

You’re operating under some pretty wild assumptions here and end up arguing in bad faith. I don’t think I want to follow you up the stupid hill you’re getting ready to die on.

Rabble is not a right wing outlet, very much the opposite. The article is not “bad” just because you say it is. And Lorincz signs the article as a member of VOW, Canada’s oldest pacifist feminist group since the 1960s, and as a member of WILPF, a truly venerable international anti-war feminist organization that was first formed in …1915 to protest WW1.

And here you are doing the oldest “red scare” tactic in the books, accusing peaceniks of being traitors. “Saying these things are possible”… What a weasely thing to say. If you want to say something say it.

So go ahead, say your no-no words, I’m well braced.