• Kyle
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    17 hours ago

    Title: Mark Carney Faces A Turning Point

    • Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, is at a turning point in his leadership, highlighted by a recent humorous pancake flipping incident at the Calgary Stampede.
    • Despite a relatively positive polling period, Carney has yet to deliver substantial results, with only minor initiatives like an income tax cut and Bill C5 on the table.
    • Major issues, such as housing, remain largely unaddressed, raising concerns about the government’s effectiveness.
    • Carney’s handling of international relations, particularly with the U.S. and NATO, is scrutinized, as public patience may wane if concessions lead to unfavorable outcomes.
    • The upcoming trade deal deadline of July 21st poses challenges; public expectations may clash with the reality of necessary compromises.
    • There is growing concern regarding the government’s increasing spending and the potential for significant national deficits, projected to reach around $310 billion over the next four years.
    • The delay in releasing a budget suggests a reluctance to disclose spending plans, which could lead to public discontent once revealed.
    • While government debt can be manageable if it fuels economic growth, long-term structural deficits without clear repayment strategies could pose risks.
    • The public’s patience with Carney is expected to diminish as pressing questions about spending priorities and benefits to ordinary Canadians remain unanswered.
    • The government must shift its focus from large resource projects to addressing immediate economic needs, such as housing and affordability, to maintain public support.

    -Kagi Universal Summarizer

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      16 hours ago

      I’m really torn about this comment - on one hand it’s environment-destroying AI, but it also saves the need to watch a pointlessly long video that should have been an article and probably consumes as much compute as the AI summary.

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        If you want to go down that path - all of our actions online are environment destroying. This useless comment that I’m making needs to live in a datacenter somewhere, multiply that enough times and the energy needed just to have dumb conversations online is killing the planet on its own.

      • Kyle
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        10 hours ago

        True, at least when you share the results with others, the energy used is shared between everyone.

        Sometimes I see these videos and want to know what they talk about but don’t want to throw away hours of my life listening to them. And this is the only way I get both.

        I’d really like to self host something like this so I can see how much power it’s using.

    • ganksy@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      He had every opportunity to bank off of independence from the US. Would have carried home through the next year and a half.