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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • That is a work in progress (the linked article is 3 months old), and the founders of Edison have reported progress in their talks with the federal government. To the point where they are able to deliver their first customer truck in the very near future.

    The issue isn’t that their hybrid truck design is specifically against regulations, and more that their approach isn’t something that the regulations had a permissible category for. (There isn’t a specific regulation that directly permits their type of diesel-electric hybrid truck using the type of generators they are using, so they don’t fit into a pre-approved definition under the existing law)


  • It’s a holdover from when the company was ground breaking and artistic.

    The current era of dogshit remakes is new and horrible.

    Thats a pretty typical for any innovative founder led company.

    Once the founder dies or retires, and the people who learned directly from that founder are no longer in charge, the drive for max_profits becomes the only goal for the company.

    Enshittification starts rapidly accelerating until the company finally craters, gets bought out by a private equity fund, and then gets hollowed out for the last squeeze of value until the empty corpse is left smoldering in a dumpster behind the bankruptcy court.




  • kent_ehtoCanadaCanada holds the upper hand in any canola deal with China
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    There are risks, however. Canadians can’t ignore China’s human rights abuses, from the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the crackdown in Hong Kong. And trading dependence on Washington for reliance on Beijing is hardly a cure-all

    Thank you. I’ve been saying that since this whole shitshow started.

    Obviously we have to disentangle from the US, but it would be stupid to fully replace one abusive trade partner with another equally abusive one.