The news has always been shit. You’re not angry because of the news, you’re angry because anger keeps people on social media longer and gets more ad dollars.

You think this even shows up on the radar of company execs?

Just because she sounds pissed off, and rightly so, doesn’t delegitimize her arguments either. Everyone should be pissed off. It’s not rage bait when the facts are so fucking outrageous.

Lol, the “facts” … You mean the ones you get from her rage bait? I see no logical reasoning flaw there.

And what other media should we turn to? She’s an independent journalist. Every other news media is either owned by a conservative fascist media baron or backed by one. She’s as real as it gets.

No. She’s not. She’s social media rage bait. She is driven by what gets clicks, which is driven by social media algorithms, and she gets paid through advertising that is based on clicks. She is independent in that she has no editor, that is clear. She’s not independent in the sense of being separate from corporate advertising pressures.

And you should get with the times, old man, people get their news from social media now. Get with it.

Yeah, people used to get thereir news from cable TV and people told them not to then too. Congratulations on putting in the lowest effort possible and becoming half informed by what gets you angry. You’re an advertiser’s wet dream.

Haha Doug Ford bad man.

Thanks for the commentary, so insightful and helpful. Totally not just edge lord polarizing bullshit.

Lol. It’s rage bait social media bullshit. If you want journalism, go read from many of the excellent journalists who actually do thorough journalism, they come from a wide variety of genders.

But you know what they’re not? Half cocked rage bait designed to get clicks.

Everywhere does, but Canada has a post secondary education rate of ~66%, and typically votes 66% sane. America has a post secondary education rate of ~50%, and typically votes 50% sane.

There are other differences between the countries, but I think it’s impossible to argue that a substantially more educated population hasn’t led to a stabler and more thoughtful political climate.

How many revolutions around the world have been sparked by student protests? It honestly seems like close to half of them from the past century or two. There’s a reason that Elon and all the billionaires are trying to convince people that college is a waste.

You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.

The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.

A more educated population is a more empowered population, and there’s absolutely no reason that everyone shouldn’t do some form of post secondary education, whether it’s university, college, or a trades program that includes college level courses. You’re not going to be able to understand how the world actually works or get a sense of the depth of knowledge in each field by just dropping out of high school and stopping thinking hard.

It does. Look at Canada.

She’s not a journalist, she’s a rage bait social media personality. Find a better source for news.

Lol the reliance on diesel generators (and all the necessary systems and infrastructure to run them) is not negligible.

They are still a waste of resources compared to a purely collective solution like you’re advocating for.

The most efficient use of resources would be to build massive solar farms in warm sunny areas like Arizona, and then build massive distribution grids to where it’s needed. But this sacrifices resiliency and flexibility.

It’s no different then diesel generators. The reality is that the world is not simple and the best option will be a mixed system that is collectivist in some areas and individualistic in others.

When you live in a city and the ambulance station is 5m from your house, then owning a car will, at most, save you 5m in an emergency situation. When you live in the country and it’s 45m from your house, then owning a car can save you 45min which can easily be the difference between life and death, or recovering normally vs recovering with life altering injuries.

Many many many people do have diesel generators for backup power in the case the grid goes down.

And if you’re building out a new solar system, most will build battery backups for the same reason + cost optimizing.

If your point is that fossil fuels are more polluting than electric motors, then sure, yeah, we all agree.

If your point is that we should always optimize for resource efficiency over flexibility and resiliency, then I think you’re a little misguided, as I see no arguments for not building solar microgrids.

There’s no reason not to publish messy code. Most code ends up being messy.

It could be malware, OP is not sharing the source code.

It could be malware, OP is not sharing the source code.

Share the source code or this is DOA.

Unfortunately for many people in this country, the only places within walking distance of home are paved urban sprawl. It is not particularly safe to walk there, and neither is it pleasant with the lack of shade, constant vehicle noise, and urban heat in the summer.

That’s the suburbs, not the country.

I agree with you, that there should be more robust public transit and nature options for people who want to live in cities, but that does not change the necessity of cars for people in the country.

I mean, they were white by our modern standards but if you read writing at the time, the Irish, Italians, Greeks, etc were often not referred to or considered to be white.

The Irish were also literally fleeing a genocide.

Yes you are, and it’s rather embarassing in light of being handily proven to be wrong.

Name a developed country, and I’ll point you to a power outage and a need for backup generators. Here, how about I start:

Canada ✅, Norway ✅, Switzerland ✅, The UK ✅, Belgium ✅, Costa Rica ✅, Japan ✅, South Korea ✅

So please do go ahead and tell us your mythical country that doesn’t ever have power outages due to inclement weather?

Oh what’s that? You can’t name one?

As long as you were white.