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Thats not strictly true. Most hybrids now use a gas motor to augment the battery since commercially available batteries aren’t as convenient.

In all of them that I can think of, the gas motor never provides torque to the wheels, it runs a generator that then runs the electric motor. Same principle as diesel electric locomotives.

Also, western idiots have been allowing the CCP to buy a functional monopoly on rare earth metal mines.

Not nearly as happy as European defense contractors.

And all of the corporate news execs are elated because for the next 4 years they don’t have to worry about running out of news; because they think they’re safe.

1. They need a majority of the provinces to have allied conservative governments to re-open the constitution, the charter and pervert both of them.

To that end Alberta spent at least 20 million dollars in the last two months to influence elections in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

2. Poilievre would need to deal with the Supreme Court of Canada. This is one of the things Harper tried to start but he was stymied at several levels because lawyers and justices protested his attempt to insert unqualified judges to that bench.

However, the government also has the Notwithstanding clause that allows them carte blanche to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to do what they want, subject to those overrides being refreshed every 5 years. That clause was included over a fear of judges having too much power and was included at the last minute. Outside of Quebec, it has been used 6 times, all of them by conservative governments, mostly within the last 20 years.

Uses outside of Quebec: • 1982 - Yukon - land planning bill • 1986 - Sask. - back to work legislation. • 2000 - Alberta - anti-LGBT marriage, overruled in 2004 by Paul Martin at the federal level. 2015 - Sask. - considered it to override ruling to keep outlawing public sector strikes, but relented and did not use it. 2017 - Sask. - override court ruling against public funding of non-Catholics attending Catholic schools. 2018 - Ontario - used to forcibly change Toronto’s municipal council. 2021 - Ontario - overruled court to stifle free speech against them.

Pierre Poilievre is the leader of the conservative party. That party has been in the grips of religious zealots since 2003, when Stockwell Day capitulated the existing Progressive Conservative party to the extremist Reform party.

When he(Pierre Poilievre) was a minister under Stephen Harper, they suppressed scientific research, abolished and ignored environmental laws, ran roughshod over first nations, tried to repeal same sex marriage and tied foreign aid to the passing of strict anti-abortion and anti-LGBT laws in the receiving countries. They also were riddled with scandals, including taking a significant portion of the security budget of a G7 conference in Toronto for various ministers pet projects in their own ridings. They also routinely capitulated to US interests, including destroying BC’s forestry industry by allowing Canadian logs to be shipped directly to the US and not processed at all in Canada.

Also they cut so much from the budget and gave to their friends; as an example, they sold the building space for the control tower for Vancouver Harbour to friendly developers. They also sold the land for Vancouver’s coast guard base to developers, changing their response time from 5-15 minutes to 45-60 minutes. One of the things that helped Trudeau get elected in 2015 was reversing that sale and reopening the base.

Poilievre and the CPC party have been caught at anti-vaxxer rallies, at anti-LGBT rallies, at the anti-vaxxer riots(both the truck border riot and the attempted coup in Ottawa) during Covid, and he has refused to get a security clearance so he and his party have not been willing to deal with known(according to CSIS) treasonous party members, nor have they done or said anything over Moti’s(PM of India) inner circle officially attacking and murdering Canadian Citizens in Canada.

Current polls put his CPC party at getting roughly 60 seats over a majority, and the election has to happen next year.

I asked on here, but I’m Canadian. I know what is coming up here and it’s worse than Trump.

1. Its more that they’re returning to the old ways. Unfortunately it was a brief, exclusively western concept that justice was universal.
2. There is a solution to it. Western Europeans did it before, we can do it again.

Wc2: the Elven Archers would comment “that you don’t touch the other elves way.”

The .ml situation predates the whole reddit thing, no?

This thread is sad.

As a kid, my parents(read: mostly my mom) would see 400-500 kids over the night. Was really fun, you’d see everyone out having a great time.

In my last place it was mostly childless renters in the neighborhood but we’d still get a good ~100.

1. Harris wants to increase taxes on the rich. They stand to lose the most to that.
2. Getting guaranteed government contracts is an insanely profitable gravy train to companies; particularly military spending.
3. More so if you can actually insert your company into government logistics ( say, space flight, internet/communications and mail? )

Hypothetical crazy talk:

4. Potentially they want to start being fully dystopian and being their own governments as a way to cement a “legacy”.

It should be trivially easy to prove either way.

There will either be records on when it was changed or when it was discovered and fixed.

If there isnt, then it didnt fucking happen and Disney is lying.

Obligatory shoutout to Digital Extremes for their Tennogen program.

https://www.warframe.com/news/tennogen-101

For everyone who thinks their vote won’t count.

The anti-vaxxer BC Conservative Party, of whom more than half are functionally Qanon fuckwits, came within 18 votes of preventing an NDP(left wing) majority government in British Columbia.

18 votes, in an election of more than 2 million votes. Go and vote.

Come now, modern day American Christianity has nothing in common with the Roman Catholic faith that spawned the Reformation in 1519, where the pope and his cardinals openly sold penances and salvation for money.

Ostensibly this is nothing to do with fascism. It has everything to do with a generational collapse.

In the developed nations(e.g. N.America, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, S.Korea) we are hitting it because the boomers took everything and sacrificed the well-being of GenX-onward to save their own positions without fighting for anything.

In China, the one child policy help avoid a massive youth population that wouldn’t have anywhere to fit in(and thus avoid formenting rebellion) but now as its too expensive for Chinese families to have replacement levels of offspring, they’re facing a much worse version than we are, they have a huge aging population who are starting to retire and nowhere near enough to replace them.

Investors.

China’s entire modern “economic miracle” is founded on housing as an investment vehicle.

You can in part blame Canadian Conservatives in BC, specifically Bill Vanderzam, Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell and Kevin Falcon; as well as federally, Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper, for importing this behaviour and concept from Asia and its rise here. Initially in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was about attracting the elite of Hong Kong, who were afraid of what the handover of Hong Kong to the CCP would mean. (And rightly so, as it turns out.)

Vancouver BC is infamously unaffordable, and its entirely because of investors, both national and international using its real estate as a ridiculously effective investment vehicle. If you had purchased a home in the suburbs for 500k in 2006, that home would be worth well over 2 to even 3 million dollars today.

When Vancouver started capping out and hitting limits investors moved on to apply the same practices all over the continent.

I love the way Sir Terry Prachett wrote. In my opinion he is easily among the best authors.

But I like finding other authors that I don’t know about. This is an issue in fantasy and scifi because there are so many bad ones, or weird ones like Michael Crichton, who penned some fantastic novels, but then went off the deep end and wrote an entire novel about how climate change wasn’t real.

As such, a table like this is fantastic.

There is a difference between jobs that are actually able to be automated, and jobs business grads and upper management think can be automated.

This is testing automation to replace jobs. As good as this is, it is a design meant to cut jobs.