[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The horny Bard strikes again.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I don't mind Canadian investment in private equity. The CPP, Omers, OTP etc buying private assets. This is their function and it's essential.

I do mind having Canadian Media owned by American fascists and bleeting to the masses. Or the hollowing out of corporate Canada with an american branch plant economy.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I did of course, this isn't reddit.;)

It's not a lab trial, it's a field trial. There is a ton of on paper improvements before something like this moves into the field. It's wasting resources. Think more, design more, then deploy and test in the field.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Bootz not Sootz!

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Feels VERY innefficient, thus I suspect doomed from the start. Why pump water some distance to the device then from the device when you could just submerge the whole thing and save a ton of pumping energy? Better yet, place it where currents provide the pumping for free. You only need to pump the CO2 out as it's captured.

Also adding acid, then neutralizing by adding a base is added costs and input. Is there no means to recapture and reuse the acid and avoiding the base altogether?

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A fucking idiot with about a plastic spoon's worth of microplastics in his brain. (Maybe two or three for him)

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

This is why we can't have nice things.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I've already refuted your nonsense. You keep invoking the ghosts of authoritarian conscription and refuse to accept the parallels between an enhanced fundamental education with a coop portion and invoke your own irrational fears.

Disingenuous argumentative trolling. Welcome to my ban list.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

You are certifiable. No one but you is talking about the draft. No one is incarcerated for skipping school, but it is mandatory. You keep bringing up nonsense that does not need to exist.

I think we're done here.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Ok. I get it. You are irrational. You keep bringing up militarism while I have refuted it over and over again. That is not what anyone but you is talking about. Public education is mandatory and you are ok with that because it benefits the individual and society, but adding a 2 year PAID COOP in any number of civil projects of your choosing is now military conscription under threat of state violence? This is irrational.

Show me the lists of state violence for kids who play hookie? Where are the prison camps or mass graves or any other evidence of state violence against students? Is tree planting or community building nationalism? Is a paid coop in a field of your choosing slavery? Are you for real?

I don't know who hurt you, but I'm sorry it happened to you. You have some PTSD sounding ramblings invoking ghosts of something or somewhere or someone that has NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED HERE. You keep pulling these ghosts back into the conversation like a trauma response. It is preventing you from objectively seeing what is being discussed and participating rationally. You talk about the worst examples of what other countries have done like that's the only option, rather than imagine what is possible and desirable for us all in a time of crisis. Canada is in a crisis. You also appear to be in one of your own.

For the record, I am not conservative. I'm progressive, pro-labour, class conscious NDP voter capable of complex thought, subtlety and nuance. No bigotry here. I'm fighting for a Canada that rejects American privatization for a return to Canadian standards of a mixed market economy where well regulated private enterprise thrives where it can and social enterprise thrives where it must.

I love Canada. I love even more the vision of what Canada can be when community works together.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

What a weird response. Primary and secondary education are mandatory for everyone in Canada. This is mandatory CIVIC service. High School in many provinces have mandatory volunteerism in your community. E.g. Ontario requires 40 hours of volunteering.

We're proposing 2 years additional paid service. Think of it like adding 2 years coop program. Not entirely unlike Cégep in QC, but not in the classroom, but in the workplace. Each individual could pick their program. Military service would be one possibility where THOSE WHO WILLINGLY CHOOSE IT are basically a fulltime Canadian Forces Reservist, or a newly formed Civil Defense unit for their coop term.

For conscientious objectors like you, you can select CIVIL service. Could be in daycares, nursing homes, hospitals, agriculture, homebuilding, care for the homeless, addiction treatment, filling potholes, disaster relief, tree planting, maintaining national or provincial parks, forest firefighting, disaster relief, any number of government projects etc...

No one is asking you to pick up a gun. No one is asking you to fight. No one is asking you to wear a uniform or get a haircut. Your assignment is chosen by you subject to qualifications and availability/demmand of the role. Like Katimavik, it could also be an opportunity to travel to another province and learn more and experience all that Canada is. Your time is paid so you are not a slave.

This is a win/win proposition.

Hiding behind calling yourself an anarchist, while enjoying the rights and freedoms of Canadian democracy is hypocritical. If you want to live your values you could try moving to any number of failed states and lawless lands. I hear Mogadishu is lovely in the spring.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

I adore CBC. I can't and won't live without them.

In the morning I awake to CBC radio and continue throughout my commute.

I then listen to The Current as I press into my day.

I listen to the news on my way home. I'll pickup Front Burner, the National and Marketplace.

I edify my mind and soul with CBC ideas in the evening. Nahlah Ayed is my celebrity crush.

I entertain myself with the debaters, hockey night in Canada, quirks and quarks.

I get my Music from CBC Radio 3 mostly, but Marvin's room and Afterdark are there too.

I can think of no other institution more important to myself and the country than the CBC.

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