[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

If Bethesda handles SkyWind the same as SkyBlivion I am actually quite stoked to play a UE5 version of Morrowind....

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

"...calling it "treason," "an embarrassment" and a "disgrace."" Yeah, because it is. Fuck these treasonous bastards.

If you love the US that much, how about you migrate there and don't drag the rest of us kicking and screaming with you?

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

pushes glasses well akshually....The US was not involved in an armed conflict from 1795 to 1798, 1805-1810, 1815-1816, 1828-1832, 1924-1939, 1961-1964 and finally 1975 to 1982. Out of the US' 248 years of existance, it has enjoyed 38 years of official peace.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Having lived and worked in several countries, I think the concept of Jantelagen is rooted in the Protestant Reformation more than it being a specifically Nordic thing. Not only does it fit well with the general premise of the Protestant worldview, all countries that were early converts seem to have ingrained that particular perspective (under various names) in their collective cultures.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Well put. A lot of people also seem to think the government can magically make money appear out of nowhere and give them better services while taxing them less and somehow still balancing the budget.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once the humidity gets high enough this doesn't really work anymore, at least, in my personal experience. Wet clothes stay wet, but you're still sweating.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Not here to comment on whether you are right (because you are) but more to report the whiplash of realising 20 years ago is still in the 2000s. Mentally, 20 years ago puts something early nineties to me.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Overall I think one could argue that by the time of the events of TES 3 nothing the Tribunal was doing was particularly good looking.

If it wasn't for the Nerevarine Dagoth Ur would've eventually converted all the inhabitants to zombies, with the Tribunal being mostly powerless to stop him.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I know it's a joke, but with the level of scrutiny Germany has attracted for its dark history there's litle chance people wouldn't have heard of it by now ;-)

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I am 100% with you on the need for investment in infrastructure. The reason Norway is so successful is because they both set hard deadlines on the sale of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles and simultaneously heavily invested in infrastructure and incentives to remove older vehicles from the road.

That said, having owned multiple BEV vehicles (in what's arguably the middle of nowhere, BC) the issues with cold and lack of charging infrastructure are largely overestimated by the buying public. To the point of feeling like an excuse rather than an actual reason. People that actually try to live with a BEV for their daily transportation will find that, by and large, charging at home and driving to where you need to be and back is perfectly doable and will cover 99% of your yearly transportation needs. Even in temperatures down to -35, your EV is going to function just fine, and your range will get you where you need to be and back.

So, unless you are going on a 300km+ trip every day (which the vast majority of Canadians don't do on a daily basis, statistically speaking) you'll very likely be fine with a BEV. And, just in case you are wondering, if you do need to drive those 300km+ trips often within BC you will find a charger within 300km of the previous one, pretty much regardless of where you are (see: https://pluginbc.ca/charging/finding-stations/).

I honestly feel that too many people repeat the above factors (which are real and should be addressed by both the government and car manufacturers respectively) without having actually tried to live with a BEV.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's somehow worse and also surprising. I thought your previous governments were made of the worker's party and the Christian centrists. A quick trip to Wikipedia taught me I should stay up to date on politics if I'm going to comment on it.

So that makes me wonder: Why go further right if people feel the ruling right party let them down?

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

The article pretty much spells it out - OPEC controls the price of oil globally through their massive hand in the supply side of the industry. Even if you get your wish and have O&G completely deregulate here in Canada, the reality is that they aren't going to make a dent in global oil prices regardless of output. If we produce a ton of oil, OPEC simply shuts their taps further until the prices equalize to a point that benefits the members of the cartel.

Other than a reduction in taxes on gasoline at the pump, Canada has very little effective means of changing the cost of oil globally.

Unless you're suggesting we turn into Venezuela #2 and we turn all oil companies and wells into government property, build a crap ton of refining capacity on the tax payer's penny and sell the resulting oil products at cost / at a loss. But frankly, that outcome is even worse as now we'd have 50 cents/L gas, but all our other taxes would go through the roof.

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