“The brand new car I bought has been out of commission for roughly 25% of the time Ive owned it. Is it a bad car?”
“All the people telling me this car is bad are wrong because it’s the best car in the world, but my question still stands. Is it a bad car?”
I tend to just take the defaults when I’m deploying. I wouldn’t get any benefit of having home or tmp on a separate partition, but it’s nice that it’s an option.
I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.
Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we’ll see massive voter turnout
Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.
Conservatives and Liberals haven’t really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec
Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.
The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can’t expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.
The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.
I’m sure that no one would ever think to abuse this. The conservative government has always been strictly honest, right?
Things are weird out here. People by and large don’t really like what Smith is doing, but they elected her to fight Trudeau, not help Alberta.
For some reason, they can’t see that we can’t just keep going to the oilsands for infinite money. I thought things were finally getting better when we elected the NDP that one time, but it turns out that unless you can fix Alberta’s substantial problems overnight, convincing the Conservative voter base that you aren’t the second coming of Stalin is impossible.
I mean, he absolutely has a plan. It’s just that the plan is to reduce corporate taxes, remove any safety nets and de-regulate as much as possible.
All things that are bad for the average citizen, but also still a plan.
It very likely will. Mastadon in the public perception is still entirely compromised of “nerds evangelizing about Linux” and they’re not entirely wrong.
Dont underestimate how dumb Alberta can be. Culturally, we’re very much like Texas
Sure there is. PP has better branding and the advantage of having control over a legacy party to capture the “I always vote conservative, because that’s what my father and grandfather did” crowd
and nothing of value was lost
Oh, 100%.
Prior to being the head of the current conservative party, she was the head of the now defunct, even farther right Wildrose party. She’s a textbook example of a regressionist.
Around here, it’s because they really hate what his dad did with the national energy program 45 years ago to solve the oil crisis of the late 70s. God forbid that Alberta be allowed to absolutely fleece the rest of the country with high oil prices.
They see too much Pierre in Justin and as a result are highly critical of everything he did, especially when it came to tough decisions that have lasting consequences.
The liberal majority in Alberta is shocking. I never thought I’d see the day
“Nobody knew that international relations could be so complicated”
Ubuntu server is okay, but I’ve come to really appreciate a minimal, stable Debian install instead.