That’s totally fair. I guess I have a hard time imaging anyone caring about downvotes so I assumed it had to be something like what I described.

Yeah but the fediverse is still so small that I would miss a lot of content.

My current set up is to watch for .ml posters/comms and avoid commenting. For other, less immediately obvious folks, I’ll tag them with a pukey emoji after an unpleasant interaction and generally avoid engaging.

The thing that set up has really brought home is that while there are many folks I find aggressively ignorant, they may still post fun stuff in more neutral, non politics subs. Really eye opening how much I can vehemently disagree with someone in one context and have them be perfectly fine and even funny in another.

For sure. But it’s just tiring to get notifications for hours of someone yelling about shit libs or something.

I get that but there’s also a certain “ugh” when a bunch of .ml folks find a post and want to yell at you about it.

Well, doesn’t have a tv app (that I know of at least) but for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Qobuz which is a little French outfit. Great selection, a vehement anti ai slop attitude and I believe that per stream they pay out higher than most services.

I’ve been using Qobuz, it’s a French alternative (so, not supporting Google or other American companies!) I’ve really enjoyed the selection and some of their suggestions are fantastic. They also have really high quality options for streaming/download which I’m too tone deaf to fully appreciate.

Fargo was the hitman role I was thinking of!

Oh, he absolutely has range! But, he’s like a guitar, it’s great and has all sorts of range but it’s never going to be a piano.

Like, in Fargo I see him as Buscemi with nervousness lower authority high. As Donny, nervousness high, authority low. In Russia, nervousness high, authority high.

Has Steve Buscemi ever not been Steve Buscemi? Even as a hitman, he’s Steve Buscemi.

Absolutely was. I’m super spoiled, that theatre does all sorts of awesome movies and events like that. And it’s about exactly a one joint walk away…

Spatula city! I swear I watch that bit at least every couple of years.

My local indie theatre played UHF a while back and holy God, watching that with a hundred other people howling and cheering was a magical experience.

Why’d the second monkey fall out of the tree?

Why’d the third monkey fall out of the tree?

Why’d the lemur fall out of the tree?

Admittedly, we are now significantly less likely to be dismembered by much larger fish.

My understanding is it’s again, fairly similar. I don’t know thr details on CMCH but Build Canada Homes wasn’t particularly effective. The campaign promise was for entirely new aporoaches with more modular housing, 3d printing etc, so I would expect to see a smaller set of trials (the 4000 units) and then a reassessment to see what worked, what could be scaled etc.

I might be jaded from having worked with non profits for decades now but I fully appreciate the idea of starting fresh rather than trying to slowly change a large bureaucratic monstrosity amidst a crisis like the housing crisis.

I think that’s Carney’s strategy. Instead of bending an ineffective.office to his will, he’ll just (we’ll see) make a better one.

This is an office that cost us whatever and made one recommendation over half a decade, what are we losing?

Yeah, pretty curious myself.

Honestly, forced and child labour are two causes I care about and the lack of public concern/action etc depresses the hell out of me. I’m old enough to remember the 90s when those causes were popular. (In my very cynical days, I can’t help but think social media “rewards” causes which require no personal effort or sacrifice and punishes causes which require lifestyle changes (like not buying clothes made by kids working 14 hour days.)

Jaysus, sorry about the rant.

Pardon? I’ve already shown the billions you claim are being spent in non climate externalities are nonsense.

You’re now at the point where you’re claiming the entire market doesn’t plan long term (unless bizzarely, for oil and gas because, I dunno, bad guys.)

So far, the sum total of evidence on your side is “random dude who has no idea how finance and investment work claims none of it works for mysterious reasons.”

If that entire office only led to 1 recommendation in a half dozen yearsish, either our companies are doing an impeccable job or we need a better office.

There’s a delightful irony considering you started the exchange with:

but believing something that is demonstrably false isn’t an “opinion”, it’s a delusion. I find it hard to believe we’re suffering from an epidemic of psychosis for no discernible reason, so where is it coming from and how do we mitigate it.

And then, when we dove into your claims about billions of subsidies, we’re down to a handful of millions (in other words, you were arguing for a demonstrably false claim, which according to you is delusional.)

I’m not sure how we mitigate this silliness. Financial literacy? People willing to point out that “hey, those billions aren’t quite what you think they are?”

I mean, wild claims like

The idea of a long-term investment in anything but AI is a non-starter in the current market

are just lunacy.

And now, when confronted with the reality of your position its “why do you even care, we’re on an obscure forum.”

But, why do I care? I’m always curious, you seemed fairly rational at first and I believe we learn best when challenging or examining our ideas, I wondered if you knew something I didn’t. It turns out, you just haven’t really looked into the things you claim. Maybe you’ll examine them a bit more carefully in future? Maybe not. But I believe the only way to mitigate folks believing things that are demonstrably false is rational discourse.

That seems great on pretty much every front.

What on Earth are you ball parking the preferential rate, the commercial rate and the difference to come to that conclusion?

My back of the envelope math puts the cost of a half dozen projects at a less than ten million apiece. If you can’t find 10 million in funding for a profitable green tech in this day and age, that says there’s something sketchy about the projects.

Edit: Jesus, closer to 5 million. If you can’t find backers for a project that costs a little more than a year of goaltending from Tristan Jarry, that says a LOT about those projects.