I have a new petition: can we please name the next two pieces of Canadian military hardware blackjack and hooker?

it depends a lot on how you are using them tools wise. as a sharding database for document storage they are nearly equivalent. when it comes to ecosystem opensearch’s is smaller and a bit more specialized but very open. elasticsearch has a lot more fancy enterprise tooling and tools but can be annoying to work with unless you have a full license for all the features. it’s better to ask what is your use case/expectations and choose based on that.

Maybe I didn’t make it clear I said “more of an ally” implying a sliding scale from “hostile enemy” to “close ally” with many(or infinite) steps in between. you could drop any country on that scale somewhere and argue that they belong before or after any other country on that slide based on who is around them and how hostile they are to Canada. my argument was only that Russia was far closer to the “hostile enemy” side as it has far more practical and territorial ambitions as it relates to Canada. I do not believe Israel has territorial ambitions for Canada and has better functional relations on a country to country basis. not moral. because as I said before not all arguments are moral. Please try and understand this is not about black and white terms like ally and enemy. Those don’t even really exist in any permanence when it comes to countries anyways. If it helps you can ignore any of my mention of ally and replace it with “risk” or “party less likely to try and directly fight a war against us”.

you keep trying to make it just one thing. it isn’t. saying it’s “just geopolitics” is just as shortsided and wrong as saying its just moral. it is a mix. it always has been.

because there is more to sanctions then just moral arguments unfortunately. and whether I agree with it or like it Israel is more of an ally then russia is so it is much easier to sanction russia. that much should be obvious though obviously a shit excuse for Palestinians.

to be clear that is 16 of the 49,000. that is all lotus has brought over. this was a publicity stunt and a dumb one. if the government or whatever agency is in charge of approvals had half a brain they would have brought over a couple cheap ones first to camouflage this BS but apparently we are not even worth the attempt of subterfuge.

this is not an “either, or” or a “what about” both are horrific we should do these sanctions to russia, and at least the equivalent to Israel. we can do more than one thing at once.

look, this problem we have with china is the same we have with the USA, and even Europe, these governments have rules on the books that they can mandate companies to transfer data to them without the other countries consent if they have access or can compel access to the data. If we actually care about this we need to put our big boy/girl pants on and ban companies that we care about from using these services. you can’t stop private people from using tiktok/telegram/azure/aws/etc. if they do not accept money from them or add in an “other” option for geographic location. The only way to address this without pissing off everyone is to treat them all equally and blame the others and their shit laws. (they’ll all still be pissed but at least they have good arguments for why we would still do it.)

The Article:

One-third of Canadians say their personal finances have worsened in the last month as gas prices and inflation rise amid the war in Iran, according to a new poll.

The survey conducted by Canada Pulse Insights for CityNews found 60 per cent said their financial position remained the same, while one in 10 said their situation had improved.

Those who said their financial position had worsened were those earning $50,000 or less (40 per cent) and those living in Atlantic Canada (37 per cent). East Coasters were followed closely behind by those in British Columbia at 35 per cent and Alberta at 34 per cent.

Poll respondents who said their financial position had improved were those aged 18 to 24 at 14 per cent, men at 13 per cent and those earning over $50,000 per year (11 per cent). Improvement was also noted in Quebec at 14 per cent.

Meanwhile, nearly 80 per cent of those surveyed said they would be worried about their personal or family day-to-day finances, and 34 per cent said they would likely struggle to make ends meet.

A total of 14 per cent believed they could lose their job or be laid off because of a lack of work and said they would not have the ability to purchase the products they need for themselves or their family.

Nearly one in 10 Canadians, 13 per cent, said they would likely default on making payments on loans or a mortgage, and seven per cent said they are likely to declare bankruptcy.

The survey’s release comes as gas prices were expected to jump 10 cents on Wednesday to 195.9 cents per litre, the highest since the summer of 2022.

I wonder if they intend to bring back the veggie dogs? they seemed to be pretty well loved.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24983 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25687 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25974 https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/31154 read these a while ago in a different forum site. I think you are misreading/misinterpreting what I objected to. I said “like a bit of revisionism/justifying previous actions with a more palatable excuse other than fuck AI.” if this was too abstract, let me put it this way, no where in the coc or wiki or anywhere did they try and make this about growing a community or vetting contributors until recently. it was per that wiki not at all like that and easy to miss. my issue is not with banning ai contributions. it is with what i see as trying to change the tone to something palatable/reasonable after the fact. also i’ve tried to keep this free of personal attacks against you or anyone else. I don’t think i’m going to continue this. I made what i felt was a pretty mild critique based on a conversation i had on a different forum explained my critique, was then told go get a list of incidents which missed my point entirely of the whole changing narrative bit which was then partially acknowleged as “less professional” but “totally unambiguous”. obviously this isn’t about engaging on what my critique was, just winning arguments. I’ll save you the trouble. you win!

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Writing-Issues-with-Copilot-and-Other-LLMs/_compare/d6b94cb2bf77fe7f30687fe3ffec68878e75c650 That was the code of conduct up until 3 weeks ago also look at slop or just ai.

Like I said look at the PR’s and the way they are closed off. there were no explanations of this policy then just a “Fuck AI”. If there was a time to take the time to explain this, it was when the first one came through. They didn’t and that’s perfectly fine but circling back later and trying to make a justifiable reason after the fact is either a shitty thing to do to the random people that were trying to contribute and didn’t understand the stance or the stance was only “fuck AI”, then they felt there was a reason they should explain or had to come up with a more palatable explanation later. My thoughts on AI actually don’t matter at all. I have concerns the realistic expectations of this policy but there’s no rules all policies must be maximally realistic. like I said earlier I wish Zig all the best in there endeavor. it just seems like this coming out now after there attitude and lack of explanation is new policy masking as policy that always applied.

I mean, maybe I am wrong but this seems like a bit of revisionism/justifying previous actions with a more palatable excuse other than fuck AI. Especially when you go and look at the attitude and literal words from the devs in those PR’s (check their github for term AI in the closed PR’s). whether you agree with the sentiment or not the genie is out of the bottle, you can ban it as much as you want but it’s creeping into every part of nearly every project or its dependencies. I genuinely wish zig the best in their endeavour regardless of This bit of “revisionism”.

Respectfully, that’s more a decision between the prescribing physician, and the patient. If the Doctor has actually prescribed Ozempic(or it’s generics) per the drug manufacturer and health Canada’s Ozempic guidelines then even if the person is not doing enough to change their lifestyle the effects will lessen the cravings and general glucose management in the diabetic patient. the real thing to watch is the other forms of semaglutide which can be prescribed outside of diabetes as they have much looser guidelines around them a lot more open to interpretation. would recommend talking to a doctor about this, you’re not wrong but the risk that does exist is not necessarily what you might think. I’m much more concerned about the relaxing of the guidelines then the use of it.

failed suicide attempts are rarely clean or lead to deep reflection if they have already gone through the maid process. maid is not some kind of instant approval we do it in an hour situation. failed suicide attempts at this level are messy and tend to involve mutilation and even deeper suffering. You seem to assume i am ableist and completely ignore the fact that there are people who have and will suffer to the very end and want assistance in doing something that is inherently undignified with some dignity while not having to worry about a doctor or a family member being charged with manslaughter for being with them in their last moments. maid gives those people a pathway to self reflect before they make a rash decision. please familiarize yourself with maid and the process before misrepresenting how it works.

then lets not circle back around to who is involved and look at the results of not allowing it. the alternative is failed suicide attempts and long term suffering. assuming we can treat or make people jump through hoops or find some kind of grand arbiter just prolongs suffering and helps us look the other way as we force people poorly trained or in immense pain to figure it out themselves or put themselves/others in legal jeopardy in addition to suffering. If I have the right to life as long as it is not at the expense of others than i have the right to end it.

except it doesn’t just because maid has been authorized it automatically happens. that decision is as it has always been placed with the one asking for it.

Great to see the real numbers, thank you. I agree with the sentiment about manufacturing. If it were me, I would tie expanded levels to local manufacturing, with more favorable rates for non-luxury vehicles.

I’m in one of the big cities affected by this in Ontario. I’ve got mixed feelings, but I think this may end up being for the better. With all the American manufacturers backsliding on their EV transitions and keeping their prices sky-high for whatever they do have—all while refusing to stand up to Trump in any meaningful way—now, they’ll have to compete or risk losing the market entirely. I still think we should do more and accept vehicle standards from other countries in our market, not just the American ones. This should lower vehicle costs and, in turn, insurance rates for affordable vehicles. It should also make it more economical to export products directly to China, rather than the current convoluted process of selling to intermediary countries that add minimal processing before re-exporting to China at a higher cost.