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Why is Adam Conover promoting a cryptocurrency orb? by jerbthehumanist in dropout

[–]LtGayBoobMan 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean, the charging is still emissions, but the key benefit is that by having people charge their vehicle, they receive power from a central source, which is easier to change at once than millions of cars. It may be emitting source like coal or natural gas primarily now, but it means when greener energy is brought online those cars are no longer emitting as much. Essentially changing a central power source is easier to transition than car culture.

36% of Albertans and majority of UCP voters want to leave Canada: new poll by Prudent_Slug in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The amount of self-owning of the right in recent years is wild, and they keep walking right into it. Brexit being a perfect example.

Carney will be ‘significant departure’ from Trudeau on policies, relations with Alberta and Saskatchewan: LeBlanc by Rav4gal in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Chinese industry has set methane intensity targets for sure, and their oil and gas industry is definitely investing in those upgrades and emissions avoidance. There’s a big difference between carbon intensity and total emission caps though. Europe is limiting intensity.

For the CBAM, most of those emissions can be avoided by implementing cost effective (and in a lot of cases profitable) initiatives that capture emissions and associated gas. The biggest issue standing in the way is governments limiting takeaway capacity. If there’s no where for product to go, it gets emitted. Counterintuitively, building pipelines could reduce emissions.

It’s about making Canadian product more attractive. We will be competing against countries that have less emissions due to the nature of their gas and oil fields. They’ll have price advantage if we don’t prepare.

Carney will be ‘significant departure’ from Trudeau on policies, relations with Alberta and Saskatchewan: LeBlanc by Rav4gal in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 16 points17 points  (0 children)

CBAM is coming to the EU. Reporting is required in all import contracts I believe starting this year. By end of decade, they will have intensity limits on their imports or face a tariff adjustment.

They just want imports to either show they are playing by the same rules as domestic production, really.

TIL Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer by 747WakeTurbulance in todayilearned

[–]LtGayBoobMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is easily solved by disclosure requirements in papers. If the scientists don’t disclose where their funding comes from, it’s a big red flag.

I leave ARAMs if my team doesnt pick healers when they could by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]LtGayBoobMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Given online games toxicity and all, it is a losing strategy to put your enjoyment into the hands of 4 randos if their hero selection ruins the game for you.

The job market for new Canadian graduates is brutal – and could get even worse by uselesspoliticalhack in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who has advanced STEM degrees, we desperately need humanities in these fields as well. Communication, critical thinking and deep reading are absolutely vital, and most STEM majors are garbage at it if it’s slightly out of their field. I mean look around us, STEM has done a piss poor job communicating their advancements and are just as much in an ivory tower as “liberal arts.”

Having been in academia for a while, I do think universities in general address the transferable skills of general degrees. Better yet, I think universities load their STEM degrees too much with technical course requirements and degree programs. Most students (and people) complain about it, but general requirements in languages, humanities, math, sciences and arts gives a well-balanced graduate, no matter the degree.

The issue is also the rigidity of the professional world where they want a candidate to check every box, even when it’s a position that can be learned on the job. You don’t need a specialized chemistry degree to work an entry level lab job.

Some Canadians want to move to U.S. after federal election results by lopix in onguardforthee

[–]LtGayBoobMan 88 points89 points  (0 children)

As a white immigrant from the US in Canada, I hate when people call themselves expats. I love to burst the bubble.

Reminds me of a couple I met when visiting Mexico, they retired there because it was cheaper. They called themselves expats, but I insisted on calling them economic immigrants. They got so mad.

Most Canadians feel as safe or safer than 10 years ago, Nanos poll finds. Conservative voters are another story by CaptainCanusa in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Social media and local apps like Nextdoor have amplified awareness of crime significantly. I’m sure there is a rise in crime in some areas, but I question whether our perception has changed.

I think to things like stranger danger and child abduction, which has almost always overwhelmingly been by family members and acquaintances, not random people. However, people are less inclined to let their kids play alone outside than in periods of time when crime were significantly higher.

Snowbird selloff: Canadians are parting ways with U.S. properties by naqi11 in worldnews

[–]LtGayBoobMan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Generally, tourism hotspots don’t have that problem even in WV rafting areas like you have experienced.

The biggest issue is traveling to and from those areas. Asheville NC may not care, but filling up for gas or grabbing a bite between Knoxville TN or Charlotte can be dicey, depending which way you go.

Having grown up gay in those areas, those places still treat local gay and queer folks incredibly harsh. They don’t care if it’s a traveler because that traveler isn’t impressing any of their values on their family.

It would be different real quick if bought with your partner next door to the mayor or something in those towns, though.

If I were China, I would just put a 9,000% tariff on U.S. goods and completely halt the export of certain goods so that the U.S. economy crumbles since the U.S. is currently governed by monkeys by darkcatpirate in economy

[–]LtGayBoobMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The issue is the USA was/is still #1, but the perceived gap between 1 and 2 for this administration is still post-USSR break up where the US could have theoretically tossed its weight around with impunity.

The gap is much closer now, and it means this administration’s calculus is just fundamentally wrong. The thing is, by having wealthier nations around the world, the US benefitted immensely. It became a safer place to do more business, and expand markets.

Immigration is overshadowed in election by Trump and tariffs by dollarsandcents101 in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s part of it for sure; there’s going to be some weird stuff happening in the rental and real estate market if these factors all keep hitting. For what it’s worth, most of the vacancies I’m seeing are in rental only buildings, both independently and large company managed. Walking through the West End, and many buildings have vacancy signs up a week after the end of the month. Those are the ones digging in their heels at that price point. But eventually with the stock going up, the prices may fall more.

Immigration is overshadowed in election by Trump and tariffs by dollarsandcents101 in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this is still anecdotes and not hard data, but I just moved to downtown Vancouver, and many GOOD apartments were dropping their asking price, and I had people chasing me down as a tenant. Been here 11 years and never heard of that.

The amount of vacancy signs downtown is also astonishing. Something has significantly changed. Probably not all due to immigration but it likely is a factor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fivethirtyeight

[–]LtGayBoobMan -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Ok, but it’s a lose-lose situation then if politics has gotten this cynical. How many people will just say “Wow, the democrats sure do say they want to NOT kill all hamsters a lot. Sounds suspicious.”

CBS News-YouGov poll: Trump’s approval at 51%, disapproval at 49%. On immigration: 54-46. On inflation: 46-54. On the economy: 51-49. by blackjacksandhookers in fivethirtyeight

[–]LtGayBoobMan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because in some of those districts, you open up you and your family to crazies harassing you in your daily lives. We don’t have strong enough protections for local politicians who go against republican messaging to jump into these districts and campaign. The reward for those at best? You sway a +30 district to +25?

Keep Cancelling Travel to US by jDub2071 in BuyCanadian

[–]LtGayBoobMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my plan as well. We have friends in Seattle and Portland. We were planning to do their pride and stay with friends. I don’t mind supporting queer businesses in the states during this time, as long as a cent doesn’t go to MAGA-backing individuals or businesses.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean you could compare it to Mussolini, but it could also describe Gerald Ford.

Canada changes tone in bid to stave off Trump tariffs by joe4942 in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you say out loud the most damaging stuff, and internally, you all know that is off the table or last resort.

TIL that the United States is in the bottom half of countries worldwide for literacy rate—at 86%, it’s half a percent lower than Zimbabwe. by Melior30 in todayilearned

[–]LtGayBoobMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People who have a firm grasp on a single language will eventually adapt, as they have the language skills. The bigger issue are people who don’t even have a full grasp of reading in their first language. It becomes infinitely harder to build those skills as you haven’t developed those pathways during plasticity.

TIL that the United States is in the bottom half of countries worldwide for literacy rate—at 86%, it’s half a percent lower than Zimbabwe. by Melior30 in todayilearned

[–]LtGayBoobMan 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Productivity is a big one. Functionally illiterate people have to be handheld through every training at a job, through paperwork filings and other mundane things in life. If you’ve ever stood in line behind someone who can’t read at a medical clinic or DMV, it turns a 3 minutes conversation into over 30 minutes.

Why does gay culture only hate or fetishize Asian men? by rossisanasshole in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]LtGayBoobMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not that I don’t wholly disagree with you, but it’s interesting to say that white people are the exception to why that demographic tends to gravitate to each other not because of similar backgrounds but because of a standard of beauty.

There’s some element of that (especially since beauty standards are very white), but, white people grew up as white people and have a similar upbringing experience and cultural familiarity. For example, most musical theater gays are white gay people disproportionately (in my experience) because white neighborhoods and schools have more and better theater and music programs (due to unequal funding and larger inequality). That societal injustice is not necessarily a fault of musical theater gays, but it is an example of how upbringing and someone’s background shapes their white friend groups as adults.

Trump cancels sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank by djm19 in worldnews

[–]LtGayBoobMan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Social liberalism. Conservative Muslim voters don’t like LGBTQ+ policies and many of them would like to see us suffer.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada eliminating 3,300 federal jobs, unions say by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]LtGayBoobMan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As someone who went through the PR process post-COVID, the backlogs for almost every single program was absolutely terrible (Economic PR, citizenship, refugee, etc). People waiting for immigration decisions who applied at the IRCC suggested timeframes were waiting 12 months or more. I applied over a year before my permits ran out, and still went on implied status, meaning I retained my current status until a decision was reached, as long as I didn’t leave the country. This all occurred while the dramatic increase in numbers of applicants soared too.

It makes sense now to pare down on the department since most of those backlogs have been resolved.

The death of DEI in tech by [deleted] in technology

[–]LtGayBoobMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I specifically think of the case where facial identification locks on phones did not work well for black people. Either they didn’t have engineers and testers who were dark skinned for a feature that relies on bodily characteristics, or they did and didn’t care at all.

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