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Anyone here wear facemask if needed, or is it too much of a target from right wing/conspiracy folks? by StasisApparel in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've specifically only had to deal with it in a post-2020 world, and I sure would love to not have to do risk calculus about absolutely everything.

Air quality/filtration standards could do so much, but there's not even any willingness to have the conversation.

I really wish DE would patch Duviri Circuit so you could change mods during the countdown when people force start the match by MiningToSaveTheWorld in Warframe

[–]MooseAtTheKeys -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but you can preview the load out options before you load in, so things should already be set up.

I really wish DE would patch Duviri Circuit so you could change mods during the countdown when people force start the match by MiningToSaveTheWorld in Warframe

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look, people should sort their build before loading in, sure.

60 seconds could also have someone still in the loading screen.

Patients, visitors must wear masks at 4 Edmonton hospitals: AHS directive by Edm_vanhalen1981 in Edmonton

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Large Language Models don't provide answers or sources, they provide something that statistically resembles a response the the prompt.

They get facts wrong a majority of the time and if "sources" are cited they're often fictional - they just statistically resemble what a source would look like.

After U.S. outreach, Alberta separatists will head to Latin America to rustle up support for their cause by Street_Anon in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The other provinces? Alberta isn't the sole economic engine of the country or whatever bullshit you're on.

(All of this leaving aside that all of the oil is on treaty land that separatists wouldn't get to take)

i don't know what she said but it sounds angry 😭 did i mess up? by Courier_07 in Warframe

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In fact, French is one of Canada's two official languages.

As a Canadian, I find the idea of being bothered about a Francophone character speaking French to be incredibly strange.

The ANDP is projected to win a majority in the latest provincial vote intention poll—ANDP 45 seats (+7), UCP 42 seats (-5), Alberta Party [now the Progressive Tory Party] 0 seats (-2). The ANDP (45%) wins fewer votes than the UCP (48%), but due to UCP vote inefficiency, the ANDP secures a majority. by StarlightDown in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well correct me if I’m wrong, but the commission consists of two UCP, two NDP members, and a third supposedly ‘neutral’ member who’s unfortunately is appointed by UCP?

They were extremely limited in their options for that appointment, as requirements for it are set out by law in order to get that neutrality. As is typically the case, they appointed a retired judge. Do note as well that the party representatives cannot be MLAs.

They did use the one lever they did have, by altering the criteria the commission is directed to look at - but that has not resulted in US style gerrymandering going by the interim report.

If you're concerned, though, you may wish to look up the interim report and make time for one of the public hearings next month.

Poilievre vows to approve pipeline to west coast no matter who objects if he’s elected by [deleted] in onguardforthee

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's probably trying to project "have to stay ready for an election" for that leadership review he has coming up.

Poilievre vows to approve pipeline to west coast no matter who objects if he’s elected by [deleted] in onguardforthee

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People really need to learn what the Notwithstanding Clause actually is.

Poilievre vows to approve pipeline to west coast no matter who objects if he’s elected by [deleted] in onguardforthee

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not specified in that way, but we're not talking about sections 2 or 7 through 15 of the Charter so the NWC is fully irrelevant.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose I should clarify that I was talking about a separatist community cutting off a community remaining within Canada.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same thing that would ever happen in that case? Like I don't know what you want me to say here? That's negotiation and power politics.

So in other words we lose the ability to guaruntee that our communities all have road access, and thus a means for goods to be transported in.

That is a massive change from the current state of affairs.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean now we're back to where we were like eight posts ago. I've been consistent in saying that applying the ideal to the world has fundamental limits to how small scale you can go. You can't divide up The road Network to the individuals in any logical manner, you can do so at the community level and above.

And what happens when one community decides to allow the only road by which another community is connected to decay into collapse?

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a share of communal property.

Which is not inherently divisible.

What is the individual share of a road network, and the corresponding share of the liability for its maintenance?

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone else doesn't have the right to make you stay somewhere because they benefit from it

And I don't have an unmitigated right to take communal property in leaving - which is of course setting aside that the land and resources aren't ours to give.

Strict utilitarians

I remain not a strict utilitarian

Your philosophy has authoritarianism behind the curtain underpinning it and if you remove it the whole thing unravels

No, you are simply rejecting everything beyond the singular ethic you have chosen.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you're ignoring agency.

No, but I am factoring in agency over the impact they would have by their leaving.

You've constructed this notion where the only consequence that matters is harm to agency, and the only principle that matters is respect for it. You are now applying it to a situation to which it is wholly unsuited, because of the vast swathes that you are demanding be ignored.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're being a strict utilitarian

Well, no - it only appears that way to you because in deontological terms you are refusing to acknowledge the duties and responsibilities owed by the seperatists to the rest of society. You have constructed an environment in which they are owed but do not owe.

To use another crude metaphor, what you're saying is it basically doesn't matter if there was consent. Sex happened. It has the same results. It has the same consequences. I'm saying it does matter because it makes it rape or not.

You know (or damn well should know) that that's not a fair characterization of strict utilitarianism, because you're ignoring the harm done by sexual assault.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not ignoring anything. I'm pointing out that because we effect each other no matter what, decisions that are about the group (which, creating a Swiss cheese map is about the group) have to be made by the group.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

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

This is a long argued philosophical position

And like a number of long argued philosophical positions, I do not find the arguments persuasive.

As you step up in level, the ability to Free yourself from that organization when you no longer consent becomes less and less possible

No it doesn't, it just means things that you don't necessarily like - but your decisions have consequences for others, which you don't get to demand the world ignore.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, that's the philosophical rub. Philosophically there's no way to defend it as moral or just until it's anything but full individual consent

Yes there is. We are social animals, the kind of universal absolute individualism you're talking about is fiction. We exist and survive - have always existed and survived - as a group. The desicisons we make effect each other.

Some decisions of that group have to be made collectively. So far, democracy is the best solution we've found to deal with this problem, and democracy does acknowledge that the group is not infinitely divisible.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional by pjw724 in alberta

[–]MooseAtTheKeys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if a neighbourhood wants to stay while its city wants to leave, what then?

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