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For me, his reliance on CCS does more damage to his climate rep than scrapping the carbon tax. There are viable, perhaps even better alternatives to the consumer carbon tax. CCS on the other hand ..

Oof

I see discussion after discussion on The Bridge, CBC, etc. where no one challenges CCS on its effrctiveness. It's just taken as an effective solition axiomatically and the discussion continues as if its a simple matter of deploying it.

if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer

This is a standard anti-union line. It aims to maintain a union-free status quo. Employees in a non-coop union-free workplace have very little leverage to get more of the profits they generate. The workplace environment might be alright, employees might be paid alright. That doesn't mean they're paid fairly for the value they create. When there's no union, employee pay is set by the labour market, regardless of how much value they create for the employer. If an employee creates 10x what they're paid and they ask for triple pay, their employer would say there's another candidate to take their place, that it would be a bit of hassle to train so they'd give the employee some marginal raise, to not deal with that. A union on the other hand creates the negotiating leverage to get much more of the value employees create, by threatening a significant financial and reputational loss for the employer. Linua doesn't want that. Most employers don't.

If it helped you, that's great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.

You're expanding on why they haven't nuked Kiev or any other part of Ukraine. That all makes sense. I assumed that already in my argument and went for the next - they're not using nukes and they're engaing in a hot war mostly on Ukranian but also on Russian territory. Therefore having nukes doesn't guarantee you won't get a hot war on your land. You're not addressing that bit. I'm not saying you must, I just think there's a reasonable argument that a hot war under certain intensity on your territoty is possible even if you have nukes. Even if less likey than without having nukes. That's not an argument against getting nukes for Canada.

To speculate a bit, because of many of the same reasons you stated for why Russia hasn't nuked Ukraine, I don't think Russia would have nuked Ukraine, even in a fantastical scenario where Ukraine started the war with incursion into Russia.

Agreed on the points of Canadian defence.

Grant it. Make it bluntly obvious for anyone still believing "The only democrcy in the Middle East" slogan.

OK, wait a sec. We all know what MAD entails. However, Ukraine is currenty striking deep into Russia, disrupting refineries and such. Yet Russia hasn't blown Kiev with a nuke. That's a legitimate issue to consider. I don't think most would disagree that nukes reduce the chance of an armed conflict. However it seems like even so, we can't rely on it to stop it entirely. It's as if there's a threshold of threat/intensity below which a hot war can be maintained despite having nuclear capability. If that's a realistic possibility, we should tackle it. Maybe after we get nukes.

With all that said I do believe we need nukes yesterday especially because we have little ability to maintain a hot war with the US.

Amassing a large ballistic missle arsenal DPRK-style would also work as a deterrent. Perhaps even more effectively since we could fire some of it to prove we ain't afraid to use it, without "starting a nuclear war."

As soon as I saw them switching to the digital labels I was like - yup here we go. Do you know they're legally blocked to change prices throughout the day? It would be difficult to achieve since the label has to match what the cash register shows. That would be easy to handle if they are sure all customers have exited the store prior to changing the prices.

This is cool but for self-hosting you probably want a more robust monitoring system capable of alerting at all times. Prometheus is what I use. It also gathers data over time and can monitor many machines.

Live music in the local pub is great.