I know someone who lives in Yellowknife, and it’s the only place in the Northwest Territories that even remotely looks like a city, and it’s a city along one or two streets for several blocks, a number of suburbs sprawled out around, and that’s it. Summer is still pretty mild there so it’s not like you’re wearing thick jackets in July.

I’ve visited Whitehorse in the summer, it was nice, I really loved the 2 hour sunsets, it was like time stopped while I took in the river. I bet both places are much different in the winter.

Because of long days in the summer, every bedroom has blackout curtains to fully block the sun. Many people work or study seasonally then fly to Edmonton, Vancouver or Calgary in the winter or travel back and forth. Air North is expensive-ish but is the best service I have received from a domestic airline.

Stuff is a bit more expensive there. Nobody follows the speed limit because outside the city there’s like one mountie (police) for 100s of km.

I absolutely see where you’re coming from. Sorry if I made bad assumptions about your opinion because I’m responding to you and the original comment, and in a sense I agree on your assessment but differ on the approach.

The physical crises are coming whether we shut our eyes or not, you are correct. I am maybe a lot more optimistic than many here on how pliable that system could be. My optimistic vision still does hinge on many improbable sounding feats like getting money out of politics, drastically reforming the court amongst other changes. Preparing for the break is fine, but I argue we’d be better off doing that while still trying to bend the system to better handle the break if it happens, and form some strategic alliances with the establishment to get there.

I agree about the vassal state status would be the same under any president. The point is though, USA’s ill treatment of those states hurt a major source of the USA’s own soft and hard power and that is the difference between the two as President. You may say losing that power is better, well that’s great, I’m glad you are getting what you want from Trump.

Even accepting the premise Harris would have to wage a war with Iran because of the adversarial rhetoric, it wouldn’t be waged this illegally, and it wouldn’t be waged alone, with no regard for human life anywhere, on-again-off-again, which I argue would be less harmful for everybody. Trump did wage a 12 day bombing campaign in addition to this year’s fighting. It might be plausible that Harris would find herself leading a similar in-n-out air campaign and that being the end of it. But most things are plausible, you and I can speculate. Going against Iran twice within the span a year, unprompted, just seems improbable to me. Iran has a vote in this too, and their response in closing the Hormuz Strait, having little left to lose, is part of why this is dragging on. In the large majority of potential outcomes, most of them NOT engaging in needless wars, I think the world would be better off under Harris, but you are most welcome to disagree.

Yes, the issue with the war in Iran is that it hasn’t been waged correctly. Im John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty.

You’re taking the part where I’m being charitable and accepting the other person’s (and your) premise that a war under Harris is inevitable for the sake of argument, and twisting that into as if I was arguing for it, which is incorrect. I will engage no further with you on this.

I can respect your position on that screwing up a war hard to create a deterrent and disincentive, it’s an interesting one. To me that (and arguments that he’s done more to reduce oil consumption than any environmental activist) are silver linings than reasons to direct your vote on the future one way or another.

We had an international coalition going into Afghanistan

As a Canadian, “my country” got involved there but we got burnt pretty bad I’d say, whatever the result was.

I’d rather see no war, despite Harris labelling Iran as the greatest adversary, I still don’t think it’s forgone conclusion that Harris would start a war, but I’ll assume she does for the sake of steelmanning your argument. I’m not a time traveler so I can only speculate the alternatives, but Trump instigated war not just once but twice with Iran. He’s giving American money away to dictators and allowing right wing propaganda campaigns to foment. He’s done nothing to help suffering Iranians, if Harris were to involve the US militarily, she would at least provide some forms of aid to try to mitigate the regime’s massacaring people and restore communication between people stuck their and the worldwide Iranian diaspora. It’s even hard for me to speculate how long a Harris-initiated war would be, but there would definitely be a stronger push to come to a nuclear deal quicker rather than this on-off style untrustworthy negotiation with Trump, and unlike him Harris would care about any unsanctioned action getting approval from Congress, which if it is ®-controlled would keep a short leash within the War Powers Act.

So overall, I will still push back on the argument that always springs up around American election-time that Harris/Dems will be equally bad therefore don’t vote, but I’ll entertain a nuanced argument that one supports a thing Trump did, intentional or not, over a at least somewhat hypothetical action Harris might take.

One could possibly imagine turning a blind eye to Palestinian suffering coupled with nice sounding words of sympathy, but there’s virtually no way the USA under Harris would have engaged twice in military adventurism in Iran. Even if she as President had a stroke causing her to take Bibi’s bait and start a war with Iran, she wouldn’t have alienated beforehand every single potential ally through tariffs and belligerent rhetoric, that most nations would provide the USA some token support which would keep it from being as disastrous for the USA as it is.

I have to say Trump is a fairly unique distillation of every aspect of American society that Americans don’t like to admit they have. He has plenty of vain, self-serving sycophants under him that could take his place, but I will say there are very few who have the same mix of incompetence, shamelessness and charisma draw for a certain populace.

Not sure when this map is from, but Grand Forks, MN has one, and the map didn’t count any just across the border in Canada.

You want people to let go of the fact that Andrew Weaver led the BC Green party a few years ago, but not let go of this, also a few years ago?

I suggest taking both parties in this election as they are, not holding any grudges besides not voting in any of those characters. I’ll just tell you that conservatives are really good at holding their nose and voting for straight-up disgusting people, when an election is at stake.

Vote in both even if it feels like it doesn’t matter.

My opinion is you should disclose your process in the repo, but code how you want. You’re sharing your skills and time to us for free.

I’m big on open-source LLMs being the future of LLMs. I’ve been doing a little hobby coding with them, the technology has given me the push to understand things I previously haven’t.

But in a way, it is tantalizing to just “make things work” rather than have it diagnose or fix a specific problem you identify. So, personally, I have slowed the process down to my speed, not to prompt to make another change until I truly understand the changes that were made and checked them.

However, for any kind of creative artistry, writing, dance, music, film, AI has virtually zero good place in the world for me and I know it is doing real harm to artists. For example, music is the artform I’m most knowledgeable in, if AI use could be largely relegated to making Midi files, scoresheets and lyric ideas, I wouldn’t actually have too much of a problem with that. That’s kind of like building parts of code that the artist can synthesize, make melodic adjustments (because AI gen melodies are extremely average) and implement themselves. In contrast, what we have is the wave of samey slop music with the same slop mastering reverb that not only gets on my nerves, but is flooding media platforms with uncreative trash. In code terms it’s like a sea of hackjob programs where you only get the compiled output files drowning out properly developed FOSS.

Seriously, Democrats should really play this up…

Republican PACs are flooding your state with cash to get its candidate elected, and they’re spending that money to put as many lies in your ear as possible. Where’s the same Republicans’ money to lower your gas prices, grocery bill and input costs for your livelihood?

Are you near or far sighted at all, if so how was that experience?

Are you using only the base horizontal strap, or did you get the ergonomic gear add-on with the overhead strap and other stuff? Some reviewers were saying that it was only bearable with the extras.

Yeah, seriously I’m from Toronto, and the promise of tax cuts and freezes, is the promise of a massive budget hole concealed through creative accounting for 4 years.

You aren’t an object Miisha, you’re a woman and you know it. If the kratom is messing with you (because for whatever relief it brings it will try to mess with you over time), you have lots of people to turn to for help, including your psychiatrist.

Look at your own post history. You’ve had good days, you’ve had bad days. You will have good days in the future, and bad ones too, it won’t just be a string of what you have now forever, that’s life. You can give yourself room to cry, but keep a wide perspective for yourself. Comparison is the thief of joy. I think you look amazing in the photos, why try to be anyone else than who you are?

On CBC Power & Politics today it was described as a gamble. Lots for the BCNDP to potentially lose but lots also to potentially gain. It worked for Doug Ford but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for Eby.

The BC Cons were a bit of an unknown in Oct 2024, they were close to power but then fell apart continuously over two years. The same folks are in and around the alphabet soup of conservative parties that might reconstitute themselves into something, but one thing I am confident in is that trying the same playbook as just be anti-Eby and try to look competent for long enough, isn’t going to work out for them. Eby has room for one or two unforced errors compared to the chaotic summer of Conservative unforced errors, but I’ll keep my feelers out on the rate a new unified centre-right party picks up steam. Oh, and up until Friday, KLF was confident she wasn’t going anywhere, the BCNDP were already signalling election moves and didn’t just start thinking about it when they became leaderless, so it’s not that strong of a point even if it is a technically unprecedented situation to call an election without a decided election leader.

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I’m good with that, in fact if they do care about the rule of law, that’s what they should be doing.

House Republicans did the ‘smart’ thing and went on their umpteenth early recess, kicking the vote until after the midterms just so Democrats could hold it over their heads!