¿Por qué no los dos?

Naked moletaburrasaurus.

To me, it’s more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems.

The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they’re harmful to society as a whole.

I also don’t enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it’s going look like “hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they’ll only use it to comply with the law”.

We’ll try literally anything but regulating big tech.

For sure, they did. Most of the big stuff was started, if not completed, by Conservative administrations.

But Chrétien and Martin continued the process. Air Canada, Petro-Can, and CN Rail were all initiated by Mulroney but completed by Liberal PMs.

My point is, I don’t see the LPC as reliable defenders of public services and I think it’s dangerous to view them as an ally in that context.

Then pharmacare. Then dental care. Then all the rest of healthcare that our strangled system has left to the private market. Then the telecoms. Then public transit.

Since when does the LPC need the Cons to privatize public services?

Also, the function of a torque wrench isn’t to apply a lot of a torque with less effort - that’s the function of a torque multiplier.

A torque wrench is intended to apply a specific amount of torque to fasteners. Engineers and mechanics have specific torque values for threaded fasteners based on things like material, thread type, load types, and application, and a torque wrench is what we use to make sure that we hit those targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_handcuffs

Cheap and light, and apparently around since 1965.

Mouth.

Money can’t buy this kind of real-life environmental storytelling.

My problem is that poor governance from the lesser of two evils almost inevitably results in a swing towards the greater of two evils.

It just delays the worst, doesn’t avert it.

We had other options, as uninspiring as they may have been. Now we’re locked into a FPTP two-party death spiral, and both parties bear the responsibility for it; the cons for being unrepentant monsters, and the libs for pandering to the right and to capital at the expense of the best interests of the majority of the electorate when they could and should be choosing policy directions that don’t perpetuate ballooning inequality and the decay of the social safety net.

Carney in particular watched (and to some extent, presided over) decades of just this kind of decline in the UK, he absolutely knows what his policy directives are going to do to this country.

Mine’s a cabinet minister 🤢

Like I’m emailing anyway but it’s gonna be swiftly ignored.