The rich keep getting richer because we think they work for it. The thing is, they don’t work for their wealth that separates the wealthy from everyone else. What allows the rich to keep increasing their wealth is capital gains instead of money earned though labour. Most of us have
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of November 27, 2023
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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: We Know Who He Is
Last week, we got a good look at who Pierre Poilievre is. Michael Harris writes: After jumping to the conclusion that the tragic accident at the Rainbow Bridge on Nov. 22 was a terrorist attack—a thesis which quickly proved to be patently false—Pierre Poilievre was asked by a CP reporter
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 27, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 27, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: OpenAI Board Backs Decision to Oust Sam Altman as C.E.O. A$AP Rocky must stand trial on gun charges, L.A. court rules Hamas-Israel hostage, cease-fire deal: Everything we know OpenAI to bring back Sam
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Female Power-lifter April Hutchinson Erased From Ontario Museum London Exhibit
The London Museum in London Ontario Canada has erased April Hutchinson from the exhibit that she was featured in and also helped to set up. What was this woman’s crime? She advocates on her own time that her sport should be segregated by sex. That is, she should not have
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: ‘From the river to the sea’ and the trouble with political slogans
March in downtown Columbus, Ohio in support of Palestine, October 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. What does “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” actually mean? And when it comes to political slogans, should impact matter more than intent? When I asked my Facebook network to tell
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Wrestling With Wrongs.
Two pet peeves I have these days are self-checkouts and gratuities. They are wrongs inflicted on employees and customers alike. Gratuities and self-checkouts belittle the employee and are an imposition on the customer. I am not in this place to help the owner to insult the employee and do the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Well, here’s some upsetting news
Hamas apparently doesn’t know where at least 40 of the hostages are. In his nightly Ukraine post at Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman is also keeping up with the latest news about the Israel-Hamas War and the hostages being held in Gaza. And the news is not good. Under the terms
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: We Value Your Feedback
When someone tells you Danielle Smith is a shrewd politician remind them of how she botched the APP consultation process. Last week, the Dinning panel wrapped up the last of its five telephone townhalls. When pressed by the NDP to explain why the UCP refused to hold in-person townhalls
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: These Masks are Made for Walking…Pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumonia infections are on the rise in children in parts of the world, but the typically mild illness is sending them to the hospital. Forbes reports, “Typically, mycoplasma pneumonia doesn’t require hospitalization. However, young children with a nascent immune system may be at greater risk of developing more serious
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Is Problematic
In my travels on Twitter (sorry, X) this morning, I saw this, and it raises more questions than it answers: This is a “look, it works!” statement. We had already proven that CCS was possible a decade earlier. 8,000,000 tonnes sounds like a very large number – but that works
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Lost in Translation.
Hat Tip to long time patron and fellow blogger John Zande for the meme this Sunday. 🙂
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : A Climate Change Critique.
Help is here. After the past several years of feeling like a voice in the wilderness, there is support for the contention that capturing and storing carbon is a dumb idea. And, what I found was particularly infuriating, was the tar sands exploiters wanted our government to pay the costs
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith to implement Alberta Sovereignty Act, legislation Jason Kenney called ‘full-frontal attack on the rule of law’
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed yesterday she’s about to use her Alberta Sovereignty Act – the clearly unconstitutional legislation that even her United Conservative Party predecessor Jason Kenney called “a full-frontal attack on the rule of law.” Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney a few days before he left office in
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Swedes take on Tesla
The world’s richest man is not amused. Elon Musk, CEO and biggest shareholder of automaker Tesla, is annoyed at a series of strikes against his company. He calls them “insane.” He has simply encountered a culture which takes workplace democracy seriously. When Tesla set up in Sweden, Musk attempted to
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Climate crisis failure
According to IEA, Canada’s per capita emissions of methane are almost three time the global average, more than half from the energy sector. Methane releases in Canada are likely worse than reported because the energy industry and government regulators have had little interest in publishing accurate measurements.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: ten things our leaders can do about hate
Hate is everywhere, these days. How to stop it? Jew hatred is statistically the worst, of course, with anti-Semitic crimes and incidents happening everywhere on a near-daily basis. But the Islamophobia is bad, as well. For every four anti-Semitic incidents, there is roughly one Islamophobic one. It’s a bad situation
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Creating a Cloud Server and Acessing with SSH Keys Using Windows Powershell on Hetzner
Make sure you have Powershell version 5.1 or better Open Powershell, type: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Install update if you don’t have it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows Make sure you have the SSH service installed Type: ssh If you get an error, install ssh: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=powershell Create an SSH key (from: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_keymanagement) Type: ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: It’s a Ruse!
We have to acknowledge how far we’ve gone down the rabbit hole of lies to be able to ignore this Covid wave that’s almost reaching the highest peak of hospitalizations. It’s the third leading cause of death and children are the fastest growing population affected by it, but people still balk at
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