cygnus

I'm not sure it's fair to call this a cut - they just didn't repeat last year's temporary funding boost, which was explicitly framed as being temporary. CBC's funding is almost exactly what it was 2 years ago.

Edit to add numbers for the 90% of people who won't read the article:

2026-27: $1,383,252,311
2025-26: $1,425,237,411 (later rose to $1,575,237,411)
2024-25: $1,383,237,411 (later rose to $1,425,237,411)
2023-24: $1,287,169,435 (no subsequent expenditures)
2022-23: $1,266,123,241 (later rose to $1,287,123,241)
2021-22: $1,229,423,241 (later rose to $1,250,423,241)
2020-21: $1,210,797,846 (later rose to $1,247,497,846)

TBH Grok would probably tell them to avoid "femoids" and work on semen retention to activate their redpill powers.

Go bring that sarcasm to Ukrainians - I'm sure they'll love it.

OK then, but that's still idiotic.

If so, that's an idiotic strategy. It would be like Palestinians suicide-bombing EU countries to make them stop Israel's war.

I think mostly selling Rafales, but I'm not French so I can't speak to their motivations when choosing who to vote for.

Many on the left are under the misapprehension that being a pacifist must mean being defenceless.

Are you suggesting they simply ignore the defence treaties they signed with allies? Who do you think they are, Russia?

What exactly would they be defending? France is out of range.

I see the geopolitics understanders have logged on...

The carrier is there strictly in a defensive posture. no? I'm not aware of France being involved in any attacks on Iran.

That's fine, they can survive on the large domestic market thanks to protectionist tariffs, and Americans can enjoy their very own Trabant equivalents

An industrial base generates a future yield too.

Neither does any other government subsidy. That's an odd argument against.

Borrowing huge sums of money to fund military expenditures sure seems silly,

TBH it's no worse than any other government jobs program, or the civil service in general. It's all just a vehicle to redistribute government funds as salaries.

I use Arch BTW full-time for work and personal for about 3 years now and haven't had any issues at all.

NYT stop sanewashing Trump challenge (impossible)

And this is why anybody who made a mistake in the past should be shunned forever, regardless of their current views and actions. They may as well just jump off a bridge and save us the trouble of setting up a firing squad.

Thanks for doing this - it isn't a proper leftist get-together without some assclown imposing impossible purity tests.

They don't either, so you're in good company.

It is really hard. IME the tactic with the highest success rate is buying older luxury goods - something from the 70s or earlier. Obviously this doesn't work for clothing, but for things like furniture it's great, or even houses themselves; high-end homes built before the 90s are enormously higher quality than modern "luxury" houses made of OSB and gray-painted cardboard. Clothing is much more difficult, especially outside of Europe, where they still have companies making things with care using high-quality fabric.

I guess the crux of the issue is that luxury used to mean quality, not ostentation. A Mercedes from the 70s doesn't "seem" luxurious to the modern eye until you start interacting with the switchgear or opening and closing doors. Same thing for the sofa framed with real wood and metal springs and upholstered in outstanding fabric - you can't tell why it's better than IKEA by looking at a photo.

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It's hip to be square(ish)

USB webcam lagging only in Zoom?

Why does Pandoc get updated nearly every day?

Trying Fedora. Never rebooted so often in my life

File permissions on mounted drive - can read/write but can't drag into apps?

Using Linux for work - need a good email/contacts/calendar system