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kent_eh

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  • Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

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  • Of course not. Most people are motivated to doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do.

     

    But some people seem to need the threat of personal consequences to keep them from being selfish assholes. And it often appears that those are the same type of people who manage to get themselves into decision making positions in the business world.

  • Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

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  • Fear of punishment.

  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • I didn't claim I had a hundred of them going at any give time.

    And, regardless, I also don't keep them open forever. I just close the one I'm finished with, check out the next one, then repeat until I'm through with them.

  • Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

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  • The punishment (or the threat of punishment) is supposed to be part of the motivation to not drive into pedestrians.

    If the decision makers behind the fully automatic vehicles don't fear that punishment, the concern is that they'll make choices that are motivated more by profits and efficiencies and less by safe driving and preventing harms.

    And given the abuses of profit seeking executives we have seen in the past, it is a valid concern.

  • JD Vance’s chances of becoming 2028 Republican nominee are falling, new poll finds

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  • Don Jr. is in second place!?

    Second place of the options the polling company suggested in the survey question.

  • Why do some people have so many browser tabs open?

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  • Why not just close them and open them back up later?

    Because that's extra steps for no actual improvement.

    I close the tabs that I'm done with and add new ones when I want to not forget to look at something a bit later.

    That doesn't need the "permanence" of a bookmark. (And, obviously I know editing bookmarks is a thing, but that is also extra steps for something I'll only want once in about 15 min from now)

  • Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs

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  • the American people are bigger idiots for voting for him, twice.

    Many of them voted for him 3 times.

  • Is Canada compromising its values to do business with China? - China's secret war in Canada -- [podcast + opinion piece]

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  • And which system would be better to allow values in your view?

    one that doesn't require the exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few?

  • Pipeline deal with Ottawa met with boos at Alberta UCP convention

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  • They'll find something new to complain about. They always do.

  • Are Alberta Sovereignty Pages Really Run From Alberta? Accounts are listed as being based in Thailand

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  • It looks like Alberta will be getting Federal money for a pipeline

    Only if Alberta can get BC and the first nations to agree, and can find a private company willing to build the thing.

    That'll be just as hard, since the economics of building another pipeline don't make sense for any private company that expects to ever turn a profit on the project.

  • Ottawa, Alberta’s ‘pipe dream’ faces surge of resistance in BC

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  • This whole thing seems like its just a charade to deflect Albertans spite away from the Feds

    It also says "sure you can have a pipeline if you can find a private industry 'partner' to finance and build it", knowing full well that the economics aren't there for any private company to actually be able to make a business case to do it.

  • WATCH: Canadian SNL Mocks Trump With ‘Quiet Piggy’ Kids Book Skit

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  • Just another example of Americans not having any clues about anything outside their borders and not even caring enough to bother to find out either.

  • Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age

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  • What generation has seen that, though?

  • MTG goes on extraordinary rant about Charlie Kirk, Republican men and her resignation

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  • American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men,

    I'm wondering if that is a description of herself?

    Maybe that's why this issue is her line in the sand?

  • ‘Traitor’: US representatives call for Trump envoy Witkoff to be fired after leaked Kremlin call

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  • A handful of US representatives have reacted furiously to a leaked recording in which the special envoy to Ukraine reportedly coached Moscow on how to handle Donald Trump,

    Only a handful?

    Wtf??

    This government shows their incompetence more and more as each day passes.

  • Canada moves up in global agri-food rankings due to advances in trade, innovation as industry leaders see room for further improvement

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  • I "invest" in Canadian agriculture with every choice I make when I shop for groceries.

  • The Condo Crash

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  • They should have gone into it with the understanding that no investment has a guarantee of positive returns.

    That's how investing has always worked.

    Investing is just like any other form of gambling, if you can't afford to lose the game, you shouldn't be playing.

  • I'm writing to my favourite YouTubers to politely ask them to consider uploading to YouTube alternatives

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  • While I'm not a huge channel, I have been posting on youtube for almost 10 years.

    And over the years I have also been duplicating my uploads to a few other platforms, until they have inevitably shut down for one reason or another (though running out of money has always been among the reasons).

    I'm currently duplicating my uploads on a peertube instance, and it's getting about the same viewership as any of the other alternatives I have used - which is to say 10s of views (compared to 4-6k on youtube).

    For anyone who is actually trying to make a living from their videos (I'm not, it's a hobby that pays it's own expenses for me) that is a really hard sell to convince them to put in any extra effort for such a statistically negligible audience share.

  • NDP Candidate Avi Lewis Calls for 'Public Options' to Fight High Costs of Groceries, Housing, and Telecoms in Canada

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  • It hasn't been easy to keep. The SaskParty is dangerously underfunding it and is whittling it away. Privatization by stealth is in force hard.

    The same thing the PCs did in Manitoba to set up privatizing MTS and eventually selling it entirely to Bell.

    And the same thing they were starting to quietly do to Manitoba Hydro before they got voted out.