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The two largest political parties in Canada faced off in a polarizing election (at the expense of the smaller Canadian parties): the Liberals (slightly left of centre), vs. Conservatives (right wing big tent party). Canada's political system works as several simultaneous races for a parliamentary representative for their area, then the political party with the most representatives total selects (or has selected beforehand) a leader who will be the Prime Minister.

Now the Conservatives had been expected to take over due to the previous Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, being blamed for inflation and anything bad by Conservatives, Trudeau not accomplishing much and people being tired of the incumbent. But then, Justin Trudeau steps down and chooses a new leader who calls an election, Trump gets in office and threatens Canada, leading enough people to realize what shit-fuckery Trump style politics in Canada would lead to (not as many as I'd like, but enough).

The Conservatives had a decent vote share, but the leader, Pierre Poilievre who ran on a diet version of populist conservative nationalism, lost his own seat. In the meantime, the province (a sub-national region) of Ontario also held an election. The Progressive Conservative party (right of centre populist) got majority power in the province again due to the party and leader, Doug Ford, campaigning strongly against Trump.

The provincial party had been warning the national one to change tack against Trump, both in private from leaked statements and in public from some current and former campaign managers. The Nova Scotia Premier, (leader of another province, also a Conservative party) also warned them. However, Pierre was too slow to do that, and his campaign style of not letting the press ask questions freely remained, reminiscent of the Trump administration, which partly contributed to Canada's Conservative relative loss of power.

In Trump-style politics, Dear Leader (Pierre who did not get elected in his own election race) can do no wrong, so now that the election is done, it's time for the blame game and the knives are out. The crazies of the Conservative party are going to attack anyone, even if they are politically aligned, if they dared to tell the truth about Poilievre's likeness to Trump leading him to failure.

Tell me how much we haven't done because it's impossible, and how much we haven't done because we haven't tried?

There's aspects of each when it comes to electrical aircraft. I know that taking a normal commercial jet, dropping in batteries instead of a fuel tank is not going to work. But there are real aspects that we are making incremental gains, and we will have to sacrifice in other areas, at least initially (e.g. using low-flying propellor planes instead of jet engines, regional range rather than transcontinental). I believe it's you who is jumping to the conclusion that because we can't go from a 2 person electric plane to a 60+ today means we can't, ever, and ignoring all the middle steps.

you assume as if these issues are just problems that just need an already existing solution

There are some solutions that we haven't discovered or put into practice. We'd have to try and find out to know if they would be commercially viable and safe.

What's the formula, study or principle that prevents this physically (i.e.: how could we have both 2-person electric and fuel-powered planes, but designing a bigger one isn't possible due to physics)?

I get that it's difficult, for a larger capacity you need a larger body, a larger body means larger weight, and with today's tech the energy required for takeoff might scale up faster than the space you get from the body after the required batteries are installed (I have no source for this but I imagine this is your thinking). But even if we couldn't improve battery tech at all and doesn't compare to fuel, I am not aware of any physical limits to how either the body and wing layout and shape, propulsion mechanism and other operating aspects couldn't be further optimized given research and tech advancements that would allow us to compensate for that. If there are such limits, do enlighten me. I would also appreciate a linked source.

C&H comics have been about lewdness and shock humour for decades now, since they started, no?

His headline accomplishments are leading the Bank of Canada as governor, keeping Canada out of the worst of the 08 recession, then helped ease the fall of UK's economy post-Brexit, then in his short 1st term as Prime Minister taking over from Trudeau, he managed to shut Trump up about the 51st state stuff for nearly a month, after just one call.

Co-pilot, please write me some garbage code for our new Recall feature, and commit it to our repositories. My only request is that it takes up around 42% of the size of all the rest of our code combined. Thank you.

Three, two, one, zero, minus one.

Unlike his Conservative opponent, Carney has a resume of fixing problems more than talking. He has done a lot of talking during the campaign, as one should to get elected, now Canadians have a part in holding him to account as PM.

The rest of the world would help out if Trump hadn't just messed with literally everyone else at the same time...

I don't think it had the effect of costing Poilievre votes, but it probably did bring interest and higher participation by typically ambivalent people in that riding.

I'm sitting here waiting for the Bloc Quebecois to run in Vancouver.

Canadians still didn't want to trust them with a majority.

I don't have the same read as you on this point specifically. 43% and 42% (for Cons) are both majority earning popular vote numbers in Canada, but it did mean that there was more support for the Liberals instead of the NDP overall (up from 33% in 2021). You can talk about held noses but Carney was viewed as a legitimately competent leader for our time of crisis and people voted accordingly. There were a lot of instances of Conservatives winning due to split votes in Southwest Ontario that was the main thing keeping them from a majority government.

I do think with the NDP wielding the balance of power, it is indeed a good idea to push for abolishing FPTP among many progressive reforms, but we don't have to commit to PR or bust from the start.

My point is: The shitty electoral system that keeps the Liberals in, is also the one that kept them out of majority territory this time.

News that probably surprises nobody here on Lemmy.

Good Cop Bad Cop Lutnick strikes again.

The Canadian Edition of the Valve splashscreen

Going to keep myself in the dark until tomorrow morning. Good luck Canada's democracy!

Edit: I see democracy has prevailed! And a minority with NDP holding the power balance is a favourable result for progressives!

Sure. Most people probably have a bit of fresh food to rely on in the immediate term if disaster hits, but by the time you get to it, you should have a gauge on how long you will need to make that 72 hours supply actually last. Water is also vital but it does take up more space so as a baseline 72 hours of each is a good starting point.

Nvm that gives the frontend link only. Link to original comment doesn't appear to be a feature on alex.lemmy.ca. However there's only one extra step you need to do.

You just have to remove the alex.lemmy.ca/ part before the actual server name to obtain the original URL.

On the other hand maybe his character and judgement will be strong enough to do better.

Canadians including myself are all too familiar of politicians losing their convictions to appease established political interests. The fact that Carney has been an outsider to our politics until this year, has me optimistic that he would more likely than most to hold onto them to do what is right (in the utilitarian sense), not just for the connected elite. But it can happen to anyone so I'm not holding my breath for it either.

Correct. The frontend URL solves the problem for you in a sense, when you open alex.lemmy.ca/[other server address]/post/[other server post #] you can stay logged into lemmy.ca and it shows the correct thing.

The idea though, is that each client (at the moment, Lemmy v1.0 may change this) is expected to handle it their own way, so the original URL is ideal (other frontends call this Permalink) if you are making a lemmylink redirect link. Does the linked clips icon for someone not on your server give a link to their server or one to Lemmy.ca? The original one is always the on the originating server of the person who submitted the post or comment.

Regardless of whether you think something catastrophic will happen tomorrow, next month, next year or never, it's a smart plan to have an emergency stash of shelf-stable food and drinking water to last 72 hours per person in your household for whatever natural or manmade disaster.