The most important thing is about lost money. It can be about the quality of sleep and the health of those people but first, consider the economy and what it costs us. You could have nore money. We could make more money. We like money.

Star Trek

So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?

This just made me look up and learn about the environmental impact of tennis balls.

Every year, an estimated 300 million tennis balls are manufactured globally, and most of them end up in landfills. The rubber core is pressurized with air or nitrogen to give the ball its signature bounce. However, rubber itself is a challenging material to recycle, especially when combined with pressurization and other materials. The felt covering is partially synthetic (nylon), which contributes to the microplastic pollution problem. Synthetic fibers shed during play, adding to global plastic waste.

And IRC now has web clients that can display inline images, upload them on a channel, preview URLs, push notifications, keep history, and more.

I use The Lounge but there is also Convos and a few others.

Fuck cars. I’m car free and glad to be. My bike doesn’t spy on me. And I don’t really fancy getting an e-bike that requires an app just to work. The only thing spying on me is my Android phone.

Every time the constitution is on the table the country nearly implodes.

Will all the provinces agree on a new constitution this time? It only led to two referendum the few last times we tried.

I wasn’t paying much attention to the race but I just checked and apparently it’s not going well for his aspirations. Good.

Sa croisade pour le troisième lien Québec-Lévis et sa sortie intempestive contre les tergiversations de Christine Fréchette à ce sujet n’ont pas été payantes.

Unfortunately Fréchette didn’t admit yet that this is a bad idea, she’s just “unsure” about the proposed route. And sadly Drainville is like a cockroach. If/when he loses, I expect him to find his way again into a party in power and continue pushing his BS.

As Bernard Drainville of Québec’s CAQ once said, “lâchez-moi avec les GES”. Meaning something like “won’t you drop it with those greenhouse gases”. His last title was the head of the Ministry of Environment and Fight Against Climate Change. And he proudly announced that the ban on internal combustion vehicles planned in 2035 was scrapped. He cried on TV when his party announced that maybe building a third bridge over the St-Lawrence for $10G to save a few minutes may not entirely be a good idea.

He’s also the xenophobic idiot that introduced "“Québec’s Charter of Values”. It didn’t work but he still continues to this day to push his xenophobic agenda under the guise of secularism.

He is a despicable human being, and until recently he was responsible for the Ministry of Environment in our province, until he resigned. And the shittiest part is, he resigned to run as the next leader of the CAQ and could be our next premier.

In any way, whatever the next party in power, Québec probably won’t help. Nobody really wants to. Every election everyone just wants economic growth. Ask them what’s the most important every election? They’ll tell you the economy is the most important thing, obviously! And have you seen the price of gas?! It’s robbery! Gas should be cheaper!11!! That’s what’s important!

So no, we won’t meet any climate target.

Seeed - Ding

Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications.

I’m glad that she’s good at her job and does the killing. It’s nice to have people with the right job for their skills. When you’re good at piloting killing machines, then you do what you’re good at.

Yeah, about that.

My province just had a very dry summer with very low water levels. Some wells dried up.

At some point farmers were wondering how they would be watering their crops if it got any worse.

Or what about flash flooding, either on flat ground, or in mountain towns? Or wild fires?

There’s certainly places safer than others, but a lot more people are going to be affected than just coastal inhabitants.

“It will help regulate overpopulation”

-Billionaires

And all this because we refuse to slow capitalism down. The most important question on everyone’s mind when there’s elections is the economy and money. We need economic growth. Can’t tax billionaires. Can’t stop the consumption machine. Economic growth!

The sad thing is that most people are willing to relocate to avoid the effects it will have on them financially. It’s not because it could help to mitigate the change; they won’t move into a 15 minutes city. We’ll just perpetuate the sprawl elsewhere and continue what we have always done before.

It’s even more sad when I look at images of natural disasters, and beyond the immediate lost of lives, seeing people lose their things and run (drive) to buy even more things produced by the very system that is causing more frequent and intense natural disasters.

Beyond legislation and enforcement, it’s been disappointing to try to explain those things to people around me for decades, hoping they will make the connection, only for them to end up being mad at high gas prices. Also, that survey asks about inside the US only. What if people from one state don’t want immigrants from another state? It’s gonna be interesting to see when the next inevitable question in a decade or so will be if people are willing to become climate refugees in other countries, and if citizens of other countries are willing to accept them.

But they’re gonna continue to consoom and drive their individual giant SUVs everywhere. Don’t worry they will be electric so buy buy buy.

Anyway, AI running in datacenters powered by fossil fuel will surely find a technological solution to our consumption problems.

Surely we can’t just stop consooming.

And don’t forget to recycle!

My nation has been under occupation by the English since 1760 and I have no special love for the actual country that was forced on us. The patriots tried to fight against the English; they were captured, and hung. One capitalist master over another, I’m not fighting for that.

We survived for 260 years in a country that was stolen and in a union that was forced on us. We will endure the Unitedstaters if they take over, as we endured the English.

Plus, an escalation and more spending on the military is exactly what the orange turd wanted in the first place. You are being played over FUD.

The world will be such a better place when the poor will fight one another for a line on a map while the rich pockets the money from military equipment sale. But at least everyone is employed and has a job!

What a wonderful way to keep people employed, by pivoting from engines destroying the environment and killing people to, well, exactly the same. It’s certainly a win for them, and us to continue being paid to make death machines. Their union is smart to want to get a piece of the military budget pie.

Just like the US, let’s have common folks earn a living from making military equipment, and depend on those jobs. Great idea. It’s not at all contributing to spending public money on the military instead of useless social programs.

Anything but reduce car usage or invest in public transit. No, the solution to everyone wasting energy to move a personal multi ton vehicle around, and prevent parking lots from worsening climate change, is to install solar panels on top of every parking lot and road.

Cars will one day be made by green energy, powered by green energy, recycled by green energy, and be entirely carbon neutral, of course.

They will still emit tons of microplastic particles but we’ll eventually find a technoloical solution for that, I’m sure. They will still kill billions of animals every year but it’s not related to climate so no biggie. They will still kill one human every 30 seconds but again, not a climate issue. They augment the risk of cardiovascular diseases and make people fat. They are also a source of noise pollution and stress for millions of poor people living near freeways. And they are also an expensive status symbol. But none of this matters because they will be electric, and have solar panels on top of parking lots, thus solving the problem once and for all!

Personally I’d prefer we get rid of parking lots and build housing on top of it but, where will people park their climate friendly cars?!

Anything but to admit cars are an environmental problem.

EDIT: Sorry about the abrasiveness. I did read a study a few months ago about installing solar panels on top of parking lots and they did have a positive impact, but it’s just impossible to do this on every open air parking lot and road because of material and cost. Even if it could have a positive impact on localized areas, it’s never gonna be enough to have an overall impact.

Just to give you an idea of how much parking there is in the world, you can look for those maps where parking lots are highlighted. This is for Flint, MI. This is for Philadelphia. I tried to do it for a town of about 80k people in Québec (Drummondville), and just gave up before being done. And that’s just counting parking lots, not roads. How many solar panels do you think we should produce to cover all this?

Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.

I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?

Same but with the current geopolitical situation.