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. Kind of a dumb take, leaving out the signal characteristic : violent.

There aren't actually that many military on the streets. When some people complain about riots ruining the country, others explain that the really violent ones only happen in a very few places, and the pockets of rampant disorder (eg. CHAZ) are less than the fingers on one hand, after...

That's one frame. Another is that they've decided they're dealing with Barbary pirates, and they're going to do it the way it was done the last time (in essence).

Google already has that. They even have pictures of me.

Anything coming for Prince Rupert/Vancouver also looks like it's coming for Seattle. Anything coming for our east coast ports also looks like it's coming for US northeast ports. Land-based coastal defence has a business case, just like every other potential capability, but it should be way...

It's easy to strike from May through mid-Oct, and while the strike pay fund hasn't run dry, and while the gap between regular pay and strike pay hasn't exhausted accounts. See how they feel when they hit week 12+ in mid-Nov, especially in the lower mainland rain. Most of the bitching on the...

That can mean the process hasn't ended, which can mean it hasn't got to the point of perfection, yet.

The purpose of the fund is to provide retirement income to retirees, not to sustain itself. Understanding that to be the purpose leads to the question why we have a government-mandated fund that only looks after workers. CPP could be shifted to defined contribution. Or the contributions could...

CPP isn't a reward. Compelled contributions to an investment fund with an RoI (to the contributor - RoI of the fund is meaningless to contributors if the gains aren't passed on to them) usually well below private fund averages is not a reward. There are all sorts of cutoffs for various federal...

I suspect we will find that just as automated tools can amplify useful purposes, they can expedite useless purposes and dramatically outmatch natural stupidity.

To dream of a universe in which the people in government can get out of silos long enough to think through broad consequences of actions...

If I lived on one of a handful of affected blocks, I wouldn't care very much what the laissez-faire opinion of the rest of the city, state, or country was. I'd want laws enforced and order restored.

So where between "let the rioters riot" and "call out the army" is the preferred position?

It's easier and more effective to put on shows that encourage people to self-deport than to go through the (expensive, time-consuming) processes required to forcibly deport them. The saltier the show, the more impact it has.

Why wait that long? It's not THE problem, but it's A problem. All frivolous expenditures ought to be ended AND all transfers to individuals ought to be more strictly means-tested.

One extreme, now opposed by what some regard as another extreme. Normies outnumber revolutionary vanguards as long as the power to choose extremes exists at the ballot box.

AI is not inherently harmful. Uses of AI are potentially harmful. Those inclined to ignore the latter possibility should review how quickly the "DOGE" people were able to scrape government information with the assistance of AI to start compiling suggestions. All information on the web can be...

Everything has to fit into the social and economic structure we have, not one we wish we had or to suit the trainers. If we had a war planning staff (combined civil-military) worth a pinch of salt, one of the things they'd have done is to analyze employment in Canada to determine things like...

Leaving aside whether the criticism is valid, if defence policy simply rewards those with the most ducks in a row, the political leadership isn't doing its job and is failing Canadians - the civilian experts aren't.

Tech is mostly responsible. The demise of service has been going on since at least the invention of the telephone. Unions have varying amounts of collective intelligence that shows up as intelligent bargaining and adaptation to reality; CUPW is very low on the list. They doggedly try to...