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  • I’m replying to myself I know but I had to post my two favorite name of canadian mining corporation which are currently destroying the global south:

    Conquistador Mines Ltd

    Da Capo Resources (today Vista Gold Corporation)

    On. The. Nose.

    Also this : The Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act, also known as Bill C-300, was defeated in a vote of 140 to 134 in the House of Commons of Canada in October 2010.[56] The Summary of the bill states:

    The purpose of this enactment is to promote environmental best practices and to ensure the protection and promotion of international human rights standards in respect of the mining, oil or gas activities of Canadian corporations in developing countries. It also gives the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of International Trade the responsibility to issue guidelines that articulate corporate accountability standards for mining, oil or gas activities and it requires the Ministers to submit an annual report to both Houses of Parliament on the provisions and operation of this Act."[57]

    I know Canada is not in any way a social democracy but it’s close enough and would still do this if it became one.









  • To me these are just not real concerns. I’m not trying to invalidate yours but I write a lot of code per day and I just run a cleanup tool after to match the teams style - I do a lot of consulation work in big teams and fighting for code-style issue does nothing I feel.

    I prefer to adopt the current guideline and fix real problems and fight real battles like making sure the code is testable from the get go and that OpSec is respected.



  • Here’s a version without an ideological filter : An actuary will calculate what is the best for the stock market for a corporation: invest into automation or offshore production to a country where production is cheaper. It’s mostly always cheaper to offshore than invest in automation.

    At some point, no offshoring option exist and some actuary will actually tell their masters to invest in automation. Some will do, but research is not always successful and takes a long time.

    Neo-liberal gov. will seek stability and so they will either invest into their friends corporation, to stabilize them and enrich themselves. This will mean wage stagnation and being outcompeted by countries that successfully automated.

    At this point, the empire will grow hungry for stability and stock market growth, and will either try to make another country it’s cheap offshore location, by several economic, diplomatic or even millitary strategy or start to make it’s actually population serf again.

    If the second happens, chances of revolution starts to go up. We may see a modern French-style revolution in the empire, or something like that, start to be more likely.

    But more realistically, we won’t get to see this, as the climate is already starting to disrupt human activity. The western empire is already imploding and unable to respond to the new reality so mostly, no one serious is able to predict the next few years.


  • In Canada, people fear communism like it’s a plague.

    Basing our hopes on the Canadian communist party is not a good idea.

    People here are hopelessly liberal (conservative liberal or neo-liberal) and are mostly influenced by words and placated by feel-good allusions - most people I know who tells themselves are progressive are only progressive if progress can be resumed as green-cars or recycling - meaning ideas that are mostly marketing in disguise and side step the real issues.

    They fear real change because it will disturb day to day functionning.

    The NPD never was really popular. It’s not even a true alternative to the Tory (be they red or blue) dominated landscape, and even so, it was seen as radical by a lot of people.

    What we need is a rebranding, we need to use the tools that liberals can understand and they only understand marketing terms.

    So we can’t take terms with negative connotation to the liberal mind and use that. We can’t say communism, revolution, proletariat or stuff like that.

    We need to create something that will sell the ideas with new word combinations.

    We could create the Competitor Party (feels liberal) which give a new idea. It’s not a collective effort, it’s the effort of several individuals working together, ect, ect…