Doug was much more manageable and less evil when he was just Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother.

The Canada Files did a really good three part piece a couple years ago about the US oil capitalist takeover of Alberta.

The Green Party (ostensibly green stands for environmentalism but in reality stands for US dollars and military) has, even before its inception in the late 1970s, been against nuclear power. Until 2011 the conservative governing coalitions had kept existing reactors running (none had been built since the 80s). With the Fukushima incident in 2011 there was no way the Greens nor the German public would accept the extension of reactor operation permits. Germans are fed anti-nuclear energy views from early childhood and as a whole rabidly against it; the most popular bumper sticker is probably “Atomkraft? Nein Danke”.

I don’t know the history of the anti-nuclear-power groups which came together and created the Green party in the late 1970s. What I can say however is that similarly active US based environmental groups like the Sierra Club were optimistially pro-nuclear in the 1960s. Moving into the 1970s gas companies infiltrated and funded these groups, turning them into virulently anti-nuclear power activist organizations to the financial benefit of the gas industry. These relationships continue to this day.

Ironically not only did the “Atomausstieg” make Germany more reliant on imported fuel, the push for renewables has led to a grid that needs to be stabilized by French nuclear, Polish coal, and Scandinavian hydro.

It’s ok. Germany has spent the better part of trillion euros in about twenty years on their “Energiewende,” only to just cover the increase in electricity use over that period. Now we have one of the highest electric prices for working people in the world, and it’s not remarkably cleaner than before. The west is speedrunning climate cstastrophe.

That one is on m list too.

I recently finished Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Trruelove. A little random but a fun read.

I’ve just started Metal From Heaven by August Clarke, which seems like a really fun class conscious workers’ revenge story but I’m having a hard time getting into the almost poetic narrative style.

I bought Snyder’s pamphlet “On Tyrrany” back in my lib years. Gave it to my lib grandpa when I moved away. He still likes it and enjoys seeing Snyder on the news. If only I knew what I know now.

Of course no mention of the primary root causes of such thoughts. Of course the proposed solution is more regulation and LLM “training.”

And, if you do go above and beyond (ie. literally giving your all rather than an appropriate amount of effort within your working hours) you only stand to lose. You’ll get more work or more complex work assigned without any increase in pay. If you’re lucky your boss will be appreciative of your efforts and abilities, but that doesn’t pay the bills.

By that logic the US is also complicit in Nazi crimes.

Yeah I’m really looking forward to the German version of pre-crime.

Green has stood for greenbacks and military for the last generation plus.

Poverty is rising in the UK. The UK used to have (in practice if not explicitly codified) the death penalty for being poor.

Gotta ensure that the NSA keeps their backdoors.

I can relate to this, although I’ve never thought about it in those terms before. I’ll have to think about my different selves some more.

Isn’t this guy a superlib Harvard professor?

I write markdown files and “sync” with a private git repository. Works for me, ymmv.

It’s a bit over 400 pages. I don’t track my reading time but I probably need about two weeks to get through a novel of that length.

I have been reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett this week. It’s a fun detective duo fantasy mystery.

I am familiar with plenty of those people.