danielquinn

danielquinn , 4 days ago to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Billy, yes!!

Nebula might be the answer for you. A low annual fee means every video you watch gives a portion of that fee to the artist.

danielquinn , 5 days ago to Fuck Cars in The Biden administration’s new automatic braking rule is “impractical,” auto industry says

These rules are convoluted and near impossible to apply. Specific braking speeds for some objects compared to others? That requires reliable computer vision, which hasn't been demonstrated anywhere yet.

And those speeds? 92mph is 148kph! Why the fuck are cars even permitted to be capable of that when no road in the country allows it? And why would you want to introduce unpredictable braking scenarios at such speeds?

What is feasible is a speed limiter based on the posted limit, but that'd be too practical.

danielquinn , 9 days ago to Fuck Cars in Wealthy Canadians announce BMW X3 convoy to protest capital gains tax hike

I love this. I can just imagine them paying poor people to drive and protest in their place too.

danielquinn , 13 days ago to Star Trek in Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise

Ah yeah, I remember a moment like that in DS9, where Sisko is lamenting the crew's interest in a holosuite program set in the 50s because of how "our people" were treated back then. It always felt out of place for me, though DS9 is still my favourite Star Trek.

danielquinn , 14 days ago to Star Trek in Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise

Can you give some examples of this? Admittedly I didn't much care for Discovery and didn't pay a lot of attention through it as a result, but I'm not picking up what you're laying down ;-)

danielquinn , 23 days ago to Canada in The carbon pricing debate is somehow getting worse

Yeah I share your issue with their stance on Nuclear as well (though having worked in the industry for a few years now, I'm coming to realise it's a moot point). I'll push back a bit on your other points though. I've always found their proposals to be well thought out and fully costed.

The reason I've long supported them (even when the leadership was chaotic) was that they were the only party with a platform that shared my priority: a world not on fire. the Conservatives muzzled climate scientists, the Liberals literally bought a pipeline and the NDP keeps cozying up to oil in Alberta and loggers in BC.

Sure we've got crystal-clutching anti-nuclear loonies in the Greens, but at least I can trust they actually believe the IPCC enough to want to do something about it.

danielquinn , 25 days ago to Canada in The carbon pricing debate is somehow getting worse

What's wrong with the Greens?

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Why No One Wants to Live in Canada

What the fuck is with this immigrant blaming? We're supposed to be better than this.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Star Trek in Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode

Voyager: One Small Step

It's one of my top ten favourites, but it's also a very typical "one off" story.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Canada abstains from UN assembly vote backing Palestinian bid for membership

What cowards we are.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in A Justin Trudeau Ally Nearly Quit the Party Over its Israel Policy

challenging the place of Zionist leaders in mainstream progressive politics.

We really have to stop conflating Zionism with Judaism. Only the Zionists benefit from it.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Shell sold millions of carbon credits for carbon that was never captured, report finds

You're probably thinking of Cardassia, which I will also note has a judicial system where the state decides the defendant's guilt in advance of the trial. In such a system, it's typical that the rich & powerful simply aren't prosecuted. So it's the same system as ours, just with fewer steps :-(

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Canada Post lost $748 million last year, warns of "critical" financial situation

Because post is more than just letters, it's parcels too. Canada Post is infrastructure that ties the whole country together, not just the denser, more profitable cities. Imagine if there were only for-profit postal services in the country. What would it cost to send a parcel to 100 Mile House, or Baker Lake, or whole swathes of the country that only speak French? Think of all the things that go out by post, like Carbon tax rebate cheques and voting information. It'd introduce a massive disparity in service and access to basic services, and so we socialise that cost across the country.

There are always ways to improve of course, but you asked specifically about why the system was socialised.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Canada Post lost $748 million last year, warns of "critical" financial situation

That's a fair point. So long as it's addressed from a position of "is the community being served well" and not "this should be run like a business". Canada Post has a difficult (and expensive) mandate: to service all of the country, no matter how remote, and the knee-jerk reaction to such headlines is often to privatise which would change that mandate to "earn as much profit for investors as possible".

I'm living in the UK these days, with private post, and private water companies. Things have literally been enshitified, with raw sewage flowing down the river Thames, so I'm concerned when I see such headlines.

danielquinn , 1 month ago to Canada in Canada Post lost $748 million last year, warns of "critical" financial situation

Public services aren't meant to be profitable. They're meant to provide a service that serves the community.