prodigalsorcerer @ prodigalsorcerer @lemmy.ca

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I came from a manual transmission, so the learning curve was easier for me than for my wife who had only driven automatics.

The point is mostly that it generates electricity while slowing down. It's also just more directly analogous to how the motor works. Pedal down -> electricity into motor. Less pedal = less electricity. No pedal = no electricity in. When there's no electricity being applied to the motor, and the motor is turning, then it generates electricity (by slowing the motor).

The actual weird thing is just that people are just okay with their automatic transmission cars moving when they're not directly applying gas. I understand the mechanism behind why it happens, but when you think about it, it's a weird and potentially unsafe behaviour that shouldn't be replicated in EVs.

It's as smooth as you make it. There's a slight learning curve, and you need to be able to move your foot smoothly, but it's otherwise pretty straightforward. Some people got used to driving with the gas pedal as an "on/off" button and they need to stop thinking of it like that.

That's not how tax breaks work. The government isn't giving money away, it's just pledging to not collect money in the future. I don't know the specifics of this deal, and $15B seems like a lot compared to the scope of this project, but it's likely that if they didn't offer tax breaks at all, this would have been built in Mexico or USA instead. There was probably a number in between 15B and zero that would have still brought them to Canada though.

Presumably the government accountants who made this deal expect this project to bring in significantly more then $15B in taxes over a decade or so of operation.

It could be a financial thing still. It's often a lot cheaper to fly to Europe than it is to take a domestic flight within Canada. So when faced with that choice, why not go overseas?

If you don't think she has a serious chance to win, then I'm not sure I understand what the complaint is here. What "harm" are they causing?

At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?

The stand for electoral reform (and against the first-past-the-post voting system).

If they're a serious contender, then it shouldn't matter how many people are on the ballot; their supporters will be voting for them by name.

Just like the LBC didn't affect the end result in Carlton, it won't make a huge difference here either.

Can you define "non exploitation"?

My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are "already dead" due to their use as meat.

So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn't consider it vegan though.

There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said "Never again"
What they actually meant
Was "Palestine's just an illusion"

But if we also include all the times that he didn't kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler

Despite these options not being mutually exclusive, I think I would be in the 17.2%. I'm not buying US booze now, but I wasn't buying it before either.

Mostly this survey is pretty bad, and I don't think we can make any good conclusions from the results.

The left seems awfully worried about home values

Why do you think it's the left that's worried about home values?

I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I'd wait a bit longer. And now it'll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It's not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven't seen yet.

There's a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.

That's not an explanation of why he should be barred from office.

He's Catholic, but he's not trying to make Canada Catholic. Trudeau and Poilievre are also Catholic. In fact, every single PM of Canada has been either Catholic or Protestant.

Why?

Sue them for what? They are fully within their rights to run anti-abortion ads and reject pro-choice ads.

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

It's not organized by left and right. It's organized by percentage of people who have an unfavorable view of Israel.

It would be weirder for 0% to be on the right and 100% to be on the left. Also, in theory, it's possible for those three dots to be in any order on the line.

About the same price as PP's forced byelection will cost.

I think adjusting by municipality is a bad idea.

A flat basic income across the country promotes migration to lower COL areas. An adjusted basic income promotes migration to higher COL areas in order to get a bigger income. While different areas having different COLs is pretty unavoidable, I don't think making high-COL areas more attractive is a good idea.

I'm also not a huge fan of adjusting for couples vs. single people. I get why they do it, it's an easy way to save money. But the actual expenses of you living with a roommate (as you suggested) compared to you living with a roommate that you're also sleeping with, don't change very much. (I have similar complaints about household income being used for basically everything except taxes, but that's a little further off topic.)