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xtal posted:More 👏 national 👏 dumpster 👏 fires 👏 Heat the poor along with the rich!
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Wistful of Dollars posted:People are compostable, no reason other things shouldn't be. *valid only where facilities available. Hopefully this is more widespread than it currently is by the time I'm ready to check out. Global warming has me rethinking my original cremation plans. Maybe compost at the bottom of a deep, deep mine so my carbon can be sequestered. PT6A posted:They make compostable plastic straws and cups so I don't get what the problem is with just using those. They're so identical to non-compostable plastic equivalents that I actually asked the waiter, "are you sure these plastic straws and containers are recyclable?" and it turns out they are! I think the plastic is called PLA, and it composts just fine in a municipal system, or it can be cleaned and recycled directly into new products. Hopefully it works better than older "compostable" plastics, basically just plastic chains held together by a starch matrix. Breaks down and enters the marine ecosystem as flushable microplastics much faster than regular plastics.
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Perhaps a small number of people who manage to change their plastic straw behaviour might be empowered to make other changes in their lives. But ultimately we need the government to legislate change and markets to roll it out as a competitive advantage - like that grocery store brand in the UK that no has a huge no plastic section. For those garbage stores that wont change like dollarama or walmart just tax the poo poo out of them so there is no cost benefit to not doing it. Giving bubble tea stores an extra year will accomplish nothing. Telling them they have a year before a huge single use plastic tax is enacted will actually spur change. I mean how hard is it to follow emission reduction and efficiency templates? In two years 10% of the poo poo you sell can’t be in garbo plastic, three years 20%, etc cowofwar fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 23:35
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Companies should have to pay for the entire life cycle of the stuff they produce and the byproduct waste they create, including disposal. I doubt manufacturers will pay their submanufacturers to have every nut bolt and washer wrapped in its own little baggie because nobody's going to want to pay for it. This will trickle down through the entire capitalist system and we'll be left off with everyone owning a lot less stuff and that stuff will be a lot less fragile a lot more durable and with much less focus on asthetic qualities. And anyone who bitches about their stuff getting a little scuff on it during shipping will be forced to work in the reeducation landfill reclaiming recycleable material that we collectively dumped in a hole in the ground because it cost less than actually recycling it. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jul 11, 2019 01:47
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If the government just treated corporations like Bombardier like they do young adults seeking education they'd already own it.
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EvilJoven posted:Companies should have to pay for the entire life cycle of the stuff they produce and the byproduct waste they create, including disposal. This is the case in some provinces already, BC and I think one or two tiny trivial provinces are 100% producer (or importer) pays. A bunch of others are 50-67%. Except for, you know, environmental externalities - carbon tax or not. (Alberta is 0% producer paid, or was whenever I saw a province-by-province chart.)
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Jul 11, 2019 09:16
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https://twitter.com/CBCToronto/status/1149265881983324160?s=19 Hey this is actually a Good loving Thing.
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Jul 11, 2019 11:50
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Everyone go watch this documentary about the Oka crisis https://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/
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Jul 11, 2019 12:55
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Hexigrammus posted:*valid only where facilities available. Apparently it's commonly used in medical contexts because it will literally decompose into lactic acid in the body given enough time, so that's still a not a terrible outcome even if it doesn't get recycled or composted, which it absolutely should. I suppose it's still not perfect, but when I heard about it, I thought, "why is this poo poo not everywhere?"
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Jul 11, 2019 13:13
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AFAIK compostable PLA requires water and heat to start degrading. So if it ends up in the trash, it won't degrade naturally. Also those cups are not ideal for hot beverages
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Jul 11, 2019 13:39
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:AFAIK compostable PLA requires water and heat to start degrading. So if it ends up in the trash, it won't degrade naturally. Plastic cups are never ideal for hot beverages. The other advantage of PLA is that it's a lot easier to dispose of food containers because you can just throw it in the compost with any food products still in it, instead of having to rinse it out, so there's a higher chance it won't simply be thrown in the trash. Another thing I'd like to see is more public compost bins. I've seen them all over the place in other countries, where all public bins have an inorganic and organic side, but at least here in Calgary, on the street we just have normal trash bins.
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Jul 11, 2019 13:47
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All the recycle bins around here have an equal amount of trash in them even though they're right next to trash cans, so compost bins would probably be more hassle than they're worth, unfortunately. We do have a city wide compost program now at least, so that's good.
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Aces High posted:With Bombardier selling off their Challenger and Dash 8 stuff to foreign companies why the gently caress do we still look to them as the champions of Canadian aeronautics and...anything? Like, gently caress, shouldn't we be pressuring companies to continue producing poo poo in Canada? The Dash 8 was sold to Longview aviation, the parent company of Viking which owns all the other Dehavilland type certificates. This isn’t a foreign company. It’s a Canadian company based out of B.C. with members of the Thompson family being key shareholders. That’s as Canadian as it gets. Based on what I’ve seen, Longview was able to resurrect aircraft production for planes that weren’t produced since 25 years ago so if there’s any hope for the future of the Dash 8 it’s probably with them. In fact I may be coming to work for them soon. The pay is phenomenal and I’m covered by Unifor. Since Bonbardier sold off the Downsview site, there’s an active lease there to keep producing Dash 8s until 2023 at which point production will likely move to Hamilton or Kitchener. My gut tells me Hamilton. It’ll be great for the local economy and that sweet sweet aerospace money will go a lot further than the GTA. Kraftwerk fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jul 11, 2019 15:08
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Kraftwerk posted:The Dash 8 was sold to Longview aviation, the parent company of Viking which owns all the other Dehavilland type certificates. This isn’t a foreign company. It’s a Canadian company based out of B.C. with members of the Thompson family being key shareholders. That’s as Canadian as it gets. Based on what I’ve seen, Longview was able to resurrect aircraft production for planes that weren’t produced since 25 years ago so if there’s any hope for the future of the Dash 8 it’s probably with them. In fact I may be coming to work for them soon. The pay is phenomenal and I’m covered by Unifor. Sweet, try to get them to update the Dash 8s in castlegar with proper electronics so they can land if there's a wisp of cloud in the sky.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Sweet, try to get them to update the Dash 8s in castlegar with proper electronics so they can land if there's a wisp of cloud in the sky. I used to work on the Dash 8 when it was Bombardier. The problem with in-service updates was a chicken and egg scenario. Bombardier refuses to fund new engineering and development to keep the aircraft up to date so typically what happens is we wait for an existing fleet operator to develop a need for an update and then we get them to pay for it. They absorb the development costs and we resell for cheaper to all the other operators. So everyone is just waiting to see who blinks first before needed in service updates are provided. That’s how cash strapped Bombardier is. The only time Bombardier self finances upgrades is when they’re forced to by regulators. For instance the FAA mandated all airplanes get ADS-B OUT by like 2020 or something so we had no choice but to get that done.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:14
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Kraftwerk posted:The Dash 8 was sold to Longview aviation, the parent company of Viking which owns all the other Dehavilland type certificates. This isn’t a foreign company. It’s a Canadian company based out of B.C. with members of the Thompson family being key shareholders. That’s as Canadian as it gets. Based on what I’ve seen, Longview was able to resurrect aircraft production for planes that weren’t produced since 25 years ago so if there’s any hope for the future of the Dash 8 it’s probably with them. In fact I may be coming to work for them soon. The pay is phenomenal and I’m covered by Unifor. 
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Jul 11, 2019 15:15
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Kraftwerk posted:I used to work on the Dash 8 when it was Bombardier. The problem with in-service updates was a chicken and egg scenario. That's just good business. You don't do something on your own dime when someone else will pay you to do it.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:16
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infernal machines posted:That's just good business. You don't do something on your own dime when someone else will pay you to do it. Yes but back in 2013 when the CSeries was shaping up to be a serious threat to existing airbus customers their parent company EADS realized they can shut the Q400 out of the market simply by making a $3,000,000 investment into ATR, the Dash 8s immediate competitor. Considering EADS had enough cash on hand to turn itself into a large European bank, such an investment was a no brainer. The ATR outsold the Dash8 completely and captured all new orders for 5 years straight. Every customer was taking us for a ride. They’d make increasingly complex customizations, demand price breaks and then buy ATRs for pennies to the dime while leaving us with production slots that we couldn’t find customers for. Bombardier didn’t even have the balls to come after customers for breach of contract. They were so desperate they practically let 4-5 planes sit on the ramp awaiting delivery because Nigerian airlines weren’t paying for them. It was hosed and a lot of that was just the strategy EADS/Airbus was using to starve the Q program and therefore Bombardier of much needed cash. With factors like this in play it’s hard to go in front of your shareholders and justify much needed CapEx to improve the program and make it competitive. Now that Longview has the Q400 it becomes a regional aircraft that only threatens the ATR which EADS doesn’t care for. You get a nice little niche, you don’t piss of Boeing or Airbus and you get to live off that small market for decades. It’s worked for all the other Dehavilland aircraft and it’ll work for this. The company isn’t top heavy like Bombardier either so I expect to see some investments in incremental upgrades to keep the plane relevant.
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infernal machines posted:That's just good business. You don't do something on your own dime when someone else will pay you to do it. Canadian_innovation.txt Why try growing your business when the government is just going to bail your rear end out?
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Also from what I've been told, Longview is just going to move the majority of its engineering to Calgary.
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I misinterpreted the news of the Dash 8 stuff, probably just assumed it was a foreign company because of what happened with Airbus buying the C-series and now the Challenger stuff being sold to Japan. Glad to hear not everything is leaving Canada
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Sweet, try to get them to update the Dash 8s in castlegar with proper electronics so they can land if there's a wisp of cloud in the sky. I don’t the problem is with equipment, Castlegar just has a really hosed approach with high minima. As in, over ten times higher than a standard airport, and still many times higher than other mountain airports like Kelowna or Cranbrook.
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Who remembers PPC Candidate Rocky Dong?
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why did they gently caress up the no name beer label with all that silver it's obnoxiously easy. yellow label, black text saying BEER and regulatory information. done.
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"At least we're not like America," increasingly nervous man says. Immigration officers conducting random ID checks on Toronto streets.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trudeau-defends-anti-pipeline-candidate-tmx-1.5209901quote:Trudeau defends anti-pipeline Liberal candidate, reaffirms commitment to Trans Mountain
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yippee cahier posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trudeau-defends-anti-pipeline-candidate-tmx-1.5209901 quote:The federal Conservatives have said Guilbeault's candidacy reveals Trudeau's "true colours" with respect to the country's natural resources sector. Ahhh, yes, the "true colors" of spending nearly fifteen loving billion dollars to ram a pipeline through a province and risk outright civil war in the west. 
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yippee cahier posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trudeau-defends-anti-pipeline-candidate-tmx-1.5209901 Ugh, I knew who this was about before I even loaded the article. Steven Guilbeault hasn't been a perfect environmental activist by any standard (who is, really), but having been following Quebec environmental politics, I was expecting better of him than to join the loving LPC. When I saw the mental gymnastics he's been putting out to justify the move, I realised he's pretty much been a LPC lifer all along. I'm sad that Helene Laverdiere isn't going for reelection in my riding and I really hope she didn't bail because the new leader of the NDP wears a turban. I just hope that other voters in this riding don't end up electing a lovely LPC puppet, it'd be a loving shame to do that after ejecting Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.  One of the most frustrating things about this whole cycle is that I won't be able to canvas or volunteer this time around, since I'm expatriate and pretty much just a remote name on the lists.
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UnknownMercenary posted:"At least we're not like America," increasingly nervous man says. er, what the everloving gently caress? no part of that is even theoretically legal
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infernal machines posted:er, what the everloving gently caress? no part of that is even theoretically legal Sounds like they were targeting a specific individual (or business?) they have been investigating for weeks, waited for him to go into a shop and then come out and ask for his ID. But they must have been following the wrong guy? Sounds like whoever was working that day was extra incompetent. They have had convenience stores selling fake Passports and immigration papers for years in Chinatown, wouldn't be surprised if that was going on again. Either investigating that or a specific male they knew was without status seems a lot more likely then the CBSA suddenly switching to grossly offensive tactics that would have insanely low success rates anyways like random street checks. CBSA does not do random street checks in downtown toronto trying to get some deportations. According to their only policies. And the law. vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jul 13, 2019 |
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Jan posted:I'm sad that Helene Laverdiere isn't going for reelection in my riding and I really hope she didn't bail because the new leader of the NDP wears a turban. Nima Machouf is someone who can really activate the Plateau QS/Projet machine, it's pretty hard to imagine someone who could have a better chance of holding LSM than her.
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https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/1149720446637465600?s=19 Oh EMay ..... This is a real bad idea
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lol https://twitter.com/zeeke55/status/1149858953192493061 https://twitter.com/ElizabethMay/status/1149890657173090309
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I am the normal person, definitely upset by that tweet.
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Genuinely impressed at how hard the green party is trying not to get elected. Everything they say can be summed up with  and 
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https://twitter.com/Jeff_Wheeldon/status/1149918939188776960?s=19 Oh man It gets dumber
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Lol at the hypothetical people who would have voted Green but won't because they employ Kinsella. Those sound like real people whose votes were totally up in the air.
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I'm going to run for politics and my debate style will be spending my time throwing off my shirt and trying to jump kick the other candidates
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Danaru posted:I'm going to run for politics and my debate style will be spending my time throwing off my shirt and trying to jump kick the other candidates I love affordable homes! I love affordable homes!
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://twitter.com/Jeff_Wheeldon/status/1149918939188776960?s=19 Warren Kinsella: Dipshit whisperer and double secret counter intel operative. It's promising to see that every argument against the Greens ever forming a government is made by the Greens themselves
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