This iteration of North American trade talks are going like the equivalent of some ticket sales page where there’s a constant upsell for nothing in return.

• Protect your land now! Would you like to buy 51st state insurance?
• Limited time offer! Jump to the front of the line with “Gold Tier Queue” for one low bribe!
• Don’t miss your chance to bundle an exclusive dinner with Jared Kushner!
• Would you like a side of Trump Crypto with your order?

Mark Carney just has to click “Skip”, “Skip”, “Skip”, “Skip” ad infinitum…

“I’m not trying to violate your free speech” is not a magic phrase to to turn infringements on free speech into non-infringements.

We reached out to Mark Rutte for comment, but he was unable to extract his head from Trump’s ass in time for publication.

https://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/operations/transmission/#bipole

The 'toba Bipole would like a word with you.

High-voltage DC seems ideal to me to cover the vast gap from Winnipeg to southern Ontario, Alberta to BC (this would still be challenging getting through the Rockies), and Quebec to the Maritimes. The advantages are a much lower power loss and cost over distance. The disadvantages of expensive transformer equipment is mitigated, because it’s not intended for local distribution. The maintenance intensive and specialized parts at converter stations will be concentrated near select population centres, and it’s through adjustment at these points that the intertie can be negotiated. The need for bespoke parts per province can be reduced since this would be a national energy project on a single, uniform standard. Existing HVDC lines can stay as they are.

This would be the perfect thing to counter the spin from oil & gas companies trying to hijack the narrative.

“Yeah, we need national energy corridors. Oh, you thought we were talking about an oil pipeline? No, a high voltage DC transmission line is where it’s at.”

If you had the ability to listen to what two women, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and countless others were incessantly saying was going to happen if you elected him, you would have known what would happen if America elected him.

The war might be America and Israel’s problem, but oil pollution in our water is all our problem.

Keep the strait closed until all sides clean up this mess.

It would be a good idea to mention to tackle our “existence of billionaires” problem as well.

Damn, only $2000? If you’re a politician in Ontario, you gotta get on Doug Ford’s level!

That’s chump change, Carney, try a stag-and-doe event or a Cortelucci highway, uh, ‘fundraiser’.

A better idea would be to exile Ted Cruz and anyone that worked under him (including Chip Roy).

He must have had one too many and thought he’s on the defendant’s side of this case. Yeah, then it’s a layup.

SpiderKash and Kegseth, partners in boozing.

We already know it started generating posts naming itself MechaHitler, and some experts say just basically averaging Xitter replies gets you rampant bigotry of all kinds. And probably some manual tweaks, because a couple months before MechaHitler, it started speaking sense against the right-wing ecosystem’s favourite lies and misrepresentations.

I think we’ve all been thinking something along these lines, and I’ve said it more succinctly in a past comment of mine.

Its lower side tends to -3, asymptote at x=-2, a discontinuity between 0 and ~0.66, and an upper side tends to 3. The x+/-infinity ends are the least interesting parts of this eqaution’s graph…

One of the things I liked most from the Trudeau government that helped us get through covid: a Canadian leader that addressed problems straight on, offered a steady hand and reassurances coupled with both short and long term solutions that tackle them. This address by Carney is really on point and what we need right now.

I made a non-credible diplomacy meme for this weekend’s version of the TACO meal prep.

Methinks the Trump team lied to the negotiators once again, and were trying to play it off again as “Iran misunderstanding the terms of the deal”.

I like the concept but where’d you get a salvage value of $300? On first order math, I think a crackhead could get more from ripping out the copper from one Toronto household’s worth of wiring and electrical distribution and bringing it to a scrapyard.

Also I think you partially misunderstand how Toronto Hydro works. The City of Toronto is not just any ol’ shareholder of Toronto Hydro, it’s more or less a sole proprietorship, the 100% of shares are owned by the City. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-246358.pdf

Essentially the City has a financial stake but does not directly manage operations. But they can express their desires in ways they set out in their agreements and via Council actions.