IIRC this question was seriously asked by Carney a little while back, and we can in all but name. I don’t think there will ever be a Canadian minister in the European Council but we could form trade networks that are basically the same as European nations with the caveat that there is the Atlantic ocean separating us.
Fuck you, Siqi Chen.
Maybe it’s not really any specific thing, but rather just her realizing she’s not interested. It’s not something you should be so hard on yourself for, it happens no matter what you do or who you are. Of course there’s always room for personal growth but always remember you can do everything right and still lose. Like, I don’t really see this as taking an L, more like taking a That’s the way she goes boi.
AFAICT, the BYD factory in Zhengzhou is mostly automated. I mean, the Chinese government is awful, and I can’t afford to buy a vehicle anyway, but simply having another option other than expensive luxury electric car or support the american fascist oligarch is a good thing for Canadians. It’s still a choice between a turd sandwich and a piece of shit tho, at least BYD should be cheaper and has less risk than supporting a guy that’s actively undermining American democracy.
I know there are cheap electric cars from renault and dacia (also renault), and idk why they’re not sold in Canada. Maybe they don’t have the capacity to serve the Canadian market. I’m sure they’d blow BYD out of the water if they did, considering how car centered our infrastructure is and what I perceive as a thirst for cheap electric cars *and general support for increasing relations with Europe.
Anyway, their cars are made in Morocco, so I’m not sure if the workers there are treated any better than ones in China, or the states for that matter.
I, for one, can’t wait to have access actually affordable electric cars. BTW, it’s pronounced Biyadi in China. A might fancier then three letter acronym I think.
Really cool to see this is real instead of just another “could be” article. It would be interesting to see what Ukranian forces do with this.
Yeah, steam really sucks ass if you have a bad connection. Not only that, but because Valve is a relatively small company some bugs go unfixed for years, like there’s this one bug where some people, with certain linux systems, just can’t select items on a drop down menu. It’s really problematic because then you can’t uninstall games and a whole bunch of other things… this bug has it’s own thread somewhere on github that’s been active for almost three years, which is god awful.
Oof. Imagine Article 4’ing yourself.
I’ve been playing on linux for almost five years now with steam through proton. It’s a compatibility thingy majigger that makes it so I can basically play any game I want through steam as long as it doesn’t have anti-cheat, which to me is a plus because I think that shit is downright disgusting.
PC is the most versatile, and IMO, the most future proof. Sure you can get a console that will be good for maybe five or six years, but my current system is almost 13 years old now (an old dell work station with a hole cut in the door so 1070Ti can fit inside) and it still works fine enough with most games. I couldn’t play Baldur’s Gate III or some of the newer games though. It’s basically a potato in that regard; however, it’s more than good enough for my favourite games like Deep Rock Galactic, Deadlock, Satisfactory, Slime Rancher 1 & 2, Factorio and whole bunch more.
An issue right now with PC is that the “AI” fad is increasing the cost of components like RAM and hard drives. So if you want to to get a PC I’d suggest waiting a couple of years or until the AI bubble pops, which should be a good show to watch at least. Valve is also releasing their own PC (the Steam Machine) soon, maybe. I think you’d be interested in that if the AI price hikes didn’t fuck their plans up too much.
Many of the larger studios that you’ve probably heard of were bought out by venture capitalists that then proceed to fuck shit up because, idk, efficiency I guess. This leads to the incomplete releases you often hear about. Anyway, there are a lot of smaller studios that are amazing; like Ghost Ship Games (Deep Rock Galactic) and Coffee Stain Studios (Satisfactory, Goat Simulator). Not to mention the probably thousands of solo devs that make games just because they want too (From Glory to Goo, Townscaper, Tiny Glade, Stardew Valley …).
It’s not just the flashy games you read about, there’s so many other games you can play that are often better in almost every aspect then the games from the larger studios, other than graphics for the most part. I really don’t like consoles because they are limited in what they can play, and often only last five to six years before games stop releasing on them and you have to buy an entire new system. Just my take tho. Again, look into Valves Steam Machine, it should be the best of both worlds. AFAICT prices look to be ~$950 - $1000.
If you want to pirate games check out Linux Crack Tips. I always forget how to link to communities… :s
i can’t find this one on my bingo card
anyone else have it
So, from shit tier oligarch to not-so-much-but-still shit tier oligarch.
they won’t read a big long letter with citations
That’s not unfortunate, that’s downright lazy and really shitty of them. That says to me that they see being on city council as a job, not as a public service.
Anyway, the main reasons would be water usage and contamination. Any water used in the data centres will likely be contaminated with PTFEs because that’s really the only kind of hose they can use to move water around all the electronics, AFAIK. Also the massive amounts of electricity that would be used *driving up the cost for everyone, not sure where you get your electricity though.
I suppose there could be more reasons, but those would be specific to your area.
IIRC the NS shooter used unregistered firearms, prolly why the bastards didn’t mention it.
I felt physical pain upon reading this…
Do they not have staff anymore?
It can order it for you too. Shipped right to your door!
Yes, but short nhem. Puts on their souls.
If you don’t like that, then you probably don’t own a smart phone or a computer then, because the minerals required to make these devices operate is almost entirely from the same mine in the DRC where workers are buried alive by cave-ins and left to die. The magnets used to make electronics work mostly comes from a Chinese mine that has destroyed an entire village and caused the deaths of thousands of people from cancer. Probably don’t eat chocolate also because it’s almost impossible to buy chocolate that doesn’t have child slaves somewhere in the supply chain. Also there are children at the mines in the DRC, they die in cave-ins too.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You can pick any one item, trace it back to the raw materials required to produce it, and you will likely find something that is ethically wrong with how it was produced. It’s all horrible, the whole system is fucked and I don’t know what to do about it but I don’t think singling out any one company for their morally bankrupt policies is the way to go about it. You can say don’t buy this or that, but then you’d eventually have to say don’t buy anything, which isn’t the way to go about changing things.
In any case, there is a definite need for affordable electric vehicles because people have been raised on the belief that owning a vehicle is somehow the only way to survive. It’s really difficult to change peoples minds on that, and it shows in how we’ve designed our cities and not invested any money at all into building a national rail network that would reduce the need for a personal vehicle. But here we are, with the climate slowly failing and most people just going on with their lives as if it wasn’t. We need something to satiate their need/want for a personal vehicle that doesn’t rely on fuel and BYD seems to be the only option for Canadians in terms of affordability. I do wish dacia and renault would open up shop in Canada but they haven’t. So now we only have the larger auto makers and fucking tesla which is unaffordable or you give slightly less money to a fascist oligarch in the states. With BYD we now have a third option: give a relatively small amount of money to a Chinese automaker with a long list of labour violations that they’re not going to do anything about. Most people will go with BYD because it’s the only one they can afford and it’s not a tesla.
Tl;DR - We need a cheap EV to help reduce the damage being caused by climate change. ‘Traditional’ manufacturers are not providing this option, so now we have BYD. They have no respect for workers rights (like every international company) but the cheaper EVs they can provide will help reduce fossil fuel usage.