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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Energy credits — what a bunch of vacuous rhetoric.

The reality is that it’s energy being taken away from the overall grid, requiring a larger grid and thus prolonging our dependence on non renewable energy while we build up renewable sources.

If we weren’t so wasteful with our energy we wouldn’t need as much of it and it’d be easier to go fully renewable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (10 children)

This feels like the dot com bubble all over again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Right? Even from a purely selfish perspective, this is unwarranted and wanton whereas if you go after a company you can make money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Facebook marketplace for used books and used goods in general. Lots of good quality basically new stuff on there for cheap. I guess because so many Canadians just buy stuff without thinking and then it piles up and they need to make space.

Some neighbourhoods also have some boxes on posts (not sure what they’re called, they resemble mailboxes) where people can take and give away books for free as well.

You can also type ‘bookstores’ in google maps and seeing what local stores will come up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Can confirm. Was a waiter for about 6 months. Everyone there at the very least smoked cigs, weed, drank, and got completely shitfaced almost everyday after the shift. I imagine for cooks they could do it during their shift. Heard meth and crack are very popular too but I never seen it myself.

I think it’s the combo of the stress, the low salary, and high turnover. The ones that stay develop coping mechanisms. I imagine a few get lucky and get to work at fancy places too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

My bad, Reddit is still owned by an American company but Tencent has a large stake in it since 2019, at least enough to influence the platform into complying with pro-CCP censorship and etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah that’s possible too. It’s all speculation until the Netflix documentary comes out years later lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It’s possible it was a initially pump and dump that turned into a Saudi funded venture. He’s a useful idiot from the Arabs’ perspective.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s just so normal to think that way here that they’ve even corrupted me into framing climate change that way. It’s not a left wing topic; it’s a reality.

I just hope young people who are thinking of voting conservative here keep in mind that those assholes literally don’t believe in climate change and by extension science and facts. That alone should automatically disqualify conservatives from anyone’s consideration.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 5 months ago (35 children)

This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it. They want to silence online discussions of climate change and other left wing topics.

Combined with Reddit being owned by Tencent, Facebook being eternally evil, and TikTok being unconducive to any form of coherent dialogue, there are not many places for left wing discourse on the internet anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Great question.

For me it’s homebrewing. It’s so simple yet there is so much disinformation and people encouraging others into following old wives tales that aren’t necessarily proven to do anything.

Also, so many anglophones using imperial measurements it’s ridiculous. Metric makes way more sense especially for volumes.

I’ve had to go through and write my own procedure because it’s just ridiculous otherwise.

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