I meant that they no longer need Google’s funding, however if Chrome becomes Mozilla, Google would have a real need to pay Mozilla to stay the default engine in Chrome.

They could sell it for $1 if they wanted to.

Also I think Mozilla is self sustainable from investment income from its endowment. Could be wrong.

I somehow don’t believe this is going to happen. But if it does, sell it to Mozilla?

Seems like it.

Elon Musk’s automaker has been backsliding in China for the past five consecutive months on a year-on-year basis, according to data from the country’s Passenger Car Association. Tesla’s shipments plunged 49% in February from a year earlier to just 30,688 vehicles, the lowest monthly figure since way back in July 2022, when it shipped just 28,217 EVs — and that was in the middle of Covid.

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Oof, this fight was inevitable wasn’t it. I’m not one to take much of what Moe says seriously, but he makes a somewhat legitimate point. We don’t make any significant EVs in Ontario today. If we let BYD in, they won’t compete with Ontario-made EVs. The Ford Mach-e is Mexican. I think the Chevy EVs are made in the US. I think Hyundai/Kia are also imports.

On the other hand they’re likely to compete with gas powered vehicles that we very much make here. Then there’s the battery plants we are trying to build which is a part of future EV manufacturing strategy. Having BYD imports puts all that at risk.

Unless the US kills our auto sector by not carving it out of the incoming tariffs, we probably won’t let Chinese EVs in.

With that said, there’s perhaps an opening for reducing the tariffs so that Chinese EVs are cheaper than Tesla, but don’t threaten much of the gas vehicle production.

I watched a teardown of a BYD at Munro Live and they were actually surprised at the quality and amount of material they used at various places. I recall them saying a few times something to the tune of “We’d never do this, it’s too expensive.”

BTW, my job would be at risk if we let them in so when I say positive things about Chinese EVs, I’m dissociating from the potential personal cost.

Yeah, I’m in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Canada. There’s 40+ nodes on the map that I’ve discovered by sitting on my balcony and 70+ nodes altogether:

I expected way fewer than that!

I hope that this would put a few conservative judges into self-preservation and create solidarity with their colleagues, and get them to vote with the liberals on the important issues.

Well that was then.

Yup. There are people occasionally writing in LongFast.

I know, I kid, but yes, I just got it because it’s cheap enough to try. In reality the only use case I envision right now is have a couple of units in the drawer for emergency scenarios.

It can be amended of course, but you mentioned bending the laws to accomodate religion. I’m just setting that part straight. The laws (in Canada) aren’t bent to allow for religious freedom, they guarantee it.

It’s worth considering the material conditions upon which the Charter was created. Religion was prevalent and religious people wanted to be free from being persecuted for their religion. Today irreligious people in Canada are about a third. If we amended the Charter to curb public religious display, it would go against the majority of Canadians. That’s undemocratic, and unrepresentative of the reality of the country. If some gov did that, it would likely experience severe backlash and the changes would be reversed to more closely match the material conditions.

I’m also an anti-theist and would love religion to disappear, but I think that cannot occur through repression via law or other means. Rather people of religious cultures have to go through the material evolution secular societies have. The Eastern bloc did a lot of work to repress religion without addressing the material conditions giving its rise. Now irreligious people are still a minority in those countries.

The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms guarantees freedom of religion. That means freedom to worship in private or public. Unless you’re planning on bending the constitution, you can’t remove public display of religion in Canada.

Well done. 👏😂

Stop attacking me. 😂

But yeah, no use case other than - checking if it works. I’ll probably setup a standalone node on my balcony and leave it be to strengthen the network.

She goes out to talk about topics she’s not well versed in without doing enough research and says outright wrong stuff. In general, scientists who specialize in a field are often no better than a layman in the fields they have no background in. She’s not the only one who does this. Some scientists merely share uninformed opinions. Others do it for money. They build a persona that is imbued with trust by their existing expertise then they use this trust to keep pumping out other material for profit. That’s Sabine. Also Jordan Peterson. No they’re not the same but the scheme is. Laymen don’t know any better and absorb the material, correct or incorrect, since they don’t have the background to recognize when it’s bullshit.

If you aren’t considering what the downside of this type of law is, then I don’t think you’re engaging beyond stating your beliefs. Clearly there are problems with it and people have expressed them. And as I said it is likely to be found unconstitutional.

The law is specifically about arbitrating the display of religious symbols in government institutions in order to enforce visible separation of church and state. It’s not saying that Muslims have to adopt a different culture. Also, it could very well be unconstitutional. That remains to be seen but there’s a high likelihood.

This is not how Canada operates. Canada isn’t a melting pot.