Single payer is preferable, just want to point out that healthcare coops are another option
So the boards should be reformed and have equal parts worker/union, patient, and shareholder representation.
China was considered a developing country with cheaper rates for a long time by the Universal Postal Union, an international agreement that sets the rates for postage. The agreement was renegotiated recently so maybe that will change.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/shipping-canada-china-1.6950967
What’s your logic for treating it separately? The tracks and roads both serve as infrastructure to move people and goods around, yet the public owns only roads.
We could keep more train conductors employed too if we had a fairer access system for tracks.
We don’t allow freight and logistics companies to own highways, so we do we still let them own track?
The public should own the tracks. Rail companies should be freed to focus on competing for cargo and passengers.
Pirate Software, a former Blizzard and Amazon Games dev, did a YouTube video on this recently with some fair criticisms of the initiative. It’s worth a watch.
This is why I use an email aliasing service now. Every new site gets a different email address but they all get forwarded to the same account. If one ever misbehaves, their associated email address alias gets deactivated. It’s great to keep track of who’s selling addresses too.
Sometimes unsubscribe just isn’t good enough.
It baffles me that Americans don’t properly fund their public broadcaster
Jeff Geerling had a video recently about the state of RISC V for desktop. https://youtu.be/YxtFctEsHy0?si=SUQBiepSeOne8-2u
Diaspora exists, but it’s small
It’s the carbon tax and carbon rebate in Canada. When paired with a carbon tariff, it’s a great market friendly solution to reduce emissions. Beware though, it really really triggers regressive petrosexual conservatives and the ones in Canada keep trying to trigger an election over it so they can get rid of it ASAP and pollute more.