If you want to put an idea out there, permissive licenses are the most likely to promote it. Any individual or organization can use it without restrictions (or restrictions that aren't unpalatable to most). So if what you're trying to promote is an idea, a technique, or a standard, this type of license allows it to have the greatest reach.
GreyEyedGhost
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I'm in Manitoba and am kind of in the same situation. Even though our electricity is really cheap, it's still more economically efficient to use natural gas. Coupled with just buying a new furnace and air conditioner, I don't see myself getting one anytime soon. I'd still be happier if we subsidized electric heating/heat pumps (or stopped subsidizing fossil fuels so much) but recognize I'm in a place where I can afford that and many others simply can't.
There are a variety of aftermarket thermostats available at Canadian Tire, many of which are quite good. The Home Automation enthusiasts seem to be big fans of ecobee, IIRC, and I have seen ecobee thermostats at CT.
I don't have a Tesla and am just starting to dip my toes into home automation. That said, there's an article on Teslemetry that discusses the cost of these actions and is trying to reduce them to only when necessary. Here's a link. I'm not sure if the HA integration is using the queue they talk about or if it's something that needs to be set by you, but hopefully this gives you a useful starting point. If nothing else, there's a Discord link that may prove useful.
One of the biggest reasons this has been as effective as it has been is due to non-currency capital that was spent previously: soft power. The US has spent the last 70 years building that capital through aid and good will with partners around the world, and trading some of it back for advantageous deals in other sectors. Now, when their global impact is waning, particularly relative to China, he is spending that good will and partnerships built up over decades to extract concessions that would otherwise be considered untenable. And it will work, for a while. But it also means that countries will look to other trading partners rather than sticking with the no-longer-stable partnership with the US, such as the UK's auto industry in the video. The big problem is that soft power, good will to America, is being spent at a tremendous rate while also reducing the amount they build. When the piggy bank is empty, and all their partners have moved on, the dream of independence, which is in reality isolationism, will show its true consequences, a primarily internal economy and no cushioning or expanding effects of global trade. This will probably take longer than Trump being in power for the full effects to be seen, which is doubtless seen as a positive by Republicans. The real question is if it will be enough to make it impossible to support their military at current levels, and if they will then try to use that military to prop up their economy, as has been done elsewhere.
Hour for hour is a bad metric. Bicycling is going to win hands down, but that's not going to be my first answer when I need to travel 500 km. Kilogram-kilometer is far more reasonable, especially if coupled with asking the question of whether that kilogram needs to be moved that kilometer.
Look, I don't know what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms, and I don't think it's my place to ask.
Superb content, as always, and now I have someone else interesting to listen to because of it.
Not terribly, but it would be a little more surprising if they talked from a Canadian perspective yet seemed more interested in Chinese interests than they were in Canadian interests. That also ignores the large Asian population in Canada who may still have ties with or fondness for China.
Wondering if a certain user with a prolific pro-China comment history will suddenly stop posting now that these blocks are in place...
We waited for 30 years to know who Deep Throat was. Does that mean Woodward and Bernstein were full of shit?
A lot of good replies here, but one thing that Taler doesn't do and credit cards do is...credit. This can be solved by having a line of credit at your bank and using Taler over that, which may actually be cheaper, as well.
As a non-European, I hope this spreads.