Just to define the term: Conservative = right of center on the political spectrum.
That "rando" meant that Democrats, which are considered "left" in the US, are actually pretty far towards the right by most other countries' standards. This is due to the Overton window shifting pretty far towards the right in the US in recent years.
Republicans are just even further towards the right.
He didn't say Dems are Republicans, he said they're conservatives. Not the same thing. However, Republicans are conservatives too.
That was my first thought, actually. I've since come to realize that a completely random selection may not properly reflect the will of the population, and some electoral input is desireable.
What you're referring to is the influence of money in politics, and my answer to that would be pretty simple: 100% forbid all advertising in elections. Instead, candidates are provided screen time on public television & radio (CBC / Radio-Canada), a website where they can present their platform, and some form of print media that gets distributed in all homes. They can only advertise through these channels, and nowhere else. If a journalist wants to interview a candidate, they also have to give equal coverage to their opponents.
Basically, money would be useless as a tool for winning elections. Electoral spending is already closely scrutinized here in Canada, this would only bring that even further.
When somebody doesn't want to give me a price, I've started asking them for an order of magnitude. Sometimes they still don't want to say a number, but when I ask "is it 2$, 20$, 200$, 2k$, 20k$?" they will usually give me a ballpark, along with the factors that'll make the price vary.
Here's an idea: Every election, you randomly choose ~5-10 people for each seat, and these are your candidates. If you're not selected, you can't run. To make sure people actually want to be elected, let's also make the salary really enticing for the representatives. Maybe, just maybe, let's also make the incumbent one of the candidates, so you can get re-elected if you do a good job and people like you (but I'm really not sure about this part).
I think it'd help make the composition of Parliament mirror more closely that of the general population.
Wow this sounds really reasonable, wtf kinda drugs is Peterson on if he thinks it restricts free speech...
TLDR: bill C-16 adds gender identity and expression to the list of discrimination protections, a list which already includes gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. So yeah right now you can't fire someone for being black, under C-16 this will also apply to trans people. Ontario already has this in their provincial laws, so Peterson is already living under such a "regime".
I use famous programmers. First Linux server was Torvalds, first mac was Woz, currently in service I have Kernighan (one of the inventors of C), KJohnson (Katherine Johnson was a programmer for NASA) and Shamir (The S in RSA).
CRA really likes going after the wrong person if somebody isn't paying their taxes; I've had to pay back around 700$ for childcare credits because the provider didn't give me their social security number (I didn't know I should've asked for it) and disappeared without paying their taxes. It's not as much as the guy in this article, but it was money I didn't have at the time, so it really hurt.
A great point in favour of maps is that each iteration is independent, so could theoretically be executed in parallel. This heavily depends on the language implementation, though.
Sometimes I wish Apple hadn’t turned all of their notebook lines into MacBook Air variants. The unibody MBP line was amazing.
Typing this from a M2 Max Macbook Pro with 32GB, and honestly, this thing puts the "Pro" back in the MBP. It's insanely powerful, I rarely have to wait for it to compile code, transcode video, or run AI stuff. It also does all of that while sipping battery, it's not even breaking a sweat. Yes, it's pretty thin, but it's by no means underpowered. Apple really is onto something with their M* lineup.
But yeah, selling "Pro" laptops with 8GB in 2024 is very stupid.
Treason is a crime you can only commit against your own country. The US can't accuse a non-US citizen of treason...
Modern air combat isn't about dogfights anymore. A plane like the F-35 is an asset in the air because of its sensor suite way more than because of its ability to deploy ordnance. It'll let us patrol our massive airspace much more effectively than the 5-6 operational CF-18s we currently have.
Yes, drones will be important, but for long-range combat they'll get used in conjunction with manned aircraft in the air. The F-35 is a formidable platform for that. Tomorrow's air combat will probably consist of squadrons of autonomous drones under the command of a manned aircraft flying with them in formation.