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Comment Re:The scary thing about American evangelicalism (Score 1) 267

Well, now imagine you've got some weird irrational miswiring in your brain that puts gay sex on the same level as beating puppies to death. Those are the people you just have to wait for them to age out of society before their homophobia finally goes away.

Been 53 odd years since my Prime Minister declared that the government had no business being involved in what goes on in peoples bedrooms as long as there is consent and in that time gays etc were never cared about in my Provinces politics by either the right or the left until now. Polling shows acceptance of these things dropping as well. 50 years of acceptance going away rather then growing with the older people aging out.
I fully expect attacks on the left handed next, gotta be a choice to be left handed you know as normals are right handed

Comment Re:Why post the charger as publicly available? (Score 1) 166

Here's the wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which has a map. Basically from northern S. America north is 120 or so (Mexico is 120 and 127 for example) with lots of minor variation, 110-127 and 220-240 depending on location with a few weird ones.
I didn't realize there was such variation

Comment Re:Let me think (Score 1) 153

So personal responsibility means being dependent on government keeping the roads working, dependent on oil companies selling you gas, dependent on auto manufacturers building and selling repairable cars and likely a bunch of other dependencies I haven't thought of in a couple of seconds like law enforcement to keep people obeying rules.

Comment Re:Not only that (Score 1) 153

Yes, we've had self driving commuter trains since '86 with close to zero problems. no controls that I'm aware of and no backup diesel besides buses.
Of course it is a lot easier to have an automatic train, especially one with no at grade crossings then a vehicle in unpredictable traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Just typical Partisan bullshit (Score 1) 224

There's Libertarian Socialist too, though I doubt there's many in America, more of a European thing. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. It is contrasted from other forms of socialism by its rejection of state ownership and from other forms of libertarianism by its rejection of private property. Broadly defined, it includes schools of both anarchism and Marxism, as well as other tendencies that oppose the state and capitalism.

Comment Re:Wrong on all counts (Score 1) 222

There's procedures for renaming international waters. Consider the Salish Sea, the most recent international navigable waterway renaming around here.
Wiki has a good summary,

In March 2008, Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the Georgia Strait the "Salish Sea", an idea that reportedly met with approval by British Columbia's Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the Executive Council of British Columbia for discussion. Making the name "Salish Sea" official required a formal application to the Geographical Names Board of Canada.[17] A parallel American movement promoting the name had a different definition, combining the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, as well as the Strait of Georgia and related waters under the name Salish Sea.

In August 2009, the British Columbia Geographical Names Office approved a resolution recommending that the Geographical Names Board of Canada adopt the name Salish Sea contingent on approval by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[18][19] The name was endorsed by the Washington State Board on Geographic Names in late October 2009.[20] It was approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names on November 12, 2009,[21] and by the British Columbia Geographical Names Office in February 2010. The French name Mer des Salish is also official in Canada.[3]

Four different offices had to agree, Provincial, State, and 2 Federal agencies all dealing with geographical names. Not some idiot with a crayon impulsively reacting to an insult.

Comment Re:Fuel Efficiency Above All Else! (Score 1) 72

While you're correct for high speed crashes. There's a big problem with low speed crashes potentially writing off your car/truck. Everything custom plastic that costs a fortune to replace. Cameras and other sensors that cost a fortune to replace and calibrate. A shopping cart can hit your vehicle and cause thousands of dollars of damage, whereas with an old car, would need some touch up paint or maybe a new (used) lens, which often were used for years making used ones commonly available.
There's also the increased danger to pedestrians caused by huge vehicles, some with pointy hoods to look cool.

Comment Re:Anti-capitalist shmucks (Score 1) 166

Those tariffs and the supply and quota thing is in response to a large player who heavily subsidizes their farmers to protect our farmers, who are generally small family operations.
There's a few things about Canada that Trump hates, from Margaret (Pierre Trudeau's wife, Justin's mother) not fucking him way back to us not supporting having Trump towers. At that we got rid of his towers before he was President, we never liked Trump.

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