Last I checked some parks in Montreal allowed for alcohol in some designated times.

There has to be some limits yo drinking in public, but there are multiple ways ut can be done responsibly

Still a bit vague, but I hope it’s more useful when negotiating.

If you say we want XX% raise it focuses the discussion too much on numbers and sometimes doesn’t address the true source of the problems

I also like this! At first I was a bit bummed out on why I couldn’t doom scroll like on reddit.

The fact that the ecosystem was fragmented in multiple little instances made me think that it’s possible I wouldn’t like it in the end.

But I find myself gravitating more towards my local instances subs then all. (Even though with wafwaf the discoverability factor is severely increased.) The reason is I like the fact that it is a small community.

Ahah good to show the hypocrisy here!

Do you think the same apply in reverse too? That if you support the right for this strike you should support the right for the truckers strike?

What are their demands (more or less exactly)?

It’s always easier to defend those workers when we know their demands are reasonable (which most of the time, they are.)

What’s happening is social media.

You have a bigot, what do you do about it?

Sure you can punch the bigot. Violence begets violence; might fix the problem or make it worse.

So what do you? Confront them. Then if they don’t change their ways, you shun them. Generally people don’t like being excluded, so slowly but surely the bigots would reform and some would die alone with their hatred.

Now? They have online platforms where they find each other through algorithms that encourages those behaviors because it makes them money.

You want to reduce the hatred on society? Police properly the big social medias.

Oh no synth is because computers are readily available and anybody can make music. Before you had to be more dedicated.

There still exists good musicians and productions, but they are not backed by big studios…

Which lead to your point. Big studios don’t like risks. They don’t want to be creative. Fine! No more big budget movies.

But a movie production is still expansive. Even low and good indie movies sometimes have a million dollar budget. That’s way more than the budget for a hobby for most people!

So how do we finance it? Governments, non profits? Sure… But still that is possible today and it is done, but it’s far from being a source of constant good movies.

And finally sure the diaspora of piracy is wide and large. Some are activists and do really important work such as scihub and libgen, but most people just pirate the latest marvel movie

Perso, c’est simple je taxerais au coût que ça coûte enlever une tonne de carbone. So a peu près 100x plus en ce moment ahah.

Évidemment faudrait faire ça progressif, mais ça encouragerait le développement des énergies alternatives ET des méthodes de capture de co2.

I understand the points and while I don’t like the rampant corporate greed, you wouldn’t have billion dollar movie projects (or series) if piracy was entirely legal and encouraged.

I think it’s mostly that the current copyright laws and patents are unfair.

Let’s take a big IP such as star wars, wouldn’t it be more logical if it were in the public domain? It’s almost de facto in the public domain. I can refer to it and almost anybody gets what I’m talking about. It’s already a staple of our hegemonic culture. Nobody should own it.

But you know, to get those movies, I wouldn’t mind if there was let’s say a 1-2 year copyright on the movie. You don’t want to wait a year? Pay. Simple as that.

Same for patents. Ad long as we are a capitalistic society, it’s desired that research makes profit, so put a patent for a few years and voila!

In the end you are going to stimulate more research. First by sharing knowledge and second by encouraging new research which can be patented. No sitting on a patent for years doing nothing.

Damn, it could work.

We forego all notions of hunting, rations, weight, in the end unless you aim for hyper realistic, common sense is good enough (hunting in a desert might be hard, transporting cargo is heavy.)

We modified a bit the rests mechanics: Short rest is short (like 5-10min) work as usual.

Full rest needs to be done in a safe camp or safe place, it means putting up a big fire and not having 2 persons on guard. Which means more dangers, (doing that near a bad guys place = fight for sure)

So we normally sleep without fires and it does replenish exhaustion, but no spell for the wizard (or all abilities that require full rest)

In the end it forces us to have the more balanced 4-6 encounter between long rest upon which d&d is built.

Works really well!

Tant qu’à être un dictateur éclairé :

Pas d’exemption sur le gain en capital de ta première propriété. C’est niaiseux que tu puisses faire des 100k$ sans être imposé. Par contre tu paierais juste dans le cas de vente/ transfert (sinon tu pourrais être forcé de vendre parce que ta maison a trop pris de valeur!)

Pour aider la crise du logement? Taxe sur les propriétés non-habitée a l’année longue qui augmente chaque année qu’elle est vide, dans le but de forcer les proprios qui ont une maison vide a vendre ou un appart a le louer. Ça rend airbnb moins attrayant (car le loyer est considéré vide, right?)

Pour les autos, taxe sur le poids! d’un véhicule ET sur le co2. Ça va affecter en négatif les VE (pour le poids) mais récompenser pour le co2. Les pickups et suv seront moins intéressant. On peut exclure le commercial si on veut pas faire trop mal a notre tite-économie.

(La taxe de 50% sur la 2ieme propriété c’est quoi?)

Je pense que les problèmes avec les taxes, c’est toujours le : “pis eux?”

Dans le sens que lorsqu’on regarde le pick up ostentatoire, ya aussi les gros bateaux ostentatoires.

Pour chaque famille qui prend l’avion annuellement, t’as un snowbird qui prend l’avion 4 fois dans l’année (yup.)

Donc c’est sûr que la pilule est plus difficile a faire passer.

Perso, une taxe aggressive sur le carburant réglerait beaucoup de problème. On taxe pas le carburant sur les avions ni les bateaux de croisières ni le sbateaux de marchandises. Ton pickup a 30l/100km devient pas mal moins intéressant du coup.

On peut pas dire que ça attaque tout le monde de la même façon ainsi, c’est plus ciblé de même.

How does liability work in your niche?

From what I understand if you make a mistake, it could cost your clients irreparable damage. How are you insured for this?

J’ignorais que le lobby des pétrolieres s’intéressaient a la presse? Les Desmarais doivent avoir pas mal de parts dans Shell & co.

Sérieusement je suis un peu tanné d’entendre ces points qui viennent directement des thinktank du pétrole :

Est ce que les VE polluent plus que les ICE? Non. Même si l’électricité vient du charbon ça polluent moins que les ICE sur sa durée de vie complète.

Est ce qu’on a assez de minéraux rares pour que tous le monde aient un VE? Non. On va ptetre trouvé des solutions de rechange pour les batteries par contre. Le problème est l’idée même de l’auto. A-t-on assez de ressources pour que tous le monde aient une auto? Non. Pourtant, étrange, on ne mentionne pas ce point… juste les VE le prob.

Est-ce que les VE sont trop lourdes? Oui. Mais moins qu’un foutu pickup. Faisons des ptites autos.

Que va t on faire des batteries quand ces autos ne seront plus bonnes? Ça se recycle (voir le point plus haut: c’est ded métaux rares) ta vieille batterie vaut chet.

Si jamais on stoppe d’encourager la VE, yarrive quoi? On mine pareil les fonds marins, on va construire des batteries pour autre chose. (Mais les pétrolieres vont vendre plus d’essence)

Comme un autre commentaire plus bas, ya personne de sensé qui pensent que c’est une solution magique. Mais c’est un pas dans la bonne direction. Même si on arrive a décroître, faire du transport en commun, on va avoir besoin d’énergie, d’un réseau électrique flexible avec des batteries.

Faque lâchez moi avec les VE!

The soundtrack was amazing… Ooof the chills.it gave me!

Sometimes, I think I understand their place too. We’re talking about really big budgets here, and while I agree that it’s better to take risks so we can get amazing movies, I must imagine the dread the exec that greenlighted taika waititi thor love and thunder to do w/e he wanted.

In the end they let the director loose and still got a mediocre movie. (Maybe it was $$ successful? Somebody know?)

I think the issue is mostly about what is art?

Some of the big budget movies feel devoid of creativity and are more a product than a work of art. While I do agree with you that there is some art in those big budget, I think the issue lies in how we communicate a movie.

What is a “good” movie? That’s entirely subjective! A better approach would be to explain what you liked (or disliked) about it. Then we can have more productive conversations about it ahah

Dune was incredible in theaters. I’m scared of watching it again at home (in prep for the 2nd part) since I’m probably going to be disappointed

Wow. C’est tellement anti-syndicaliste de passer une loi pour forcer le retour au travail