Canconda
@Canconda@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 days ago:
Few things with the car analogy. You don’t purchase a care for a term. Even tho they come with a warranty. Cars have manufacturing standards, as do the regions they are legal to operate in; the existence of these standards is what substantiates lemon and bait and switch laws.
You’re forgetting impeachment. If someone commits crimes they can be impeached - and has been done despite recent top of mind events.
This is the same argument that has kept senators in congress for decades with no term limits.
You’re conflating changing people mid term with changing people at their regular term intervals. As an American you rarely experience elections outside their scheduled interval. As a Canadian I can assure you that elections do interrupt things especially when you have to go to the polls repeatedly. We had federal elections 2 years apart in 2019/2021 and it was largely a pointless expense that served only to reset the governments 5 year window to call the next election.
Also the new guy being worse is a bit of a “whataboutism”
No its not. Whataboutism is pointing the finger at someone else to deflect. Logically if we elected someone who is doing such a bad job that we need to recall them, it is possible we could do that again.
A higher barrier to recall would help the constant switching
I think thats the case. I’m Canadian and recall elections are possible for anyone given the constituants follow a multi step process leading to a recall vote.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 days ago:
AKA the carrot not the stick
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 days ago:
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Because that’s what terms are for. You elect people for a term.
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Elections cost taxpayer money. Every single district potentially have an election at anytime would necessitate a significant contingency fund in any budget.
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Changing leadership interrupts things with no guarantees. What if the new guy is even worse?
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- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
Ew. It looks like ai porn. I feel so bad for the teenage boys who are jerking off to that shit not realizing they’re going to royally screw up their attraction to real women.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
This (googles estradiol valerate) …GAL knows whats up.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
I mean it’s literally as simple as claiming your trans. Trump was legit pissed at Hegsath cuz somehow Trump is smarter than him and knew people would do that.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
Malcolm Ferguson wrote the title for this article not @reminington.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 1 week ago:
Malcolm Ferguson wrote the title for this article not @reminington.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
It’s called personal satisfaction my dude.
- Comment on Western Imperialism 1 week ago:
MAGA is cool with Eastern Imperialism… but not SOUTH Eastern Imperialism. Only Imperialism with ties to Epstein.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
They used to have value for single player games like Final Fantasy series.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
The youngins today will never understand how fucking awsome halo 1 lan parties were
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
Halo was the only good thing about xbox anyways.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Only if 3rd parties who witnessed the context of such misunderstanding re-enforce the stupid. Otherwise that’s just your average contrived romance drama.
- Comment on The Hole 2 weeks ago:
What a whacky amazing movie
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
Google says they started development in 2022. I’m guessing Overwatch 2 going FTP in January made it seem like the genre was growing instead of trending sideways.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 weeks ago:
I’m from Western Canada and while our experience is very very far from the rest of NA’s…(none of our shit came from Mexico) one thing that’s definitely changed over the last few decades is the knowledge base of cannabis growers in general.
There are more cannabis specific products such as nutrient blends, pest, and environmental controls. Off the shelf products you can order online that used to be custom made or end you up on a list.
People understand pruning, topping, and branch lining. This becomes especially apparent when you compare amateur growers to intermediate and medical grade growers.
Than there’s the genetics being improved through breeding. .
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 weeks ago:
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Roko’s basilisk
I sort of do, but not because I think AI will become a sentient overlord. IMO AI will inevitably be refined as a tool for cyber warfare and oppression.
I feel like younger generations will be even more susceptible to malicious AI because their entire lives have a digital footprint. We think AI chatbots are manipulative now? Just wait until they can train their manipulation tactics using your baby photos and childhood memories.
And again this would all be at the direction of a human. Probably an NSA type organization.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
- didn’t respect mah athoriteh
- Comment on In the Green Zone 2 weeks ago:
TBF out of the 249.7 years the USA has existed they’ve been at war for all but 16 of them.
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
God’s not real
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 3 weeks ago:
Imagine his robot hating Detective Spooner, walking around the matrix being pissed off. Or in inception confused and pissed off.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 weeks ago:
I think ghosts are real in the sense that I believe people experience things they can’t explain, and so resort to blaming invisible sentiences, and I believe those experiences are real;
So my ex wife left me because she’s a ghost. Got it. /s
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Her father, Scott Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and notably purchased a 3% stake in Big Machine Records, the label that first signed Taylor, contributing to her initial success.
Like all billionaires she inherited everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s easier on vinyl
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 3 weeks ago:
This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out
Same thing with the AI bubble. Sure it will burst, companies will go bankrupt, millions of peoples retirement savings will disappear, and many will suffer /die from the economic aftershock…
BUT
The rich will have already realized their dividends / capital gains
The rich will have already purchased the land / property
The rich will already have the data centers / ram / AI
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The whole system is a kleptocracy and the AI bubble bursting will make late stage capitalism worse not better.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 3 weeks ago:
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I think a lot of EFT type investments are going to be divesting from AI-Bubble stocks over the next while.
