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Cake day: November 3rd, 2023

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  • I have no idea about how people in the UK should react and I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding of it is that if no one involved in running your site is British, it’s not hosted in the UK, and you don’t have any kind of business relationships with people in the UK, you absolutely should not worry about it or take any action at all beyond making sure you don’t sign any deals or offer any products for sale in that country.

    They cannot legally or practically do anything to you beyond perhaps blocking access to your site somehow I suppose, and in the extremely unlikely event that they tried something crazy you’d be an international cause celebre with plenty of legal support available. Doing their dirty work for them by trying to block British IP addresses seems inadvisable.




  • it risks becoming a distraction

    Of course it’s a distraction. A deliberate one, designed to attract government subsidies while pretending to do some good. Which I suppose makes it an actual scam. The only thing motivating it is a refusal to accept the reality that we need to stop burning fossil fuels, like right now. Good thing the Government of Canada is there to warn us about the dangers of greenwashing, otherwise people might fall for it.










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    Singh can’t win. Trudeau can’t win. They’ve both got no chance. Federal politics in Canada has collapsed. People no longer understand or care about the issues. Politicians no longer understand or care about the people. The Conservatives will have their way with the country for a while.




  • It’s a topic that brings out my cantankerous old man persona. In the halcyon days of the late 20th century when everyone paid for restaurant bills in cash, tipping was a tolerable tradition. Throw in another $2 if you’ve got it, why not. You’d never expect the waiter to stand there and count out all the nickels and dimes for exact change, so you’ve got to raise the amount paid to the nearest round number anyway. Then we started paying with credit cards. If people were rational that would’ve been the end of tipping, but then if people were rational we’d still be paying in cash. After so many years of constantly seeing it done and occasionally even partaking in it, adding a tip to a payment made electronically still feels like a crime against nature.


  • I can’t agree that cutting back on exports should’ve been the first priority. It would’ve done less good at a higher cost than eliminating domestic fossil fuel consumption, which is how Canada could’ve had a real impact on on global scale by showing everyone how it’s done. I write in the past tense because with the Liberal government having failed to get it done, the political chance to accomplish anything useful in time to prevent the disaster seems to be rapidly approaching zero.