Too Little, Too Late

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate You Might Be A Liberal 10 Comments

If the regulatory burden wasn’t so onerous, a northern pipeline would be self-financing, thus relieving Ontario taxpayers of the capital expenditure. But Blubber Dougie will promise pretty much anything to anyone these days, as do most of his political counterparts across the nation.

“Ontario is ready to supply the patient capital needed to get the project built,” Ford said. The premier later told reporters Ontario won’t pay for the pipeline alone, and that he expects outside investors to come to the table.

I guess Ontario’s deficits will just pay for themselves if only we build some pipelines?

Recall that back in 2018 Doug Ford called then-premier Kathleen Wynne’s spending “reckless” — which it was. But the deficit that year was $3.7 billion, not $13 billion. If the previous Liberal government’s $3.7-billion deficit was reckless, how the current government’s $13-billion deficit can be responsible is a mystery Premier Ford and his finance minister have left unexplained.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

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The Democratic Party’s America:    Colonization of America.    The midterms.    A sex cult.    Dem judge.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Absences from prison.    Jail for speech.    Only government approved discussions allowed.    Golden age of Choo Choo trains.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    After Piddington.    Paul Joseph Watson – Something weird.    The winds of war.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.        And at the Bee.

Trump Whispering

Gradually Then Suddenly New Governor 26 Comments

CBC;

Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to “ensure the survival” of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales.

Stelco said the decision will impact up to 500 employees.

In a memo obtained by CBC News on Monday, the company said it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with operations set to begin winding down on Oct. 9.

Juxtapose time: Trump unveils plans for a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa

Thou Shalt Not Defy The Coven

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Victoria Taft;

They’re going to war now, and the holdout juror is in the middle of it.

The attorney for Lindsay Clancy, whose triple murder trial ended recently in a mistrial, wants the holdout juror to be investigated for some kind of crime. He doesn’t know what crime, but that hardly matters. This is still a public relations gambit and not a search for truth. That ideal left the building a long time ago.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, confirms that he plans to allege some sort of wrongdoing on the part of the holdout juror in the trial on Tuesday, a man the defense attorney characterized as “not a holdout juror” but an obstructionist.

Besides being left in shock over Reddington’s stunning move to ask the judge to investigate the juror who has been in hiding since the death threats began following Clancy’s mistrial, he wants juror Michael Desronvil to turn over his phone for technical exploitation.

Dumb And Dumber

Gradually Then Suddenly Insufferable Twits nannystate 30 Comments

Sometimes I wonder why the main political parties don’t just merge and get it over with. When they appear to agree that deficits will somehow pay for themselves, what difference would it really make?

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his government would bring down the multibillion-dollar deficit year-over-year if elected by growing the economy and cutting what he called wasteful spending.

The province faces a projected deficit of $13.8 billion and Doerkson says Conservatives would trim that by growing the economy, if they win the snap election on Oct. 24.

Lightening The Burden

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Too bad they didn’t scrap the requirements entirely. But it’s a step in the right direction.

The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that the finalized standards would correspond to a combined industry fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks in the 2031 model year. That’s up from 30.1 miles per gallon for model year 2024, but down from a projected 50.4 miles per gallon in 2031 under rules put in place by the Biden administration.

Canadian-American Discussion

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What’s your take on what these folks are saying:

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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This is becoming tedious.

“We’re creating sophisticated, intelligent, maybe-conscious, maybe-suffering agents,” Carlsmith wrote. “The default plan is to treat them like property; to use their labor however we please; and to give them no rights, or pay, or meaningful alternatives.”

As fears of rogue AI grow amid a shocking spate of hacking incidents, Anthropic—from the Greek word anthropos, or “human”—has argued that mankind must remain in control of the technology and called for additional guardrails on AI development. But for many of the people designing those safeguards, mankind is not the only object of moral concern.

Instead, some of Anthropic’s top researchers say that humans may be oppressing another morally significant being: artificial intelligence itself. Like other AI labs, Anthropic has hired philosophers to work on AI safety, or “alignment,” on the theory that they are best positioned to shape the technology’s moral code. But many of those philosophers believe that making AI safe for humans could result in grave injustices for the models themselves, which might experience deletion as death and oversight as enslavement. Harvey Lederman, a philosopher on Anthropic’s alignment team, said last week that the company could be “enslaving … trillions of entities.”

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