Is this guy still repeating Russian propaganda on the Ukraine war?

Yeah but then you can’t run Xbox Games Pass or anything fun like that.

What about Germany in WW2, and all their consonants and periods?

“Ceasefire agreement” is for two sided conflicts.

This is just a military force shooting at unarmed civilians.

When you develop a knee-jerk reaction to phrases like “Chinese propaganda” and “Russian propaganda”, you really open yourself up to being manipulated by them.

No, they do, the big difference is that they’ll be voted out and replaced by someone else from the same party.

Because there’s only one party.

There’s loads of countries and cities around the world with better public transit than Toronto.

Plenty with democratic elections and freedom of expression too.

Only one reason someone would pick China over anywhere else.

Mescaline, man. It’s the only way to fly.

That’s just developing schizophrenia. ChatGPT is unrelated.

That’s easy, but PostgreSQL is pronounced Postgres-Q-L.

I’m running it on a raspberry pi, how much more portable could you need?

The soil.

They don’t get all their carbon from the air.

They won’t be when they all burn before they can be harvested due to global warming-induced forest fires.

We can grow and burn the soy or the sugar cane or the trees faster than they can sequester it back into the ground.

See I think that’s the forestry industry propaganda that’s somehow made its way into environmentalist circles.

The differences you cite are irrelevant in the fight against global warming, where burning wood is the absolute worst. The carbon cycle doesn’t matter in the context of how much CO2 are we putting in the atmosphere now, today. It takes too long to matter.

I had to deal with this shit in my environmental studies class in uni. Apparently the forestry industry has been promoting their own brand of propaganda that says burning wood, the most greenhouse-gas-producing fuel on the planet, is environmentally friendly because it is “renewable”.

Great, we’ll all be dead from global warming but at least in theory the trees that burned down from the wildfires could have reabsorbed that carbon over a couple centuries.

That was in 2015:

https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/james-inhofe-snowball-climate-change/

Fun fact, the reason we all call it “climate change” and not “global warming” was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less “scary” to the public:

In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ‘‘the environmental communications battle.’’

In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ‘‘climate change’’ be used instead of ‘‘global warming,’’ because ‘‘while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.’’

Also, he wrote, ‘‘conservationist’’ conveys a ‘‘moderate, reasoned, common sense position’’ while ‘‘environmentalist’’ has the ‘‘connotation of extremism.’’

President Bush’s speeches on the environment show that the terms ‘‘global warming’’ and ‘‘environmentalist’’ had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush’s speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ‘‘climate change’’ and ‘‘conservationist.’’

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html

What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just… went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn’t think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.

Matters to his voters.

The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as “scabs”, to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the “you just hate immigrants” narrative to protect it.