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  • Carbon taxes do work. When we don’t carve out exceptions.

    Carbon pricing has successfully reduced GHG emissions internationally:

    • The US has two separate cap-and-trade systems that are reducing emissions.
    • The UK is on track to fully phase out coal; its carbon tax is cited as the primary driver of this phase-out.
    • The European Union’s Emissions Trading System, since its inception, is responsible for between one third and one half of the region’s emissions reductions.
    • Sweden has the world’s highest carbon tax; ten years after bringing it in (2001), emissions were as much as 25% lower than they would otherwise be.

  • I’ve used saily when I went on a trip to the Dominican Republic for 10 days. I didn’t need a lot of data, just enough for maps outside the resort, etc. But it was crazy affordable, and their customer support was prompt, friendly, and helpful when I needed a bit of assistance with the activation.

    All in all, I’d use saily again in the future.



  • I see declining birth rates as a good thing. There’s too many humans and we abuse our planet. If we die out, so be it. I personally have refused to have children because I don’t want to subject a child to this. Maybe our population can decline to something more easily sustained in the future with clean energies and healthy foods. But right now with UPFs making us sick, climate change destroying our ecosphere, and general corporate greed and lobbying taking us for every penny we have, I do not think it fair to subject a new child to that.



  • Quad9 is fine. Don’t let that user scare you. Here’s a quote from Quad9’s own privacy policy section regarding data sales:

    2.3 Sharing of data

    Quad9 does not share, sell, or rent any information that could identify an individual.

    We do not share this information because we do not have this information. We do not have this information because we do not need this information. Because we do not need this information, we have built no mechanism to collect, retain, analyze, or distribute it.




  • The first EV’s coming into Canada via the new Chinese agreement are definitely not value priced vehicles. The low price tag isn’t a requirement of the agreement for several more years. For now, high priced vehicles like the lotus car with a price tag that contains 6 digits (!) Is what is coming over. Honda could pre-empt that, but for some reason are choosing not to. I will not be purchasing a Chinese EV, and wish I could get one from Honda instead. This just reduces my options.






  • Thirty per cent of those calls were within five blocks of Prairie Harm Reduction, which offered support services to people living with addictions and operated the city’s only supervised drug consumption site until it closed last month.

    So… Mr. Moe, tell me again why we didn’t need those supervised sites? Instead of having dedicated staff on-hand and ready to assist overdoses, we added pressure to an already strained emergency response system? Lovely. Good work there Slow Moe.



  • Bell claims it will use a closed loop cooling system. But I’m still against it. Mainly because I know the guy who lives right next door to where this thing is supposed to be built, and the sale & re-zoning of the land next to him seemed to go through suspiciously quickly and easily. Not to mention he wasn’t informed or consulted about the potential noise from the natural gas generators they will be using before just being informed that “this is happening. Period.”

    Something stinks about this.


  • FlareHeart@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caSaskTel - Wikipedia
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    8 months ago

    I work for SaskTel so make of these statements what you will.

    SaskTel is not perfect. We do what we can to ensure good coverage for the people of Saskatchewan at decent prices. Unfortunately the SaskParty has been chipping away at us via underfunding and headcount mandates. This makes it much harder to keep services supported as well as they should be.

    SaskTel is under attack. Quietly. Stealthily. All in an attempt to prove that it would be better to sell to private interest. If anyone else is here from SK, please don’t vote SaskParty. They are quietly killing our crown corps (SGI, SaskPower, and SaskEnergy too).