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@dyckron I"ve heard the concept discussed before as "industrial strategy". The govt steps in and turns the wheels in a coordinated way and as an active market participant. Neoliberalism relegates govt to only greasing the wheels and staying out.
All the great govt projects and agencies have been sold for parts at a loss.
@krst @NunavutBirder That article blames Canada Post for closing a loophole, but the loophole was people using a fake postal code because Amazon Prime would only deliver to Iqaluit, not the rest of Nunavut.
Opinion: How Canadaโs middle class got shafted - The Globe and Mail
https://archive.ph/ViHZV
@dyckron tl;dr; a long string of nihilist governments blinded by neoliberalism has almost turned Canada into Argentina.
And Canadians are signing up for another round of accelerating that, if pollsters are to be believed (doubtful)
Oprah is asking what Harris wants to say to the American people.
It's a let's come together answer. Optimism, dreams, aspirations. We believe in what can be.
"Freedom to just be."
It's about what we are fighting for.
Two local Teamsters unions, East Coast (Local 237 - NYC & Long Island) and West Coast (representing California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam) have broken with their parent union to endorse VP Harris for president...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/west-coast-teamsters-endorse-harris-00179923
New: a project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere https://www.404media.co/project-analyzing-human-language-usage-shuts-down-because-generative-ai-has-polluted-the-data/
Young Russians are embracing #Kremlin propaganda, reshaping the #Ukraine war narrative with ultranationalist views and seeing themselves as patriotic truth defenders.
About 7 in 10 Russians between ages 18 and 24 โ 69 percent โ support #Russiaโs war in Ukraine, according to an August poll conducted by the Levada Center
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/19/russia-youth-culture-putin-propaganda-impact/
Missing Person in in Ottawa, Ontario - Hugh Harrington, 27 - #Ontario #Ottawa
https://missingpeople.ca/missing-person-in-in-ottawa-ontario-hugh-harrington-27/?feed_id=38239&_unique_id=66eccd87e8341
