I absolutely hate the fact that every chat app now has a proprietary protocol and you have to install a bunch of apps to talk to different people. It’s such a travesty.

Oh hey, you haven’t posted for a whole day, were you busy at the rally? https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/116434332070232583

I guess we’ll see soon, the quotas might push them towards higher end cars. But in the grand scheme of things it’s really going to be peanuts either way for a company the size of BYD. Their main goal is likely to just get a foothold in Canada for the long term.

It’s going to be BYD, but not sure which models. A lot of theirs are quite affordable though.

I am because it would certainly be a lot better if people in Canada had exposure to Chinese views instead of living in a bubble of American propaganda.

lmao imagine thinking that being a racist sack of shit is sensible

It really does come down to socialism or barbarism.

Sure, I’m not saying that winning elections would be bad in any way. I’m just noting that shouldn’t be the primary focus.

The constant need for growth isn’t about making life better for most people. It’s a structural requirement of capitalism itself because the system runs on profit which comes from the value created by workers. Companies have to constantly expand their markets to keep the rate of profit from falling, cut costs, and find new ways to generate more value from us. If the economy stops growing then investment stalls and unemployment rises because the whole financialized structure is built on the expectation of future returns. The purpose of the economy isn’t to improve our lives, and the whole growth treadmill we’re on exists because capitalism demands endless accumulation to sustain itself.

That’s because there is no collective vision right now. This stuff doesn’t happen overnight. There needs to be an actual education process to explain to people what socialism is, how our capitalist system actually works, and how that impacts people in their daily lives. Vast majority of Canadians have no idea how any of this stuff works in practice or why they should care. Without that base understanding, there’s no way to build a movement that can endure. Elections are completely meaningless when people are voting on singular issues which are mere symptoms. The focus has to be on root problems that we have to address as a society.

Ah didn’t know about those, I only knew of electroplans.

true, but only as prototypes that never went into mass production

Perhaps they mean commercially produces ones. To my knowledge these have never gone past experimental prototype stages.

Ground effect vehicles are basically airplanes that are forced to fly really, really low. They take off from water and cruise just a few meters above the surface. At that altitude, the air gets compressed between the wing and the ground or water, which creates a huge cushion of extra lift. This lets the vehicle carry way more weight than a normal plane of the same size and power, making it incredibly efficient for hauling cargo over water. The trick is that it only works over flat surfaces like oceans or lakes, and the piloting can be tricky because you’re skimming the waves at high speed without actually being able to climb to a higher altitude. It’s a neat piece of engineering that trades operational flexibility for raw lifting power.

Yeah, Ottawa absolutely should crack down on slave labor Canada is doing:

• UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1140437
• Systemic racial discrimination via discriminatory funding causing “Millennium Scoop” class action certified; long-term reform negotiations ongoing. https://decisions.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/chrt-tcdp/decisions/en/item/521231/index.do?iframe=true
• Crisis fueled by human trafficking linked to resource extraction “man camps”; systemic inaction continues. https://afn.ca/all-news/press-releases/assembly-of-first-nations-afn-releases-2025-progress-report-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-mmiwg-calls-for-justice-highlighting-human-trafficking-crisis/#to-top
• Failure to legislate a human right to safe water and diversion of settlement funds from critical services. https://siksikanation.com/carney-government-reaches-new-low-on-first-nation-safe-drinking-water/
• Slavery charges against Canadian mining company settled on the sly https://theconversation.com/slavery-charges-against-canadian-mining-company-settled-on-the-sly-148605

I just love how China lives rent free in whatever it is that passes for a brain inside that head of yours

You may not realize this, but there was more than one robot at the competition. Westie cope is truly taking on epic proportions now.

cause EU is better at negotiating I guess

the comment is from a dedicated spam account operating to spread sinophobia and hate

He singlehandedly killed the petrodollar and made clean energy a global imperative. He truly may be the best president the empire has had.