Instead of simply encouraging the buildout of a private Canadian cloud, the government should invest in the expansion of a public cloud—built and run by a Crown corporation with public financing to serve government needs, but potentially to expand beyond that too. The government already has data centres of its own, but in recent decades it’s more often looked to the private sector to supply more of its computational needs instead of developing in-house capacities as it did with older forms of information technology.

Ok, but they aren't allowed to use consultants. We don't need another ArriveCAN or Phoenix.

I don't really think cloud compute is a social good deserving of a government agency to be honest. I think the government should build out its datacenters and use it to build stuff, like a federal instant payment system that replaces Interac. But I don't really buy the argument that the government should bother to sell some of its capacity.

Whatever the government tries to sell here is going to be akin to IBM Cloud platform. It's going to be clunky, evolve slowly, with lame support. No sane business should choose that. It makes more sense to pick a non-US company with Canadian-located datacenters. Who should choose a slowly moving bureaucratic provider? The government itself. So just keep it private.

Honestly chat GTP is your friend. Or download an applications like Sim Daltonism that simulate how colors appear to individuals with different types of color blindness.

A.I response.

To understand how a cartoon like Harvey Birdman might look to a colorblind person, it's essential to consider the different types of color blindness and how they affect color perception.

Types of Color Blindness
1. Red-Green Color Blindness: This is the most common form, which includes:
* Protanopia: Difficulty distinguishing between red and green hues.
* Deuteranopia: Similar to protanopia but affects green perception more.

1. Blue-Yellow Color Blindness: Less common, affecting the ability to differentiate between blue and yellow colors (tritanopia).
2. Complete Color Blindness: A rare condition where individuals see the world in shades of gray.

Visual Representation in Cartoons
* Color Perception: For someone with red-green color blindness, colors that are typically vibrant red or green may appear muted or indistinguishable. For instance, a bright green tree might look more like a grayish or brownish color, and red objects may blend into greens or browns.

• Cartoon Examples: In cartoons, characters and backgrounds often rely on bright, contrasting colors to convey emotions and actions. To a colorblind person, these contrasts may be less pronounced. For example:
• A cartoon featuring a red apple on a green background might appear as a grayish shape against a similarly muted backdrop.
• Characters with red or green clothing may look similar in hue, making it challenging to distinguish between them.

not sure how to process the video, but you can put screenshots into this :

color-blindness.com/coblis-col…

Not sure why HB in particular though

The government took on debt the same as households, using low interest rates to lever themselves up. Now that rates are rising due to aging demographics we are forced to look at our debt burden.

This is why what Trudeau Sr did was stupid, and why what Trudeau Jr did was stupid, all that spending is future austerity. The only way its not is if you debase the currency further using QE, and you shift those bonds to the FX market via a depreciated currency, which ends up in even higher interest rates.

This [public service cuts, government financial austerity and all the other stuff in the first bunch of paragraphs] is a descent into fascism. By defunding the state and over-funding the military, Canada is careening towards disaster. And unsurprisingly, the voices that are paid by the corporate class, are cheering this descent on.

Come on, let's get specific. Call out our fascism where the descent into fascism is happening under Carney's government: Bill C-2, Trump ass-kissing, parts of Bill C-5.

I am diametrically opposed to wanton public service cuts, but let's be targeted and accurate at what we are calling the descent to fascism.

We had two choices among those who could get into power.

We took the least-worse one, by far.

Cool article.

You cannot believe how sick it is to open Lemmy and the first thing you see is a picture of Zuckerberg.

I hope Carney reintroduces it after these trade talks fail.

I agree with the Nobel Laureate in economics, Joseph E Stiglitz, who wrote this.

Of course, when the most profitable companies in the world don’t pay their fair share of taxes, it just shifts the burden on to others.

Apple was so successful in avoiding taxes in Europe that it is estimated that it paid in some years a tax of just 0.005% on its European profits.