Let's just hope that it isn't bought up by Bitcoin miners . . .
nyan
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This has always been the case with the right wing. They believe that wealthy white straight cismen are the perfect expression of humanity, and everyone who deviates from that mold should be punished. Their "freedom" exists only for people they regard as the top of the hierarchy and basically consists of the freedom to be greedy assholes.
I wish people would get this through their heads and stop electing them. It doesn't matter what the talking head du jour does or doesn't say—the Conservative Party of Canada's track record is clear all the way back to the days when it was the Reform Party, and even the most apparently innocuous member of it is complicit.
The Liberals are quietly corrupt in spots and sometimes stunningly inept, but the Conservatives are nasty. It's past time for the NDP to have their chance to screw up the country instead.
How about the betterment of people?
His interest is most likely in the betterment of the pocketbooks of chums of his who have relevant real estate.
In the absence of a local club, I'm not sure. I mean, have a look at the cover on this one—I understand that's considered one of the more reliable and informative guides for the locations it covers, which is why it's still in print after 30+ years, but the only reason that photo doesn't look AI generated is that you can't imagine how they would have come up with the prompt . . .
You're correct: in all fairness, it wasn't you, specifically, who used the word "lawn", and I could have chosen somewhere else to slip my reply into the subthread.
Gravel and cactus is maybe an exaggeration, but I expect there's some kind of native groundcover that would be Good Enough. Or set up a buried greywater irrigation system if you really must have that lawn of imported green grass. Or take the kids and pets to the park to play, like apartment-dwellers do. Or just, y'know, suck it up during the bad years and accept you're going to have a brown lawn from time to time. The ridiculously wasteful setup that exists in most suburbs, where people baby along vast tracts of climate-inappropriate grass cultivars, should never have existed.
Main studio outsources to China -> Chinese studio outsources to North Korea. No surprises there. China doesn't care about sanctions imposed by other countries unless they're against China.
In all fairness, there are Boomers out there who are tech-literate. Thing is, they only call for help when they have a real problem, so it's the other ones we remember.
The train's cargo was rail ties, so wood treated with coal tar creosote to resist weathering. By my understanding, that type of creosote has a low flash point and if enough vapour had accumulated, it could have been ignited by just about anything. I don't think that normally happens when you're just dealing with treated wood rather than a tanker car of creosote, though, so this might have been a fluke. Or someone might have to reconsider whether wood that's undergone this kind of treatment is "dangerous goods" or not.
What the train crew thought they were doing when they stopped the burning train in a residential area is another question. My guess is that they panicked and weren't thinking straight.
The point is, the main problems in most places with serious hunger issues are food being confiscated by government or militias, turned back at borders, or left to rot in port warehouses because no one's sure what set of palms need to be greased before distribution will be permitted. Tech can't fix those problems. As for improvements in local agriculture, that helps when the cause of the famine is natural, but not so much when the issue is farmers getting shot at in the fields or having their produce stolen at gunpoint.
Perhaps they want to keep it to drink.