Like if your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.
I am an engineer (closer to toot toot then clicky clacky) cosplaying as a farmer in unceded aninstanabe territory in eastern ontario.
Pronouns: she/they
Maybe the real vegan theory club were the friends we made along the way ✨
I’m only familiar with local utilities, but are there public utilities that turn profits? What happens to the profits?
I know of private utilities that are owned by municipalities and they pay dividends back to the municipality which is used in the city budget. There is also Hydro One which is about 50% owned by various orgs and is publicly traded. They pay dividends but like $0.35 per share, quarterly.
What on earth about this comment makes you think it’s russian disinformation?
Calling out someone’s behavior and posting a link to an article about it?
I don’t understand this reply.
How do you turn “both the republicans and the democrats are interested in protecting rich and powerful people who harm children” to “you should vote for the republicans”?
What’s both sides about this?
If the republicans are sweeping this under the rug because they are proven nazis and rampant profiles, why did the democrats sweep it under the rug?
Virginia Giuffee didn’t kill herself
Tell me more?
While this is an important topic, my original comment was simply about strike support. I think a huge barrier for people is how daunting direct action can be. If people can support each other through strikes and other acts of solidarity, planning for more impactful disruptions will be more manageable.
There is this article which links to some reports. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-china-trade-export-up-2026-9.7340408
Total crude petroleum exports to China more than doubled to C$5.96 billion
The links in your reply say the value of crude exported in 2014 was $153 billion. So, a very small amount.
As I understand, the desire to get crude to the coast for shipping to Asia is the justification for the pipeline projects.
Not long, everything is just-in-time.
A national strike would probably be more palatable if there were trusted community organizations that could help the most vulnerable who can’t go without pay, even for short periods. It doesn’t just have to be cash they distribute, in-kind goods or services would be useful too.
This is what people mean when they say voting isn’t enough to make meaningful change. Get to know your neighbors and take care of each other. The state is less scary when you have solidarity.
Damn, if that isn’t a glowing endorsement…
The wording is a little confusing the article:
“I therefore will not clear this sale at this time. The decision does not diminish Congressional support for Israel’s legitimate defense needs; it reflects Congress’s responsibility to ensure that U.S.-funded weapons are used lawfully, responsibly, and with meaningful safeguards for human life.”
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The top lawmakers on the House and Senate foreign affairs panels are generally informed by the State Department about a foreign arms sale over a certain dollar amount, and are given the opportunity to exercise an informal “hold” for more information on the arms sale before it goes forward.
The State Department typically respects this hold and works with the member to resolve their concerns. But the Trump administration has previously ignored an objection from Meeks, moving forward on an arms sale package in February 2025 despite the Democrats “hold” on parts of the sale.
It doesn’t sound like the panel gets a binding say in this. If someone would explain, I would be grateful.
What a bunch of nerds
I’m not commenting to pick on you but because I think it’s really important that people understand the details of laws so that they can make informed choices. People often think they have more rights or protections than they do, and they might not make the same choices if they knew otherwise.
If you are referring to FERPA, the decision about whether an email is an education record depends on the content and the context for which it is used. I don’t think it would hold that all emails from an educational account are educational records. ( https://www.aalrr.com/EdLawConnectBlog/a-reminder-that-emails-may-be-education-records )
From the above and specific to whether an email itself can be a record (when there was a paper copy on file)
The court held the electronic messages themselves were not “education records” for purposes of FERPA because, while they related to the student, they were not “maintained” by the educational institution.
(Please note: “the decision was unpublished and therefore cannot be cited.”)
Getting a little more specific: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-34/subtitle-A/part-99/subpart-D/section-99.31
An educational agency or institution may disclose personally identifiable information from an education record of a student without the consent required by § 99.30 if the disclosure meets one or more of the following conditions:
B) A contractor, consultant, volunteer, or other party to whom an agency or institution has outsourced institutional services or functions may be considered a school official under this paragraph provided that the outside party—
(1) Performs an institutional service or function for which the agency or institution would otherwise use employees;
(2) Is under the direct control of the agency or institution with respect to the use and maintenance of education records; and
(3) Is subject to the requirements of § 99.33(a) governing the use and redisclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.
So having access to and using the information in the emails is not necessarily a violation so long as the personally identifiable information is not redisclosed.
Schools have a duty to ensure that the access is for “legitimate educational interests” which is subjective but I could see email tools or copilot being argued as meeting that.
I guess we won’t know until someone challenges it 😉
It’s interesting to hear Photoshop and GIMP have diverged so much! I haven’t used Photoshop in 20 years but when I initially made the switch it was pretty simple. I guess photo processing has changed a lot in that time, eh? 😅
Good luck!
You may already be aware but perhaps some of the rationale from these projects could help bolster your argument:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/html?petitionNumber=0729%2F2024
I understand it’s not the scope of the study, but it would be interesting to know if lithium levels in monitoring wells have changed over time as mining occurs.
The person I was replying to said public utilities shouldn’t turn a profit, so I was asking about public utilities that turn profits, not privatized utilities.