Last I checked some parks in Montreal allowed for alcohol in some designated times.

There has to be some limits yo drinking in public, but there are multiple ways ut can be done responsibly

I also like this! At first I was a bit bummed out on why I couldn’t doom scroll like on reddit.

The fact that the ecosystem was fragmented in multiple little instances made me think that it’s possible I wouldn’t like it in the end.

But I find myself gravitating more towards my local instances subs then all. (Even though with wafwaf the discoverability factor is severely increased.) The reason is I like the fact that it is a small community.

What’s happening is social media.

You have a bigot, what do you do about it?

Sure you can punch the bigot. Violence begets violence; might fix the problem or make it worse.

So what do you? Confront them. Then if they don’t change their ways, you shun them. Generally people don’t like being excluded, so slowly but surely the bigots would reform and some would die alone with their hatred.

Now? They have online platforms where they find each other through algorithms that encourages those behaviors because it makes them money.

You want to reduce the hatred on society? Police properly the big social medias.

Oh no synth is because computers are readily available and anybody can make music. Before you had to be more dedicated.

There still exists good musicians and productions, but they are not backed by big studios…

Which lead to your point. Big studios don’t like risks. They don’t want to be creative. Fine! No more big budget movies.

But a movie production is still expansive. Even low and good indie movies sometimes have a million dollar budget. That’s way more than the budget for a hobby for most people!

So how do we finance it? Governments, non profits? Sure… But still that is possible today and it is done, but it’s far from being a source of constant good movies.

And finally sure the diaspora of piracy is wide and large. Some are activists and do really important work such as scihub and libgen, but most people just pirate the latest marvel movie

I understand the points and while I don’t like the rampant corporate greed, you wouldn’t have billion dollar movie projects (or series) if piracy was entirely legal and encouraged.

I think it’s mostly that the current copyright laws and patents are unfair.

Let’s take a big IP such as star wars, wouldn’t it be more logical if it were in the public domain? It’s almost de facto in the public domain. I can refer to it and almost anybody gets what I’m talking about. It’s already a staple of our hegemonic culture. Nobody should own it.

But you know, to get those movies, I wouldn’t mind if there was let’s say a 1-2 year copyright on the movie. You don’t want to wait a year? Pay. Simple as that.

Same for patents. Ad long as we are a capitalistic society, it’s desired that research makes profit, so put a patent for a few years and voila!

In the end you are going to stimulate more research. First by sharing knowledge and second by encouraging new research which can be patented. No sitting on a patent for years doing nothing.

Damn, it could work.

We forego all notions of hunting, rations, weight, in the end unless you aim for hyper realistic, common sense is good enough (hunting in a desert might be hard, transporting cargo is heavy.)

We modified a bit the rests mechanics: Short rest is short (like 5-10min) work as usual.

Full rest needs to be done in a safe camp or safe place, it means putting up a big fire and not having 2 persons on guard. Which means more dangers, (doing that near a bad guys place = fight for sure)

So we normally sleep without fires and it does replenish exhaustion, but no spell for the wizard (or all abilities that require full rest)

In the end it forces us to have the more balanced 4-6 encounter between long rest upon which d&d is built.

Works really well!

How does liability work in your niche?

From what I understand if you make a mistake, it could cost your clients irreparable damage. How are you insured for this?

J’ignorais que le lobby des pétrolieres s’intéressaient a la presse? Les Desmarais doivent avoir pas mal de parts dans Shell & co.

Sérieusement je suis un peu tanné d’entendre ces points qui viennent directement des thinktank du pétrole :

Est ce que les VE polluent plus que les ICE? Non. Même si l’électricité vient du charbon ça polluent moins que les ICE sur sa durée de vie complète.

Est ce qu’on a assez de minéraux rares pour que tous le monde aient un VE? Non. On va ptetre trouvé des solutions de rechange pour les batteries par contre. Le problème est l’idée même de l’auto. A-t-on assez de ressources pour que tous le monde aient une auto? Non. Pourtant, étrange, on ne mentionne pas ce point… juste les VE le prob.

Est-ce que les VE sont trop lourdes? Oui. Mais moins qu’un foutu pickup. Faisons des ptites autos.

Que va t on faire des batteries quand ces autos ne seront plus bonnes? Ça se recycle (voir le point plus haut: c’est ded métaux rares) ta vieille batterie vaut chet.

Si jamais on stoppe d’encourager la VE, yarrive quoi? On mine pareil les fonds marins, on va construire des batteries pour autre chose. (Mais les pétrolieres vont vendre plus d’essence)

Comme un autre commentaire plus bas, ya personne de sensé qui pensent que c’est une solution magique. Mais c’est un pas dans la bonne direction. Même si on arrive a décroître, faire du transport en commun, on va avoir besoin d’énergie, d’un réseau électrique flexible avec des batteries.

Faque lâchez moi avec les VE!

A moment donné, Richard Bergeron parlait de projet piste cyclable a Montréal et avait dit de quoi qui m’a marqué :

Les automobilistes sont le plus gros bloc électoral au Québec (genre 75% des gens) ont une auto. Quand tu fais quelque chose contre pes autos tu affectes beaucoup de monde! (Et beaucoup d’électeurs)

Ça fait réfléchir!

Uh! Makes you think. So the idea would be to have a lower underground room which you could “pump” out the gas?

Assuming energy is an issue, a passive pump might be able to be built through usage of a copper pipe by creating a thermosiphon (the exposed copper pipe outside would heat up creating hot air which would “siphon” the bottom air).

I guess the issue with living underground sre many: moisture, possible radon, water infiltration, pest, no good way of making a fire, etc…

The soundtrack was amazing… Ooof the chills.it gave me!

Perso je me demande si ça été une erreur d’encadrer via des lois le droit a la grève .

Si ça restait non encadrer, ça serait peut être plus difficile pour les gouvernements d’y renoncer.

Peut être si c’était un droit constitutionnel ça serait mieux?

Sometimes, I think I understand their place too. We’re talking about really big budgets here, and while I agree that it’s better to take risks so we can get amazing movies, I must imagine the dread the exec that greenlighted taika waititi thor love and thunder to do w/e he wanted.

In the end they let the director loose and still got a mediocre movie. (Maybe it was $$ successful? Somebody know?)

I think the issue is mostly about what is art?

Some of the big budget movies feel devoid of creativity and are more a product than a work of art. While I do agree with you that there is some art in those big budget, I think the issue lies in how we communicate a movie.

What is a “good” movie? That’s entirely subjective! A better approach would be to explain what you liked (or disliked) about it. Then we can have more productive conversations about it ahah

Dune was incredible in theaters. I’m scared of watching it again at home (in prep for the 2nd part) since I’m probably going to be disappointed

Ditto

Wow. C’est tellement anti-syndicaliste de passer une loi pour forcer le retour au travail

Maybe I’m ignorant, but couldn’t you dig?

I know that here (Canada) if you dig 6ft, temperature goes down to the year average, so here like 6c.

You would do your outside activities in the night or at sunrise.

But at that point the problem would probably be crops and wildlife dying en masse. So food would be the issue.

If you want to survive, invest in fungus and cyanobacteria

Je réalise que je suis de plus en plus à la recherche du “petit internet”.

J’utilise marginalia desfois et je pense à me refaire une page web