Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 14

@jaranta Thanks, but unfortunately I don't have free access to the paper.

Does it have any surprising suggestions of what our moral blind spots might be?

@keithzg A lefty, I presume? What's surprising?

@lkundrak The problem is probably with my router, and the solution for me was to prevent the laptop from going to sleep. Are you sure you'd like to investigate this case further?

(Thanks for all the work on NetworkManager, by the way. Wifi is so much easier these days.)

@fitheach
Canada has no constitutional provision for secession, which I believe is true for most countries. I've read that for secession to occur in accordance with Canadian law, it would require a constitutional amendment. But opinions vary on that point.

The 2/3 majority would be to ensure that the consensus is broad, lasting, and is significant in comparison with the total electorate (e.g., there'd be a consensus notwithstanding problems with individual votes).

#canpol #qcpol

@bgcarlisle
Is this what you mean?

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,
And every one doth call me by my name:

@jszym
@jszym
(I wouldn't normally comment on a post from two weeks ago, but Tusky wouldn't let me reply at the time, so this has been sitting in my drafts folder.)

@jszym
*NR* does not deny anthropogenic climate change. It's not a topic they cover much, but they had a cover page article in 2007 by Jim Manzi called "Game Plan - What Conservatives Should Do about Climate Change". I haven't been able to find a working link to the article, but Mr. Manzi summarises it at https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/half-truth-jim-manzi/ if you're curious.

I don't know if they have taken an editorial position on whether President Trump is a racist.

@fitheach
From a moral perspective (not a legal one), I think that decisions that are more fundamental and irrevocable should require a strong consensus, not just a narrow and possibly transient velleity. Thus I do not believe the government of Québec should attempt to secede with less than a 2/3 referendum majority.

That favours my preferred outcome, to be sure.

#qcpol

@fitheach
If that referendum had been 50.58% "Yes", then the provincial government would have pursued secession, but such a narrow result would have resulted in a crisis of legitimacy.

The matter would have been difficult and painful enough without people denying that the results of the referendum really established anything.

#qcpol

@fitheach So a simple majority of those who chose to vote would be sufficient? Or do you mean a simple majority of the total number of Scottish citizens (i.e., what happens if a significant number of Scots don't vote)?

Here in Québec, we had an independence referendum in 1995, with a turnout of 93.52% and with 50.58% voting "No", and many more ballots were rejected than the margin between "Yes" and "No".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum

#ukpol #qcpol

@fitheach
Has there been any debate in Scotland about what level of support should be required in a referendum on independence?

(That's one of the points Québec/Canada have been arguing about for thirty years.)

#ukpol
#qcpol

"De toutes les machines qu’elle conduit, c’est le bulldozer qui gagne sa faveur. « Ça produit beaucoup, ça pousse, ça fait la finition, on peut faire plein de travaux avec », dit-elle."

De la Chine à l’échangeur Turcot: https://lp.ca/aShvWB

#construction
#Kiewit

"Sur l’assurance maladie, jamais une allusion aux modèles européens, pourtant riches d’enseignements. La vision du tandem Sanders-Warren s’arrête au modèle canadien, qu’ils connaissent d’ailleurs très mal."

Lysiane Gagnon | Course à l’investiture démocrate: Biden, hélas…: https://lp.ca/7TYalp

#SystèmeSanté
#uspol

This article showed up in my 'Pocket' (Firefox Browser collection of what I'd supposedly find interesting) 18 hours after I left my screen-unlock password and my password for keepass2 with my family, for when I step out and don't come back

https://time.com/5640494/why-you-need-to-make-a-when-i-die-file-before-its-too-late/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

@eleanorkonik Absolutely true.

I wonder if anyone has researched relative error rates for WP?

@allan I wonder if there are counter-examples, societies that flourished because of climate change. None come to mind.

Sudden change is bad in any case.