Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 8

@nigelsezyarr Did they have any specific demands?

@drb See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/

@ink_slinger Signing a petition isn't enough; we need to wave placards as well.

@ink_slinger @sikkdays @keithzg I have no strong opinion on how councillors should be elected. That being said, electing the *mayor* by a ranked ballot makes a lot of sense to me.

I see that New York City may decide to adopt a ranked ballot soon:

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2019/09/19/ranked-choice-voting-how-it-would-work-new-york-city-ballot-measure-support-campaign-launched

#ElectoralReform

@ink_slinger @sikkdays If Canadians really want #ElectoralReform, they should start with smaller jurisdictions and work up. Change elections for city government (e.g., https://www.rabit.ca/ ), then provinces, then the feds.

#canpol

Rather than pretending I am in the driver's seat and therefore responsible for any accidents, or fighting for the wheel, I try to relax and enjoy the ride as much as I can -- with unavoidable moments of sharp fear, to be sure.

#parenting

From #AgnesCallard in https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/parenting-and-panic-agnes-callard/

I don't agree with her though about "panic". The fact that parents have limited control over how their children develop makes being a parent less stressful for me.

"Parenting is a hostage situation: you’re in the car, but your child is the one driving it—and he doesn’t know how to drive. You can’t get out, because you decided to love him before you knew who he was—before he even was anyone. Your life split at that point into multiple tracks, and one of them is not under your control. The worst part is: you can’t even cover your eyes. You have to keep them open, to try to talk him through it.[..] One day, of course, he will stop noticing you sitting there."

"If in the 19th century Newman’s conversion demonstrated that #Catholicism was compatible with the heights of English culture, scholarship and letters, Newman’s canonization in the 21st century demonstrates that excellence and intelligence are fully compatible with biblical faith."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-de-souza-the-english-languages-finest-writer-is-set-to-become-a-saint

#Saint #JohnHenryNewman

When do you mean exactly, @FssOfDeath , the 70s?

@ink_slinger

@bthall You don't always get what you ask for, but you rarely get what you don't ask for.

@bthall Ask your present employer to pay for the journal.

@ink_slinger All oil royalties should go into the Heritage Fund, and then the government should spend the earnings of the Fund's investments. How you transfer from the present revenue model to the new one is the tricky part.

#abpol

Reasonable people disagree on #HumanaeVitae; it rests upon an argument about what the sex act is for, and our modern thinking dismisses the idea of final causes. (What could be the meaning of a claim that something is "for" a purpose in a world where everything is matter and energy simply following physical laws?)

But a distinction between barrier and pill methods is irrelevant to why #Catholic teaching opposes artificial contraception; it is more logical to approve of both or neither.

A guy comes into your store, he tells you that you have to pay him some money if you want to protect your business from the criminals in the neighbourhood. Is that more like paradigm a) A man in a dark alley shows you his knife and tells you to hand over your wallet; or b) The owner of the next door pizza shop asks you to pay some money to install a security camera?

If you think that what makes a) wrong is that the mugger is holding a knife, then the questionable case is more like b).

#RevisionistHistory s04e06 "Dr. Rock's Taxonomy" is highly disappointing. Yes, it's sometimes easier to agree on specific cases than on general principles; yes, casuistry has its place in understanding how rules apply. But to see if a given case is more like an ethical case or an unethical one, you have to have at least some understanding *why* the paradigmatic cases are considered ethical or not.

The episode makes Paul VI's teaching seem like *stare decisis* of a completely arbitrary rule.

For reference, the installation of #Netflix on #OSMC required downloading a zip file to use as a repository, apt-get install for a few #Python packages, and then using pip to install pycryptodome.

See https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-raspberry-pi/

Once OSMC updates to #Buster (probably in 2020), the apt-get and pip steps should be unnecessary.

Very happy with my new installation of #OSMC. It's essentially #Debian [0] + #Kodi, without GNOME or X Windows. The installation is easy; it's fast on my #RaspberryPi 3; #Plex and #Netflix installed with very little fuss; I can use my phone as a remote control; there are lots of plugins, including #CBC TV and #mpd.

The speed probably comes from overclocking to 1200 MHz.

[0] Real deb.debian.org Debian, currently Stretch (oldstable), armhf.

Iain "MacLeod is still in the process of writing his feature-length film, which is based on a 2,000-year-old Irish epic about a stolen bull called the Cattle Raid of Cooley. The twist is that it will be set in modern-day Glace Bay, N.S.

"MacLeod purposefully writes his Gaelic films in the present day to show that the language is still very much alive."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gaelic-film-iain-macleod-the-espresso-machine-funding-languages-1.5330256

#cbc
#gaelic #CapeBreton