Dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and wire-rimmed glasses, Yu declined to talk about the false report of his death or how he may have benefited financially from it.

“You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave.

That epitaph should be etched onto his gravestone.

Although the obituary touted his alleged successes, the more significant self-tribute was Sunday’s release of a memecoin that one of his social media accounts promoted in what claimed to be an automated message. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72 hour deadman’s switch triggered so i’m not here, at least physically,” the message said. The message described the new coin, dubbed $LLJEFFY, as “my final art piece” and “an eternal grave in cyberspace.”

Who doesn’t have a deadman’s switch to capitalize on one’s own death?

On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death. Several accounts accused Yu of orchestrating an elaborate “pseudocide exit strategy” to cash out his holdings.

So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!

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Before his staged death, Yu published a manifesto introducing the concept of “legacoins” — described as an “evolution of digital assets commonly referred to as memecoins” that function as “a vault or storage, securing and preserving value indefinitely.”

What an incredible coincidence!

It’s still kinda comparable:

According to that analysis, providing a similar level of base power as the SMRs by building wind and solar power with battery energy storage would cost in the range of 13.5 to 18.4 cents per kWh

At the lower end of the estimate, at least.

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault has asked for a complete review of the controls in place to ensure that a similar situation does not happen again, Elections Canada said.

“My commitment to candidates, political parties and Canadians is that when issues related to the delivery of an election arise, we take all necessary steps to resolve them,” Perrault said in a news release.

I generally get angy at this kind of fuckup, but Elections Canada staff have repeatedly shown themselves to operate in good faith and try to do their best to support the electoral system.

As such, I’m fairly confident that was human error, and the result of not following procedures. I look forward to their report and implementation of effective fixes.

I’m not pro-nuclear, but the baseload argument is compelling. We clearly need both more renewables, but sprinkling a few SMRs throughout the system seems to be a pretty good idea - especially if we don’t want to integrate with the US grids.

The article mentions that IF it comes in on budget

That’s one of the big ifs. It’s new technology (kind of), so I’ll be surprised if there aren’t some overruns.

They’ve been frantically rolling back repeatedly, and the simulation just keeps going off the rails. Didn’t you see the posts in ten forward?

Yeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.

An independent Alberta seems unlikely - I suspect our neighbours to the south would quickly intervene to “liberate” an oil rich region at the first possible excuse. At that point, it would end up as a US territory, like the article suggests.

Smith’s fuckery seems like poorly considered pandering at the best of times, but with Trump at the head of the US military it’s gonna have nasty consequences.

I had to read to the bottom for the best part:

“We have the oil, we have the resources. We’re fine,” Westernaier said, noting she believed Monday’s election was rigged.

No. They asked their usual three or four questions and sent us on our way.

I’ve crossed from Canada to the US (and back) twice since Trump took power. The questions asked by US border agents were the same as previous crossings.

I’m a Canadian citizen, so I suspect US citizens would have an even easier time. FWIW my party’s documents were in order.

I think there’s a lot of hyperbole at the moment. My crossing experience was unchanged.

Typically, the local campaign picks up the signs so the person living there doesn’t have to deal with it (and so they can be reused in the next election).

It sounds like whoever ran the Conservative campaign in your area hasn’t organized proper sign retrieval yet. Maybe the sign volunteers ghosted them, maybe the sign lead flaked out, or whatever.

Isn’t that accounting tomfoolery? They may be a separate legal entity, but aren’t they wholly owned by the mother corp in the US? As such, profits and IP would flow directly back to the US, wouldn’t they?

That’s irrelevant.

The intent is to trigger a provincial referendum, and hope for something stupid like Brexit to happen. If they get anything close to 50%, then Trump will pull a Crimea and invade to LiBeRaTe the poor oPprEsSeD minority.

They’re good at communication. Communication is getting your point across in a way that your audience understands.

Progressives are terrible at it - we keep changing the names of things, and use increasingly complex language for trivial stuff.

That’s the key here - the Liberals under Trudeau waited too long to move on affordability, and then they didn’t do enough. I hope Carney & co can show quick improvements in housing so the CPC is less attractive.

It says right there. Like three times. Which isn’t suspicious at all.

“The long-term trend is pretty clear,” Macdonald said in an interview with CBC News. “In the 1980s, CEOs made about 50 times the average worker. In the '90s, it was 100 times. We’re now, I think, pretty solidly over 200 times.”

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But there’s kinda/sorta some good news too:

But Macdonald said the federal government’s changes to taxation policy have led to “a huge decline in stock options as a means of pay for CEOs,” including a 2021 policy change that capped stock option payments.

“There are important loopholes that have been closed over the last couple of years, and we’re seeing the impact of those loopholes in the CEO pay data,” he said.

Happy New Year!

I’m hoping to move this year. Like, return to my home.

And be a better dad. My kids are getting older, and they need more freedom. I need to realize that and adapt my parenting.

Please do more than just link to your website. A quick blurb of what those nine things are would be great.

If we’re gonna build the fediverse, we need content, not just a stream of links.

The editorial ignores the history of the carbon tax in Canada:

Misinformation about rebates as well as an (often poorly justified) general sentiment against any form of taxation certainly plays a role.

1. The Liberals fucked up when they implemented it and called it a tax, instead of a rebate.

2. The Liberals fucked up when they gave out rebates by calling them ECC benefits (IIRC). They didn’t fix that until last year. Many people receiving the rebate didn’t know what it was.

3. Trudeau fucked up when he decided to exempt fUeL OiL for his Atlantic caucus. That reopened the carbon tax debate and gave critics ammunition.

(I’m skipping other minor fuckups for the sake of brevity)

Let’s not pretend that the Liberals would have produced a better policy or done a better job at implementing it. We can all think of a couple of other files that they’ve also fucked up.

Having said that, I’m all for an undefined GHG tax on wealthy Canadians and corporations. The problem is what the Liberals discovered: doing it right is hard, and winning the PR battle is even harder.