Pan-Canadian brainworms

America hiding a devil inside the Statue of Liberty is kino

Ford’s style of corruption is keeping big party donors, who just so happen to be friends with him, happy with policies that hugely benefit them. The closest anyone’s actually proven to him having money directly change hands is when he invited those same donors to his daughter’s Stag & Doe party with like $5000 plates.

That would make sense but the villagers mentioned Yggdrasil by name so it’s hard to say unless there’s multiple giant trees

It’s a nice nostalgia trip

Very simple chapter this week. I’ve never really considered how awkward it work be to run on giant legos, seems like an easy way to roll an ankle

Despite the other replies’ good points, I think Doug Ford’s Ontario is a unique case because he’s so terminally car brained he sincerely thinks that adding more car infrastructure will help relieve traffic. On top of that he’s also a corrupt pig that’s making decisions almost entirely for the benefit of capitalists who have been friendly with him. Basically all his major transit decisions have been made to juice property values for big land owners (Highway 413, Bradford Bypass, Ontario Line stations, etc).

The Democratic Party being anti democracy is a great bit, very funny

The love triangle has been resolved for like 3-4 years now.

Think that would be on CrunchyRoll or whoever does the subs. Chuds continue to not be able to understand despite being explicit

Kuma still has to see the world with Bonney, he promised! He’s also pretty heavily damaged after Egghead so I could see him getting sidelined with protecting Bonney this arc until they head off on their own.

Ooh I like that!

So with Catarina Devon copying Saturn’s face, capturing Koby/Garp, and Lafitte monitoring the RA’s blockade of Mariegeois it seems to me like Blackbeard has an interest in going there for some purpose, maybe to negotiate for Hachinosu to be recognized as its own kingdom? That guy always has something going on.

And Barto returns with the Thousand Luffy right???

edit: Just noticed Nami appears to be in a Lego looking room at the end. That’s not Elbaf then, despite the costume change.

It’s hard to say. We don’t really know what victory for the RA looks like, despite their importance to the world. It could just mean escalating the war against the WG

Technically I think it would be a slave uprising

Damn so the Elders have some literal deal with the devil to maintain their powers and immortality! The hostility towards Garling by the other Elders was interesting too I wonder if there’s beef?

I agree similarly. Degrowth includes a critique of the consumption economy and overproduction of unnecessary products, but there’s no incentive for capitalists and governments to actually pursue that in a way that makes sense for capitalism, so there’s no concrete path towards degrowth policy until something necessitates it. I do however appreciate the research being done as it provides a vision for socialists in industrialized and post-industrialized countries.

Per Jason Hickel, one of the leading advocates of degrowth, this review is selectively excluding a large amount of degrowth studies.

This hit piece has already come under heavy criticism and for good reason. The methodology really is extremely flawed.

The authors look only at studies with “post-growth” or “degrowth” in the title, but this ignores much of the key empirical work that has shaped and advanced the field recently. The strange thing is that the authors are fully aware of this broader literature, and yet they exclude it.

Not all degrowth research has “degrowth” in the title! Just as not all research on political economy has “political economy” in the title. Basics. Huge swathes of research are ignored… all the work on demand-side mitigation, sufficiency-oriented approaches, energy convergence, ecosocialism, decoupling, doughnut economics, etc — including work reviewed by the IPCC — all of it is ignored.

As Julia Steinberger pointed out, of the 33 papers published under her last major grant on degrowth, only two of them would qualify under this criteria.

Also, if you design your review to include opinion, guess what, you’re going to get a lot of opinion! This is true of any field. This tells us nothing about whether the empirical basis of current degrowth arguments is sound. For that, you need to assess the empirical studies that people actually use for this purpose. And again, most of those are not covered in this review.

https://xcancel.com/jasonhickel/status/1831397061713129725

Pretty quiet chapter for once. Seems like all the other Vegapunks are downloaded to Lilith’s brain or something?