While it’s a good point to state that the best outcome would be that neither petition passes, I think we would have to hope against everything we’ve seen so far for it to come to that. The fact that the separatists were still trying to submit their petition despite the fact that Lukaszuk’s petition is basically the same thing says that, at the very least, they don’t want any petition and/or referendum on Alberta separatism to have an anti-separatism slant.
That is a good point, though the separatists themselves disagree, as they’re still working to submit their own petition. I guess the question remains of how many times a petition like this can be made. If this one fails, can the separatists put forward another one? That’s not going to be great. “Alberta couldn’t pass a petition to stay but could pass one to leave.”
Another thing to consider is our neighbour to the south. If the petition to leave passed, would they care that the threshold is extremely low, or that this doesn’t actually mean that Alberta has separated? It’s not like Trump has stopped believing that we should be the 51st state, and it’s not like anyone in the American government cares enough to stop him.
A petition to leave passing might compel Trump to “little green men” us, because, y’know, we “voted” for it.
To be frank we’re just in a really shitty situation.
In an ideal world I’d agree with you. But if we lived in that world the UCP wouldn’t have formed government in the first place. And considering that our Opposition Leader has basically told Smith to put up or shut up, the referendum is happening regardless of whether it should.
Except you’d want to sign it. It’s not a petition to leave, it’s a petition to stay.
The separatists were proposing a question “Do you agree that the province shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada?” which would mean even if, for example, 2 million Albertans refused to sign it, it wouldn’t matter if 177 thousand people agreed to do so. Under the new question, “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” if those 2 million Albertans signed the petition, it wouldn’t matter if those 177 thousand refused to sign it. Granted, it is a gamble because it’s easier to do a thing rather than not do a thing.
I could be wrong on his intentions, but considering that Lukaszuk is the head of a movement called Forever Canadian, and from his twitter it seems like he’s pro-Canada.
Edit: I meant it’s easier to not do a thing rather than do a thing, wording got mixed up there.
There can only be one petition because they are too similar. Basically, the separatists can’t submit their petition because Lukaszuk already submitted his.
I don’t know what happens if the threshold is met. I believe the Alberta government has to at least make a response to it, but even that I’m not sure.
They were likely waiting until July 4th to submit their petition under the lower threshold, but Lukaszuk beat them to it.
Now all we need is for the NDP to change their name to the New Democratic Conservatives so we can choose between the Conservatives, the Conservatives, or the Conservatives in 2027.
As an Albertan the optimism is appreciated but misplaced. You’re just setting yourself up for disappointment.
I don’t even have a Gemini app installed in the first place.
Didn’t realize that they were Dutch.
It could also be that no legislation means no legislation.
You couldn’t, say, introduce legislation to stop AI from being “woke” because this bill would prevent them from doing so.
https://results.elections.ab.ca/8487
The RPA is taking a noticeable amount of votes away from the UCP.
Not enough to make a difference in the riding, but this doesn’t bode well (for the UCP) if the UCP want to take Calgary next election.
If Starship wasn’t constantly exploding you might have a point. Seems as though that the reality is that they’re all pretty much at the same spot but Elon wants to pretend that they aren’t.
I’m pretty sure that production of the 40 series has stopped. The 50 series uses the same node.
With anaphylactic shock, the timeline could be literally seconds. He could be dead before they even figure out what’s wrong.
This was still an extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen by a foreign government. It doesn’t matter what he did wrong.
I know where they didn’t find them:
Alberta.
The GTX 1070 was in the upper tier of gaming GPUs when it was released, categorized as high-end on Wikipedia. Most people wouldn’t be able to justify the cost of its kind of performance until years later, even if the next thing didn’t happen…
It’s still 9 years old.
About half that long ago, GPU prices tripled, and prices are still absurdly elevated today even adjusting for high inflation. This has significantly delayed a lot of peoples’ normal upgrade cycles, so your 9-year-old GPU is effectively more like a 4-year-old GPU with respect to affordable upgrade path.
a) This isn’t Remedy’s fault.
b) The card is still 9 years old.
c) You can still play the game with a 9 year old GPU
Back when that card was new, running a first-person game at 60fps 1080p was mainstream and not particularly impressive. That level of performance is mediocre-to-weak today
That wasn’t my experience in 2016 when I was rocking an HD 7850, and getting less than 60fps at 1080p for FPS’s in 2016, a card that would have only been 4 years old at the time (and technically worse than what was in the PS4).
(And by the way, the other GPU they mention is only 5 years old.)
And about 15 percent more performant than the GTX 1070. With an MSRP about $100 less than it, and it being considered midrange.
Also, none of that really answers my question: What performance were you hoping that this GPU + CPU combo would give you?
The threshold for the petition only requires about 6 percent of the electorate to actually sign the petition, so you’d only need about a third of the people strongly in favour of separatism. That’s why the threshold for the referendum was lowered this much. In my opinion, it basically makes the petition passing inevitable. It certainly could be that the 30 percent who are slightly/strongly in favour of separatism are actually an overrepresentation in the polls due to various reasons.