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I'm honestly relieved - if there's one area in which I think his government has been lacking, it's been the environmental portfolio.

This restraint is a positive step, even though it's been framed as a reconciliation concern.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On Tuesday, the premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario also signed memorandums of understanding to build new pipelines, railroads and energy infrastructure to move oil, gas and critical minerals between the provinces. Manitoba did not sign the agreement.

Kinew said Manitoba's major infrastructure projects must first have a consensus from Indigenous stakeholders before putting shovels in the ground.

I'm glad to see this, and also very curious to see the consequences.

Yeah, and I think it also makes sense to assume that Paramount+ produced "The Ready Room", considering they wouldn't acknowledge that the second season of "Prodigy" existed.

I'm loathe to support layoffs, but I'm not that opposed to taking things away from the streaming platform and giving them to the production studios.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It took me forever to find the story, but I think what happened is that they sit down the Paramount+, which handled "publicity, photo, events, awards, talent relations, etc.".

Those roles have been offloaded to the studio (CBS Studios), and I guess this event, and probably the recent Universal thing, have been put together by them?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've struggled with this question for years, and haven't been able to come up with an answer I feel good about, so the "correct" answer is probably, "consider the person's tastes and cater to them."

I do believe that it's probably not a good idea to start with the "best" episodes - they tend to break the usual format, and once you've seen them, there's nowhere to go but down.

Instead, I'm on a continuous search for the most "average" episodes - solid, enjoyable, and representative of what the series and franchise are as a whole. But I still don't have a simple answer.

According to the official site, the final schedule won't go up until the week of the convention.

I'm sure it wouldn't work for , but this is the unfortunate consequence of treating it so casually in season one...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's definitely a case of NORAD working as designed. Which is good!

The fact that we're borderline amazed that it's working as designed is much less good.

I was mainly responding to the claim that there's no base, but I really don't see the value in stationing a combat squadron there.

In the case of an actual foreign invasion, there would be enough time to redeploy from elsewhere.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I said downthread, that's a very sensible use of a coastal air force base.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah, the most imminent air threat has historically been over the pole, which is why CFB Cold Lake exists.

The squadrons on Vancouver Island are for surveillance and search-and-rescue, which is entirely sensible for the coast.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

CFB Comox is located on Vancouver Island.

 

I fell down this wormhole while I was home sick a few months ago. Pretty incredible to see footage of these search-and-rescue operations.

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