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CanadaPlus,

Once again, people are idiots.

CanadaPlus,

Louisiana’s system sounds pretty sophisticated, although I haven’t looked into the exact implementation. Some sort of cryptographic protocol happens through the porn site between the DMV and your device, which returns a go-ahead or not, and nothing else. The “only” data leaked is your exact porn preferences to the government.

Shockingly, everyone in the state just moved to seedier sites anyway. Who would have thought? /s

CanadaPlus,

If they are allowed to join and become a large voice and eventually be like gmail to email, big enough to have control and provide the filtering people are already (quietly, carefully) asking for. All they need to do is to offer “spam filters” and a “personal feed” and we have Facebook 2.0 and they don’t even have to foot most of the server bills.

I think this is inevitable, in part because serving is expensive, and now that we might get significant spammer activity, complicated. Carrying the analogy on, though, I have a Proton account and I can give it out in real life just the way I would a Gmail account. There is no such possibility with Twitter. They could try and put up a hard wall once they have enough buy-in, but that didn’t work so well for Yahoo mail, and hopefully it wouldn’t for Threads.

So yeah, I expect I’ll be on a little instance somewhere, and I’ll still be able to participate in the equivalent of the Obama AMA hosted on one of the big ones.

CanadaPlus,

So what do you suggest, out of curiosity? I have the same assessment, it just seems like the only way it could work, long-term and for all users.

Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO (thehill.com)

Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheaded by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), was included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which passed out of...

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, this is a hurdle, but that’s all. Every law ever made can be unmade.

CanadaPlus,

The rate limiting isn’t new. Try a different exit IP.

(Sorry to break the circlejerk. They’re still assholes)

CanadaPlus,

I’d hope the rest of Canada would have honoured it, but you just know one or more of the Anglo provinces would have turned it into a shitshow. I don’t think there’s any chance anyone else would leave in the aftermath, though. Even now the “separatist” movements in the West are just a thinly disguised vessel for imported MAGA.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

And Quebec separatism wasn’t its own particular flavour of pre-MAGA MAGA?

No. It has had more of an affinity with the political left, and people in Quebec actually feel like they’re not part of Canada. Meanwhile, here, separating is a brand new idea with the same basic flavour as building a really big wall (just replace “Mexico” with “Ottawa”). Just 10 years ago it was on the same level of credibility as going back to serious monarchism.

It’s obviously a form of nationalism, but that’s not really what I was getting at.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Not exactly agreeing, but this is actually a really common attitude, for anyone from another country trying to understand. Surprisingly few Anglos have a problem with it on a cultural level, and might be tired of hearing about it, more than anything.

CanadaPlus,

Oh, alright. I was trying to say that it’s just a literal, precise, probably traceable carbon copy of the US movement, and the Alberta separatism aspect has always just been an excuse. I don’t disagree that nationalism is bad, and I’m glad Quebec didn’t leave because that would be just another border to get in the way.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, that’s the way to go. Copilot or similar to automate the simple stuff, while you still do all the architecting and check whatever it suggests.

CanadaPlus,

This shit sort of is illegal, though, under hate speech laws. The police tend not to act on it too much, out of some mixture of fear of a backlash, and a natural bent to sympathy for the far-right.

CanadaPlus,

Lol, who’s the one guy in Innu-assi? He must hate it there.

Or maybe it’s a Kanye West situation, and it is an Innu guy, who just completely misses the irony.

CanadaPlus,

That’s true. I guess you could argue any of it could potentially be for educational purposes. You’d need to collect evidence on how the items are being used, as well.

That kind of nuance is something angry mobs are bad at, so I agree with OP there. I just wish the actual government cared more.

If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it? (kbin.social)

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I assume I get ID for a person born in '78 if I choose the adult body? I was born, but very young.

Hard drives of data compatible with old computers, and a few modern laptops for good measure. Maybe some electronics equipment too in case I really need to interface with something obsolete or proprietary. Some period-appropriate cash to live on before my first “job”. The 2000’s won’t know what hit them.

I’m not going to be able to take over the world (shit, even taking over Afghanistan proved to be too hard), but I sure as hell can be a shadowy hacker figure that steers the course of history. I’ll probably avert 9/11 assuming I can get up and running fast enough, and try to steer China towards reform and detente with the West. Russia’s probably intractable. I wonder if I could tip the Florida election towards Gore, in order to get global warming taken care of faster. Giving a bump to renewables research could also help things along.

Edit: So, there would be a lot of phases to this, as I gradually shift from being anonymous to a hot item. Once I reach some point at or after present day, I’ll publish my archives so the world can decide for itself, and I’ll leave proof early on that it’s genuine, for example as hashes of data in things like newspapers that are well archived. Then I’ll dismantle my cabal and retire.

CanadaPlus,

(Checking if outbound federation is back)

Yeah, if they had said 10 gallons, I’d buy that, but a whole swimming pool of water would be worth far more than a transaction fee I’d expect.

CanadaPlus,

So how is Zig different from C or C++, then?

CanadaPlus,

Honestly, programming is great for teaching you that you are the stupid one. This is still a feature.

CanadaPlus,

I know you used to be able to get it for pest control, but maybe not anymore. You could also make it the old-fashioned way with molten washing soda. It can be used to make Prussian blue, for one thing.

Obviously take all necessary precautions, especially keeping NaCN away from acids.

CanadaPlus,

Legalism is declaring in 1893 that it is a vegetable for tax purposes, because fuck you, pay taxes.

CanadaPlus,

I think that one might be intelligence too, sorry @xmunk.

CanadaPlus,

So that the mindless automaton delivering your groceries doesn’t unexpectedly give you tomatoes for your sundae, in a future expansion to dish-based orders.

I’ve yet to create a type error that didn’t correspond to me thinking about something wrong.

CanadaPlus,

I’ve never used TS, and I’m not exactly sure what nest.js even does, but building a TypeScript project on top of a JavaScript library not designed for it seems like asking for trouble. Is that standard practice?

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Web dev continues to be cursed, I guess.

If I really needed to use a JS library in TS, I’d have to build some sort of adapter between the two that crashes whenever the JS library (that doesn’t know anything about your types) breaks the typing rules. Anything else will inevitably lead to the above “fun” kind of bugs.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Nails are cheaper, and can be faster to put it. That’s why they’re still a thing.

Edit: Maybe? Apparently their ability to slip a bit is also useful in construction.

CanadaPlus,

TIL. I thought it was just about speed and cost.

CanadaPlus,

Which kind of makes sense if you think about it. The average pope dies in a few years anyway.

CanadaPlus,

Rip your inbox.

CanadaPlus,

Well, congratulations on finding a way to mention it.

CanadaPlus,

What’s our problem, Canada?

CanadaPlus,

Even Europe and Oceania is onboard with this one, though. Don’t they usually abstain at least?

CanadaPlus,

I mean, we’re still friends with Cuba, and never did get involved in Iraq which wasn’t so long ago.

CanadaPlus,

Yep. There’s some producers trying to change that, but the cultural momentum is strong.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I was just thinking about this, watching the ceremony. They’re covering it like it’s a royal wedding (Look at the crowd! What does this day mean to you, personally?), not a scheduled reminder that it could all happen again if we don’t learn from our mistakes.

As for Ukraine, they aren’t even asking for foreign troops so I’m more dovish than you I guess. But we should definitely keep sending them whatever they need, and not cut our military budget!!

CanadaPlus,

To echo OP a bit, negotiate based on what? You can’t just “negotiate” aggression away if you have no leverage. A country with no military has no leverage.

Maybe you’re not a caveman, but plenty of people are, and being pacifists will get us killed.

CanadaPlus,

Would the Nazis have come to power if the world’s wealthiest individuals, corporations and companies had not supported them or financed them?

You have a point, but how would you stop them from doing that?

CanadaPlus,

That’s why I was so glad to see more feathers this year at the national ceremony. Honestly, even reconciliation aside it feels more familiar that way, and less like footage from somewhere in Europe.

The idea of a day to mark what happens when we let our guard down is good, but the implementation still needs to evolve.

CanadaPlus,

Let’s not water down the gravity of genocide. Hitting people with stray bullets is terrible but it’s a whole other level of fucked up when you round them all up and cut their limbs off with machetes because of their name or customs.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

If you had read more carefully, you’d notice that’s not even the genocide I was referencing. And for the record, I’m not pro-Israel.

I’m really not watering down the impact of war. I feel like I gave a pretty detailed picture of the comparative severity, actually.

Edit: Real classy adding that much more stuff after we were done. Here, I’ll add too: there’s no smoking gun, but you sound like you’re actually antisemetic. Who thinks the Holocaust was NBD?

CanadaPlus,

Well, I pretty much agree with that, then. NATO guidelines are to spend 2% of GDP on the military, and I think that’s reasonable. I’m certainly not suggesting >25% like some of the more militaristic nations in recent history.

CanadaPlus,

I mean, and Cuba is also a thing, although I guess the US did do something like Crimea 2014 back in the 60’s.

CanadaPlus,

Yup. Although I’m pretty sure garden tools have been used for ethnic purposes elsewhere, too.

I don’t think the Nazis had any reason to resort to that at any point, though.

CanadaPlus,

So, take some of these figures with a grain of salt. 6% for modern Russia sounds right, and >25% for the Nazis and Soviets during the second half of the 20th century sounds right. North Korea and maybe Eritrea would be the contemporary examples of that, although it’s hard to collect the data. However, the Saudi military is famously useless (on purpose so there’s no coups), and I imagine the money given out is mostly a slush fund for the appointees that run it.

However, there’s a caveat-- at some point, Ukraine will run out of soldiers to operate the equipment. Then what?

Indeed. Aside from internal trouble in NATO-land that’s Russia’s main path to victory. Ukraine is pretty populous itself, so it’s not hopeless, but we can’t rule it out in the long term either. But, I’m not sure unilaterally getting involved is a good solution.

For one thing, we’d lose our article 5 protections (otherwise NATO would get drawn into everybody’s pet projects) and would run the risk of a direct Russian invasion. I don’t think they could do it, because the oceans and ice cap are a pretty tricky obstacle, but they would definitely bomb us and our little airforce couldn’t really stop them. That’s a big sacrifice.

Internationally, that would piss our friends of the to Nth degree. It would be a hell of an escalation in a world that’s worried about MAD, and the bombing raids on Calgary would be right across the 49th from America’s missile silos, which would make them very nervous from a first strike perspective. From a propaganda perspective this would also look great for Putin, as suddenly he’s directly fighting the West, and someone from the West he might beat sometimes. Put together, I fully expect Canada would get kicked out of all the clubs we can be kicked out of, not that you really need CETA that bad with ports that aren’t safe for civilian traffic.

My main hope for Ukraine going forwards is new technology. Particularly, Sweden’s Gripens were built with this exact war in mind, just further north, so Turkey needs to get out of the way. Other than that we just have to hope they can kill 4 Russians for every Ukrainian, or that Putin’s hold on the domestic situation is indeed tenuous.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, it’s not impossible, they were pretty flexible about accomplishing their “work” on the Eastern front, but if you’re in Einsatzgruppen and you have plenty of issued bullets, why would you break your back with chopping? And I’m not even sure machetes found much use in the area. Maybe I’m overlooking some regional thing but usually I picture Europeans using axes, saws and hinged shears.

CanadaPlus,

Ancient MacBook gang represent.

CanadaPlus,

TIL. Yeah, if it’s just those industries that’s pretty weaksauce. I guess at least it would be the courts deciding now instead of some anti-union government.

CanadaPlus,

“That’s what I was going to say!”

How do you feel about financing a genocide?

I didn’t want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I’m right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did...

CanadaPlus,

I’m not sure if it constitutes genocide yet, but it’s fair to say it’s going that direction. For every dead group A, group B wants to kill 10 group A people, and vice-versa. There’s two ways that can stop; either they bury the hatchet or one group is entirely wiped out.

As for how I feel about my government, actually kind of hopeful. I was expecting SNAFU but it’s clear the Canadian government is actually having to consider the Palestinian perspective this time around.

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