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Greg, to canada in Canadian military decides against court martial for officer who called for uprising
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Holy shit this is embarrassing. How can someone who is so easily manipulated hold a security clearance? I’m a veteran and I hate it when people abuse their uniform like this.

Greg, to canada in Truck driver who caused deadly Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada
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Why wasn’t he required to have a surety/translator?

That’s a valid question no matter where they were born. I’m not arguing that there were no failings in this case, I’m arguing that those failings are not related to the original citizenship of this individual.

As I said earlier

We all want to reduce violent crime in Canada so lets focus on identifying real causal relationships so that we can support at risk individuals.

Let’s identify at risk individuals (both possible victims and possible attackers) instead of scapegoating non casual and even non correlated attributes of individuals who commit violent acts.

re: traffic laws in Canada. From my experience, it depends where you are in Canada (and what number plates you have). Driving the speed limit on Toronto highways is dangerous but going 10 over with Ontario plates in Quebec can get you a ticket 😅 There are lots of unwritten road rules here, it was difficult to learn as an immigrant. Especially coming from a country littered with speed cameras where 7km over will get you fined hundreds of dollars. And don’t get me wrong, I think Canadian drivers are generally really good, it’s just the laws don’t align with the reality which can be confusing.

Greg, to canada in Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes
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Calling for genocide is illegal in Canada so why is it necessary to cover it in school policies? I wouldn’t expect murder to be included in school policies either.

Greg, to canada in Truck driver who caused deadly Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada
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most people are terrible about rolling stops, its insane

The stop signs seem more like a polite suggestion here 🤣 And why don’t they just increase the speed limit to 120 already.

just because the data says one thing DOES NOT in any sense preclude the existence of severe outlier data points

That’s why we should rely on the data, decisions shouldn’t be based on anecdotal outliers. No one is excusing the horrific acts of Ali Ibrahim or any other immigrant. It’s just that their immigrant status doesn’t have a causal relationship with crime so immigration status is irrelevant. We all want to reduce violent crime in Canada so lets focus on identifying real causal relationships so that we can support at risk individuals.

Greg, to canada in Truck driver who caused deadly Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada
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The data does not support the argument that an increase in immigration leads to an increases crime. As a side note, I’m an immigrant and I come to a complete stop at stop signs and drive the speed limit. None of my Canadian born friends do 😅

Greg, to asklemmy in What country are you using lemmy from?
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Canada

Greg, to canada in Massive Leak Of European Neo-Nazi Web Store Reveals Dozens Of Canadian Customers' Personal Information
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I wonder how this news is affecting midgard.com, the 100 year old lighting shop. My guess, they’re receiving abusive emails while also selling loads more white lamps

Greg, to canada in Palestinian journalist says CTV News fired her after "speaking up for Palestine"
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I’m trying to understand how it is different in your eyes. How is the Israeli government’s segregation different from the Apartheid South African government’s segregation? Obviously you see a distinction but it’s not obvious to myself and I want to understand your perspective.

Greg, to asklemmy in You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?
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The way your society currently discriminates and segments humans is not universal

Greg, (edited ) to canada in Palestinian journalist says CTV News fired her after "speaking up for Palestine"
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From your perspective, how does the current situation in Israel and the territories that Israel controls differ from Apartheid South Africa? I’m trying to understand your world view.

Greg, to technology in Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages
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That’s unlikely in a closed heat exchange system. Maybe some additional evaporation because the water is slightly warmer. But unless I’m missing something, it seems very misleading to suggest that a Bitcoin transaction uses 16 kilolitres because of evaporation. Napkin math, it would require about 10 megawatt/hours of energy to evaporate that much water (please correct me if I’m wrong). I’m not a Bitcoin fanboy, I just don’t like BS.

Greg, to technology in Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages
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These data centers consume water for cooling systems

How does a data center consume water? Doesn’t every liter that enters as freshwater leave as slightly warmer freshwater? What am I missing here?

Greg, to privacy in Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy
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Me speaking to my mum: Get off Facebook! They’re just trying to sell you shit you don’t need!

Also me: oh, I should replace my robot vac with this fancier one!

Greg, to technology in ChatGPT subscribers may get a ‘GPT builder’ option soon
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Depends what you’re using it for

Greg, to news in WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’
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This isn’t an Large Language Model, it’s an Image Generative Model. And given that these models just present human’s biases and stereotypes, then doesn’t it follow that humans should also be kept far away from decision making processes?

The problem isn’t the tool, it’s the lack of auditable accountability. We should have auditable accountability in all of our important decision making systems, no matter if it’s a biased machine or biased human making the decision.

This was a shitty implementation of a tool.

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