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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets

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  • She said Trump's rhetoric is unfortunate and she wants prospective Canadian visitors to know they are welcome in California.

    They don't even get what the issue is apparently.

    We're being warned to leave our phones at home when crossing the border. People are being detained for weeks for visa issues. Our government has issued a travel advisory about how US border guards are screening travellers.

    This isn't just "oh, we're upset you hosers are calling us the 51st state, eh."

    This is genuine fear of what might happen if we go to your country. A friend of mine was almost in tears because she had non-refundable tickets to go to the states to see a friend and was worried about crossing the border.

    Sorry, but it's going to take more than, "please come visit because we like you, really."

  • Me want cookie

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  • All I can think about is how they made that inverse colour version. I'm thinking reduce the blue channel to 0, then do the invert?

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    Biden Recalls Seeing ‘Colored Kids’ on Bus During First Major Speech Since Leaving White House

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  • A bit clickbaity.

    Reminiscing about his childhood in the Pennsylvania city on Tuesday, Biden said, “I remember pulling in, pulling into the parking lot and I had never seen– I had never seen hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time, and I was only going on fourth grade, and I remember seeing the kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by.”

    He recalled, “They never turned right to go to the Claymont High School. I wondered why, asked my mom, ‘Why?’ She said in Delaware they’re not allowed to go to school, in public school, with white kids.”

    Emphasis mine. He was trying to make a point about how they were treated differently.

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  • Yes, but I'm saying the algorithm for layoffs factors in "performance", which can be factored from past bonus allocations.

    The algorithm isn't going to lay off 150's, but might preferentially select 100's.

    I don't have inside info, I'm just making assumptions that the data has to come from somewhere.

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

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  • Based on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.

    I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as "authoritative" I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

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  • Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you're quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the "authoritative" in the description of "Canadian weekly world news".

    SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

    TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: "COSMIC REVENGE" -- FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,' IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS...

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

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  • If you mean "confirmed" in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.

    Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that's true, too.

    But if you're saying they're confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.

    CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That's it.

  • 'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat

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  • "You sound like a commie!"

  • Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says

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  • Who is waiting in the wings to take over?

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

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  • Uh, Canadian Weekly World News was like the Inquirer. Edit: maybe I'm remembering the name "The Inquirer" wrong, but in any case it was tabloid schlock

    This is a made up story from the 90s.

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    Another Dumb Trump Decision Backfired

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  • Damn i was hoping that was the real title.

  • BREAKING: Trump Exempts Phones, Computers and More From Tariffs

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  • There was a Biff question on Jeopardy yesterday (I think, I'm in a weird time zone), and my first thought was the response would be "what is Trum- er Biff! I mean Biff!"

  • Ontario measles case count tops 800, 155 new infections since last week

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  • Thanks!

  • Ontario measles case count tops 800, 155 new infections since last week

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  • I wish there was more info on how many were unvaccinated - more than just "predominant" - and the relative seriousness of the symptoms.

    There can't be that many anti-vaxxers, can there?

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  • Sort of. Managers still get in a room and decide how the bonus pool should be distributed by ranking people.

    Having a more aggressive manager is important for getting a better bonus.

    I could see this factoring into layoff decisions.

  • US academic arrested in Thailand for insulting monarchy

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  • Thanks for clarifying your view - I get where you're coming from now. I’m not conflating society and government so much as recognizing that in most real-world societies, the line between the two isn’t always so clean. Governments often represent collective values, even imperfectly, and they’re the mechanism through which rights are codified and enforced.

    You might believe in total free speech, but I’d argue that most societies - even the most liberal democracies - accept some limits to protect others' rights or prevent harm. If speech truly had zero consequences beyond social disapproval, that could leave vulnerable groups exposed to abuse. So, societies have a right to draw those lines differently, based on their own values.

    Anyways, since you can't be civil (i.e. you're a fucking asshole who can't argue without ad hominem attacks), I'm done communicating with you.

  • US academic arrested in Thailand for insulting monarchy

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  • Also also, if you were Canadian, what trouble could you possibly get in being critical of Thailand? You're either an insane coward or a liar for that one

    Perhaps I'm not in Canada right now. Maybe think outside your tiny little box and stop being a numb skull (see, I can insult you, too.)

    Do you agree with any limits on free speech in a society?

  • Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii

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  • The most she'll get is a misdemeanour fine for filing a false residency declaration in Texas.

    It will certainly be less than the shitstorm for voting in Hawaii without the correct residency requirements.

  • US academic arrested in Thailand for insulting monarchy

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  • I won't give my opinion because I don't want it to lead to me getting in any kind of trouble, if that makes you feel any better.

    But in any case, my point is you can't project your beliefs onto others.