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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

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  • They should make three, and they all have to agree, but if only one disagrees then maybe they can ignore it, call it the "minority account" or something like that.

  • Day 1 of posting a photo every day until I forget.

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  • I for one look forward to Day 1, Part Duh!

    (sorry)

  • US academic arrested in Thailand for insulting monarchy

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  • Sure, but freedom of speech should be protected from government prosecution or suppression...

    Why? That's not fundamental to a functioning society. Its not an inalienable right.

    In Thailand, a monarchy, the monarchy is sacrosanct. Who are you to tell them that's wrong?

    ...to the extent possible*...

    ...or to the extent that society/community desires... FTFY

    Don't get me wrong, in Canada, I think speech absolutely needs to be protected. But there are still limits to that. For example, hate speech should be prohibited.

    Did you know "obscenity" is not protected by the first amendment in the US? What does that even mean? It really depends on how society views things. https://uwm.edu/freespeech/faqs/what-is-obscenity/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Speech+about+sex+and+sexuality%2Cprotected+by+the+First+Amendment

    In Thailand, they put limits on speech that include not insulting the monarchy. It really doesn't seem that different. (And I won't give you my opinion on it.)

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  • Does this mean the other products they ship aren't hit with tariffs? Are they somehow wholly made in the US vs the ones that were dropped?

    Edit: found my own answer:

    "We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss."

  • 7 April 2025

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  • Gary Larson was(/is?) famously very against any sharing of his work online:

    Okay, “scary” might be a little melodramatic, but years ago, when I slowly started realizing I had a second publisher and distributor of my work, known as Anyone With a Scanner & Associates, I did find it unsettling enough to write an open letter to “whom it may concern,” explaining — best as I could — why I preferred that the people doing this would kindly refrain. I won’t rehash it all here, but my powers of persuasion had at least some impact, and many of my fans were very understanding and responsive. Maybe it takes a warped mind to understand a warped mind. (No, seriously, my thanks to those who removed my cartoons willingly, or even begrudgingly.)

    From here: https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larson

    He goes on to talk about his official website as it is now (2019) and in general I think he still prefers to keep things locked down.

  • 7 April 2025

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  • 7 April 2025

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  • ...exposing their nuts

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    Central Park Five Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Donald Trump

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  • I thought it looked familiar.

  • PLA in screw hole preventing me from unscrewing the hotend (SV06)

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  • Instructions unclear, penis stuck in hot end.

  • Trump Shares Video About How He Is 'Purposely Crashing the Stock Market'

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  • Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

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  • Wait 'til you see their retaliation!

  • What are some things we should have on our resume?

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  • Name

  • Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’

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  • It was a joke. Look at the other stuff I write.

  • I feel attacked

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  • I think you mean Abrams Mechanics

  • Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’

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  • Tell Trump.

  • Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’

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  • It's easy. If there's too much pushback, he's "just joking." Then he'll do it anyway. He "doesn't want to," but he "has to for national security." Then he'll talk about how "foreign governments don't want me to be president because I'm too good, America has never been greater, China wants me out. They've put viruses in the those vote counting things. You can't trust an election. The whole system needs to be fixed. It's war. It's too dangerous to have an election in war time. Our enemies are paying people to vote illegally. They look like us now. They're smart. They're really evil, but they're smart these Chinese. They look like us and sound like us.

    <lightbulb moment>

    They have Canadians coming down here and stuffing ballots and they look like us. Those Canadians really sneaky, they look like us. It's true. They look like us. And their country is so terrible, it's sad, Canada, they have no money. They totally relied on us and I shut it all down. They were stealing from us with their tariffs. Do you remember that? They were stealing from us, and I shut them down, and now they're broke. It's so sad. So sad. But now they take money from China and stuff our ballots. And China gets in there with their computers and their viruses, they're really smart those Chinese. Ching chong ping pong and they're inside the computer. I don't know how they do it but they do it. It's true, they just go right inside our counting things, because our guys are so dumb. They really are. It's all immigrants in our universities and they can't keep up with these Chinese. But they wouldn't listen to me. I kept saying, 'we have to stop with all these immigrant students.' But did they stop? No, because they didn't believe me. They didn't believe me! And now we have all these immigrant students, and they're so dumb. It's sad how dumb they are. And our guys can't keep up because there's so many of them. They send them over in waves.

    <lightbulb>

    It's like an invasion. Wave after wave of these immigrants, they say they're students, but it's an invasion. That's what it is, an invasion. Because we're at war, and we can't have an election when we're at war because it's not safe. So I'll stay president, because I'm the best. It'll be great. I'm great. I really am. Look how I shut down Canada. They'll be begging us to take them over any day now. They're already saying it, Canadians. They hate their government. So weak. Their Governor doesn't know what he's doing. He's so bad. So we'll rescue the Canadians. That's what I'll do, I'll rescue the Canadians. We'll get them one way or another. Because they're attacking us. They're sneaky you know. Those Canadians. They look like us and they're stuffing our ballots. They do it all the time. So we can't have an election. I want to have an election. I really do. I want to. But we can't. We just can't. We're at war. We can't do it."

    Sorry 'boot that, eh.

  • ‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

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  • US CBP are going to eliminate the need for their own jobs by scaring the rest of the world away from wanting to visit.

  • Putin’s limousine ablaze after mysterious explosion in Moscow

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