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  • Generally, in cities you won't have really any problems. My fiancee is Turkish and we live in the prairies and she's never had anything happen. Folks stumble on her name sometimes but it's not really racism.

    If you go rural, you always up your chances of encountering more racism. Rural PEI/NB will be accidentally racist, rural AB/SK will not care if they're racist. Generally this is true unless you're camping/hiking, when you wrap back around to people who are generally just happy to see fellow outdoorsmen.

    Much of North American racism isn't from individual people but in systems. My fiancee's experience is that European systems are more likely to be equitable but the people will be racist. In general, if you visit Canadian cities from Vancouver to Montreal, I wouldn't expect you to have any racist encounters.

  • I've been selfhosting Synapse on Docker Compose for... maybe 1.5 years now? I'm also running bridges. I've never had to do monthly maintenance. I have around 20 users (my friends) active daily, a few federated rooms. I have message retention on and it "just worked" for me (not sure why OP had to do extra config)

    I only find two of the critiques to be true in my experience:

    1. Onboarding can be confusing for non-technical users. I use SSO so no registration, but the average person doesn't know what an encryption key is, and they probably don't want to either.
    2. Synapse is written in python and as such isn't super kind to memory/cpu. I'm doing fine on my cheap Hetzner box though.

    Overall synpase for me has been very much "set it and forget it". I can't remember when I last did server maintenance.

  • Yea cause it's perfect lefty confirmation bias bait. I've had people tell me "yes I know this story is fake but it's great propaganda" and then had the mods choose not to remove the post lol.

  • Yeah, we might not. We could still bid on F35 production runs. I think the specifics will be quite important to determining what's a good outcome.

    Regardless, I like that we're courting other options even if it just results in leverage elsewhere.

  • Yeah, I saw that. I'm not sure how that 10k number relates to the number created by F35-related manufacturing so far.

  • claude performs acceptably at repetitive tasks when I have an existing pattern for it to follow. "Replicate PR 123, but to add support for object Bar instead of Foo". If I get some of this busy work in my queue I typically just have claude do it while I'm in a meeting.

    I'd never let it do refactors or design work, but as a code generation tool that can use existing code as a template, it's useful. I wouldn't pay an arm and a leg for it, but burning $2 while I'm in a meeting to kill chore tasks is worth it to me.

  • To be fair, we've manufactured a lot of parts for other country's F35s so far. That's quite standard for defense contracts. Still, if Saab commits to bringing more guaranteed manufacturing jobs than the F35 program, it could be worth it. If this gives us a leg up in F35 manufacturing bids, that could also be worth it. Feels like a strong play regardless of outcome.

  • Ok.

  • I'm asking if you're aware of the fact that the articles you're posting have no basis in fact. ICE has proven 72 million on equipment, an astonishingly large number. There is absolutely no data or anything at all to lead anyone to believe they've purchased "warheads" "guided missiles" or "artillery" as the articles you're posting claim.

    Is this disconnect intentional?

  • A bigger outlet repeating the same false claim with the same citation doesn't make it more true. Or are you saying you know the claim is made up and its worth posting anyways as propaganda?

  • What's worse is I fucking called it, now The Independent is repeating this BS (although the rest of the article is much better at focusing on all the horrendous shit ICE actually is doing, and the guided missiles lie is a single sentence basically), here is the article.

    While the majority of the money has been spent on guns and armor for field agents, the outlay has also seen ICE purchase “guided missile warheads and explosive components,” according to Popular Information.

    There we go, tracked this particular disinformation live. Next step is a major US outlet like NYT repeating the same "Popular Information states ____". Journalism used to mean actually doing something just just copy/pasting from random blogs online. I doubt they've even pulled the data from the government portal themselves. /sigh

    Here's the REAL story, after the made up stuff:

    ICE has also attracted a deluge of unwanted headlines for the administration, including the recent revelation that it has arrested at least 20 children who are American citizens this year, two of whom had cancer.

    Reports of operations involving armed agents “traumatizing” mothers and children and firing pepper balls at a priest attending a demonstration have not helped their publicity drive.

    “What we’re seeing is a general escalation of violence and the use of excessive force by ICE officers,” Ed Yohnka of ACLU Illinois told NPR recently.

  • ? The articles HEADLINE says "warheads" and the body says "guided missiles", and then cites a source saying "guided missiles" and "artillery". I'm not just disambiguating minutiae, there's a huge difference between buying a flashbang and a fucking guided missile system.

    Misinformation is cool as long as it's "our guys" making shit up?

    We have so many real things to go after the gestapo for, INLCUDING spending $72 mill on guns and shit, but you're right, we should say they bought tanks and F35s as well. It'll really get this ball rolling.

    I wasn't even accusing you of doing anything, but hey, attack me personally to make your point. Makes you look really smart and reliable. No wonder your country is fucked.

  • The only source cited is a blog which cites a blog + raw acquisition numbers from government data, none of which contain ANY reference to "guided missiles" or "artillery" as the original substack claims.

    As best I can tell, this claim was just kind of made up, then referenced by a blog, and now by the daily beast. We're like 3 days out from NYT writing this and referencing this daily beast article.

    Fuck this administration for all the illegal and inhuman shit they're doing, but I'm almost certain this is just made up. They definitely have spent a shitload of money on weapons and equipment (bad) but theres no proof they've bought explosives and chemical weapons (beyond pepper spray)

  • Don't forget to not vote next midterms or primaries to show Newsom and the Dems we mean business!

  • Oh I'm with you - gerrymandering, purging of voter roles days before elections, systemic voter suppression methods, etc. are all existential threats to democracy. I'd argue that apathetic voters is a bigger issues though in aggregate, the vast majority (80%+) want taxpayer funded single payer healthcare but if you were to consider "did not vote" as a political party, "did not vote" would have won the election in 2024 by a landslide (40/30/30). Voter suppression alone cannot account for ~108 million voters.

  • North American elections aren't decided by changing people's minds, they haven't been for decades. They're decided by getting the non-voters out for your party. 30ish % of the electorate will never drop Trump. 35ish % of the electorate will never vote R. Elections are decided by the 35% in the middle who usually don't even vote.

    They only vote when the impact on their lives is impossible to ignore, hence why Trump's COVID inflation gift to Biden got them off the bench. "Food is much more expensive now, I blame

    <person currently president>

    ". These people can be swung, but it requires their lives to be directly and obviously impacted. Maybe loss of healthcare would do it.

  • Yea idk

  • Worth noting that the flight itself wasn't cancelled, his reservation/booking "just disappeared". I highly doubt the government interfered, while the administration is certainly this petty I doubt anyone with any authority at all was even aware.

  • Seconded!