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assaultpotato

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  • Doug Ford slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China

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  • We should absolutely be divesting from any industry that requires US cooperation to be profitable. Not only that, but US automakers have stagnated, resting on their laurels and refusing to innovate thanks to deep protectionist schemes. Time to retool our steel and aluminum refining and manufacturing industries to make something that's not poorly designed and built cars.

  • Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland | Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security.

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  • Yes the US wins any individual conventional conflict for sure. But putting up a resistance force on Greenland could dissuade the US from trying, as even military win may prove to be a loss, especially if the rest of NATO can take some Americans with them when Greenland falls.

    Simply pulling out of Greenland is a non-option, even if the US would win the battle for Greenland.

  • Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland | Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security.

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  • This is the mentality they are banking on, it's the Russian mentality since time immemorial that's kept Europe in the cuck chair for so long. "Yes but if we respond, they might escalate things!"

    Gotta tell you, as a Canadian I don't love the concept of the US having even more leverage over our already tenuous logistical connection to European allies. Keeping the Atlantic un-dominated is important for us.

  • Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown

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  • I believe I misread something - the majority of the accused are Somali-American, although there are some large damages caused by non-Somali people as well. I'll delete my original comment as misleading.

  • Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown

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    What USA did to Venezuela and Russia to Ukraine, while NK left to itself further proved that to be left alone you gotta have nukes from the looks of it.

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  • Gotta have 'em yourself. Canada needs to get our nukes back, even your closest allies are potential threats.

  • Canada's population drops as country caps immigration

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  • Most people are in favor, a minority aren't. Population inversion should scare people more than it does, but right now the current dominant fear for people is housing costs, which immigration rates are being (very incorrectly) blamed for.

    If you ask the average person, they probably would reply "immigration is fine as long as we can provide for everyone". The average left-leaning person would be more likely to drop the conditional, and the average right leaning person would say "verb the noun" and ask why we're letting immigrants take out 300k loans from banks and then leave the country with the cash[1].

    It's a mixed bag, as with anywhere.

    [1] this is not happening in any meaningful capacity and most immigrants can't secure any credit at all without collateral, but this is nonetheless a very real conversation I've had with a post-secondary educated semi-friend who really should know better

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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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.

  • Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

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  • 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.

  • Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

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  • 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.

  • Canada Considers Snubbing US F-35 For Sweden’s Gripen Fighter Jets

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  • 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.

  • Canada Considers Snubbing US F-35 For Sweden’s Gripen Fighter Jets

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

  • Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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  • 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.

  • Canada Considers Snubbing US F-35 For Sweden’s Gripen Fighter Jets

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  • 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.

  • ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons

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  • Ok.

  • ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons

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  • 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?

  • ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons

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  • 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?

  • ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons

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  • 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.

  • ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons

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  • ? 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.