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People (especially Canadians) have this misguided idea that Canada is somehow "small potatoes", when we're something like the 10th largest economy in the world, with a powerful portfolio of natural resources, energy resources, strong research and development capabilities and a well-educated workforce. Just because we're not a rival to the US or China on our own doesn't mean we don't have the potential to make a serious impact on the world stage and the world economy, especially if we can leverage some of our unique advantages when we start deeply cooperating and allying ourselves with some of the other top 10 economies in the world. There are some pretty significant opportunities here.
We need to start acting like we're one of the 10th largest economies in the world in our own right, and not the US's pet mini-me. The US isn't going to like it, and I'm not going to pretend there won't be economic retaliation (and maybe more) but we need to do it anyway. The US is nobody's friend anymore, least of all ours.
Yeah people underestimate how widely the AI mind virus has spread. Some people are addicted to it, they can't live without it. It's all they can talk about, or think about.
I had a Dell Precision M4800 for like a decade. It was a really good machine. A few minor complaints over the years, but overall, pretty solid machine. Not all their computers are good computers, some they are certainly capable of making some.
Provided they're not nazis or fascists or sex traffickers or anything like that. There are bad people out there who prey on vulnerable depressed people and they can be really really nice (at first), and they can wear any costume they want, to fit into any subculture. But some subcultures are more hospitable for them than others. Most subcultures are pretty okay, there's a few where I would potentially be very careful. Just be smart about it, and be vigilant for abusive behaviors, grooming, and other red flags.
It's probably also so Canada's surrounded so that when he invades us too Europe won't be able to help. I wish I was joking. I now think that's a real possibility. And it might come sooner than we think.
Lenovo Thinkpads are the only reliable choice pretty much and even then it's a bit of a crapshoot whether they include them or not. HP Elitebooks used to have them too but it seems like they also stopped in 2021. Apple's never had them as far as I know. There's a few other one-off small-run options here and there too but they're few and far between.
I realize I'm in a very significant minority, but personally, having access to the mouse pointer for short jogs here and clicks there without my hands leaving the keyboard home row is a gamechanger and a non-negotiable feature to me. I'd never claim it's a great way to move the mouse, but it has extremely high utility due to its convenient positioning, it's always available even in tight quarters, and anytime space permits it pairs well with a secondary, traditional mouse for movements that are more numerous or complex or need more precision, it works very well with a text-heavy workflow.
It's a mouse for people who would rather minimize their mouse usage, and I guess that's me, or at least that's the workflow I've gravitated to all my life. It's not an ideology thing, it's simply the fact that it's deep muscle memory now, and whenever I try to use any computer without one I struggle so much, and I've actively tried more than once to wean myself off it, I can't, it becomes a constant irritation that any other mouse feels so disconnected from my typing.
Touchpads are just insanely frustrating to use, I have no idea how some people tolerate using them daily unless it's all they've ever known, and touchscreens are even worse in some ways since your fingers block the screen exactly where you're trying to press, not to mention getting fingerprint smudges all over it even with the best techno-magic coatings. I loathe them both.
The white supremacists call it remigration. The word also has other meanings, nearly as stupid, but that's what white supremacists mean when they say it. Wrong skin color? Wrong accent? Fuck off and go somewhere else, this is white man's country now. Native Americans? Yeah that means you too. /s
Some people are screaming. Most are not. And the words, from those screaming, are cheap. The silence of actions continues to be, and likely will continue to be, deafening.
Huh, I already built my own (very janky) Python wrapper around OpenSCAD's horrible syntax and editor, but that looks like a much better solution. Thanks!
It'll keep working too, maybe until it encourages you so much you have a heart attack and die, because you know, it's AI, it doesn't have any knowledge or accountability and it certainly doesn't have any concern for human life.
Very, very clearly, even by their own admissions, if you put even the slightest effort to read between the lines they basically say it themselves. And anyone who says otherwise is spreading propaganda (some unwittingly, with willful ignorance, but still propaganda).
And they know exactly what they're doing. They've been targeting reporters and journalists since the very beginning, to minimize reporting on this. Even early in the war, the ones who were reporting from a "safe" distance far from any so-called "militants" get "accidentally" fired upon. They've blocked humanitarian efforts at every step of the way. They've done drone strikes on aid convoys, including the flotilla with Greta Thunberg, more than once.
I think the outrage from the public at Israel's actions could be stronger, but it's already more than strong enough to justify that something serious should be done. And it isn't. And it won't be. And I don't think more public outrage is going to change that. I think the public needs to start asking hard questions about their own governments and political leaders and why they still support Israel. Because it's not an accident, and it's not a secret, that Israel still receives overwhelming international support in what they're doing. Perhaps with a few cautionary finger-shakes and a sternly worded letter or two, but the money and the logistical and political support continues to flow almost completely unabated. This completely crosses party lines, it's something almost all the economic and political power of the western world is supporting.
We're all complicit, even if we don't realize it, even if we don't have any obvious choices available that would prevent it. Ignorance, willful or otherwise, is not a defense. I don't think it's within my power as an individual to do anything to stop this, but I can at least choose not to be ignorant about it, to see what we have wrought and admit what we are responsible for. And I can encourage other people to see it too. I will remember what the Palestinian people were before now, and I hope that as many of them survive as possible to continue being that, and more in the decades and centuries ahead.
Well, I'm not going to pretend stuff's not going to get real weird for a werewolf, but I can clarify some of the orbital mechanics a bit.
First of all, the moon still has all its normal phases from orbit and in pretty much the same durations. For the moon to always be full, you would have to be permanently between the sun and the moon, which is not where an orbit will typically put you. A couple ways you could do this: You could orbit the sun instead, or at least orbit closer to it than Earth does. From Venus's orbit, both Earth and our Moon are always "full". Or you could set yourself up at a lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun.
The other less simple way you could achieve an always-full or at least frequently-full moon is to get into what's known as sun-synchronous orbit.
The simplest way though, might be to just land on the Moon's surface. The terminator between day and night on the moon's surface only moves at about 9.6 miles per hour, even slower the closer you get to the poles. An athletic werewolf could probably jog to keep up, and stay permanently on the "full" day side.
Fair and balanced reporting! Is the Earth actually flat? This scientist at Oxford tells us why he thinks it isn't, but this drunk homeless man insists it is. Maybe one day we'll know for sure. Until then, check back for more of our reporting next week, when we'll ask them both what new evidence they have!