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  • Can one man look more cucked?

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  • Is Trump in a position to "give" Venezuela to Machado? As far as I can determine the same government that was running it before Maduro's abduction is running it currently.

  • Postmedia Suspends Toronto Sun Parliamentary Bureau Chief After Tweet Applauding ICE Killing Minneapolis Woman

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  • Don't look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

  • soon they'll be making "books" and you won't need to memorize anything anymore

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  • https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept13/2013/09/29/socrates-writing-vs-memory/

    [...] Thamus states that ‘letters’ “… will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls…” (Plato, n.d.). Thamus believed that the people would become dependent on the written word and cease to use their own memories. He also believed the written word would lead people to become “hearers of many things”, appear as though they were all-knowing, but to actually be learners of nothing.

  • Why did you decide to join Lemmy?

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  • I had been looking for a reddit alternative for some time, but nothing I found was both active enough and not a receptacle for all the shitheads who were too reactionary for reddit. When the API fiasco happened, it seemed like there was an opportunity for federated link aggregators to be that. So far, it seems like that has been true. I was also attracted to the open source nature of the thing.

  • Defence Department Brushed Aside ‘Bad Optics’ Of American Contracts

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  • It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.

  • ‘Get the f**k off there’: MPs, Senators call on government to abandon X/Twitter following wave of ‘Grok porn’

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  • The network effect seems to be the strong nuclear force of online interaction.

  • Federal government confirms 25 guns collected in 'buyback' pilot, as Quebec pledges support

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  • That person was definitely being sarcastic.

  • National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

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  • In Canada, our current prime minister has made one of his priorities firing (or reducing via attrition, whatever) a bunch of public servants and utilizing LLMs to "increase efficiency". Boy, sure am expecting that to go well.

  • The S-Word

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  • In Jeopardy, you are supposed to answer in the form of a question. So the lady in the MIT hoodie should have responded, "What is socialism?"

  • Trump’s Terrifying New Security Doctrine Turns Canada into a Target

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  • I agree with all of that. I think our's and Europe's leaders are making the exact wrong move. This is a moment where we should be locking arms with they as well as Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, etc and projecting strength right back at the US. Not falling for their bravado.

  • Maduro’s legal team includes acclaimed lawyer who represented Julian Assange

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  • I expect a kangaroo court. But if by some chance it weren't, and Maduro were to walk and they had to send him back to Venezuela, that would be really, really funny.

  • Trump’s Terrifying New Security Doctrine Turns Canada into a Target

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  • I recently watched an interview with Marco Rubio and am actually significantly less worried about American aggression since. Not because he allayed my concerns, but because he reminded me that this administration is incompetent.

    Let's put what the US is saying aside for a moment and look at the actual situation in Venezuela. Maduro's government is still in control. His VP has assumed duties and doesn't seem to be playing along. There are no American boots on the ground. There doesn't appear to be any plans to put boots on the ground. In the interview with Rubio, he laid out what the plan was. They are going to use their fleet to embargo Venezuela and pressure the already existing government until they do what the US wants.

    What? How is that different from what they were doing before Maduro was abducted? What did abducting Maduro change here? In the past when doing regime change the US would have some local element ready to take advantage of the chaos to seize control of the government. My suspicion is that something similar was planned here, but for whatever reason the local part of the coup never fired. What we are looking at is a failed coup. And what we've seen from the US since, the lies about the Venezuelan VP being in Russia, the lies that she was playing along, the threats against various other countries in the western hemisphere, it's all marketing. Chest beating from the US to project an illusion of strength in the face of this failure. The one thing Trump is pretty good at is controlling the narrative, and that's what they are attempting to do here, but it's coming from a place of weakness, not strength.

    Of course, this is all speculation on my part and I would still advise preparing for the worst. But I think the US is trying to cow all it's neighbours with threats that it won't be able to back up. If they aren't willing to put boots on the ground in Venezuela for oil, they sure as hell aren't going to invade Denmark for "national security".

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • Wasn't there a report a week or two back saying that they cut their internal sales targets by 50% because no one was using copilot? They must be desperate to abandon decades of branding they have built up.

  • The US Media is equally complicit

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  • Billionaire owned media acts as a legitimization machine for neoliberal governments because those governments work for capital first and foremost.

  • Alberta Separatism is a Full Frontal Assault on Democracy

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  • The current push for Alberta separation is an American assisted op to destabilize Canada. The separatists lost their right to make such a claim the moment they started courting foreign support. They crossed the line from separation to sedition, in my opinion.

  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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  • I'm not the one who complained about whataboutism. I pointed out that it's hypocritical to whine about me doing it if you're not also going to whine about the original commenter doing it. Which is fine, it's legal to be a hypocrite. One should own it, though.

  • Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

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    Really?

  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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  • My point is the USA is a warmonger who needs to be treated as such. Further, you are aware that the beginning of this thread is literally a yank doing a whataboutism in the opposite direction? Why don't you go whine to them if that bothers you so much?

  • China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law

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    Canada’s housing crisis isn’t being caused by foreign investors. It’s being caused by investors, period | Ricochet

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    Dr. Henry Kissinger Dies at Age 100

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    “Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories | The Walrus

    thewalrus.ca /parents-rights-conspiracy-theories/
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    Blast horns 'as long as possible' if police move in, convoy protesters told in video

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ottawa/video-played-trial-chris-barber-tamara-lich-convoy-protests-1.6959494
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    Jordan Peterson learns that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences

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    Canada issues LGBTQ+ travel advisory for U.S.

    www.winnipegfreepress.com /canada/2023/08/29/global-affairs-canada-issues-lgbtq-travel-advisory-for-united-states
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    Education assistant with racy OnlyFans account fired for what employer calls 'egregious' conduct | CBC News

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    Faced with a 'torrent' of sports betting ads, this Canadian senator wants national rules to deal with them | CBC News

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