kbin_space_program

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kbin_space_program , (edited )

He could paint it as taking down the "ivory tower intellectuals"

Since the goal they(the far right) achieved in Canada under Stephen Harper was the suppression of compensation.

To the point that a field requiring a job earns half the value in Canada that it does in the US.

kbin_space_program ,

It's the CCP. You can't have a non government funded company.

kbin_space_program ,

Should start out with ones where the prosecution came up with elaborate stories and convicted the person, by they later turned out to be completely innocent.

It is by definition a false crime.

kbin_space_program ,

Sure a crime actually happened, but what the prosecution said in court never actually happened. Their believe is irrelevant to facts.

kbin_space_program ,

You need that extra time, or you have the issue Vancouver has where international students with no given Canadian income own something like 30% of the city's luxury housing.

kbin_space_program ,

Cream of Earl Grey black tea if before 3pm.

If after 3pm, A Bourbon-flavoured rooibos.

If after 8pm, its not just bourbon flavoured anymore.

kbin_space_program ,

Its adding whiskey, gin, rum or bourbon, depending on the tea(white/herbal or Rooibos for no caffeine) for variations on the Hot Toddy.

kbin_space_program ,

My Oma was in the Netherlands in the 1930s. Her family sheltered part of a jewish family(the elderly mother who was too sick to escape to North America, and one of her sons, a lawyer, who stayed behind to care for her.) This was before the invasion and the start of the war.

At the time, late 1930s, she said that everyone knew something bad was happening to the Jewish people the Nazis rounded up, but not what.

After more than a year of occupation, they were turned in by a neighbor for extra rations because none of her family needed daily visits from a doctor. The Nazis took the two Jewish people and her Dad into a camp.

A local factory owner, some months on, tried to have everyone from the area released in return for his compliance in letting them use his factory output. Her dad was among those released, but they refused to release any Jewish prisoners. Her parents then immediately joined the resistance and helped it out until the end of the war. The factory owner allegedly ensured that the output to the Nazis was changed to be only subtly defective units, pipe walls too thin, cooled too quickly etc.

kbin_space_program ,

They took this from a facebook RPG memes that its been trying to get me to look at. Saw it on my feed today.

kbin_space_program ,

Except the guy leading the fantasy party is Indian

So thats really weird.

House of Commons takes action to ensure foreign state interference stops getting in way of domestic corporate interference ( www.thebeaverton.com )

“Prime Minister Trudeau and I don’t agree on much, but we do agree that Canada is not for sale to foreign governments,” opposition leader Pierre Poilievre said. “Canada is now, and has always been, for sale to mining companies, agricultural conglomerates, and the American hedge funds who own most of our news media.”

kbin_space_program ,

I thought this was supposed to be fake news?

kbin_space_program ,

Just like before the US revolution, where Virginia's government was seen as so corrupt, other colonies refused to do business with them.

Never mind that the seeds of the entire revolution was tax avoidance for the rich.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

Its not one per trigger pull, since the action of the machine results in another round firing unless you move your finger off the trigger.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.

Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.

For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.

It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.

The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.

So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn't have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.

Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don't even have that to work from.

kbin_space_program ,

Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

They state that they only turn on "when you say the special phrase."

But in order to do that, they have to be always listening and parsing what you say.

And in order to pay for that processing time, its getting processed for any data they can sell ads on

kbin_space_program ,

Publicly they've stated that it does that.

However it wouldnt be the first time Apple, Amazon and particularly Google have lied.

kbin_space_program ,

"China's" vaccine was stolen from Canada.

It outright wasn't as effective since Canada hadnt finished working on it.

kbin_space_program ,

The word you want to search is "CanSinoVac."

kbin_space_program ,

  1. Yeah you can. Thomas Edison made his fortune on stealing other people's ideas, including the Light Bulb.

  2. It was partially completed, and the part that was completed was one China still doesnt have the tech or knowledge to do.

kbin_space_program ,

Putin is said to have commented, before the invasion, that Russia has a population of conscription aged men of 25 million, this seems to have been their design philosophy of just grinding Ukraine into dust, even if it took millions of Russian lives to do it.

However, that theyre already pulling women prisoners into the meat grinder suggests that number may have been wrong.

kbin_space_program ,

Also, i guarantee that there are bugs infesting the flour section of your grocery store and they absolutely hitch rides on the bags home

Former grocery store worker.

kbin_space_program ,

To be fair to the stores, they arrive in the stores on the bags too.

kbin_space_program ,

Honestly its been years. I just remember the bugs and that they werent roaches.

kbin_space_program ,

Johnson was in the Trump Administration.

Neither of them should be in politics.

kbin_space_program ,

MBAs who contract dev work out to India to make a quick buck without realizing how bad the code they're going to get back usually is.

Shoutout to Raj the QA lead I worked with in India though. That dude's team was thorough.

kbin_space_program ,

While thats technically allowed in Canada. When the Conservative party tried to do it under Harper and then-minister Poilievre to start stacking the court system with cronies, every part of the system raised hell enough for evem those religious nutters to back off.

kbin_space_program ,

That's what you think of as him being weird and awkward?

He enslaved his own kids.

To the point that when he was ambassador to France, they noted down that one of his servants (no slavery in France at the time) was obviously related to him and how that was really weird.

kbin_space_program ,

On the other hand, it's much easier to miss red flags via a dating app than in person.

Also, Dating Via Algorithms(aka via apps) is hell. Women get bombarded with bad apples and men have to fight through bots and (s)camgirls, and then hope the algorithm on the site even shows you people you want to date.

How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues ( koreajoongangdaily.joins.com )

"Notably, Chang's report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and...

kbin_space_program ,

The best way to increase birth rates in advanced countries is:
Work life balance.
Restore the traditional tax rates on the rich.

kbin_space_program ,

Also she may be imagining the shitstorm her mother would give her if she did.

Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing's price demands, Financial Times reports ( www.reuters.com )

Russia's attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing's unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....

kbin_space_program , (edited )

When they did a deal before, China was getting the gas below cost to Russia. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/russia-30-year-400bn-gas-deal-china )

Putin is finding out that China doesn't have allies, it has victims.

kbin_space_program ,

You're looking at it from the wrong angle.

He wants a tough sentence with jail time.

  1. As a technically "first offender" they can argue that it shows obvious bias and get a favourable appeal result.
  2. It plays to Putin and other autocrat propaganda. "See how the US actually is, we have the same democracy here" sort of thing.
  3. Most importantly, it plays to his cult and to his ego, he gets to stoke dangerous things which very nearly almost worked last time (only thanks to Pence and the few cops who stood up to the mob.) and he gets a ton of attention from his cult for it.
kbin_space_program ,

I am old enough to recall pre internet. Even had a few physical letter pen pals.

Email was mind blowing.

Hell, even just the concept of digital encyclopedia, not even on the internet, was game changing.

I miss dialing 0 and instantly getting a real person to help you though.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

Ah so theyre too ignorant and uneducated to realize whats at stake.

To clarify: "We're teaching the democrats a lesson by voting for Trump."

Bitch if the Orange rat gets elected, there wont be future elections.

kbin_space_program ,

They need to add that prices falling is terrible for how we measure economic success

[Beau of the Fifth Column] Let's talk about Putin's promise of peace in Ukraine.... ( youtu.be )

TLDR: There was a recent shakeup of the Russian top brass and an economist was put in a top job. He thinks the economist has told Putin that this can not be sustained given Russia's capability and Western promised support. Putin might actually be listening and why he wants to settle on current control.

kbin_space_program ,

One of the suspicions of the invasion is that he wanted to secure the newly found natural gas deposits in the Donbas region so that Ukraine couldnt stand on its own and definitely couldnt undercut Russian natural gas to Europe.

kbin_space_program ,

Look at fucking Trudeau and Poilievre.
WW3 is looming, China is bring openly aggressive. Russia is actively attacking the soverignty of the Baltic nations and is razing Ukraine. The western provinces are burning and in severe drought. The eastern provinces are dead husks rife with corruption.

Their top priorities are selling bitumen to China and gifting full citizenship to illegal immigrants, not even vetting them.

kbin_space_program ,

Example:

Many pesticides contain PFAS, some directly, but the EPA has determined it was mostly from prevuously unreported chemical reactions between the pesticides and their PFAS laced containers.

The same chemicals that have now been rated as "not safe in any quantity."

Gee, why are all the frogs and songbirds dying?

kbin_space_program ,

Hey, all we need is flying combat exoskeletons and we can have real life Exo-Squad!

kbin_space_program ,

Why would anyone in 2024 honestly switch to google products.

They are worse than microsoft, and that takes effort.

kbin_space_program ,

Which contributes to the death of the site, and the AI gets trained to treat untold reams of shitposts as truth.

I see that as a win-win.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

It is in the hands of a publicly traded corporation. As soon as that planned it was already inevitably lost.

kbin_space_program ,

This isn't new. Also, this is a false narrative that the invasion of Iraq was ever about retribution for 9/11.

It was started because the Dubya administration insisted that Iraq had WMDs and implied that Saddam was planning on using them relatively soon

kbin_space_program ,

Yes, the WMDs was the public reason.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

They swore up and down that Roundup and Glysophate pesticides are harmless to bees and things they werent supposed to target.

PFAS and PFOS chemicals were touted as harmless, even though the company behind them knew that was a bald faced lie. For Decades

kbin_space_program ,

Exvept when it comes to die hard support for whatever insanity Israel's Likud party cooks up.

kbin_space_program ,

Just a note on Trump WRT Israel.

The orange idiot got a lot of help and direction from Netanyahu in the 2016 election, including, allegedly, intelligence on the democratic party and Hillary Clinton acquired by Mossad. If you think he's going to do anything but help Netanyahu with his genocide you are delusional.

E.g.

Former President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the Jewish American community and Washington when he said Jews who vote Democrat "hate Israel."

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1240995103/trump-seeks-to-capitalize-on-bidens-frustration-with-israels-netanyahu

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