Thinking the 'unthinkable': NATO wants Canada and allies to gear up for a conventional war
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 60%

    If Article 5 is invoked, Russia ceases to exist overnight.

    The evening of the first day Russia fucks up, the US demonstrates why Americans don't have healthcare. It swoops in with a couple dozen stealth fighters, eliminates air-defence, decapitates the entire chain of command, then levels every military and military-adjacent structure from west to east and east to west and south to north at the same time. I sincerely doubt a single American life would be lost.

    By morning, there's nothing of consequence left, and regular NATO fighters have control of the skies, taking out leftover smaller targets and industrial infrastructure... and that's it, game over.

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  • Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel under Hwy. 401
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 100%

    Let's not forget that his shithead junkie brother cancelled MOST of Transit City -- a plan developed & designed for maximum impact for the least expense... Costing the city of Toronto nearly $100M in wasted work and cancellation penalties (which massively benefitted developers).

    He fought like hell for the city to build subways rather than surface rail on a separated grade from cars, which is far cheaper, and nearly as effective as subways when approaching streetcars get priority from traffic lights.

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  • Public system spent at least $1.5-billion on private nurses last year, study finds
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 100%

    Mike Harris' wife says "Thank You".

    If you want to look up why sociopaths are so desperate to get into political offices, just look at the example of griftmeister Mike Harris.

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  • Anyone else get a text from the B.C. conservatives?
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 100%

    The best response in these cases is no response.

    The second best response (if you can't resist the urge) is to say no, but not to say why. Don't help them tune their messaging to get a couple percent more votes -- in the Canadian electoral systems, even just a couple thousand voters makes the difference between winning and losing.

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  • Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 100%

    Yeah, I see no problem putting #SpaceKaren in charge of our telecommunications.

    Oh. Wait. He turns off Starlink to entire countries when he feels like it, and tells entire countries to fuck off when they ask for reasonable limits on accounts of bad actors. There's also a very odd connection to Russia... a lot of this exceedingly bizarre behaviour started after having met with Putin a couple years back.

    Relying on this increasinly unreliable idiot for anything is a bad idea.

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  • Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    4w ago 33%

    Burning debris in the upper atmosphere has unknown effets on the environment,

    Man, just wait until you find out about naturally occurring meteors... They're loaded with metal and are vaporized in the upper atmosphere 24x7x365... and have been doing so for pretty much all of the 4 billion years the planet has been around.

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  • Canadian police chiefs claim that officers are being ‘doxxed’ by ‘thug’ activists at protests
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 100%

    Let them say with a straight face that they're not using ClearView AI (or something similar) to identify protesters who aren't committing any crimes, then I might have an ounce of sympathy.

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  • How do you filter ads and trackers outside of a browser while still using a VPN service?
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 100%

    Essentially, you outsource the blocking to your VPN server in that scenario. You can have a blocklist of advertisers, trackers, or bad-behaviour like SSH/HTTPS scans, etc. You would generally download a list of misbehaving netblocks and block them on your firewall, then download a list of known-bad domain names, and block them from being resolved by DNS (i.e. just return 127.0.0.1, which is your local device, which always fails)

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  • The Carbon Tax Is Good for Canadians. Why Axe It?
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 100%

    The hypocrisy is what gets me... Yeah, axe the tax... But let the forests keep burning, the rain keep flooding, the heat keep broiling people and droughts starving us...

    It's not rocket surgery... Make the thing that is bad for us more expensive, and use that money to make things that are good for us LESS expensive. I still don't know why there isn't a tax on gasoline and diesel and natural gas that doesn't DIRECTLY fund public transit...

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  • Doug Ford is ‘obsessed with alcohol in convenience stores’ instead of health care, Jagmeet Singh charges
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 100%

    Just wait until you find out his brother wrote a one-page memo on mayoral letterhead, cancelling a transit project that had been years in the making, and with the stroke of a pen costing the city nearly $100 million dollars in wasted effort and cancellation penalties. Oh, and the beneficiaries are the same construction-and-development types that Drug Fraud is courting with changing zoning laws and paving over agricultural land for an expressway that nobody asked for.

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  • While voters may have tired of him, Trudeau looks forward to a 'choice' election
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 100%

    Trudeau underestimates how many people will vote against their own best interests because of a grudge.

    And when their social services are cut, and they're made homeless, or sick / dead / disabled because they couldn't get the healthcare they needed, they'll still find a way to blame anyone other than the people responsible for extending their misery.

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  • 'He just wants his pension': Premier Ford accuses 'greedy' Singh of political posturing
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    1mo ago 93%

    Yeah, Ford wants Singh to know that, in no uncertain terms, he should be grifting his way to a fabulously wealthy retirement by lending political favours to developers and private healthcare companies, just like Mike Harris did.

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    Netanyahu says he won’t cave to pressure amid criticism over hostage crisis
    LETTER: Shutting down supervised consumption sites will solve nothing
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    2mo ago 100%

    For the record, supervised consumption sites aren't the solution to drug abuse. They're the solution to people dying of drug poisonings before they can get help with their addictions.

    What causes drug addiction? Hopelessness. Homelessness. Mental illness. Abuse.

    What's the government doing to solve those problems? Sweet. Fuck. All.

    This is what conservative governments bring you -- cruelty and making existing problems worse.

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  • Lack of food, water and toilets: Via Rail passengers fume after being stranded 10 hours in Quebec
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    AnotherDirtyAnglo
    2mo ago 100%

    So we need to make them care again with regulations, fines, and even criminal charges when it reaches that threshold

    It's a crown corp. "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing." is the order of the day.

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  • I used to make this offer each year in November/December on the old alien site before they lost their minds and I deleted everything and left. Over the past decade, I've digitized 100+ hours of video, and close to 1000 photos. I can digitize the following formats: - 35mm negative / slides / négatif / diapositif - 8mm film (8mm & Super 8) (without audio) - VHS-C "compact" video tape (not full size VHS) - MiniDV video (not HD... yet) - 8mm Videocassette ("Sony" 8mm / Hi8 / Digital 8) - Audio cassettes Reasonable limits apply - one of: - Up to 80 frames of 35mm negatives / slides (2-3 "rolls") - Up to 5 reels 8mm film - Up to 5 VHS-C videotapes - Up to 5 MiniDV cassettes - Up to 5 8mm videocassettes ... or some reasonable mix of each. Output is in JPEG or MPEG4 format. For MiniDV/Digital8, I can provide the original .dv files, but they're gigantic - 20+GB/hr. 35mm slides/negatives are usually returned in plastic sheets suitable for storage in a binder. Turnaround time is usually 72 hours. Process: Pack up your media in a box, include your ID on Lemmy on a piece of paper, a USB stick for storage (about 1GB per hour of video). Drop off at my office in St. Henri, and pick it up in the same place a few days later. People often ask why I do this. Freeing cherished memories from old media is a hobby of mine, I don't do this for a living, but I've accumulated a lot of equipment over the last 10 years of doing this. EDIT: Formatting.

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