When the revolution comes, can I have the privilege of leading the group that takes baseball bats to every in-your-face captive-audience-advertising screen that capitalism vomited into the world? I encountered my first one last week at a gas station pump and I honestly have not felt instant violent rage like that in a very long time.
Anything that any Canadian government does regarding Palestine and Palestinians is going to be performative PR. Don’t trust any Canadian politician on this regardless of their election lawn signs’ colours.
Well imagination and realism in kink is always lots of fun, but safety during a scene is paramount.
When they hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.
Checkmate.
I’ll reserve judgement. That seems a mighty risky place to go to.
Also, the primary American facility for building and maintaining nuclear weapons is Pantex in Texas.
I fully agree on the facts you’ve laid out. My thought process was more about perceptions among low-info voters, especially that subset of small-c conservative Ontarians who might consider voting Liberal federally but only if they openly act like big-c Conservatives.
I think a lot of people outside Canada might not be aware of how absolutely chaotic the EV/canola tariff thing is in federal politics at the moment. The canola tariffs put in place by the Chinese government in retaliation to the Canadian government’s EV tariffs disproportionately affect the prairie provinces. In the last few decades those three provinces have usually been deeply right-wing. Those provinces reliably put a lot of Conservative party members into federal parliament. The province of Ontario however is much more of an electoral toss-up between the federal Conservative and Liberal parties, and is also where the vast majority of domestic auto manufacturing is done. Those auto manufacturing jobs are also one of the last bastions of unions in Canada.
Ontario alone has 122 federal ridings in Parliament. Two of the three prairie provinces are run by deeply right wing governments, Alberta (37 ridings) and Saskatchewan (14 ridings). The third prairie province Manitoba isn’t nearly as reliably right-wing in elections recently, and now has a provincial government about as non-evil as this country ever gets, but also has only 14 seats.
Carney’s Liberal party are in a just-barely-below-majority minority government situation. The slightest shifting of political winds would make the difference between him getting a majority next time, and getting blown out of the water. And that next-time election could happen on very short notice in the event of a Parliamentary non-confidence vote.
So Carney’s Liberals have a choice. Option 1 is to drop EV tariffs to be on better terms with China and help out provinces which basically never vote for his party anyway and which have a total of 65 parliamentary ridings, but that would completely piss off an electoral-toss-up province with 122 ridings (by far the most of any province) and most of the traditional Liberal Party supporters among old-school union organizers.
Option 2 is to maintain EV tariffs to maintain popularity in the electoral-kingmaker province, especially among organized labour. It also results in infighting among his political adversaries, the deeply right-wing provincial leaders in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario who are currently yelling at each other about this mess and trying to curry favour with Carney to the extent that their political bases will allow. But this results in continuing deteriorating relations with China as the US becomes more unreliable as a trading partner.
Three true facts about my average saturday.
I wonder if it’s more poetic in Japanese and something was lost in translation.
I just pray that the minds behind Oglaf and I Roved Out In Search Of Truth And Love don’t go down this path.
Reasonably-powerful lasers (the most powerful you can legally/discreetly get, pay cash) making direct contact with the image sensor for an extended period of time will reliably fry the sensor. You’ll need some way to keep the laser steady and on-target, but you could rig up something easily with one of those flexible ttripods (like a gorillapod or similar), a tripod pan-head (the kind good for video with a long handle for precise control) and some small binoculars to verify you’ve got the laser right on the lens. It’s not as satisfying as ripping it off directly but if done right you’ll make it useless without risking getting caught.
Keep in mind that they may own more than one ring camera or other surveillance camera pointed at the street. If you’re doing this out of the window of a vehicle, make sure your vehicle isn’t easily identifiable from anywhere on that property. Park in a way that makes the license plates difficult or impossible to read, and drive something discreet like an old grey sedan. Wifi jamming is also a possible added technique as most door cameras don’t have onboard storage and need a 24/7 wifi connection to upload footage. The wifi jamming can be started when out of eyeshot of the house.
All hypothetical of course. Wifi jamming and destruction of someone else’s property are almost certainly illlegal where you live, so all this is just my advice on how to defend against somebody trying to take out your own ring cameras.
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Just in time for christmas shopping season!
I never understood the appeal of mainstream British comedy, there’s an awful lot of punching down.
I sometimes think my life is a mess, and then I hear about situations like this, and I think maybe I’m actually doing OK.
If “tinglers” isn’t already slang for his bibliography, it should be.
That does look neat. Quite T-38-esque.
Many years ago I took part in marches to save the CBC from Harper’s brutal cuts. I grew up on Quirks and Quarks. This really hurts.
I’m looking at setting up a funding round for my just-in-time online logistics B2G online platform called “Wrfghtr”. It’s an AI-powered modern b-commerce (the B stands for “battle”) platform to dispatch supplies on an on-demand basis from western US civilian marinas. Those facilities have much lower operating costs than some “big government” shipping port, and we can pass along the savings to the contracting branch of the armed forces. Need some cases of ammo for soldiers landing on a beach? Our platform will determine, using smart AI agents, which boat in that marina can most efficiently fit the required boxes of ammo. And then we’ll dispatch that boat across the Pacific Ocean direct to the point where it’s needed, no cumbersome unloading process needed. This is the power of AI and business leaders acting in tandem.