Adm_Drummer @ Adm_Drummer @lemmy.world

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You realise Britain survived both world wars because of Canada right?

Canada exited that era with the second largest navy in the world.

Canada fought hard enough in Korea that the Chinese feared Canadian soldiers.

Canada was one of the first Nations to enter the war in the middle east with the US. Sending tens of thousands of soldiers from the years 2001-2016.

Canada currently operates Leopard 2a6 MBTs, F16s, f35s and possesses what is largely considered one of the most defensible and inhospitable geographies. Has several shipping yards in northern territories that would be untouchable by ground offensives and a population of small town hicks that hate Americans.

Canada has a standing army of 100k soldiers largely trained in small party tactics, ambushing and booby trapping.

It won't be pretty, I'll tell you that. But you think Canadians or any other nation allied with Canada would stand for American aggression?

EDIT: Meant to write F-18. Wrote F-16 instead. Point still stands. Canada has a small yet capable military when we need it.

LE gang rise up!

They could actually be Cat-eye friend or foe markers . They're luminescent strips usually put on the back of the head or shoulders that reflect just enough light to see someone is ahead of you in dark spaces.

Most military helmets or hats have them. At least the ones I know of.

As a gorilla, they could do nothing to stop me.

Absolutely true. It's funny that at a cursory glance military indoctrination seems to create mindless followers and yes men. In reality modern military ethos forces members to think critically, beyond orders and find intent. You end up forming bonds with people and creating a sense of "Service before self". So you tend to think about the tribe more than yourself. At the end of the day the job is to protect the idea of a nation. No allegiance to any one political party or person. But a nation as a tribe.

So, you end up with a lot of service members that love their country and hate their politicians. After all, the politicians sign the papers that make people die.

In addition to this; lots of people in the military are not fans of cops and as long as they aren't a far right nutty they generally recognise the benefits of living in a socialised system that provides food, shelter, kinship and reward with a balanced paycheque. You know... Like the army does.

There are a surprising number of anti-establishment service members when you actually sit down and talk to them and break down the system they live in.

Fart

Roughly 86% of those living in Quebec are Francophone. At a national level Quebec is a minority but still holds roughly a quarter of Canada's population so that's quite a large Minority group.

What laws like this are doing in Quebec is a continuation of the French separatist movement that has latched on to anti-immigrant and anti-anglo sentiment. This law also coincides with several laws outlawing the wearing of religious garb like the Hijab or Turbans by religious minorities. (Read: non-christians.)

Quebec and it's current government are a driving force behind a new wave of Ethnic Nationalism. English speakers no longer have the right to send their children to English school, the English school system is being strangled and so much more.

This is not about protecting language. It's about erasing another.

I get this a lot too... Sometimes it extends to placement of an object but more like; I adjusted this candle and it went too far counter clockwise so now I need to adjust it equally counter clockwise before moving to the right position or it would "feel" off.

how are you booting windows from systemd?

I'm not. I ran some Systemd-analyze, blame etc once Fedora started up and saw that most of my startup lag was caused by a specific drive on boot.

systemd is not part of the bootloader.

Yes, and so I used the systemd tools to figure out what was causing my issues on boot.

As I explained in a reply in this thread it seems my issue is mostly resolved for now. The bootloader was stalling on initializing a pair of drives I have in RAID for system backups on the M$ side.

This is turn, when running -analyze or other tools showed the drive that contained my Win10 machine stalling out and waiting 45+ seconds to initialise. Because /it/ was actually waiting for the RAID drives to sort it the hell out. So, it looked like there was a conflict between both boot disks when in reality the stall was a symptom of Linux not playing nice with RAID.

I wrongly assumed it was a boot disk conflict similar to some Windows dual boots where the two disks may be fighting with each other for boot priority and causing a fight until one timed out.

I think I needed to use an internet friend as a rubber ducky to get things working.

Nope!

Root, Boot, /EFI, /home

After writing this post I took the nuclear option and disconnected all drives in the PC save for the one hosting Fedora. Then I incrementally connected them all until failure.

It wasn't the Win10 drive but the RAID pair I have as a system backup causing the problem. I guess Fedora was trying to mount those disks causing the hold up. Then that made it look like it was the Win10 disk causing the holdup because it was waiting to initialise.

With the RAID drives disconnected everyone is speaking the same language now.

The Christmas Dinner at the end of "Seven Fishes" Season 2 of The Bear. Cuts a little too much on the dotted line for me.

You stay, I go. No Following.

Benis

Here's the thing... People who care still use Discord. I'm one of them. I have no other option for maintaining communications with a group of 20 people I have been gaming with since 2009. We've all hopped from Skype to Teamspeak to Ventrillo to Discord. There's no going back for many of these people.

Like it or not, Discord offers a product that Signal, Briar, or any other Matrix chat offers and that's accessibility. I would love for a mainstream E2EE chat program that actually can host a 15 person call, hold multiple chatrooms in one server, allow screen sharing, streaming and multimedia sharing.

We can't just live in a vacuum and claim nobody uses these programs because they're stupid or don't care. For many, like me, Discord a reasonable security risk people are willing to take in order to maintain communications with people they care about.

Yeah, totally. As far as game lore goes I don't see why they can't change that. As far as we can see all of the schools had widely varied ideologies. What is good, what is evil, contract killing and more. I see no reason in established lore that another school couldn't have had female witchers or why the Lodge wouldn't want to get their hands on the recipes to revive the witcher schools.

What's a couple decades with a dying witcher school, the world's most powerful sorceresses and the ability to teleport to the dimension where magic was birthed?

I'm pretty sure Yenn or Triss mention how trivial it would be for them to figure out the potions and transmutations required to make the trials happen but the Witchers are very, very against an outsider touching it all. The original plans were made by a sorceress in any case.

I'm sure they'll have a perfectly reasonable way of explaining how she went through the trials.

To be honest, I was expecting an AC style game set during the Golden Age of Witchers. The schools of each nation are thriving, magic is abundant, Witchers are respected envoys to rulers, monster population is waning but one thing remains the same: Humans slaughter eachother in droves, rape pillage and plunder. Thus proving once more that Humans are the true monsters.