SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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That feels like an internet rumour. How would that even work? Like if someone took out LM's servers all F-35s in the world would no longer function? If an enemy jammed the signal they wouldn't work?

There's no need to invent problems anyway. The US could potentially cut off Canada from parts needed to maintain the planes and that's reason enough to cancel it.

Plus nobody is murdering, displacing, and otherwise ethnically cleansing the population of New York.

Isn't that what ICE is doing right now?

The problems with mass shootings are stem from psychological problems. These problem stem from a culture that normalized posting photos on facebook posing with firearms. The point of these posts is to appear intimidating which associates firearms with power over others. This puts people that engage in this behavior one bad day from going on a killing spree.

So firearms need to be regulated similarly to tobacco. We don't want tacticool firearms for people to pose with on facebook, which starts them down a dark path. Ideally firearms should be lame looking, and not have the capability of killing large numbers of people. Many weapons aren't suitable for hunting, but pose a significant danger if used for killing sprees have been banned.

We aren't Americans and we consider the rights of everyone, not just the rights of people that want to have guns to intimidate others on facebook, which is a sign of psychological problem, and have had demonstrated horrible results.

And yeah, guns get across the border. This is also illegal, so not sure why you're trying to make a point about it being somehow hypocritical to have both owning weapons suited for mass killings be illegal while smuggling guns is also illegal.

If you don't like it, go move to the US and have your kids go to schools where they need to do mass shooting drills. I don't want to live that way in Canada for the sake of your hobbies.

Quit your job.

Though this solution will cause other problems, you probably won't care about how many hours are left in the weekend anymore.

Yeah so much of American culture is influenced by their terrible healthcare. Feelgood stories about people pooling together their money to help someone with their medical bills. It making sense to sue a family member for being injured in their house because it'll mean their insurance will cover the medical bills.

It's really insane.

The fact that our leadership created the conditions for or allowed to worsen our over-reliance on a single trading partner doesn’t speak much to the levels of competence we should expect out of Ottawa.

The opposite, really. Countries that trade with each other tend not to go to war with each other. Strong trade relations make wars very expensive. Before invading Canada the US will need to reduce it's trade with us, or a war could result in an economic collapse of the US. Trump is right now finding out how expensive it is to the US to even do tariffs. A war would be a whole other level of expensive for the US.

That being said, the US has extremely unstable leadership right now. A war would be stupid, but then so are tariffs, so we can't predict the depths of stupidity the US will sink to. But any country in the world could fall to fascism, so what can we do? I guess never trade with anyone? Become more likely to be attacked by rational actors because of fear of irrational actors?

Yeah it's like 10%

The CBC interviewed one of these people and that guy was basically only cared about money and though paying lower taxes would be better. Probably didn't factor in paying more money for health insurance.

But there was a guy nearby out walking his dog. When told what the interview was about he said "Is that what that rock over there is for? So we can throw it at him?"

I think it's just terminally online people that are greedy as fuck. But there isn't much risk of that 10% taking us over. If anything, they're the ones taking a risk if they express their collaborator bullshit publicly. 10% with soft support vs. 90% that are absolutely against everything they're about.

Yeah... we're definitely cool with becoming dependent on the US for our food supply.

We're moving towards doing the same thing to the US up here in Canada.

Just shit you gotta do when you're dealing with fascists. Sorry, we can't hurt Fox News without hurting all of NY. Things are gonna be shit when fsacists are running things where you live.

Every day you become more like MAGA.

I used react.dev to change all of my posts to say "[date] As per the legal owner of this account, Reddit and associated companies no longer have permission to use the content created under this account in any way."

I figured it sounds like something a lawyer would tell me to put. Just checked and my old posts still say that.

Though interestingly there was a silly fan theory I posted there that some shit entertainment media sites linked to and when I first changed the posts those sites were displaying that message. I've checked again and somehow they have the text from my post on there now. So that's pretty weird.

I'm not a law talking guy, but from my understanding of it, downloading isn't illegal. But if you're torrenting it, you're uploading bits of it to others while you're downloading. That would be distributing it to others, so that's copyright infringement.

So if you could find a way to download something without uploading anything, you'd be fine. Kinda like if someone uploads copyright infringing material to youtube. You're not going to get into hot water for watching that video, but the person who uploaded is.

How dare you say that my soulmate is "your girlfriend".

Just one more thing Trump did to bring up food prices. Why did people vote for him again?

Yeah but it's MAGA's weird adoration of Trump that makes this all possible. Also Trump did say he wasn't going to do Project 2025 during the campaign. People either believed this (despite him being convicted of 34 counts of fraud) or actually wanted Project 2025.

There will always be ghouls that will want to do these kinds of things. But what needs to happen is for voters to learn that bad things happen when you vote for someone like Trump who enables this kind of thing.

New York is also notable for being where Fox News is based. The employees of that organization feeling some pain will make it more likely the story of the negative impacts of Trump's tariff policies will be reported by the only "news" media that matters in the US right now. We know Fox News showed a car dealer saying the price of a Ford Truck was going up by $20K and the next day the auto industry was exempted by tariffs.

Also it's likely dependent on how contract with the utilities in that area is structured. It may not be possible to be all that granular in where it effects. But we definitely need NYC affected so Fox News will be affected. Sorry to everyone else, but it's a Trade War and like in any war, there will be collateral damage.

Are you referring to the use of coal when making steel? You know steel can be made without using coal. Also trains and buses are made using steel, so not sure what your point is.

We can't bulldoze down entire communities and rebuild them so they're optimal mass transit. We can't even keep the carbon tax going in Canada because that's unpopular. It's a struggle to reduce carbon output in a democratic society, but we can't do anything by being uncompromising assholes about it. I'd prefer everyone take transit everywhere too, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, so EVs are a reasonable compromise. The goal is to reduce carbon not enforce our will onto others.

It's a video, not an article... maybe your browser isn't showing the video for you and you're only seeing the summary of of the video.

Anyway, we're still at the "this is sus" stage. But a news story on network TV will pretty much guarantee there will be an investigation. Then we'll know more about whether Tesla is doing shenanigans.

There are reasonable explanations for a small spike in sales before a rebate ends... but that number is pretty large, so yeah it's gotta be investigated.

Because the 2 year old Lexus will put carbon into the air and the EV will not.

Also it's possible there may be some people in the middle class that took advantage of the program. They will be putting less carbon into the air as well.

I get that you want to eat the rich or whatever, but if the world burns down because of global warming, you won't get the chance to do that.