Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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I remember the OPEC oil crisis. This is not like any of the recessions I’ve lived through so far.

While probably true, I can guarantee you can find people violating their visas on university campuses. Usually by working a job outside the restrictions imposed by their student visa. You also get people whose visas have expired hanging out on campus.

Are these people ICE should be targeting? No. But technically they’re currently in the country illegally.

This all assumes you’re a US citizen. While technically it applies to all people, the current administration has had no blowback for consistently ignoring these laws for non-citizens.

Best thing you can do if you absolutely need to take your phone across the border (eg, you need your MFA) is to remove any biometrics, change the password, turn the phone off, and if ordered to enter the password, honestly say that you changed it just before traveling and have now forgotten it.

Personally, I find it easier not to travel to/through the US than to buy a burner or wipe/restore my device (I’m not going to stick my data on cloud backup).

Just don’t get her started on the topic of why HP pencils are so important to education.

Could be soon in the EU….

Video memes. Another place I keep the sound at 0.

As long as a security clearance is required to be an opposition leader. And not just a rubber stamp one.

Wait… the tax is still limited to Metro Vancouver?

I know German, Japanese and Indonesian investors who have really screwed up real estate in the Cariboo and Inside Passage. I’ve talked to them about it and they think we’re idiots. They wouldn’t be allowed to do land grabs like they’ve done here in their own countries. And they’re all for keeping other investors out now that they’ve got their own investment properties.

HBC was once upon a time very much what Amazon wants to be - not just a store, but a way of delivering goods and services, and a central mercantile hub in each community.

And they knew what was coming; after all, they already closed down Zellers.

Actually, I was disagreeing with it in a thoughtful manner instead of just discounting you or your argument altogether.

I used to vote by your logic. Then I changed strategy when I saw how the system was set up to favour bad and worse.

So now I locally push for proportional representation and encourage people to support the Green party, while also voting “strategically” where that term means voting for the least bad candidate who has a chance of winning at the Federal level.

At the municipal and provincial level? I vote Green or whatever the nearest option is.

The term “Artificial Intelligence” has been bandied around for over 50 years to mean all sorts of things.

These days, all sorts of machine learning are generally classified as AI.

But I used to work with Cyc and expert systems back in the 90s, and those were considered AI back then, even though they often weren’t trying to mimic human thought.

For that matter, the use of Lisp in the 1970s to perform recursive logic was considered AI all by itself.

So while you may personally prefer a more restrictive definition, just as many were up in arms with “hacker” being co-opted to refer to people doing digital burglary, AI as the term is used by the English speaking world encompasses generative and diffusive creation models and also other less human-centric computing models that rely on machine learning principles.

Voting in a way that leads to the Conservatives getting a majority government leads to fascism. Due to the combination of a party system and first past the post voting, unless you can convince Liberal and NDP voters to all vote Green, voting for them likely means that the party competing against the Conservatives in your riding won’t get your vote, which means the vote has virtually no impact.

That does depend on your riding though; in ridings where there’s no chance of Conservatives winning, sure, vote Green.

And then there’s ridings like mine where the Conservatives are almost guaranteed to win and Greens aren’t even running a candidate. I’d run myself, but at this point I’d rather take the slim chance that the Liberals can finally unseat the Conservative candidate who’s been our MP for over a decade.

Greens have a great platform. And that means that everyone with money and power is going to do all they can to keep them from winning seats.

Right… because the destitute are famous for literacy, Internet access and their willingness to give up their privacy for a buck.

Honestly, the task force sounds on paper like a good idea; it’s not designed to “crack down” on shoplifting but to try and understand the root causes.

If this is followed up with social programs to address the underlying issues, everyone wins.

If it is instead used to unfairly target minority groups, then everyone loses.

Keep it private by encrypting it.

But torrenting isn’t an appropriate tool, as it’s designed for one -> many distribution.

Are you wanting go transfer gigabytes of photos and documents from one computer to another, or back the stuff up to offsite storage?

At least now I have something to yell if a member of the US government attempts to grab me off the street—“This is religious persecution! I’m a Christian!”

It should take them a while to sort that out.

Well, it’s not like they’re in Florida right now… most won’t head back until October.

At least sane heads prevail somewhere.

And that’s really the right answer. Let the US randomly punish its citizens and keep the EU as a stable place to invest that follows the predictable rules.

Seems like that’s what this group is trying to do….

He’s draining the swamp with a pump and dump!