grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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This is like saying radiation exposure is tainting cancer.

Imagine Canada Post starts Amazon-like storefront where Canadian businesses can sell their products while Canada Post sells something like prime where you pay a monthly/yearly fee for unlimited deliveries. This seems like an obvious avenue to me, particularly if those American tariffs happen.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-online-news-act-1.7043330

This means the story part is finished, right?

According to the release post, yes

The Caves of Qud 1.0 update includes:

• The conclusion of the main quest, with multiple endings

Are you trying to say that trying to eliminate cultures via rape (but also murder, lets not act like none of that happened) means we can't label Mexico as a settler colonial state? Is Spanish spoken by nearly everyone as just some sort of historical accident?

Just like most descendents of slaves in America have “some” white DNA, it just wasn’t by choice.

That there was widespread rape…

Sorry, are these your arguments that Spanish colonialism wasn't a genocidal settler colonial project like other colonies in the Americas? Because you're doing a pretty poor job if so.

"Some". Better than 80% of the country has Spanish ancestry and basically everyone speaks Spanish. I suppose the local indigenous people just found those Spanish colonists so goddamned attractive and loved their language better than their own.

Looted as in Mexico is the product of settler-colonialism like the rest of the Americas.

I would suggest that making themselves difficult to invade isn't the part of them I find distasteful. If we're ever in a position to annex them and do, I'll agree with you.

Would the world expect Ukraine to launch their nukes then?

YES. That would be the entire point. Can you explain why no nuclear armed state has directly confronted another since, well, ever? Why the US has been unwilling to intervene in Ukraine as anything other than a proxy war? Why Iran developing a nuclear arsenal is so concerning to the US? Did Israel develop a nuclear weapons capacity because they were legitimately concerned with being nuked themselves, or as a deterrent to conventional invasion? You are asking a lot of rhetorical questions but the actual history of nuclear weapons suggests that they would deter an invasion where giving small arms to citizens would not.

Surely if North Korea can develop such a program and maintain armed forces, Canada can do so.

The entire point of a nuclear deterrent is that it's incredibly disadvantageous for everyone involved to use it. We would presumably not be dumb enough to develop one missile and call it a day. Your proposal would put us in the position of Ukraine against Russia, only against a more well funded military and without the weapons injections coming from the USA. The best we could hope for is decades of guerrilla resistance which, I don't know about you, but I would rather have another alternative.

Since this psychopath's previous administration I have advocated for Canada to pursue a nuclear weapons program. I was attacked for it. Does anyone else have any bright ideas on resisting this increasingly aggressive state? Preferably without decades of guerrilla warfare.

One of the best reasons to want ActivityPub (or similar software) to become the primary way that social media sites are populated with information is that it divorces the particular front end you use from the content that is displayed. Meaning that if, in the future, someone writes a new front end that is better/faster/whatever it doesn't have to (most likely fail to) fight the network effect to have enough content to be worth using. So you don't have a David vs Goliath situation for every new, innovative social media site to get off the ground. Never mind Mastodon or Lemmy or Misskey or Mbin. Maybe ten years down the line there are a host of newer and better fediverse sites that are usable right off the bat because they have the same content available that these current sites have. Look at what a trial it's been to get any new social media site off the ground (Bluesky included). It's in every user's interest to remove individual sites' ability to squash competition via the network effect.

Bluesky's model of decentralization does not allow for this so far as I know.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/canada-post-strike-will-delay-letters-to-santa-this-year-1.7116715

https://globalnews.ca/video/10893708/dear-santa-how-can-i-send-your-letter-during-canada-posts-strike

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-letters-to-santa-stranded-by-the-canada-post-strike-heres-how-to-get/

Come the fuck on with this emotional manipulation. Send him an email, you little shits.

Starcraft

It does stand for Tuvalu. It is a happy coincidence for Twitch and any other media company that wants to use that TLD that such a seemingly in theme TLD exists (so long as you only use the abbreviation and never spell out what the TLD actually stands for), but .tv 100% refers to Tuvalu. There isn't a Television-land that it's reserved for.

Right, but .ml doesn't stand for Marxist-Leninist is the thrust of what I'm saying.

.ml is actually Mali's TLD. That it happens to also be an initialism for Marxism-Leninism is a coincidence.

Eh....This is a little rose coloured glasses. Anyone else remember the pre-adblock era of umpteen pop-up ads?

Walking the line with them is helpful. A strike with community support will pretty nearly always be more successful than one without.