Yeah, I don't think anyone is arguing that the Canadian military wouldn't get roflstomped in hours. It's more about the insurgency afterwards, I'd say.
Not all the American occupiers can be armed and wearing body armour 100% of the time. They have to sleep and piss occasionally.
Canada is five large cities, which are easy to capture, and an entire USSR-size back-country of rough terrain, which would be nearly impossible to patrol and hold in the face of even a mildly resentful populace. You don't have to have the entire population actively fighting - passive resistance would make it difficult to do anything in the face of shrugs and "I dunno"s.
Resistance fighting can be picked up pretty fast, and in the face of brutal American reprisals and repression, I think it would be. Their history in Afghanistan and Vietnam shows that they'd create an entire generation of people out for revenge VERY quickly.
We would hide our insurgents, and they would fade into the mountains and forests. You don't need a lot of active insurgents to cause a huge problem.
We have cheap drones and abundant weapons. We're one of the more gun-infested countries per capita, and have a porous border with the USA.
It'd be a hell on Earth. They'd never hold the Rockies.
Resource extraction operations. Forestry and mining are easy to disrupt, especially if the local labour doesn't like the occupiers. There are a thousand ways to gum up the works, and a thousand more to attack them and fade away into the surrounding forest.
The concentration isn't as important as the difficulty to remove it. It's still a hard problem, but rock weathering is one way to accomplish it, but it would need a lot of exposed rock surface.
A bit silly. I picked up the Holy Mightstone quest item on my WoW paladin in like 2005, and decided to save it to use, someday, to get some RP revenge on Arthas. I held on to it until facing him down I'm WotLKs Icecrown Citadel raid, and used it on our first boss attempt. I want to say that was 7 years but I can't be arsed to look it up.
Immediately wiped, of course, but winning was never the point.
I work for a Canadian university library and I assure you that data archival efforts are proceeding apace. I can't really say more without possibly endangering American colleagues.
We were in the Netherlands over the holidays. We couldn't find advocaat to save our lives! Some people gave us a blank look like they'd never heard of it. Others said it was a grandma drink and they never get call for it. :(
I can't say I'm particularly outraged by any of the proposed legislative changes, but I feel like there's some reading between the lines that would need to be done.
Like their transportation memo embraces new and innovative technology, while ignoring the innovation and efficiency that can be gained by leveraging existing technology. Canada's train legislation is in dire need of reform.
If they centralize control of transport policy in the federal government, but then declare the needs of suburbs take priority over the needs of cities, then we could end up with a Doug Ford in charge who works to eradicate cycling infrastructure nationwide, and turn cities into mere corridors for cars to pass through to other destinations.
I've noticed that every different social media medium/site has its own Eternal September moment. I think, optimistically, that we're still before that point. If we get popular and the general population arrives, it'll also attract the predatory ecosystem of state actors and corporate bullshit.
I think Lemmy and the Fediverse in general is resistant to that, but not immune. I expect an effort to create One Big Instance that most people use, or an oligarchy of large instances working together, like Microsoft and Gmail and co do with email.
Rob Bos @ rbos @lemmy.ca Posts 2Comments 620Joined 2 yr. ago
Remember it spawning a bunch of copycats? For a while every community had their own code block. I wrote one for a usenet group i was in at the time.
alt.sysadmin and alt.sysadmin.recovery both had em iirc...