rekabis @ rekabis @lemmy.ca

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We may not have heavy weaponry, but we have the bonus of looking exactly like any other American.

He’ll have to face a lot of dead American soldiers. I will die a Canadian. And asymmetric warfare is available to anyone these days. Just look how The Ukraine has held off the Russian invasion for three full years with a fraction of the resources and manpower.

The more accurate analogy would be The Handmaiden’s Tale.

Absolutely terrifying. And once the underground railroads fire up to bring women refugees to Canada, I’ll do my part to help.

Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked.

Every single U.S. president since WWII - except for maybe Carter, who had his hand forced - is fully deserving of being brought up for war crimes. American imperialism never really intensified after 1991, it just stepped out from the shadows and became more overt.

since I've always lived in a democratic superpower. Though it's flawed and not the greatest, it sure as Hell would beat growing up in an authoritarian superpower.

Hold onto that thought for the next four years. I suspect this statement is going to age like milk before the next “election”.

Holy shit, the first time I saw this was, like, 20 years ago.

Talk about a blast from the past.

Infinite growth in a finite system.

Plus, they need plenty of low-wage, grindingly poor, economically desperate workers to maximize their own obscene profits. Which is why so many of them have gone all alt-right, because that’s who is taking away reproductive rights in a desperate attempt to goose birth rates.

there are about 3 billion too many of us.

Even with modern agriculture at scale, the minimal-negative-impact, full-carrying-capacity population for a 100% vegan population would be 2B. With vegetarianism, 1,5B. With typical omnivory, on-par with American diets, 700M.

We are so fking far past overshoot that it’s not even funny. And the strain on the ecology is absolutely obvious for those with the eyes to see.

For such an invasive piece of code (it seems to drop into my system with every major Windows Update), this would be a hilarious message to see.

32Gb -> 1Tb is not an upgrade you can sneeze at. Plus, 6C -> 64C. Nice. And no mention of the HT jump either, which might be even more impressive if the first was a low-end chip with the same number of threads as cores.

Looks like you’ll be set for some time to come.

This was followed by an unexplained outage the next morning at the same time.

Very sus. You should demand an RCA (Root Cause Analysis).

Anyone who is against the carbon tax is either a multi-millionaire (as in, 10M+ in liquid assets) with more money than morals, or a deeply ignorant person.

The only people that the carbon tax truly hurts are the wealthy. And for virtually anyone reading this, that ain’t you.

“This is my life-bill” - sounds exactly like a literal translation out of Mandarin…

• The Adam Driver cat
• Nowegian Forest cat

Never been on any Facebook or Instagram video reel, have you? You can’t go 10 reels in before hitting something like this, even if it’s not exactly like this.

If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.

But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.

“Trickle down economics only occurs when the wealthy bleed.”

Similar, and appropriate. The working class will only benefit once the wealthy are no longer wealthy.

Women are often delaying their first child well into their 30s or even 40s

Women who delay into their 40s are highly likely to never have children. Even waiting until the mid-30s dramatically reduces a woman’s chance of ever being able to have children naturally.

Pregnancies after the age of 35 are called “geriatric pregnancies”, because they occur at the very tail end of a woman’s fertile timespan.

Fertility itself starts going down some time between 28 and 32, and really starts plummeting by 40. The medical field considers nearly all women 45 and older to be “functionally sterile”, even though menopause itself may still be years or decades away.

I mean, can a woman get pregnant naturally after the age of 45? As in, without modern medical reproductive assistance in the many tens of thousands of dollars? Sure, but it is vanishingly rare.

Awww… are the violent genocidal colonizers feeling insecure and butthurt?

Where I live, that could buy a parking space.

In the nearest metro region (about 3 hrs away), ten times that amount might buy a parking space. A very sketchy parking space, at that.

Land prices in British Columbia - even way out in the boonies - is totally fked.

There are so many goddamn stupid people in this country.

You are more correct than you even fear.

Consider this: almost half of all American adults cannot read beyond a fifth-grade level. This bars them from a lot of information and nuance, preventing them from making the decisions that best serve themselves, and forcing them to rely on conservative propaganda that has been explicitly dumbed down to obscure the fact that those choices will hurt them the most.