Fascism running at full tilt and the NYT is paywalling the tale.

Nations leaning on plausible deniability to attack the fabric of social discourse are committing acts of war and crimes against humanity, and are degrading the value of open exchange.

Maybe we need to cut the entirety of Asia and Israel from the internet. It would drastically reduce the spam, disinformation and agents provocateurs we deal with on the daily. It’s not Uzbekistan’s fault this is happening but I don’t see a feasible way to isolate the troublesome countries without them proxying out through other countries.

Naturally, since current wannabe dictators are using this dynamic to attack their own democracies for personal gain, this will never happen, and even if it did, Elon would sell them Starlink accounts anyway.

This has happened before with LCD panels. I remember my mother’s work laptop had a 1900x1200 panel (back when they were still 4:3 aspect ratio). It was a mid-tier ThinkPad, not cheap but not crazy expensive.

A few years later, panel makers started pushing widescreen formats and user friendly language to “help us understand and make informed choices” like HD and FHD.

The resolution of HD? 1280x720.

High-definition was already a concept, but the idea of calling panels that were a huge step back in resolution “high-def” was exactly how they managed to extract more from consumers for less.

I’m sure they’ll find a way to mislead people into buying overly expensive RAM they don’t actually need.

“You totally need ECC for your HTPC bro, wouldn’t want cosmic rays to mess with your movies!”

It’s worse than that. He’s trying to spin it as beneficial to us because we’ll beat them with our cleaner oil…somehow. You know, because people who shamelessly pillage other nations for their resources are going to care about our cleaner oil.

Cheaper is a straight-up fabrication. It’s not going to be cheaper to refine our sandy crude than it is for Venezuela to do a shittier job of refining their own oil. Especially when you consider that colonial powers usually don’t care about externalized costs like environmental damage, or death/injury to the locals that are enslaved tasked with extracting/refining the oil.

And lower risk? In what way? Oil tankers require a bit more effort and commitment to damage/destroy than overland pipelines do.

Carney manages to look inept in three different ways. No matter how you slice it, this ain’t the guy you want at the helm when we’re under threat. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was always the game plan. Just 'cause the party’s called “Liberal” doesn’t mean the guy running it is, and given all of the weak, appeasing language he’s used regarding this catastrophe, it wouldn’t surprise me if paving the way for annexation is his real goal.

Un-ironically, Arch-based distros are solid now. I use Manjaro which means I’m dumb or something, but I’ve found it to be generally great. The AUR is a wonderful thing.

How long before a new government amends it again to strike the Criminal Code exception?

These people think we won’t do anything about their bullshit, and they can’t wait to call us all Convites if we show up in Ottawa to protest.

I think it’s time for a general strike, regardless of whether or not they back down. This won’t stop until we show them where it leads.

Cyberpunk without the cool implants.

Last time I had a sandwich from Tim Hortons, my farts smelled like egg replacer the next morning. There was no egg on the sandwich.