Technically the Earth is not spherical… it’s an oblate spheroid.

Canada might need these sooner rather than later.

With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.

And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.

Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog loitering low over the field can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.

More corporate welfare. Sweet. Billionaires need their handouts, after all.

Meanwhile, the working class gets shafted harder than ever.

Prioritizing natural gas is risky. Prioritizing nuclear power, not so much.

Even hydroelectric is more risky than nuclear. And in an era of climate change, inconsistent weather can bring inconsistent rainfall. There might come a time when reservoirs simply don’t stay full enough to generate electricity. And yes, while Nuclear power requires water to cool, this water can also be recycled through cooling towers. You don’t need massive bodies of water for nuclear power.

And what hydroelectric, solar, and wind power do, is make electrical systems resilient. Solar power in particular, tends to peak at about the same time that maximum power is needed for air conditioning during the summertime. And the right kind of nuclear reactor can be throttled up and down quite quickly in response to varying demands on the electrical system. If everyone pumping solar power back onto the grid, nuclear power can come to an almost complete standstill in only a matter of minutes. You can’t do that with traditional fossil fuel power plants.

That is highly illegal in Canada, so no. You should be reported to the government.

It won’t be illegal when the country doesn’t exist anymore.

And if you want to roll over and show your belly to an invading aggressor, I have no problem lumping you in with other fascist collaborators.

This is also why I am going for my firearms license this year.

And once I have it, an FN-P90 with full-sized magazines. Plus something decently portable and long-range. Because if they cross the border in force - and America has had invasion plans refreshed every decade since WWII - I intend to make their occupation as painful as possible. We’ll definitely lose and be fully occupied - 40M vs 134M is no contest - but asymmetrical warfare can be exceedingly effective against a larger (and arrogant) aggressor.

Who’s with me in getting their license to practice at the range with?

Oh, thank god.

And I say that even as an atheist.

Conservatism is the most bigoted, corrupt, anti-democratic and downright anti-human political system out there. It has only two purposes:

1. To disenfranchise and impoverish the Working Class
2. To empower and enrich the Parasite Class

Let’s all avoid fascism and corporatism, and vote for the working class in this year’s election. Canada needs the NDP to win.

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.

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…

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.

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 f**ked.

Just to point out, many software dev places are trying to replace developers with AI.

I mean, that’s not going to work out well, what with the high rates at which AI hallucinates. But businesses are going to keep trying until they collapse from all the shitty code that’s been created.

I don’t know of a single Timmie’s in my region which isn’t staffed entirely by Filipinos or other foreign nationals that live 20 to a flat that is also owned by their employer.

We deport these people, and prices of a lot of things are going to spike dramatically. Those business owners won’t be able to earn those many millions a year if they can only hire Canadian citizens.

Good riddance to snake-oil bullshit.

I mean, he hits some problems on the head. But his solutions…

Education, too. With funding based on region and per student.

Well, most of the fridge is already there. You just need to disassemble, sandblast the metal and paint (if the paint is in poor condition), replace the insulation with closed-cell spray foam, replace the refrigeration system with a modern Freon-free system, reassemble and put new seals on.

An old fridge can be quite simple, structurally speaking. It’s in the 70s and 80s when fridges started getting compact, difficult to repair, and disposable.