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The funny part about that is that along with complaining about Japan he speculated if NATO would really be their if the US ever asked for help... even though the US is the only country to ever invoke Article 5 and obviously NATO was there to help in Afghanistan. Granted this is just one more thing on the "Trump's a fucking idiot" pile.

So in "the border patrol are fascists" news, a German woman was detained trying to enter the US from Mexico to be deported back to Germany, instead of just denying her entry. She then spent 8 days in solitary confinement. Which is to say she was tortured. Her crime? They think she worked without a permit last time she entered the US. https://www.10news.com/like-a-horror-movie-german-tourist-detained-by-ice-says-she-spent-week-in-solitary-confinement Betting the decrease in people willing to go to the US is gonna continue.

Well when you deliberately and gleefully start dismantling the soft (and hard) power that makes you a hegemon that shit happens. I do wonder if Musk is gonna wake up one day to assets in a foreign company seized because the US is no longer able to put out the kind of pressure it used to.

Not to revive a dead horse, but it's nuts how much this goes back ultimately to Avro. Like sure the Arrow itself was obsolete as an interceptor, but the company had considerable knowledge that could have been used to create a general purpose fighter. But it was dissolved so now even 60 years later we're feeling the effects. What I wouldn't give for the Canadian public and government in general to learn that lesson about long term planning. The national ship building strategy is a step in the right direction, but we need equivalents for a lot of things that are in the national interest.

Man it's really gone back and forth how good an idea the F35s were hasn't it? Similarly we're putting US Aegis systems in our new destroyers. Not really sure there's an alternative there though. On the other hand while I don't think the US was ever a option for the new subs we're trying to get they're certainly not going to be in the running now.

Ford winning in Ontario confirms that voting has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with vibes.

Yes, sorry. When I said "those kind of rollbacks" I was referring to the changes made to TV more broadly. In this case deregulated laws around advertising and educational content.

Fun fact, those kind of roll backs is one of the things that allowed cartoon's like the Transformers to exist. Since previously it wouldn't be allowed for a cartoon to basically just be one long toy commercial. So you know, positives and negatives.

I'm sure NATO naval forces are just quaking at the idea of taking on a country who lost ships to another country that doesn't have a navy.

Grandfather clauses are a helluva thing. Though I gotta say it will never not be funny that in order to prove corruption they're pointing to story of people being arrested for corruption. Like when Fox News crowed about how bad drug smuggling was by pointing to stories of people being caught. Like obviously them arresting this guy doesn't prove much, cause the most effective corruption is the stuff you don't notice. But it's still funny.

I don't disagree with any of this. Just want to be clear my post was supposed to be in response to Jace's point about drone's making infantry and ground troops obsolete. Must have forgot to put the quote in for some reason.

Pretty sure "Air power will make the need for ground troops obsolete" thing has been tried before. Didn't work in WW2 ain't gonna work now. And with Trump trying to Russify the US armed forces anyway I'm not sure they'll going to be able to maintain the technological superiority needed to try it anyway.

Pretty sure he's referring to Shopify's well known habit of hosting Nazi shit for sale.

The way Trump negotiates this ends up with us owning Point Roberts, Angle Inlet, Elm Point, the Alaskan Panhandle, and the San Jaun Islands. As we should.

Has the fact one of Musk's guys is linked to a Neo-Nazi pedophile cult been brought up yet? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/ https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-cybercrime-violent-crime-fbi-intellignce-report/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization) I really cannot emphasize how much just saying what's happening makes you sound insane. Oh and note that this isn't the one that resigned then was reinstated, this is a different guy.

Well maybe one of these dipshits being shot by an MP will put an end to this shit? The last couple weeks have been nothing if not a lesson in how eager a lot of people are to comply. I now understand what happened in the prelude to WW2 in a way I never wanted to.

Elon Musk declares the Department of Education doesn't exist. Now I don't know about you, but an unelected oligarch declaring part of government doesn't exist seems pretty fascist to me. https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lhmjppbwxk22

The funniest part about this is all it's done is give us more time to find alternatives because plenty of us are A] pissed, and B] don't want to deal with this shit again in a month. Granted we have the realization we're too dependant on the US every couple decades and it usually doesn't go anywhere, but hey maybe 8th times the charm.

Given that that doesn't mean anything in Canada (Though I'm not sure it means anything in the US, like I assume it started out as some kind of insult? Be weird to want to name a government position after the imperialist king of Russia) doesn't that effectively mean for nothing? We can just call someone that. In fact send Poilievre. Let his ass camp out on the border.

Dip and then rebound, if you had any idea it was going to happen you had the chance to make some decent money even if the overall market is still negatively impacted.

Tariff's with Canada paused for 30 days after Canada agreed to *checks notes* do what we were already doing. But hey, I'm sure that was worth the significant disruption in trade and continued confusion.

They're apparently being lead by a bunch of random 20 somethings, so yeah. Ya'll are fucked and if this somehow ends up extending into 5 Eyes territory it could get so much worse. (which is hard to believe I know)

Is it better or worse if Trump, Elon, etc are under the thumb of outside influence or if they're destroying America's hegemony because they're idiots?

So uh, Trump had a couple of reservoirs open up and release their water for no fucking reason. Water meant to be stored for when their isn't any. You know the guy's trying to fucking kill you all right? https://sjvwater.org/trumps-emergency-water-order-responsible-for-water-dump-from-tulare-county-lakes/

The only one treating this as a special moral conundrum is you when you decided that me not being impressed by the use cases for AI was me being selfish but you not caring about the harm it causes is fine. Like you could respond to what I actually said. But since you're using AI to help you read books I'm perhaps expecting too much in expecting you to comprehend the difference between "I think it's not useful full stop." And "I don't think it's anymore useful than already existing tools." Instead of acting like I insulted you by saying I'm not impressed by what LLM's are capable of.