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Discussion on all sub-genres (RTS, Grand Strategy, Economic Strategy etc.) is welcome, but the focus is on "generic" strategy games and hybrid games that don't fit into the following communities:

• City Builders - [email protected]
• RTS Games - [email protected]
• Turn-based Strategy (4X) - [email protected]
• Tycoon / Business Sim Games - [email protected]

Disclaimer: I mod/curate two of these communities and contribute a lot to the other two (mega nerd, I know).

If you take a look at the above-mentioned communities, you'll see that they are pretty active (over a long period of time), my goal is to maintain the same level of content for this new strategy games community.

While we do have 2 other strategy games communities on the Threadiverse, it's mainly me posting (or occasional crossposts of my own initial share).

Used for the assassination: Small handguns; Smith & Wesson Model 36 and Walther PPK

Kim Jae-gyu fired the gun twice at Park's chest from a distance of two to three meters, but the PPK jammed on a third shot.

Classical scholars always had one thing in mind, is looking for the correct method to find a proper ruling of something. But I think many of the laws (especially hadith laws) don't make sense outside of circumstances and thus should be treated with proper care.

For instance, a hadith says, even if a hair’s breadth of space remains dry, the wudu or ghusl will be invalid. But if you speak of this hadith to an OCD person, then it triggers his OCD and the person becomes unable to function. So, this hair's breadth of space law ruling probably doesn't apply to an OCD-ish person. The ruling of this hadith is mostly metaphorical, and is not about hair's breadth space, but being careful. Likewise, some laws could be relaxed if a person suffers from some psychological issues. Classical scholars oftentimes overlooked this. Literal interpretation sometimes doesn't make any sense.

I think Quran is mostly well structured in this manner. Its hadith that is relative and subject to interpretation.

Well this was a nice find - some hard rock out of Igloolik, NU! From Wikipedia:

Northern Haze is a Canadian rock music group from Igloolik, Nunavut, whose self-titled 1985 debut album is believed to have been the first-ever indigenous-language rock album recorded in North America.

Formed in 1984 by Kolitalik Inukshuk, Naisana Qamaniq, James Ungalaq, Elijah Kunnuk and John Inooya, musicians from Igloolik who had collaborated in various bands since the 1970s, the band released the self-titled album in 1985 through the CBC Northern Service.The band played various festival dates, including at Folk on the Rocks and Expo 86, to support the album. They continued for many years afterward to play concert dates in Canadian Arctic communities, but could not afford to record a followup album due to the extremely high cost of doing so in remote Arctic communities; they did, however, record some individual singles.

In 2007, the band broke up after the deaths of Kunnuk and Inukshuk. In 2012, the independent label Supreme Echo Records released Sinaaktuq, a compilation of the original album and the non-album singles.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34860822

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On June 10, 2025 [...] Microsoft France’s Director of Public and Legal Affairs, Mr. Anton Carniaux [...] was asked if he could guarantee that data from French citizens could not be transmitted to United States authorities without the explicit authorization of French authorities.

Mr. Carniaux said that he could not guarantee this.

In other words, if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law.

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This removes France, Canada, and all other country’s autonomy and sovereignty to control the data it uses in their respective countrys according to their practices and laws.

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Microsoft’s statement means that if they receive a valid legal request from the United States government for data on a Canadian, residing on a Microsoft server in Canada, Microsoft will respond to the request without receiving permission from Canadian authorities.

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United States-based tech companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, and their products play a role in nearly every aspect of our daily lives, whether through software, hardware, Internet hosting, or other means

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Previously, Canada and others have adopted data residency requirements, which requires certain data to be hosted in Canada. There was a believe that this was enough to protect Canada’s sovereignty and our people, but with the United States Cloud Act and an adversarial United States administration, the conditions have changed. Despite these efforts, there have always been concerns that Microsoft and others would ignore data residency. Microsoft has now confirmed that it does not care about data residency or other country’s sovereignty.

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Does this affect the Federal Government and Military?

Yes.

It appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter. As an example, the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces make significant use of Microsoft 365. They have their own defence-tailored instance called Defence 365, which serves as a common cloud infrastructure for collaboration across DND/CAF, with stakeholders and other government departments. In theory, any data on or using Microsoft or a US-based organization’s products and infrastructure which is not isolated from the Internet could be subponeaed by the United States government.

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The current United States administration has shown to base a significant amount of its foreign and economic policy on dubious or false pretenses with little basis in rational, informed evidence or reality. As a result, we cannot expect that all legal requests received by Microsoft or other tech giants will be evidence-based or rational. Thus, this revelation represents a significant risk to the Government of Canada and its military.

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Can Canada and Others Say No?

In theory, yes. But there are a few problems with this.

Canada could say no, but if the information is hosted on Microsoft servers then Microsoft would be able to retrieve this information without the Canadian government knowing. So the user and government will not know unless the United States government or Microsoft informs them. Even in such a case where the user or Canadian government/authorities were informed, it would more or less be, “This is happening and there’s nothing you can do. Your issue is with the United States government, not us.”

In more controlled, secure data environments, it would be more difficult for Microsoft to retrieve this data without some indication informing the user. However, the only likely way to avoid the risk of US legal requests superceding Canadian or other international law is to not use the products of US-based organizations or to keep them disconnected entirely from the Internet.

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This admission from Microsoft France has reaffirmed the importance of data sovereignty and renews concerns about Canada’s ability to trust Microsoft or other non-Canadian companies to provide reliable and secure cloud services. This is likely to add to the growing calls for Canada to develop a sovereign cloud capability, reducing its reliance on major cloud hosts, the majority of which are US-based.

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As registrar, Mr. Richer was charged with enforcing Ontario’s laws governing the conduct of 110,000 licensed realtors and brokers, including financial audits, disciplinary investigations and hearings for the multibillion-dollar industry.

The move follows Mr. Richer and RECO’s confirmation the regulator had known for months key details about millions of missing dollars removed from the legally protected trust accounts of iPro, a brokerage that at the time was one of Ontario’s largest, with more than 2,400 agents.

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RECO announced on Aug. 14 that it had entered into an undertaking with Mr. Alves and Mr. Colucci to wind up iPro, but in recent days Mr. Richer has confirmed to the Toronto Star part of that deal included his willingness not to lay provincial offences charges against either of the iPro founders – though they would lose their licences to trade in real estate.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ontario-reco-registrar-leaves-joseph-richer-ipro-realty-real-estate/

Idk genres, man.

Here's some chill, synth-driven trippy stuff out of Ottawa, ON.

Hamilton ON's own boy and the best thing to ever happen for Hawkins' marketing team, BA Johnston everybody.

Interspersed among the comedy and live show favourites are classics like this. Think a lot of folks can recall a time in their lives where this song resonates hard.

If you want to keep your data secure within the Great White North.

You will need to email the admin at [email protected] to request for a token code to sign up.

Central to this problem is the de minimis exemption, which allows packages valued at no more than $800 to enter the country without being subject to tariffs. According to the White House, about four million packages that qualify for the policy enter the United States every single day, amounting to more than 1.35 billion per year. Trump has rolled back that policy considerably, setting the new bar at a value of under $100 to enter the country duty-free. Everything else will be subject to the tariffs that apply to the country from where the package is being shipped.

That new policy is set to go into effect on August 29, and the rest of the world is throwing up its hands about it. Per Bloomberg, there are still questions as to how the tariffs will be collected and how countries are even supposed to submit the relevant information to US authorities. Instead of dealing with all that, some countries are opting to simply not ship to America for the time being.

Bloomberg reported that Korea’s postal service, Korea Post, will stop sending packages to the US starting Tuesday. Singapore’s SingPost and Austria’s postal provider will do the same, just a day earlier. Norway and Finland are getting an even bigger head start, announcing that they will stop sending packages to America starting on Saturday, and Belgium is halting shipments as of Friday. Deutsche Post in Germany and the Czech Republic’s postal service have already stopped shipping packages state-side due to the confusion. Other countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, announced temporary suspensions until they get things sorted.

Meanwhile, it’ll be low-income Americans hit the hardest by this new policy, per the National Bureau of Economic Research, which found that eliminating the de minimis exemption would increase average tariffs faced by the poorest ZIP codes in the country to about 12%, nearly double the impact on richer ZIP codes. In total, the researchers warn that ditching di minimis will reduce consumer welfare by between $11 billion and $13 billion per year. But hey, that’s a small price to pay for pissing off the whole world to little actual gain.