dermanus

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[–] dermanus 3 points 8 hours ago

I hope so. But the more cynical part of me thinks this will blow over with the die hards in a week or two.

[–] dermanus 3 points 1 day ago

This is one of those "an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" sort of situations.

[–] dermanus 9 points 1 day ago

More soft layoffs. It's short term thinking obviously, the people with options will leave, the people who can't do better will stay.

[–] dermanus 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sucks for those involved, but it was a bubble built on a flood of international students. It was never sustainable.

[–] dermanus 2 points 4 days ago

It would, but how are they going to grift off of that?

[–] dermanus 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I understand right, they think the radars are the things changing the weather.

[–] dermanus 2 points 5 days ago

Always? We've been underfunding our military for generations. This new spending is badly needed catch up to get us functional.

[–] dermanus 16 points 6 days ago

That's the game everyone is playing. Just stall and run out the clock. There's no point in working on a deal, because he'll break it the moment it's convenient.

Put up a show of negotiating with the US, and work more with other countries. The public in the US seems to forget that the rest of the world are not NPCs in their own internal struggle.

[–] dermanus 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They'll try anything except solving the real problem.

[–] dermanus 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They'll get deported on their way out of the stadium.

[–] dermanus 2 points 1 week ago

Of course it's Doug Holyday complaining. They tried to take the politicians out of the process because of people like him. He's been councils resident contrarian since the Ford family moved on.

[–] dermanus 4 points 1 week ago

The CRTC is mostly run by former telco people and it shows.

Its the same reason we "couldn't" do a proper implementation of the emergency alert system, which is why every Amber alert uses the "the bombs are falling" warning level.

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