dermanus

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[–] dermanus 6 points 2 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 2 days ago

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

[–] dermanus 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] dermanus 2 points 3 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 4 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 4 days ago (1 children)

They'll try anything except solving the real problem.

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

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

[–] dermanus 2 points 5 days 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 5 days 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.

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

I'm guessing it assumes you're carrying your phone and infers motion from changes in the signal?

Or just uses the phone connecting and disconnecting to signal departure and arrival, in which case Home Assistant has done that for awhile now.

[–] dermanus 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like being online with extra steps.

[–] dermanus 24 points 6 days ago

Considering they're just looking for a pretext to arrest someone, I think it's accurate enough for them.

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