Hey #SomervilleMA folks: #AyannaPressley is having a town hall. I can't go, but get some tix at this site:
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Town Hall with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Join my team and I in Boston for a Town Hall on Saturday, March 22nd at 2:30PM. Address provided upon RSVP.Eventbrite
There's only one thing to do when you're indecisive.
What do you think that is?
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Let's add a couple more things:
What Trump has said is actually covered by treaties the USA has signed. That means he is violating the US Constitution.
And the Charter of the United Nations.
And the Charter of NATO
And treaties with Canada, the UK, and others.
That is why the **world** is sitting up and taking notice. He is violating international law, which is the web of treaties - many created by the USA - to preserve the peace.
@joetourist
Agreed, but I'm more pessimistic than you on this. I've said a few times that I believe it will take at least one generation, and possibly more, to restore the goodwill that Canada has traditionally had for the USA and its people.
So, ~25 years, or 6 presidential terms for one generation. And that clock doesn't start until the USA's leadership becomes reliably sane again and starts treating us properly. As long as the political landscape in the USA remains "the very next election could bring back a MAGA lunatic", that clock doesn't run.
There's no way this damage can be repaired with just an election of one sane president - i.e. your "faint hope" I don't think exists at all.
so I thought about it for a short minute.
Let's say this does somehow happen - no violence, no armed conflict, now Canada is a new state. Or maybe a couple of states.
This means 2 or 4 more senators in the US senate, and a bunch more members of the house of representatives.
Canada in general is way more diverse than the US and much more left leaning. The US senate is already pretty balanced, adding 2 or 4 more senators will shift it strongly to the left, which in the US means democrats. Same for the house of representatives.
There is no world in which the republicans will allow this to happen, and the democrats will not participate; plus they're in the minority now.
I think Canada is safe for now.
@beecycling well, you're right. The entire premise of Canada joining the US as a state hangs on the US being democratic. There's no meaning to states and representation if there US federal government becomes a dictatorship. That would just be one country conquering another.
By the way, the US doesn't have a lot of good experience doing that either. Lots of bad experience though.
Oh 3 am we have to stop meeting like this
Hugz & xXx
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Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run
PHILADELPHIA—Saying he was in the market for a more powerful and rugged vehicle, prospective car buyer Gabe Orcutt reportedly took an SUV out Wednesday for a test hit and run.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
chat do sheep just migrate
and do they tend to migrate seeking universities
1/2 “ #Greenland voters unexpectedly picked a party backing a slower approach to independence in a general election overshadowed by #Trump ’s plans to take over..
The [pro-business center-right social liberal**] Demokraatit party emerged as biggest w 29.9% of the ballots as counting was completed, adding more than 20 points from 4 years ago”
**I threw in all descriptors from 3 sources here to try to be as accurate as I could. I have 0 idea about GL politics.
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2/ Via Reuters:
oppos Naleraq party, which favours rapid indep, got 24.5%
The ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit party & its partner Siumut, which also seek slow path towards independence, won 36% of votes.
“Trump's vocal interest has shaken up status quo, & coupled with the growing pride of the Indigenous people in their Inuit culture, put independence front and centre in the election…. "But I think the fear of the U.S. imperialist approach has lately become bigger than the anger towards Denmark”..
"Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that the government is to launch a "media war room" to target Palestine content online, in the latest attempt to propagate pro-Israel narratives on internet platforms."
Israel is scared. Despite millions of dollars in #lobbying, buying media, #politicians and #SocialMedia, the truth is coming out. Millions of #activists around the world expose the crimes of #Israel to people of the world.
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#Propaganda #Genocide #Hasbara #Palestine #HasbaraArmy @palestine @israel
Israel's new 'media war room' targets Palestine content
The office of Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar has announced the launch of the initiative to monitor about around 250 news channels.The New Arab Staff (The new Arab)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-liberal-democrat-ed-davey-canada-support-1.7481537?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Great thread, and also a cool account; followed.
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Dreadnought Holiday (@DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk)
Attached: 1 image So this here was the position this morning. The blue vessels are tugs, red are generally rescue or pilot vessels, the greens are mostly high speed windfarm vessels. There's also some trawlers bimbling around.mastodon.me.uk
[19:33] Fixtures thrown into disarray as inter-county pitch in Galway is vandalised
A stadium which recently staged its first Allianz League match in a couple years after a redevelopment programme that was driven by a huge voluntary local effort has been vandalised in Galway.
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[19:32] Fiona McHugh, founder of Fallon & Byrne, dies at 57
Fiona McHugh, one of the founders of the Fallon & Byrne food hall and restaurant in Dublin, has died at the age of 57 after a long illness.
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#FionaMcHugh #one #Dublin #theageof57
Fiona McHugh, founder of Fallon & Byrne, dies at 57
Fiona McHugh, one of the founders of the Fallon & Byrne food hall and restaurant in Dublin, has died at the age of 57 after a long illness.John Burns (Irish Independent)
March 12, 1930 - Gandhi's Salt March began from Ahmadabad, India, with 76 followers to protest the salt tax. Great Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple of the Indian diet.
Citizens were forced to buy it from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be a simple way for many Indians to break an unjust law nonviolently (civil disobedience), increasing the pressure for independence from the British Empire.
By the time Gandhi had covered the 241 miles to the coastal city of Dandi on the Arabian Sea, the number of marchers had grown into the thousands.
Folks, unlike internet comms radios can't just be disconnected by a service provider. It's just you, another radio, and physics.
Now is a good time to get a #hamradio license in the US. The FCC could take away our spectrum rights but regardless you would still have radio gear and know-how.
Also consider license-free walkie-talkie style handheld radios. I'm not up to date on what's in the US but for example in the EU we have several options, including the EU-wide PMR446 and "hunting band" radios.
Just don't expect any *privacy*. Anyone in range who happens to be listening will be able to listen, and wide-band scanners are widely available. Some commercial digital radios can be programmed for actual encryption; of course using that on the amateur bands is illegal.
[19:35] Veroordeling Schuiling hakt erin op het stadhuis in Groningen. ‘Het is een persoonlijk drama’
De veroordeling van Koen Schuiling voor masturberen in de auto hakt erin op het stadhuis in Groningen. De uitspraak van de rechter komt woensdag precies op het moment dat de gemeenteraad aan het vergaderen is.
Another one from two summers ago. Yes it’s almost that time of year and I am so ready for it. The picture is mine … not the bobber 🤣
#Fishing
#GetOutThere
#Nature
#Colorado
#TroutFishing
[19:42] Burgemeester praat met Vindicat over wangedrag op ski-reis. ‘Dit straalt ook op Groningen af’
De vernielzucht van Vindicat-leden tijdens een skivakantie in Frankrijk krijgt een staartje. Burgemeester Mirjam van ‘t Veld gaat met de studentenvereniging in gesprek over het wangedrag.
Elon Musk is pushing to end phone services at Social Security, which 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits.
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Passengers describe 'doomsday scenes' on hijacked train
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Pakistan train: Passengers describe 'doomsday scenes' after hijack
More than 400 passengers were on board a train in south-west Pakistan when armed militants attacked.BBC Urdu (BBC News)
[19:53] Hans Broekhuizen voorgedragen als nieuwe burgemeester Het Hogeland
Hans Broekhuizen is voorgedragen als de nieuwe burgemeester van de gemeente ‘t Hogeland.
I aware of but not familiar with IPFS, so that's probably a good place to start research, but...
Does anyone know of any efforts to create a program like Seti@Home that would allocate blocks of storage to be used globally by the filesystem it is supporting?
I'm just imagining how interesting and possibly useful it would be to have a storage pool of millions, perhaps billions, of nodes connected sharing some amount of the replicated and encrypted data.
And if it were as easy to contribute to as running some simple program and saying "OK, here's 20gb for you to use." would get us closer to millions of nodes.
Just a thought.
[19:47] GAA president urges members to take part in A5 protest
GAA President Jarlath Burns has urged members of the association to take part in a protest next week to support a campaign to upgrade one of Ireland's most dangerous roads.
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#GAA #JarlathBurns #nextweek #one #Ireland
GAA president urges members to take part in A5 protest
GAA President Jarlath Burns has urged members of the association to take part in a protest next week to support a campaign to upgrade one of Ireland's most dangerous roads.Vincent Kearney (RTÉ)
I broke my book on sunday. I stepped to the curb, realized the epilogue belongs at the beginning of the story, not at the end, and realized I needed to rethink everything.
In the end, I settled for moving the central incident of the epilogue to the back half of the first act. It's going to minimize the amount of rework I need to do to existing scenes (though everything, EVERYTHING involving one character needs to be completely rewritten) and actually, longer-term, doesn't change the arc of the book much.
What it does do is immediately remove the sense the old plan had that this entire book is just the epilogue for something Bigger.
Nach Angaben der syrischen Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte wurden in den letzten Tagen mehr als 1500 Menschen in #Syrien getötet, vor allem alawitische Zivilisten. Und Union und SPD einigen sich währenddessen darauf, künftig nach Syrien abzuschieben. www.deutschlandfunk.de/syrien-gewal...
Massaker an Zivilisten: Syrien...
Massaker an Zivilisten: Syriens fragile Hoffnung
Kämpfe und Massaker an Zivilisten aus der Volksgruppe der Alawiten sind ein Rückschlag für Syrien. Wie sicher sind ethnische Minderheiten im Land?Deutschlandfunk
Vector Lights for Earth Hour 2025
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Vector Lights for Earth Hour 2025
Vector Lights is joining millions of people worldwide for the Biggest Hour for Earth!OurAuckland
Microsoft just admitted that the thing that gave me the most grief in Teams, the transferring of at least some Skype contacts to it (or creation of equivalent ones) simply doesn't work yet and is supposed to start working at some point of time in the future.
Thanks, Microsoft, for wasting 2 weeks of my life.
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