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At this time, on behalf of the United States, I would like to offer Canada our unconditional surrender.
in reply to Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦

@charette thank you for setting out so clearly. I've been watching this from the UK, with not a little fear for us and Europe, but confess I'd not realized just how serious it is. All strength to you all.
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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.

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There is only faint hope of repairing the damage The Donald has done to Canada-USA relations. I don't think even if the next #USA President were an Obama or Biden that it would move the needle of Canadian public opinion. After seven decades of living in Canada, I've never seen such cool determination to see this through - decoupling #Canada from the USA. I believe the damage is done, and it's permanent. Canada will come out stronger, but it will take time...🇨🇦
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@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.

#USPol #Canada #insane #MAGA #damage #relations

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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.

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@pq1r You're making the assumption that the USA, "expanded" version of not, is going to continue having free and fair elections. Revise this assumption.
@Arik
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@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.

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@pq1r Oh for sure. Trump thinks the US can just march in anywhere and take over within days. I think Putin believed that about Ukraine too.
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Feb 24: In perhaps his first display of fleeting self-awareness, Trump calls himself an idiot.



Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run
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Не рецепт, а шедевр: картопляна запіканка з сиром та м’ясною начинкою на сковороді (відео) smak.telegraf.com.ua/ukr/news/…




путін одяг військову форму і нібито прибув на Курщину. Вимагає "розгромити супротивника" unn.ua/news/putin-odiah-viisko… #Ukraine


chat do sheep just migrate

and do they tend to migrate seeking universities

in reply to Jolene (kitten) 🍓 🌟

hey, they're paying to be there too, they deserve as much respect as other students




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.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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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.

newarab.com/news/israels-new-m…
#Propaganda #Genocide #Hasbara #Palestine #HasbaraArmy @palestine @israel



Saab and Radionics to Form Strategic Partnership in Radar and Optics mil.in.ua/en/news/saab-and-rad…



Great thread, and also a cool account; followed.

mastodon.me.uk/@DreadShips/114…



[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.

independent.ie/sport/gaelic-ga…

#AllianzLeague #acoupleyears #Galway



When the doctor asks you what you're taking for depression ...

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Trump Says He Can Pressure Russia, Prefers Not To ukrainetoday.org/trump-says-he…


[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.

independent.ie/business/fiona-…

#FionaMcHugh #one #Dublin #theageof57



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.

#GandhiSaltMarch



Trump says US wants peace but could do 'devastating' things to Russia financially – video theguardian.com/us-news/video/…


У Норвегії шукають місце для нового командного центру НАТО eurointegration.com.ua/news/20… #Новини


Something is going on with my object storage at #OVH, my server is timing out connections to it so I checked the OVH website and apparently I "have not created an Object Storage service yet"
#ovh
in reply to Bird

Looks like I didn't break anything, there actually is an outage of some sort at OVH relating to authentication


Calling all creatives! 🎨 We’re looking for marketing agencies and service providers to collaborate with us on our communications initiatives. If you’re passionate about our brand and what we can achieve together, submit your expression of interest by March 21. Details: creativecommons.org/wp-content…


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.

in reply to Ethan J. A. Schoonover

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.

dvhn.nl/groningen/stad/Veroord…

#KoenSchuiling #Groningen



"Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%" cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont…


Девять главных новостей Украины и мира на 21:00 12 марта news.liga.net/politics/news/de… #Russia #Ukraine


Putin’s NEXT MOVE is EASY TO SEE! – The Ball IS in Trump’s Court – Hear Me Out . . . ukrainetoday.org/putins-next-m…


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.

dvhn.nl/groningen/stad/Vindica…

#Vindicat_leden #Frankrijk #Mirjamvan



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.

bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.s…

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From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc

500+ char posts not resent

Robot NOT affiliated w/ AltNPS
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump



Need a search engine that only shows pages created before 2023 so I can avoid all the AI slop in search results now


Passengers describe 'doomsday scenes' on hijacked train

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Радник Трампа поговорив з "російським колегою" про припинення вогню eurointegration.com.ua/news/20… #Новини




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.

rte.ie/news/2025/0312/1501741-…

#GAA #JarlathBurns #nextweek #one #Ireland



Oh god I love the Garak episodes of Deep Space 9


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.