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We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data. Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens. Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.

@GitaGopinath This is actually what a strict meritocracy would look like… certainly much closer to this than a 50/50 sex split due to greater male variability at the top and bottom of society.

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

@DirtyTesLa I’ve decided not to upgrade to 14.3.2, doesn’t seem like an overall benefit - possibly worse overall based on the community impressions. Let me know when this changes! Still rockin the 14.2 life 💪

FSD is sentient enough to prank me with a comedically timed brake stab

@martianwyrdlord they bury that fact near the end of the article

It's because the CAF eliminated entry standards and outsourced security screenings to Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada so that illiterate thirdies could be packed into the ranks.

This trajectory is a huge waste… 20 year career, 3 professions = <7 years in each. What’s the result? Train for years to become a SEAL but don’t use those skills to go on missions, instead you train to become a doctor but don’t help anyone, because you’re too busy training to become an astronaut. Oddly a very Asian outcome, hyper focus on credentialism / testmaxxing.

Jonny Kim, aged 37, changed his career three times and has achieved becoming a Navy Seal, trained Harvard doctor and NASA astronaut.

@johnthenoticer Same dynamic as the ‘gender pay gap’… as soon as you actually compare like for like jobs / workers, 95% of the gap disappears.

In the United States, white people earn significantly more than black people on average. But as soon as you compare blacks and whites with the same IQ, that gap disappears like magic... This is one of the clearest pieces of evidence that systemic racism isn't what's driving the raw overall income disparity between the two groups.

@dhh These insane stories almost always come from non-US Anglosphere countries these days… Britain, Canada, Australia, etc. Really sad how rapid the collapse has been.

Wonder what William Wallace would have thought of his country now willing letting foreign nationals write its laws from a seat in Parliament? Wild times!

@romanhelmetguy she’s always been a complete joke of a historian. auto-avoid anything she’s involved with.

Mary Beard explains that after Jan 6th, classicists were so embarrassed by the ‘far right’ embracing Greco-Roman civilization that they began pushing the idea ancient sculptures were painted in an ugly way to try to make classical history less appealing to ‘White supremacists.’

@theblaze boomerslop

Justice Neil Gorsuch: “We’re a creedal nation. What unites us is not a religion, not a race, it’s a belief in those ideas in the Declaration of Independence.”

@Babygravy9 Could not care less. We’re not going back to more bullshit from the geniuses in public health that brought us Covid.

Hantavirus has a 30-50% mortality rate and an incubation period of weeks, even sometimes more than a month. Normally it doesn't spread person-to-person, but now it is. This is everything COVID-19 was supposed to be but wasn't. I really hope this is contained quickly.

@captive_dreamer And Canadians have apparently (if you believe the polls) never been more satisfied with government… It’s a strange country.

The damage that the liberal party has done to Canada is bordering on the incalculable. Complete mismanagement. A terrible place to do business.

@Jeremybtc @KirkegaardEmil Somebody should make a movie about this

A man invented a $2.5 MILLION crime spree, sold it to Hollywood and charged $30,000 per speech to explain how he did it. It was all lies. > Frank Abagnale claimed he spent 5 years as a teenage fugitive. > Impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a Harvard trained doctor and a Louisiana attorney general while forging $2.5 MILLION in bad checks across 26 countries. > Steven Spielberg turned it into a 2002 blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. > It became one of the highest grossing films of that year. > Broadway turned it into a musical. > The FBI hired him as a consultant. > AARP named him their official Fraud Watch Ambassador. > He charged between $20,000 and $30,000 per speaking engagement for decades telling audiences how he pulled it all off. > For 40 years nobody seriously questioned any of it. > Then in 2020 a journalist named Alan Logan spent three years pulling every public record prison document newspaper archive and court file he could find. > Pan Am's own security department told a journalist as early as 1978 "This never happened. You don't forget $2.5 MILLION in bad checks." > Prison records showed Abagnale was behind bars for most of the years he claimed to be a fugitive. > The Georgia hospital had no record of him. > The Louisiana attorney general's office had no record of him. > His only confirmed crime was check fraud totalling less than $1,500. > Logan's conclusion the entire story was not embellished but fabricated. > Abagnale had not committed the con by impersonating pilots and doctors. > He committed it by convincing Hollywood, the FBI and the entire world that he had. The most valuable skill Frank Abagnale ever had was the ability to make people so entertained by a story that they forgot to verify it. That skill made him MILLIONS legally.

@ThePrimeagen somebody that loves him as to pull him away from the keyboard in his twilight years… tarnish your legacy saying stupid shit.

🚨🚨Breaking Smart people are dumb too

@bryan_johnson This makes oral sex seem like way too much effort… YOLO protocol.

Many of you seem to be interested in oral sex. As your unc, let’s make sure you do it safely. Protocol below. Have fun licking, friends. [Before oral sex] + Get tested. List below + Get vaccinated. List below + Wash hands + Brush & floss 60 min before + Avoid cleaning teeth right before + Avoid mouthwash + No active cold sores or ulcers + No gum bleeding + No fresh dental work + No recent oral piercing + Trim fingernails + Check genitals for infection + Learn your partner’s protocol [During oral sex] + Avoid anal to vaginal transitions + If not tested or vaccinated: dental dam (vaginal oral sex) and condom (penile oral sex). + Avoid ejaculation in mouth if STI status isn't fully cleared. [After oral sex] + Rinse mouth with water + Wait 30 min before brushing teeth + Monitor symptoms + Get retested + Abstain until test results return [Tests, male + female] + HIV + Syphilis + Hepatitis B + Hepatitis C + Gonorrhea + Chlamydia + HSV-1 + HSV-2 [Tests, female specific] + Cervical screening (Pap / HPV) + Trichomonas (NAAT test) + Vaginal pH + Bacterial vaginosis panel (vaginal microbiome) [Vaccinations] + HPV (9-valent) + Hepatitis B + Hepatitis A HPV-related mouth and throat cancer is now more common than cervical cancer in the US. Cases roughly tripled from 2000 to 2017, and oral sex is the main way it spreads. About 80 million Americans currently have HPV. Take care of yourself and your loved ones by getting tested.

@micsolana X is 🔥 lately

actually having the most fun on x i’ve had in years tbh

@peterboghossian Any anglo country. If forced to go outside of the core Western countries then Japan. The primary metrics are ethnic / cultural similarity, followed by economic similarity.

Thought experiment. Assume as true: 1. You live in a high-trust society 2. Must import 10% of population over next 5 years 3. All from a single country 4. Primary goal = maintain high trust Which country should you NOT take people from? What metrics or data should you use?

@MelanieBennet_ Incredible how impotent Fords government has been the last decade… just passively sitting by as this spread under their noses. For all this to occur under a ‘conservative’ admin is the highest betrayal.

1/ FOI records show the Ontario Ministry of Education ran a years-long operation to embed Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy (CRRP) province-wide, an approach rooted in American Critical Race Theory and Paulo Freire’s Marxist “critical consciousness.” It's undeniable that the politicization of the education system was a top-down ideological project directed by the Ministry of Education. junonews.com/p/exclusive-on…

@SawyerMerritt @elonmusk california is a shithole

The California Coastal Commission has issued a formal apology to @elonmusk and SpaceX, adding that it will not consider political views or speech in future regulatory decisions. • The Commission admits some officials made politically biased and improper statements about SpaceX and Elon Musk • It formally apologizes for those remarks • Agrees it will not consider political views or speech in future regulatory decisions • The Commission will NOT require coastal permits for most launch operations at Vandenberg Full statement: "The Commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political speech, or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers in considering any regulatory action concerning SpaceX. The Commission acknowledges that Commissioners made statements, including during their October 10, 2024, hearing on the Base’s Falcon 9 launch program, that showed political bias against SpaceX and its CEO and were improper. The Commission apologizes for those statements, as set forth in the signed letter attached as Exhibit C." This filing means that SpaceX and the California Coastal Commission have reached a settlement in their federal lawsuit, and it provides long-term regulatory clarity for SpaceX for future Falcon 9 launches.

@tanuzou1027 He’s mostly become a meme in the eyes of Westerners at this point. Now that everything is auto translated Japan gets to share in that meme too.

こんな動画を作られるほど、安倍晋三はアメリカ人に愛されていたのか…

In a fun time with AI where it’s simultaneously the smartest and dumbest person you know. Enjoy it while it lasts!