Nigel Protter 🇨🇦
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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦
@NigelProtter
Low carbon energy/construction techie making bets. Tech pubco director, low-cost efficient beautiful building designer/modeller/builder
British Columbia, Canada Tham gia Ekim 2011
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A successful and lawful referendum for Alberta independence on Oct. 19, can lead to full sovereignty within months, not years.
History supports this: Norway’s separation from Sweden in 1905 was completed in roughly three months, while Czechoslovakia’s peaceful Velvet Divorce into Czechia and Slovakia took under six months in 1992–93.
The transition from Alberta as a province to independent nation is far more straightforward than many imagine.
The federal government exercises relatively few direct roles within Alberta, and those responsibilities are well-known including how to deliver them.
With political will, pre-planning, and good faith negotiations, transitioning these limited federal functions can be achieved quickly, allowing Alberta to assume its full sovereign status. If the federal government fails to engage in the legally required good faith negotiations, it does not preclude Alberta declaring its independence and relying on international recognition.
Tim@Timsiebs
Independence would be a process: not immediate, but nor is there any reasonable evidence to conclude it would be protracted to multiple years. -Czech & Slovakia split in less than 6 months -Norway & Sweden split in 3 months -Ireland gained independence in 1 year -Brexit took 3.5 years (they stupidly elected a Remainer PM--with majority Remainer MPs--to half-ass the deal while continuing many of the disastrous EU policies) -Scotland--the closest parallel to Alberta--anticipated an 18 month transition, though they never had to follow through due to the vote failing
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New NDP leader Avi Lewis said in a recent interview that he supports "permanent residency and status on arrival".
Every foreign worker or international student would get PR as soon as their plane touches down.
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Wab Kinew defends his use of "Epstein class": "When I say the Epstein class should fight the Epstein war, I'm attacking Donald Trump. I'm attacking Jeff Bezos. I'm attacking Mark Zuckerberg. I'm attacking Jeffrey Epstein. I'm attacking Sam Altman."
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@Freedom77015202 @rocketoperator But he only has to pay back at an alternative commercial rate, not full military cost, which is fine with me and probably almost every other Canadian. Anyway, how do you know he hasn’t paid it back, or won’t?
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@rocketoperator Everyone knows the PM cannot fly commercial because of security reasons... Dah
What dumb ass Liberal cult followers neglect to understand is that the PM MUST reimburse the government for any personal travel, governed by the Treasury Board and Privy Council.
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The Prime Minister cannot use the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for personal or private purposes. RCAF aircraft may only be used for official government business, under strict rules, and only with AUTHORIZATION from the Minister of National Defence.
Anti-Boomer@mapleblooded
Mark Carney flying to Boston to visits his daughter at our expense. Just a quick weekend getaway in the USA. That’s fine. Right, Elbozos?
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BREAKING 🚨: NASA says Artemis II is a 'GO' with zero technical issues reported ahead of Wednesday's historic Moon launch
FOUR ASTRONAUTS WILL FLY AROUND THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1972
Liftoff set for April 1st!
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@BRICSinfo Fuck Mark, I’ve supported you and will have to continue to, however this isn’t your business, it was strictly an internal security safety issue. This is performative to appease members of your caucus purely the expense of Jews.
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JUST IN: 🇨🇦🇮🇱 Canadian Prime Minister Carney slams Israel
"I am disappointed with the decision by the Israeli police to prevent the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Christian Communities of the Holy Land from marking Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre.
These actions further violate the longstanding status quo of Jerusalem’s Holy Sites. People of every faith in Jerusalem should be able to worship freely, fully, and without fear."
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@cryptopunk7213 This is actually typical apple to be late but better
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Apple really nailed AI by doing fucking nothing lol.
$135 billion in the bank. stole google’s model for a measly $ 1B, now forcing competitors to plug their models into siri if they want access to 2.5B apple users
patience (or laziness) paid off massively
Ejaaz@cryptopunk7213
i find it fucking hilarious how Apple "failing" at AI is now the exact reason they're about to win it: - watched everyone else burn $1.4T+ building models... then picked the winner (gemini) to use for... $1B - while everyone fights to grow users, apple flips a switch and 2.5 billion devices get AI siri tmrw. - $150B to splurge on the device / app layer. zero competition (because everyones spent their cash). - while openAI charges $200/mo subscriptions, Apple lets you run models on-device (cheaper, faster, private, personal) - while openAI struggles to build an AI device, Apple just dropped 5 powered by the best AI chips for hand-held devices. they "lost" the model race because they didn't need to win it in the first place greatest to (accidentally) ever do it.
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Don Davies: "Only New Democrats had the guts to call out the genocide in Gaza, the cruel blockade of Cuba, and the illegal invasion of Iran."
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🚨⚡️ Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada:
"We know who the enemy of peace is. And unfortunately, he has a name. He’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu!”"
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@PaulTassi The big innovation is price drop along with big refillable ink tanks. What else do you want it to do for the money? A lot of technologies have reached this kind of plateau.
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Setting up a new printer and it is amazing there have been exactly zero advances in printer technology in like 20 years
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@Erdayastronaut @OnDisasters We have much more than an idea, but it’s just not an inspiring mission, all things considered.
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I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!
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Don’t any of you DARE defer to this bullying
Do not scrub your resumes
Do not hide your Jewishness
I will genuinely be annoyed if you give these bullies an inch. They are wrong. They cannot be allowed to have the satisfaction of you bowing to their disgusting behaviour
Be more Jewish
Do not erase your Jewishness at all
They don’t have the right to impose this on you
Dr. Logan Levkoff@LoganLevkoff
Young women are scrubbing Jewish orgs and leadership from resumes. Charging their names on rides here apps. Losing friends. None of this is okay. I join @JewishWomenIntl in my concerns about Jewish women in a post 10/7 world.
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@Smileyyeg A founder is very different from a retail
investor, obviously.
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Paul Martin sold his shares of his beloved company that he owned, that he had built up from the ground. That is how much he loved Canada, respected his duty.
Carney was unwilling to divest a standard portfolio.
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@PiqueNews If you know how to cook, and don’t have time to spare, you aren’t going to enjoy sharing a kitchen in real time with people who don’t.
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New study puts shared kitchens on the menu for Canada’s food future dlvr.it/TRlV5N
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@BriannaWu You are good and smart, but this is way over my head.
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Here is a painful, difficult truth.
If actual transsexual civil rights are going to survive, we are going to have to divorce trans women from the fetishistic “non-binary” men who clinicians would have labeled transvestites 20 years ago.
And they’re not going to take this well. They are going to call us every name in the book. They will try to morally invert the situation and make themselves the victims when in fact, they have endangered us and endanger biological women.
The trans woman brave enough to say the truth will become pariahs, because transvestites will always outnumber actual transsexual women by at least ten to one.
Women know the difference. They will accept actual transsexual women, but we have to have courage to decolonize ourselves from the Transvestites.
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Avi Lewis wants to abolish our military and Loblaws.
He's basically a first year poli sci student from a big city.
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@COPEVancouver @jhwfung @seanorr Besides Ken Sim being something other than good, you’re dreaming about the government grocery stores. Will be out of business in no time.
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Councillor @SeanOrr proposed this recently at Council, but Ken Sim's billionaire-backed party voted it down.
After we evict ABC this October, we're going to get to work taking practical measures like this to tackle the crisis of affordability in Vancouver.
RTN@RTNToronto
#BREAKING: Toronto city council has approved a plan to launch 4 city-run grocery stores aimed at providing more affordable food, prioritizing lower-income areas.
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@DrPlantel Other than just walking for half an hour to 45 minutes a day.
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Lifting weights twice a week will do more for your longevity than 90% of what’s being sold to you.
I said what I said.
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