Kecessa

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 50 minutes ago

Are you kidding? All crown corporations are getting privatized, they're intentionally destroying social services in order to justify giving more space to the private sector, they only built housing long enough to continually house boomers and X and then they have up...

No it's not social democracy at this point, it was still sold as being it way longer than it actually was though and that's how people become sour to it. If you convince people that social democracy is them not being able to afford to live, they'll get hooked to the first alternative they find.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Wanna bet the selection is made via AI and we're starting to see hallucinations?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Social democracy let everyone down (by being neither social or democratic, thanks to politicians thinking about their rich friends) and now people are surprised that a generation started to believe that an authoritarian leader would be better.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can't wait for the day Alberta becomes the have not province because we've moved away from petrol...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They were sent via direct messages so you just didn't happen to get a DM from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also on a Epic, the base game was free at some point

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/vampire-survivors-vampire-survivors-emerald-diorama-9ac68f

Also available on Android where the base game is always free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.poncle.vampiresurvivors

Edit: I understand that some people prefer Steam, it's not a reason to not provide alternatives for those who don't care, so thanks for the downvotes, they weren't necessary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because I don't like breathing gas fumes when I carry my motorcycles and I can't have them dump a load of gravel in a van using a loader.

"Just get a trailer for when you need to do that?"

Well then, when I don't need to carry that stuff I'm taking as much space as a truck with my van but when I need to carry that stuff I'm now using the space of a truck plus a trailer with my van and trailer and I still need to store my trailer somewhere when I don't need it.

Just let people drive whatever the fuck they want and push for more energy efficient and safer versions of said vehicles and for better public transport as an alternative.

Talking about safety and efficiency, vans that are equivalent to trucks are usually worse on gas because they're shaped like bricks and aren't as safe because of the much bigger blind spots.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nope, that wasn't the original point at all, you're just moving the goalpost.

Also, just keep your consoles if you don't want to potentially lose access to the games you had on them. If I don't have a PC anymore I can't play my PC games. See, it's the same thing!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many first party games does Valve release every year?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

It's not Valve that makes the decision, check how many times Factorio was on sale.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry I used the wrong term to designate a person who used to manage investment bankers, and who worked for two central banks, my point still stands. Are you fucking happy now?

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Oh the irony (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Agents of India and their proxies allegedly meddled in the 2022 election of Pierre Poilievre as Conservative Party Leader as part of a larger effort to cozy up to politicians of all parties, according to a source with top-secret clearance.

The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service learned that Indian agents were involved in raising money and organizing within the South Asian community for Mr. Poilievre during the leadership race, which he won handily. But the CSIS assessment did not indicate that this effort was done in a sweeping and highly organized way, the source said. Mr. Poilievre won on the first ballot with 68 per cent of the vote.

CSIS also did not have evidence that Mr. Poilievre or members of his inner circle were aware of the alleged actions of India’s agents and their proxies, said the source, who has national security clearance to see top secret reports.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source because they were not authorized to disclose classified information publicly.

CSIS did not share this information with Mr. Poilievre, the source said, because he does not have the necessary security clearance to access secret documents and receive classified briefings on foreign-interference activities in Canada. Mr. Poilievre is the only federal party leader who has declined an offer to obtain a security clearance.

Sam Lilly, a spokesman for the Conservative Leader, said Mr. Poilievre’s leadership race followed all relevant rules and laws.

The public inquiry into foreign interference, which held hearings in 2024 and was headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, cited China and India as the main foreign-interference actors in Canada, saying they use diplomats and proxies to meddle in Canadian domestic affairs. In regard to India, Justice Hogue said in her final report in January that proxy agents clandestinely provide “illicit financial support to various Canadian politicians in an attempt to secure the election of pro-India candidates or gain influence over candidates who take office.”

Justice Hogue added, however, that “the intelligence does not necessarily indicate that the elected officials or candidates involved were aware of the interference attempts, nor were the attempts necessarily successful.”

In a statement Monday, CSIS spokesperson Lindsay Sloane said that the agency testified during the Hogue inquiry that there was no reason to believe “impacted candidates would have been aware of the alleged support” from India during the 2022 Conservative leadership race.

Ms. Sloan said the spy service had provided a classified briefing to Ian Todd, chief of staff to Mr. Poilievre, “about foreign interference threat activities and tactics, including allegations of interference in the leadership race.”

She said CSIS takes any allegations of foreign interference seriously and actively investigates

In a report last June, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) alleged Beijing and New Delhi interfered in Conservative leadership races. NSICOP cited “India’s alleged interference in a Conservative Party of Canada leadership race,” but the report did not identify whether this meddling involved Mr. Poilievre or other candidates.

When he launched his campaign in the federal election that was called on Sunday, Mr. Poilievre told reporters that he doesn’t trust the Liberals with a security clearance and noted the obligations of a clearance would restrict his ability to discuss and hold the government to account.

“What I am not going to do is go into a politically directed process by the Liberals that they use to decide what I can see and say and comment on,” he said. He said CSIS is free to brief him directly if the agency feels it’s warranted.

In testimony before the Hogue inquiry in October, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau pointed to the NSICOP report on the 2022 Conservative leadership contest, criticizing Mr. Poilievre for showing “no curiosity or openness in trying to figure out what happened or whether someone was compromised or whether a foreign country impacted those leadership races.”

Justice Hogue has urged all federal party leaders to obtain national-security clearances so they can view top-secret intelligence that may affect members of their parties. Security clearances involve a rigorous process that includes background checks on family members, credit and criminal checks, and intrusive personal questions such as whether they ever used drugs.

In a preinterview transcript tabled at the inquiry, Mr. Trudeau told commission counsel that his national security and intelligence adviser Nathalie Drouin showed him “explosive” intelligence about a political party. Although he did not name the party in the preinterview, Mr. Trudeau told the inquiry on Oct. 16 that he had received highly classified intelligence that Conservative Party politicians and members were involved in or were susceptible to foreign interference.

Mr. Trudeau later acknowledged, under questioning from the Conservative Party’s lawyer, that he had received secret intelligence about Liberals and members of other political parties who were also allegedly compromised by or engaged in foreign interference.

In her final report, Justice Hogue played down the NSICOP report’s allegations that some parliamentarians had either wittingly or unwittingly collaborated with foreign powers. “Although a few cases involving things like attempts to curry favour with parliamentarians have come to light, the phenomenon remains marginal and largely ineffective,” she said. “While the states’ attempts are troubling and there is some concerning conduct by parliamentarians, there is no cause for widespread alarm.”

On Monday, members of the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force, set up to monitor foreign interference during elections and leadership contests, promised weekly briefings on foreign meddling during the 37-day federal election campaign.

Vanessa Lloyd, deputy director of operations at CSIS and chair of the SITE Task Force, said security agencies are keeping a close eye on interference activities, particularly by China and India but also by Pakistan and Iran.

“We have also seen that the government of India has the intent and capability to interfere in Canadian communities and democratic processes, to assert its geopolitical influence,” she said. “Canadian and Canada-based proxies, as well as contacts in their networks, are increasingly relied on to conduct government of India foreign interference activities.”

Indo-Canadian relations went into a deep freeze in September, 2023, when Mr. Trudeau accused agents of India and their proxies of being behind the slaying of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

On Thanksgiving last fall, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme linked Indian government officials to homicides, extortions and coercion committed on Canadian soil. That day, Ottawa expelled six Indian diplomats including High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma. India staunchly denied the allegations and expelled six Canadian diplomats, sending bilateral relations into an even deeper freeze.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just going over the various recent posts, most of them are from brand new accounts that then get deleted. Many of them are from people saying they're from foreign countries yet the OP speaks perfect English. In one case I mentioned that the username was the same as a Reddit/Instagram user...

Hell, the most recent one (Kazak person that was kidnapped)? They were taught Kazak and English by their kidnapper? Kazak and Russian sure, but English? I call bullshit.

 

More details added (no cause of death at this time):

The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.

He had "almost immediately lost consciousness", it said in a statement, adding that an emergency medical team had immediately been called and tried to resuscitate him but without success.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

(On Windows anyway, don't know if different on Linux)

Just wanted to share that as a user of both Firefox and Chrome, it's one thing that makes me hate switching to Firefox. I often need to use two different profiles and the way Firefox does it sucks.

With Chrome I've got two shortcuts (that Chrome creates by activating an option) pinned to my taskbar that look distinct from one another and the instances that I open are combined under their respective profile shortcuts.

With Firefox I need to manually create two shortcuts, assign two distinct icons to differentiate them, change some properties so they open the right profile, pin them and because they're "regular shortcuts" instead of the default Firefox launcher shortcut, when I open the program I end up with a third Firefox icon in my taskbar (it does not open under the shortcut I used, it acts as if I clicked a shortcut on my desktop) where all instances get merged together no matter which profile they're associated with.

 

FiskFisk23 and my comment are both replies to Botree's comment, it gets even more confusing when tapping Show context a second or third time.

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