GreyEyedGhost

Your sentiments are fine, your grasp of how politics affects our daily lives, and comprehension of what people are saying about Mackelmore in this post, are sadly lacking. I can say nations are bullshit til im blue in the face, but we still have massive tariffs with our largest trading partner right now, which impacts the daily lives of nearly everyone in my country, and I care about their well-being. Giving more money than necessary to the people who could put a stop to this is the act of fools. I don’t understand how I can keep talking about building stronger ties with other allies and you hear nationalistic flag-waving. If you had any understanding about Canadian history, you’d know that we’re usually about 10 years behind America, which means we tend to avoid the really big fuckups. But don’t worry, I am familiar with Canadian history. I know we sent Jews back to Germany before the internment camps and the holocaust. I know we had camps for Germans and Japanese in WWII, and that my first-generation Canadian grandfather likely wasn’t one of them because he wasn’t considered a significant enough threat and running his farm supported the war effort. But we avoided the bank collapse of 2008, and I think we will also avoid the jackbooted thugs in our streets and locking up people primarily due to their skin color for the same reason. Because, as I said before, we do watch what happens in America and often learn from your mistakes.

Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t share your opinions, but you will have to think about them a bit more before I will give them any weight. There’s a lot more history and politics than what happened in less than half of North America in 600 years, and we as Canadians don’t need advice from a member of a country that has people around the world, including their own country, half jokingly saying that wars are how they learn where other countries are on the map.

Yes. Are you suggesting we just hold hands with America while they try to ruin our economy for the sake of fundamentalists, oil execs, and war profiteers? No one in this thread has suggested any recriminations towards Mackelmore, only not funding and supporting the nation that is threatening us.

So clearly you and I aren’t seeing the same thing, so spell out your stance as clearly and as simply as I did mine, and let’s see which makes more sense. No metaphors, no allusions to past events, just what you think people here are advocating for and the probable result.

You are so fucking obtuse, I have to believe you suffered under the American education system. What in there, or the previous posters comments, makes you believe we suffer from the same lack of discrimination that you and the leaders of your country seem to share? The previous poster explicitly gave Mackelmore a pass because of the positive actions he’s taken. I mentioned our national leader building new ties with willing partners rather than begging or railing at the feet of our abuser. We aren’t attacking an ally who disagreed with us, as in the case of “Freedom Fries” (by the way, frenching is the way fries are cut, so just another American educational self-own). We are refusing to take bullshit from a former close and now untrustworthy ally who is engaging in economic warfare with us after verbally threatening our sovereignty. We watch America and its antics very closely up here, much like someone would watch the 800 lb gorilla in the room, and for the same reason. We don’t need you to tell us to watch you and learn from your mistakes. Watching you is an existential necessity for us. And yes, history does repeat itself. Go read some and apply the lessons learned.

I don’t give a single fuck how many Americans have no interest in threatening Canada. I have a great deal of interest in how many are willing to stop it. Right now, to all intents and purposes, that number is zero.

Fuck you and your cautionary tale. Canada has lived with the cautionary tale of America for our entire existence and before. For all Carney’s faults, at least his solution to a threat from a former ally is to make new allies, not try to bully or ‘warn’ Canada and Canadians like has happened by America so many times before, and now you. We don’t need your fucking history lesson. I spent half a day at work watching two towers and the illusion of freedom fall in America. I saw Newfoundlanders take in more Americans than seemed possible when American airspace was shut down. We lived through this tragedy right beside you and less than 30 years later got subjected to all this bullshit over the last two years. WE KNOW.

Canadians are very polite until you cross a line. It’s a couple paces behind you. Step back.

Honestly, a nearly uncountable number of options, and you want me to pick one? I’d like to visit the Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds just to see our closest neighbors at the galactic level and look back at the Milky Way. I’d like to visit Andromeda, I’d like to visit all the bodies in our solar system that are large enough to collapse into a spheroid. I’d like to visit Halley’s Comet on the far side of its trip. I’d like to visit Alpha Centauri, just to see our closest stellar neighbor. I’d like to visit the nearest star to Sagittarius A*. I’d like to visit a recently collapsed stellar nursery, and a recent supernova. After the more interesting things, I’d like to see a few hundred ringed planets, a few hundred planets in the goldilocks zone of their stars, some single and binary star systems of all the major types, and on and on.

And if all that was an option, why wouldn’t I want to live forever?

Lurdo?

While you’re certainly correct about their posts in the last day, that trend doesn’t extend further back. I suspect they just took Lemmy down a rabbit hole with them.

It wouldn’t improve relations much.

Now you’re just being obtuse.

This post does nothing to advance the discussion, yet is still appreciated.

The design for coastal barges would work as well in deeper ocean, and the containers already have cooling systems in place. As I said, the only legitimate reason for deep ocean or space data centers is data sovereignty. The rest is just excuses or harder than the existing options. Which is why no one else is doing it and the reason Elon would.

I can accept trophy hunting for population control, but I will still think less of them for wanting to do it

developing new technology

This isn’t as hard as you want to believe, nor would it require a brand new ship. If you want to do coastal designs, there are already some in place. If you want data sovereignty, the only real benefit of space data centers, a small cargo vessel with container data centers and one or more onboard generators could do this. Fueling it would be a challenge, but no more than all the issues with a space data center. As for time constraints, this would still be faster to deploy than any space-based solution.

None of this makes it a good idea, just not particularly novel, difficult, or time-consuming.

This isn’t a new idea. This is a problem that every nuclear sub deals with. From what I can gather, fresh water runs inside the reactor in two separate zones, and after powering the steam turbine goes into the condenser which is cooled by seawater.

However it works, this problem has been solved for decades.

Didn’t that happen once already and it was decided that there wasn’t enough time in the 2 months between the election and the candidate taking power without leaving the citizenry in uncertainty over who was elected?

I think putting all the blame on the lax security isn’t okay. There are shitty people doing shitty things, and they should be punished for it. And the people who are implementing lax security should also be punished.

What we really need to do is legislate this into our banking apps.

• politicians the world over

How will we recognize her if her hair is dyed blonde?

Yes, I see the will of the people is once again being reflected in the actions of the bureaucrats…

/s

I don’t even want them to suffer. I want them to stop, or be stopped. If isolating them from society until they die is an option, great. If that isn’t, then a quick and humane death would be preferred.