Slovenia is south west of Poland. I’m starting to doubt your expertise.

And Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania might beg to disagree, not to mention Ukraine.

She’s Slovenian, not Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump

Seems like we’re into the dangerous phase where the autocrats realize they won’t be around forever so have to move quickly to realize their dream of annexing every country they can. Hopefully they can be held off and kept busy, but then we have to watch out for the even more dangerous phase of “If I can’t have it, no one can.”

If the USA and Russia team up, it gets pretty precarious here in Canada. One to the south, one to the north, and if the USA grabs Greenland, to the east and west too.

A lot of that AI will presumably be rented from the companies that persuaded your boss to fire you and use their tools instead. So it’s an odd kind of protest, that starts by paying those companies more money.

I do like the idea of software engineers collectivizing and prioritizing work on projects that don’t have good enough open-source options, particularly where it targets the nastier companies in the SaaS space. But there’s nothing new about that work; what’s new is that we have a lot of people motivated to take software in a new direction, who miss being able to take pride in the quality of their work, and who may be more receptive to acting collectively than these people have traditionally been. I know whenever I’ve proposed any kind of collective stance at my workplaces I’ve been met with blank stares, silence, and developers nervously looking at their feet. Maybe that can change when more people have recent experience of what happens when you don’t act together.

If we want to do something new, how about worker-owned cooperatives which actually offer good-quality software and support with ethical terms of use? Build it and sell it to the companies paying for SaaS, and make your software and support deal more attractive than the one they’re being gouged for. The support is particularly important when anyone can dash off some software using AI. Make your company worker-owned, nonprofit and cheap, market it professionally, offer good support and maintenance, and make a living doing it.

In the first round of attacks the password was apparently today’s date. Updated firmware won’t protect them from policies like that.

Yes, the Iranian regime is nasty to its citizens. This doesn’t justify the USA attacking civilian Iranian targets while Iran attacks military American targets.

So Iran is targeting the military sites that attacked it, while the USA plans a massive post-election attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran? One of these countries is acting more evil than the other.

He added: “One was under the impression that the Burnham government had slightly more respect for the basic notions of freedom of expression and other democratic rights. I appeal for this decision to be overturned.”

It seems Burnham is just a more convincing liar than Starmer was.

It does make you wonder how Canada doesn’t spot thousands of stolen cars being loaded onto boats, or if they do spot them, why they don’t intervene.

Didn’t Jair Bolsonaro also flee to the USA immediately after losing his election in 2022?

Are you talking about used ones? There are no new ones for less than a thousand.

“You’ve read your last free article.”

Do they know how ominous that sounds? It reads like they got mad at my freeloading and sent out a hitman.

I think that doesn’t matter too much to Trump. The goal is just to weaken Canada by any means available.

I think that’s exactly their thinking. They’re supporting separatists in Alberta and Quebec, and inundating people with their propaganda trying to set Canadians against one another and exaggerating how many Canadians don’t want to be part of Canada. Unfortunately, this stuff is quite effective. Unless Canadians stick together the USA may do serious damage to our country. Annexation doesn’t have to take place via an immediate military action. It can be a slow war of social and economic attrition.

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The article is from September 17th. Who knows what happens to this policy now. But it’s still quite possible the USA will sanction other countries for buying Russian oil, because they want the oil for themselves.

How like your wife does she need to be?

They won’t.

They did.

Europe bows to US pressure to release oil reserves

Trump’s people aren’t even admitting that the USA started this war. They seem to be trying to build a narrative in which the USA is simply defending itself from Iran’s attacks. The fact that the USA attacked Iran first is no longer considered a fact.