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  • Canada doesn’t rule out military role in Iran war as Carney shifts his position on conflict

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  • Thus far, surprisingly few. Actually alarmingly few when you think about it. Either our corpos are shockingly straight laced, or Epstein had a competing network in our zone.

  • Canada doesn’t rule out military role in Iran war as Carney shifts his position on conflict

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  • He seems to have inconsistent opinions on where Canada should stand on the war. My impression is he's trying to play Swiss in this moment and is a bit out of his depth.

  • Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn

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  • ... I don't know how to get people to acknowledge this, but we've been under continuous foreign interference for 70+ years. Our government counts on it. This should not be news to anyone.

  • AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

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  • I think the previous poster was attempting a joke in clanker-speak. It wasn't a particularly funny joke, but an attempt was made.

  • AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

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  • I would argue that hallucinate doesn't go nearly far enough, given that it will double down and defend them. I would call it delusions.

  • Alberta introduces 6-month cap to program offering financial assistance for people who are between jobs.

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  • It's disturbing how many people think this is still how things work. Hell, I've met company owners that don't seem to even know how their own HR processes work.

  • What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?

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  • Look, I'm of Scottish descent, but I'm not Scottish. It's been generations since anyone in my family has seen scotch heather in anything but a photograph. I never went to a Scottish school, sat in a Scottish pew, and while I can understand the Scots dialect I couldn't speak it to save my life. I have a few fragments of old traditions, some of which no one in Scotland even practices anymore. Sure, I like a nice dram of whisky or black pudding as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy sushi, that doesn't make me Japanese either. So why would it make any sense to refer to myself as a Scottish-American? If I were a recent import or maybe 2nd generation, sure it makes some sense, but I don't have the foggiest clue what life in Scotland is like. If you dropped me in Glasgow or Aberdeen without GPS in my pocket and asked me to find my way around I wouldn't know where to start. So what gives me the right to call myself Scottish anything? Because my family held on to a few comforting traditions from a Scotland that's been gone for more than a century?

    There's a very old trope that the land seeps into your blood over time and no matter how far you roam from it, it calls you back, and shapes your character. It's from the same school of thought that coined the phrase "Blood and Soil" and murdered people in gas chambers. It's not a philosophy I have much attachment to, in spite of the fact I have one of those in my bloodline too.

  • What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?

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  • Actually most other places have far more indigenous culture, because the dominant socio-economic group is the indigenous people of that place. The existence of an indigenous minority is pretty unique.

  • There's no PBO: Ottawa fails to appoint new fiscal watchdog as interim term expires (full text in post)

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  • You are so full of it. Median Income outpaced rent for a grand total of 6 months, he spent a decade claiming he had a path to a balanced budget and never even got close, he wanted the Americans to build pipelines, not us. You are a liar and and a traitor.

  • US launches military operations in Ecuador

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  • Well, as a Canadian I'd say you definitely could, but I'd rather you didn't try to prove it.

  • What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government?

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  • Citizens United. That ruling should have started a riot that didn't end until the constitution was amended.

  • There's no PBO: Ottawa fails to appoint new fiscal watchdog as interim term expires (full text in post)

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  • Harper took us from a budget surplus to the previously single highest deficit in history, created both the housing crisis and the TFW program Trudeau accelerated, sold our national assets to foreign owners, including China, created the Pheonix Pay crisis, gutted our national science programs, and sent our troops to fight in foreign wars while fighting to throw veterans off their medical benefits.

    As bad as Trudeau was, Harper was worse, and Poilievre would make them both look like minor inconveniences. Anyone who thinks voting for a Tory is going to make things better either doesn't understand history or is willfully ignoring it. That or they hate Canada so much they want it gone. Which are you?

  • There's no PBO: Ottawa fails to appoint new fiscal watchdog as interim term expires (full text in post)

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  • Said like someone who never lived through the Harper regime.

  • There's no PBO: Ottawa fails to appoint new fiscal watchdog as interim term expires (full text in post)

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  • The military budget needed to be tripled. The rest is a problem. Literally nothing could be worse than Poilievre so I'll take it, but I'm not happy about it.

  • CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say

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  • Excellent summary. The US has used and abused the Kurds over and over again. While they'd be crazy to not take their opportunity to establish some territorial autonomy, they'd have to be utter fools to trust the US not to stab them in the back again.

  • Trump Admits He Has No War Plan in Bombshell Letter

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  • Protest movements take decades to make significant change. Trump is out here breaking things faster than anyone can respond because he knows he will never personally face the consequences, and the bodies that pile up in the mean time, won't ever have any justice.

  • We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch

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  • That's the big secret. Efficient at what is never discussed. It's very efficient [... at lowering legal costs, and avoiding consequences and accountability]. As long as no one says the quiet part out loud, everything is "fine" [... for them].

  • The Iran war is about preserving U.S. hegemony in the Middle East

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  • No, this is what the cabinet is getting out of it. There's a much less ideological reason Trump is rubber stamping it.

    Trump is president, but he knows he can't hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He's aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That's a legacy. That's the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He'll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It's exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his "Bored of Peace" brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he'll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.

    People keep asking what is the American angle on this war for Iran. They're asking the wrong question, this isn't an American war, this is an Israeli war on Iran, with the US acting as Netanyahu's personal hounds. It's not about American interests, Trump doesn't give a second thought to American interests, this is what is in HIS interests.

  • How Trump Decided to Go to War

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  • I have a theory about why Trump himself is authorizing this. Trump is president, but he knows he can't hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He's aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That's a legacy. That's the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He'll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It's exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his "Bored of Peace" brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he'll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.

  • Alberta @lemmy.ca
    GreenBeard @lemmy.ca

    Canada’s largest AI data centre proposed in rural Alberta | The Narwhal

    thenarwhal.ca /olds-alberta-ai-data-centre/
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    GreenBeard @lemmy.ca

    Alberta’s Smith owes answers before separation vote: former federal minister Dion

    www.ctvnews.ca /edmonton/article/albertas-smith-owes-answers-before-separation-vote-former-federal-minister-dion/
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    How a new, more sustainable lithium mining process could kick off the industry in Western Canada

    www.cbc.ca /news/science/lithium-alberta-mining-brines-9.7068876