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you don't have any pictures in the cloud at all?

well.

If money is speech, does it mean cash is protected by the 1A?

They are plugged into SWIFT, if not directly, then whoever happens to be their backoffice provider, which is usually a large bank.

They are all subject to the same regs, and most credit unions aren't any better than large banks.

It's not a technological problem.

They'll just pressure all businesses not to accept your crypto.

Just the airlines, banks, any payment processor, any gold bullion dealers, any supermarkets, any restaurants, any car rentals, any car dealers. Probably can be done in less than 10 lines of regulation. Nobody is going to risk jail for your crypto.

What then? You are going to invent some tech that will somehow make totalitarian government impossible?

They'll just pressure businesses into not accepting cash.

That pressure is already there in many subtle ways.

Strange how nobody wants to denounce David Suzuki Foundation for getting foreign funding. Suddenly it's now about policing costs, for some reason.

It's almost like there is an approved list of causes/entities that are pre-approved for unlimited amounts of foreign funding.

We already are well past that point.

That signal has been getting less and less reliable for a few decades at this point, even at the highest levels.

you forgot to add (MIT Sloan)

My basis is simple. Very unfortunately, I've spent a lifetime working for people in the highest echelons of power, and for some captains of industry. I've watched C-level of some corps you all know simply lie outright to their own legal counsel on quite literally daily basis.

You won't find honest men there at high noon with a flashlight.

Sure, honest men exist, but they don't have any real power or influence, and the congress doesn't care about their opinion: https://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congr...

Assuming everything is biased isn't despair. That's just the natural state of the world, and an axiom that has served me well.

Semper bonus homo tiro est.

Can confirm. It used to be much better in early days, but deteriorated over the years to the point where I have to be sceptical about it.

Editorial slant is very real.

with this much money at stake, absolutely nothing, including courts, will present a balanced and evidence based view of things. EVER.

It's an unachievable idea.

Maybe, if someone is being viciously attacked by both sides, then maybe, just maybe ~10%, or so, of what they say is unbiased, but it's still hard to disentangle that apart from the wrong/incorrect/biased other things they said.

for many (maybe even most) compounds there is no safe low-level dose/exposure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736171/

is Oregon ruled by mostly Republicans or Democrats? I thought it was a Democrat state overall, with some rural parts that vote R.

The crucial question, is this the party in power, or not.

In case of Oregon, this appears to be solidly Democrats, not Republicans.

In the incident described in the article, Ontario is governed by the Ontario Conservative Party, and so for the comparison to be valid, it would have to be against a governing party, in case of Oregon that to be Democrats.

Did any Democrat in Oregon fire any staffers, or similar, that donated to BLM? Militants that allied themselves with BLM have murdered people, which AFAIK is something far beyond anything truckers have done.

I have not heard about any donors to BLM being fired over that, and if such precedent exists but for some reason was not widely covered, please post examples, tia.

Have you seen Yanis Varoufakis, one of the most prominent Marxists, on his recent speech/interview circuit where is discussing how in his view the socialist experiment has failed, and we are now living under feudalism?

He calls it techno-feudalism.

What are your thoughts on that?

Payment data, including card data, was obtained as well. This would not be held by the crowdfunding platform, but by the payment processor only, that are subject to quite a few rules and annual audits.

Definitely a hack.

Besides, opening unlocked doors can still get you charged with break and entry, or in this case, unauthorized access.

Every single NGO and charity in Canada, including politically active NGOs, can and do receive foreign funding.

It's perfectly legal, and it is very much a regular occurrence.

David Suzuki Foundation at some point received over 50% of its funding from foreign sources.

Quite honestly, the common attitude around this whole foreign funding is "I don't want foreign money funding causes I personally don't like".

Everyone is an internationalist, until that becomes personally inconvenient, in this case politically.

Correct.

Have there been any Democrat staffers fired over donations to BLM?

P.S.

As a working class protest over conditions of employment, one could even frame this into a typical socialist strike type of thing, if it were politically profitable. Some of the left persuasion even worry that this sets precedent for extra-judicial strike funds seizures in the future.

I don't even know how "return to normalcy" (probably the shortest way to summarize the convoy's demands) is right or left, it is quite sad that we are discussing such basic concepts on the basis of blue-red spectrum.

No.

Ontario has a conservative government, and the federal conservative party supported the convoy to some degree, and a few MPs met with truckers.

This would be similar to Democrats firing someone for donating to BLM.

Is there such precedent?

you can't. not until the AML laws get repealed.

The payment processor was hacked as well, and all payment data, including card data was leaked.

Amazingly, the entire 5GB archive was made available to journalists for "research", who then began promptly dialing everyone for "comments".

Twitter refuses to this day to take down tweets that include personal data, despite their policy on hacked data.

I'd also say covid case/severity reporting is probably of questionable quality in those regions as well, as they struggle economically and probably don't have resources to do that well.

they literally strip out the paper's conclusions and substitute their own?

is there a long form write up on what ivnmeta did wrong? I couldn't find any, just comments here and there that, and instead of picking who to trust, it might be better if there is a long form going over what exactly and how they did wrong/incorrectly/deceptively.

I assumed they were just cherry-picking studies, but not faking conclusions.

the city has several heavy tows that can move double-decker buses, and also trucks.

Driving those trucks is identical to driving a bus. In fact, thats how a lot of these truckers pass the driving test: by driving a bus.

Now, the city bus service in Ottawa, also has heavy tows, that can pull a double-decker bus, or a semi tractor.

They could've been doing this a long time ago.....but they didn't.

Why? They had all the tools.

It boggles my mind how some think normalizing force-medicating people against their will has no consequences.

None whatsoever.

Liberals ran on passports/restrictions and lost seats. The majority just took the injections to keep the job. Booster uptake is below 50%, because it’s not required.

Pretty much every business in deep-liberal cities at this point simply ignores restrictions.

What mandate? Seems like there wasn’t one in the first place.

Liberals didn’t get the majority mandate. They are a minority govt that lost seats in the election.

Rather weak mandate.

Truckers aren’t forced to get vaccinated.

Ottawa residents aren’t forced to live in that city.

Govt literally banned 1) commerce 2) restricted citizens access through borders

Europe is opening up. I guess Science different in Canada.

Angus is far more reputable.

Abacus never fails to find support for government approved narratives.

Conservatives are tabling a motion for a vote on removal of restrictions today.

They’ve just performatively asked truckers to leave, so that they can always point to that later in their election campaign. Why would they want them to leave?they don’t.