What US tech? You mean the tech they buy from south-east Asia and slap their logos on?
Kichae
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This trade war is not just a disagreement over trade policy. It's a war of independence, and the US has decided that we should not be independent anymore. We've already ceded so much of our independence to the US over the last 40 years via heavy-handed economic treaties with purpose-built backdoors, they've decided we shouldn't have any kind of sovereignty at all.
War is hell. War requires sacrifices. War is destructive. We've not actually signaled as a population that we are OK with the damage this war is going to do to us, and it's not at all clear to us what is necessary to survive this attack intact, and what is just basic shock-doctrine exploitation.
If Alberta would stop thinking not having their preferred political leaders in power is an attack on them, maybe we could talk. Until then, maybe they can stop being dicks to the rest of the country all the god damn time?
This.
For some bizarre reason, Americans are defined via international treaty as "not refugees". Nothing the US government does to its citizens is allowed to be considered inhumane, oppressive, or persecution.
Quick Time Events; characters that automatically do 60 things just by holding down "forward" on the joystick; the Ubisoft logo.
The Internet is populated by people who think English grammar is cosmic law, so it doesn't surprise me that they think you should bend over for dogshit urban planning.
Ironically, none of them follow the rule of shutting up if they don't know shit about shit.
Green spaces: Just for viewing.
What kind of dystopian hellscape do you want the world to be, exactly?
Man, that's a pretty big management team for something that's just a bluesky front end.
Except on election day. Where where these people when they could have stopped him?
Gotta keep going. Not all signatures are going to be legit, so a reasonable buffer needs to be in place.
This. The DTS was not a tax on American or foreign digital services, but all of them. Home grown digital services companies were certainly lobbying to get this killed, too.
Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.
Hey everyone, just an update to my last post from Sunday night.
The eclipse went off without a hitch -- thankfully, I am not personally capable of interfering with celestial events -- and I have to say, nothing could have ever possibly prepared me for the experience. No photo has ever actually captured what I saw Monday afternoon. I don't think any of them have come close.
Picture of my own attached for total lack of effect.
As I looked down at my camera screen and watched the last light of the crescent Sun disappear from my view, I felt totality occur. The umbra of the Moon swept over me while I looked down, and the world got noticeably chilly. The wind died down. The world was silent for a hiccup. I immediately and excitedly looked up, and I think my brain broke.
Hovering in the sky over Potato World was an black, alien orb, surrounded by a thin ring of brilliant white and pink shimmering fire. It was something straight out of a science fiction movie, and not necessarily a good one, either. It looked so incredibly fake.
It looked downright cartoony.
And it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wept as I stared at it, completely unable to maintain composure. I gawked at how bright the solar corona actually was -- I had completely expected to have to strain to see it. I marveled as I realized I was seeing, with my own two, naked eyes, solar prominences arching over the limb of the Moon. And I just sobbed through the whole experience.
My fiancee, whose interest in this had seemed to be primarily a mix between modest curiosity in a significant natural and cultural event and support for my interest, also cried at seeing it, while her son sat on the ground with his mouth hanging open.
It was both the longest and the shortest 3 minutes of my life. When it was over, I just stood in the field in a daze, periodically pressing my camera's shutter button. In just a few minutes following the end of totality, the field, in which hundreds of people had gathered, was nearly empty. Only a handful of us remained, and most of the others had heavier equipment than my DSLR and tripod.
At the end of the day, I didn't quite get the pictures I wanted. I had hoped to get bracketed exposures during totality, and I had assumed that my camera's settings for that when using the LCD display as digital viewfinder would be the same as when using the optical viewfinder, and they weren't. But I'm not too fussed about it. The pictures still turned out significantly better than I could have hoped for.
I'll be posting the rest of my photos -- including some pictures of Potato World itself -- to my PixelFed account, which can be found here, if anyone's interested: https://pixey.org/i/web/profile/384533916920271164
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Coincidentally enough, Danielle Smith is also owned by Republican-linked private equity firms!