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byCohibaVancouver
ry 23, 2026 @10:00AM
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Attached to: US Formally Withdraws From WHO
Canadian here.
Sure, the US might elect a sane person again one day, along with a sane majority in Congress, but then four years later you'll just elect another maniac.
Your country not trustworthy and is hopelessly broken.
I mean how insane is it that our Government made the decision that in 2026 business with CHINA was a safer bet than business with the USA? Madness.
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byCohibaVancouver
ry 18, 2026 @08:26AM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
Now he's going to try and stop the entire industry in the US because he's a pretty shitgibbon.
...and he may very well succeed because the Republican-controlled Congress is both spineless & feckless.
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byCohibaVancouver
ary 13, 2026 @12:01PM
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Attached to: Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68
Dude spent his last years trying to cause pain and suffering in other people. What a waste of a life.
Yep.
I'll never understand this American obsession with trying to redeem people after they are dead. Sadly, Scott's legacy is and will always be his Trump endorsements and what he said and did in the last few years of his life, not the funny cartoon I and millions of others used to enjoy.
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byCohibaVancouver
uary 08, 2026 @08:05PM
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Attached to: How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
It's not that they are cheaper to make
Posted article: Here are thousands of words of detail - With associated graphics - On all the science behind how an LCD panel works, what quantum dots are, how their manufacturing works, how mother glass has been scaled up, the ratio of substrate area to equipment costs, LCD fabs, thin-film transformers, efficiencies, economies of scale etc. - And how all of which have led to plummeting TV costs.
Slashdotter who didn't even read the fucking article: "It's not that they are cheaper to make, it's ads."
Sigh.
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byCohibaVancouver
ember 11, 2025 @04:03PM
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Attached to: US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry
Imprison them for months or years while you process their applications.
The problem is that this costs the American taxpayer billions, whereas if you give them an SSN and release them they start working, paying taxes and contributing to the American economy - So instead of costing the taxpayer, they do the opporite.
Most refugees do follow the law and report to their hearings as ordered. Recently, those hearings are where ICE is often waiting to haul them away after they report as instructed.
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byCohibaVancouver
ember 11, 2025 @03:58PM
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Attached to: US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry
help those who should be helping themselves
So a mother whose husband has been killed by the secret police, who has been gang-raped and who is struggling to escape with the clothes on her back to protect herself and her nine and six-year-old children should be helping herself?
Walk me through what she should be doing to help herself. Thanks.
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byCohibaVancouver
ember 11, 2025 @01:12PM
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Attached to: US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry
See, I think where a lot of us differ here is, It's not the USA's problem when a foreign government does to it's own citizens.
You may lack empathy - And you're not alone - Millions of other Americans have no empathy either until they themselves are personally affected.
However, the majority of Americans *do* have empathy and the notions of "sending someone back" to be imprisoned, tortured for years or killed just because they had the audacity to exercise freedom of speech or to have children gang raped and then hacked apart by machete because they are the wrong ethnic group is unacceptable to them and they feel America is large enough and wealthy enough to absorb these people into their nation.
My nation of Canada felt that way when we started letting in Syrian refugees in 2015 and in the last decade over 100,000 have settled in Canada and begun contributing to the nation.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2...
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byCohibaVancouver
ember 11, 2025 @10:16AM
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Attached to: US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry
The fake-dems letting in all of these people with refugee papers is just the other side of the coin
The challenge is this: If someone presents themselves at a nation's border and declares themselves a refugee from persecution that nation has two options -
1) Let them in, evaluate their situation and then based on that allow them to stay or tell them they have to go back - Which may lead thousands and thousands of economic migrants to declare themselves as "refugees" leading to years-long waits for a review.
2) Say "I don't care what's going to happen to you, go away" - Which may lead to legitimate refugees and their families being tortured and killed.
There is no easy solution and to simply write "fake-dems letting in all of these people with refugee papers" is grossly simplistic to the point of it being childish.
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byCohibaVancouver
ember 04, 2025 @02:53PM
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Attached to: The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
I try to use the library for DVDs, but I'm consistently disappointed in the condition of the discs. They're often dirty or deeply scratched in elventeen places. It's nearly impossible to watch a library DVD without it glitching.
Clearly, people aren't treating the discs with care. Humans suck.
It's true that the VHS tapes at the library were never rewound and were worn out due to the long pausing on the scene where Phoebe Cates undoes her bikini top, but their analog nature meant they never glitched out the entire movie.
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byCohibaVancouver
cember 03, 2025 @12:06PM
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Attached to: Study Finds Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells
Except nobody thought getting inked was dangerous.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that "nobody" thought that.
I've personally always thought "How can it possibly be safe to inject organic and inorganic pigments into the dermis?"
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byCohibaVancouver
cember 03, 2025 @12:02PM
(#65832777)
Attached to: Waymo Hits a Dog In San Francisco, Reigniting Safety Debate
So do you want your robocars to merely be better than the shitty human drivers that are creating most of the accidents?
No, we want them to be dramatically safer than most human drivers on the road.
Which is already the case.
For example, if 50 dogs per week are hit by cars in San Francisco we want to reduce that number by 98%.
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byCohibaVancouver
ber 28, 2025 @10:14AM
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Attached to: Canada Rolls Back Climate Rules To Boost Investments
in the old it's not physics or chemistry that will doom humanity but economics, aptly called the dismal science
Here in Canada we were able to stay on track with our targets until our neighbour and former friend the USA threw us under the bus while at the same time shooting themselves in the foot.
I'm not sure if you can call the actions of the American government "economics." I certainly don't.
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byCohibaVancouver
ust 28, 2025 @05:05AM
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Attached to: Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release Software
favorite tool when crap like this happens - credit card charge back
That *might* work if you bought your bike in the last four months, but after 120 days chargebacks typically can't be filed.
I would guess that option is off-the-table for most people.
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byCohibaVancouver
gust 27, 2025 @01:51PM
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Attached to: Dish Gives Up On Becoming the Fourth Major Wireless Carrier
But the neat thing is that there are apparently so many business phones and car entertainment systems out there that there are about one third more subscribers than there are people over age 10 in the United States
There are literally billions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the USA. Are all of them on them on public mobile data networks? No. But millions and millions of them are - Everything from street lights to parking meters to vehicle telemetry. Geotab alone tracks millions of vehicles and they're one vendor of several.
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byCohibaVancouver
20, 2025 @01:43PM
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Attached to: Three Years Left To Limit Warming To 1.5C, Leading Scientists Warn
Yet deaths as a result of climate/weather events are the lowest they've been in recorded history
True, but this doesn't mean the planet isn't warming. The reduction in deaths is pretty easily explained -
Improved Early Warning Systems: Better forecasting and communication of impending weather hazards compared to even 25 years ago have allowed for better evacuations and more preparedness, saving lives.
Enhanced Disaster Management: More effective response mechanisms, infrastructure improvements, and coordinated relief efforts have reduced deaths. Of course, the Republican's gutting of FEMA that is underway may turn this one around.
Technological Advancements: Better housing & infrastructure, and access to data and messaging have reduced deaths.
But despite all that, economic losses have increased dramatically.
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