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adespoton, to canada in Ontario mom pulls Jewish daughter out of high school after antisemitic 'culture' event

If you think modern Zionism is about religion in anything but name, or that Palestinian nationalism is about Islam in anything but name, what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe.

If all religion vanished overnight, the same people would be fighting over the same land with many of the same arguments, but something else substituted for the religion.

Tribalism knows no borders.

adespoton, to politics in How to Criminalize a Protest

That also sounds like a great way to strip police and politicians of all soft power over time.

Do they realize that there are harder but astronomically better ways to manage a protesting public?

adespoton, to politics in Libertarians Boo Trump when he Hijacks Their Convention

What this shows is that Trump’s entire team doesn’t really understand what Libertarian is. Kennedy seemed to understand, but his politics obviously don’t align.

Then again, personally I put Libertarianism in the same camp as Communism as far as ideologies that are great in theory, but handwave the human factor away. The trick is in how to avoid authoritarianism while still being realistic about how humans behave individually and in groups.

adespoton, to technology in Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

adespoton, to britishcolumbia in $900M project to create hydrogen plants, refuelling stops in B.C.

Storing and transporting large volumes of hydrogen? What could possibly go wrong?

adespoton, to britishcolumbia in Poll gives B.C. Conservatives no ‘reason’ to cooperate with B.C. United: analyst

I still have problems parsing the phrase “conservative, anti-establishment”.

If they’re anti-establishment, they aren’t actually conservative in anything but name. Someone has succeeded in stealing the meaning out from under them.

Maybe “regressive fundamental nationalists” would be a better title? That way actual conservatives would have to intentionally stop voting C to vote for them.

adespoton, to technology in AI Image Generator Avoids Copyright Issues by Training on Corrupted Photos

All this really does is show how flawed the current concept of copyright is. But at some point, a huge corpus of images owned by other people was assembled to create a derivative work (the training corpus).

adespoton, to britishcolumbia in Why It’s Time for Municipalities to Fire the RCMP

That’s some heavy spin on the situation. Surrey was the subject of a multimillion dollar campaign to get rid of the RCMP, which the previous mayor was a part of. When the citizens realized (too late) what was happening, they elected a new mayor on the platform of bringing back the RCMP, but the process was already in motion to replace them.

Surrey was for years the largest RCMP detachment in Canada, but for the past 20 years, they’ve struggled to staff it. The situation is even trickier now, because it’s many of the same people who used to work for the RCMP who now work for the Surrey Police. Re-hiring people who quit the RCMP while still offering continuity to the city is not something that’s simple to do.

I see this as being the Surrey/RCMP equivalent of Brexit.

adespoton, to privacy in Looking for a VOIP service to replace Google Fi

I guess my suggestion wouldn’t be useful then… I was a GrandCentral customer in 2006. When Google bought them I became a Google Voice customer and still am. It’s been convenient to have the same US numbers for 18 years. I wouldn’t run anything private through the service though.

adespoton, to politics in Nikki Haley says she 'will be voting for Trump'

Thankfully I’ve already forgotten everything about her except for her name and that she’ll be voting for Trump.

So if anyone mentions her to me in the future, my only possible response will be “oh, that woman who voted for Trump?”

adespoton, to worldnews in US threatens ICC, warning 'If they [prosecute] Israel, we're next!'

Jr or Sr?

adespoton, to worldnews in US threatens ICC, warning 'If they [prosecute] Israel, we're next!'

Wait… the US is currently indiscriminately bombing civilians who have nowhere to go, while denying them access to basic necessities?

adespoton, to usa in [Video][Breaking Points] Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal Extradition

What a world we live in where he had to appeal for the right to appeal. Now that he has the right to appeal, he gets to appeal.

It makes me wonder how things would have gone if he’d just gone quietly to the US immediately following the original arrest. At this point, he’s effectively lost over a decade of his life anyway.

adespoton, to lemmybewholesome in A welcoming gift

I’m imagining those sachets that you get seeds in these days… 20 of them with 3g of grass seed in each.

adespoton, to apple in Navigation on the bicycle?

Nope; just using either the speaker or a single around the ear cheap Bluetooth earpiece. Don’t want to block hearing whatever else is going on.

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