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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I guess in a sense politicians’ social media profiles create a platform for others to spread their message by interacting with the politicians’ posts. So when Guilbeault posts something that gains traction, then Ezra replies, that gets his reply a lot of exposure. In that sense, maybe there is a point to allow blocking, in that it denies such figures this platform. A perhaps better solution would be for Guilbeault to have a social media army that ratios Ezra by debunking his bullshit. But could be very difficult if not impossible given how much easier it is for an actor like Ezra to generate bullshit compared to debunking it. It would educate his followers though and perhaps deflate his influence.




  • He said border agents told him they needed to determine whether he and his wife were a national security threat to Canada.

    Falk said they were asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict and his position on Israel. After about four hours, Falk said he and wife were eventually released and allowed to enter Canada.

    Are we determining threats to Canadian national security by ascertaining people’s opinions of Israel now?

    This shit sounds like the US law enforcement leaking into Canada, or a CBSA employee with a particular political predisposition.







  • As someone who’s done cloud infrastructure professionally, this is the right way to make a project for setting up self-hosted applications. Not writing a bunch of bash scripts and putting them behind some web UI. We have well established infrastructure/config-as-code systems that are the gold standard which runs most clouds out there. Ansible is one of them. That’s the right tool for this job and a ton of professionals understand it and therefore can easily contribute improvements for the ones who don’t to use. I’m unfortunatrly invested in SaltStack but I wouldn’t feel worried to deploy a (well reviewed) project built on Ansible. Then slap a web UI on it if you like but that should be another project that hooks uses this one.








  • Looking at your post history, you’re def ultra mega super commie by US standards. Joke aside, the left-right spectrum is a bit of a sham. I like to think of it as up-down in terms of class. Once mfker sees things in terms of class and that most of us are working class even if we don’t make min wage, eyes get wide open. Most of the ideas for how to help our class get more of what we produce historically come from figures who have been somewhere on the left side of the left-right spectrum. However people from different parts of the spectrum have picked and chosen from those ideas, and the spectrum itself is a moving target. Then you have people who make caricatures of the spectrum in order to slander others… But that’s much more difficult to do with class, because class isn’t based on ideas. It just is the material reality and all we need to figure it out is to look at it.


  • The reverance of veterans needs to stop

    Yes.

    and people need to ridicule it.

    I don’t think this is gonna happen for a myriad of reasons. This society isn’t anywhere remotely close to the permissibility of ridiculing vets. Doing so anyway just looks ridiculous and discredits the person doing it even though they may be coming from an otherwise informed position.

    The real victims of American imperialism are not the veteran bastards who partook in it but the people who had their countries invaded and families murdered by them. These aren’t WW2 veterans anymore, it’s the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

    Again, you’re making an ethical argument. I agree with it in the abstract. However the material conditions go against individuals in the system agreeing or doing anything about it. Placing the blame on them when all they did is what they were told and pressed to do by the system is doing exactly what works best for the system - misdirecting blame away from it. So I just think ridiculing vets today is just anti-materialist and counterproductive towards the goal of stopping imperialism. I think there are better ways and one of those is what Mamdani is doing. Show the harm to people that Americans actually care about and change the material conditions pushing people into the military machine - by reduce cost of living in his case.

    Feel free to disagree. I’m not changing my opinion on this today so there’s no point being spending more time on it. I don’t think I’ll change yours today either. 🤗