Kaputnik

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (10 children)

The posts from when we were chapo.chat are still available, so I don't think we would lose hexbear.net posts but I dunno anything about webhosting :$

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It will rise again from the ashes, with a new url

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I would post the emoji of the blob on fire, but it'll just end up saying "visit hexbear.net"

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Additionally, provinces have announced retaliatory measures:

Nova Scotia will cancel procurement contracts with US based companies, double road tolls for American travellers, and ban sales of American alcohol in provincial stores

British Columbia has announced they will ban sales of alcohol produced in states that voted for Republicans

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-february-1-1.7447829

Canada announces retaliatory tariffs against the USA. Initial tariffs will be 25% of $30 billion as of Tuesday, followed by 25% of $125 billion in three weeks

Part of me thinks these tariffs from the US will remain until the next election and the Cons are elected. Trump will then drop the tariffs and the Cons can take it as a victory and claim they saved Canada

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ric Grenell is returning to the US with six US nationals who were in prison in Venezuela.

Are the mercs who pissed themselves during a coup attempt being freed?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

Peter Ciriwami, governor of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been killed as M23 encircles the provincial capital of Goma

The Kivu conflict has been ongoing for more than 20 years at this point. M23 previously held Goma in 2012 before a ceasefire. It seems like no state is truly in control of the eastern DRC as M23 is backed by Rwanda, while the UN has claimed the DRC is arming non-state militias inside Kivu province to fight back. In a similar fashion to the Myanmar Civil War there are so many active groups here it feels impossible to keep track of alliances and controlled territory.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't even know what the media will call it this time to say it's not a Nazi salute

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please dear god, don't give him more ways to be annoying

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just remember in any war of US imperialism the bourgeoisie of the invaded country suffers the least. The people who will suffer the most are the indigenous people of Canada and Greenland who will have their treaties annulled along with the poor and working class who rely on the basic social services Canada offers that the US does not.

Canada as a state sucks and the people in charge would deserve it, but they will not suffer, everyone else will.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lmao at "most innovative gameplay" being Liar's Bar. A game where the only gameplay is playing the card game cheat, which is so well trod that you could play it on Neopets. The only difference is that you can die, wow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yea that's fair, it's just hard to think of it being outdated when I paid so much for it. Also it's the first time I've experienced VRAM size being the chokepoint of what I can run, but maybe that's just the new normal.

 

I know I know kill yr heroes and all that

 
 

I was laughing super hard throughout this movie and I think it'd go over well here, it has a similar sense of humour to a lot of we post. It's also great to see something unapologetically queer that's not just a sad or serious movie

 

So the Canadian government passed a law in June that would require Meta and Google to pay news organizations for news content that is featured on their websites. Essentially acting as a kind of "link tax" for tech companies, justified by the use of content from these news organizations that appears on Facebook, Instagram, and Google (thumbnails, bylines, etc). In response Meta has blocked all Canadian news from appearing on their websites along with non-news websites from Canada like The Beaverton and Walking Eagle News (The Canadian and Indigenous versions of the Onion). You can read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-18

So I can see potential pros and cons of this legislation.

Pros:

I hate Google and Meta and this will make them lose money which I'm always a fan of.

This could help news organizations that have more leftist or more Indigenous focused reporting fund their work, considering those organizations don't have much funding to begin with in Canada.

The current blocking of news on Meta could help move people away from getting their news on there from sites like The Rebel

It will help ensure the survival of Canadian based news and help stave off even more American corporate and cultural hegemony over the country

Cons:

The majority of the money from this program will go towards the Postmedia owned news networks and further entrench their neoliberal worldview

What do you think about the bill?

 

I'm treating this like adult Pokemon and my friends aren't getting my excitement when I find a new bird.

Also I've been checking in on some juvenile Bald Eagles near me here's a picture I could get of one:

 

https://twitter.com/Teridax/status/1649882791939653633

He then does the 14 words but about Twitter in another reply

 

This is some tumblrinaction level humour

 
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