I’m Canuck.

I don’t hate USians…

( ALL people who are citizens of the Americas, South, Central, OR North, are Americas citizens, aka Americans. )

I hate both the national-narcissism which eventually blossoms inyo totalitarianism/cults, including the MAGA-cult,

& the abomination-methods of the MAGA-cult, the zionism-cult, the christofascism-cult, the islamism-cult, the manosphere-cult, the confucian-supremacism-cult, the various ideological-cults, the Physicalist-Matetialist-Existentialist Scientism cult which disallows all evidence falsifying it ( as Rupert Sheldrake has pointed-out there are multiple experiments which falsify that ideology/religion, but the evidence is simply ignored/denied, axiomatically ), etc.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani ( & his Mom the documentary-director who made him become who he is, from what i’ve read ), & Snowden,

… ALL deserve The Order of Canada ( or whatever our highest-honour is ), for their loyal & upright representing of grass-roots people of their-own country!

That work of theirs makes our world better,

& Canada, being in our world, benefits from all such upright good work, everywhere.

Beauty, eh?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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orthagonal to that,

is the blunt fact that universe will enforce the Great Filter,

and humankind could learn willingly which humankind won’t … or humankind can learn unwillingly quite-possibly through outright species-extinction, later this century.

This isn’t a decision which will obey our ignoring: either neatly-all-of-us die, xor all-of-us die, this century.

Addiction ( to ignoring/denying, in this case, to ideologies in many cases, etc ) is real, and values its habit more than it values future-life.

How does one crack the ignoring of the US left, who insist that their future-election will save them, while ICE has now got a national crematoriums network for eradicating problem people, just as the previous reich did??

How does one crack addiction’s ignoring/“knowing”, anywhere??

Bitterness becomes … natural.

Humankind won’t know, and the needless waste-of-whole-planet will begin once the dictatorship-tippingpoint is crossed, by Trump, later in 2026, this year.

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Speaking as-if cents were the real harm enforced, not lives…

the “values” that do that…

are not humane values.

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Ukraine needs a veto, specifically to prevent puppets of the kremlin from having that authority,

but they do not require the right to decide outright who represents Europe.

That is overreach.

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firing, not convicting…

we have conceded rule of law, already.

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check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…

IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.

Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…

i wouldn’t bet much on that…

As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:

once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.

I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.

All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…

Perfect industrialized parasitism.

sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…

DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.

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from what i’ve read, ALL email ( possible 0.000something tolerance/error ) goes through google’s mail-transfer-agents.

If they want a copy of every email that goes across the internet, they’ve got the saturation-of-core-servers to have that.

There simply isn’t any way to bypass that.

on an irrelated note, i wish public key encryption had been normalized, & worked right…

( Snowden got stung by a misconfiguration, 1 time, & if geeks get stung, then it isn’t ready for normals )

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Authority-Theatre.

call it what it is.

( so are the winners of the Big Brother Awards, btw )

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Not to worry, though: this evidence won’t falsify any climate-model held valid by consensus:

consensus is itself the only validity that matters!

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NONE of the consensus-models match the data, from what i’ve read.

That’s pseudoscience/politics, not science.

Sabine Hossenfelder ( who sometimes is right ) pointed-out that all the more-extreme-than-consensus models were pruned-out/defunded…

making it impossible to match the later-produced data.

Politics isn’t capable of surviving Natural Selection, aka The Great Filter.

Our unconscious choice, though…

at least our species’ epitaph will be “important”.

idiocy.

Charge ships trying to pass through,

NOT charging Netanyahu’s “Israel” who keeps bombing the ceasefires/agreements out of existence, right??

Clownshow is exactly right.

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Be careful which jurisdiction you, and your project, are in.

The titanium-curtain will be coming-down later this year, and there will be alot of police-state aggression, in many countries, soon.

Please make certain you are safe to be doing this, wherever you are.

In the US, RuleOfJustLaw already is banished, & TuleOfLegalism is fading, as RuleOfAuthority supplants it…

Humankind’s Great Filter isn’t going to be … civilized.

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WHEN there are multiple, contradictory, config-files,

THEN every single 1 of those bastards ought be explicitly-identified, in the 1st-line-comment, in ALL of them, so that all configurators of any of them know there may be overrides.

Externalize the damn memorization!

There is plenty of research identifying that parallel-IFs, and equivalent parallel/contradictory config/logic structures, are BIG bug-sources.

Ask any sysadmin who has fought config in Linux distros, due to this antipattern.

Make all the locations be named, in every such config, every fscking time!

“Spanish Inquisition” surprises can go eat rocks.

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ICE is the US’s IDF-in-Gaza, but in the Democrat States:

https://youtu.be/qhZBVLQK9MU

Netanyahu’s “Israel” is integrating with the US’s military, right??

ICE’s nazi-style crematoriums are pertinent, then… https://youtu.be/aBMJOAUMb5U

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Integrity is the only weapon one can “take with one”, into Eternity.

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https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/2025-2026-iran-protests-death-tallies-methods-credible-estimates-df5957

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Enforce a Market-Basket-Measure based minimum-wage:

live in an expensive city?

Yes, there’s much more innovation-per-capita there ( because more complex interactions are happening, more people sparking other-people ), but the costs are higher there, too, so therefore the minimum-wage has to be higher, the bigger the city.

You also get the rural-living-tax, though, as you’re much more motor-vehicle-dependent, rurally…

Fix the wages law, so parenting can be unbroken, & that would have significant cascading-effects.

Enforce proper education’s availability, so that critical-reasoning becomes normal for 80+ percent of the population, ASAP.

That would undo much of the idiocracy-cult’s traction, & get rationality beck into the world.

Prevent DarkTetrad/DarkTriad people from being electABLE, or having authority in public-service ( including police-services ), & that would make huge difference.

Criminalize bribery, including lobbying, & force all issues to be decided through rational issue-diagrams, not through “politicking”, & that would clean-up our countries, significantly.

etc.

Combined-Arms: hit all the dimensions, simultaneously, & force the enemy-of-our-viability to yield, no matter what.

Otherwise, The Great Filter’s going to be our world’s epitaph, in about 60y.

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plain iso-propyl rubbing-alcohol works, & is much cheaper.

Get them to fix the problem ( sanitization ) even if they don’t want to pay for the high-markup “sanitizer” stuff.

( I use an old hand-sanitizer bottle, but refill it with rubbing-alcohol, due to the drastic difference in price )

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I’d actually want a “No Supremacists Allowed: including zionists, christofascists, islamists, gender-supremacists, class-supremacists, dharmic-religion-supremacists, no actively-butchering-out-country-separatist treason-enacters, etc” policy.

Let the rabid-ideologues not have any place to be, among our civilization.

Let them exist only in their own little country.

I want civilization to live, & they’re working at replacing it with their feudalisms.

To hell with 'em.

( anybody who thinks that zionists & Jews are somehow identical, please look up Ultra-Orthodox Jews, like Rabbi Elhanan Beck, & his wish that Netanyahu’s “Israel” not exist.

He pointed-out that there are 2-million Jews, but there are 16-million who identify as Jews, but who don’t hold to Jewish religion, or who have Jewish ancestry … but who don’t hold to Jewish religion.

He points out that Netanyahu doesn’t even bother eating kosher: Netanyahu isn’t Jewish, he’s zionist.

He also identifies that outside of Netanyahu’s “Israel”, anyone who looks like they’re Orthodox Jew, probably is. However in that place, then you’ve got zionist-settlers who dress the same way, & there you can’t identify which side someone is on, by the way they dress, because the bad-guys are wearing the good-guys’ labels/clothing/etc.

That problem, of enemies wearing the same labels/flags/words is a problem in all sorts of domains, not only Judaism… Christian vs “Christian”, e.g.

Please look him up: I learned much about what’s really going on, there, from the interviews of him.

In my religion, “the holy land” is internal though, so I"m not certain my concept of holy-land would map into Judaism, at all…

One’s pure openness of heart, to LivingSpirit, that is one’s Holy Land.

All geopolitical-lands are worldly-lands, not The Holy Land, in this view…

Anyways, he seems a truly good guy, & you may recognize him by his ultra-Orthodox Jewish clothing, & his colorful Palestine button, which he wears gladly. )

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Mere-ideas, but…

1. there seem to be one hell of alot of the things, so therefore some must have captured rogue-planets, after they calmed-down…

2. that would mean that the atmosphere-stripping might not be universal for all planets orbiting them, only for the planets that orbited them when they were young red-dwarfs…

Being tidally-locked may mean that not having any Van Allen belts may be irrelevant: the radiation they’re being bombarded by is coming from their sun, & life could evolve on the opposite side, having warmth, & maybe photosynthesis at the daylight-horizon?

3. Swift caught a red-dwarf emitting a flare 10k times more powreful than any we know about having been ejected by our Sun … but we’re looking at zillions of stars with our satellites, whereas we’ve only got a few decades of satellites watching our sun: there’s a measurement-disparity there, that is significant.

4. universe has surprised ALL of our assumptions about it, through the millenia… & the ONE rule on Earth for where life is, is: IF life CAN exist in some niche, THEN it does. Period.

Stratospheric bacteria with error-correcting-code DNA ( 4 compartments, each with about 1/3rd of the DNA, so it corrects radiation-induced-damage before dividing into daughter-cells, sorry I can’t remember where I read that, it was a couple decades ago ), bacteria eating bedrock, down where it’s too hot for anything else to live, etc…

To presume, as we normally do, that universe’s rules for life are different on Earth than everywhere-else, is … neither evidence-based nor correct-reasoning-based.

Therefore, betting that no red-dwarf-orbiting planet has any life on it … isn’t a bet I’d do.

That most such might be lifeless, I’ve no problem with that.

But any time we assert that “there’s no life” in an entire-category of universe’s places … that’s just prejudice, from what I can see.

There is some, indirect evidence that microbes used to live on Mars ( chemistry that has no other obvious explanation, e.g. )…

& that would indicate that life’s actually a normal-default, but that we evolved too-late to encounter Mars’s life…

Oh, & the flaring thing: being closer to a star makes flaring much more dangerous than it is to us: the energy-density at double the distance ( of the flare, between its sun & its planet ) would be 1/4, right? ( distance-squared ),

so closer would be massively more likely to be clobbered…

but … universe consistently surprises our assumptions, so I’m still holding-to the suspend-judgement, only speak for the majority, not for all, position.

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Thick borosilicate-glass ( no plastic-chemicals getting into my water, thermal-shock-proof, thick-enough to not be too fragile ),

wide-mouth for easy-cleaning,

fits on bike bottle-holder ( plastic one, not metal, to protect the bottle ),

much taller than the short bike-bottles,

cover to keep grime off the drinking-from lid,

silicone or something seal(s),

able to drink quickly from it at stop-lights.

Probably acrylic for the lid-material, since it seems to be reasonably-robust & not too putting-weird-chemicals into my water.

( all this is because bike-bottles made of low-density poly-ethylene are absolutely vile with the chemicals they put into water, & poly-carbonate also has some chemical-seepage issues )

Actually, I’d want a package-deal: larger-diameter bottle-holder & bottle-to-fit: I want water, not svelte-traditional-bottle-diameter…

So, I was partly solving-the-wrong-problem at the beginning…

That’s how learning happens, though: ad-hoc…

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