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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 26 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

They'll still have to pay the tariff when crossing the border back to the USA, unless they want to risk smuggling it.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They wouldn't need to. Soft power would be sufficient to get them nearly everything they want, without risking boots on the ground.

The main risk to us, from a military perspective, is if the USA collapses federally and the states end up fighting amongst each other. The Midwest states will collapse into chaos and feudal fiefdoms, lacking access to trade opportunities (IMO) so border raids there will be the big risk. Actual military occupation might be a concern if the dice rolls the wrong way in the East - Toronto and Quebec are very vulnerable, and sitting on huge reserves of fresh water plus the St. Laurence seaway.

It would be a hell of a thing if Canada ended up with alliances with the southern slaveholding states.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I live in Canada and in the event of US autocratic regime, we are in danger. I would like it if the European Union had our back against (say) incursions from former US border states, but I get that they would have their own problems to deal with.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I get the need for them, to pay for shared building services. Strata fees pay for exercise rooms, pools, grounds maintenance, whatever. I 100% am behind them, as long as the Strata council is responsive to needs and not corrupted, but there's the rub.

I'd generally be happier with few services and low strata fees tho.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah. I'm pretty much resigned to living in our rental until we get renovicted. No kids, double income, a lot of savings... but the mortgage payments would be way more than it's worth to have a minor upgrade. Strata payments alone are often more than our rent!

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Not Vancouver. Nothing that size would go less than 2 million until you hit Coquitlam. MAYBE.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Im assuming you've looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Age the second one 2000 years and look as good it will not.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I've found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.

All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.

Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Encoding h.265 on a small enough camera might be a problem? But if they have money ...

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The cheaters and cheat developers will just move to Windows, and the legitimate Linux users will quit. I don't see the upside, this doesn't solve the problem.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey cottage cheese on toast is great, that's my breakfast most days. With pepper and nutritional yeast usually.

 

Today's bake. 30g gluten flour, 270g sprouted whole spelt flour, 700g AP flour, 80g wheat germ. 850g water, 150g starter.

Added in 50g flax soaked 100g water, 50g chiaseed 100g water, 50g each sunflower and pumpkin seeds. 30g salt. Topped with black sesame seeds.

 

As subject. In Gastown, a plane flew over putting out rainbow contrail. Why? O_o

Some festival?

 

Apologies for the English, my monolingualism is entirely my own fault at this point.

The tldr: my grandmother grew up during WW2 in the occupied Netherlands, and migrated to Canada in the 1950s in her 20s.

She is likely in the stages of early dementia, and one of the recommendations for dementia patients is to find music that they'd likely enjoyed as teenagers or young adults. I'd like to see if I can find something that fits that rough description. I expect I can make do with the English catalogue of classic rock and country from that time, but it'd be nice to find something a little different.

Can someone make any broad recommendations for popular Dutch music from the 1950s? Ideally, something I can find in mp3 format, but I'm willing to spend some money.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz
 

Oliv on Steam created a set of very nice maps for TLD zones, including the new Zone of Contamination.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/eveonline@lemmy.world
 

Hey, is anyone aware of a method to filter chat by keyword? The in-game spam is ... absolutely incredible.

Some super basic keyword filters would cut down on 99% of it. Even better, if you could selectively ignore any message containing a URL, or a contract, or something like that.

It's SUPER weird that a, what, 20 year old game doesn't have this. It smacks of intention and makes chat completely unusable.

 

From a Youtube comment:

"Sadly the creator of this mash-up has passed away. His name was Erwin Beekveld and he died on 30th of march 2022 aged 52. Thank you for all the joy you gave us, Erwin. Rest In Peace"

Pour one out for an OG memelord.

 

TIL there's a Skytrain proposal for a UBC extension. 👍

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/ubc@lemmy.ca
 

If anyone's interested, I've created a !sfu@lemmy.ca.

Someday, we may have one-sided meme wars!

edit: I just read the sidebar note about contacting the mod team first about advertising. Apologies! Please remove this post with my enthusiastic blessing if you think that this isn't sufficiently relevant to the UBC community.

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