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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Timing is about right for it to be a batch of newly minted CS grads getting into their first corporate jobs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Winnie the Pooh and his favourite sub: Putin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It has to do with scale.

PP is exponentially worse than Trudeau and Jasmeet. Yes, neither of those two silver spoon assed motherfuckers worked a day in their life for where they are and combined can't lead their way out of a wet paper bag, but I'll take them over the mentally ill religious zealot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Singh never had a prime.

Dude moved himself into one of the safest NDP ridings in the country and still almost lost it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Don't forget increased intentionally fucking over BC.

• Harper and PPs complete capitulation on the softwood lumber agreement to the US, multiple times decimated rural BC.

• They moved harbour control for the 2nd busiest port on the west coast of the Americas, out of Vancouver and have them remotely operating out of Comox.

• They illegally forced the TMX expansion pipeline through, and overrode concerns of the city of Hope that the new line runs over their watershed and they ignored native issues with the pipeline. Note that it doesn't run over Nestles well. They moved the line for fucking Nestle, not a city of people though.

• They shut down the coast guard facility for the Vancouver harbor and forced them to operate out of Richmond. So in the recent issue of a boat running into a seaplane, where the coast guard took under 10 minutes to respond, if Trudeau had not repurchased and opened the facility, their response time would have been in the range of 40 minutes to an hour.

Not to mention a return to "balancing" the budget by selling off assets to developer friends and scandals like taking the G8 security budget and using it for graft and bribery in your own ridings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn. Have to admit it hits even harder when you're in a supermarket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ksp2 is the saddest thing about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My non-legal reading puts BC Hydro's latest natrual gas ad at odds with it.

They not only call it "not a fossil fuel" but also claim its a "renewable resource."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It could be that its success was internally attributed to a different team someone in the hierarchy favoured.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

My Oma was in the Netherlands in the 1930s. Her family sheltered part of a jewish family(the elderly mother who was too sick to escape to North America, and one of her sons, a lawyer, who stayed behind to care for her.) This was before the invasion and the start of the war.

At the time, late 1930s, she said that everyone knew something bad was happening to the Jewish people the Nazis rounded up, but not what.

After more than a year of occupation, they were turned in by a neighbor for extra rations because none of her family needed daily visits from a doctor. The Nazis took the two Jewish people and her Dad into a camp.

A local factory owner, some months on, tried to have everyone from the area released in return for his compliance in letting them use his factory output. Her dad was among those released, but they refused to release any Jewish prisoners. Her parents then immediately joined the resistance and helped it out until the end of the war. The factory owner allegedly ensured that the output to the Nazis was changed to be only subtly defective units, pipe walls too thin, cooled too quickly etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Just like before the US revolution, where Virginia's government was seen as so corrupt, other colonies refused to do business with them.

Never mind that the seeds of the entire revolution was tax avoidance for the rich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except he did steal them because the written letters we have say that he wasnt going to take credit for inventions that weren't his.

Also, in the case of CanSinoVac, they were given physical things and never paid for them, so yes, it was stealing.

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