no, it’ll be a mid-tier exec using it as a boondoggle to bang some hookers across the country on the company dime

The white racists are trying to deport the native americans, so probably another trail of tears as well

Good thing is, you can go in stages. I started out many years ago with wifi bulbs/plugs through Google, then Alexa (because echo dots went on sale super cheap once). Then I got a Hubitat and started moving things over to Zigbee/Z-wave/local Wifi, i.e. light bulbs got switched over when they burned out, new switches and plugs are local-only, etc. then upgraded my homeassistant to a raspberry pi. I still have Alexa speakers, but Nabu Casa is developing a smart speaker that can be configured to run fully local, so I’ll probably be getting a few of those soon-ish and cut out one more bit of Big Brother at least.

Same could be said for most northern border states, Wisconsin people can sound pretty Canadian at times

Also keeping in mind with the current state of the capitalist hellscape, avoiding companies that supported trump/GOP can be difficult to impossible for a good chunk of people. If the only grocery store that you’re able to get to is Walmart, I am not going to criticize you eating.

Virtually every automaker doung business in North America has kissed trump’s ass at some point in the last decade.

Nestle and Unilever are fucking everywhere and also have many subsidiaries that it can be difficult to figure out if they’re involved in the product you’re using.

Good luck using technology produced by a company that hasn’t supported him or the republican party.

With how badly things are ratfucked, I will applaud any effort to reduce consumption from these companies, because it’s at least a little better than actively supporting them.

Another twist is how familiar Canadians are with US geography, cities, culture, etc. not to mention being able to culturally camouflage with fairly little effort… as long as we don’t have to say “about”

Right-wing propaganda does this all the time - starting with a bit of truth means someone can google it and get a headline that sort of agrees with what they’re saying, but the content largely disagrees with the narrative they extrapolate from it.

It’s based on a kernel of truth - Carney said that Canada would side with the remainder of NATO if the US tries to take Greenland by force - which would mean declaring war on the US if article 5 is invoked.

pass on open trade/borders with US, their lack of regulation and standards on food means most of what they produce is garbage and/or potentially contaminated. Not to mention simply flooding the markets with their crap. When Mulroney negotiated NAFTA, it crushed so many industries in Canada, and we’re really only starting to attempt to recover from that… Maybe the only good thing Trump has done is to galvanize us to make better trade agreements with other countries and not rely on free trade with the US.

Tsunamis are only really noticeable/dangerous in shallow water too, so that analogy doubly checks out

Visual perspecitve is a hell of a thing. People don’t realize just HOW BIG overpass signs are and how big the lettering needs to be such that it can be read from the highway at highway speeds. USDOT recommends 16" high letters for highway overpasses.

we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”

https://www.evergreenresistance.org/events/20250901/Overpass-Bannering-Tips.pdf maybe pass that around?

There are too many interests external to the US that would stand to benefit from it’s collapse, beyond those that are actively trying to orchestrate it.

I don’t think I would be shocked in the sightest if that came up as factual… I think I would be more shocked if it were false.

So basically a frat house in college…

Also, the munition itself is only one piece of the system required to make it go boom… Not to mention being able to send it to the place you want it to go boom and have it go boom at the exact right time

Seems like a great thing at first, y’know, wife AND Kate? Awesome!

Next thing you know, it’s “Kate does this, why don’t you?” and “You don’t satisfy me the way Kate does”, then “Kate and I are going to go on a cruise together.” Before you know it, it’s “I think it’s time we took a break, I need to focus on my relationship with Kate”; before you know it, you’re living by yourself in a van down by the river!

Easy, they will just be locked out of having access to computing, that way they can only get their news and information from right-wing AM talk radio.

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They can exploit the same lax regulations to get unregistered firearms that the right does

door to door means violent confrontation is not on the streets, in public, but in private where there will be less witnesses. Easier to control the narrative without dozens of cell phone videos from every possible angle.