[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 minutes ago

They tag some of their military assets with 'Z' for battlefield identification

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 26 points 19 hours ago

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 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 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 22 hours ago

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)

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

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

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 4 days ago

Largest? Implying there are smaller, ie more than one?

[-] 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

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

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

Some festival?

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submitted 4 months ago by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/spaceengineers@lemmy.zip

Splitsie's Scrapyard Engineers scenario is pretty great, I've been enjoying it, and if you haven't tried it, it's worth a crack.

The concept is that you basically don't get refiners or assemblers, and only a limited number of blocks you can make. Everything else, you have to find from wreckage strewn about the landscape. The goal is to get to space.

In addition to the base modpack, I strongly recommend Improvised Experimentation. The author also recommends it, but tunes down the carry weight so that you have to use cranes more. I didn't, but a crane is still extremely useful.

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submitted 4 months ago by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/thenetherlands@feddit.nl

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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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22324944

The beauty of The Long Dark.

To clear up some confusion: there is an article behind that link and I'm not the author.

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TLDR: Lotsa bugfixes.

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

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A brief note announcing the title of the last chapter of Wintermute, "slated for release in late 2024".

Hinterlands thread as above. Steam community forum Reddit thread

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THE LONG DARK Updated to v 2.26 (hinterlandforums.com)
submitted 10 months ago by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/thelongdark@lemmy.ca

Looks like mostly bugfixes and such. Clipping, art, visual bugs mostly.

I've been impressed by how solid this DLC release has been so far, nothing super gamebreaking.

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

The Long Dark is launching part 4, video is livestreaming at time of writing.

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