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Cake day: May 11th, 2026

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  • One point of correction:

    That isn’t how the 5 eyes actually works. It’s illegal for most countries to invade the privacy of their own citizens without a warrant since they have the equivalent to the bill of rights or a constitution or something similar.

    But… it’s not illegal for Canada to spy on the citizens of the other 5 eyes technically speaking (especially if nobody ever finds out…) you just blame discovering stuff on other legitimate surveillance methods, or you “get lucky” one day and catch a person you’re interested in by pure happenstance. Wow, would you look at that? They were criminaling while I was watching them.

    You scratch my back spy on my citizens I scratch spy on yours?




  • This is a different topic but I still can’t believe my own government (Canadian) wheeled “a Ukranian guy who fought the Russians in WWII” into parliament and clapped for him after his speech.

    It’s like none of them have functioning brains…

    Spoiler: he was a Ukranian Nazi who fought for the German third Reich lmao





  • And if we shared cars instead of owning them it would also save on gas for everyone

    And if we paid someone to drive the car around for us it would be swell

    Also if we do that we might as well make the car bigger

    You know what’s more efficient on gas than rubber on road? Metal. If we made the wheels metal we would have like zero rolling resistance

    That tears up roads though so we should probably pave the roads with metal

    That’s kind of expensive, so we should only pave metal directly underneath where our metal wheeled car will drive

    If we’re going to do all of that it should be bigger. Multiple cars connected together.

    Hey we can get rid of gas entirely? We could run this thing using catenary arms and overhead cables. GENIUS!




  • In not a Chinese shill but realistically modern war is a competition of industrialized might. China would whoop the US in a slugfest (i.e. not nuclear exchange. Nobody wins that) because the US can’t produce at the rate the Chinese can.

    China can mass produce sophisticated weapons… The US’ military industrial complex and incentive structures (cost + % billing) has created a giant cancerous tumor of an arm’s industry. It’s currently tooled for bullying and murdering brown people for profit, not fighting a near peer nation and changing that system takes years.

    It won’t change as long as cost + % and corruption continue, which they will. If the US finds itself in a war with China it’ll have entirely the wrong arm’s industry for fighting them and they won’t have the grace of 1939-1941 to scale their domestic arms industry prior to a major conflict… There’s also the fact that the US is heavily deindustrialized now too compared to WWII… China is closer to the industrial heavyweight the US once was in 1941-45, but they have technological sophistication and a knowledge economy now too…

    Patriot interceptor missiles are a decent example of what I mean. They cost millions to produce and take forever to make which is by design. They could be made faster and cheaper but that’s less profit. If the arm’s industry in the US were paid a lump sum and not “pump your costs as high as possible to get the highest cost+% you can” things would be different.