Avid Amoeba @ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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I like snap but this is still hilarious.

Based. I think my first was an HTC Dream / myTouch 3G. Also with CM as soon as I figured out how.

It's in my social circle. It's terrible. People under the influence of hasbara with connections to Israel say some really depraved shit. If you say something against it, you're a deluded useful idiot, a victim of arab propaganda, or an antisemite at worst.

To the surprise of no one here. This is the first thing I think of when a system wants me to upload an ID.

Sounds like you've been with us since the beginning. ✊

What was your first?

Now with anti-windmill vibration helmet.

Okay this really belongs here.

Yes. You can set a radius and you can also set the lon/lat to whatever you want.

Yeah, it's bad. At the very least there should be a dev option on the phone itself to enable the existing functionality. Ask the user to accept an agreement if you want but it should be possible to all do on-device, without access to the internet.

Only if the node published their location and if it's correct. Many people publish approximate locations.

It'll probably work. I'd definitely setup a mesh if I lived on a farm. I put up a node on my balcony, 9th floor suburban environment, and people seem to be using it. I got some direct connections from 15km away. There's also a guy 60km away across lake Ontario that's connecting to my balcony node, but I'm sure he's got a special antenna, likely directional.

Well you won't be talkin' that's for sure! 😄

They should work as long as there's no trees or buildings in the way. If there are, installing one up high, say the roof of a barn or on top of a silo should allow the rest to bounce off of it.

No. This is not true. They don’t use the same supply chains. This is outright misinformation that is unfortunately very widespread. Chinese EV makers’ supply chains like BYD’s are fully vertically integrated, meaning local -or any- suppliers can’t sell to BYD and other Chinese rivals. The Chinese companies import everything.

I said this:

As for the supply chains, that problem exists across all domestic automakers since they use the same supply chains.

I mean that domestic auto manufacturers like Ford, GM and Stellantis use the same supply chains. For example Ford uses CATL LFP batteries. They all use Chinese magnets. The components of the electronics are Chinese. We saw the impact of that during the COVID-induced chip shortage where domestic auto manufacturing ground to a halt when China locked down. We were able to make the mechanical parts of the vehicle with no electronics in it. These supply chains do not exist in North America. I know for a fact that using Chinese EV skateboards (whole subassembly that includes the base chassis, batt and EV drivetrain) is being discussed. Heck some even import whole vehicles made by their Chinese subsidiaries (all of them have PRC subsidiaries) - like the Lincoln Nautilus.

As for BYD's vertical integration, for a BYD factory in Canada, that's subject to our import restrictions and local parts production. If we make a local battery supply chain and sufficiently increase BYD's battery import duties, they'll source locally. If we have spare capacity in our mechanical auto parts supply chains, we can increase the import duties on any BYD mechanical imports. Once the factory is here, we have control over all that. There's no magic here, it's just FDI. China built their auto supply chains to supply American and European automakers that built assembly factories in China. We'll do the same if Chinese automakers build factories here. As I said previously, we've done this before with the Japanese manufacturers. It started with imports from Japan. Now they build here using a mix of local and foreign supply chains.

In addition, they fill their factories with Chinese migrant workers, meaning there are no jobs for locals either.

As far as I'm aware the migrant workers have been construction labour for building the factories, not permanent labour for assembling vehicles. The distinction is important because of the lifetime of the jobs and the availability of labour for each. For example Canada has a massive shortage of construction labour and there's a lot of temporary migrants doing it. The kind of labour used and the labour conditions for either is subject to the domestic government's policy. No one can import foreign labour unless the domestic government agrees to it. I'm aware of the issues in Brazil. Brazil took action and BYD cooperated. This reflects the labour situation in those countries and it shows that domestic control works. The labour conditions of a BYD factory in Canada would be different than the ones in Brazil. Just like the labour conditions are different between a Ford factory in Canada and one in Mexico. All of these companies abuse their workers to the fullest possible extent unless a union and/or government stands in their way. We have strong auto unions. GM just announced major cuts in one of their three plants in Canada so there's gonna be close to a thousand trained people looking for work.

And, no, what is bad for a firm in a competitive market is not generally good for the rest of the economy. This makes no economic sense.

Highly competitive markets approach perfect competition which means firms can't make significant profit over their costs. That means low prices and no economic rent which leaves more capital for expanding the economy elsewhere. Firms want to profit-maximize and and perfect competition prevents them from increasing their profits. Most of the profits above cost are collected by the exec layer and major shareholders. Hence what's bad for a firm's exec in a highly competitive market - low profit - is good for the rest of the economy - low prices. No energy to explain further, feel free to disagree.

But most importantly, if you talk about cheap Chinese cars you need to talk about forced labour in China and Chinese supply chains.

Why should I? I already said the solution for is is to get factories in Canada. That eliminates the assembly labour concern. As for the supply chains, that problem exists across all domestic automakers since they use the same supply chains. It's not going away anytime soon. If we manage to build some local supply chains as we've planned it would be reduced but unlikely eliminated. The only way to reduce the PRC supply chain usage in the near term is to reduce driving and vehicle sales. And that's not happening for many reasons. Car-dependency and strong auto industry among them. So there's no point talking about something that isn't changing. I'm focusing on what can change and how to avoid Canadian fascism. Maybe you make different value judgements but I've been Canadian for a very long time and I intend to spend the rest of my life here, so that's mine.

PS: Moral arguments are generally weaker than material self-interest arguments. A lot more people would respond positively to an argument about independence and self-sufficiency than one about the labour conditions in a foreign country. Temu's really popular in Canada.

$300000 per victim.

Recently I had a showerthought about the American MIC. Capitalism optimizes for profit and profit alone. If we apply this logic to the MIC, it follows that the MIC makes money, not weapons. And we know they make a shit ton of money. So that made me think - the US probably doesn't have as much military equipment as their budget suggests, when compared to countries whose MICs aren't as good at profit optimizing. Like say India probably doesn't have 11x less military equipment than the US given their budget is 11x smaller. I wonder if there's any truth to this shower thought at present. The way it's going, I expect the American military to be hollowed out over time.

So how're PQ compared to CAQ? I don't know much about QC provincial politics.

This should probably go in /c/Canada.

Bluesky pioneered a brilliant solution to this “empty feed problem” in 2024, with the introduction of “Starter Packs”, a feature that allows users to curate and share their own collections of recommended accounts.

Bluesky pioneered, eh? I distinctly remember using a feature called "circles" on Google+ back in 2011. It allowed people to create arbitrary "circles" of people, share them and have others bulk-follow/unfollow the people from a circle. It worked incredibly well and Google+ became a lively social network even with its small userbase at the time.

Oh, comrade Ben Burgis has probably been on a list long before MAGA came to power.

Four sources said that the government is poised to introduce a second bill, paving the way for the government's proposed border security measures to pass through Parliament — without the controversial clauses that allowed Canada Post to open mail and law enforcement to access some digital data.

Seems like they'll be removing some of the bad parts. Let's see what remains. We'll complain again if needed.

Also this suspected cat's out of the bag:

The bill's sponsor, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, told reporters in the spring that the proposed legislation was in part a response to complaints from the United States that the Canadian border is too porous.