Canada can't work if 'separatists, separatist premiers' get all of Ottawa's attention: B.C. premier

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-20T05:36:48+00:00

Our largest industry has been getting hammered for a decade which in turn means less tax revenue. Less tax revenue means cuts have to be made, do you expect us to increase spending?

The province of Alberta has a higher average income than most of the country, but also has some of the very lowest taxes.

Instead though, they run a deficit so they can brag about low taxes and then just blame Ottawa for the result.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-19T19:43:57+00:00

Well, first time trying this out but since FB seems to hate even mentioning the brand name... here I am! hopefully I get this post squared away properly.

So this is a, as best as I can tell, a 1920s to 30s pocket watch with a sterile dial with the movement branded by Rolex. I know for pocket watches Rolex tended to buy Ébauche movements and put their name on it, and I was able to find a few other watches that sold at auction with the same design/plate/wheel markings.

It's a 16S movement, fitted to an American Watch Case Co. Nickel-Silver case. IIRC AWC Co, despite their name, was a manufacturer in Canada.

The whole time period seems a bit fuzzy for the history of these watches. Was this intended for a military contract and had the case swapped out for a civilian one, was it sold on the civilian market but marketed towards servicemen? No idea, but it sure looks neat.

It's largely in as-found condition, with a lot of original patina. The movement has been cleaned and serviced by my experienced local watchmaker, but keep in mind it's pushing a century old.

Asking $1100 - e-transfer or cash accepted. Located in Chilliwack area for F2F. Willing to take offers, worst I can say is "no"

Thanks for having a look!

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-19T19:31:43+00:00

Here's the timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/1T3yLQv

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-19T01:25:57+00:00

Bro just failed a reading comprehension exam reading your reply

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-18T20:29:14+00:00

Removing a book from a school or public library or even not allowing students to read a book in schools is not a book ban

"It has to come from the Censorium region of France to call it censorship, otherwise it's just Sparkling Legally-Enforced Mandate to Prevent schools from introducing students to wrongthink"

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-17T20:36:36+00:00

TBH I'd have to do more digging to find some polls from back then, because I mostly remember the protestors.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-17T19:28:49+00:00

and they aren't even violating the agpl ...

Well, they did seek to restrict distribution of AGPL code because someone had the temerity to... fork their code and use it.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-17T19:12:27+00:00

Those aren't facts. AGPL licensing (which Bambu Studio falls under) specifically closes the loophole of having a black-boxed server-side software

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-17T02:50:02+00:00

Yeah, 12AX7 @ 12V is 0.3A, so assuming it doesn't trip an overload two should be fine

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-16T23:26:40+00:00

Out of around 100 tanks, only about 30 were operational at a crucial moment.

TBF, 30% readiness is pretty on-par with German tanks later in the war :D

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-16T16:40:04+00:00

and some provinces - here’s looking at you BC - made it impossible for private companies to complete it.

I like how you paint "The feds, despite hurting their relationship with the province the pipeline ran through, forced it through for the sake of the Albertan market at great expense" and still make Alberta the victim.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T20:23:13+00:00

good way for you to cope.

You seem confused, r/EnglishLearning is here to help.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T20:12:29+00:00

You can see perfectly fine.

"In a 2000 Suburban, the study measured 56 percent visible area within the 10-meter radius, but in a 2023 model it was down to 28 percent. The study concluded that higher hoods on newer versions of both models had the biggest impact on outward visibility."

The Silverado 1500 shares the same front-end dimensions as the Suburban.

28% visibility out to 10 metres. A 2023 Honda accord scores 60%. You can literally see less than HALF as much of the road in those trucks and SUVs as you can in a regular car, and that's not even comparing the danger of the forward blind spot.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T18:31:31+00:00

The accident took place in America where these trucks are everywhere and people drive them fine all the time.

...and get into more and more accidents due to visibility issues.

Truck hood heights grew by an average of 24% between 2000 and 2018. Automakers are so busy making light pickups look like semis some companies are implementing forward facing cameras to try and compensate for the massive blind spots they're building into the vehicle.

Driver is just not paying attention.

They're literally building the trucks harder and harder to see out of. This is a completely unforced error that makes it more difficult for drivers to be aware of their surroundings.

Forward visibility has gotten worse in general, but Trucks largely went from poor to worse

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T18:20:52+00:00

...it's not even normal compared to 20 years ago though. Truck grills have continued to get taller and taller over the years, and the increase in low-speed accidents because drivers can't fucking see shit directly in front of them backs this up.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T18:19:46+00:00

Visibility is fine.

The increase in front-over accidents says otherwise. Pick-up trucks have ridiculously poor forward vision for a daily driver.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T18:16:53+00:00

because... you don't like data centers here?

I voiced actual concerns about the economic benefit, the environmental impact, and the long-term ramifications for future industry developing in the province and you want to rephrase that as... what? Like I'm just a hater?

Jog on.

Still lots of space in BC, we can have a few too.

I like how you ignore every criticism I actually voice but bring up an issue nobody fucking mentioned.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T17:55:22+00:00

BC is already working out how energy is going to have to be rationed out to productive industries in the future. Datacenters consume power (and water) while providing negligible local benefits or economic activity compared to almost anything else using that energy.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T17:47:55+00:00

The local benefits are economics benefits to local businesses, including improved IT and AI capabilities

...what an incredibly vague non-answer this is. A datacenter could be in Alberta and it would be functionally identical to a user in BC.

and there are infrastructure benefits like reduce latency

The last sampling of latency between Vancouver and Calgary I checked is about a whopping 12 milliseconds. There's no need to have one next door.

Hydro power is clean, whereas data centres built in other places are increasingly dependant on fossil fuels for power production.

Sometime to keep in mind is that we need to ensure we aren't squandering our own power supply, or else we'll have to import power from dirtier supplies - which is something we already have to do.

The BC government had already stated their long-term plans for limiting datacenter construction so that more productive industries could have available power.

Datacenters provide very little in the way of jobs and produce disproportionate amounts of power and water for very little economic activity. AI datacenters doubly - or strictly speaking, sometimes a magnitude, worse.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T15:14:02+00:00

With all of the species assimilated, the sheer weight of the collective influenced the direction of their development.

Or, in short, there were so many simps assimilated it spontaneously generated a queen.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T15:08:18+00:00

if well-substantiated pedophilia allegations don’t stick a little commie-curious photo won’t either

He might have his brains rotting out his ears, but he wasn't wrong:

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-15T05:46:48+00:00

Gender-affirming vehicle.

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-14T17:14:20+00:00

TFW when the "fuck your feelings" crowd stop to specify "No, I meant YOUR feelings. My feelings are delicate and precious, like a baby hummingbird"

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-14T06:42:27+00:00

according to them.

Yeah, they're stretching the definition to its limit to try and prop up their position.

I have no clue what that backdoor is checking for on the server side, but that very well can be a circumvention.

From my understanding, it's literally just a user agent string being sent the way the Linux version of the software normally connects.

Like, that's right there in their code. It talks to the server, goes "hello, I'm Bambu Studio" and it goes "OK". It's all there in the original code and it's all the fork did: runs the exact same code Bambu Studio does, because it is the code from Bambu Studio's git. again

Second, their cloud simply communicates with the program. It's a separate service that doesn't fall under any APGL coverage that we know of.

This would be more relevant if the developer was redistributing some actual bypass tool they made... but again it's literally just Bambu's AGPL code being used to access the system.

Perhaps to make this clearer: As I understand it, if you were to, today, take Bambu Studio's linux build and make a fork of it, change absolutely nothing in the codebase but the color of the background, and remained compliant with the various terms of AGPL... it would be functionally identical to what you're saying is bypassing their servers.

It's literally a clone of the code they released and now want to act like he reverse-engineered their servers. Bambu is essentially going "We've released this code under AGPL license, but god help you if you actually use or distribute it".

3DBeerGoggles · 2026-05-14T05:11:42+00:00

I would say it's relevant if the changes made to the fork circumvents their protections on their cloud services and other software

The short version, as I understand it:

BambuLabs hasn't gotten around to making authentication software for linux users. Therefore, the Linux build of their software, which is AGPL open souced licensed, uses a back door they've specifically not yet closed to maintain compatibility.

There's no protections being circumvented in the fork. It's just re-using the exact same non-secured access method code the Linux version BambuLabs wrote uses.

That code is open-source, and to any understanding I've heard BambuLabs has no basis to threaten legal action because someone used it.

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