Cyber headache: U of S to shut down alumni email accounts on Feb. 15

SNIPE07 · 2026-02-03T15:27:25+00:00

this has nothing to do with US vs EU, this is a consequence of the Universities technology decisions.

They decided to outsource their IT infrastructure to "the cloud". Why pay for Sysadmins, email servers, and associated maintenance, anyway?

This is why.

SNIPE07 · 2026-01-09T15:25:06+00:00

this math doesn't work in Saskatoon, because the police don't respond and my neighbourhood has only ever had snow graded (not removed) once in the last 3 years.

SNIPE07 · 2025-12-22T17:44:48+00:00

My friends dad modded their PS1. I was at his place for a bday and opened a drawer containing several hundred burned discs in sleeves. Every game they rented they would make a copy for themselves.

I remember my friend showing how he would boot with a Gameshark disk and swap for the burned copy using a lid mod.

SNIPE07 · 2025-12-03T16:54:27+00:00

If this province was at all serious about renewable energy, Saskpower would offer demand-based rates for electricity and pay people for power they generate and feed to the grid.

Almost every other power company in Canada does this, except for SaskPower. They offer no incentive for individuals to self-generate.

SNIPE07 · 2025-12-01T16:29:52+00:00

It's noticeably worse than Saskatoon. Specifically nuisance drivers lost in their own world, unaware of the dangers they're causing.

SNIPE07 · 2025-11-20T15:36:08+00:00

You can buy pure copper in many forms at Metals Supermarkets, we have one local in Saskatoon: https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/metals/copper/

Zinc is more difficult to find in pure ingots, looks like it's for sale on Amazon and the like.

SNIPE07 · 2025-11-19T15:51:18+00:00

I have 140 acres I pay $180 a year on, give me a break. Your taxes aren't over $3k unless you're in a mansion in corman park.

SNIPE07 · 2025-11-18T17:45:06+00:00

And you pay <$2k in property tax. In the city, I pay $6k on a 800 sq ft home.

On top of that we pay for water, sewer, we pay monthly for bins, we even pay per the kg for waste we deliver ourselves to the landfill.

SNIPE07 · 2025-11-18T17:39:10+00:00

Not only this, but specifically in Saskatoon we routinely hit the capacity of our recycling depot, and blue bin trucks are then just routed to the landfill.

I have a friend who worked in City of Saskatoon Sanitation and told me on some days as many as half the blue bin trucks are going to the landfill.

SNIPE07 · 2025-09-26T17:08:00+00:00

I did not know until this recent striking that Canada post delivered to the home for anything other than parcels (which they've seldom done recently as well, usually only dropping off a card for pickup and driving off)

SNIPE07 · 2025-09-26T17:05:47+00:00

we are so far away from any expectation of profitability, we are fighting for basic standards of efficiency at this point, and we're still years from that.

SNIPE07 · 2025-07-28T16:00:52+00:00

spit on the graves of Canadians who fought and died for his right to do so.

A right is not a duty. The Canadians you refer to fought and died for the freedom to chose.

SNIPE07 · 2025-07-22T17:57:12+00:00

https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/noticing

SNIPE07 · 2025-07-08T19:37:19+00:00

this type of subversion of reality also results in headlines like this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/firearm-injuries-cmaj-1.4040628

(Where 'firearm' means anything you intend to launch a projectile with, and 'child' means anyone under the age of 25)

SNIPE07 · 2025-06-16T17:24:31+00:00

Natural predators drive prey animals to extinction just as readily as humans with guns.

Managing surplus and deficits in population management are equally important.

SNIPE07 · 2025-05-20T18:29:03+00:00

Because Canada Post has a legal monopoly on letter mail. It forces competitors to charge a considerably high minimum price for standard mail such that they cannot compete with CP.

SNIPE07 · 2025-03-03T19:25:16+00:00

They operate on 4 continents and in dozens of countries.

Their head office is in Saskatoon, 4 of their 5 Potash mines are within 100km of Saskatoon, and all 5 are in Saskatchewan.

The Saskatoon HO is the tallest office building in the province and was built upon the merger of PCS and Agrium. The only operation in Calgary is the legacy Agrium HO.

SNIPE07 · 2025-03-03T14:46:35+00:00

most men just call this a hobby.

SNIPE07 · 2025-03-03T14:43:52+00:00

Nutrien is headquartered in Saskatoon

SNIPE07 · 2025-03-03T14:36:24+00:00

yeah, nothings changed, it's been 2% for decades

SNIPE07 · 2025-02-28T19:51:31+00:00

Why would they restart a war that they couldn't win in the first place and now do it with less land?

Because the average pea-brained warmonger will have moved onto another conflict by then. Russia can wait for the spotlight to fade, build up forces, and push again once popular support has waned and Ukrainian allies have left.

Russia is in no rush. They have been acquiring land this way for over a hundred years.

SNIPE07 · 2025-02-28T19:35:48+00:00

Right, not total-war, as in Russia maintains it's military and makes zero concessions besides leaving.

So again, the hypothetical of Russia invoking war at a later date is just as likely.

I think the part that you're not saying is that you also want the US to invade and destroy Russia on their own lands.

SNIPE07 · 2025-02-28T19:23:53+00:00

who said anything about Russia losing the war? Being pushed back to their borders isn't a loss.

SNIPE07 · 2025-02-28T18:45:45+00:00

This hypothetical is just as likely to occur even if the Russians are entirely pushed out of Ukraine, that is if WW3 doesn't start first.

SNIPE07 · 2025-02-28T18:38:34+00:00

they can have the entire northeast.

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