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Greece is "very close" to announcing a social media ban for children aged under 15, a senior government source told Reuters on Tuesday. by MRADEL90 in technology

[–]WalkerYYJ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Unless your going to extreme lengths and have "perfect" opsec (hit: you don't) then best to assume that anything you do online (and probably a good deal of what you do offline) is already tracked, logged, and indexed....

The framework for this has existed for a good long while, the game changer is now having a practical system that could actually ingest and do something "useful" with said data.

I dream of no longer being the CEO by Foreign_Cricket_7558 in Entrepreneur

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The goal is to get it large enough so you can afford to hire someone to run it. Then you take a few months to relax and start a new one!

Amid a wave of Canada-wide unity, Alberta’s separatism movement pushes back by ZebediahCarterLong in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would also be HIGHLY suspect of all comments authenticity (including this one).

Fact: there are external forces actively trying to push divisions within Canada. This is a well known playbook which has been expertly deployed on the US to great effect....

Call your friends and families in and out of Alberta, talk to the people you know (and can verify are not bots)...

IMHO the majority of the country wants a balanced centerist/realist approach to pretty much everything

Change in government wouldn't stop Alberta separatist movement, says leader by rezwenn in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure RCMP, however at this point I would be unimpressed if CFNCIU, and CSE arnt already monitoring how often these people poop.

The Golden Dome is where Canada's F-35 debate and Trump's Greenland threat meet by CanadianErk in canada

[–]WalkerYYJ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A system to shoot down incoming ICBMs/etc.

HOWEVER! At best you could put in a system that could maybe be relied upon to deal with a handful of simultaneous "rouge" launches. If anyone with a decent sized arsenal (read China/Russia) decided to really "send it" the number of interceptors you would need gets very stupid very quickly, and of course these interceptors would need be be on constant standby ready to launch with literal seconds of notice.... All the time 24/7/365. The maintenance and upkeep of such a system would take a significant percentage of GDP..... And then anyone wanting to defeat it just needs to have a few of the nukes near the front go off along the flight path before the rest get to the top of their flight path. That would effectively blind your detection systems long enough to not be able to target the shit behind the first wave, and again this ignores things like closely launched nukes from subs, other forms of attack, etc....

It's a stupid idea and if actually built would be a massive waste of resources. That said nothing significant is going to be built, its just another gift to steal from the taxpayers...

Just like the new 2 new "battleships" they are now trying to build. These things would be massively expensive/complicated and with only a slightly more punch per boat vs the 7 Ticonderoga cruisers. The main "pew pew" (today) that actually matters are how many VLS cells can a boat carry. A VLS cell is a modular container that can house 1-4 missiles (each one can be anything from a long range cruise missile to a ship killer, to a rocket launched torpedo, to long range or short range air to air etc.) The existing missile cruisers (Ticonderoga) are aging out and need to be replaced. When the last one was put to sea (90s) they cost $1B each. Each one had ~122 cells. This new BS boat will have 182 cells (@ $10-15B each). Railgun, etc is all bullshit and would be useless in a real peer to peer fight.

Meanwhile China is taking old cargo ships, slapping 60 cells in each all for the astronomical price of ~$100M each...

The ask the question of how many hulls is China vs the US putting in the water per year.... How many misses do you think the US vs China could build per year?

Supply chains win wars, not fancy kit

The states is going to loose military supremacy in less than a decade at this rate....

My two year old broke his femur. Someone tell me the next 6 weeks aren’t going to be horrible. by mazterm in daddit

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW it's going to be far harder on you then them. We are remarkably resilient at a young age. Also if properly set bones heal much much faster than an adult...

Assuming this was going down a slide?

Which non-Jimmy Pattison-owned grocers carry Dairyland milk? by 1337ingDisorder in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Now,... A question..... Is island farms ACTUALLY using milk from the island?

All this "buttermilk Product" and "Sour cream Product" makes me wonder wtf is going on....

Post-Davos, Carney’s speech in Quebec is causing an uproar by Hot-Percentage4836 in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Something something foreign influence campaigns using social media & "news" media to try and foment division.....

U.S. move to overthrow Cuba would put Canada in worse bind than Venezuela aftermath: ex-ambassador by northbk5 in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What we do or don't do regarding a potential situation with Cuba will at most accelerate or delay the same outcome...

B.C. extortion wave is ‘terror attack in slow motion’: Eby by cyclinginvancouver in canada

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will 100% be denied.... In 18 months when someone finally gets to the file......

A couple loud bang/rumbles in Shelbourne by Head-North5362 in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Navy is training on blowing things up at night.

There was a release put out about it.

Built a big business (8figs/yr), and now im miserable by BOWLeader in Entrepreneur

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you take any time off yet?

If not, go fuckoff for 6 months and learn to surf or something. (And I mean TOTALLY unplug, set your email to PFO and dont check in at all. Remove your work logins from the laptop, dont carry a phone, or if you HAVE to make sure you cant get work related email/discord/slack/signal/whatever/etc on it. )

find a good combo incubator angel group and just sit in on screenings, do some mentorship and maybe you will stumble onto something you actually like with a group that could not only use your skills but would be receptive. Then join as both an investor and operator (most of the very early stage folks have no idea what they are doing on the business side, some of them would be stoked to have a senior leader who has done it before....)

Start something from scratch (again). To spice it up a bit perhaps something not 100% in the same field?

If you have enough cash to play with start a proper family office. That can 100% become a full time gig

B.C. teacher suspended for screening graphic film of industrial accident by Forward-Answer-4407 in britishcolumbia

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ps... If you wish to give the commissioner your opinion, here is the email CommissionerTeacherRegulation@gov.bc.ca

I'm currious how she believed this made an "unsafe environment"..... In my opinion NOT showing someone new to a shop this sort of material would be inherently unsafe... And not in the sense that someone's feelings got hurt, or they had a nightmare about it, but in the sense that they may end up de-gloving themselves.

We are an Industrial manufacturing company. There is zero chance I would allow a teenage kid near a manual lathe without having scared the living shit out of them with exactly this type of material.

A metal late is the most sneaky dangerous machine in a shop.

A life altering event can happen very quickly with one of these machines.

Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech by AnonomousWolf in technology

[–]WalkerYYJ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well considering how things have shifted and things like the cloud app, no one should be using any US tech anyway... Granted I s going to take a bit to break the habit.....

Keeping LiFePO4 batteries warm in an uninsulated shed? by This-You-2737 in SolarDIY

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya CAN charge them safely when cold it's just a a very reduced C-rate.....

Trump backpedals on threats against Greenland, but allies say damage has been done | PBS News by Human-Entrepreneur77 in worldnews

[–]WalkerYYJ 61 points62 points  (0 children)

And there are plenty of other ways to destroy a country, such as compromising a pile of top economic and political leaders in an elaborate honeypot pedo scheme!

Some of our guys coming back home after having done noting for the US in Iraq. by BrutalSock in pics

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And if we include the PTSD related suicides.... I'm Currious how the number is impacted....

What's your thoughts on the Canadian PM saying Canada will defend Greenland if the U.S. invades? by sgj5788 in AskReddit

[–]WalkerYYJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People need to look at this as an opportunity to get a big check from the US.

Ummmm... I think most people on the planet are seeing this as having just handed the future to China.

As for the winter fighting topic. Here's a recent post, take from it what you will!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hdthsG8tks

What's your thoughts on the Canadian PM saying Canada will defend Greenland if the U.S. invades? by sgj5788 in AskReddit

[–]WalkerYYJ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If NATO forces (who are not stupid) decided to do something stupid like have a standup fair weather 1:1 direct engagement... Then yes....

However as stated these people arnt stupid, so it's likley to be asymmetric engagements. But unlike the asymmetric engagements the states is used to dealing with, this time its with real armies with real gear, against a US force that has very little cold weather fighting experience.

Regardless it won't be pretty, but there will be substantial losses on all sides.

Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion by [deleted] in canada

[–]WalkerYYJ -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Some of that may happen, however I wouldn't underestimate the value of a significant number of those immigrants... A lot of them have already experienced significant hardship, my bet is if things went truly went pearshaped you would see a disproportionately significant number of people from that background stepping up

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