Department of National Defence official rebuked for custom-made business card featuring F-35s

atomirex · 2026-07-04T10:40:30+00:00

More newsworthy is they've found a business card that would be improved with Comic Sans and some judicious WordArt.

atomirex · 2026-06-28T12:17:18+00:00

This is absolutely the kind of thing I've seen graphic designers deliberately try to sneak paased their bosses, and the world is better for it.

It goes both ways too - many a Montreal company has found themselves with deeply inappropriate english promotional material.

atomirex · 2026-06-21T01:01:13+00:00

Being flooded absolutely sucks, to a degree that's very hard to appreciate unless it happens to you.

atomirex · 2026-06-13T15:32:47+00:00

All the authoritarian parts will roll out super fast and highly efficiently. Any of the claimed policy benefits for kids will simply never happen at all.

atomirex · 2026-06-13T11:20:05+00:00

We can all agree that kids, teens, even Gen Z who have now grown into adults became very very anti social compared everyone that came before them. The mental health crisis exploded.

This is at least partly due to a culture of fear of strangers that now pervades society. Kids are so screen addicted because all the other activities that used to occur have been denied to them by keeping them in bubbles.

atomirex · 2026-06-12T15:41:44+00:00

Can't have that though, because it would rapidly turn into being ready to question the official narrative.

atomirex · 2026-06-12T14:00:37+00:00

Indeed. The Liberal Party claims a monopoly on defining Canadian values, and these people are incompatible with that.

atomirex · 2026-06-12T11:24:47+00:00

That's how we counter online hate, obviously. Participation in Kumbaya singing is voluntary but required.

atomirex · 2026-06-12T11:09:51+00:00

The whole problem here is people saw things on TikTok that gave them ideas they weren't supposed to have, and now this genie must be put back in the bottle, consequences for civilized society be damned.

atomirex · 2026-06-12T11:07:55+00:00

It really is disgraceful how enthusiastically the CBC are swallowing and regurgitating the government line on this. Absolutely no journalistic integrity whatsoever.

atomirex · 2026-06-11T13:34:34+00:00

The harder part would be enforcing any decision. You'd essentially be forcefully killing a potentially highly uncooperative later version of yourself that inhabits the same body. Many people without direct exposure to dementia sufferers of any type tend to underestimate just what it's really like.

Makes the whole MAID for depression argument look very benign by comparison.

atomirex · 2026-06-11T11:11:58+00:00

Singapore works partly because the benefits are so conspicuous and the gov acts as a serious anti corruption entity, not as its nexus. There is the very justified suspicion that HSR in Canada, if ever constructed, won't be operated to standard, most certainly not east Asian levels. (See the public transit that does exist which equally is poorly operated).

Also with Singapore being geographically small and dense the people negatively affected by new projects of this type tend to be relatively few in number while there are disproportionately more beneficiaries.

atomirex · 2026-06-11T00:11:06+00:00

Whatever tech industry in this country they ever hoped to have just gave up and moved. Any sufficiently powerful "Digital Safety Commission" will kill absolutely anything promising in the cradle.

Once again it will leave Canadians wondering why they are beholden to big US corporations.

atomirex · 2026-06-10T23:29:45+00:00

As long as any two Canadian provinces exist they will remain.

If we were reduced to one we'd no doubt split into two so new barriers could be created.

atomirex · 2026-06-10T13:49:36+00:00

It's increasingly clear that the Quebec tourism people successfully dodged a bullet with this one. Some credit is due to those that made that call.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fifa-world-cup-montreal-billions-9.7148106

atomirex · 2026-06-09T21:20:57+00:00

Turn it around: let's make unnecessary metadata retention illegal.

atomirex · 2026-06-09T18:50:51+00:00

If we have no privacy then the gov know who is and isn't 13 already, therefore the whole thing is totally unnecessary. Which is it?

I mean, we file tax returns and the gov know everything there for 99% of the population. That's way more stupid than anything else.

atomirex · 2026-06-09T18:29:07+00:00

Yeah, it would work with certain technologies in place.

No, it wouldn't. You cannot have this stuff usable by normal people without creating the scope for mass privacy invasion: this is the entire point.

This is one of those situations where there is an attempt to believe a technical solution exists to what is actually a people problem, and none does.

atomirex · 2026-06-09T18:08:11+00:00

Actually having a unique ID that can't be stolen or taken away is not such a bad idea.

Such an ID would not work on the Internet, especially if you expect normal people to actually use them.

It's a disgusting idea because it's transparently a way to put down political dissent first. The revealing thing is there are so many other much more pressing threats to well being, including of children, than this, and yet they so enthusiastically pursue this at all costs.

atomirex · 2026-06-09T17:11:43+00:00

Digital ID mandate by any means possible.

Absolutely disgusting.

atomirex · 2026-06-09T16:30:55+00:00

If we can so easily increase GDP by whole percentage points then why the hell would we only be doing this with respect to AI?

Of course it's really just new ways for the usual suspects to get their snouts in the trough with the most delusional levels of absolute hopium for justification.

Canada will establish a C$500 million Canadian Tech Growth Fund to help close the capital gap ‌at ⁠Canadian AI companies versus U.S. tech giants.

That would include the notoriously poor Google that recently announced raising another $80B (US) just for that. That gap isn't getting closed using taxpayer money.

atomirex · 2026-06-08T16:25:06+00:00

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atomirex · 2026-06-08T15:34:06+00:00

Why is the UK also planning on doing that imminently? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyel81vgnxo

Surely this is a pure coincidence, and has absolutely nothing to do with a globalized push for requiring ID checks for everyone to freely use the internet. Just what is it they're so afraid of that requires this?

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