Heck, people are being arrested just for being in the US, even those who were there by legal means. Even citizens aren’t safe if they’re not even checking who they’re arresting before, during, and after the arrest.
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- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Several conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S.6·16 days ago
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•The ‘buy Canadian’ sentiment remains very strong among residents - Narrative Research poll2·19 days ago
Yes, this has absolutely been a thought for me. I am not removing accounts, etc. from my phone pre-emptively, but I will uninstall things like Lemmy and remove specific email accounts if we have to land. (I use multiple emails for different reasons, so it won’t be terribly suspicious.)
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•The ‘buy Canadian’ sentiment remains very strong among residents - Narrative Research poll9·20 days ago
Just booked a flight to south of the US. Even the most direct flight had a layover. I could have saved hundreds of dollars if that layover was in the US. I opted to pay hundreds of dollars more to have the layover in Mexico.
It was partways about Elbows Up, but it was also I’d rather not get arrested and/or detained and/or deported possibly to an El Salvadorian prison. Avoiding the the non-zero chance of that is worth $500.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Lone Conservative in N.S. says Poilievre shouldn't take someone else's seat21·29 days ago
Did you not see the part directly after that said he started blaming everyone else?
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Lone Conservative in N.S. says Poilievre shouldn't take someone else's seat7·29 days ago
*Doug Ford. Rob Ford was his younger brother who was the mayor of Toronto, and who has since died.
I’m not convinced Doug would want the job, maybe in the future. Right now he’s got a majority in Ontario and can do whatever he wants within provincial preview. He can, and I believe he will, cooperate with Carney and caucus to do what’s best for Canada and Ontario in the face of Trump, because that will also be what’s best for him, too. Fair’s fair, he did a not-bad job during Covid and had a rare moment of cooperating with federal and municipal governments, and it truly made him look like good leader for a while. (He became his normal self after emergency measures were lifted and started blaming everyone else again.)
If he became federal leader now, he couldn’t do anything but blow hot air for a while. It’s a bigger stage, but lesser power, and it doesn’t really do anything to benefit him. Doug is after dollars, but I think he does not like the maple maga and has no interest in dealing with them. Cut them out of the CPC base, they’re not likely to win again anytime soon. Or he could just stay premier and have a lot of actual power.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoLinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•Did you even say 'thank you'?1·1 month ago
I had one interviewer specially say she was committed to getting back to each candidate, no matter the outcome. I expressed genuine appreciation for that, saying that most places just ghost people.
She ghosted me.
To be fair, I’ve gotten texts from/for both Liberals and Conservatives.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Ontario's severed ties with Starlink impedes access to legal services in remote First Nations2·1 month ago
I feel badly for remote communities that were looking forward to these services, but Starlink is a security threat directly connected to a hostile nation that has been making overt threats to Canada. Moreover, we have already seen Musk will direct the company to turn off access to people he doesn’t like. There would have been nothing stopping Musk (his lackeys) from eavesdropping on communications and then cutting it off when he felt like it.
The only real way is to invest in other providers, preferably Canadian, preferably public, but most fundamentally anyone that’s not MAGA.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Top American scientists just lost their jobs. Canada is rolling out the welcome mat1·2 months ago
If this was 30 years ago, sure. However, just because Trump is now running the playbook full tilt doesn’t mean our issues from three months ago have disappeared. We don’t have the housing, infrastructure, and jobs for the people who are already here. If the country had not been irresponsible and careless with immigration and housing the last 20 years, we could do that now, but since we are where we are, we can only be selective now.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Conservative Candidate Used a Secret Signal Group Chat With Freedom Convoy Leaders, Right-Wing Media and Far-Right Influencers47·2 months ago
Well, that’s silly, all Signal chats are secret; it’s not like group chats are public.
“The group’s chat description identifies itself as a ‘clandestine’ group and new members are warned to ‘remember the first rule of Fight Club.’”
… Well, then.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: report6·2 months ago
I’d imagine he thinks that other evil rich people and sycophants whose immoral compasses are aligned are his friends, but in reality they’re around because it benefits them (or they think it does), and they’d stab him in the back as soon as it benefits them. (It’s just that so far it hasn’t benefited their morally corrupt causes yet.) So people like the deceased Epstein, and Canadian traitors Kevin O’Leary and Gretzky. AB Premier Danielle Smith wouldn’t even be an afterthought of a “friend” in this context, but she’s trying so desperately hard to be accepted, it’s pathetic.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Small pp is afraid of questions from kids!2·2 months ago
The kinds of things you tell children as advice or to encourage them are directly opposed to Poilievre’s messaging. Let’s think about the usual type of things:
Stay in school; conservatives are anti-education
Be kind; his strategy is anger and division
Stay safe; tough on crime, because it is out of control (and its Trudeau’s fault)
You can do anything; (you can’t do anything because) Canada is brokenCPC values are literally inappropriate for children.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Trump threats open 'floodgate' of inquiries from U.S. physicians about moving north8·2 months ago
Yeah, if I were a doctor in the US, I’d choose a slight, even moderate, pay cut over getting thrown in prison (if lucky, and not just disappeared) for treating patients who need treatment.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Four Tesla Dealers Said They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?4·2 months ago
Tesla does not have dealerships in the sense of dealerships being middleman franchises that have their own owners. Tesla is direct to consumer, meaning Tesla owns its stores.
I’m not saying this to negate what you said, rather to emphasize that the “suspicious” sales were not the act of some rogue local dealership owners, they are the actions of Tesla itself.
You might possibly be interested in checking out the YouTube channel MyDeepGuide. Guy does in-depth reviews ofbmostly e-ink writing tablets, which perhaps is more functionality than you’re looking for, but some of those manufacturers also do standalone “just” readers. Or maybe you’ll be convinced to get a writing tablet :p
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Victim speaks out after woman allegedly tried to light her hijab on fire inside Ajax library6·2 months ago
For a serious response to your probably hypothetical question, I would give enough leeway to consider mental illness if the attack was truly random and the victim happened to be a hijabi. Of course, that would have to be substantiated with a medical history and what the (“alleged”) perpetrator said at the time of the attack, as the article is not specific about that.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canadian Muslims outraged as Quebec moves to ban religious symbols at schools, including hijab1·2 months ago
I’m saying everyone should have equal freedom to wear the headwear they want to wear or not wear, regardless of whether it’s for fashion, cultural, or religious reasons.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical | More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk.English8·2 months ago
As bad as American prisons are, they are not on the scale as being deported (is that even the right word in this case?) to what amounts to a concentration camp in a foreign country without any process.
- Akuchimoya@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | ElectrekEnglish6·2 months ago
A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I’m the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he’d said this, I’d already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn’t gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude’s choice of vehicle told me I’d made the right choice.
Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he’s changed his mind about it.
I only got a nickel and quarter with King Charles on the last weekend, among a literal handful of change.
There are a lot of years of QEII coins out there, though. She’s going to still be in circulation for a many years, yet.