towelie

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[–] towelie@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

What the hell is Canada supposed to do if Americans roll up on the borders. What the hell can the Canadian military — or the American people for that matter — do if they forced Canada to capitulate or face a nuclear threat? That might be an alarmist what-if... but is it, really?

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

On an unrelated note, that thumbnail image looks fairly convincingly like pixel art until you zoom into it. Conversely, the pixel art people are making with comfyUI and LORAs (locally) is insane. I messed around with it and you can generate 2d and 3d game assets of anything you can think of.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago
[–] towelie@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Allowing tech giants to monopolize all of our communications was a mistake that was always going to lead to this. What alternatives do we have? There's grapheneOS, but even that is placing too much trust in Google's proprietary aspects of the hardware. I wish non-android linux phones were at a usable state.

I'm so close to ditching android and smart phones entirely in favour of a dumb Nokia and maybe a mini tablet for when I need the power.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

you're not my dad

... are you?

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The cognitive dissonance over at r/conservative is showing cracks over this one. Same with the "dictator" comments about Zelensky. You can make MAGATs believe a lot of things, but telling them that, actually, Putin is the good guy, and Nazis are pretty cool, is a hard sell.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] towelie@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure they want to mean it. But the reality is that when Russia starts making moves they will be pre-occupied and likely won't be able to help much across the Atlantic

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The only European countries with nukes are the UK and France (225 and 290, respectively). As of January 2024 the world has ~12,121 nukes. America has 5,044 of them

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah. The moment American soldiers step foot across the Canadian border what are we going to do? It would already be over. We have no defense against the largest military in the world, and we stand no chance of defending the longest continuous border in the world. We will only be able to fight as an occupied resistance.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm looking for reasons to be optimistic and coming up short; but if democracy really did survive, overcome, and adapt to fascism's latest iteration, what a glorious start to a new chapter of our history that would be. I hope we live in that time line. Democracy winning would inspire in me a hope for the future that I have not believed in for decades.

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