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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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    He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

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  • Damn, he must really hate his wife. Just get a divorce, dude!

  • Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to let go of his Tesla over Musk’s federal cuts

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  • Lol, do your own homework and stop revising history based on what we know now. Your new link doesn't say shit about musk's intentions, just that some people said he was out-to-lunch. That does not show him being the biggest cancer. There have been plenty of times people said what he was trying to do was impossible, for example, landing rockets.

    I didn't say and I'm not arguing that he had a product in the hyperloop and I'm certainly not defending him. He's done plenty of shitty shit we haven't even talked about (ahem, astrophotography). I'm defending Mark Kelly's latest action from your holier-than-thou bullshit. There are plenty of articles talking about the change in Musk in the last three years to become hateful and right-leaning.

    Before that he was publicly calling out Trump and defending things like the Paris agreement. Tesla had pushed the all-electric vehicle to being what it is today and even if it wasn't all him, his backing/money certainly helped and he was the face of that. SpaceX changed spaceflight as we know it. Starlink was creating a whole new way for people to access the internet (again, not defending him, I know the other side of this one, but it was becoming and has become a very important thing to a lot of people). There was the big power reserve plant in Australia 2017/2018. I think it was around 2021 that things started to fall apart publicly for the solar roof stuff, but before that there was a lot of hope around it.

    Just because you hated musk for however long you've hated him, it doesn't mean everyone could have predicted what's going on now. You want us to say you were right? Fine, assuming you've been saying for 10 years that he's the biggest cancer, good on ya. You got it right.

    But if you had said that even four years ago (like when Mark Kelly bought his Tesla), there would have been a lot of people jumping on you with all the great things he's pushed forward, despite being a weird-ass douchebag who also did many shitty things.

    So instead of focusing on calling out Mark Kelly for his mistake 4 years ago, how about saying, good, at least someone is taking an action, publicly, loudly, however small, against what's going on now. There are plenty of them that are just sitting back and watching, focus your ire on them. Stick together and give the ones who are fighting a boost instead of trying to kick them back down because of some perceived iniquity in the past.

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  • This is Elon in 2018 showing his butt

    Yes, he was a douche, asshole, fucknut, etc. Sorry I thought I had mentioned the 2018 thing in my comment but must have forgotten. That, to me, was the point where he really started his downward slide. It's certainly an inflection point where people who thought he was a genius started to get the picture that he wasnt. But that didn't make him the biggest cancer we have. That was mid-Trump v1 for fuck's sake. Plus that was 7 years ago, not a decade.

    His hyperloop bullshit started around 2012-2013 and he admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that the Hyperloop proposal was only intended to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California.

    And we only learned that he said that in 2021 or 2022 or something like that!

  • Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to let go of his Tesla over Musk’s federal cuts

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  • So he went with Musk, the biggest cancer we have, a known entity for at least a decade?

    Uhh, sorry, not sure what timeline you're referring to, but Musk was being compared to Tony Stark up until about 2022. He was a weird and eccentric douche, but hadn't gone right-wing MAGA evil yet. Tesla was on top and it was not controversial (to most centre-left) to have one. In fact it was a progressive statement until recently. Plus SpaceX was fucking rocking it and that would have been important to Mark Kelly.

  • Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups

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  • How are you guys not marching on Washington yet?

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  • They're not recyclable yet. In a few years when we have Mr. Fusions and replicators, things will be different.

  • US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips

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  • Hey it's all good my dude. We all get what you're saying and I think you both ultimately agree that things are shit. The rest is just semantics!

    <fist bump>

  • US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips

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  • Does anyone know what the MAGA crowd thinks of this? Do they even know that this is what is happening with all the money doge is "saving"? I mean obviously it's not just this, but in general all of these rich assholes just treating the government like their personal piggy bank?

  • xkcd #3060: Omniroll

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  • But how many layers does it take to get to Adolf Hitler?

  • A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content

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  • Get Brianthompson'd, Reddit.

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  • They were not "making the mice transgender".

    From the Whitehouse's 6 evil studies list:

    Three of them were studying the long-term effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the growth of the skeleton, how it affects fertility, and if it changes your breast cancer risk. These are all things that people who are against transgender care use as reasons to stop transgender care. So they were potentially a way for the government to say "no" to this kind of hormone therapy and have some scientific backing for why. (Note: the results of these studies weren't going the way anti-trans numpties would have liked. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it though.)

    One is studying (as best I can determine) how GA therapy works, I guess because we don't really fully understand it. This one used "transgenic" mice (scary!) to help isolate the processes. That means they were genetically modified.

    There was a very scary one about how such hormone therapy affects the effectiveness of the HIV vaccine. (They made sure to list this one first with its homophobantitransantivax trifecta).

    One study they claimed in their list was actually just a comparison of asthma between men and women (nothing about transgender, but it mentioned "gonadal hormones" which is like, so gross).Edit to add: This one also accounts for over 1/3 of their claimed savings and is only tangentially related to transgender women because of the estrogen they take. It was mainly focused on laying a basis for future therapies for everyone with lung disease.

    A bunch of the info came from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/white-house-scared-of-trans-mouse/

    I also read through the abstracts from the studies listed and linked in the Whitehouse press release.

  • Development Methods

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  • That's why agile was created. Because people don't know what they want in panel 1.

  • Development Methods

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  • Yeah, it requires replacing the "you test the rocket" with "you test the rocket and it fails or doesn't meet the updated mission specifications" and the "you go to mars" with "you want to go to mars"

  • US commerce chief says Trump to meet Canada, Mexico in middle on tariffs

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  • We can't really afford to do that. I'm not actually convinced we should respond with tariffs because it will hurt us more. They certainly shouldn't be our only or primary tactic. We will have the double whammy of less exports giving less money coming in and less jobs (because of US tariffs), and more expensive imports that we rely on but can't afford (because of our tariffs). Trump is trying to wreck our economy and adding tariffs on US products won't help us prevent that. Our tariffs are meant to be punitive, to get Trump to back down, and I'm not convinced they will succeed in that. He's going to war to destroy Canada and he's willing to sacrifice poor Americans to win that war. We can't survive a tariff-to-tariff boxing match, just as much as we couldn't possibly survive a toe-to-toe fight. We need to be creative and think guerilla (trade-) warfare.

    We need to find specific ways to make it painful for rich Americans while not making it worse for the majority of Canadians. We need to move manufacturing back to Canada and we need to find new trade partners and repair old deals, and improve trade internally. Some of that will take time and it still won't remove our need to import from the US, but it will give us a better long term outlook.

  • My friend from work gave me some herbal tea to try

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  • It scalds the tea leaves and extracts compounds that make the tea bitter or destroys some of the more delicate flavours. The exact temperature depends on the tea. When I was buying Dragon Well tea (Longjing) in China they explained it very well, but even went so far as to say that many of the health benefits of tea (especially Dragon Well, but others as well) were reduced by using water that is too hot.

    Personally I've found tea and coffee taste better when brewed with water that is under 90°C.

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Destruction Of Government Enterprise

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of "efficiency".

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  • What happened to her left side?

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  • Now let's talk about the Kentucky bluegrass lawns the leaves fall on...