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Wow, at the exact time when Europe really needed to save natural gas!
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
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RT @jasoncrawford
Amazing progress on tap water hookups in rural India:

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RT @mgeist
Bill C-18 will pass in the House of Commons later today. This post unpacks why this bill received an embarrassing legislative review driven by lobby interests determined to extract payments for links. A longer thread on what you might have missed… 1/14
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RT @mgeist
The last Tribunal merger decision took more than 600 days to reach a decision. Rogers-Shaw was released in a few weeks. That no one is surprised at the expedited release or the outcome is telling.
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RT @mgeist
The Canadian copyright term extension represents one of the very worst policy developments of 2022 as the government buried the reform in a budget bill, ignored its own copyright review recommendations, limited access to Canadian culture and history, and added costs to education.

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RT @mgeist
There is no public domain day in Canada this year and thanks to copyright term extension passed by the government in a budget implementation bill in 2022 there will not be one for 20 years.
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I should've been following @mgeist.

At least that way I would've found out before it happened.

Who else should I be following to keep tabs on Canada?

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Holy shit!

I didn't like Trudeau, but I'm sorry to say that I still voted Liberal in the last election (against the Conservative).

NEVER AGAIN!

As usual this move is retroactive, i.e. it has nothing to do with today's authors and everything to do with the Disneys of the world.
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RT @CityNewsTO
There will be no new books or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright l…
twitter.com/CityNewsTO/status/

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RT @TGTM_Official
This is how China and Russia see the world.

If one of your neighbor hates you, maybe is his problem. When all of your neighbors hate you, maybe stop and question yourself: "Am I the problem?"



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"We held a sham referendum and everything! That means the front line is in the middle of Russia! You're helping Ukraine bomb Russia! That's terrorism!

"Now please, we need you to stop Ukraine from holding a referendum declaring Ukraine's former territory to be a part of Ukraine"
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RT @wartranslated
Dmitry Rogozin woke up and sent to the French ambassador to Russia a letter with a piece of shrapnel that got stuck in his body after …
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That is some A-grade paranoia.

BTW I know I'm not supposed to believe this, but in a world where computers are somehow impossible, "Brave New World" is a pretty good alternative actually.
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(of course, when I say "want to die" I only mean relative to living in a state of suffering with some nasty incurable nasty disease. We'd all prefer to live in health)

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Re "doctor shopping": if I visit a *series of doctors* hoping for assisted suicide, I really want to die!

Why should the state deny my wishes?

Anti-MAiD people want it both ways. The slightest pressure to use MAiD indicates a failing system—but so does doctor resistance to it!
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RT @RichardHanania
On Canadian euthanasia. I explain how MAID has been misrepresented in the media, and why it is a humane policy that preserves individ…
twitter.com/RichardHanania/sta

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RT @TVNewsNow
WATCH: Shocking moment on live TV tonight that a reporter on France’s TMC TV channel was eyewitness to a missile strike on the ‘Altair’ hockey arena in Druzhkivka, Ukraine

@pee_zombie From github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide:

Food and spiders? Holy crap, is this why so much stuff that looks innocuous to me is blurred out?

There's no chance I would have thought "oh it has spiders, better mark sensitive!" without reading that.

And if all "politics" is sensitive, auto xpost from Twitter must make everything sensitive by default? That gives a very "yikes" UX.

I don't get China.

They decide to do Zero Covid aggressively for over two years.

Then suddenly they do a 180° and let Covid rip. No huge drive to vaccinate the elderly. No importing the most effective vaccines. Just "oh you thought recent years were inconvenient huh? how about we kill your grandma then? you like that bitches?"

Can someone explain this?

@nova Oh and I designed it specifically for high performance. We'll see if the benchmarks agree.

@nova It's a new and unique kind of serialization which saves people from having to make DTOs for their DBOs and stuff. Should decrease serialization code size by...50% maybe? And potentially improve performance by reducing two serialization steps (DTO transform + reflection-based serialization) to one step (optionally non-reflective serialization)

I call it SyncLib. 75-80% done, can't finish because procrastination + busy job.

@pee_zombie Hmm so when I paste a link to a toot, it does not expand the toot inline. Sad!

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