Premier of the province of South Canada

As the article says though, monoculture crops aren't a good replacement for what came before. Also, older trees are thought to sink much more carbon than younger trees; so the near-elimination of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest ... is still a disaster for the planet. :(

One of those things every US citizen should know about, but also know to never admit they know about, prior to being brought into jury duty. (If a judge even suspects a potential juror has heard of jury nullification, they'll throw the juror out prior to trial).

Judges are fallible. The law is fallible. And law and morality are not one and the same.

Growing up in western Canada, I found myself annoyed in the past by Quebec's separation rattling, and didn't do very well at French class in our immersion curriculum in elementary and Jr. high ... but at this point I'd be open to trying to re-learn some French just to spite the US administration.

Hell, we should all try to learn some Greenlandic in solidarity with them!

Geez, Alpha-gal syndrome is bad enough, there's another tick disease we have to fear?

Exactly. Would live on rice & beans just out of spite, rather than go back to a company that laid me off for AI, unless they 2-3x my previous pay rate.

I have a tiny, mostly (for a while) inactive online store.. seriously I just deleted all US shipping rate options. I know it won't make a difference but it's the principle.

Sorry USians, fix your shit before I'll consider dealing with you again.

I truly hope things get better for you there. It is really sad and frustrating to see how things have gotten.

That's a beee-yutiful Bolete, btw.

Oooh, that looks pretty fun! Sigh, my box of little boards I have dreams of doing something with someday is already pretty overflowing though :)

I think someone needs to develop a portable, focusable beam-EMP device. So, you know, those soft, vulnerable electronics inside certain devices can be disabled remotely, invisibly, without such the need for inelegant tools such as angle-grinders and box-cutters.

I'd also say re-used Bluray/DVD lasers to burn out the camera CCD, but that would need to be done very carefully, only angling from above, to avoid risk to aircraft and definitely care to avoid any people nearby.

(I wonder if Flock cameras have some sort of laser-filtering on their lenses?)

Do Flock Camera towers use aluminum in any critical, ground-accessible parts? I hear mercury does nasty things to aluminum. But it's also toxic so would need to be handled carefully.

Great info. I only vaguely recall seeing some youtube videos or something showing that DVD or Bluray lasers could damage CCDs, but it was almost certainly in a desktop-lab situation, at a range of only a few meters. Inverse-square law strikes again!

Solar panels.. yes, target the power source not the electronics themselves (then again, why not both?)

Small kamikaze drones launched from a safely out-of-view location? Now we're getting into full insurrection territory.

No matter what the method, they're going to get legislation classifying it as 'terrorism' I am sure.

Incoming case of Nominative Determinism? Overton

What a bunch of maroons. 99.9% chance someone else mirrored that git repo.

EDIT: And this is yet another reason everyone, everywhere, should immediately mirror any git repo for a project they are even remotely interested in.

github giveth, and github can (and does) taketh away. Say NO to centralized source management platforms -- exactly the antithesis of what git was designed for in the first place!

No freedom of religion without freedom FROM religion.

Resist a theocratic state.

This is even more nuts than removing fluoride from municipal water systems. At least with that, parents who believe the science that their kids' teeth will be better off with targeted fluoride treatment can buy the drops and tablets, and those who are afraid for some reason can choose to just not use it.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely, despite research showing its benefits and the distinct lack of significant harm. Madness.

What next, are they going to criminalize sending fluoride drops/pills through the mail, like mifepristone?

Calgary, AB Canada removed fluoride and a decade later added it back after seeing the effects of its absence.

Heaven forbid journalists do... you know, their jobs?

The cameras worked by constantly recording even before the “record” button was pressed, periodically deleting any footage that hadn’t been intentionally recorded. Once the “record” button was pressed by the officer, it would capture the 30 seconds before the button had been pressed, thanks to this method of constantly being on standby.

But it was a hard concept for cops to understand. They weren’t being properly trained on the fact that their own cameras didn’t start recording once they pressed record. Hitting that button saved the 30 seconds prior as well, a neat feature that really bit them in the ass.

Maybe bodycams should randomly record even when the RECORD button isn't pressed by an officer; and the pre-record time should be random from say 2 minutes to 30 seconds before. And the recording should stop a random 30-60 seconds AFTER they hit 'STOP'. So they never know when they're being recorded. If they're not pulling illegal shit, they shouldn't have any problem with that, right?

In fact, with storage capabilities nowadays, bodycams should ALWAYS be recording, period. Gotta go to the bathroom? Too damn bad. You're a public servant. Trust the auditors to redact that if it comes to a court subpoena. You signed up for it. Extraordinary powers come with extraordinary sacrifices.

Jeebus Chripes. No wonder so many people say ACAB.

This should be paired for contrast, as often as possible, with a collage of right-wing poster reactions mocking, minimizing or disputing the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband.