MapleEngineer @lemmy.ca 25 years in the federal government in guns and badges, 22 of those in Corrections, then 10 years in hacker hunting and breach detection, now an information security sales engineer. Homestead farmer, amateur welder, equipment operator, electronic designer, 40 years soldering, husband and father.
Key takeaway, just over 1/3 (38%) of Canadians support the Conservatives. Not a glowing endorsement. We really need to be rid of FPTP so that we can get a government that actually reflects the will of all Canadians.
Doug Ford shifts direction on wind power in Ontario
It's interesting, isn't it, that canceling those hundreds of renewable energy projects when he was first elected was estimated to cost Ontario $230 million which is exactly the same amount that canceling the gas fired power plants cost us under Kathleen Wynne. I hope this is remembered as the Doug Ford Renewable Energy Scandal.
He hasn't shifted his position because he now supports green energy. He has shifted his position because renewables are now FAR more affordable than fossil fuel or nuclear. It's purely economic.
Cancelling those projects was an act of pure right wing virtue signalling. The $230 million is only the tip of the iceberg.
What you have to ask yourself is this:
-
How much money would Ontario families have saved since 2018 if we had had cheaper, cleaner renewable energy on the grid?
-
How much more is it going to cost to build those projects in 2025 and 2026 than it would have to build them in 2018 and 2019?
-
How far has this put Ontario behind Europe and Asia where they are all in on renewable energy?
The $230 million act of extremist right wing political theater is going to cost Ontario billions of dollars over the coming years and has put us a decade behind the rest of the world (other than the US, of course.)
We are better off not having Facebook be mistaken for a source of news. There is no news on Facebook, only memes, propaganda, and misinformation.
Have you read this article?
Think about it, really, imagine this was coming from someone you respect enough to make you consider changing your mind; should protests that cause no bodily harm be a criminal offence? Should the people not have a way to truly disrupt the system if our existence is at stake? Is the convenience of the ignorant more important than our survival? I’d love to hear your honest answers to these questions.
In theory what you are saying is correct. Disruptive protest for popular causes are very effective. The problem is that these fanatics are driving a wedge between the solution they want and the people they really need on their side for their protests to be effective (the people in popular.) I'm prepared to bet that they didn't convince a single person trying to get around the loop at YUL to join them. How many people jumped out of their cars and asked for glue? Do you think they changed any oil executive's minds? Do you think that they convinced any bought and paid for by the oil industry politicians to change their vote? Do you think that the number of people they convinced to vote for change during the next election outweighs the number of people whos votes they galvanized against them? In order for us to achieve real change in climate policy they need to convince many millions of people to vote for change. I'm willing to bet you $1 that they have done more harm than good.
Please understand that I agree with their goals. I agree that we need to make dramatic changes and as I've said in other parts of this "discussion" (discussion in quotes because there is a lot of whinging, shaming, insulting, name calling, etc. being thrown at me that does not constutite a conversation.) I have made substantial changes myself and have helped hundreds of others make substantial changes. I have had a direct and personal impact on carbon reduction. I just don't agree with their methods. I think that they are doing far more harm to the cause than they are doing good.
The UK is deporting innocent people to fucking Rwanda, lmao.
They were. The new government killed that plan on day 1.
“I acknowledge that at least some of your concerns are shared by many but since we don’t want to do anything about it because that would mean changing our western week-end-at-the-resort lifestyle, we’ll just put you in prison. Fuck you.”
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
I suspect that it's very clear to most people at this point that the actions of these fanatics and the whinging, feeble attempts at shaming, insults, name calling, and harassment by fanatics and their apologists online aren't actually intended to change anyone's minds. It's a fanatical circle jerk, as the judge suggested in the quoted ruling.
Just as long as they are prepared to answer to the rest of a society who, don't agree with their methods. The three who the judge in the UK was writing about are spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison for their protest which showed utter contempt for other citizens.
You're upset because I pointed out that the comment about the word "sole" was wrong. Dude, you need to get over yourself.
I didn't ask a question, I posted a snippet from a ruling from a similar case in the UK. I was set upon by apologists for the fanatics who showed utter contempt for the thousands of people trying to get to the airport by gluing themselves to the loop at YUL, refused to back down, and here we are. These people think that they can bully everyone into doing what they want them to do. They are wrong.
Here is my original comment for reference.
I didn't even say anything. I just posted the snippet.
That's an interesting point but I disagree. They treated thousands other people with utter contempt. That is not the act of someone who is morally superior. It's absolutely disqualifying.
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
YOU have appointed yourselves as the SOLE arbiters of...
YOU is collection. The collective have appointed themselves the sole arbiters of...
Do you understand now?
you
/yo͞o,yə/
pronoun
used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
"are you listening?"
He was referring to them collectively. In English, "you" can refer to one person or a group of people.
What did you think he got wrong?
It's a self satisfying parade of their absolute moral superiority. It's a public circle jerk.
Read it again. You are NOT morally superior. The three people he was writing about are now spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison because they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone they see as inferior. This is the same mistake that every extremist makes.
From a recent ruling in the UK.
“I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
I think you're reading what's happening in this group through rose colored glasses. This community is highly toxic. It's so toxic that it was banned from Reddit. Reddit. That's toxic.
The reaction of the group when I made my first comment was very angry. I poked the hornet's nest. When I started asking questions multiple people told me to mind my own business and walk away. That's highly toxic. Protect the scho bunker at all costs and all.
I've grown borded of this discussion. I got a couple of good answers from people who were hoping that it would make me go away and stop asking questions but they then reverted to personal attacks and amateur psychoanalysis.
I'll leave you to your hate, now. Have a good day.
You seem to have an unconscious bias that you are being attacked in some way.
You're projecting. That seems to be a recurring theme in this group. This very clearly is a hate group. In fact, it's so clearly a hate group that it was banned by Reddit which is a fetid cesspool of hate. I just came here to ask questions to try to understand why a group of people are so obsessed with someone who is literally a nobody. The simple act of asking a question poked the hornets nest and got angry responses.
If you react angrily to someone asking questions about why you're doing what you're doing you need to seriously reconsider what you're doing.
Not worked up. No hurt feelings. You're projecting.
I saw the posts going by in All and saw that they were incredibly toxic. I read the info and saw that it was so toxic in fact that it had been banned by Reddit which is a fetid cesspool of toxicity so it made me curious. I'm just asking questions to try to understand why you can't simply walk away. It's the members of this community that are getting worked up and their feelings hurt because someone is questioning the group think.
Can you explain to us how we are toxic?
Multiple people have told me to stop asking questions and walk away. That's pretty toxic. "Leave us to our hate filled echo bunker and go away!"
Why are we the toxic ones for feeling betrayed by someone?
You're absolutely not toxic for feeling betrayed. It is toxic to obsess and to constantly moan about it. Maybe it's time to let go of your hurt feelings and move on wather than constantly looking at what she's doing and wallowing in your hurt feelings?
I’m guessing you maybe also enjoy lying and manipulating and that is why you think we should give a pass to influencers who lie and deceive,
Ad hominem? That's pretty toxic.
or as you said “she’s pretty” so of course the pretty rich white women should be allowed to lie and if we don’t like it we should just turn a blind eye.
Straw man? That's pretty toxic.
This is a group of intelligent people literally just having a conversation about influencers and you come in here cursing and being rude and we’re the toxic ones?
Sorry...cursing? Did I curse? I'm asking questions and trying to engage in conversation to gain an understanding of the roots of this toxic community. Calling someone who asks questions toxic because they don't share your beliefs but are trying to understand is incredibly toxic.
EDIT: I went back and looked and I said the word "fucking" exactly once as an adjective to toxic when I was told that I should just let the echo bunker have its toxic circle jerk and walk away. I stand by that use of the word, "fucking".
I hope you better understand now.
"It’s not a good place under this administration, at least," said Rogan on his podcast, in conversation with his guest, comedian Sam Morril.
"I can't be a racist sack of shit and spew hate speech in Canada so I'm not coming!" - a fetid sack of gangrenous anal sphincters.
Trumped Again?: 66% of Canadians say a second GOP presidential term would be ‘bad’ or ‘terrible’ for Canada
Most say economy would suffer, Canada-U.S. relationship would worsen; some Conservatives diverge July 23, 2024 – The U.S. presidential race was turned on its head by the Sunday news that current President Joe Biden had stopped his campaign for re-election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to...
And yet they are braying for Trump Lite who is playing directly from the US christofascist playbook of grievance and identity politics while making impossible promises without ever telling us how he plans to deliver. But, he's"not Trudeau" amiright?
Alberta premier calls on 'progressive' politicians to 'dial down' rhetoric after attack on Trump
Danielle Smith, a white supremacist supported christofascist who has talked about putting progressive politicians, "in the cross hairs" can choke on a fucking horse dick.
Poilievre faces backlash at AFN general assembly, slams ‘paternalistic’ system
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was confronted by some First Nations chiefs about his priorities on Indigenous issues.
Apparently Polievre's grievance politics don't play very well to an audience with actual grievances.
Many guns seized at Coutts border blockade are used for hunting: defence
A defence lawyer for one of two men accused of conspiracy to commit murder at the border blockade at Coutts has suggested many of the guns seized are rifles used for hunting.
Remember that these are the guys who said that they were preparing to fight UN and/or Chinese troops who might invade Canada?
Now their lawyer says that they were used for hunting? Was she taking about the pipe bomb or the handguns?
I don't see a single trigger or cable lock in that photo. Was the ammunition stored in a separate locked container?
These guys should never be allowed to own a firearm again based solely on the UN/China delusion. These types of violent collective fantasies are extremely dangerous and they absolutely should be disqualifying.
Kemptville school built with same material as suddenly shuttered Ontario Science Centre
This is nothing to worry about. The only schools likely to choose as a result of this problem are ones where Doug Ford's wealthy family, friends, and donors own adjacent properties (like they do at the Ontario Science Center.)
Billions and billions of dollars of graft but buck a beer and lower gas taxes.
Deleted
This guy is seriously delusional.
> Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first."
> "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese."
The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada?
Seriously?
> "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens."
These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot.
People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
Deleted
This guy is seriously delusional.
> Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first."
> "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese."
The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada?
Seriously?
> "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens."
These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot.
People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
Deleted
This guy is seriously delusional.
> Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first."
> "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese."
The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada?
Seriously?
> "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens."
These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot.
People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
Deleted
This guy is seriously delusional.
> Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first."
> "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese."
The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada?
Seriously?
> "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens."
These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot.
People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
'I'm sorry, God': Accused cried when Coutts border blockade abandoned
This guy is seriously delusional.
> Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first."
> "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese."
The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada?
Seriously?
> "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens."
These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot.
People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet
New court decision reinforces that there is no public interest in speech that exposes vulnerable groups to hate
> Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good.
Oh no. Not that. Please no.
<Tee hee!>
Replacement controller for Atlas Vista 613 Wheelchair Lift
This is the replacement controller I built for the wheelchair lift. The controller itself is in the middle. The four board on the left and right are a testing harness. The red and black wires are 24VDC and the green and white ones TX and GND for monitoring with a terminal program on my notebook (puTTY).
Without the test harness it looks like this.
I was trying to squeeze a LOT into the BID box that I'm using for this project. I had to stack boards to get everything in.
The bottom most board is a standard bottom board for the BUD case. It has holes along each side for 2.54 screw terminals and pluggable screw terminals. I'm only using that board to mechanically connect the project to the BID case and for the screw terminals. I almost always use pluggable screw terminals because they're awesome. I can unplug four plugs instead of unscrewing 36 screw terminals and trying to keep the wires straight.
There are two top boards. The one on the left carries four relays which turn the negative logic of the Darlingtons into positive logic for the lift. They send 24VDC out to the contactors that run the motors and the door lock. The other small board at the rear has two safety relays which switch power coming in through a bunch of safety switches out to the battery relay and the main contactor.
This is what it looks like assembled into its BUD case.
This is all built around an Arduino Nano with a program that I wrote in Great Cow BASIC.
Frankenduino!
I'm working on replacing the Schneider SmartRelay on an Atlas Vista 613 wheelchair lift that I bought for my dad. The Atlas technician agrees that the SmartRelay is probably shot and the replacement is $1,000 wholesale. I built a replacement using an Arduino Nano, a UNL2803A Darlington array, a switching 7805, a bunch of Zener diodes, and a handfull of Schneider industrial relays.
Unfortunately, I let the smoke out of my very last Nano and needed to keep the project moving. So...I took a small piece of protoboard, an Arduino ProMini 168, and some jumper wire and created this Frankenduino. It's the same pinout as the Nano with none of the nice supporting stuff like an ICP port, USB, voltage regulators, etc. It will keep the development moving while I'm waiting for the 10 Nanos I have on order to arrive.
When you let the smoke out of your very last Arduino Nano.
I give you Frankenduino. It's an Arduino ProMini soldered onto a piece of protoboard and wired up to the Nano pinout.
I have 10 Nanos on order but I really needed to keep the project moving.
This ProMini has an ATMEGAS168 chip on it but that's good enough for what I'm doing.
Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada
I think that the vast majorly of us are all for this. I can't wait to hear how they're going to build the 3,500 km of wall that are under water. I assume they will just build the wall on the waterfront on their side of the Great Lakes?
This would solve the pornlemmy of what to do when the christofascist dictatorship finally takes hold, down there. I'm very concerned that 30 million refugees are going to head north across the border. They really should head south since there is no way that we can house them here over winter and millions of them will starve and freeze to death.
Eggy potato salad with duck eggs.
My wife made potato salad to bring to dinner at friends' house last night. It's about half hard boiled duck eggs by volume.
Delicious!
Potato salad with duck eggs.
We were invited friends house for dinner last night. My wife brought potato salad. I like lots of eggs in my potato salad. We had a couple of dozen duck what in the fridge so my wife boiled up a dozen and added them. It's about half by volume hard boiled duck eggs and it's delicious.
CBC president defends broadcaster's Israel-Hamas coverage in a testy meeting with MPs
What are these MAGA clowns doing in Canada's Parliament. The Conservatives are embarrassing to us as a country. The fascist virtue signaling is sickening.