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Landsat 8 data were accessed using the Google Earth Engine

I have my criticisms of Mark Carney and his Liberal government, but you can’t really “both sides” the tensions between the USA and Canada right now.

I can when we’re talking about Doug fucking Ford. This isn’t a Canada v US thing, it’s a Doug Ford Reactionary Populism versus Donald Trump Reactionary Populism pissing contest. They’ve got functionally identical politics, the same basket of empty promises, even the same damned photo-op strategy. Canada’s Fords are carbon copies of America’s Trumps.

Canada has been thrown into the position of constantly having to defend itself from unprovoked attacks by the USA.

Literally the Trump line about the US and Mexico. Almost word for fucking word.

Circular trade is circular. All this talk of US-Canada trade war is going to be miserable for everyone. But each side is too self-centered and vindictive to give a shit, particularly when the bulk of the pain is going to land on the most economically vulnerable.

The hard-line new leader of Iran’s top security body

Media challenge. Define any Iranian leadership position as something other than “Hard Line”

If the US was a collection of little sovereign states mostly independent maybe it would make sense.

That was the original intended structure, under the Articles of Confederation. The Senate was a compromise to appease low-pop agrarian slave territories and keep them from breaking off into fully independent countries - the fate that befell the Caribbean and much of Latin America.

As a trade-off, it was a savvy play. But the US Civil War should have illustrated the need for its abolition.

Lotteries, 60% is not uncommon, but people like it at the very slight off chance they take the big price.

I think its more that you don’t have the time or opportunity to play a hand of poker in the same way you have to buy a scratch ticket at a gas station.

over 90% of what is wagered gets returned to bettors in the form of winnings

As someone who has gambled once or twice, this seems like a wild overestimate.

Okay, yeah sure. That looks bad. But how much did those Americans win back?

YMMV. Just depends on how the cop dragging you around the corner by your hair to issue you an arrest warrant is feeling at the moment.

The way this report is worded, it sounds like Iranians were somehow involved in the arrests, incarceration, and transportation process, rather than just declining to deflect Iranians arrested by the Trump admin to a third country.

Nothing in the article seems to note that people held in US custody are - often very literally and deliberately - tortured until they cede their right to asylum. All we get is…

It is not clear whether the people Iran put on the list had volunteered to repatriate or if they were forced to leave the U.S. Previous reporting from The New York Times revealed that asylum-seekers were among those deported to Iran, while others said they were deported against their will.

Which is a fucking weaselly ass way of sidestepping whose custody they were in when the deportation process began. Much less whose court system and bureaucracy were denying asylum claims.

Real “What is Propaganda?” inside a single headline.

In June, Britain said it would provide 150,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of 2026 as part ⁠of a £752 million ($996 million) funding package.

Isn’t Ukraine doing a better job of building drones, to the point where they’re trying to export the weapons abroad?

I would be curious to know this uptime relative to any other self-hosted sites.

I remember Reddit and Twitter constantly suffering from uptime issues and they were far more decentralized, with modern infrastructure to match.

Is 95.2% all that far out of the realm of expectation?

odd i didnt know female (the majority of the population) bathrooms had pee troughs…

Women’s restrooms regularly overcrowd because they don’t

I can kind of understand why places like women’s domestic violence shelters and women’s prisons need a legal definition of “woman” in order to define who is allowed in them

I’ve found that a lot of these policies are a legacy of affirmative action in response to the historic gulf in wealth between women and men.

They don’t exist to keep men out. They exist to give women in abusive relationships a place to go without facing homelessness.

One might argue that gay men and trans-people can find themselves in exactly the same kind of relationships, for exactly the same reasons.

lmao a piss trough in a baseball stadium is quite the strawman my dude.

I don’t think you know what a strawman is. But this need to hide people from one another while they piss and poop is a big part of what feeds the anti-trans hysteria.

Not gonna yuk your yum but microdosing golden showers is not something most people are into.

This is why people traditionally wash their hands after using the toilet.

They hated their own 2024 presidential candidate Chase Oliver so much for being gay that there was an attempt by many in the party to replace him with Trump

I’m intimately familiar with Texas Libertarians, having family who are actively involved in the state party. They were woo’d by Trump pretty much day one of his campaign. So much of modern southern libertarianism is just a mask over the Neo-Confederate ideology that went out of style under Bush Jr.

Chase Oliver only won the nomination in 2024, because so many self-proclaimed libertarians had defected back to the GOP already. The folks whining about the nomination wanted to have their GOP affiliation and eat their Libertarian cake, too. And while he took a ton of cheap heat for his sexual orientation, the real thing that made Chase a target for ire is that he wasn’t a closed borders militant white supremacist psycho.

Libertarians used to be at the forefront of individuality and personal liberties

The party has always worn two faces. One face pointed towards the liberals, which promised weed and free love and no more wars. Another face towards the Dixiecrat south, which promised Jim Crow and indentured servitude and CSAM.

Love my NORML libertarians, but I quickly recognized this group was not for me when I spent a weekend at the state convention way back in 2012.

I guarantee you can fight more people around one of those pee-troughs at a baseball stadium than you can fit individual toilets separated by walls and doors.

Hell, the entire appeal of the standing urinal is to conserve space.