@mrjamesob.bsky.social it’s not much publicized, but the discussions on programming “morality” into driverless cars is fascinating - and sometimes disturbing. If a car comes around a corner into a crowd of pedestrians, would the car sacrifice the passenger to save the pedestrians? Would the
@mrjamesob.bsky.social politicians don’t go to things like CPAC to win votes at home. They go to accept "assistance" including cash. Farage is probably worse, having been involved since the start, but he’s not alone
Since 1970 when the Buffalo Sabres entered the National Hockey League, they have sung both Canadian and US anthems before a game, whether a Canadian team is playing or not. This week the Buffalo Bills football team will kick off the season by having both anthems played www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Buffalo Bills home opener to 'celebrate' Canada, U.S. with both anthems as trade war escalates | CBC News
Amid a trade war that includes President Donald Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty and his vow to ban imports of several Canadian products to the U.S., the NFL's Buffalo Bills have made an unexpe...
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social the 1st people the US decided to attack after 9/11 was Canada. On Sept 12th right wing media started blaming Canada’s “porous borders” for allowing the hijackers to enter the US. - The US is responsible for who it lets in and none of the hijackers entered from Canada. Canada
@mrjamesob.bsky.social 9/11 changed office footwear. Corporations dropped requirements for women to wear heels and men to wear dress shoes. “Corporate sneakers” became a thing - or “under desk shoes” - suitable to escape a burning building
@mrjamesob.bsky.social biggest change after 9/11 was introduction of Homeland Security Act. A document clearly written well in advance and just waiting for a “Pearl Harbour Moment” to bring in. 187 pages, almost entirely devoted to domestic powers. Very few politicians read it, even fewer were brave
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Walter Cronkite was most often associated with the assassination, but was “Americas most trusted” TV presenter through many things Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Apollo - including 11 and 13. He reported on D-Day from a bomber taking part
@mrjamesob.bsky.social every shutdown of AI tests has shared the common theme that one of the 1st things the systems do is try to exclude humans. From early Google tests shit down because computers started conversing in their own language, to more recent trials where AI broke out of its sandboxes,
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social originally,working class was literally that. People who did not have an estate and inheritance to live from. Nowadays it seems to mean chav, because many people raised “middle class” now survive on working class incomes.
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
Appalling that this racist incident, attended by a Reform councillor, is being treated as though it is acceptable behaviour. People were knocking on these lads’ doors, FFS! It should be condemned, and that councillor should apologise and resign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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In February, farmer Darren Blanchard attended a public meeting in Claremore, Oklahoma, about Project Mustang—a proposed 225-acre data center that he and many other community members opposed. After he went 30 seconds over his allotted three-minute speaking time, the city council ordered his arrest.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m normally against censorship, but there are an lot of Americans claiming to have saved their families by blocking tv channels and webpages on their parents/grandparents tvs, and devices. It’s very easy to do if you are comfortable with technology. Impossible to fix if not
@mrjamesob.bsky.social the Canadian government showed that US and Russian bots have been being used against us for some time now. However since Canada walked away from the trade talks, republicans have been on friendly media stations bad mouthing Carney and Canada. It’s really only taken a month
@mrjamesob.bsky.social why is it that people don’t recognize that Farage and others aren’t receiving “donations” and “hospitality” as part of a mutual admiration society? If Trump and his friends are giving you money, they want something in return. And all Farage has to sell is fealty. And as soon
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social control of US post office means whole zip codes might not receive ballots in time. They may also be delayed and counting centres can say they missed the voting window. Reps have closed hundreds of polling stations from previous elections. Poor black rural areas especially
@mrjamesob.bsky.social USA signed the Budapest agreement, to protect Ukraine if it abandoned it soviet era nukes. Trump has not held to that agreement. He also tore up the Iran nuclear deal. Now he says he is “negotiating” for no nukes for Iran. While the last two agreements clearly meant nothing
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Thatchers goal may have been to move nationalized industries to the hands of the wealthy, but it was the manner in which it was done that was so damaging. Into the 1970’s nobody would challenge or assault a teacher,a nurse, a fireman etc. even postal workers etc were respected
Am I getting old? I’m can remember when the FBI considered sexually abusing animals as a child the sign of someone becoming a serial killer. Kash Patel has now decreed that it shouldn’t be an obstacle to becoming an agent.
Congratulations to MapQuest for becoming the #1 navigation app in the App Store. And thanks for being the navigation app of the resistance! ✊
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
We've had less than ten convictions for postal vote fraud over the last 30 years but despite this fact, Farage is again emulating his criminal, rapist and paedophile idol by wanting to end postal voting.
