We can be better. This is a small cohort choosing not to.

Any port in a storm.

Agreement in principle - Alberta does whatever it wants, Canada looks the other way.

Enter deglobalization.

A very good friend of mine Told me something the other day I’d like to pass it on to you 'Cause I believe what he said to be true

He said we’re here for a good time Not a long time (not a long time) So have a good time The sun can’t shine every day

The pedo president brokers a “peace deal” for Ukraine by asking it to capitulate completely - giving half to Russia and half to US corporate interests. In exchange for these concessions, they will both kill your people through normal authoritarian domestic policies and not war.

‘I want to know how many terrorists are there in Canada,’ Conservative says

It’s your fucking Party! Count your own membership you lazy piece of shit.

Shrink: Tell me about your eco-anxiety.

Me: You know the crazy preacher guy on the downtown street corner with the “The End is Nigh” sign?

Shrink: Yes, go on…

Me: I got kicked out of his cult for being too pessimistic.

Shrink: It’s ok to have fears. What matters is that we keep them rational and grounded in reality so they don’t overwhelm us. What was your professional background again?

Me: I’m a scientist.

I think long hooded cloaks are going to make a fashion comeback. A scanner darkly facial shrouds too.

The TPS is the most corrupt police force in the country.

The SQ, OPP, RCMP would like to have a word with you.

The tow truck wars will get more interesting.

Civilians holds the rifle = banned assault weapon

Police hold the rifle = peaceful patrol rifle

I see what you did there CBC. Rules for me but not for thee, right down to the duplicitous language.

Use my dice.

My guess is the strip grants grand banks fishing rights proportional to the size of the island, without being a big land grab.

Plus Canadian professional cartographers know how to party. They have more active bans on pub crawls on Water street than anyone but the Chemists.

Koch industries.

We suck a mean dick.

There is an important aspect missing here. A drone Army, can stand down, be put to rest in cold storage indefinitely, until called upon. Meanwhile software and accessories can improve in peacetime for pennies with plug and play retrofits. Even a limited production capability can build up to enourmous values over time. When called into service, a drone army goes into full force almost immediately with a charging, and a good dusting off.

Regular armies require constant training, practice, and cost enormously in peacetime and war. Skills get old, soldiers retire etc…

Let’s consider the evolutionary potential of dones with fully networked target discrimination and AI based targeting and piloting capabilities. Not even something novel, just the maturation of today’s existing tech. Drone doesn’t mean Shahed. Think drone tank. Drone planes Loitering drone munitions. Small one time pop-bots with limited raspberry pi zero computing don’t do much, but anti-drone drones get more ability. Think of the asymetrical terrorism possibility of a self driving Tesla/Waymo but now the “brains” get installed in a more militarized body.

Combined arms at the speed of computing. What if next gen shaheds don’t just pop once, but evolve to carry multiple payloads.

You bring up a lot of good points, but don’t let complacency define your concept of drone capabilities in the modern military in the very short term with off the shelf tech. This is the dawn of a new era, and capability of how “smart” anything can have in terms of hardware and software will be mathmatically optimized based on its purpose. Munitions like 1 and done kamikaze drones get relatively little, something like a tank gets full autodrive autoshoot AI etc… The distinction between drone missiles being shot from drone planes and beyond, across the combined arms paradigms is on our doorstep.

The total war imperative also gets a boost, because drone warfare becomes ultimately a competition of industrialization, vs deindustrializations. Can you build technology faster/cheaper and more effectively deployed than your adversary industrial capacity can defend. Civilian and military tagets can’t be easily distinguished. This is quite opposite of your “low barrier to entry with low labour and tech costs” points about shaheds.

Old kinda idiot. Marketing Dept pumping stock with “white paper”.

Cause ICE cars ain’t cheap, gas ain’t cheap, maintenance ain’t cheap.