If the DoJ were acting in even the slightest amount of good faith without intent of a coverup, they would allow lawmakers private access to the entire fileset they had and tell them it’s their responsibility for what they see, on the Congresspeople to avoid sharing anything that would violate other laws, and to protect the victims. That would be better than what Congress has now, which is slightly less redacted versions of the same subset of files the DoJ has pre-vetted for what they think they can spin away as usual, along with DoJ snooping through searches and arbitrarily limiting access through 4 computers for 435 House Members.

Who has more money? OpenAI needs buttloads of it right about now from all the promises they have made.

Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.

$1000 Canadian is around 700 USD for Americans calling ambulances in the Great White North

Don’t worry, America is skillfully avoiding the dust clouds by running in the fully opposite direction, towards irrelevance!

Cool effect! I do think YVR is the nicest airport to be in Canada.

Some of the Epstein files suggest he had hidden cameras installed in his properties, so chances are that the other half in terms of count of the files would include video which is exponentially larger in terms of data size and probably more time-consuming to censor…

The DoJ releasing those might end up like WeChat’s attempt to censor Megan Thee Stallion (mild NSFW): https://xcancel.com/i/status/1515594597589819392

So, what happens when a lemmy server goes down ungracefully (so unlike lemm.ee that made a proper shutdown and closed most communities), the communities stay as a localized version on each server it had connected to, at least last I checked. You can post and will see posts from users on lemmy.world but no one on any other server can see your posts, because the community server was supposed to distribute them. So it becomes more like an archive.

Hm, looks like we need Trump to cut off oil exports to the world, one country at a time. Then everybody will move on from oil real quick (to the USA’s detriment).

Going to the courts was the right move, I do think Elections Canada followed their election recount process more or less, but the lower courts rejecting the acknowledge human error as not an “irregularity” is a little bit of a judicial blunder.

Yeah, here’s an opportunity for the Democrats to play “originalist” for once (DHS and subagencies didn’t exist in the time of founding fathers, why do we need it now!?!?), see how Republicans react 🤪.

Transat is a mostly South and East flier from the east half of Canada. So this is pretty big that their southward flights from Canada are going to skip touching the ground anywhere in the USA.

Don’t most laws already allow the responsible minister to permit exemptions or deem acceptance to companies’ compliance?

I don’t think we want to give companies or entities a diplomatic level of immunity from regulations, be they startups, established conglomerates, or individuals. This power should be heavily limited in terms of how many rules that can be exempter for a single entity, accounting for ownership and subsidiaries, and what regulations can be, etc.

But if it does go through, I should try making a business whose proposal has AI every third word, and ask the government to exempt me from the Copyright Act and then start preparing databases (for AI, of course and surely nothing else) of Nintendo and Disney content.

Putin should try flying to Washington if we actually want to see if there’s a double standard under Carney. As much as Israel and Bibi can fuck off, this is not a gotcha as is, because by Carney’s story 2022 was still during the “old world order” while nations still pretended the the US can protect us all.

This is where the CBS staff with any morals need to pick up their stuff and form a Weiss-free broadcasting company called C-ya-BS. Like Sackbird did.

I think this is the real reason we need to bring back the occupation of “Evil Witch”.

If anti-vaxxers aren’t going to listen to scientific reason to get vaccines, then instead we need to hire a witch who casts curses infecting people with measles… and the best way to protect people from the curse is the vaccine, and people extra vulnerable to the curse need everyone around them to be vaccinated.

Since the metric is alignment with the USA’s UN votes, I think it’s just that the USA is taking more abjectly insane positions. Even if a new president is more “normal” and the votes become reasonable again, I think the shift away from the USA in other measures will stay as is or continue.

Fucking finally. It should have been obvious that people waving flags, holding signs silently are not terrorist sympathizers and a little paint doesn’t make a group a constant terroristic threat needing to be monitored.

They lied to intimidate and put these people in jail, yet again. At some point we need consequences for the DoJ’s reckless behaviour.

Despite Trump (or put any MAGA stooge here) asserting otherwise…

should always be replaced with

Despite Trump lying about it as usual…