So do roads, and your metal cage literally has a code on a plaque tied directly to your government ID, with a retroreflective background and each character carefully engineered to be machine readable from any angle and lighting. Hell, a good number of the cars you pass have 360 degree camera arrays pointed directly in your windows, or if you spring for a higher end model with all the features, you get the privilege of a camera pointed straight at your face and at your passengers’ faces.

Also, you can cover your face on transit with something like a medical mask and sunglasses. If you try covering your license plate you’ll literally get arrested.

Yeah it’s not like universities of all places, where the vast majority of science is taught and developed, should also be where science based sustainable living is actually practiced.

I submit the following: If you’re looking to go to university, especially if you plan on pursuing a science degree, yet can’t even listen to the established science and go four years of your life without eating meat at the expense of our literal future on this planet, go be a butcher or factory farmer instead because that’s clearly your true calling. And if you’re not willing to budge on your meat consumption despite not being able to stomach working in the meat industry where your food comes from, maybe have a nice long chat with your conscience because it’s trying to tell you something.

Unless you have Celiac disease, seitan (basically pure gluten) is a pretty ideal meat substitute. I absolutely hate how the meat and diary industries have conspired to make gluten look like this evil unhealthy thing that everyone regardless of medical status needs to avoid when it’s been a major source of protein basically since we figured out farming.

Also, lentils. Has both protein and fiber and AFAIK is Celiac friendly. There’s a reason it’s one of the go-to’s in India which has more vegetarians than any other country. Probably a better choice for catering because less people are intolerant to it.

Specific info, and I’m guessing really specific:

One of the closest allies of the U.S., the U.K. has reportedly suspended sharing some intelligence with the Pentagon due to concern over the boat strikes in the Caribbean, according to CNN.

[…]

In response to a request for comment from TIME, a U.K. government spokesperson said on Wednesday: “It is our longstanding policy to not comment on intelligence matters.”

They went on to say that the “U.S. is our closest ally on security and intelligence. We continue to work together to uphold global peace and security, defend freedom of navigation, and respond to emerging threats.”

Which makes me think they haven’t actually stopped sharing all that much

“Those poor widdle settwers fweeing Iswamic oppwession have no chwice but to oppwess those evil oppwessing Iswams”

Though I think as much as they try to weasel word it, the public aren’t buying it. In most Leftist circles settler and colonizer are synonyms, and “settler colonialism” is literally used to denote when the colonizing population move in en masse with the express intent to replace the Indigenous population, compared to other forms of colonialism like resource or labour exploitation. In Canada at least, another textbook settler colonial country that’s just as bad as if not worse than Israel, I’ve noticed that settler tends to have a pretty similar negative connotation as colonizer even among liberals. Dictionaries can define it however the hell they want but language has its true meaning inside the minds of humans, not formal definitions on a book written by the ruling class.

Gig companies warn of collapse if forced to pay decent wage.

Then you don’t deserve to exist, simple as that. The confederate slavers of the US used the exact same argument against black suffrage, as did the European colonizers before them.

The irony being that the boomers who say the “builds character” shit had a vastly easier life compared to their parents and grandparents, who fought literal world wars. They think all societal change before them was good (including stuff like colonialism which they see as “civilizing” the savage natives) but any progress after them is the devil because it means they might have to change their behaviour or worldviews, hell, or even the idea that people they think are less than them getting less disadvantaged and oppressed than before which I guess make them jealous or something?

anarchist erasure

You know you can just repost this with the anarchist symbol pasted over the hammer and sickle in response right? Like you think the OP presumably did to your symbol. If you care, there’s nothing stopping you from erasing us tankies right back, we can handle it. You could even snarkily title it “Perspectives about life (fixed)” or something. Go crazy, this is literally the meme community.

Also, ironic that an anarchist is protesting someone covering up their symbol to express a different thought. No kings or masters or hierarchy but an abstract symbol on a shitpost is sacred and can’t be touched?

how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

Buy a train ticket with cash? Not guaranteed to be fully “private” in the cyberpunk shithole we live in but presumably more private than a car.

On that note, fuck every transit agency (including TransLink in Vancouver) who make it more expensive to buy tickets with cash compared to a transit card. And especially fuck you if your transit card system is a P3 with the data handled by a private company (again, including TransLink). You’re probably paying the money they thought they could have made selling your commute data to advertisers.

Bonus non privacy related rant: TransLink, the Earth and our decedents also say fuck you for using plastic RFID cards even for single journey tickets that will get promptly thrown in the trash when they expire in 90 minutes instead of a simple piece of paper that can biodegrade. They even waste more resources to wrap the plastic in paper to give the illusion of the ticket being made of paper when it absolutely is not. Yeah make single use microcomputers and antennas why don’t you? Can’t have transit being too eco friendly after all. They’re not futuristic, future generations will curse us for being so barbarically wasteful of precious resources while digging those RFID tickets out of landfills to extract silicon and metal from. Just print QR codes on normal paper tickets for god sake since the RFID cards probably only store a single unique ID that needs to be looked up against a database anyway, or better yet, just have coin slots on the fare gates and skip giving you a ticket altogether. Oh wait, but then they wouldn’t able to know which station you get off at and refuse to let you out until you’ve paid the upcharge for having the audacity to ride a fully automated train system even one station outside your home city.

When returning stolen items, don’t phrase it as a “gift” in your fucking press release

It really highlights just how fucking evil the Catholic church is where they can’t even pretend to be sorry about what they did. “Hey remember when we, in collaboration with the Canadian government, completely and utterly destroyed your culture, families, and lives in a full blown fucking genocide? Well, here are some of your priceless ancient artifacts back. Not as reparation for the literal crimes against humanity we committed against you, as a gift because we’re so generous and merciful. We really felt the need to make it known that we absolutely did not think we had to do this, and you non-believing hellbound scum are lucky we did. Now thank us!”

“DUHH, IT’S BECAUSE SPEECH IN CHINA IS CENSORED AND YOU’LL LITERALLY GET SENT TO A XINJIANG CONCENTRATION CAMP IF YOU TRIED BEING A VLOGGER”

By squeezing an entire can until its contents shoot up in the air, catching it with your mouth, and then flexing your uncanny overly defined biceps.

The winner of the Dynamite “Peace” Prize likes war, what a surprise.

Unless you have a Graphene or Linux phone it’s probably just as bad if not worse than using Edge.

I mean, unless you’re a legend and memorized the Firefox latest release URL you still have to navigate to a website to get the link.

EDGE is a useful app for downloading your new Linux ISO

FTFY

Definitely check the signature though in case Edge decides to inject some “improved UX” into Linux.

Yeah, someone who actively supports genocide with not only a gun and license to kill, but in charge of all the other state thugs. As a famous bobcat once said, what could possibly go wrong?

As a general rule of thumb, any in-store prepared food in a large grocery store (the ones that come in the store’s own packaging) was probably raw food that had been sitting for ages and they couldn’t sell in time. They’ll literally cut mold out of fruits and slice up the rest for those plastic platters. Every time they re-print a label, it resets the expiry date and you have no idea how many times they’ve done that and just shuffled food around by turning it into different forms.

CBC Marketplace video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxCT_D6HBd8

Define “doing things which enable you to survive.” In my definition, that doesn’t involve being king or exploiting others to hoard more wealth than you could ever hope to spend. You need some minimum amount of resources to survive but hoarding many times more than you need doesn’t help you survive and only harms others.

“If a monkey hoards more bananas than it can eat, causing its peers to starve while most of the bananas rot in its pile, scientists will study its brain to find out what the hell is wrong with it. But when a human does it, they get celebrated under capitalism.”

Also, it was once human nature to flee from fire, but once we learned to control it, it became an integral part of our lives. Human “nature” changes over time because your brain is pretty much a blank slate when you’re born and doesn’t fully finish structuring itself until your 20s. Your entire childhood is spent developing your “nature” that you’ll have for your adult life (and even then you can change it at will even in adulthood if you change your living conditions), which is why we’re more influenced by the conditions we grow up in than any sort of innate biology. What “nature” was best for hunter gatherer or even medieval times are totally obsolete in our modern day, so they stop being our default “nature” due to children no longer growing up in those conditions.

The idea that your nature is influenced by your conditions isn’t even unique to humans. Most animals are the same, a house cat or dog will learn from a very young age how to beg for food from their owners while a feral cat/dog won’t because that’s not beneficial for their survival when they’re not a pet. Hell, house cats keep making kitten sounds because their owners keep treating them like kittens, while feral cats stop meowing once they leave their parents. Animals born and raised in captivity in general often show completely different behaviors and personality compared to wild animals of the same species, because their brains are literally structured differently due to growing up in different conditions.