I think people here don’t understand that I’m not advocating for capitulation. I’m saying “let the negotiation team manage the negotiations”, including deciding what pressures we’re applying and what we’re not willing to concede.

This is the political equivalent of going to buy a used car or something and bringing your kid along and the kid starts begging to buy the car. Wab and Ford are not party to these negotiations, and should not be undermining federal government’s negotiations.

“It might rain later and ruin my sign I created for the parade later. No one really can predict the rain. I should piss on my sign because it doesn’t really matter anyways.”

A thoughtful approach to foreign policy.

“I’m wrong and proud!” is the most American thing I can think of. Enjoy.

I’m actually losing my mind that you all are allowed to vote. I hope our nation increases our education budget for Canadian civics classes.

Constitution Act: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-4.html

Treaty Obligations

[132] The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all Powers necessary or proper for performing the Obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as Part of the British Empire, towards Foreign Countries, arising under Treaties between the Empire and such Foreign Countries.

Then, when Canada legally became distinct from the Empire, “The Parliament and Government of Canada” referenced here became the new, national government via the Statute of Westminster, and the jurisdiction for international Treaties and trade agreements was inherited by the federal government.

In 1931, under the Statute of Westminster, Canada and a number of other British dominions, acquired full independence(4) and with it authority to act internationally with all the attributes of a sovereign state.  Full power over foreign affairs was thus conferred on Canada and section 132 of the Constitution Act, 1867 became obsolete.

Read about it here: https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0004-e.htm#A. Authority Respecting International Treaties(txt)

You people are so confidently wrong. Your downvotes mean nothing to me - I’ve seen what you upvote.

Like, have you ever heard of Manitoba (or any other province) setting import tariffs on US/foreign goods? No. When you import a good into Canada, does Manitoba CBSA charge you import fees? Do provinces even have their own CBSA? It is demonstrably false that provinces can set foreign trade policy without federal involvement and frameworks. They cannot tariff, set quotas, or even lower tariffs or import fees. They can buy and sell with foreign entities but only from within the confines of federal agreements like CUSMA, which is negotiated federally. Provinces can direct Crown Crops like liquor commissions to not buy goods made available via CUSMA, but they cannot change the terms of CUSMA to allow new goods, change import tariffs and fees, etc.

Bud, what are you talking about? Per your own link:

The Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) is an intergovernmental trade agreement signed by Canadian ministers representing the federal government and all 13 provinces and territories (PTs). The objective of the CFTA is to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible, barriers to the free movement of persons, goods, services, and investments within Canada and to establish an open, efficient, and stable domestic market.

This is a trade agreement between provinces and has nothing to do with foreign policy. Per the CFTA, Article 100 (Objective) and Article 101:

Article 100: Objective

The Parties’ objective is to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible, barriers to the free movement of persons, goods, services, and investments within Canada and to establish an open, efficient, and stable domestic market. The Parties recognize and agree that enhancing trade, investment, and labour mobility within Canada would contribute to the attainment of this goal.

Article 101: Application

This Agreement applies to trade, investment, and labour mobility within Canada.

I’m wondering if you even read your own source? It’s free and online: https://www.cfta-alec.ca/cfta-agreement/chapter-one-initial-provisions

I understand that Trump and the US are highly volatile and unreliable people unlikely to honor any agreement they make. That doesn’t mean we should make our negotiating team’s job harder by intentionally poking the wasp nest.

And no, provinces generally don’t have jurisdiction over foreign policy like trade agreements. That is a federal power, hence why its “CUSMA” (Canada-US-Mexico Agreement) not “BCASM…NFUSMA”. Provinces generally do not set their own foreign policy, and having emotions about Trump, the US, and threats to our sovereignty shouldn’t change that. At best provinces are allowed to make their own deals within the confines of existing frameworks set up by the federal government(s).

There is no concrete win from Wab totally owning MAGAts other than a cheap political stunt for Canadian audiences, and a concrete downside. See: Ford’s infamous Reagan ad and the fallout from that.

Hard agree, as someone who voted for Wab as my MLA. I wish he and Ford would stop fucking around and just let the federal government retain the jurisdiction over foreign affairs. Ford’s Reagan ad was factual and “felt good” for Canadians to see but really stirred the pot.

It’s been a long time since I read into M02 exercise but IIRC Van Riper only won by using “motorcycle messengers” that traveled at the speed of light. IIRC the game’s "DM"s basically ruled against him that their forces were not operating within realistic constraints which is why it was reset and restarted.

It’s not just log files - I was running a bad version of some software and suddenly my VPS was cryptomining and they tried to export common config directories. They got nothing and I cleaned it up but I’m not letting my VPS join a botnet and attack others. If the side effect of that is that Nigerians cannot read my person blog or access my self hosted services with 30 users I think this is ok.

I’ll happily accept your ire as I also wish the internet was generally safer and more open.

Also I’m not selling anything so that EU law wouldn’t apply to my services even if I did host them in the EU or provide services to the EU.

I am not in the US! Nor are my services hosted somewhere where this is relevant.

Tell that to the guy in Lagos I had to report a few years ago for breaching one of my personal services. Nigerian Police have a dedicated Cybercrime division and they didn’t even reply to my report through their official channels. Sorry, but Nigeria went on the geoblocklist! I have a right to not expose myself to undue risk.

The difference is that commercial VPNs are theoretically more beholden to regulatory bodies to shutdown bad traffic/provide subscriber information when so ordered by a court. With a commercial VPN you have a legal recourse against a bad actor. With residential proxies enforcement is much much harder, as traversing beyond the IP hosting the proxy to the TA is often not possible. I also use a VPN to get around content restrictions and have no qualms about their use. Residential proxies are typically bad for everyone except TAs and people who might not have access to traditional VPNs due to their local governments.

Man I’m replying while visiting family in a non-western aligned occupied territory “overseas” to NA. I know. I region block anyways and VPN into Europe/NA when needed, where at least my traffic originates from a VPN’S AS where someone can be made to revoke my access if I abuse it.

Hakone is so nice though ;-;

Overseas is generally used for “across an ocean”. As this is an NA based publication, “overseas” would likely be Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania.

Malicious traffic frequently originates from at least one place in every one of those continents. We were breached some time ago by a TA using a residential proxy to send traffic from a Ukr AS block that got around our firewall. Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer. Getting annoyed because someone used the phrase “overseas” to describe areas to be suspicious of I think is rather short sighted from a security point of view.

Very few cyber attacks come from domestic/near domestic sources, except from botnets and residential proxies. The world will not miss residential proxies.

Let me guess, you’ve never tried to host anything public yourself. If you run fail2ban long enough you end up with a blocklist that heavily skews towards a particular set of countries. Residential proxies are regularly used in criminal activity. I’ve personally and professionally been impacted by TAs using residential proxies to get around firewall rules as part of compromises.

If authorities in those countries took action against TAs and scammers more aggressively, perhaps blocking their entire country wouldn’t be seen as a valid defensive approach.

Good news is cloud seeding is viable? Bad news is we’re probably gonna need it.

24C? Man I’m in one of the coldest cities on the planet. I get heat stroke immediately any time I approach past 30°N. Even I don’t feel hot until around 28C or so.

My fiancee is Turkish and she gets cold at 16 though so I guess you must somehow be further north than I am.