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the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca

<p>Retired Parliamentary Indexer. Socialist, political observer and sometime activist with HBA in Political Science, Laurentian University, 1973. Outdoorsperson, environmentalist, cyclist and former mountain biker. Amateur photographer and mapmaker.<br /><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>canpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ottbike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ottbike</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ottpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ottpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ottawa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photography</span></a></p>

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    @rasterweb@mastodon.social Whenever anyone says &quot;like it or not&quot; it usually means you should NOT.

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    @pezmico@mastodon.nz In reality they never owned any of that stuff, it belonged to the people, It was just given to them by governments that they owned.

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    @blogdiva@mastodon.social And it is what might kill Windows and Microsoft, if people cannot upgrade their hardware to match Windows &quot;upgrades&quot; they will seek OSs that run on less computing power. Ironic that t takes multiple orders of magnitude more computing power to run a video game about putting a man on the moon than it did to put a man on the moon.

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    @geekysteven@beige.party so is a lot of other crappy stuff be we don&#39;t have to be happy about it.

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    @maj I guessed roughly 50% but that includes a lot of posts on how we can improve society that by implication are negative because they posit that improvements are necessary.

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    One of the reasons #Boomers seemed to fair well is because our parents #taxed the #rich. For some reason we stopped during the 1970s. Scroll down to Marginal Tax Rates section of link below for more details. https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-reforming-capitalism.html

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    @autumn That looks like what I wore working in a smelter, at least part of the time, alternating between the mask being too uncomfortable and the air being too crappy. Fortunately only for about 6 months.

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    Done some more preparation and just about ready to create the new account, then migrate to it. The process looks pretty simple, lets hope it goes smoothly. Timeline depends on how the gods move me, but within a few days, possibly sooner.

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    Methinks they are going a bit overboard with the April showers business.

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    Never underestimate the power of white privilege. Remember the people of a whole continent were misnamed for hundreds of years because one white man couldn&amp;#39;t navigate. #WhitePrivilege

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/116343399759912794 Who the hell wants to fight for a country that wants to send their parents to a concentration camp ?

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    Oh yes I wanted to ask what the character limit was on #OttawaPlace i did not notice that when I was going through the rules.

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    Time to plug the NO AI link to DDG again https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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    Need guaranteed wrong answers. Here is the place. (Actually they cannot even guarantee that, occasionally providing correct answers) https://www.wired.com/story/i-asked-chatgpt-what-wired-reviewers-recommend-its-answers-were-all-wrong/

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    Wondering whoever dreamed up calling other peoples computer servers connected to the internet &amp;quot;the cloud&amp;quot;. When I think of clouds I think of light fluffy things that when they get full and heavy start to leak all over the place. Hardly the metaphor I would want to use for computer storage. #TheCloud

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    If the new NDP leader proves too &amp;quot;socialist&amp;quot; for some they can join the Liberals and drag them back to Liberalism from their current pretending to be the old PCs incarnation.

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    So where will I se it first, on the CBC website, or here ?

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    And we have a new leader of the NDP

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    Well I guess we will have to get used to saying NDP Leader Lewis, again.

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    Just looked at my blog stats (on blogspot/blogger) over it&amp;#39;s lifetime and my views really jumped when I joined Mastodon. in March 2023. Being on Twitter did not make any noticeable difference.

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    Only applies to workers under federal jurisdiction but still sets an example. &amp;quot;Most employees in Canada are covered by their provincial or territorial rates. Those range from a high of $19.75 in Nunavut to a low of $15 in Alberta.: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-minimum-wage-increase-9.7140017

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    Remember when every school had a hand bell and a guillotine.

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    IOC bows down to/sucks up to Trump. Is the Olympics Peace Medal next ? https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/international-olympic-committee-transgender-rules-9.7142798

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    Rain Rain Do Not Go Wash Away The Salt &amp;amp; Snow Rain Rain Wash It All Away The Ebikes Want To Go Out &amp;amp; Play

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    But we are making our war expenditures target and hoping to build a homegrown war industry, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-hospitals-wait-times-9.7123684

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    World&amp;#39;s Best Cheese

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    Would it be better or worse for the United States if Trump was competent ?

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    Anyone still seriously considering travelling to the United States ? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472

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    RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/116303823112614256 So I cannot wear an &amp;quot;I believe in democracy&amp;quot; t-short into the provinces most important institution of democracy because believing in democracy is definitely a political statement but [whoever the hell you worship] forbid political statements be allowed in the legislature. #hypocrisy #irony

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    Caring about people vs loving cruelty are NOT policy differences.