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  • there were thin (~2mm) sticker-type Bluetooth tags […] No battery, just a passive coil that could be found with Bluetooth signal and an app that shows how close it is.

    Sounds kind of like UHF RFID, which are common in places like warehouses and can be done at a distance, but even higher frequency?

    I imagine range was a huge issue. Unless you have an extremely powerful bluetooth tranceiver and a very high gain antenna (i.e. not a phone, a professional radio system), the inverse square law will mean you won’t have enough energy to activate the electronics in the tag after a fairly short distance. Would probably work for finding something in your house though.


  • The core philosophy of how the country was founded is the same: impose a certain culture and way of life on peoples who wanted nothing to do with you, kick them off the land they’ve lived on for generations and move your own people there. And it’s not like we didn’t commit our own genocide, why are there so few Indigenous people nowadays? Canada is one of the oldest colonial countries so most of the truly ugly stuff happened long before you or I were born (still, not that long ago), but it is still something Indigenous people are struggling with. Obviously Israel is worse in the present day, obviously Canadians are more apologetic about it, obviously the average Canadian now is not playing nearly as active a role in the colonialism (again, due to most of the ugly stuff happening some time ago) and Canada is not currently committing something as bad as a genocide, but if you look at histories of countries as a whole it’s pretty similar. Also, I was referring to specifially the government of Canada criticizing Israel, because it gives them an excuse not to change how Canada is governed, which in case you haven’t noticed is also screwing over non Indigenous Canadians and is absolutely not working for anyone but the rich.


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    Also to the liberals pearl clutching about “but we need democracy!” not realizing that’s what that quote means.

    The proletariat is, pretty much by definition, the VAST majority of the people in a society, by far the largest group. The commoners like you and me, working in order to make a living.

    Dictatorship can mean what you think it means in that context. Ruling a country by the will of some dictator.

    If the proletariat is the dictator, it means ruling a country by the will of the vast majority of the people. That’s what democracy is. We can further discuss implementations of it and how well they work (hint: Western democracy works very poorly and is very undemocratic in practice, as you’ve definitely experienced), but the general concept described by “dictatorship of the proletariat” is democracy.






  • The Canadian government will never, ever condemn or even criticize Israel because once they do, it opens up inconvenient questions on the history and present actions of Canada itself, including whether Canada should even exist, because Canada is built on the same settler colonial foundations as Israel.

    Israel must be the good guys over the savage and extremist Palestinians because as long as they’re the good guys, it follows that Canada must be the good guys over the savage and uncivilized Indigenous people here as well, and hey, we’ve even mostly stopped doing what Israel is doing to “our” Indigenous people so we must be even better!