they don't need to control or occupy iran, they just need to overrun it.

5,000 troops is enough to take the southern coast, including baluchistan. they would need to rely on the iranian opposition in the interior, but they don't seem to want to.

a serious invasion of iran from the south would need to use arab troops. i would not support that; i support facilitating an uprising against the fascists in the north, and some partition of the arab and muslim areas out of iran.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-million-troops-control-iran-141910762.html

this bill is extremely poorly written.

as it exists, it expands the power of the governor-general by an act of parliament, which is ridiculously unconstitutional and a gift to anybody opposing it.

my main opposition to the bill is that it grants governing powers to the governor-general, who is an unelected functionary and not a member of government, which is utterly terrifying in it's contempt for democratic process. others may have other issues with it. i would personally probably be fine with the bill if they rewrote it to give the powers to parliament instead of the governor-general.

this bill could be and should be opposed as unconstitutional on the grounds that it gives new powers to the governor-general by an act of parliament, which is constitutionally barred by s. 41:

specifically, the formula for amending the role of the governor-general is in s. 41 of the constitution act, and requires unanimous consent:

Amendment by unanimous consent

41 An amendment to the Constitution of Canada in relation to the following matters may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada only where authorized by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province:

• (a) the office of the Queen, the Governor General and the Lieutenant Governor of a province;

• (b) the right of a province to a number of members in the House of Commons not less than the number of Senators by which the province is entitled to be represented at the time this Part comes into force;

• (c) subject to section 43, the use of the English or the French language;

• (d) the composition of the Supreme Court of Canada; and

• (e) an amendment to this Part.

carney's eurocentrism is fairly clear and we are at risk of creeping monarchism under his new tory government. 

this should have been rejected by the senate and should have been rejected by the attorney general but it seems to have gone under the radar.

it should be fought in court on the grounds that increased powers to the governor-general are unconstitutional and a form of creeping monarchism.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-12/royal-assent

whatever the cause was, a good run on my legs with benzalkonium chloride wipes got rid of the itch pretty fast.

i'm not a doctor. or a chemist. don't listen to me. think for yourself.

but, fyi, in fact, the active ingredient in most cleaning wipes, which also usually include hydrogen peroxide as a secondary ingredient, is also used as the active ingredient in anti-bacterial creams, like this one:

https://novonordiskpharmatech.com/bkc-learning/applications-of-benzalkonium-chloride-0-13/

if i get an rx in the end, it could very well be for a skin cream version of a cleaning wipe, and it will be better for my skin in the long run if i do.

but in the short run, if i can just kill it with cleaning wipes, that's fine. it might burn and bleed a little. that just means it's working. it'll heal.

the ai systems people talk about are run by big capitalist institutions and are all closed source, which is a big issue. we don't know what they're doing.

i'd rather see a good round of nationalization, but the inmates are running the asylum in late capitalism. that's unlikely.

more likely is the market choosing an open source alternative so we can get rid of any malicious code by crowd sourcing.

i don't have any particular use for what's being called ai in my life and don't expect i'll pick it up or start using it. it's 2026, and i don't have a cell phone. i use a voip office phone because i prefer normal phones to cell phones. i had to buy an mp3 player with android to have access to some specific apps and hardware functions, like scanning, without exposing myself to the liability of a sim card.

i'm the weirdest person in the world - i have a computer science degree and no interest in technology. they told me to do it to get a job and i thought it would be a good idea to educate myself, even if i didn't follow that life path. but then when i didn't want the job, i didn't keep up with the technology. modern technology is mostly overpriced crap with little use value, and it decreases in quality as it increases in price with each successive generation. i have found myself using my education to try to repurpose inexpensive old technology that nobody wants rather than waste money adopting the newest trends.

i'll have to find a use for ai before i start using it and i doubt that will ever really happen.

but i'd encourage people to choose open source alternatives. 

the thing you should be afraid of is proprietary software programmed to hurt you, not your computer turning into an evil decepticon and coming to eat you. your biggest fear should be unregulated capitalism, not advances in algorithmic science.

there's no such thing as "ai scheming". that's complete science fiction. if an ai says something creepy to you, it doesn't understand what it said. strings are strings. all data is the same.

there is such thing as technology companies scheming, and they appear to be trying to trick you into believing the scifi fantasy that the ai is coming to life, rather than the reality that they programmed it to steal your data.

if people start reporting ai systems stealing money out of their bank accounts, there's going to be some people that are going to need to go to jail for fraud.

it's not the technology you should be afraid of, it's the humans behind it. the humans need to be regulated. the technology doesn't.

i can't find anything in here except ants and pill bugs. it looks more like i'm allergic to something. rodent allergies are not uncommon, apparently.

if something is biting me, i should be able to find it and kill it. if i'm allergic to something, it should go away when the allergen is removed. i'm more concerned about bacteria or mites, although i see no evidence of the latter.

i'm going to start wiping my body down with disinfectant wipes 2-3x a day and see what effect it has. i'd expect that ought to kill any bacteria or fungus and severely harm any mite or tick.

if it doesn't go away in a few more days, i'm going to have to get to a clinic to figure out what it is.

this is nonsense that is exploiting the general public's ignorance about ai.

i'm by no means an expert in ai, but i took graduate level courses on ai when i was in university and i know exactly how these systems work. they should not be called ai, but they have been for a long time. i took these ai courses in 2012/2013 and was taken aback by the term at the time.

what we call ai is advanced database search algorithms using complex and dynamic decision trees.

the study is written to scare people and the guardian is reacting as intended. they are imagining something like the stephen king short story trucks, or some movie i can't name drop - computers ignoring their inputs. that's nonsense. 

forget asimov's laws of robotics. that's not even relevant. you're just dealing with databases.

what you're seeing here are systems that are being programmed to behave maliciously, either by the companies that made them or by hackers getting in, but probably the former. the threat of malicious humans working at poorly regulated technology companies using technology that few people understand is infinitely greater than the threat of a search engine going haywire into god mode.

if the ai deleted your email, it's because it was programmed to, and because you're not really in control of the program, the company that made it is. that is a problem.

one good idea is to nationalize the ai firms so they are working for the people and not to profit off the people.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says

don't confuse donald trump with a neo-con or with a trostkyist. the neo-cons would have followed through.

trump is just a capitalist loser trying to sell a book.

signing a deal with iran doesn't accomplish anything. their words are worthless. their agreements have no value.

if they were rational, they'd sign the deal to end the bombing and break it five minutes later. they aren't. they won't even sign a deal they don't intend to adhere to because their delusions of faith make them too proud. they'd rather get bombed. their god will save them.

it's dumb v dumber.

but this process should have worked in dismantling the iranian state, which is a valuable outcome, and it would have if the americans had any intent to actually do it, and i still support using overwhelming force to remove the iranian regime and still expect it's inevitable that that will happen, once the americans elect somebody that isn't a retard and doesn't have a book to sell.

trump doesn't care about iran, and he has no interest in regime change, or in democracy, or anything. he just wanted to negotiate to get the glory of signing a deal. 

it follows that, if you let him, trump will just get up and walk away without accomplishing anything, if he's convinced he can't sign a deal. he doesn't want to follow through. he never did. he was bluffing.

he didn't even position troops in the region before he started bombing, and now he's trying to get out of using them before they get there.

if the americans let that happen, if they just get up and walk away because the iranians won't sign where they're supposed to, he's going to give these idiot conservatives ammunition for the next 20 years, and i don't want to deal with that.

finish what you fucking started. 

and take trump out if he won't do it himself.

the fake liberal press, which is in truth deeply conservative and wants iran to win because it is deeply conservative and actually wants to live in a society like iran rather than destroy it, has picked up the delusional narrative that the united states went to iran to fight and is going to lose because it is immoral. 

this is making me want to break things, including trump's face.

the americans went to iran to start a negotiation with an irrational party and found itself surprised, somehow, by iran's irrational response. and now they don't want to follow through.

they never intended to bomb iran and they never intended to invade iran. we are seeing a failure in trump's theory of negotiation. we are not seeing a failure in american military dominance.

i urge the american deep state to get trump out of the way, stop pretending they can negotiate with terrorists and aggressively take over to get rid of this fascist state in iran that is an extreme threat to human freedom, using any and all means available to it.

if canada wants a seat at the grown-up table, it should stop acting like a child, and this minister is one of the worst we've ever had in this respect.

the most recent example is that, instead of offering logistical support to fight hezbollah, they're threatening to boycott israel. then, they don't understand why nobody calls them.

what side is she on? does she think people can't figure that out? she should acknowledge that she has a conflict of interest and resign from cabinet, before she commits an act of treason and end up in jail.

this is another set of dumb statements and canada will be ignored once again. it's clear we need a change of government to restore our standing on the world stage.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/26/war-in-iran-at-the-g7-canada-and-its-partners-want-clarification-from-washington_6751848_4.html