Politics

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Americans lost $16.6 billion dollars to scams last year. Up 33% over 2023, with seniors being the most vulnerable.
Investment and cryptocurrency are the most common scams.

Scams will be even worse as artificial intelligence technology advances.

With more banks allowing voice/speech identification for phone transactions and automated systems in banking it would seem all a scammer would need would potentially be a voice sample in the future.

 

[Altitude sickness]

These days your negligent if you don’t have 3 legged authentication on anything valuable

 

[Tanks]

Sounds like the administration that condemned Zelenskyy for not showing up in a suite couldn’t come up with one in black for the the pope’s funeral.

In all fairness if you look at the whole picture instead of one cropped around Trump you will see multiple non-black suits.

 

[Woodcarver]

these days your lucky if anyone wears any color suit to a funeral. Many wear jeans or sweat pants.

As I haven't owned a suit in over 40 years, it has not been possible for me to wear a suit to any funeral, or any other event where suits are common. I do tend to wear a dark shirt, and always a black hat, to such affairs; usually with a new pair of pressed Wranglers. So far, nobody had kicked me out.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Early polls are showing conservatives running neck and neck with the liberals, the east coast is traditionally a liberal strong hold so there could be some hope. Too early to tell anything for sure but hope.

 

[Tanks]

With more banks allowing voice/speech identification for phone transactions and automated systems in banking it would seem all a scammer would need would potentially be a voice sample in the future.

EU banks allow EFT transfers, investments etc. via their apps. However, unless the receiving account is known there is separate authorization step required. They are decades ahead in remote banking from US banks.

 

[mdwest]

Saying a few prayers for you guys Tubby… Canada needs a break from the Liberal party…

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Saying a few prayers for you guys Tubby… Canada needs a break from the Liberal party…

I’m holding out hope I’ve seen it when we were the only conservative hold outs in a red province so any gain is good.

They just announced my ride Chris D’entremont took his seat again by over a thousand votes.

 

[Scott CWO]

We should not blame our Russian friend. After all, many Russians die because for some reason they keep falling out of windows...

In all fairness, this is a public forum. If anyone in Russia posts anything against thier government, they too may fall out of a window. Unfortunately, this is not a joke...

Yes, of course but he is on here pushing Russian lies. He doesn’t have to do that either.

 

[Scott CWO]

If Russia doesn't care to retrieve fallen soldiers from the battleground, how do they give 909 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine? If Ukraine does care to retrieve soldies from the battleground, why do they only give Russia 43 and how is that Russia was able to pick up 909 bodies left by Ukrainians and Ukraine was only able to pick up 43 bodies left by Russians, especially if losses are ~5 to 1 in favor of Ukraine, as per the Green T-shift?

Perhaps the Russians saved up for a while or got caught up from previous exchanges. I didn’t realize you were there and know the timeframes?

 

[Scott CWO]

To add to this, I tend to subscribe to Zeihan's analysis of Russia. The West believes Russia is a long-term threat. I'm not certain that the West really is on Ukraine's side, they are on the side of diminishing the breeding generation of Russia tit-for-tat. The result of continued war is that Russia will be missing a generation of people which is going to punctuate the inverted population pyramid of Russia. This war will be Russia's last war because there will not be enough younger people to support an aging Russia in the absence of a generation of breeding-age men.

If Russia wants survival, it is in their absolute interest to sue for peace and align with the West. If they choose to continue, they will be a shell of their former self which will allow China to eventually seize control of Russia.

This isn't about right or wrong, it’s about the facts of populations. Russia will cause their extinction if they don't stop fighting this war. I'd rather have peace with Russia and eventually Western alignment than to see Russia's extinction by China in 30 years.

In my university days, I had a professor in 1986 ask me why I thought China could overtake the USSR. With a population of 1.1 billion versus 276 million, I said China could send 1 million people a month into the USSR and pretty soon, the USSR is a part of China. His response was, “Good point.”

 

[rookhawk]

@Scott CWO

See below. These are the publicly generated population figures from Russia's own government. If anything, they are inaccurate due to battlefield losses, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt and assume its absolutely correct.

At this point, its irrelevant how many battles Russia wins, they have truly lost the war. There's no point in fighting wars if you cannot occupy and utilize the territories you win. The 20-24 and 25-29 population bands are too small to come home from battle, breed rapidly, and create a young economy able to sustain the necessary government services of the older population bands.

This is what Peter Zeihan has been trying to explain for the past several years. Russia is in a "long goodbye" mode and China/Iran is knocking on their doors. Not good for Russia nor the West in the long term, but especially bad for Russia for the next 20 years. They cannot get their sons back from the dead and they needed them desperately to save their society from becoming an extinct bloodline.

 

[Scott CWO]

As I haven't owned a suit in over 40 years, it has not been possible for me to wear a suit to any funeral, or any other event where suits are common. I do tend to wear a dark shirt, and always a black hat, to such affairs; usually with a new pair of pressed Wranglers. So far, nobody had kicked me out.

You and me both, brother. I’ve got a black western sport coat but no suit. At my daughter’s formal wedding in July, she wants me to wear black Wranglers, white dress shirt, my sport coat and cowboy hat while the other men are in suits. She said that’s just who I am and that’s what she wants.

 

[Tbitty]

View attachment 681736Early polls are showing conservatives running neck and neck with the liberals, the east coast is traditionally a liberal strong hold so there could be some hope. Too early to tell anything for sure but hope.

Can we get a count on how many write-in votes are cast for Trump?!?

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Can we get a count on how many write-in votes are cast for Trump?!?

Jokes aside I’m not sure that is an option I’d have to look it up to be sure, how does that work in the u.s. is there a place for a write in or do you just right it anyway?

Edit: it would be considered a spoiled ballot if it was tried in Canada I looked it up.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

With the middle Canada polls starting to report in looks like conservatives are running about ten seats behind. Of corse most seats have only reported 2-3 polling stations so changes are possible.

 

[OxfordTheCat]

My prediction is LPC 187, CPC 125.

I think Blanchet bleeds a few seats from the Bloc with his comments last week.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

My prediction is LPC 187, CPC 125.

I think Blanchet bleeds a few seats from the Bloc with his comments last week.

However it goes I don’t see the ndp having official party status

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Sad day for Canada ctv just called the election for liberals

 

[cwpayton]

If Russia doesn't care to retrieve fallen soldiers from the battleground, how do they give 909 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine? If Ukraine does care to retrieve soldies from the battleground, why do they only give Russia 43 and how is that Russia was able to pick up 909 bodies left by Ukrainians and Ukraine was only able to pick up 43 bodies left by Russians, especially if losses are ~5 to 1 in favor of Ukraine, as per the Green T-shift?

me two, I said this early on ,after election . hope it will all come togather before wwIII
wups looks like i posted under the wrong header, i was referring to domestic and foreign policy . But you all are use to it by now,.