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  • Daryl@lemmy.caOPtoCanada@lemmy.caThe Canadian Identity
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    Something the Americans do not want the world, and especially other Americans, to know about Canada. Canada is at the forefront of developing the next stage of clean, harmless, safe nuclear power that actually uses existing nuclear waste as the fuel.

    https://smractionplan.ca/content/moltex-energy-canada

    The irony is that Canadian physicists were instrumental in developing the technology 50 years ago. It is the same technology that the Americans used in their nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. But because of ‘security concerns’, the Americans prevented the Canadians from even mentioning the technology, under fear of lifetime incarceration. It was ‘Avro Arrow’ silencing on steroids. However, these reactors were so small, that development on them could be confined to the basement of a University physics building, or even under a greenhouse. Yet not only did Canadian universities, engineers, and scientists have to deny they existed, they could not even say they do not exist, because that would acknowledge they even recognized the possibility of the technology. Yet there they were, in American submarines, clear as day evidence that they existed.



  • Daryl@lemmy.caOPtoCanada@lemmy.caThe Canadian Identity
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    It is credible to say that the Opioid crisis was actually a .made-in-Vietnam’ crisis, in the sense that it gained a lot of traction from the returning American Vets from Vietnam, who were horribly injured (both mentally and physically) but ignored by the American system. They had no alternative but to seek solace from their emotional as well as physical pain in opioids.

    Vietnam was the worst defeat of America in their entre history, It completely destroyed America. and for absolutely no good reason. Under the same system that America tried to quash, Vietnam is now an economic and industrial powerhouse, a major exporter to America… A complete and senseless waste of American lives and resources. Moreso in that the bottomless pit for money became so all-encompassing to the American economy that funding for the entire space endeavor completely dried up, along with funding for physics research. America hasn’t won a serious Nobel prize in Physics in decades.



  • Daryl@lemmy.catoLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.caWelcome New Users!
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    So, it sounds (actually, ‘reads)’ like a treatise written by someone indoctrinated into the ‘Linux - C++’ ideology (theocracy? The Religion of IT? Way back in the ‘olden days’, we referred to ‘getting a job at IBM’ as ‘entering the Priesthood’ ). The term ‘instance’ comes directly out of the obscure-to-the-masses lexicon of C++, Please, translate your indoctrinated terminology into something more identifiable and familiar to the masses in order for us plebians to follow it.

    Or at least provide a ‘definition of terms’ translation service, written without any reference to exclusively in-house terminology in the description.

    Also, it would be really, really useful to modify the ‘messages’ coding such that, when clicking to link to the post in ‘messages’ to see the original post, the reader went directly to their post in the thread, instead of starting at the top and having to scroll through page after page of other irrelevant posts in order to see just the activity on their original post.


  • On the contrary, it just perpetuates the problem. It does not stop the insidious creep, it just pretends it is not there. Like burying one’s head in the sand. The trick is to stop it from happening in the first place. Americans are quite adept at doing it in their own country (blocking out and filtering the influences of the rest of the world on their culture) so why can Canadians not do the same thing?





  • That s the problem. I was desperately hopping that this web site (insrtance?) would be a solution, but t seems that the Americans are so insidious, they will infiltrate ANY website. The solution s not to start a new instance the solution is to police the existing instances to keep the Americans out. As long as the Americans have access, they will dominate, period.


  • As a Canadian, I am completely resentful that an American would try to tell me what I want my Canadian culture to be. If we want to re-appropriate the term ‘woke’ and give it whatever meaning and inuendo we as Canadians want, that is fine with me. But to have an AMERICN define the term for us? Not so much. There is nothing wrong with the term ‘woke’ that getting rid of white supremacy will not solve. The irony of this s that the rest of the world has to be woken up to this realty before this will happen.


  • An interesting tidbit to highlight my point. The first incandescent light bulb was patented in Canada, and Edison bought the patent. Still, as Canadians, we recite the US propaganda that Edison invented it. We know more about America than we do about ourselves, (and most of what we know about America is false) because we keep highlighting the US instead of highlighting Canadian achievements, even in a community that is labelled ‘Canada’. This would never happen to any site in the US. We need to start promoting CANADA on a site labeled ‘Canada’.


  • For example, the largest IBM manufacturing assembly plant in the WORLD for their semiconductors is in Quebec. How many Canadians know that? Part of the insidiousness, Canadians know more about America than we do about ourselves, and this CANADIAN site doesn’t do very much to change that. Most posts on Canadian sites still carry the undertone of American dominance in Canadian affairs and economy.