Policeshootout

u/Policeshootout@lemmy.ca
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I'm going to nitpick a bit but FDR was president and made the decision to go to war with Japan over pearl harbor. Truman made the final decision to drop the nuclear weapons on Japan.

Roosevelt had likely a plan since the Manhattan project was under his presidency but Truman inherited that.

I think it's mostly accepted that the USA did not nuke Japan specifically because of pearl harbor but more to force a rapid surrender. Japan was being extremely stubborn and the estimated loss of US forces was very high to continue the war.

I also think FDR and his admin were motivated to pursue the Manhattan project in the first place due to the intel that the Nazis were also researching nuclear weapons. Nothing to do with Japan.

Is your question rhetorical? I remember reading before that Facebook was creating shadow accounts for people that didn't have actual accounts. They would build a user based on everything they could track, even attaching presumed names.

While I agree it should be fixed. You could just pay the small bit of money for the ad free version and support the developers. I bought boost for Reddit and now Lemmy using Google survey money.

I'm not sure why you assume this but my wife and I both work in high school (grade 8 - 12) which is part of a small, fairly conservative community. Our administrative staff all the way up to superintendent are extremely supportive of these types of things. Inclusion and awareness is very important at our high school for everyone. We also have social media education introduced in multiple classes. About 3/4 of all staff are female and neither of us have witnessed this type of misogynistic behavior. Our struggle is racism, antisemitism and intolerance.

I'm not saying that misogyny isn't a problem, I experience it on instagram and YouTube all the time and the comment sections are insane. My point is that administration does care, we are encouraged to include this type of education in our curriculum and we talk about it during staff meetings.

I think you brought up valid points and people are kind of over reacting. I agree education is the problem but what you said also got me to see the "not vaccinating myself is causing harm to others" viewpoint. Some here are being rude instead of engaging in better conversation. Your comment got me to think and read others.

Nice write-up. I thought I had a large library (24TB) and my off site backup is starting to get full. I backup everything though but I have long debated on if there's a point of keeping movies and TV since they'll likely always be available. Anyway, I never thought of generating a list of files and eliminating the stuff that's not particularly important. Good idea.

The website this article uses (https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/) is extremely interesting and holds a lot of data.

Looking at Enbridge as an example it reports that a total of $86b was invested from banks between 2021 and 2024. The info that I cannot find is how much Enbridge invests into infrastructure like transmission lines or how much of that $86b went towards renewables. Enbridge has "commited" to Net-Zero by 2050.

I am 100% for transitioning to cleaner, renewable energy and getting Canada into energy independence. It's going to take time and money and professionals. Companies like Enbridge aren't going to stop producing carbon, but I think they are going to be the ones that make the biggest steps towards getting us there.

I can see your point about the housing crisis in a way. It restricts people's ability to have a place to live and, shelter. But does that really affect their freedom? Cost of living also is difficult but it's not really preventing you from being "free" in the sense of the word. Or is it? I may be missing the point.

I'm completely ignorant to policing issues, especially in Vancouver. I generally don't agree with law enforcement having too much control.

In my region of BC the reconciliation stuff has been very well received mostly. Indigenous people are a big part of the community and their culture has expanded into the school system, their businesses are successful. Housing projects for indigenous have also been going on constantly.

I don't know all the facts but maybe if more people.votrd in the first place Donald wouldn't have won? Maybe not.. But Americans should be pushing back and they haven't done anything yet but complain online. Pushing any single one of them to take action is better than only attempting to punish the ones who don't even care.