HellsBelle

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[–] HellsBelle 0 points 1 hour ago

Oh but they do ... in so far as LEOs help them protect their families and money.

The rest of us can just starve or burn to death.

[–] HellsBelle 0 points 1 hour ago

Yup. 10 years ago controlled burns would have helped.

Now it's too late.

[–] HellsBelle 2 points 3 hours ago

Election's Canada website doesn't give an exact date. It only has dates for when the Elections Expenses Act was updated, changed, or the courts struck down changes.

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=bkg&document=anni&lang=e

 

The fines were imposed in 2021 after an investigation by the commissioner's office into lawn signs erected by Rebel News during the 2019 federal election campaign, ostensibly to promote a new book by Rebel founder Ezra Levant.

The elections commissioner concluded the lawn signs constituted election advertising since they were clearly intended to oppose a registered party and its leader in the midst of the campaign.

Rebel was fined $1,500 for failing to register as a third party during the campaign and another $1,500 for failing to include a legally required tag line on the lawn signs to identify who was behind them.

[–] HellsBelle 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I hate that Canada now allows third-party donations (exactly like America's super pacs) and we only regulate "contributions provided for the purpose of regulated activities (ie: partisan activities, election surveys, partisan advertising and election advertising).

And there is no limit on how much people/corps can contribute to third parties.

[–] HellsBelle 5 points 6 hours ago

Gravy Analytics.

Nice. /s

[–] HellsBelle 51 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Juries also have acquitted some abused women who killed or attacked their husbands, such as Francine Hughes, leading to a wider recognition of what’s known as battered woman syndrome.

“Juries recognized that before the law did,” Conrad said. “The law is slow to change. Sometimes society changes much more quickly than the law, and that is when jury nullification should come in … We don’t need to have 18th-century law governing 21st-century behavior, and the jury can say so.”

New phrase added to the American lexicon in 2025 - battered patient syndrome.

[–] HellsBelle 6 points 7 hours ago

Bird dogs are small prop planes that monitor forest fires and help to liason between the tower and other fire fighting units (like helis and water bombers).

They're used a lot in remote regions where there are no control towers.

Each drop is carefully choreographed. A plane known as a bird dog arrives first to monitor the fire and draft a plan of attack.

Highly trained firefighters working as air attack officers sit beside the bird dog pilot and co-ordinate other aircraft on the mission, directing each drop to ensure the retardant hits the best spot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-airtanker-pilot-wildfire-season-1.7219664

[–] HellsBelle 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is a Note 8 and no one has figured out a way to open the Snapdragon bootloader.

Thing is I specifically chose Snapdragon for its performance. Silly me.

[–] HellsBelle 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It is up to the government whether or not they allow it to go through.

Ofc my preference is they don't.

[–] HellsBelle 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

For anyone interested, the plane is the CL-415 and the following video shows how it loads up with water.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cHuoXD_VmBs

Now imagine what could have happened if that fucking drone had hit the wing while the plane was 20 ft off the water.

I hope they catch that asshole and fine him big time.

[–] HellsBelle 4 points 8 hours ago

Yup. That's a H U G E hole in the leading edge of the wing.

I mean that's the kind of shit that brings planes down.

[–] HellsBelle 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That's what bird dogs are for (although I'm unsure if Cali is using them).

 

The death toll from wildfires in Los Angeles has risen to 10 from seven, Los Angeles County’s Medical Examiner said. All cases are currently pending identification and legal next of kin notification.

Of five wildfires currently burning in Los Angeles, officials say the Palisades Fire is among the least contained.

Officials say the fire is only 6% contained and is 19,978 acres.

 

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday struck down abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general.

The unanimous opinion reinforces the state’s position as having some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country. The ruling preserves access to abortion procedures across a state that has become a major destination for people from other states with bans.

Attorneys representing New Mexico’s Lea and Roosevelt counties and the cities of Hobbs and Clovis had argued in court that local abortion ordinances can’t be struck down under provisions within the “anti-vice” law known as the Comstock Act.

 

“President Trump is about to take over at one of the most dangerous times in American history,” he said. “We will be best at addressing those threats with allies. Allies are our superpower. And so I wish he would focus on the real threats and not invent threats.”

Trump’s trolling is not the negotiating ploy of “crazy genius,” McFaul said, and will have consequences.

“We’ve got serious enemies and adversaries in the world, and we’re better off with the Canadians and the Danes with us than pissed off with us,” he said.

Indeed, Canadian officials have responded with increasing anger.

 

A Saskatchewan hockey referee is gaining widespread attention after posting a video on social media telling coaches and parents to “do better.”

Dave Kadun recently took to Instagram, calling on the hockey community to think twice before yelling — or swearing — at a young official.

“Think about what you’re doing when you’re yelling at a 12 or 13-year-old kid,” Kadun said in his video, which has garnered 1.5 million views.

“You’re killing them inside.”

 

Five people were killed, more than 1,000 structures destroyed and more than 130,000 residents were under evacuation orders in California, as fast-moving wildfires burned around Los Angeles, encircling the city.

On Tuesday, hurricane-force winds blew embers through the air, igniting block after block, and destroying an area of land about 42 sq miles (108 sq km) in size. By Wednesday night, six fires were burning from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena, most of them uncontrolled.

Satellite images showed the scale of the destruction from the Pacific Palisades fire, which burned more than 15,000 acres and left the coastline along the famous Malibu neighbourhood scorched black and buildings along the water burned to the ground.

 

***(Live feed of Jimmy Carter's funeral)

Good morning. Thousands of mourners and living former US presidents will gather at Washington’s national cathedral today for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.

Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for his fellow Democrat, with Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump expected to join about 3,000 mourners at the service. Thursday has been designated a day of national mourning, with federal offices closed.

 

The Brussels prosecutor’s office revealed on Wednesday the nature of the substance that was sent last November to government buildings, including the office of De Croo.

Belgian media reported that an unnamed member of De Croo’s office had received hospital treatment after injuries to their hands after opening the letter.

It is reported to have been discovered on 22 November, two days after similar packages were found at the office of the interior minister, Annelies Verlinden, and the headquarters of the state security service. Another person was put into quarantine as a precaution, but not hurt, after these discoveries.

 

The Department of Justice on Tuesday sued six of the nation’s largest landlords, accusing them of using a pricing algorithm to improperly work together to raise rents across the country.

The lawsuit expands an antitrust complaint the department filed in August that accused property management software-maker RealPage of engaging in illegal price-fixing to reduce competition among landlords so prices — and profits — would soar. Officials conducted a two-year investigation into the scheme following a 2022 ProPublica story that showed how RealPage was helping landlords set rents across the country in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.

Together, the six landlords manage more than 1.3 million apartments in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Prosecutors have already negotiated a settlement with one of them.

 

In October, a new foreign policy think tank calling itself the Beltway Grid Policy Centre quietly entered D.C.'s diplomatic fray. While there was no launch party and is no K Street office we could find, the think tank nevertheless began producing its intellectual product at a startling pace, issuing reports, press releases, and pitching journalists on news coverage—much of it focused on South Asia, and, in particular, the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan.

Beltway Grid's lack of a physical footprint in Washington — or anywhere else on the earthly plane of existence — stems from more than just a generous work-from-home policy. The organization does not appear to require its employees to exist at all.

The unusual nature of Beltway Grid's staffing leaves open several possibilities. The organization may be so hard at work defending the policies of the Pakistan military and criticizing former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the team simply hasn't had time to lead previous lives or respond to requests for comment. They may be early alien settlers, dropped off by drones on the coast of New Jersey, who are fans of Jane Austen and have come to study "the modern dynamics of lobbying." Or, more likely, somebody with a small budget asked ChatGPT to set up a fake think tank. Using AI to make a think tank adds a deeper layer of irony, since AI proponents regularly admonish the public not to conflate the operations of an AI program with “thinking.”

 

“END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object.

The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime. It’s addictive and direct and Trumpy, apt to “win the vote” for them, and thus presenting, among other things, a direct existential threat to the CBC. It’s a threat that, starting this month, Catherine Tait, the outgoing president, CEO, and poster-person for bloated bureaucracy, gets to pass on to her successor, Marie-Philippe Bouchard, who hasn’t ticked off anyone significant—yet.

 

The founder of the website used by Dominique Pelicot to recruit strangers to rape his wife has been arrested in France.

Isaac Steidl, 44, is being interviewed by Paris detectives over the use of the website by criminals involved in more than 23,000 crimes including rape, murder and paedophilia.

France Info radio said Isaac Steidl reported to police on Tuesday morning after being summoned from his home outside the country and agreeing to fly back to Paris. He can be held for questioning for up to 96 hours.

The Coco website was shut down by the French authorities in June 2024 when an investigation was opened.

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