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C.

Google Maps is currently displaying at least some Canadian provincial park names, to some visitors, as "<X> State Park", which is pretty bloody offensive in the current climate.

It may be only displaying them if it thinks you're not in Canada (such as you're on a VPN) which would make this worse, because then it clearly wouldn't be just a mistake.

See here for the first report I saw:
mstdn.ca/@Jennifer_Miller/1140

Mastodon CanadaJennifer Miller (@Jennifer_Miller@mstdn.ca)#Canada #Cdnpoli #BC @Paulatics Someone just pointed this out to me... Google Maps is identifying Provincial parks in BC and Alberta as "state parks" in the subtext. As opposed to "National" or "City" parks. Is this new? I certainly have not noticed before and have looked at a few BC and Alberta provincial parks in the past.
#Canada#Google#offensive
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Graham Perrin

Discovered this evening: a FreeBSD committer badmouthing me in an early January response to a survey.

I wish I had known about that, before I quit FreeBSD Discord a few days later: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri

Rewind to November 2024: the same committer abused someone else. A few days later, his mentor wrote: "… Do not make me into a baby-sitter; I will not accept this role. …"; around an hour later, he apologised for use of a diminutive term.

Frankly:

― the offender does need a baby-sitter.

I have screenshots of the offender ranting in Discord, and so on. This is why I have largely withdrawn from contributing to the FreeBSD Project.

@emaste sorry, I'll not participate in tomorrow's meeting of the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup.

@FreeBSDFoundation FYI

BSD.cafe Mastodon PortalGraham Perrin (@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe)Spirits of cooperation: their lives, deaths, afterlives, and endings … I find it increasingly difficult to handle the emotional and other aftereffects of being targeted by irrational, ugly, ad homimem abuse, from a developer, in an online working group space between 05:30 and 06:06 a few days ago. Maybe more prolonged; I quit the server, without responding to the abuser, after waking to find a bad situation made worse by a so-called moderator. This is, perhaps, not the type of group work that inspires a person. It certainly does not foster a spirit of cooperation. Rewind: I lost sleep, much more than I ever admitted, in 2023. Fast-forward to 2025: I'm losing sleep, again. Despite my best efforts, the passing of time is not improving the situation, I need to do some thing quickly to halt the tide, the thing is this post. Part of this morning's sleeplessness was spent philosophically and positively, crafting various ways in which I might sugar-coat the situation. In my mind's eye this morning was a perfunctory, factual post that ended upbeat, by thanking (but not naming) a great peacemaker who reached out to me in 2023. Less philosophically: I'm tired, I'm disinclined to sugar-coat casually-dropped turds, and ― frankly ― the tiredness, past and present, is a direct consequence of unreasonable behaviour. I'm no angel, but hey, I have a breaking point, and if you wanna get your kicks and giggles through breaking people: I'll prefer alternative spaces, where the good in people can be brought out. This is not rocket science, you shit-heads, you utter shit-heads. To anyone who might respond here: please understand that I'll probably not continue the conversation. Further unravelling in private, or public, is not the way forward. Right now, I like the idea of a quiet end to this phase of my life. Around a decade might have been long enough. I want the decade ahead to please me, and I'm suitably calmed by the idea of silently abandoning everything from 2015 to date. I abandoned masses of stuff about which I was passionate in the past, never regretted moving on, if now is another ending I'll have no regrets. I'm calmed not only by the idea of abandonment, I was also calmed at the end of my working day by using two operating systems that worked perfectly. It's now 19:15, I'm done with writing about this. Cat time :-) To future peacemakers: thank you. To casual troublemakers: I have had more than enough of your turds. Don't make me share additional thoughts on the subject.
#FreeBSD#offensive#LDWG
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POUJOL-ROST Mathias ✅

#Action_Écologie, autopsie d’une #offensive anti-écolo issue de l’extrême droite | Mediapart

mediapart.fr/journal/ecologie/

> Derrière l’obscure association #Action #Écologie, qui a récemment organisé un colloque #climatosceptique à l’Institut de France, s’agite un écosystème qui regroupe des #libertariens formés aux États-Unis, des #néofascistes et l’hebdomadaire « #Le_Point » en complaisante chambre d’écho.

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Nonilex

#Wrong & #offensive on so many levels

#JDVance said he thinks the #DNC is being held in #Chicago so #Walz can say he visited a combat zone.

1. US Army non-commissioned officer command sergeant major #TimWalz served in the #military for 24 years. He was deployed to Italy during the #War in #Afghanistan / War on #Terrorism. All military #service members know they don’t have a choice as to where they are deployed.

1/

#FactCheck #VanceLies #Trumpaganda #gaslighting

#HarrisWalz2024
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Chuck Darwin

Surprise Ukraine offensive pokes Russia’s soft underbelly

Kyiv just made a move that military analysts, and Moscow, apparently, didn’t think was possible.


As the war in Ukraine settled into a stalemate, two assumptions became prevalent among analysts:

First, that it is nearly impossible to achieve any #surprise on a battlefield blanketed by drones.

Second, that it is nearly impossible to mount #fast-moving #offensive operations, given the extensive defenses erected by both sides.

🔥Ukraine has challenged both assumptions over the past few days with its surprise, lightning-fast thrust into Russia’s #Kursk region
— ♦️an area familiar to military historians as the site, during World War II, of the biggest tank battle in history.

The Ukrainian military shocked the entire world
— and the Russian defenders
— when it sent an armored column on Tuesday across the border from Ukraine’s Sumy region.

There had been cross-border raids by Ukraine before,
but those were much smaller operations conducted by Russian volunteers.

This was something much more ambitious:
a combined-arms offensive utilizing armored vehicles (some of them German- and U.S.-made),
infantry,
artillery
and electronic-warfare equipment.

Ukraine reportedly committed elements of four elite brigades to the operation.

This was, in fact, the kind of well-planned, well-executed assault that the Ukrainians had hoped to pull off last year, on a much grander scale,
when their objective was to slice through Russian lines in southern Ukraine and break the land bridge between Crimea and Russia.

That offensive failed against well-prepared Russian defenses full of mines and trenches, all covered by heavy artillery fire and large numbers of drones.

⭐️By contrast, the Ukrainians have practically waltzed into the Kursk region, because the Russians weren’t expecting an attack there.

This reinforces the lesson of the June 2023 rebellion by Wagner Group mercenaries,
who found a practically open road to Moscow before turning back at the last moment.

⚠️The interior of Russia is lightly defended, and the lumbering Russian military cannot react quickly to new threats.

It makes you wonder why the Ukrainians mounted a costly and futile frontal assault on Russian lines last summer
instead of staging a “left hook” through Russian territory to attack the Russian defenders from the rear
— similar to the maneuver that the United States employed against Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

The Washington Post · Surprise Ukraine offensive pokes Russia’s soft underbellyBy Max Boot
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Mark

Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near #border, Bloomberg reports

Valery #Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the #Russian #army, appears to have #ignored #intelligence warnings that Ukraine’s Armed Forces were gathering near the border of Kursk Oblast, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 8, citing a source close to the Kremlin.

#Ukrainian forces crossed border into #Kursk Oblast on Aug. 6

kyivindependent.com/gerasimov-

The Kyiv Independent · Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reportsGerasimov and top officials "seemingly dismissed intelligence warnings that Ukrainian soldiers were gathering near the border with Russia’s western Kursk region as much as two weeks before they began the assault," Bloomberg said.
#StopRussianAggression#offensive
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Ms. Que Banh

Illegal Alien - #Genesis

youtu.be/YZGz-v6Mqkk?si=dtN9pp

This was initially supposed to be some type of satire, but because #PhilCollins is a fucking #putz, it ends up being a remarkably #offensive #mockery of illegal #immigrants. There is a thin line between #mockery and #satire, a line that was apparently invisible to the folks in post-Peter Gabriel Genesis.

There's a reason I've supported Peter Gabriel over Phil Collins for over 3 decades. I can respect Collins' talent. I don't respect him as a person & think he's a racist POS.

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Pete Orrall (defunct account)

@flexghost $9K and no jail time is a slap on the wrist for him. Once again, this is just another confirmation to the #american people and the rest of the world that two very different #justice #systems exist. Quite frankly, it's a vulgar insult to the American people, particularly those who have been imprisoned for significantly less #offensive crimes. Anyone else in his position would have been jailed a long time ago for the same antics.

Such bullshit.

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Nonilex

The delivery last Fri of the assurance letter signed by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant comes as #Israel & the Biden admin are locked in a contentious debate over Israel’s plan for a major military offensive in the southern #Gaza city of #Rafah. Biden has warned that the operation risks a #humanitarian catastrophe & called it a “mistake,” acc/to #NationalSecurity adviser #JakeSullivan.

A team of snr Israeli ofcls is due in DC early next week, at Biden’s request, to discuss the ongoing #offensive.

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