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Air to air combat is the easiest form of warfare to argue that both parties consent to. Dogfighting is basically kink and it should turn you on at least a little.

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"yeah this is a totally platonic rivalry" you are literally doing this

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This honestly does it all such little justice. You need to know your opponents airframe intimately- how it handles, turns, how much it weights and how it pulls against the air. How to dance with her body elegantly, and all for just a brief moment under the sights. The strain of your body as you pull the stick, the strain of the engines as they try to give all the force you need. All for a glimpse. The blood rushing from your head as you push forward, the fight for elevation, dominance, potential energy. Position is gained slowly and lost quickly. Eagerness can find you vulnerable, under the eye of your enemy. And all they need too, just a brief glimpse. Just one moment under her sights till you’re undone, penetrated, bleeding oil and smoke and shuddering.

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Aircraft Mechanic (angry): Hey! You're trying to fuck my wife!

canadianmoose2

As an AME (Aircaft Maintenance Engineer), I feel like you have to be a little into voyeurism. Also, if performing a power engine run doesn't excite you a little bit, what are you even doing in aviation? Dogfighting is sexy.

idkbutnothereanymore-deactivate

✨reblog if you're accepting anonymous asks about anything✨

#moose #not moose #not mine

allthecanadianpolitics

Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario, as it pivots away from EVs and toward hybr

Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario due to changing business conditions. The Japanese automaker said last May it was pausing development at the plant, with plans to review where the EV market was at in two years. The decision to more definitively suspend the plant was first reported last week by Japanese media, but at the time Honda did not confirm the news.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

allthecanadianpolitics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-referendum-website-complaint-immigration-9.7178022

An amendment to Alberta’s Election Act approved one year ago changed the rules to remove restrictions on government advertising for a standa

allthingswhumpyandangsty

so weird how social media platforms start to think they have the rights to know how old their users are. a person’s age is their personal information. you as a social media platform are not anybody’s parent. it’s not your job to control how people access the internet or what they can and can’t access.

when I was a minor, the whole “age verification” thing did not exist. I grew up fine. all of my friends who had unlimited access to the internet grew up fine. you cannot “protect children” by demanding people’s private, personal information and expect kids to be protected from bad people this way.

“inappropriate contents” don’t harm children. bad people do. and you can’t protect children from bad people by demanding everybody’s personal information and government id.

p.s. I get that it’s the laws that require this in most places and social media platforms, tumblr included, have to do what they’re legally required to do. but it’s still not the solution to the issue, and it sure as shit won’t help keep bad people away from minors.

#not moose #not mine

allthecanadianpolitics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-wealth-gap-grew-2025-9.7162167

Eat the rich

Statistics Canada says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent

#canada politics #politics #I fear we are becoming more American by the year #and I DESPAIR

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More people should be aware of how much money the American far right funnels into American propaganda in Canada

From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn

It's also important to know that most of the newspapers in Canada are owned by an American hedge fund with ties to the republican party

The US spends a loooooot of money to show propaganda to Canadians!

whosurisold

Canada should immediately move to remove all foreign ownership of all media in Canada

#not mine #canada #not moose #politics #now is good #domestic ownership of media now please

felixfeliccis

I will kill shapes.inc with my bare hands

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Insane ratio honestly but Im glad we all agree

#computer #ai #not moose #not mine

I love Canada, but never been there before, what state are you from?

Raised in British Columbia, but I've lived in almost half the provinces (and one American state). You should visit Canada sometime!

#4/10 provinces #almost half #Canada #ask #answer #and one of the territories

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If you want to stand up for transgender Canadians, then there's a petition to ask the federal government to repeal the acts signed into law that restrict transgender medical care for transgender youth:

You need only be a resident of Canada, not a citizen to sign. Please help us give transgender youth a fighting chance. Their medical care decisions should be between the handling physician and family only. This isn't a matter for politicians to decide.

#trans #transgender #not mine #not moose #canada politics #politics

allthecanadianpolitics

The B.C. government’s 2026 budget announced a series of tax increases, capital project delays, and a reduction of 15,000 public sector jobs

The B.C. government’s 2026 budget announced a series of tax increases, capital project delays, and a reduction of 15,000 public sector jobs over three years. Despite this, major deficits are still forecasted for the indefinite future. “This budget is different from our past budgets, because this moment is different,” said Finance Minister Brenda Bailey in her speech to the legislature on Tuesday. The speech blamed the province’s economic condition on challenges such as U.S. tariffs and a cooling housing market. “It’s time to take a pause on some of the things we want to do to focus on the things we need to do.”

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#canada #not moose #not mine

afloweroutofstone

Trump's warmongering is so aggressive that he has the pro-NATO Liberal government in Canada talking like they're about to join the Non-Aligned Movement

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, 20 January 2026:

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the "rules-based international order." We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

We knew the story of the "international rules-based order" was partially false— that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.

The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied – the WTO, the UN, the COP – the architecture, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy, in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.

And this impulse is understandable. A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself, has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.

But let's be clear eyed about where this leads.

A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable. And there is another truth. If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.

Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty...

Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortresses. Shared standards reduce fragmentations. Complementarities are positive sum. And the question for middle powers like Canada is not whether to adapt to the new reality – we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious.

#not mine #not moose

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I've recently learned that escaping enshitification is actually really easy. When I was younger I would use FOSS (free and open source software) because I usually couldn't afford anything else. Back then the paid options were usually significantly better than the unpaid options so when I finally got money I started using the paid stuff and completely forgot that Foss existed.

If you don't know why Foss is awesome its not just that its free. Open source software has a huge set of advantages. Most software is proprietary meaning that its code cannot be viewed by other people. Open source softwares code can be viewed by everyone and people can contribute their own code to make it better. Open source is often more secure than proprietary because more people have more eyes on it and more people have contributed to it's security. Its also easy to know how much privacy you have with every software because you can read the code. No more "trust me bro I'm not harvesting and selling your data" you know if they are collecting and selling because the code is publicly available.

In the last two months I have been switching almost completely to Foss. I was worried at first because when I stopped using Foss over 10 years ago the average Foss software was genuinely worse than the paid proprietary alternative. Thankfully things have really come full circle. 90℅ of the software I have tried in the last 2 months works better than the proprietary alternative and is 100℅ less obnoxious.

So here is a list of every Foss software I have tried and recommend. There is way more than this available. This list is just what I have used and like personally. Anyone can feel free to add and we can turn it into a master list. Please just take these as a place to start and do your own research to see if these softwares will work for your use case before you fully ditch your proprietary software.

Operating systems

Graphene os: android alt. Security and privacy focused. The most secure and private smartphone currently available.

Linux mint: easy to use linux, 100℅ better than windows.

Pop!: The Linux distro you should use if you have nividia hardware and want to play games using said hardware. Very intuitive and easy to use.

Kubuntu: Ubuntu Linux with KDE desktop. This is the linux distro one I am currently using and I don't have any plans to jump ship again. Better than windows and better than Mac. The companion app for your phone makes life soooo easy. Its pretty and easy to customize to a ridiculously granular level. No fucking notes.

Kindle jailbreak- ko reader: use jailbreak to free your kindle from the tyranny of the bezos. It will download ko reader which is a Foss OS that has every fucking feature you always wished kindle had and let's you read whatever the fuck you want, and have whatever the screensaver you want (no more ads!). Soooo fuck amazon and use this. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.

Linux FOSS: (some available on windows and android as well)

Calibre: Foss desktop eBook library. Packed with features. You will want to use this with koreader to make managing your kindle easy.

Manuscript: skrivner alt. Does absolutely everything I need.

Bitwarden: password manager (use a keepass fork if you want self hosted)

Next cloud: private google drive and cloud alternative that you can self host if you want but it's not required. App available

Proton VPN: to the best of my knowledge it is the only Foss no log VPN you can get. You can pay for higher speeds. App available

Quad9dns: free encrypted DNS provider. App available.

News software:

Use any Foss RSS reader and for the love of god stop getting news from social media. Take control of your feed!

Apps (I only know for android)

Fdroid: great app store to find Foss android apps and download them.

Antennapod: you can get all of your podcasts fetched to one feature rich app via RSS feed. No need to rely on spotify or music steaming services.

Openreads: it's good reads but private and 100℅ stored locally. No amazon, no social media aspect, it just tracks your reading, you can import your good reads but if you want to import from storygraph you have to make a good reads burner account, import to good reads, then import to openreads. The menus Navigation on this one is a bit cumbersome but honestly good reads app is worse.

Newpipe: YouTube frontend that let's you have YouTube subscriptions, watch YouTube in the background, and blocks all ads, without logging in to YouTube. You will want to use this one with a VPN set to Canada (or any other country) so YouTube doesn't keep blocking it in order to force you to sign in. But even with that extra step its worth it for the privacy and the lack of ads.

Proton mail: one of 2 more private gmail alts. But you should note that email cannot be 100℅ anonymous or private.

I think that's it. There are still a lot software varieties I am slowly finding.

#not moose #save for later

23racoonsinatrenchcoat

"Kyoshi would be a deer" "Kyoshi would be a fox"

Hear me out now: Moose

-big

-Lanky

-A little awkward looking

-strong

-Intimidating

-have I mentioned like REALLY BIG

Proof:

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READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM

get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.