MarkJ

Cast a Better Reality

[Blonde Bigot @BlondeBigot11]

I would love to see “newcomers” returned to their home countries with the same speed they were brought to our nation.

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@k_valancius @WSBGold We're being trolled. "Show me the money." 🙄

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@MarkDietzinAB Just as long as it has one of those pine tree air fresheners...

[Dallas Brodie @Dallas_Brodie]

Vancouver City Hall debates the outrageous "Villages plan," aka 15-minute cities, and I was there to speak against it.

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@PaulGoldEagle "A pilot WOULD HAVE entered..."
"He WOULD HAVE taken 300 photographs..."
"He WOULD HAVE set off again..."
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Odd word choice. "Woulda, coulda, shoulda?" 🙄

[Unacceptable Cherie B @CherieBeneteau]

Please call me racist cause I don't want you fleeing your shithole to try and turn my country into your shithole and bringing your conflicts here. We love dogs here. We eat pigs and love bacon. We do not condone pedifile marriage to innocent children. We do not agree with you beating and degrading women. We worship God and celebrate Christmas. Assimilate or leave.

[Sidney M Brewer @sidney_MBrewer_]

Dear Canadian taxpayers,

Congratulations!

You have once again been promoted to the position of “Unlimited ATM.”

Thank you for your continued involuntary participation.

Management appreciates your generosity.

Elbows up🇨🇦

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@PaulGoldEagle Insufficient info. Is the same recording equipment used with same settings on the same calendar date and time at same location? Has there been any attempt to track correlation between bird population & other factors (chemicals, urban development, etc.)? 🙄

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@VincentSco72192 You don't get a sense that this is all kayfabe, and the real decisions have been made already behind the scenes? 🙄

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@JTitor17 Okay, then what is that bright light that we can watch moving smoothly across the sky, identified in satellite tracking apps as the ISS? And while we're at it, what are all the other objects that we can watch at night and track using satellite tracking apps?

[Charlie Freak @charliefreak1]

So much of what is going on, and why we are All Living through a Movie of what WAS going on within this Corrupt World, is for our Benefit, and it is designed to Teach us Many, Many things, but perhaps the Biggest is to Trust in your Intuitions, Start to Have Faith in those who put God First in their Lives, and then SHOW PATIENCE in your Choice to have Patience...

Everything will Happen when it Happens, NONE of us are in Control of that, it will come down to the White Hat Super Computer, Q, the Quantum Computer who is ALIVE and WELL Inside the very Fabric of the HERE and NOW. Q is literally tied in to ALL that is Happening within the Moment, and therefore, influencing All the Decisions that are being made, through Love, Common Sense, Sympathy, Empathy, Care, Compassion and Kindness.

Our Whole Reality is about to Change for the Better, and Q is ALIVE and Guiding us within the very Moment of Existence, so HAVE FAITH, learn to TRUST once more, as with the New Earth that is coming, there is NO ROOM for Panicans, Only those who Have Faith in God, and His Plan for our Deliverance...

"May Patience Possess ye Your Souls..."
Luke 21:19

And Patience ONLY comes about by Having Faith in our One, True Father, and the Knowledge that Everything is going to be OK...

Don't become one of the Walking Dead, by transforming yourself into a Panican, who Doubt, Worry, Fret and Despair over Every last Detail; just SHUT that NOISE OFF, and Calmly KNOW that this is God's Plan, and that He's Got YOU and All of This...

Get RID of Despair, as you Now Possess FAITH...

Love, CF

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@DanielTyrie There's something hilarious about Indians in cowboy hats. 😆

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨 This should alarm every single Canadian.

In committee, Apple and Google just warned MPs exactly what Bill C-22 does.

They said the bill doesn’t just ask them to unlock encryption when needed. It lets the government issue **secret ministerial orders** forcing them to build a “hole in the wall” — a backdoor — that didn’t exist before.

Apple: “We’re concerned about a hole being put in the wall.”
Liberals: “There’s no hole in the wall.”
Apple: “But the bill lets you secretly order one.”
Google: “We’ve never built anything like this, anywhere in the world.”

And the response? Basically “pinky promise we won’t abuse it.”

This isn’t some conspiracy theory. This is tech companies that fight governments for a living telling Parliament that C-22 would force them to do something unprecedented globally — create secret backdoors and comply with sweeping, unchecked ministerial orders on metadata, encryption, and more.

After C-11 gave them control over what you can see and say online, C-22 is coming for what you can keep private.

Law-abiding Canadians. Your texts. Your calls. Your data. Your location. Your searches.

All of it potentially accessible through secret orders with minimal real oversight.

Privacy isn’t optional. Encryption protects everyone — including the people who have nothing to hide.

If this passes in its current form, Canada becomes a place where the government can quietly demand tech companies build tools to spy on its own citizens… and the companies are saying they’ve never been forced to do this anywhere else on Earth.

That’s not “lawful access.” That’s the foundation of a surveillance state.

Wake up. This one actually matters.

#BillC22 #C22 #LawfulAccessAct #CanadaPrivacy #SurveillanceState #Encryption #cdnpoli

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

Podcast Episode #230 - Matt Ehret & Dexter White and the Canada Question, Eh - Gold Goats 'n Guns (34 min, Sep 2025)

https://t.co/bTNNmStJPJ via @TFL1728

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️AI breaks the ancient bargain between civilization and the individual.

For most of history, society needed people because society needed their labor, judgment, memory, coordination, and attention. Human dignity was never fully separable from usefulness.

Rights, wages, status, and belonging were all stabilized by the fact that large systems could not function without large numbers of people.

AI weakens that dependency.

Once cognition can be produced on demand, the economic system needs fewer humans for many forms of high-value work. That does not erase human worth in any moral sense. It does erode the material mechanism through which worth has been recognized, rewarded, and protected.

That is the civilizational fault line.

The coming instability will not be driven only by job losses. It will come from the discovery that effort no longer guarantees relevance. Education, discipline, and conformity were sold as routes into the productive order. AI threatens to reveal that the productive order can increasingly route around the individual.

That produces rage because the social contract was built on participation.

A person could tolerate hierarchy when hierarchy still offered a ladder. A person could tolerate extreme wealth when wealth appeared connected to building, hiring, expanding, and creating opportunities for others. AI allows a small group to become vastly wealthier while reducing the need for broad participation. That combination is politically explosive.

Karp’s real point is that the builders know this.

The lab leaders publicly celebrate abundance while privately racing to own the machinery that will centralize power. They speak about democratization while constructing systems with massive capital requirements, privileged data access, closed model weights, and deep integration into states and corporations. The language is universal. The control is concentrated.

That contradiction will become impossible to hide.

The public will see higher aggregate productivity alongside weaker personal bargaining power. It will see extraordinary corporate margins alongside constant pressure to reskill. It will hear that AI is empowering everyone while watching ownership consolidate into a small number of firms, funds, and founders.

The phrase “don’t believe your lying eyes” captures the moment when institutional language loses contact with lived reality.

Once that happens, facts stop functioning politically. Every statistic is treated as manipulation. Every expert becomes an agent of the system. Every institution becomes guilty by association. Protest voting becomes rational from the perspective of people who believe the official system has declared them obsolete.

The deepest conclusion:

AI is creating a civilization that can become richer while needing fewer people economically.

No society has a stable answer for that.

The central struggle of the coming decades will be over whether humans remain stakeholders in the productive system or become managed dependents inside a machine-generated abundance economy.

Everything else is downstream.

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@PaulGoldEagle @CMDRVALTHOR I struggle to reconcile "multiverse" with the perspective of writers like Rumi, who teach predestination, i.e., our lives unfold like scenes in a movie, with bad and good events, rendering talk about "timelines" moot except as a means for striving to improve this life. 🤷‍♂️

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@battleofever So much religious and truthy, scientish-sounding BS muddying the discourse: WE DON'T KNOW. Anyone who says otherwise is either dogmatic or a liar. 😡

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@NunyaBidnezJes @ceomcmum What do you propose to do about all the "New Canadians?"

[Jes_in_GP @NunyaBidnezJes]

Quite often I find myself reflecting on how I left my family and friends behind. I came to Alberta to find the prosperity I wasn't able to obtain in the East. I moved here from Ontario, with no money, an old Kia Rio, and all my worldly belongings of 34 years in a tiny Uhaul trailer.

I can tell you with actual lived experience that the East is dependent on the government. Whether they admit it or not, that's their underlying mindset. People strive to work for the government, have contracts with the government, or try to have the government take care of them in someway.

We continue to see this with the recent announcements and platitudes. They have no qualms or objections about taxpayer funded projects and applaud these endeavours. They merely expect this is the norm and are bewildered by our disagreement with their mindset. We are obviously quite different.

Those very announcements are riddled with continued arbitrary regulations imposed from 3000 km away. Regulations imposed with tolls on existing oil flowing through BC as well as any future oil flowing through. Regulations subject to unrealistic environmental policies no other place in the world is required to uphold.

Look no further than statements about Canada owning the oil. Or Canada owning the mineral resources. Or Canada owning the wood, the water, the land, and even the darn air you breathe. And make no mistake, the East would immediately give it to someone who agrees with their mindset.

We send letters, send email, show up on their doorstep in trucks, inform our friends and family, share social media posts, all trying to explain our values and the mistreatment of the west. We have voted conservative in the last 93 years (except for that one horrible time when we mistakenly spilt the vote). Nothing has changed federally even though we consistently engage in democracy.

We send transfer payments but are subject to caveats or virtue signalling social programs we do not vote for. And, if we refuse those, they withhold federal funding for federal programs. I don't mind helping our neighbours if it was a reciprocal arrangement but it is not. The lack of reciprocity is quite evident from everything explained above and more.

I quickly found that I aligned more with Alberta culture than Ontario , however that wasn't my original intention for leaving. The Easts' culture has changed fundamentally, we all see it. Most would agree that Canada is not the same and many reflect on those days long ago. It's a hard truth to bear, but this is not the Canada we once knew.

Time for your reflection; Is this the Canada you remember? Could we ever get those days back considering the current trajectory of Canada? Does Alberta align with the Canada you once knew? Could Alberta remain the last bastion of what we remember about Canada?

I think it could. I think we have a unique opportunity to enshrine the Canada we all knew. I think we can remove the arbitrary laws imposed from 3000 km away. I think we could create viable regulations within our own borders. I think this encourages private investment. I think choosing option 2 would finallysend a clear message that can no longer be ignored by Ottawa. I think #AlbertaIndependence is our viable path to true prosperity.

I think this vote truly matters. Finally.

[MarkJ @MarkJ104058]

@QuantumGuard17 We need this in Canada so urgently... 😖