ParlayVous

Purveyor of Solstices in the Northern wilderness of T.O. Hope is the ember of love.

[Taste of Cinema @davidcinema]

The 1970s is widely accepted as a peak decade for cinema. We present you 10 Great 1970s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven't Seen: https://t.co/2t8pwBurT7

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

1 in 9 Canadians lives abroad.

4 million people. For comparison, Americans leave at 1.7%, and yet every "move abroad" guide out there is written for them. You leave at five times their rate and get nothing.

I have three Canadian friends in Lisbon. None of them left for the weather, I'd say. They simply stopped agreeing with where the country is going, politically and economically, and houses cost 10 times a salary now. At a certain point, they did the math.

Most Canadians who leave go to the US, or Hong Kong, or the UK. Europe barely registers. I think that's changing. I keep getting asked for a Canadian version of my Europe guides, so here it is.

One warning before we start: the places where Canadians actually do well here are not the ones you'd guess. One of them taxes your stock gains at zero. And some of you already hold an EU passport without knowing it.

Where Canadians thrive in Europe (and where they don't): 8 places, each tagged with who it's for.

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[Josh Pigford @Shpigford]

Knockoff is now live!

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https://t.co/9mLk0EAsfG

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dutch men are the tallest people on earth, and the moment you say so, someone tells you it is genetics. Tall Dutch parents, tall Dutch children, a gene pool selected for height. Case closed.

It is a fair objection. It also happens to be measurable, and somebody measured it.

Researchers ran the numbers on whether natural selection could account for the Dutch becoming giants. Taller Dutch men do have slightly more children, so there is a real evolutionary nudge in play. They modelled it out across six generations and found the effect added up to roughly three millimetres. Three.

Over that same century and a half, the Dutch gained around twenty centimetres. Two hundred millimetres of height, of which selection can claim about three.

The other 197 came from somewhere else, and it is no mystery. In the 1860s the Dutch were among the shortest people in Europe, well below average, shorter than the Americans who then towered over them. Then they built the most dairy-soaked food culture on the continent. Cheese at breakfast. Milk at every meal. Butter on everything. Close to a kilogram of dairy per person per day, held there for generations.

Same genes at the start. The selection did almost nothing on the timescale that mattered. What changed is that an entire nation started drinking the exact liquid a calf uses to double its size, drinking it by the bucket, and never stopping.

Genetics loads the gun. It is milk that pulls the trigger, and the Dutch pulled it harder than anyone alive.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Just how much trouble is Canada's economy in? https://t.co/aMmKDJWByJ

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I’m only calling attention to this so that people can be more aware. This is completely fake and AI generated. There’s a reason Caitlin Clark and these WNBA narratives are driving rage and engagement. These owners of these social media sites are being criminally negligent by allowing things like this to go on unchecked.

The damage this content does is real.

[Stephen J. Nesbitt @stephenjnesbitt]

David Samson's daughter died this week, at 28, nine months after she was diagnosed with brain cancer. This afternoon, I asked David to tell me about Kyra. It was as heartwarming as it was heavy: "The magic of Kyra."

Here's a link to read for free:
https://t.co/dQwAn59mfw

[Stephen Curran @specurran]

North Vancouver–Capilano is my home.

I built a career here. I chose to raise my family here. And I'm running because I want to send the Liberals a message that they must do better for this community on the issues that affect us every day.

This is my why. 👇

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

The Justice Centre announces the launch of a national campaign urging Canadians to contact their Members of Parliament in opposition to Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act.

Bill C-34 goes far beyond protecting children from harmful online content and prohibiting AI companies from encouraging users to commit crimes. It implements a social media ban for minors, effectively regulates AI chatbot inputs and outputs, and grants the federal Cabinet broad powers to regulate the internet in the future.

The Justice Centre invites concerned Canadians to participate in this national campaign by using the Justice Centre’s online letter-writing software to send a pre-written letter to their Members of Parliament and to Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Read the full story and send a letter to your Member of Parliament opposing Bill C-34 today:
https://t.co/7cch2ki9wI

Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller during a June 10 press conference on Bill C-34 (Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Commercial VPNs route your traffic through shared IP addresses. thousands of users on the same IP. those IPs are public, known, and listed. The government can block them the same way Netflix blocks them, one IP list. done.

A self-hosted VPN is different.

Your server. your IP. nobody else's traffic on it. there is no list to add it to. the government would have to identify and block your specific home address or VPS individually. that is not scalable. that is not what mass VPN bans do.

here's how to build one in under 10 minutes.

you need:
— a $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr — any will work)
— Docker installed
— 10 minutes

step 1: get a VPS. pick any provider. Ubuntu 22.04. the cheapest plan works.

step 2: install Docker on it.
curl -fsSL https://get[.]docker[.]com | sh

step 3: run WG-Easy. one command:
docker run -d \
--name wg-easy \
-e WG_HOST=YOUR_SERVER_IP \
-e PASSWORD=your_password \
-p 51820:51820/udp \
-p 51821:51821/tcp \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
--cap-add=SYS_MODULE \
--sysctl="net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" \
--restart unless-stopped \
ghcr[.]io/wg-easy/wg-easy

step 4: open your browser. go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:51821. log in. click "new client." download the config. import it into the WireGuard app on your phone or laptop.

that's it. you now have a private VPN that:
— nobody else uses
— isn't on any blocklist
— costs $5 a month
— logs nothing unless you tell it to
— uses modern cryptography the NSA currently cannot break

WireGuard is built into the Linux kernel. 4,000 lines of code. fully audited. faster than OpenVPN. no configuration mistakes that accidentally weaken your encryption.

They cannot ban your server.

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

‘Potential security vulnerability’ shuts down ethics commissioner website, registry https://t.co/aVx0TOWFyy

[Jalen Brunson @jalenbrunson1]

I just want to be successful thats all..

[Tyler Johnson @TylerEJohnson13]

I met with Eric yesterday over zoom.

I went to his website, clicked a button that said "Meet Eric". The zoom started and he talked to me for 30 mins.

This is they type of intellectual we need to change our trajectory. He has vision, sense and credibility that politics has been lacking.

Let's give Doug Ford something to worry about.

[Cybernews @Cybernews]

Privacy-focused companies threaten to exit Canada. Read more about Canada's “surveillance” bill: https://t.co/yswxqherEm

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Do you have questions on the kids' social media ban? I've got answers: Why is it bad policy? Does the ban actually work? Doesn’t polling show public support for a ban? Why is mandated age verification a privacy risk? Is the ban really “temporary"?
https://t.co/NsQuubFqyI

[ParlayVous @torontobruv]

@benrayfield @RealNicoLagan Care to share a how to?

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

As I said before, the moment this bill is introduced to the House of Commons, I'm releasing a column teaching teenagers how to host their own VPN offshore on a virtual private server paid for with cryptocurrency. It's already ready to publish, I'm just waiting for the right drop.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

The federal government is expected to introduce legislation banning social media for Canadians under the age of 16, with exemptions for platforms that meet certain government safety requirements, although those details are not yet known.

To be sure, many Canadians are concerned about the impact of social media on young people. However, a blanket social media ban implemented by the government is not the solution. Social media access for youth should remain the domain of parents, not government. Parents are best equipped to determine how their children use social media in alignment with their values and risk tolerance.

Social media restrictions require age verification. This means that all Canadians, not just youths under 16, will have to verify their identities in order to access the affected platforms. This in turn will mean that all Canadians will be forced to surrender their private information to governments and technology companies - often in foreign jurisdictions - in order to use the platforms they use every day for business, leisure, and connection. Once again, Canadians face the problem of privacy-violating digital identity technologies in the name of public safety.

The Justice Centre opposes government internet surveillance and the displacement of parents as the primary decision-makers responsible for protecting young people from online harms.
https://t.co/cnxEaKwPQ6

[ParlayVous @torontobruv]

@kennethdavid @RobynUrback Who is the liver specialist?

[Cris ✨ @lionesspike]

the way this show finds comedy in the things we're always screaming at characters to do in horror films is soooo genius #widowsbay