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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
You mean, you were invited to TRU by the TRU Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which like other CSSA’s falls under the CCP United Front Work Dept and which held this flag raising in military type uniforms?
The same umbrella organization whose McMaster branch was expelled from the university for ratting out a Uygur to the Chinese consulate, right? cbc.ca/amp/1.5298882
So what you really meant to say is that you were invited to give a speech by a group under the Chinese government whose members elsewhere have acted as informants for the CCP on Canadian soil, right?
*makes room in diary to deal with pro-CCP Twitter bot army, about to be unleashed in 3, 2, 1...*

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21 Nov
So, the NYT’s story about AI-generated faces is getting a lot of attention. It’s a phenom I encountered when I was recently mobbed by pro-CCP folk on Twitter and some of them used AI-generated avatars, like this one: Image
Look pretty normal but there are a number of “tells”. Let’s look. Here’s one: a weird fleshy protuberance out of the side of her head that clearly isn’t an ear Image
Here’s another: a missing earring. AI faces often have missing or mismatched earrings Image
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It occurs to me that most people haven’t got any concept of how large a crowd of one million people actually is. They haven’t the faintest idea what it looks like
Here’s the crowd in Freedom Plaza. It’s about 1.6hectares, including the roads. This isn’t a super dense. You cld walk thru most parts. At one person per sq meter (tight enough to hit people all round if you spin with bent elbows), it’s abt 16,000 ppl
This is Queen at Knebworth, 1986. This is a big crowd. It’s 120,000 people
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13 Nov
Be brave. Mandate masks, BC
If the govt won’t do it, then private citizens, businesses and institutions should do it themselves. Require masks and politely refuse to engage with unmasked folk indoors
Some reading, from SFU sfu.ca/econ-research/…
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9 Nov
I have zero doubt that Richmond has mostly achieved this remarkable thing by ignoring everything that govt and health authorities say and recommend about Covid-19 Image
Richmondites went into self-imposed lockdown in late JANUARY. When they emerged they wore masks, to an overwhelming degree. Done and done
Self-regulation like this requires rock-solid belief and consensus about the severity of covid & how it is suppressed. In places where that community compact does not exist, clear rules are needed
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21 Oct
Westbank wants to boost density to approved plan, to make it "feasible in the light of current conditions such as ...a changing residential mkt". So, density deemed appropriate must change, because developer got the mkt wrong? Good to know, good to know vancouversun.com/news/developer…
Mortgage holders who face unexpected expenses or lose their jobs should try going to the bank to seek lower interest rates to make the relationship ""feasible in the light of current conditions"
Or maybe folk should go to City Hall and ask to stop paying property tax to make continued tenure in the city "feasible in the light of current conditions"
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Any one of the things in this thread about a single speech would be one of the weirdest things ever to occur during a US presidency, had they occurred during any other US presidency
"President Carter stunned onlookers today when he branded [insert network here] "dumb bastards" and suggested they were exaggerating the global pandemic in a conspiracy to subvert the upcoming presidential election."
"President Eisenhower yesterday mocked Democrat opponent Adlai Stevenson for following the advice of the nation's top health official, prompting his supporters to demand that the men be imprisoned."
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