The article is talking about American billionaires wanting to take Canada for its resources. If it were only Trump it wouldn’t be particularly worrying, but billionaires tend to get what they want.

As a general rule, when the leaders of a notoriously aggressive superpower next door spend years talking about annexing your country, it’s best to err on the side of caution and take it seriously.

When you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.

Adolf Hitler once said he wanted to ‘Make Germany Great Again’

Unfortunately they’ll repeat them on the rest of us.

The problem is, the overwhelming majority of Americans has far less power than the handful of rich Americans who want to own the world.

They’ll be aiming to crush Canada economically until Albertans are sure they want to go it alone. Then they can start physically dismantling the country, starting with Alberta, and intensifying the economic pressure on the rest until Canada submits to de facto US rule. They can formalize it later with humilitating treaties and guns.

Canada needs to work quickly on economic and military independence. Our whole international position needs to change before the USA really gets going with the program. And Canada needs to figure out how to make it very painful for the USA if it attempts anything. If ever the USA invades, we need to already be there inside their country, physically and virtually, making life hard for them in surprising ways. And we need to build up alliances until they’re so strong that it becomes uncomfortable for our allies to flake out and go along with the USA.

It’s the conservative mindset where there is normal (which means the ways they are and see things) opposed to political or ideological. They never consider that their own outlook on the world might be political or ideological. This lack of self-awareness and self-reflection is intrinsic to conservatism. It’s related to how, for them, every problem is someone else’s fault, even as they preach to everyone about personal responsibility. They assume they are personally doing the responsible and right thing all the time, so any difficulty that comes up must be due to someone else being less responsible and doing the wrong thing.

We need to worry about our own ever-growing base of morons. People are easily influenced, and many Canadians are being quietly but continually indoctrinated by Russian and American fascists online via a network of mercenary influencers. The way fascism works is it seems like a distant threat until suddenly it erupts everywhere at once. We’re seeing it in the USA, UK, Germany and various European countries, and Canada too is under threat.

This vapid phrase “gender ideology” has so much right-wing ignorance packed into it. Conservatives abuse language as casually as they abuse people.

Thanks. I did get it working on the 3090 alone with reduced context and KV cache quantized to 4 bits, but it was getting itself muddled up and going round in circles more. Once I got it up to the full 262K context and 8-bit KV cache, it seemed noticeably less confused and more useful, but it needed the extra 10GB for that.

It’s llama.cpp. If you know where I could find those recipes I’d appreciate a link.

I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but this is what llama-bench just gave me:

>llama-bench -m 'C:\...\models\unsloth\Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF\Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf' -p 2048 -n 128
ggml_cuda_init: found 2 CUDA devices (Total VRAM: 34815 MiB):
  Device 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, compute capability 8.6, VMM: yes, VRAM: 24575 MiB
  Device 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, compute capability 8.6, VMM: yes, VRAM: 10239 MiB
load_backend: loaded CUDA backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-cuda.dll
load_backend: loaded RPC backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-rpc.dll
load_backend: loaded CPU backend from F:\llama\llama-b10764-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64\ggml-cpu-haswell.dll
| model                          |       size |     params | backend    | ngl |            test |                  t/s |
| ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | --------------: | -------------------: |
| qwen35 27B Q4_K - Medium       |  16.34 GiB |    27.32 B | CUDA       |  -1 |          pp2048 |       1599.03 ± 3.30 |
| qwen35 27B Q4_K - Medium       |  16.34 GiB |    27.32 B | CUDA       |  -1 |           tg128 |         37.11 ± 0.76 |

build: 3d3d7c818 (10764)

The motherboard is pretty basic (Asus Prime X570-P) so the 3090 is connected to PCIe at 16x speed and the 3080 at 4x speed, which will slow things down a bit. The OS is Windows. I have Linux on the machine too but I haven’t tried it under Linux yet.

So I heard, but I couldn’t get it to fit. I’m really fumbling my way around this stuff so it’s possible I’m just not doing it right.

I hooked up a 3090 24GB and a 3080 10GB for a total of 34GB VRAM, and this setup will run the 4-bit quantization with 8-bit KV cache and the full 262K context at a satisfyingly good speed, and it’s smart enough to be useful.

Apostates are those who turned away from the faith. Mainstream Democrats never believed in left politics in the first place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260908133720/https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/

The other part is that DHH has a reputation as a fascist. The fact that he, of all people, is receiving a ton of money for his half-assed Linux distro makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

They have trouble understanding the difference between being censored and being made to face the fact that you’re an asshole.

The archive link I posted gets you past the paywall.