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A little distracted …

157 KB to 14 KB. Sweet.

It’s been a day.

Last night as you are aware we were unexpectedly taken off-line.

BCF’s most excellent blog host has plans to move us to a quicker, better server and in prep for that something went wrong.

That was fixed in due course. Of course.

Meanwhile I have been keeping watch on the image optimization program I purchased.

BCF has accumulated over 100,000 images in over 200,000 blog posts during our long and less than illustrious career.

That’s a lot of pics and now they take up so much space the blog has become like an overstuffed pinata as I never much cared to follow best practices for image size.

I have been running the image optimizer for the past 48 hours.

It works as advertised, and so far 15 GB of images have been reduced to 4 GB in size.

But that’s like 15% of the total so it’ll be awhile.

See the cat pic above – 157 KB to 14 KB. Sweet.

The good news is that once running it just hums in the background unattended.

Sorry for the day’s inconvenience and thank you all for your help and patience!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted intechnology

Continental Breakfast

Breakfast Patty Melt

Canada’s Public Schools Teaching Children To Oppose Freedom Of Speech

A Liberal government-approved education booklet, Confronting and Preventing Hate in Canadian Schools Toolkit, is part of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s latest anti-racism project.

One could conclude it is more of an anti-free speech project. The right to freedom of expression is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law by the United Nations. PM Justin Trudeau’s Liberals live and breathe by way of tenets espoused by the U.N.

Calgary Firefighters Launch $38 Million Lawsuit Against City And Fire Department Over Covid Jab Mandates

‘By forcing its loyal employees to take experimental injections as a requisite to employment, the City has breached its legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to its Employees.’

New Archeological Evidence Contradicts Unmarked Graves Narrative

Aerial photography and historical documents show that the site where the graves were alleged to have been discovered has been subject to decades of archeological digs and other excavation activity which did not turn up any human remains.

Thinking Through Possible Future Scenarios

Sage Hana has written an excellent analysis of possible scenarios as the battles between the Truth in Vaccine movement and the Totalitarian Globalist Cabal rage on.

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Shut Down All of the Country’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers

“In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) told NBC 10 Boston. “We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.”

Control the Metal, Control the World

Today, China controls between 70 to 90% of all rare earth metals on the planet, hinging the fate of our entire technological infrastructure on an increasingly-hostile foreign superpower that has already used its monopoly to punish its enemies. In small gestures, America and its allies have made efforts to re-secure resource independence, which the CCP attempts to thwart at every turn. The reason is obvious. In a technologically-advanced society, whoever controls the world’s supply of rare earth metals controls the world.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inContinental Breakfast, technology

If You Enjoyed The Rogers Outage, You’ll Love A Central Bank Digital Currency

The Rogers outage has revealed many things about Canada.

Our highly-centralized and anti-competitive business landscape has once again shown itself to be a huge risk to our country.

Some Canadians seem to view ruthless market competition as dangerous, when the real danger is the absence of such competition, because it incentivizes mediocrity and low performance.

A single-point-of-failure for a huge swath of our internet and phone services has unsurprisingly turned out to be a terrible idea.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Internet, technology

Israel Successfully Tests New Laser Missile Defense System

Israel’s new laser missile defense system has successfully intercepted mortars, rockets and anti-tank missiles in recent tests, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday.

The Israeli-made laser system, designed to complement a series of aerial defense systems such as the costly Iron Dome deployed by Israel, will be operational “as soon as possible,” Gantz said.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIsrael, military, technology

The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially.

And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale.

“The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", technology, Yikes!

Ukraine Changes the Face of War Forever

Every fried Russian tank and dead soldier drives home the point that superpowers can no longer dominate simply because they have more troops and weapons.

Shocking Lessons U.S. Military Leaders Learned by Watching Putin’s Invasion

“I believe that at the heart of Russian military thinking is how Marshall Zhukov marched across Eastern Europe to Berlin,” a former high-level CIA official told Newsweek in an interview. Zhukov’s orders were to “line up the artillery and … flatten everything ahead of you,” he says. “‘Then send in the peasant Army to kill or rape anyone left alive.’ Subtle the Russians are not.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inRussia, technology, Ukraine, War

Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Contains Backdoor ‘Kill Switch’ For Cars

Buried deep within the massive infrastructure legislation recently signed by President Joe Biden is a little-noticed “safety” measure that will take effect in five years. Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a “vehicle kill switch.”

You’re driving through a deserted area when a car pulls up behind you. Suddenly, your car cuts off and you pull to the side. The car behind you does the same. You’ve just been hacked and are about to become a victim. What comes next depends on how well armed you are.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", technology

Apple announces first states signed up to adopt driver’s licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet

Apple today announced that it is working with several states across the country, which will roll out the ability for their residents to seamlessly and securely add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch. Arizona and Georgia will be the first states to introduce this new innovation to their residents, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah to follow. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will enable select airport security checkpoints and lanes in participating airports as the first locations customers can use their driver’s license or state ID in Wallet. Built with privacy at the forefront, Wallet provides a more secure and convenient way for customers to present their driver’s licenses and state IDs on iPhone or Apple Watch.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inApple, Big Brother, Big Tech, technology, The Future