Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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Perfect example of the causation fallacy.

If one were to look at that map out of context, once could say that if the temperature is too cold or too hot, murder rates increase.

We all know of course it's a map of economic disparity, and a whole host of other societal concerns contributing. But without the context of any of those things, we're liable to think that correlation equals causation.

It's an important lesson.

I feel like that's sarcasm? But yes, I legitimately feel that our system, where the only person who has any "theoretical" power to make unilateral decisions without parliament is some old guy who is content to just stay out of it, is better.

Imagine an America where they could tell Trump. "Okay, you're king. Here...we'll even put you on our money. Now go live overseas and fuck off"

Because, and not to sound flippant, that's just the easiest and most natural way to do it without a lot of extra paperwork.

See technically, a "president* is meant as a drop in replacement for a monarch. A republic doesn't get rid if its king, they just replace one who was born into it with one they chose and one they pretend to have a bit more control over.

Canada's equivalent to Trump isn't Carney, technically it's King Charles. And the U.S equivalent to Prime Minister would be who've leads the majority party in congress.

Could we go through the constitutional rigamarole to change that? Sure. But why bother when he's content to stay out of things.

Essentially, a parliamentary democracy means that our "Trump" is a deadbeat dad who lives in another country.

I'll happily keep that buffer in place versus whatever the fuck the U.S had gotten themselves into.

Republics give you Trump....

What I mean is this:

A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and is therefore the "face" of the government in many ways.

Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as "executive orders" because there is no "executive" branch, per se. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump is doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he's using executive orders to enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN'T been given to one person.

Oh believe me. I would be too. We'd buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I'm just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.

Based on the number of sightings on this map, I'm starting to think that maybe most people have just never seen a homeless person before....

Despite the replies, the real answer is that it's not as simple as "stopping drilling".

The fossil fuel industry isn't just oil and fuel...it's quite literally everything.

• The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle...yep...petroleum based.
• The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it...petroleum based.
• The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving....once again...petroleum based.
• Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc.... Yep...all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.
• The calking and rubber cement that keeps the tiles your walking on stuck to the floor...yep...you guessed it.

Are you starting to get it?

Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it's not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I'm typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

We have a long hard road before that's not the case anymore.

An abusive partner who enjoys gaslighting.

Shelter in place for a while until decomposition of their muscles makes them completely ineffectual and unable to actually move.

Shouldn't take long.

Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

Yep. And therein lies my frustration.

David Decoteau (or he'll sometimes use his alias "Richard Chasen") stole the perfect premise for what could have been a great shlocky low-to-mid-budget action movie. And no NO ONE can ever make it without being compared with....that....whatever it is....

I in no way call this "mediocre"; Its just a flat our terrible low budget bullshit film that the director made as an excuse to hang out with shirtless dudes.

But years ago the guys at Red Letter Media did a segment on "Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper", and that premise alone (what happened after D.B. Cooper landed) has lived in my brain ever since.

It legitimately angers me that such a great high concept idea was completely wasted on what basically amounts to gay porn.

It’s not designed to be an anonymous service, just a private one.

I think this needs to be said a lot more often and a lot louder. Anonymous and private are NOT necessarily the same thing, nor should the expectation be that they are. Both have a purpose.

I wonder that myself. I'm I'm disappointed in the answer so far because I suspect that people have been utterly programmed to follow irrelevant trifles over substance.

Billionaires always win until people realise it's time to stop being civilised and time for guillotines.

To be clear, there really is no such thing as a "Sovereign Citizen" except in their own brain.

They believe that there is some hidden loophole that only "smart" people understand that allows them to reap the benefits of being a part of a society without having to be subject to any of its rules; and that that cheat code is accessed via some combination of paperwork that the government keeps hidden from the public.

Essentially, to them, the social contract (ie. citizens voluntary give up certain rights like the right to speed through red lights, the right to murder, etc... and subject themselves to laws of the state in exchange for that state providing them with roads, infrastructure, stability, prosperity and the right certain inalienable freedoms) is just for suckers who don't know the correct forms to fill out.

It's absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the highest order.

Phil Hartman has honestly been gone for so long now I've forgotten him. But yeah, you are correct.

As for Bill Hader. He's the best of a bad bunch, and he's okay, but being one of the better SNL alums is a very very low bar to cross.

And I mean, yeah...I should definitely clarify that I'm not talking about classic SNL (Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, etc...) That generation made great films after their careers at SNL ended.

• Adam Sandler
• Jennifer Lopez
• "Insert ex-Saturday Night Live actor here"
• Leonardo DiCaprio (I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I've believed he was a shit actor forever and there's a reason it took him so long to get an oscar...and it wasn't because of "snubbing"...he was just routinely shit up until the Revenant.)
• John Travolta
• Jennifer Lawrence (Up until recently, she was literally the female DiCaprio. Everything I said about him applied to her. Unlike DiCaprio, she got far far better rather quickly and my issue with her nowadays is mostly her choice of movies just aren't my jam.)
• Tom Cruise

Automation controlled by AI

Elysium; the Matt Damon movie where the rich live on a space station and leave the rest of us to rot.

I'm not saying it's what's going on right this moment, but it's the end-goal of everything that Musk, Bezos, etc... are doing.