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Fair enough. If your family are all tech savvy enough that that's a good solution for them, then congratulations, and I'm jealous.

I like the idea of decoupling from the US. I'm concerned by the idea of putting "economic growth" (which usually means growing the wealth of the wealthy) above everything else.

What we need is to grow our economy from the bottom up, but doing that involves making moves that work against the interests of the wealthy.

This theory that it's all Putin's master plan is giving Trump too much credit.

There's no conspiracy here. He really is that much of an idiot all on his own. He's been going on about trade imbalances and the need for massive tariffs hits entire adult life. It's a personal obsession for him. It didn't just come out of nowhere.

The reason it seems incredibly stupid and self defeating is because it's incredibly stupid and self defeating. People who are born rich never have to learn how much of an idiot they are, so Trump genuinely believes this is a good idea.

Three actually. The admin has also consistently claimed that they're a new source of revenue that will offset tax cuts (in some versions this removes income taxes entirely).

And yes, as you said (and I've made this point more than a few times on here myself), each version of what the tariffs do is mutually exclusive with the others. If they're a bargaining tactic, they cannot be a source of revenue or a permanent change to manufacturing, because a bargaining tactic requires the offer of the tariffs being removed. Even if they're not actually a bargaining tactic and are in fact intended to be permanent, they can't be both a source of revenue and a way to rebuild American manufacturing. For the tariffs to be a source of revenue, imports have to continue at their existing levels. If manufacturing repatriates, the revenue disappears.

Amazing how quickly they pivoted from "Trump will bring down the price of groceries" to "It's better if things get more expensive," and his cultists just ate it up.

Counterpoint: I can access my friend's Jellyfin servers, and they can access mine, without anyone else in the world knowing what the fuck we're doing. Saying "It's necessary" always begs the question "Why did you make it necessary?"

No need to abandon all the user-friendly aspects of a self-hosted streaming platform. Just use Jellyfin. I switched to it from Plex years ago and have never looked back.

Current polling still shows that only 25% of Albertans would vote to separate.

Smith, I think, knows this, and I don't believe she actually wants a referendum to happen. I certainly don't think she wants one to pass.

Much like Boris Johnson attaching himself to Brexit, Smith likes the way that supporting "Albertan Sovereignty" gives her an enemy to constantly rail against and blame every problem on. If Alberta seccedes, suddenly all those problems become her problems.

Transforming a province into an independent nation would be an absolutely nightmarish task, and every new problem, every compromise would be hung around your neck forever as a result. Again, look at Brexit, only a thousand times worse.

Smith, I suspect, wants the appearance of fighting for Albertan Sovereignty, but not the reality.

That's been the plan for a while anyway. China really wants to move away from being the world's sweatshop. They're happy to lose a lot of that low tier labour to less economically advantaged countries, while they invest in things like computing, electric cars, heavy industry, advanced electronics, etc.

A question I have about this setup, because I've been contemplating out myself: If all the traffic flows through the VPS, I presume that will count against any usage limits / cost per GB with the VPS, right? Have you found that to be a problem with large file transfers or video streaming?

Oh, don't worry... This data is from January to March, so it doesn't really reflect the actions of the current president. We've not even begun to see the impact of Trump's bold economic agenda.

It's going to get so, so much worse.

It is overrated, and I say that as someone who very much enjoys Nolan.

He's never at his best without his brother on scriptwriting duties (that's why TDK is far and away the best of his Batman movies), and he constantly struggles to present human feeling and emotion in a way that feels believable and real. He's so caught up in his love of crafting intricate Rube-Goldberg machines that he forgets all the other aspects of the film-maker's craft.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan and I'll show up for every movie he makes, just to enjoy watching how he fits all the little intricate parts together, but he doesn't even make my top five for directors. Almost everything he does, Denis Villeneuve does better.

Interstellar in particular really exposes his weaknesses, because it's a film about love being a more powerful fundamental force than gravity, and Nolan is such a fucking robot that he really doesn't know what to do with something like that. It's a movie that contains lots of really great moments, but just doesn't hang together or feel cohesive as a story. I won't knock anyone for enjoying it, but it's a clear demonstration of Nolan's flaws.

And they're right.

I think it would be absolutely ridiculous if we couldn't.

While I accept that not everyone agrees with this, to my mind the idea that gender is a performance, a presentation, not some hard coded biological fact seems to be an essential part of liberating ourselves from strict roles and enabling trans people to live their true selves fully and without prejudice.

I want to be clear that when I say gender is a performance, that doesn't mean it's fake. Gender is an expression of something deeply integral to who you are. Often something that you could not change without causing yourself severe harm. But the presentation of that integral identity is for you to decide, and that should be true for everyone.

I think every cis person has gender goals, but most of us allow the world around us to define those goals instead of defining them for ourselves. I think that's a part of why cis people act so hateful towards trans people; because a person simply throwing out the handbook and saying "Actually, this is how I want to express myself..." reminds them that they could be doing the same thing if they wanted. I think that's also why crossdressers, trans people, and men who do nothing more radical than wear nail polish often get lumped in together. All of it is violating these supposedly hard coded realities.

So, maybe I'm wrong here, maybe I'm out of line, but I think the world would be better for everyone, cis and trans, if we all recognized that we have gender goals and were comfortable talking openly about them.

Also, Gomez Adams is an absolute gigachad legend. Raul Julia, forever king of my heart.

I honestly don't even know how to respond to a comment like this. Every word is such abject nonsense that it's hard to even figure out where to begin, and I frankly do not have the energy for it.

I don't think hope and anger are a binary choice. As the saying goes, you have to hate something to change it.

I want an NDP that brings hope to people who are angry, by sharing in their anger and pain, and offering a way forward. Those things can build on each other.

I'm hoping someone can convince Charlie Angus to unretire and make a run for leader.

He did, and he's stepping down as party leader. Personally, I think it's a good thing. His leadership has been far too soft and cuddly. The NDP need a leader who will channel the anger a lot of Canadians are feeling at watching their quality of life get sold off to oligarchs.

I decide to start a business. I borrow a million dollars from the bank at 2% interest.

I now have a million dollars cash, and a million dollars of debt. Logically, rather than investing my million dollars of cash in building and growing a business, I should use it to pay off my debt. That's clearly the the best use for that money.

Do you see how what you're saying doesn't make any sense?

Hard to even be mad about it. It's just someone fucking around. Wikipedia would be a very bad place to be looking for early election results anyway so no harm done.

It's the subtle attempts to skew articles towards a particular agenda that really bother me. Stuff like this is just whatever.