The best way to make advertising uninteresting or useless is to provide an alternative form of making money. If the default way to monetise a website, video, or whatever is ads, then ads will continue to be used. If we actually had an alternative that was as or more lucrative, that's what would be used.
"Ban it" also means you need a way to enforce it, and even if it were banned in one country, that's just one country. They might finally come up with an alternative, but why wait for a ban? Why not discuss and test alternatives here instead of just dreaming that a solution magically shows up?
There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.
So they're bringing people into the country to arrest them. Genius. Those detention centers must be rolling in cash right now and DOGE is ignoring it.
Yeah, doing chores around the house in exchange for stay is "payment". No money exchanges hands, she gets to make friends, sometimes even have a personal guide, she wasn't short on money and could pay for groceries herself, she even had the money to pay for a flight home.
Framing this as "she was employed" is ludicrous. Painting it as if she was dependent on it is ridiculous. Locking her up instead of sending her straight home is bonkers.
Also saying she was "fucking around" is a straight lie. She told ICE she was there with Workaway. She actually told them the truth. Lying would've been "I paid for my stay".
I know empathy is difficult on the internet, but it seems like reading is even more difficult for you.
I guess we disagree, but I'm not going to stop people from voicing their opinions and linking them to their official identities.
The problem with the internet is that it doesn't always forget. That's exactly why I do my best to keep my accounts separate. However, yes, semantic analysis could demask me in the future, who knows. At least it'll give me the opportunity to say "that's not my account". If something is officially linked to my account, my "genius" thoughts will be bound to me and could easily be found by friends, foes, employers, whatever.
What I'm getting at is: privacy is important. Giving it up should be carefully considered, not simply done by default or thoughtlessly or "because everyone does it".
There must be a reason why there aren't enough Canadian doctors. If that isn't resolved, getting more doctors and medical staff from the US is just going to be a stop-gap solution. It might actually convince politicians that "nothing is wrong" and reduce or eliminate their willingness to fix the existing problems.
Could somebody explain why Canada has a doctor's shortage? And maybe also how they imagine it should be addressed?
Really depends on the skin color of the person visiting and where they are visiting in that country. A non-white visiting most West-European cities will be mostly fine, but if they go out to the country-side, things can be very different.
I watched a documentary of an Indian boy adopted to a Swiss family who then went back to India to visit. He had a terrible time in Switzerland due to racism and nearly as an awful time in India, because he couldn't speak the language and people thus assumed he was a Pakistani spy.
No worries, as a European, English isn't my first language either :P
And as a response: if my job depended on being on the "right side of things" I wouldn't make such controversial statements. Not only is it dumb in the moment, but also for the future. People are very polarised and even if she had changed her mind by now, there'd still be outrage "omg, look at what she said years ago! I don't trust that she changed!". Of course she supposedly doubled down, which is even dumber IMO, but you get the point.
I use this anonymous account because what the opinions I express here will probably evolve and I don't want any future employer putting me into a box due to a comment made in jest, rage, or whatever. Revealing your identity online for anything other than business is just asking for trouble.
That's great. Since when and does everybody take psych 101?
And just to give a wider perspective (regardless of her origins), not every language makes the distinction and some up until recently did not. Look at the translations on (wiktionary). Many of them are transliterations of the English word. Which is not a surprise since the concept of gender is quite recent (1950-1960s) and was most likely very US-centric.
Unless they are huge and ultra-wide, I don't see the point. They don't add anything at small sizes except a certain aesthetic. At large sizes, it's a quality of life improvement as things on the edges are closer than with flat screens. They were more expensive when I looked for them, so test it for the 14-30 day return period and see if you actually like it.
Which movie is this? It looks too familiar to be AI generated.