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The full quote is even more biting... And accurate, sadly:

An American veteran who has been training Ukrainian soldiers in combat said he’s disgusted with the Republican Party, which he says is either “totally compromised by Russia and is willfully aiding Russian interests” or is chock-full of “sycophantic cowards who would gladly watch Ukrainians get killed if it meant Trump had a higher chance of winning reelection.”

Instead of Parroting the Media, maybe actually go and listen to his uncut, unclipped answering of the media. Unlike what Trudeau seems to do, Pierre is seemingly actually able to speak a whole sentence without stuttering - almost like he is actually confident in his remark: And that is bloody refreshing.

Pierre Poilievre does not "talk straight":

But Poilievre’s team have recently instituted a policy whereby journalists may only ask one question each, no follow-up, five in total. (His flacks cite “time constraints” at each event.) This practice revives an old tactic from the previous Harper government, which grew tired of the media by the end of its nearly-ten-years in power and clamped down on all the pesky question-asking.

The Conservative media wranglers snatch the microphone out of reporters’ hands as soon as they ask their question, depriving them of any retort to dear leader’s rants.

In responding, Poilievre generally lumps these questions into one of two categories — ones he likes, which he can use to deliver an answer that may go viral; and ones he doesn’t, whereby he can attack the journalist for asking them and achieve even more virality.

https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-pierre-poilievre-media-circus

He brings receipts, too. You can see his entire unedited question and response if you want to check his characterization.

Trudeau says a whole lot of nothing in most of his responses, granted, so he's not much better. At least he usually addresses the actual question?

No shit they lost interest... 18-24 months is ridiculous.

The Minister of Defense's suggestion to accept them on a probationary basis makes a lot of sense; do a quick scan for international crime/terror lists and a Canadian criminal records check, then maybe a phone call with a Canadian citizen who can confirm their identity? idk, but that ought to be quick and should catch most, then don't give them access to classified data or unsupervised postings until they pass a full security clearance.

The point is that the scapegoat is usually female. Why is Taylor Swift being singled out for her private jet use? Is it because her use is assumed to be less legitimate because she's a woman?

A quick Internet search brought up this:

Among the most polluting jets covered by the list was a Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft used by the Rolling Stones. It emitted an estimated 5,046 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of someone taking 1,763 return flights from London to New York City in economy class.

Aircraft owned by Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire owner of the Aston Martin Formula One team, recorded a combined 1,512 flights since the start of 2022. His private aircraft, including two helicopters, also made the most journeys of 15 minutes or less.

Thirty-nine jets linked to 30 Russian oligarchs – including Roman Abramovich, Leonid Mikhelson and the recently deceased leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin – were responsible for 30,701 tonnes of CO2 (equivalent to the total average carbon footprint of around 1,000 Russians).

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So, attacking billionaires who are abusing private jets is totally fair, in general, but always singing out the woman who does so is misogynistic.

Where are the Rolling Stones or Laurence Stroll memes?

Yeah, bad economic news leads people to wanting change, regardless of its rationality. If the economy and inflation turn around, things could change dramatically. Small things like rebranding the Carbon Rebate might help a lot, too. People will hopefully be a lot less accepting of PP's plan to remove Carbon Pricing when they lose out on hundreds of dollars every quarter (and the world burns in the summer, and all the BC fruit dies in cold snaps).

The US Election might scare people away from conservatism a bit, too, depending how their descent into fascism goes... one can only hope.

Yeah, I was thinking something like "come home for lunch" and swap roles. Both work half the day, and both get half a day to do a few chores/errands each week and get some downtime to play/learn/explore/tinker. Then divide and conquer in the evening the same way; split parenting time and other-stuff time.

Edit: Also depends if we can freely recombine and split. Merge to eat (most of the time) and sleep (amidst always) to minimize costs, split to do stuff in between.

Even then, 15 minutes is quite a radius. I wouldn't want to be a 3-minute walk away, but a 15 minute walk is like ~8 blocks.

Granted, that probably necessitates other homes being a lot closer than 8 blocks, so I suppose this just becomes a micro-scale NIMBY-ism. So I suppose you're probably right.

That said, there are lots of places where you have massive grocery stores at the ground level or underground in high-density urban environments, so you can get massive scale with high walkability, if you're willing to move past single-family homes (which we must... I say despite wanting a single-family home for my family.)

"sports arena" stands out to me as poorly defined. Do they mean a soccer pitch/baseball field combo behind a school? Not really an "arena". But surely nobody thinks there should be an indoor professional sports arena within easy walking distance in general, right?

Like, one is essential; people need access to physical recreation, but "arena" sounds like it needs to be a Big Deal of some kind. Like, sure, it'd be great to have a basketball court, pool, and ice rink all within easy walking access, but it's completely unrealistic except maybe at very high densities.

Electric lawn mowers are better, imho. Fewer parts to break/maintain. Granted, the cable isn't ideal, but it's really not a big deal, you just mow out front where you plug is in two sections.

A bankimg institution of some sort is reasonable in a 15-minute city design. It doesn't have to be a big selection but at least one credit union or bank should be accessible. That said, retail banks are all over in Canada, so this isn't really a stretch, for us. No idea how it is in other countries, but I've been within a ~25 minute walk of a bank everywhere I've lived in urban/suburban Canada.

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Changing the names would be easier, but if you're not comfortable lying, try only making friends with people named Alice, Bob, Carol, etc.

XKCD isn't complete without the alt text.

Yeah, FF7 is the OG of cinematic/in-game disconnect. Advertised almost exclusively with FMV footage, to great effect, too.

Yeah, exactly. 10MM is peanuts to huge tech companies. It's not reasonable to split up services in a way that would still be profitable.

The Fediverse would likely be exempt, but any social media with advertising and any scale at all will hit 10MM revenue pretty quickly.

To clarify, it was still a very bad idea because of added mass, it just wasn't necessarily a bad idea for rust since they could have mitigated risk of rust in one of several ways.

The added mass is really bad for battery performance/range, pedestrian safety, safety of other motorists, and total greenhouse gas emissions in production (and added fuel costs for the marginal power increase, of course).

Trudeau said, repeatedly, publicly, as a campaign promise that the election that led to his first mandate would be the last election in the FPTP system, then put together a sham process that inevitably did not work (and/or didn't support the Ranked Ballot system that would benefit the Liberals the most).

I do not trust the Liberals or Conservatives to give us a good electoral system, like Single Transferable Vote or list-less-MMP. Our only hope for real electoral reform is an NDP/Green government of some kind, and the NDP don't stand a chance at forming government right now (unfortunately).

X-Manager for Android works well.

That part of the article was a hypothetical about someone driving while wearing a passthrough AR headset. It was not talking about VR sickness. There was no claim in the article that VR causes car collisions.

I don't buy the controversy; editing old racist, sexist books to be palatable is a great way for publishers to try to sell books that would otherwise be unacceptable in today's market.

I'm sure as shit not reading unedited Dahl books to my kiddos. tbh, I'm unlikely to read the edited ones to them, either, since there are so many better books to choose from, but the edits at least make the books a possibility.

Libraries will still have the original texts. Digital dark libraries have all the originals, too. It's not like we're losing our cultural heritage here. Historians and scholars can still study the originals, and anyone with interest can find unedited versions, too. But the edited "woke" versions have at least some of the prejudice edited out. Anything that makes society more tolerant and accepting is a win.

Sure, release notes would be nice. They wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't even know that the Bond and Dahl books might not be terrible anymore without release notes, if not for the "controversy". So, disregarding all the author's reasons, I still support that release notes would be a nice addition.

You can if you buy used, but yeah, I think $1000 is about the minimum for a complete build, new.

Absolutely. It should always have been labeled better. It's insane how much mileage the Cons have got from that con. It's not a tax; it's revenue neutral.

Trudeau is so hated that I think we're unfortunately going to have an anti-trans bigot as our next PM.

I feel like we're a"light" version of what the US is facing; the hateful, racist populist will beat out the milquetoast, "fine" candidate due to "an enthusiasm gap". Punching down on 2SLGBTQ+ and "foreigners" shouldn't be a winning play in Canada. It's sickening.