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I always find it amazing that people blame the voters

I think people are blaming the people who didn't vote. They thought they were sending the message "I don't like genocide", but that was ignorant of them.

The message they sent was "Eh, either is fine. I'm fine with Trump or Harris. Whatever". And then they took the moral high ground for doing so.

I'm not investigating those bullet points. First thing I'm doing is trying to get help for myself, and getting "help"/police for the dead person. And also a lawyer for myself.

Getting help for myself includes contacting people at home, confirming the timeline and alibi.

I'm going to echo the suggestion to approach men (and later women) for whatever reason to practice approaching people you don't "have business" with.

Ask a question, comment on something benign (cool shirt?), etc.

And also expand your list of contexts where it's ok to talk to people.

Anywhere that groups of people gather is a good option. Concerts, cafés potentially, parks...as long as you aren't cornering anybody, you should be fine.

I don't know the situation of the children that the parents are talking about. These could be homeschooled kids, etc.

Someone said something about their kids, and I believed that what they said was true. If they meant something else, they could've said something else. If they phrased it poorly, then so be it. Lol

Should've been "Until the tariffs are gone, right?"

Yes.

Japan doesn't tend to teach its children about the atrocities that Japan committed in the past century.

China is in a similar boat.

Depending on the province, school board, and even teacher, Canada doesn't always do a good job of teaching its children about the residential schools and related atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the land.

So yeah. I think it's possible that people old enough to work and be looking for jobs (which can be as young as 14 where I live) are ignorant to the atrocities their countries committed.

The USA is actually surprisingly halfway decent at teaching kids about the atrocities committed against Black people, from my perspective. There is still a long way to go, but at least kids grow up knowing that many Americans owned slaves and that it's wrong to own slaves. Some regions less-so than others, but still, lol

I'd infer that the children are of the age where they'd be applying to college in your scenario.

If they're not, then whoever said that isn't speaking from experience, but from imagination.

A more functional country, if emigration is possible for you

Where are you going with this?

Well, families on NSO have a limit of 8 users. So I thought 1 could play online, and 7 offline at most.

"Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!"

We have Polygon at home.

The Polygon at home:

Polgyon

Interesting -- I thought they always restricted it to only one user playing the same game online at a time!

imo, you read that with a positive interpretation.

If they were saying that, they should've said that their kids "never experienced it" or "never participated in it" or "didn't live through it".

But instead, they said their kids "don't know what apartheid is".

If they misspoke, fine. But I don't know with certainty that they meant what you said. I think they might've meant what they said.

I dunno, maybe that's true. People like watching humans be in danger, that's true.

Monster Truck shows probably don't need humans though. We like watching stuff get crushed by big things even if humans aren't involved!

If robots were racing, people would be rooting for the remote pilot, or the team that built it, or the designers of the engine, etc...

Does no one remember Robot Wars or any spinoffs thereof?

I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.

If your children are old enough to work, and they don't even know about your country's most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they're at the bottom of the hiring list.

They're ignorant fucks! Lol

You said it was "the reason".

You probably would've said it was "the reason" if we had a Conservative government, too.

Before Carney, if you'd told me "the reason" that people voted Conservative is because they were tired of Trudeau, I'd believe you. Or told me "the reason" was because they were upset about pandemic restrictions imposed by the provincial governments, along with the economic fallout of the pandemic... I'd believe you.

It was all over the news. Everyone was talking about it. A whole bunch of losers got into trucks and drove to the capital to complain to the wrong people on multiple levels.

When you claim that "the reason" was an issue that I've never heard anybody complain about with regards to their voting intentions, it sounds like you're just coming in with your mind made up and trying to find anything to justify the conclusion you've already arrived at.

It was 3 seats of 172 or something like that. That's why the Liberals aren't a majority government.

So if this an issue in 3 ridings that flipped from Liberal (to...which party has been anti-Israel?), then sure. Though it probably wouldn't be "the reason", since we could probably find 3 or more other ridings that flipped to Liberal from whichever other party.

It seems like you're living in confirmation bias and seeing the rest of the world through that lens.

That wasn't directed to you, just in general. Sorry about that! Haha

Yeah, I can definitely see Twilight Princess being a system seller! Plus the Wii had a completely new playstyle, and was basically a GC with the controller ports and memory card slots. If you didn't have a GC, it made sense to get a Wii.

It was also a lot cheaper than an S2 IIRC...

Yeah, I didn't get the hype for those consoles either, lol

Not that there was much for the new Xbox..

Yeah, exactly. The post is about the launch date, but I guess I still should've clarified that I don't get the excitement for the Switch 2 on its launch date in particular.

Yeah, new Nintendo console. But new consoles haven't really been particularly exciting for a while imo -- they aren't really doing anything new. The Switch did new stuff (the first "hybrid" console/mobile device), and the Steam Deck made PC gaming (and the Steam library) handheld.

But since then and aside from that? I really don't understand what's to be excited about a new console launch at such a high price point, especially when they're setting a new standard (high) price for games. I'm not seeing anything new that hasn't been done before.

...and the downvotes are not changing my mind, lol...that suggests to me that it's just fanboyism. And that's great for those who are excited. To me, it seems like successful brand marketing with little substance behind it.