sik0fewl @ sik0fewl @kbin.social

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Question everything.

Bots summary?

And the summary and headline basically say the same thing. You have to go a few paragraphs in to understand what they really mean.

Ya, good catch. The firearms in question were manufactured as full auto, but have been converted into semi automatic. That's not enough to make them legal, I guess.

I was that kid once. In my defence, I was only 11.

That's "mother tongue", not total speakers.

Ya, pretty sure Liz Cheney was voted out in the last election. And she would not have voted for Jordan.

Not sure why this is news. Florida is full of failed coup leaders.

Any rational person in Alberta who sees that number is going to have their scam alarm going off.

I admire your optimism. I think the plan is to convince enough easily-convinceable people that this is a good idea. It won't matter what the percentage is in the end if they pull it off. If it's too much, then it's a huge success, if it's too little (or a fair amount), then they were robbed by Trudeau and will use that as political ammo for a long time. Would like to see them try this with a conservative federal gov't in power.

National Research Council Canada presents:

Fast & Canadian: Clock Drift

I didn't want to to watch the video so found this article with some better insight and details on the original incident and the video - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-wrap-restraint-youth-use-1.6885941

Some cherry picked paragraphs:

Michel, then 15, begged for death after spending two hours in the Wrap at the Paul Dojack Youth Centre, according to internal jail video and files obtained by CBC News.

Michel was kept in the Wrap for over three hours that day.

In Saskatchewan's youth jails, it's meant to be used an hour at a time, unless in exceptional circumstances and under appropriate authorization, according to provincial policy. The policy further says it should only be used as a last resort to stop self-harm or violent behaviour.

You'll have to read the article for the method. It doesn't sound like torture, but it doesn't sound very comfortable either. The fact that it's meant to be used an hour at a time suggests that it's a bit beyond uncomfortable.

I hope this doesn't break all the NTP servers in Canada!

It just seems like a scam to me. We buy things with credit cards to get the points and each transaction costs the merchant money. The merchant raises their prices to cover transaction fees, so now you're not really getting points - you're paying hidden fees that get some rewards points for (but not enough). The real scam is that it's such a monopoly now (oligopoly?) that if you don't pay with a credit card then you're losing out - you're paying inflated prices but not getting the reward points.

Now, some people have to pay with credit cards, but that shouldn't be the norm. If you're perpetually one month (ie, one payment) behind on bills, etc, then credit card makes sense, but that should be an edge case - just need to save for a month and then you're good. (yes, lots of shoulds and wishful thinking there, I know, read the next paragraph).

If you fall more than a month behind on payments, the you're paying some 20% interest, which is likely going to destroy you anyways. So living "a month behind", while maybe the reality for many is likely to get way worse before it gets better.

I will acknowledge that CC companies provide things like insurance and liability protection. I think that if governments and/or banks could provide this, there would be no good reason to use a credit card beyond the odd big purchase. And realistically, some international transactions, as well, since it will take a long time before all our payment systems are integrated to that degree.

Because Hezbollah does not have nukes.

I'm sure the victims and their families will be pleased to hear that they were just collateral damage!

Almost 3000 years of peace and then this comes out of nowhere!

Maybe... but you could be remembered for fighting against it instead of getting out of the way and letting it happen.

I never did understand resignation as a form of protest.

Sounds like they already have their own version of Hollywood then.

Actually, the most spoken language in the world is English.

China has a huge population problem.