Reality check here: Canadians know the border is porous, we know because a bunch of gangs have leaked out of the US and made their way up here, and they bring their handguns with them.
Guys like Trudeau living in their gated communities pretend it doesn't happen.
I dunno, it'd be a downgrade from my current buns of steel. I'd have to be more careful. Might make a crack in it.
Even if people go "Well, they weren't getting paid anyway", data clean-up is just good practice.
You never know what that data is being used for, so even if it isn't paying people here, you never know what those dead entries might be causing problems with elsewhere.
At no point does any lefty go "Hey, maybe the reason the conservatives thought Jan 6th was ok was the 6 months of violent riots we engaged in, including fireboming federal buildings and police stations and attacking the whitehouse so severely that the president and his family needed to be sent to underground bunkers for their protection? And then our friendly DAs didn't prosecute most people for their involvement?"
Nope. just came outta nowhere! Don't those conservatives realize nobody is above the law?
Really, the issue here was that they screwed up using the tool more than the tool itself.
If you were using MS teams or slack you'd still potentially have the same issue of inviting the wrong person to the group chat, especially since tools like teams are letting inside and outside organizations be more integrated.
This stupid octagonal sign. I keep turning back and it's still there, taunting me.
The Matrix of Virtue and Vice: Why Postmodernism Limited the Wachowskis’ Vision
The Matrix is interesting because arguably only the first movie was classic. The movies that came afterwards were big and flashy but lacked the impact of the first.
I remember seeing Matrix 2 in theatres, and the scene on the highway is really a good example. There was a massive car chase, a fight on a transport truck, lots of explosions and flash and kung-fu fighting, but I was bored. Back then, televisions were vacuum tubes, and I was watching the movie on a giant movie theatre screen in high definition, but I was bored.
The first film had quiet moments, but it also had tension because a lot of the characters in the movie do die. We see several people die over the course of the movie and they don't come back, they aren't saved by a deus ex machina. It seemed contrived the way in Matrix 2 they basically needed to teleport Neo to the other side of the planet so he could be kept out of a scene and he had to superman it back.
Ironically though, you can do a great story about a chara
The Ouroboros Economy: Bitcoin, Tesla, and the Crisis of Postmodern Financialization
Arguably most societies over millennia existed without financial products, particularly the current conception of them in forms like bitcoin and global prediction markets. Financial products in our current conception of them are, at the most charitable, only about 400 years old when the Dutch invented stock markets. Before that we might have had banks, loans, currency, and contracts, but that's when modern (in a literal sense) financial products were invented. Since World War 2, we've seen the invention of postmodern financial products; financial products totally disconnected from creating any sort of tangible good or service.
Bitcoin in particular is a poster child for this problem. You have a currency with a multi-billion dollar market cap that you can't use to buy most tangible goods and services in existence today.
Tesla is another example. While you might be tempted to believe that Elon Musk's Tesla is a company that became valuable by making cool things, you'd be mistaken. Tesl
Annoyed parent movie review - Elemental
Unfortunately, any parent can tell you that once your kid likes a certain movie, you're gonna see it a lot, and my son really likes 2 movies that I've seen a lot. So I figured I'd write a bit about them since I've seen each probably 100 times more than a typical movie reviewer. I'm not watching it again to review it so this is from memory.
Elemental
Characters:
The protagonist is Ember, a snarky cunt who gets really angry and then destroys everything in the room. She's a fire elemental.
Her dad is super racist against water as on of his main character traits, he's one of the most likable characters in the film. In many scenes, his line read is angrily saying "WATER!!!"
Her mom is a woowoo crystal lady who does fortune telling.
Wade is a water elemental. At first he looks like a giant loser, but he's hiding his power level and is actually a gigachad looking for an Asian girlfr--oops, spoilers.
Wade's family shows up in three scenes, only one of substance, it's a bigger family.
Annoyed parent movie review - Encanto
Unfortunately, any parent can tell you that once your kid likes a certain movie, you're gonna see it a lot, and my son really likes 2 movies that I've seen a lot. So I figured I'd write a bit about them since I've seen each probably 100 times more than a typical movie reviewer.
Encanto
Characters
The protaganist of this movie is a frumpy girl with a big nose. This is plot relevant because she sticks her nose in everyone else's business. She has no magical powers other than the power of autism
Abuela is the elder matriarch of the family. I don't know exactly what her magical powers are, she doesn't explicitly show anything but we'll get to that.
She has a fair skinned aunt whose mood affects the weather. Her husband is a simp.
She has an uncle named Bruno. We're gonna talk about Bruno, don't you worry.
Her mom is probably the most reasonable and normal person in the entire family. Her power is her cooking is a cureall, immediately heals all injuries. Her husband acts weak and h
Whatifalthist - Used to be an alternative history channel, now focuses on what might happen based on history
https://www.youtube.com/@WhatifAltHist
Lots of people don't like his work, but it's one of my favorites, and a few of his videos hugely changed the way I look at the world.