Sorry, I let my frustration turn to sarcasm and leak out, I don’t actually believe immigrants have any meaningful impact on crime other than what the news likes to cherry pick. I apologise for the poor taste of that.

Maybe all the immigrants finally started to recognize the lies they were being told about living here being a comfortable family dream when it’s actually unaffordable, inhumane and degrading wage-slavery. It’s not much better for the average Canadian either, but at least most of us have some kind of family support system to fall back on, and we have the entire time we spend growing up here to come to terms with the reality of the lies that the economy and media sell us, instead of getting thrown into the deep end of this unfair economy like the immigrants do. No wonder so many of them turn to crime.

“I’m not optimistic” should be the tagline for the 2020s.

He’s also popular because the neoliberal corporatist propaganda machine has relentlessly brainwashed and indoctrinated society for decades. They’re still constantly glazing him and they’re never going to stop unless they find someone even better for them. If society starts getting its news and education from a media empire that’s owned and run by someone poor, maybe they’d have a different opinion. But wait, wouldn’t having a media empire make that person not poor anymore? Interesting, maybe tying money and wealth to success and power with capitalism is simply not a sustainable situation that inevitably leads to exactly this outcome? Nahh, that sounds like something a communist would say!

Bingo! Give this guy a prize, they get what’s going on.

Vaguely related thought: I’m pretty sure the AI bubble also has a lot to do with the fossil fuel industry transferring their wealth out of oil while at the same time wringing the last substantial profits they can out of their dying industry. They don’t give a shit if it all collapses, AI datacenters are just a stepping stone that’s conveniently propping up oil and gas and even coal while they evacuate their money from the collapsing building.

Unless they inherited it and are actively in the process of philanthropy to get rid of it, anyone with more than a few million dollars in their pocket has almost certainly exploited people to get it. Never trust them. They are not good people, by definition.

I too crave the strongman leader, he will solve all our problems /s

Not what OP is using obviously, but AMD X3D CPUs and Mac systems can be quite competitive for AI if you’re lacking VRAM. Not all CPUs struggle with inference, and some GPUs aren’t so hot at it either. GPUs are generally better, especially the really high-end ones, but throwing in low- and mid-range cards and high-end CPUs stuff starts to look somewhat muddier.

Yes, I don’t hate the technology, I hate all the evil companies abusing this technology for profit, fascism and death, which is very close to all of them.

But they are not the only ones working on the technology, and even though they have stolen many of people’s entire lives worth of work for making these models and not only didn’t compensate them, but in many cases replaced them and terminated their employment, in many cases we are stealing it right the fuck back from them and making it open to everybody, because fuck them. It doesn’t belong to them in the first place, it belongs to all of us. We can’t put the genie back in the lamp or the toothpaste back in the tube, but we can make sure we are keeping our own data for ourselves once we take these monstrous, bloated, oligarchs down. We will not the libraries of Alexandria burn down again, and we won’t let them have the only copies.

I won’t pretend I don’t have various issues with open weight models using this technology, but they’re more like “I don’t like systemd’s philosophy or developers” level of issues, not “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.

With the evil companies, I absolutely DO have “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.

I was not intending to imply anything even close to that specific, my comment was meant in a general sense, but at this point in my personal journey of attempting to understand the world we live in, it so happens that I don’t trust any particular human in any position of power or authority, so I don’t see why the governor general should get a free pass.

If you want me to go ahead imply that there is a possibility they and the charity they set up are corrupt, I’d be happy to stand behind that implication, with the caveat that I don’t have any evidence of that at all, and I don’t have any intention of ever attempting to find or provide any. It is a totally baseless position, because I’m totally comfortable assuming all people in positions of power are corrupt by default. That is my personal position. I am not forcing anyone else to do the same. Feel free to take my opinion for every cent it’s worth; I’m not going to charge you for it.

it’s pretty tough to paint a picture of influence-peddling.

It really isn’t, if you have any familiarity with how corrupt charities can be in how they operate and how they get run. The WE Charity scandal wasn’t even more than one Prime Minister ago, and not to defend it (or Trudeau) but frankly, it was far from being as bad as actual charity corruption can get

Yeah, I mean I don’t really like Carney or his policies, and I hate Trump even more, but this is clearly the only logical approach to dealing with Trump at the moment. Talk is cheap (something Carney clearly understands because he uses talk very cheaply all the time), and Trump loves flattery, and he hates being criticized, and he will irrationally lash out at anyone who does. He’s proven that so many times, there’s no benefit to aggravating him and giving him a target to fixate on, just let him flail around aimlessly and try to dodge his aimlessly swinging fists.

I’m getting really tired of listening to or wasting almost any attention whatsoever on what people say anymore, because it’s all fucking lies anyway. I’ve started carefully watching what people do instead, and while I have some scathing criticisms of things Carney has done and is doing, the things he’s doing also very clearly don’t benefit Trump. Trying to make him out to be some Trump-friendly-crony is disingenuous and inaccurate. He’s dangerous in his own way, but he’s no ally to Trump and the things he’s doing to distance the Canadian economy from the US and build lasting international partnerships that are going to define Canada for generations? That’s significant stuff.

The frequent praise he offers to Trump is always empty, meaningless words with no real weight behind them and certainly no actions. Carney knows that, and anyone paying attention should know that. Trump is the only one who evidently doesn’t know that, but it’s also possible he just doesn’t care. He’s more interested in appearances anyway, and the appearance of having Canada appear to support him is meaningful to him even if it’s meaningless in actual fact.

That’s fair, thanks for cleaning up the mess and sorry for being part of it.

Thanks for letting me and everyone else know you’re childish and stupid enough to be worth blocking.

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Also why does all the responsibility fall on CBC to provide local news coverage? My municipal government doesn’t know how to run a facebook page much less organize community events. My local police department won’t share anything with anyone, including reporters and even the fire department acts like everything they do is top-secret for national security. Governments, police and other emergency responders are a public service, same as CBC is, and being open and accountable to their communities should be part of their role too. It’s not just “public relations” it needs to be part of their actual duty and purpose. Dumping all the responsibility on CBC’s shoulders feels like there’s a lot of buck-passing going on. It shouldn’t take veteran investigative journalists working all over the country just to figure out what is going in a community. This is a multifaceted problem and other organizations that work in our communities need to be held accountable too.

Good luck! Seems pretty solid otherwise and I hope you guys get the attention you deserve!

Looks interesting, wishlisted, but some feedback (although I’m not sure the Youtube compression algorithm is doing you any favours) is that the pixel art looks a bit badly scaled and muddied at times, it looks somewhat better in the static screenshots, you may want to look at what scaling filter you’re using though because when I hear “pixel art” in a game I’m expecting some pretty crispy sprites.

Edit: Also I think that’s supposed to say “Tavern” in the video under “Mix races, classes, and skills to create unique warrior squads.”

Money’s still money, and bankers gotta bank. Like George Carlin observed about all politicians: “They don’t give a fuck about you”

I very much doubt this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes us to rebel against the system and tear down these structures of oppression that benefit business and capital at the expense of people and humanity. But it could be, and that excites me.