If you have a bowl of honey and a bowl of shit, and you take some of that shit and stir it into the bowl of honey, you end up with two bowls of shit.
If they would only police their own members, it wouldn’t be a problem. But the entire structure and culture of police forces centres around them protecting their own and placing themselves above the population with a toxically adversarial us-vs-them attitude that encourages abuse and corruption.
So yes: ACAB.
I need a new car which I can’t afford.
Look up Car Wizard on FB reels or YouTube. He has many excellent suggestions involving used cars that are likely to be absolute gems as well as being easy to repair.
Top of his recommendations tends to be the 1998-2012 Grand Marquis, Crown Vic, and Lincoln Town Car. In my region the 2000-era versions of these trend around $2k-$6k, depending on condition. So long as you avoid the ex police vehicles, these can be bulletproof.
One way to judge the depth of a housing crisis is to compare the median household income to the median home price. It’s a measure of how many years of labor are required to buy a house, and anything more than three years is generally considered unhealthy. […] For Vancouver, it was [11.8 years]
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA… NO.
It’s even worse when you look at median individual income, about $45,000, which puts the ratio at 31 years.
31 years. And then all the boomers and GenX bitch about the younger generations “failing to launch”.
I’ve been running my own eMail server for almost a quarter century, and I have no clue what all the fuss is about.
Sure, providers are getting very picky about what domains that they will receive eMails from. But that’s why I have gMail, Yahoo, and Microsoft webmail accounts - so I can train their systems by exchanging emails once a quarter.
And yes, you do have to be running whitelists and blacklists and tarpits and have a good Fail2Ban in place. And good geoIP system if you want to cut out regions that you are unlikely to ever have legitimate mail originate from. But that’s just common sense security.
How stupid are these chucklefucks?
It’s almost as if that old Puritan bullshit about pain and suffering leading to godliness is still around and causing serious problems.
If you got something incurable and terminal and which is only going to get abysmally worse, you should have the ability to go out on your own terms in a peaceful and well-structured manner.
It sure beats slitting your wrists in a tub, that’s for sure.
And for the record: my parents are planning on MAiD for their own EoL strategy. Because dementia and chronic pain are no laughing matter. It’s my duty of care to ensure everything goes off without a hitch, something that I deeply owe two fantastic parents. They walked with me for the first 20 or so of my own life, it behoves me to walk with them to the last of theirs. There is no higher honour I can give.
And the problem that old, ossified, hidebound systems have is their inertia. They are obsessed with old and even obsolete metrics.
The Ukraine war has demonstrated overwhelmingly that classical militaries are wildly obsolete. That the future lies in drone warfare and well-equipped units that have the ability to operate with minimal to no direction and levels of support that make America’s military seem like a country club.
This is also where our current F-35/Gripen argument fails utterly for the F-35. Sure, it is technologically sophisticated. It has “stealth”. It can do a few things that the Gripen cannot.
But where it fails dramatically is the ability to field many units for minimal cost. To field said units with just a handful of ground crew and maintenance crew. To field units across all sorts of harsh environments, even down to short lengths of Arctic highways. And most importantly: to field units that cannot be remotely disabled by the aggressor.
By any metric that has cropped up in the Ukraine, the F-35 is a costly and counterproductive albatross around the neck of any military that doesn’t have America’s level of military spending. It is dead weight that can and will drag down any capabilities that the military wants to achieve.
Canada needs to ensure we have the most possible numbers for the fewest dollars. Every war in history has made this abundantly clear - volume trumps quality and tech sophistication each and every time. Even in WWII, where the Tiger tank was easily the match of a half-dozen Sherman tanks, that tech superiority ceased to matter when 10, 20, or even more Shermans came trundling over the hill for every Tiger tank that was fielded.
And when you can get over 420 Gripens for the same up-front cost as the original 88 F-35 contract (which has since ballooned dramatically), the choice is a no-brainer: Gripen all the way.
Aaaaand it’s now airborne. Maybe not to any great effectiveness, but all it takes is a mutation or three.
And Hantavirus has a 20% fatality rate even with top-notch medical care. It’ll make COVID look like a bad case of hay fever.
Holy redpill incel batman.
If by that you are saying, “I am being faced with objective truths that make me upset and which I cannot handle”, then yes, absolutely.
(Nice ad hominem, BTW; it’s a great way of conceding that you have absolutely nothing of value to counter with.)
But that’s the beauty of facts - they don’t give a single shit about your feelings. They’re reality.
And personally, I tend to be rather obsessed with reality. It ends up being a far better framework than Ideological fantasies.
The Atlantic covered this issue a quarter century ago, and it seems that nothing has changed.
Plus, female teachers demonstrate a significant grades bias in favour of girls, and since the k-12 system has become overwhelmingly women, this makes said bias systemic and deeply misandric.
This massive over representation of women as educators also means that they frequently pathologize typical boy’s behaviour, and treat them like broken girls, further compounding the loss of confidence that boys have that leads to lower scholastic performance and higher dropout rates.
Finally, this problem becomes a wider societal issue when post-secondary enrollment becomes over two-thirds women.
First, this causes an equity crisis among the institutions as they must now deem men as being the disadvantaged gender that needs equity assistance. This puts these institutions squarely into the crosshairs of female supremacist organizations that deem any benefits for men as being “misogynistic”, deeply heretical, and a justification for social, economic, and political cancellation of whatever institution implements these programs.
And secondly, educated women now face a rapidly-shrinking pool of “economically attractive men” above them, as hypergamy prevents them from considering a massive oversupply of otherwise perfectly appropriate men who have black marks of socially unpopular careers or inadequate (lower) incomes.
The interior is facing one of the worst summers in decades. Hot, dry weather and water restrictions everywhere. Not entirely sure hyper-thirsty data centres are such a good idea unless their cooling systems are mostly closed.
Too many managers fail to understand that IT needs to be a revenue centre and not a cost centre.
They treat it like a cost centre, and they are going to carve it to the bone until something comes along and eviscerates the company for lunch - or worse, for lols. And then they are going to look stupid and wonder why IT failed to protect the company. Well, no duh - it was starved for resources and ability:
How “profitable” are our fire departments? Our wildfire services?
How much “revenue” does the RCMP bring in?
Are our road crews and highways divisions being sufficiently “economically viable”?
All this hand-wringing about Canada Post is an alt-right psi-op designed to be one of many wedges designed to facilitate trickle-up economics; to impoverish the working class in favour of the Parasite Class.
Canada Post has no business being privatized. It exists to serve Canadians independently of any profit margin, and I would eagerly argue in spite of any “losses”.
Dogs only exist in the moment. Any correction that isn’t delivered within 1-3 seconds is going to have greatly diminished effectiveness, and anything beyond 5-10 seconds (depending on breed) is going to not be connected with the behaviour that caused you to provide the correction.
There are many breeds where, in general, the drive is so high that “force-free” training will be the fastest path to the euthanasia table. German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, and many other herding breeds in particular. Sure, you might get lucky and score a “low drive” dog, but that is relative to others in the same breed – by comparison it will still make any golden retriever look like a high-as-a-kite stoner slacker. But a high-drive dog can and will get itself into situations where treats, toys, and other positive incentives will be utterly ignored. Trust me when I say that under those conditions, there is nothing in the “force-free training” arsenal that can or will reach these dogs to break them out of their focus. And when that focus involves aggression against pets or people, balanced training is the only thing that will keep your dog from being euthanized by the authorities.
Start training at an early age. Even as young as 8 weeks. Sit, heel, recall and others are vitally important in being able to control your dog without a leash, or if they slip the leash. Try to find a MSRP-priced version of Successful Together, as it will do wonders in laying down a good foundation of training.
Look for the videographer MK9Plus (can’t tell if British or Australian), they have lots of excellent reels on how to understand your dog’s body language. Method k9 is another one.
Manhandle your dog, especially when they are young and easy to handle. Don’t hurt them, but do get them used to being strangely handled, especially in cases like when they are at the vet.
Do not take your dog out on extended runs for the first year of life, their joints will thank you for their entire life.
Do not spay or neuter your dog, their lifespan and overall health will thank you for their life. Instead, consider vasectomies and hysterectomies instead, as these leave the hormone-producing gonads in place, leading to longer and much healthier lives.
I hope this helps.
And that’s why we call them the Parasite Class.
Because no-one accumulates that much wealth without parasitizing off of the working class.
Imagine being dumb enough to invest into the military industrial complex of a country that’s actively threatening to invade you.
And to buy defensive weapons that can be summarily and remotely shut down by that invading country.
That would be the most moronic decision possible.
The Gripen may not be a 1:1 match with the F-35, but neither was the Sherman a 1:1 match with the Nazi Tiger tank. It took an average of 8 Shermans being KO’d to take out a single Tiger. But when 10, 20, or even more Shermans could be fielded for every Tiger that hit the field, victory came down to numbers, not technological superiority. As has been copiously demonstrated across nearly every conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries.
And instead of 88 F-35 aircraft, that exact same dollar value could buy us 420 Gripen aircraft, at even less on-going maintenance costs on an overall basis.
True, even with 420 Gripens we don’t stand any chance of defending ourselves. But effective defense is not the goal… the goal is to make any invasion as prohibitively expensive for America as possible. And 420 Gripens that cannot be remotely shut down is that answer.
Okay, so I was not specific enough. Let me rephrase:
“Name me any popular media that centres around a husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend dynamic, where the man isn’t a moron…”
There we go. Happy?
And notice the term “likely” in my prior comment. Don’t ask me to pick grains of sand off of a beach when you have the entire beach in the first place. I’ve got better things to do with my life than working through Brandolini’s Law; gesturing to that beach is as far as I am going to go.
Aside from distressingly rare well-written examples of healthy relationships such as Babylon 5, the “foolish husband, responsible wife” trope is almost everywhere. It even figures prominently in a majority of advertising that features couples interacting with each other.
And this is far from an exhaustive list. But it’s telling that this is a widely-known and ubiquitous trope, whereas its flip-side opposite is pretty much nonexistent.
In fact, the only references I could find were on the “foolish husband” tropes:
And Star Trek should not be on your list:
Plus, the argument can be made that a few of your other choices don’t have a husband/wife relationship as a central/recurring feature between main characters, and as such are also ineligible.
The only solid mark that I see in your favour is Babylon 5, with Sheraton’s relationship with Delenne and Ivanova’s tragic relationship with Cole being exemplary examples that are shockingly rare in media.
Zoophilia imparts trauma.
Death relieves a being of trauma. There ain’t more trauma when you are dead. And when done correctly, death in an abattoir is largely instantaneous.
Of the two, the former is more immoral when focusing on lingering or ongoing trauma.