IIRC you can attached scanned/photographed content to his profile entry. So at least it’s saved somewhere.

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If she happens to have an entry on Ancestry, the person maintaining that record might want to scan that info in and attach it to that entry.

Tact occurs in the absence of maturity, so immaturity is certainly adjacent to your superior term.

And it’s not so much about the person breaking out a soapbox, but more along the lines of breaking out a soapbox in a venue that is neither theirs nor public, especially when they are a contracted rep of that venue. That person was there on contract to entertain the patrons according to a clearly-defined program. That alone means they don’t air anything beyond what is defined in that program. It’s exceptionally rude to the patrons, who came there to see the program, not the person (specifically) or their protest.

Things get blurrier when the artist is the focus of the program, like when a band is playing, and they - as a group - pull out the soapbox. There I see a point in their favour, as patrons came to see them, specifically and exclusively, perform.

Even supporting artists have more of a leg up than this guy, because people will pay money to see a specific band even if it’s only an opener.

I’m of two minds on this one.

On the one hand, the genocide needs extensive and copious pushback.

On the other hand, he is inside of a play, as a performer, doing contracted work. Where in his contract does it give him this leeway?

If this happened outside of the performance, then fine. But inside of it? Yeah, I’ve got mixed feelings on that one. It just seems… immature? Not sure that’s the right word, but it’s the closest one I have so far.

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.

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.

• Median Vancouver household income: $80,000
• Median Vancouver home: $1,400,000
• Ratio: 17.5 years

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”.

Womp womp

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”.