Just wait until the conservatives get into power. Why else do you think that PeePee is looking at America and furiously taking how-to notes? The entire party is no different from the Republicans.

On the one hand - before it has been sold? Illegal, yes. But perhaps not entirely morally wrong.

On the other hand - once someone else owns it? That bar gets a lot higher. Ya gotta confirm whether or not that person is an open member of the white-supremacy group Diagolon or something like that before you do more than finger-paint the dirt on the body.

On the gripping hand - finger-painting the dirt on the body is never not funny so long as it’s fine dirt/dust and you don’t scratch the paint job doing it. It’s harmless so long as it can be 100% fully erased with water and some mild soap.

Agreed. There are only three modern/common communications channels which are truly synchronous:

1. In-person communication
2. Phone calls
3. Video calls

Everything else is asynchronous, and does not necessarily involve an interruption or a disruption of your time - you can get to it when you want to, within polite reason.

And with the fragmentation of our attention due to social media - to say nothing about the broader nature of our modern culture - being able to handle communication asynchronously is becoming very important to people.

Hence my second paragraph. Nothing wrong about a web page, just make it pinnable to the home screen. Doable with any website, but it helps a lot for usability if links to do so are explicitly available on the website.

most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world.

That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

America is largely fine. The problem it has is a violently coercive economic model that forces people to be profitable to other people or risk destitution, homelessness, or even death by exposure, and a political system that is militaristic, imperialistic, and dysfunctional.

My favourite quote is this:

America has three political groups, but is serviced by only two political parties - the extreme ChristoFascist right has a party all to themselves, while the moderate right and centrists share a party such that it cannot effectively function.

Okay, that is legit hilarious and makes so much sense in retrospect.

Let’s hope the mobile apps become real mobile apps instead of web page wrappers.

I can understand if you build a site that allows itself to be pinned to your device as if it were an app. That’s a great way to get a product onto devices before you have time+effort to build a native app.

It’s quite another thing to have an actual app with a highly visible GUI wrapper whose only purpose is to connect to and display a specific website.

Like, c’mon.

A lot of people are asleep at this time. Great way to catch people groggy and unawares; less likely for them to defend themselves. Also less chance for witnesses.

This community loooooves the ToC lol

Table of Contents?
Total organic carbon?
Tactical operations centre?
Theory of Constraints?
Transition of Care?
Tests of Control?

… you’re gonna have to be a bit more clear.

You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth.

Why moderate?

The working class is under no obligation to mourn the deaths of those who are actively trying to kill them for profit.

I have always taken the metaphorical red pill when given a chance. I would rather live in pain and suffering knowing the truth, than living in ignorance and happiness.

And I don’t mind being ugly. I’m a misanthrope anyhow. Being ugly just means you are more likely to be left alone.

No, I refuse to look away from facts and reality. I read the science before the IPCC gets to it and “politically massages” it into useless pablum. I listen to those who actually do climate science as a day job… and most of them have started calling themselves “climate pathologists” and are refusing to bring children into this world, because to intentionally bring children into such a future would be to inflict malicious cruelty onto those children.

A blissfully naïve ideal, considering the rightward shift of almost all governments world-wide. The political right depends vitally on creating an ignorant, illiterate, and uninformed electorate who breed like rabbits… you really think that they will willingly fund education and healthcare of any effective kind?

Right now, our best bet is to stop pumping out innocents who will only know a life that is brutish, cruel, and (once civilization collapses) short. They may have a decade or three of modern conveniences, but anyone under the age of 30 will likely die long before they would otherwise experience a natural death.

I am not talking about taking yourself out. I’m talking about not adding to what will be a very big problem within the next two to four decades.

The only reason why we have reached 8 billion is because of industrialized agriculture. Climate change - via chaotic weather - will make agriculture in general impossible. When agriculture at scale ceases to be functional - and the collapse of the AMOC will make one of the bigger impacts in the middle of this century - the ability for humanity to feed more than a billion or two will cease to exist. Humanity will tear its entire infrastructure apart in a desperate bid to live another day. Anyone who wants to subject their children to such horrors is not a person who cares for their children.

We are already exceeding the “worst-case scenario” that has projected a likely extinction of humanity within this century. Why add innocents to the potential misery and suffering?

Meanwhile, British Columbia is so warm - a good 10-15℃ above normal - that we have roses blooming in December and January.

That’s never happened before 2020.

Gotta love climate change.

Edit: I found PEAS growing in my garden yesterday, from where they got spilled in the hay ground cover during harvest in late September. They have grown into decently-large plants over the last three months. I have seen some flower buds on them already. Flowering peas. In January. Fucking unreal.

If wages had kept up with CoL since the 70s, it would be minimum 10× what it is now. The only reason why things are expensive is because of Greedflation. Things could easily be 1/10 the price and companies would still be profitable, it’s just that the Parasite Class wouldn’t be making off with their unearned billions that they stole from the working class.

And those fuckers will get away with it Scott-free, too. Maybe a slap on the wrist, at most. Legalized murder.

Can’t handle the douchnozzle neon sign lighting up when you drive that thing in public?

In Canada, the CBC has the least amount of bias of any domestic news source.

Going International, I would say AP, PBS, NPR, Reuters, BBC.