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I wonder if this might be the set-up to a leadership run? Though I'm concerned it might be a sign of impending Liberal collapse. I'm not convinced leadership is actually the issue here when compared to the general Canadian tendency to want change at all costs combined with a global surge to the right. So I'm worried that we'll burn through a potential leader or leaders when it won't actually make a difference. Not that I don't think that things couldn't be turned around, just that I don't think it's actually going to hinge all that much on who's in charge.

No I did, it was just again every bit as easy as what I needed to get my passport. If you think *a day* of instruction is anything but trivial than you're a joke. OMG you had to learn you could hold a gun without pointing it at yourself and others, you're a god damn expert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_Germany Emphasis mine, and sure, latter it rightly mentioned (when they being to loosen restrictions of the ownership of guns) they focused on Jew specifically, but like the previous attempts, they weren't all that effective at getting guns actually away from people. It was another excuse to single out Jews. You aren't being singled out, you aren't a victim. And you can't seriously pretend that the fact the Polish resistance which had way better resources and training than the Jewish people of Germany couldn't manage it when you expect the Jewish people to beat the nascent Nazi army with what, a couple hunting rifles? Joke opinion.

My PAL was exactly as easy to get as my passport, IDK what you're talking about. Actually if I hadn't had a special exemption on the witness the Passport would have been harder. And I literally gave you two examples of legal guns being used in crime. These are all really dumb but I'd like to put special emphasis on the Germany example, because Nazi Germany *decreased* restrictions on guns. All weapons were banned for civilians under the treaty of Versailles. The Nazis ended that under their "we're Nazi shitheads" policy. Not admittedly that they were that well enforced. The idea that the German citizens were disarmed in 1938 is nonsense. Jews died because Germany wanted to kill Jews, and all the shotguns in the world weren't going to stop it. Or does the Warsaw uprising mean fucking nothing to you? Those guys managed to capture some fucking *tanks* they still lost. And that was in 44 when the German army wasn't in great shape.

Yeah, as I've said before. All guns are legal until they're not. Banning weapons means we don't have to spend resources determining if this specific one was legal or not. Also, Marc Lépine was a legal gun owner until he wasn't and Gabriel Wortman got one of his guns from a legal gun owner.

Pointing out how weird these fuckers are was one of the best political campaigns in decades, and it's nuts that they just stopped using it.

Moreover they *say* they feel threatened by NATO, as an excuse for their actions. If they were *actually* feeling threatened by NATO though wouldn't constantly be doing shit to annoy NATO countries. "Oh we're so afraid of NATO" *violates NATO countries airspace*

I'm aware Americans make up bullshit to suit their narrative and get their way, doesn't make it true. And I'm not going to entertain their delusions or the delusions of people who hide behind their position.

The lucky Nazis were put in charge of NASA and NATO. And btw, even if Khadr had irrefutably thrown the grenade and killed the soldier, killing an enemy soldier isn't a crime. Especially if you're a child soldier. Like by definition someone put into that situation is a victim, period.

Neither the Bloc, NDP, or Liberals really benefit all that much from an election, I doubt this is really gonna change much except maybe the NDP hope it will let them gain a bit from the Liberals fall which they haven't so far.

You mean the conservatives are beating the drum on the military while not planning to actually do anything? Colour me fucking shocked. By the way, they've announced a procurement program for up to 12 new subs. Granted with procurement the way it is I'll probably be getting ready to retire by the time we get them, and if the government switches they'll definitely cancel it, and tbh you could not pay be enough to go subs anyway, but it's still nice to see. The announcement also claimed they're gonna modernize and keep operating the Victoria class, which the Victoria class doesn't operate now. And that's not gonna change, ever.

Pretty much yeah, though to be clear it wasn't just that Anakin was too old, it wasn't even just that he was afraid of leaving his mother, it was his inability and lack of willingness to admit those fears and properly deal with them. Which given what ended up happening with him doesn't exactly paint the Jedi as being wrong.

Sat on his hands is generous, actively made things worse is more the reality.

Canadian's say they see the need, but wouldn't be happy with the increased taxes necessary to actually meet it. Much as I do think they would deal if the decision was made, tough decisions aren't exactly the liberals strong suit.

Good chance this ends up being like that last actual scandal, where so much time was wasted on the accusation and sensationalizing shit that the fact that India *killed a Canadian citizen* seems to have just been forgotten. Oh but Modi snubbed the PM or some shit, that's the real issue. Canadians need to get their fucking priorities straight.

How does a provincial statue set a limitation on a federal treaty?

Forces a vote that would cause an election, doesn't even show up for the vote. Yeah that's what we want in a leader.

Also as you say it's "Here in Onatrio" most of the stuff the clownvoy were complaining about were Provincial (or even American in the case of the cross boarder vaccine mandates), not Federal.

ETA: Nevermind, better to just put people on ignore.

1) "The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion" and "The Ember Island Players" 2) Aang's 12 and Katara's 14. 3) No. And quite frankly trying to act like saying "kissing someone without consent is bad" is an unreasonable position is really creepy.

I mean, there were some legitimate issues with the show, as there always are, and yes that even includes how Katara's character was handled. But it does sound like instead of, say, having the show actually tackle how bad it is that Katara's been forced into the mom roll outside of a few moments that don't really go anywhere IE Sokka admitting he doesn't remember his mother's face and when he tries he pictures Katara, then the next episode Katara throwing that into his face by saying he didn't love her like she did, something that' never comes up after that even though it seems pretty important, it's instead going to excise that entirely. Though I guess if that includes removing Aang kissing Katara without consent twice that may be worth it.

Fleeing with the heirs of the absolute monarch of a nation probably isn't gonna go very well. Anyway, while I don't actually think the creators being gone is a bad sign (just look at all the crap they put out with the comics, very clearly an even more extreme version of the Lucas effect going on there) but some of the other stuff I'm hearing does concern me, cause like Sokka's sexism isn't just he's an asshole about women until episode 4 when Suki kicks the shit out of him, it's in his commitment to being what he sees as a proper man, which he keeps and influences his character for a much longer time. But then what do I care? I don't have Netflix.

The court ruling is pretty weird to be honest, the judge admits if they were in the Cabinet based on the information they had at the time they would have been in favour of invoking the EA. It drops a whole bunch of people from the case for not having standing. Declares that the convoy was not a lawful protest. And to the extent the EA wasn't acceptable it was only partially so some thing reached the minimum requirement and some things didn't. The appeal should be interesting. Or just bloody weird.

The rain and wind sucked pretty bad for the ride into work today, fortunately yesterday when it wasn't quite as bad I decided I would bring a spare set of clothes just in case. Came in handy. And Friday it's looking like it'll be down in the negatives and get some snow, which may mean snow day for me cause this city is not built for the snow.

Honestly, I find the discussion of getting into the definition of sentience or intelligence, or whether or not humans are too just following programing both boring and irrelevant. Actual capability at tasks is more important. True AI is human level in its ability to gather new information by itself and act upon it, if it can do that I would happily call it general AI even if you could show it was just following programing or found a workable definition of intelligence even if that definition technically disincluded it. Dumb (or I suppose I should have said weak, I've been playing to much Halo lately) AI is able to competently perform specialized tasks, GhatGPT has trouble identifying how many times a letter appears in a given word. Now, maybe it will become a weak AI in the future (after it's plundered enough actual human labour) but it's not there now.

They're theft machines on a grand scale, not anything close to true or even dumb AI, and even as a predictive algorithm you're playing with fire with no protective equipment especially as it begins to poison itself with the data is creates and needs to rely more and more on underpaying people in developing countries to sort out not only good data from bad, but just straight up illegal shit. Many of these models are filled with CSAM for example. And yes, it's absolutely not AI whatever quibble you want to make about how the human mind works, because most of what's happening with these models are done by humans, not the model. And what it does do isn't synthesizing new information from old, but guessing what's next based on statistics.