I had no idea, there was another half season of reincarnated as a slime.
I love that show. The moral of the show is that you should be a bro
I love that show. The moral of the show is that you should be a bro
To save the environment, we absolutely must drain the limited resources of the planet engaging in solutions that don't work. If at any moment it appears that their solutions May work, we have to immediately pull out. Effective solutions must be banned, it's the only way to save the Earth.
>but the other part of this is the importing from foreign cultures
Not just for Canada, but many countries. Why on earth does Japan have to walk on eggshells because America owned African slaves?
I find the angry calls of "cultural imperialism" from certain Americans to be mind boggling in the face of those same exact Americans actively trying to impose their culture on the rest of the world.
Not just for Canada, but many countries. Why on earth does Japan have to walk on eggshells because America owned African slaves?
I find the angry calls of "cultural imperialism" from certain Americans to be mind boggling in the face of those same exact Americans actively trying to impose their culture on the rest of the world.
That's absolutely true. That's the problem with losing nuance and subtlety in the current era. You end up with a set of rigid and strict rules that don't care about context, and it's easy to hunt down people for breaking the rules, but it becomes less clear that those people actually are doing anything wrong and ought to be punished.
To give the devil his due, I don't think Trudeau did anything wrong at the time. He wasn't being hateful or trying to hurt anyone, he was just being the same sort of narcissist that goes "Well, of 35 million people, I'm the guy who should be in charge of everything" and doing something outrageous to become the center of attention.
The only problem is that he's an adherent to that rigid fundamentalism and if it was anyone else in the world who got caught with photos like that he'd be holding the pitchfork at the front of the lynch mob. Just like back in the 2000s when those anti-gay Republicans kept getting caught with gay prostitutes.
To give the devil his due, I don't think Trudeau did anything wrong at the time. He wasn't being hateful or trying to hurt anyone, he was just being the same sort of narcissist that goes "Well, of 35 million people, I'm the guy who should be in charge of everything" and doing something outrageous to become the center of attention.
The only problem is that he's an adherent to that rigid fundamentalism and if it was anyone else in the world who got caught with photos like that he'd be holding the pitchfork at the front of the lynch mob. Just like back in the 2000s when those anti-gay Republicans kept getting caught with gay prostitutes.
trigger for racist antiracists
In Sun Tzu's The Art of War, one of the most critical things a strategist must to do is to pick the battlefield. You want to be on ground where you stand to gain whenever you advance, but you don't really stand to lose if you ever have to retreat. You also want your pawns to perceive that victory is their only option and to retreat at all or to rout would mean the end so the only option is to fight.
Under that perspective, choosing something that wasn't even considered bad before someone declared it the worst thing you can do about 10 years ago is a perfect choice of battlefield. If you advance, you can harm your political enemies, and if you retreat you don't need to give up anything you actually care about since it's a manufactured controversy, but the pawns perceive a retreat as meaning the worst people ever won a decisive victory.
While people defend the irrelevant ground of whether it's ok to paint your face or if you should be shot and gagged and dumped in the street if you ever have, the powers that be are bussing (white) violent hoodlums into (black) neighbourhoods they don't live in to burn the place to the ground, ensuring that those communities can never accumulate any sort of wealth or power and are always genuflecting to the powers that be, begging for a tiny slice of prosperity while the richest people get richer than ever before.
Under that perspective, choosing something that wasn't even considered bad before someone declared it the worst thing you can do about 10 years ago is a perfect choice of battlefield. If you advance, you can harm your political enemies, and if you retreat you don't need to give up anything you actually care about since it's a manufactured controversy, but the pawns perceive a retreat as meaning the worst people ever won a decisive victory.
While people defend the irrelevant ground of whether it's ok to paint your face or if you should be shot and gagged and dumped in the street if you ever have, the powers that be are bussing (white) violent hoodlums into (black) neighbourhoods they don't live in to burn the place to the ground, ensuring that those communities can never accumulate any sort of wealth or power and are always genuflecting to the powers that be, begging for a tiny slice of prosperity while the richest people get richer than ever before.
Seems to me like specifically choosing causes based on dividing people so they are easier to conquer.
Drive wedges between people. Tell them they're special, or that they're the opposite of special. Tell them they can't talk about someone else or can't be talked about. Tell them they deserve special treatment or special punishment. Bring up long dead grievances out of nowhere.
Anything but treating our neighbors as brothers and sisters. The most dangerous thing is if we see each other's as equals!
Drive wedges between people. Tell them they're special, or that they're the opposite of special. Tell them they can't talk about someone else or can't be talked about. Tell them they deserve special treatment or special punishment. Bring up long dead grievances out of nowhere.
Anything but treating our neighbors as brothers and sisters. The most dangerous thing is if we see each other's as equals!
Haven't found new Android releases exciting for a long time. Mostly just Windex at this point.
It's a dangerous thing to assume that because you throw tech at something it magically becomes good.
I saw a video today about "3d printed houses". The method was to take local clay and print walls. Thing is, you don't need a fancy 3d printer to make houses out of clay. People have been making houses out of clay since prehistory. Making the building of such a house slightly more efficient by adding a million dollars in specialized equipment doesn't necessarily add anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesj3pJF3lA
I saw a video today about "3d printed houses". The method was to take local clay and print walls. Thing is, you don't need a fancy 3d printer to make houses out of clay. People have been making houses out of clay since prehistory. Making the building of such a house slightly more efficient by adding a million dollars in specialized equipment doesn't necessarily add anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesj3pJF3lA
It's important to remember that although many of us live in areas that have significant law and order and are relatively safe, evil exists and does not cease to exist just because you can't see it around you.
I think that's part of the problem of this moment in history -- people are so used to things being safe they think that safety is free, when in reality it only exists because a lot of people make a lot of choices every day.
The moment those choices stop being made, the world stops being a safe place. Not just in a "oh you said a mean word" sense, but in a "I don't know if you get to survive to tomorrow" sense.
I think that's part of the problem of this moment in history -- people are so used to things being safe they think that safety is free, when in reality it only exists because a lot of people make a lot of choices every day.
The moment those choices stop being made, the world stops being a safe place. Not just in a "oh you said a mean word" sense, but in a "I don't know if you get to survive to tomorrow" sense.
The nice thing is that it's win/win.
Either there's an emergency and you can eat beef, or there isn't an emergency and you can eat beef.
Either there's an emergency and you can eat beef, or there isn't an emergency and you can eat beef.
It's so nice having deleted my account.
And as things start to hurt for these big tech companies that need to pretend to have perpetual growth, my account is a snowflake in an avalanche that turns into headlines saying "Facebook loses 1M accounts in q3", which would be glorious
And as things start to hurt for these big tech companies that need to pretend to have perpetual growth, my account is a snowflake in an avalanche that turns into headlines saying "Facebook loses 1M accounts in q3", which would be glorious
Know what's interesting? I just voted in the conservative leadership race, and one of the requirements for voting was a photocopy of your ID.
Turns out AVE is just a great guy. I was even a patron before I told Patreon to get stuffed.