This just reminds me of the thing Google pulled not long ago asking users to submit pictures of their younger selves to generate their adult self at the baseball game with them.

Immediately thought it’d be stupid to do that since people are gonna work their ass off to bypass AI guardrails in any case including generating child porn, and lo and behold, few days later I find a tweet of someone calling out another person for creating AI-generated porn of their own daughter.

I am livid. I can not put my anger into words right now.

The “strong, Conservative woman” claims that her party doesn’t use the notwithstanding clause “unless the stakes warrant it.”

Right, because clearly the biggest threat in Alberta is trans people. Not lobby money from the oil and gas industry, not the rising cost of living, not the mental health and addictions crisis, it’s clearly a group that makes up 1% at max of the population of the province.

Calling herself a “strong woman” is so unbelievably rich when all she seems able to do is effortlessly punch down on the everyday person. Like awww, how cute, she’s fighting fucking Big Teacher and Big Hormones, fuck off. “Strength” in defending the status quo requires zero effort whatsoever as it simply means doing fuck all, and I will be unapologetic in saying that she is doing nothing but continuing women’s status as objects by acting as a mere chess piece for the male CEOs in oil and gas and other profitable industries that direct her and the UCP’s decisions through political donations.

Un-fucking-believable.

I mean, not really, even here in Alberta Calgary and Edmonton have some rather impressive TOD (Transit Oriented Development) projects.

The Bonnie Doon redevelopment in Edmonton along the Valley Line LRT, and Calgary’s long-term plans for the new Green Line for the Ctrain are great examples.

Reminder that Dennis Prager thinks bisexuality is the norm rather than heterosexuality.

So… checks out?

CHICKEN JORKY

Unrelated to the actual content of the article, but I hate how I keep mixing up her and Bonnie Critchley even after the by-election.

For what reason other than arousal would someone wear one?

This doesn’t count baby leashes btw, which are at the back and not the neck and are used to prevent a kid from getting lost or wandering off into danger (when used properly).

Thanks for that.

If I’m sitting on a busy bus for example, and two people, a couple, sit in front of me and start making out with some tongue on tongue action, I’m going to be disturbed. I’m not comfortable with that, and I didn’t consent to seeing that.

People have their kinks and sexually intimate acts that they’re into. Consent on both parties is important, but what’s important as well is the consent of people around you in seeing that. A regular kiss, hug, or other purely romantic or platonic show of affection you don’t need other people’s consent for, so a person claiming “consent” when gay people hold hands or kiss in front of them is just a bigot.

For the same reason I wouldn’t send a picture of kink art I know a friend isn’t into without their consent, I also wouldn’t indulge in my kinks in public where I know most people won’t be into it, as they didn’t consent to, for example, seeing me on a leash in this case (not my thing, hypothetical application of the pic).

Wow, using the same words I did as some sort of cheap “gotcha”, aren’t you smart?

I’m not gonna engage with you if you’re not gonna come to the table with anything of value to add.

Strathcona is incredible. That section of Whyte Ave is so active, and it’s a very artsy part of the city because festivals like The Fringe take part there. I used to go there regularly growing up since my grandmother wasn’t far off around Bonnie Doon.

But it wouldn’t have been possible without the funding for the arts that happened under Peter Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives. It’s also wild to me how many areas are NDP provincially, and then Conservative federally.

Imma shoot my shot and say Conservative. Point 5 does it for me.

Edit: oop, misunderstood the game, thought these were all quotes from a singular person.

This is a false equivalence and you are lying if you say that you don’t see this as one.

Honestly the fact he’s made it this far is insane in itself if you look up the shit he’s dealt with.

I think to myself that Alberta is a highly misunderstood place, that the people here are more relatable and complex than the stereotypes that I hear come so often from people in nearly every other province.

…and then each time I think that we can beat the stereotype, some random politician whose name I’ve never heard before shows up out of the woodworks to make a comment nobody asked for on an issue that doesn’t affect us.

Shit like this pains me man

It’s common decency? I’m not going to judge someone for what they wear in public, but when it comes to sexual stuff, it’s just a matter of being mindful of others.

Not a “think of the children” or “I’m uncomfortable with queer people existing” sorta deal with what I’m saying either, making sure my words don’t get twisted, but a leash to me gives the same vibes as say, a couple having an intense makeout session on the bus. Like do you need to make this public?

This a minor nitpick here, I know, just worried something like that gives fuel to the narrative jackwad with the sign is pushing.

From my understanding leashes are a sexual thing no?

Is that a leash?

Gonna go against the grain and say that’s a bit of a no-go, regardless of how much of an ass that guy is being. Get rid of that and I see nothing wrong here though.

Hansard transcripts are a thing, and they livestream and timestamp videos of House sessions.

CSR in Asia is probably more likely to deliver equivalent quality if the people they provided service to were more local to them. Wouldn’t be surprised if quality of service increases the more local the workers are.

You do realise they present these in the House, right? This isn’t change.org. They bring the issues into parliament, and with that, politicians are able to held more directly accountable because one simply can’t just state that they weren’t aware of the issue. They are put on record as to whether or not they were present when the petition was presented by a sponsoring MP, and are put on record for their stance on it.

People that say “petitions do nothing” talk about corporate sites like change.org where it is literally inadmissible. OurCommons is literally provided by the federal government to give your voice to parliament.