I’m going to celebrate it every year and call it “no kings day”.

Pam Bondi.

There is a game called Whispers from the Star which uses an LLM to run the script. It’s pretty much a fancy choose your own adventure book. It’s pretty shit.

https://youtu.be/zDa4l18z9z8?t=626

I live and own a business in PEI. It’s a classic arcade that usually sees a bit of traffic from tourists.

I for one welcome this change.

At one point in my life I had planned to learn ASL/English sign and work as an interpreter. I lived in an area on the west coast with a community college that had a huge deaf community and a very good ASL interpreter training program. I did almost two years (just short of completing) before bailing out.

Our classes were complete immersion from day one. No speaking or writing was allowed. Later classes, fingerspell was to be kept at a minimum. It was pretty cool but at times really frustrating. It’s easy to build your vocabulary of noun and verbs, but more abstract concepts were hard to understand in this setting.

Think of it this way. How does someone explain “abstract concept” with only gestures you don’t understand yet?

Why did I quit?

I’m a hearing person and the deaf community was generally pretty hostile towards hearing people in the program. One deaf woman went so far to say I was exploiting her disability. That’s kind of the vibe I got from many in the community. This was the main reason for leaving. I didn’t want a job where I worked with people who actively hated me for no reason.

The second reason; it was very hard to become fluent. I was getting pretty familiar with the local dialect (a blend of ASL and English). I was getting good at reading sign, but MY signs sucked. I just didn’t have people to “talk” with out of my class and they were all hearing people in the same boat as me.

You can pick up sign languages by watching videos over and over, but your pronunciation is probably going to suck without someone actively correcting you.

30 people along the route of the parade cracking tear gas grenades at the same time would be lovey to see.

This is clearly not worse than J6 and those people are heroes now.

The modern US hasn’t fought a war with someone right next door, who looks and talks like them. Not only would it be hard to hold captured cities, but I think many Canadian fighters would walk across that massive unsecured border and start fucking up US resources like electrical stations, water supplies, subway systems, internet backbones, government buildings, . It is super easy to buy guns and ammo in the US, bombs are not hard to make. We would have a fair amount of local support as well.

We Canadians could just walk around the US in public and you’ve never know it.

There wasn’t.

I made one.

All the linux stacks I was involved with over the years always had SELinux disabled as part of the base config. I can’t think of a single server it was enabled on.

The girlfriend and I (both Canadian in Canada) were just planning a summer trip to Niagara Falls like 30 minutes ago. Neither of us have been. We were looking at flights and didn’t realize we were looking at flights to Niagara Falls airport in the US. We were both like “Whoa. Nope!”

If this had been last year, we would have flown into either airport and visited both sides of the border. But there is not a chance in hell I’m crossing to the US side during this trip. I’m absolutely not taking a chance of wrecking my vacation, or weeks of my life, getting nabbed by some Nazi Ice Bro and shipped to a detention camp in Arizona.

I used to watch some of their videos maybe a year or more ago? They were a bit more low key and the video title matched what they were talking about.

The last few videos I watched I turned off a few minutes in. It just seemed like they all had a basic script and the stories they were reporting weren’t really stories.

You know what else has stuff I don’t trust? The fucking measles.

Most advanced countries have a mail delivery system.

America is a shit hole.

We can look forward to four years of this trash.

LOL

You’re never going back to the old way of doing things. Kiss that country goodbye.

Love it!

Make it happen, captain.

I’m not sure of the shape change reason, but I prefer the thinner cans. I have a candy store with soft drinks and I can put more of the thinner cans on the shelf. Usually one more can per shelf.

These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy.

Why do I read this as incel rape cities?

I can. It’s the epitome of America.

America. Fuck you, I’m eating. - Brainworms.

That’s crazy talk. Immunizations give you the autism cooties.

/s in case someone thinks I’m MAGA or something

I think that’s already happened.