Hey, now there’s an oldie. Nice to see it’s getting popular enough to be recommended to people again.

This isn’t a new thing. It’s not the first time they’ve prohibited people from celebrating their loved ones’ release. That’s a regular practice on their part. The folks (often kids at time of capture) they let go are also typically dehydrated and emaciated.

Thanks @[email protected] and @[email protected], that helps clear the AB part up.

Am I incorrect to assume his rural Ontario voter base wouldn’t be okay with him throwing in with Trump, while Danielle Smith is expecting to be lauded by her Alberta-first base for this?

That standard would be an excellent first step. Honestly I think advertising specifically targeted towards kids should be banned in general though.

But you had something new to look forward to when you were older, I hope?

Yeah I guess the narcissism that seems to plague these types necessitates a hierarchy of some sort.

Also, I guess the strongman/woman will look stronger if seen to be treated as an equal by another one with the image they’re trying to cultivate. They mutually benefit.

Increasingly of late, I can’t help noticing how fascistic leaders around the globe (both historically and today) seem to jump at the chance to boost and back each other up internationally even as they routinely sow contempt and mistrust to divide people within their own nations.

I’m aware (I think) of what it is about the reality they’re living in that makes this seem consistent to them-- each “nation” (in the nationalist sense) for itself-- but even in that light it seems they should realize not scapegoating/outright persecuting subgroups of the people within your borders could be productive and a boon to your nation as well.

Aside from him not knowing how to campaign against anyone but Trudeau, this dodge could be quite a weakness for PP going into the election. If other parties are smart, they’ll capitalize on his evasiveness about defending Canadian sovereignty.

Had to look it up but sure, except it’s separate words for Black Rock (Coffee) vs. one word for BlackRock (Investments).

Yeah they did do what they could to appease their critics/advertisers (a little over a year ago I think?) but the user base was ignoring it and still favouring leftist content even after the algorithm tweak you mention, if only slightly. In the Pew-Knight study from last summer, it was also only second to Twitter among users who use the site to get news on political issues. Keeping in mind that everyone whose job is to do or talk about politics is on Twitter and only some of them are on the other platforms, I think that means a lot.

The single one they banned was the only one that leaned more to the left in terms of content overall. (The left vs. right dichotomy remains a relevant descriptor as long as major parties define themselves in this way.) Even people who want all social media banned should see a problem in the lopsidedness of this outcome and the problem it poses for democracy.

Nice! (Hope you feel better soon.)

Nowadays more and more businesses are built to rot (or bought by private equity and converted to this model), spending only a very brief period of their life cycle trying to attract customers and talented workers. Or put another way, they’re increasingly being fattened up as quickly as possible for slaughter.

Most will die quickly while clawing as much value back from both customers and workers as possible, while a few winners are monopolies that do the exact same thing but get away with it for longer because there isn’t strong enough competition for people to stop doing business with them (such as Adobe, from what I’ve heard).

As long as investors and executives keep getting the big payoffs they do by gaming the system, it keeps getting worse.

Blackstone is private equity; Blackrock is fund management.

At this stage it’s like nature is trying to make a point.

At the very least, it probably didn’t bother that many people aside from the obviously targeted ones. But it’s a classic political ploy to set oneself up to be able to say something generic about having a record of reducing taxes while leaving out for whom it was the taxes were cut.

The one where he’s got a penthouse and is married to Marty’s mom? That explains it.