What are MAPs?

100% marketing bullshit to justify their shiny toy du jour.

So slavery, then. No surprise.

This is questioning in bad faith, and is asked to push a narrative.

Even if I agree with the narrative, it doesn’t belong here.

Yep.

Dr Phil Dr Oz Jenny McCarthy

She sure knows how to pick 'em.

Games, economics, and politics aside…

FromSoft has to be about the worst name for a company ever.

Calgary has another system - the homeless shelter downtown has some short-term residences where you can have an address and phone number for job hunting. (And a warm place to sleep.)

Except that the minister was on CBC yesterday, and made it clear that they’re following Alberta’s lead of forced treatment.

You don’t go to these to get clean, you get sent there by the police.

Two short answers: Tradition and simplicity.

If you have different names, which one do the kids get? Also, it’s sometimes challenging to fill in school forms when your kid has a different last name than you.

That is probably true up to a point - but there is also a point where some ‘honest opinions’ shouldn’t be tolerated or debated. The Nazis marching through Columbus two days ago don’t need to be respectfully convinced, they need to be put down however possible.

It’s not something you do, it’s something that society is. Japan has a long cultural history of a few things that are absolutely foreign to Western culture (not just the USA, but Canada, Great Britain, Australia, most of western Europe, etc.)

Even in a high-stakes game of consumer-capitalism, Japan has a sense of ethics that just isn’t present elsewhere. A CEO might pull the same shady shit in Japan as they would in the US, but if they’re caught, they still mostly take responsibility - resigning in disgrace, rather than “resigning” to another company with a fat bonus, which is what we see elsewhere. I mean, three years ago McDonalds actually made news for clawing back a $105M severance package from their disgraced ex-CEO, who was having an affair with several of his employees. The fact of the matter is that he initially got the package, no matter what he did.

Likewise, there is an expectation of acceptable behaviour in Japan. There are all sorts of circumstances where a blind eye is turned, but they’re oddly strict - and sketchy behaviour outside of that is considered reprehensible.

So can we? Maybe in theory, but we’d have to revamp our culture - and in a direction opposite to the trajectory it’s currently on.

The media needs to stop quoting Nazis as news.

“American fascists make repeated false claims about appointed criminals.”

STOP NORMALIZING NAZIS!

Not a fucking chance. Zero. That question shouldn’t even be asked, because it implies the existence of doubt.

Not really an import, this ha been the direction right-wing politics has been shifting since Harper. (And he’s still pulling Poilievre’s puppet strings.)

No, it is NOT management sorting and delivering mail to the wrong addresses, over and over.

This is very true and very common.

Many people use a granny knot, because it’s essentially the same motion twice. However, a square knot is much more secure and looks neater as well.

I highly recommend Ian’s Shoelace Site for more fun shoe-related info and products.

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Two thousand was obvious.
Two thousand and one as well, thanks to Stanley Kubrick.
I made a determined effort somewhere around 2004 to go back to the previous century’s naming, and call the first decade “aught,” as in “twenty aught six.”

Nobody followed me in that.

Even so, I now refer to all years except 2000 and maybe 2001 as “twenty (aught/oh) <year>.” Good riddance to “two thousand seven” as a year.

“Five mistakes” were actually one point repeated over and over, for a ten minute video.

In other words, clickbait.

No, corporations backing Nazis did.

I think the most important takeaway is that MS is growing and expanding their games division, with record profits and a bright future - AND they just laid off 2500 people.

In other words, corporate fuckery to abuse workers and funnel the profits directly to the executives.

Labour creates wealth. There is power in the union.