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It's a fun movie. Maybe not a great movie, but fun to watch. My family doesn't play TTRPGs, but they liked it too.

That was my thought as well.

“Governments at all levels are failing to make the connection between the lack of federal enforcement and the unprecedented conditions facing our local communities,” MacLeod said. “We’ve never had more homeless people or people with psychiatric problems. There have never been more illegal drugs on our streets. Why? It can all be traced back to the impact of international crime, including organized commercial crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The federal government is largely responsible. The RCMP is tasked with the responsibility of federal law enforcement, but federal policing enforcement has not kept pace. Instead, we see more and more of our federal policing dollars being invested into a fundamentally flawed structure where the RCMP is stretched well beyond its primary mandate.”

There's a lot of really interesting stuff in this article. Thanks for posting it.

Other categories may include

• "suicidal",
• "enraged",
• "planning class warfare",
• "gave up, now living under a bridge",
• "feeling pretty good about that house I bought in 2002", and
• "my REITs are doing pretty well, thank you".

Fine by me, but much of the op-ed refers to the housing crisis.

The housing crisis has been brought on by middle class tax policy, a lack of public housing construction, NIMBYism, financialization of housing (significantly by the middle class, although REITs have been getting involved recently), poorly planned immigration/international student policies, and the decline of skilled/unskilled trades (probably related to education, minimum wage, and tax policy). You can also add shitty transit/city planning to that mix, if you're in to that kind of thing.

It would be fair to tax the rich more, and it would probably make sense to tax gainz on housing/real estate more aggressively. However, there is a massive failure of planning at all levels of Canadian government won't be solved through simple adjustments to personal taxation.

Yew got that right

People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.

WHY ARE YOU SAD? THIS IS WHAT MOMMY MIC WANTS! YOU DON'T WANT LOCKMART TO STARVE, DO YOU?

Why won't you think of the shareholders?

I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.

too real

I like that. The weird mutants from the sewers are the heroes (oh wait, that's TMNT) nuclear cooling lagoon are heroes (oh wait, that's the Toxic Avenger). Fergeddabout subverting expectations, just throw in more anime tiddies.

The same style, but instead of cute ribbons of light and stars it's sprays of blood and flying skulls. And the music isn't upbeat, it's screaming death metal.

While the stats vary depending on who's measuring, the story is consistent: web publishers, who provided the content that trained these AI models, face dramatically diminishing visitors, which means lower advertising and subscription revenues, even amid overall growth in search impressions.

I understand your reasoning, but I don't think that's how the term is generally interpreted.

Here's how it's defined on Wiktionary:

A miss which was nearly a hit or collision.

I feel like Calvin and his mentor spirit, Hobbs, would be shadowrunners, but maybe that's just me.

Someone in a position of power showing it to be safe to interact with people who had the infection was still a pretty big deal at the time.

Definitely. I'm referring specifically to the medical risk she believed she was facing, not the value of her actions.

She used her platform to remind the public that AIDS sufferers were safe and to destigmatize them - she deserves praise for that.

Comparing her to a theoretical Jesus who could not have known he faced no medical risk is fair, but the difference is that she knew she was at no risk.

Apparently Princess Di started her AIDS advocacy work in the late 80s. As far as I understand, we knew HIV was sexually transmitted in the early 80s.

So there is a bit of a difference - Princess Di knew she was safe shaking the hand of someone with AIDS, whereas anyone hanging out with lepers around 0 AD, probably wouldn't have known whether they were safe.

I'm not saying that to diminish Princess Di's advocacy, but there is a difference in the expected risk. It may be fair to argue that Jesus would have plot armour thanks to being a demi-god (or the chosen of one), so he wouldn't really be assuming risk either.

AND MY AXE!

Your example didn't mention the use of the function keyword. Instead, it seemed to be questioning the placement of the return type - placing it after the argument list seems pretty common in newer languages.