sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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The prime minister has been acquiring more power for decades. Canada doesn't function better now than it did, it just functions differently.

In doing so, the rest of Parliament and the government is weakened. It becomes harder to limit what the prime minister can do.

Eventually, in 1955, one province — Manitoba — decided to experiment, and handed over the redistricting process to an independent commission. Its members were the province’s chief justice, its chief electoral officer, and the University of Manitoba president. The new policy became popular, and within a decade, it was backed by both major national parties, and signed into law.

The trick is to appoint nonpartisan commissioners...

That's a long list of astroturfing orgs.

The next court date has been set for February 21.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/us/luigi-mangione-arraignment-new-york/index.html

As much as I'd like to believe it's a conspiracy, news organizations make money from clicks. There isn't much for them to monetize between now and February 21, so they're focusing on more immediate stuff.

If they can get good photos and text from the next court date, Luigi will get more coverage.

Edit: there have been like five plane crashes, one US inauguration, and major US wildfires since his last court date.

I think they did.

My goal is to try and avoid looking my age. My field values youth, so I want to prevent wrinkles and sagging.

I'm not sure how I know what the right lotion is without a time machine.

I'm currently GMing Cyberpunk (because I can't convince my group to play Shadowrun), and there are a couple of modules that use gender politics as part of their hook and background. I don't want to mess with those because I feel like it adds to the credibility of the world.

Overall, I tend to make mostly female NPCs. To avoid that, I assign gender based on who they will appear with. If the leader of a faction is female, their sidekick is male. When male driver 1 passes the group to driver 2, driver 2 is female.

Such a weird refusal.

I initially thought there was something weird he didn't want to tell the RCMP, but he held top secret clearance as a minister, so I guess he's just being obstinant.

Garmins do.

Damn murderhobos.

Yes, I am washing my face, but no, it does not explicitly mention faces on the package. I guess that's my first mistake.

How will I know when it's working?

I liked my Pebble. I'm curious what they do with modern hardware. I'd love something repairable.

Flipped inside out, even.

oh shit

If you have different threat models for different data, then you should enumerate them and work through each.

Attack dog is an unofficial role in political parties:

An “attack dog” in politics is a person, usually a politician or a political operative, who is designated to aggressively challenge and criticize the opposition.

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They are often tasked with the responsibility of delivering negative messages or criticisms that a candidate or party leader may not want to deliver personally, in order to maintain a more positive public image.

He has done this in the past and been effective at it. His successful (unjustified) criticism of the Liberals carbon tax implementation is a great example of that: he managed to frame public perception of the rebate, despite heaps of evidence to the contrary.

Shitting on Poilievre is fine and fun, but it ignores the reality that his party has successfully framed a number of debates in the past. Assuming Carney wins the Liberal leadership, it's a significant obstacle to him winning the next federal election.

What about the dick pics?

His actions are the stuff we need to examine and prosecute.

Any family and personal connections to Nazism has become inarguably relevant.

Sure. They're worth talking about. But the bit that matters are his words and deeds. Like you said, he did sieg heil, and he has been doing weird shit with Twitter's algorithm. He probably has more creepy stuff going on that I'm not aware of.

I really like TTRPGs because I can try literally anything and the GM will adjudicate on it. Computer based puzzlers feel very constrained because it always seems like there's a right answer and I don't know what it is.