Why stop at gender? Why not race or religion? Also thank God that I could prefer a male driver, I mean, it's an automobile and I'm merely entrusting the driver with my life, right?

And if female drivers suffer from my misogyny, they can deal with it, right?

/s

I get why it's a prickly issue that US based companies might not want to wade into.

Oh well that settles it

It's called the second amendment, look it up idiot /s

That's exactly the point?

He isn't threatening Russia with getting nuked, he's threatening NATO with HAVING nukes.

If Ukraine beats back Russia to the border, things can end. Ukraine can join NATO, Ukraine gets its security via NATO and Russia will be sore, but accept Ukraine doesn't pose an existential threat. Peace and normalization can eventually return.

If Ukraine can't beat them back, and can't get the external help it needs to do so, yeah they can build some nukes. They might have to use one to show they're not fucking around. Suddenly Ukraine IS an actual threat to Russia. Suddenly this isn't about prestige and empire building anymore. It might end the war but normalizing relations and the future of Europe is very unclear. It would make NATO membership impossible. This is worse for NATO than Russia taking Kyiv.

Ukraine wins either way. Russia loses either way. But NATO loses if Ukraine gets the bomb.

He was "too nice" to SNC? That... That is not even a remotely accurate euphemism.

Like, Trudeau isn't Trump. Not even close. Not even directionally similar. But that's not at all a reasonable way to describe the scandal.

4 billion a year to house 86,000 people is $46,500 yr/person.

$3875/mo/person

Being honest, with a budget like that I could rent an apartment in NYC that I can only assume is quite a bit nicer than a literal homeless shelter

I'd always assumed photographers and directors and producers made the kinds of decisions around "will the subjects eyes be visible or obscured". I didn't realize the actors made those kinds of calls.

I don't dispute that you were correct in guessing they weren't Canadian, I just wasn't following your logic.

The question is posted to a community@lemmy.ca so if one were to assume anything wouldn't it make much more sense to assume Canadian?

20P

Lol the Fraser Institute is an absolute fucking joke.

Yeah I got a pretty nauseating explanation of "The June 4th Incident"

To be fair, if they're driven by an LLM I would still expect it to be wrong.

I want to live in a world where people can eat beyond rice and dried beans within their budget.

It's 2024. Eating a thin mash of bulk grains like you're a medieval peasant isn't a plucky story of resilience. It's the story of a failed economic policy.

Oh, no, I'm absolutely not trying to engage as if this person is holding the objective truth because they aren't. I'm not either. They just have had a different brainwashing than most so I'm interested in the flavour. I'm interested in hearing their views, fact checking them, and using that to reverse engineer the intiontions of those who are feeding them a moral rationalization.

No, I was just trying to drag out of you how you see the incident without priming the pump. How does one minimize the killing of hundreds of unarmed students? I knew people like you existed, I just never had the opportunity to witness someone actually do it, and I was curious how it's done.

You roll 20 additional days into it as a buffer, and count injuries as equivalent to murders, and let them happen anywhere.

It can't be the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" for you because then couldn't draw in PLA members who had heart attacks and died elsewhere that day because they weren't at the square. You need to create a context where they're all the same thing and the geography of place really damages the ability to do that.

You just dilute a massacre to make it not a massacre by expanding the time and places. Super interesting. It's a distinctly different approach to propegands than you'd typically see in the west or Russia.

What what is called?

The incident?

Care to expand on the Tiananmen propaganda comment?