The Christmas Dinner at the end of “Seven Fishes” Season 2 of The Bear. Cuts a little too much on the dotted line for me.

You stay, I go. No Following.

Benis

Here’s the thing… People who care still use Discord. I’m one of them. I have no other option for maintaining communications with a group of 20 people I have been gaming with since 2009. We’ve all hopped from Skype to Teamspeak to Ventrillo to Discord. There’s no going back for many of these people.

Like it or not, Discord offers a product that Signal, Briar, or any other Matrix chat offers and that’s accessibility. I would love for a mainstream E2EE chat program that actually can host a 15 person call, hold multiple chatrooms in one server, allow screen sharing, streaming and multimedia sharing.

We can’t just live in a vacuum and claim nobody uses these programs because they’re stupid or don’t care. For many, like me, Discord a reasonable security risk people are willing to take in order to maintain communications with people they care about.

To be honest, I was expecting an AC style game set during the Golden Age of Witchers. The schools of each nation are thriving, magic is abundant, Witchers are respected envoys to rulers, monster population is waning but one thing remains the same: Humans slaughter eachother in droves, rape pillage and plunder. Thus proving once more that Humans are the true monsters.

“It’s Geralt.” -Geralt

Tell me about it. I can feel the rumblings of something awful coming for Canada. All because if this bullshit down south. Our rights are being threatened because of reactionary politics. Half the people I work with can’t seperate Canadian politics from American. They think it’s all the same.

Drives me up the wall.

Sunflower oil gang rise up!

Great cooking versatility, great flavour for fried foods, high smoke point, cheap as heck.

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Series)

Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey (Ongoing Series)

Stillsuit a Novella in Mercy of Gods

Space Oddysey trilogy by Arthur C. Clarke

Sprawl by Gibson (Trilogy)

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Trilogy)

I think all of these are a fantastic start that reach into different archetypes of fictional technology. Obviously all in the scifi genre but all incredibly different in style. Well worth the read.

I was reading that the devs specifically did a revamp to map the deep control scheme for the Deck. So the answer to your questions is most likely yes.

What’s really funny is that’s how socialised healthcare works. We all pool money together based on income and it goes into this neat little fund that ensures no person ever goes without healthcare.

Corporations like United Health can’t profit from this so they’ve been working and lobbying lawmakers in my country and others for decades to gut the public health and education sectors to cause more deaths and get a foothold for private care.

In my eyes this is a corporate act of war and should be condemned to the highest degree. Our forefathers died in trenches to prove our worth and ensure we could practice this social democracy. American terror organisations sow doubts in the minds of my people and poison the waters of meaningful progress.

There is calculable effect on the people of my country in housing, health and education because of these profiteering fucks. These predatory animals could disappear tomorrow and nobody would give a flying fuck.

I’m not sure if this is sarcastic or not.

We share some culture. But, Canada has to fight for our own culture to remain relevant in the face of American oversaturation.

The legend of grimrock 1,2. I have pages of notes and a hand drawn map on gridpaper for them!

Ukraine is small compared to Russia and look at them.

I realise the discrepancy but it doesn’t matter what size the bully is. You should always stand up for your rights. Sovereignty rights, Provincial, State, Human, Civil rights. There are always bullies out there.

Trans folks make up less than 1% of the fight. There are several orders of magnitude between their cause and almost any other, yet they fight.

Just because we’re smaller doesn’t mean we have to take their shit. America relies on Canada for large amounts of their lumber, construction goods, and energy. If Canada and Mexico decide to say goodbye then America is just as screwed.

Canada has the ninth largest economy in the world. Yes, America is larger but not so large that they don’t rely on Canada for import/export. Starting a trade war with Canada would just see Canada move it’s resources to a more fruitful source.

So sick and tired of people talking about Canada as though we’re subservient or reliant on America. We are allies and friends. We work together because it works. The moment it stops working doesn’t mean Canada will come crashing down and beg america for forgiveness.

Canada would resist. Saying anything else is defeatism and only serves to support this insane rhetoric.

I will see blood in the streets before I cede a single inch of my fucking country to fascist pig fuckers from south of the border. They may be the largest military out there but there will be American blood on Canadian hands.

No worries mate! Canadian wartime history is a very interesting one. It’s actually surprising how much stories and actions like those above lead to Canadian Sovereignty. The distaste for war, slaughter and bloodshed is basically what lead to Canada declaring war, on its own, with Canadian officers at the helm during ww2.

That’s not what the near in near peer means…

It’s a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.

Who is part of this puppet government and who would take over after they leave? Who should take over in your eyes.

You’re so focused on one goddamn aspect of Ukrainian history you can’t look past the Red and Gold tinted glasses.

Who created the conditions which allowed Ukrainian Nazis to come to power? Who created the conditions that lead to people taking up arms against the soviets? Who created the conditions that forced the Ukrainian people of the 1940s to idolise bad people? Who created the conditions today that have prevented spiritual healing in Ukraine necessary to look introspectively at their history and heroes?

Why would a nation perpetually at war with an asshole neighbour be drawn to idolising isolationist and xenophobic leaders?

Do you stop to think before your fingers type out the most braindead, fox news pundit, podcast clippable bullshit or do you just lack the ability to understand Cause and Effect?

Do you understand why a nation at war for three centuries might idolise war criminals?

Do you understand why freedom fighters are labeled terrorists?

Do you understand what it means to fight for survival by any means necessary?

I don’t think you understand how horrifying nation building is. How bloody and disgusting the history of the world can be. Every single hero you can name did horrible. Horrible things in the name of their cause.

This is not a justification of Nazi ideals. This is a lesson on how downtrodden people will cling to any ideology possible if it means living to see tomorrow. Especially when the alternative is famine, rape and slaughter.

Once these conditions are solved, Ukraine can start to heal.

You fail at a fundamental level to understand any sort of subtlety beyond “But… but muh statues.” Shut the fuck up. You probably live in a nation still erecting statues of people who fought against their own government and you likely make the “states rights” argument anytime that’s brought up. Where’s your outrage for civil rights abuses in your own nation?