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You are the one making the unsubstantiated claim that companies are ethical. You first.

A very simple search says otherwise. It is only stated as “unethical”.

Not that they don’t.

As I understand, the core issue is that the donation doesn’t happen in your name.

It collectively happens in theirs. Giving them a big tax break for almost no cost to them.

Never donate through a company, do it directly.

They lie about reality, so can we.

It was absolutely him.

Its sad that the federal liberals in Canada spent so much effort to build up a strong Olympic team only for the Stephen Harper to sell it all off after the 2010 Olympics.

Canada should absolutely dominate at the Olympics, but a decade of the single worst Prime Minister in Canadian history, then a decade of feels over facts has left us in a sprry place.

Congrats to Norway

The rioting bostonians were literally paid gang members though.

Very well put.

To touch on the point of “where do video games fit in media”; I am reminded of an old video that sticks with me, roughly shortly after the release of Elder Scrolls Oblivion, with Sir Patrick Stewart on the topic of covering games and whether they are art.

He put forward the framing of “who is telling the story” to classify where video games fall closest as art. You have four possible personas in storytelling/art: • the author • the director • the actors • the audience He then broke down who is telling the story: • in paintings and carvings, it is the artist telling all of the story directly through the media. • in books, it is a combination of the author and the reader, it is the author’s words that create the story through the filter and imagination of the readers mind.
• on stage, it is the actors that tell the story to the audience. • in film, it is the director telling the story through the performances of the actors who all filter the words of the writer.

He stated how he marveled at video games because they represent a new media where the storyteller is the audience directly. Yes the writer lays out the possible elements, the actors, if present, influence how the characters are percieved, and the director pulls all of that together.

But it is the audience that creates the story in every run through every action they take in the game, and as such they are closest to books.

Insofar as romance and based on the above, I think that once the planned beats are played out it is up to the audience as the storyteller to create the rest of the romance.

The whole “I feel really guilty about breaking the law” has been a legal trick for at least 25 years.

Also power.

Ukraine just before the invasion of Crimea had just discovered that the Donbas region had a massive untapped natural gas/methane deposit. It would have ended Russian control of EU methane. Its suspected that is why Putin has been pushing for all of Donbas.

Its also about trying to make all of the soviet bloc countries stay tied to Russia.

They were flying two flights a day to both locations.

Combined with Westjet dropping a large number of US flights as well, it is a noticeable drop.

As I understand it:

The existing bridge is a toll bridge that was sold by Michigan/Detroit to some fuckwit billionaire. He collects all of the tolls, spends nothing on upkeep.

Ontario and Detroit/Michigan notice the existing bridge isnt enough for the traffic, and forces all of the traffic through residential areas.

Detroit and Windsor worked together on plans for the new bridge that connects directly to Ontario’s 401 highway system. Fuckwit went to extreme lengths to block the new bridge, even buying the votes to block it at the state level.

The Canadian side works with various US interests to secure a US side of the new bridge, then later gets an exemption from the Fuckwit’s state law from the Obama era government.

The agreement reached says that Canada pays for the entire bridge, with the caveat that Canada will see 100% of the toll money until they recover the money spent building it. After that I am not sure what was planned with the toll money. Edit: 50/50 split to Michigan and Canada.

The fuckwit and Trump clearly want to steal the bridge and keep the toll money.

You realize that for millenia, philosophers fantasized about the concept of a police force that existed just to enforce laws, and not just be military guards?

The issue is not the concept of police. It is the leadership and the police unions.

If you just have policies and leave it to private companies, you end up with Vancouver.

Where we have tons of policies and initiatives for affordable housing that only result in private developers stopping construction until the price has increased enough for them to profit, and then abusing loopholes to reduce/remove the amount of affordable housing in the actual building.

E.g. during the post-covid boom, Vancouver was a world leader in housing starts. Now that the price has cooled, starts have plummetted, so cons and US-Media are crying out about regulations. But no new regulations exist.

Because the only viable way to increase supply is to have a public construction company that builds at cost.

And thanks to Alberta and US media, that will never fly.

Also: dont overlook that media hounds women about everything.

Oh, the “year” of 1776 that involves them going back to the rampant corruption of the 1750s which paved the way for the post-war lack of corruption that was seen as so bizarre that it led to the revolution?

Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.

People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.

The internet used to be magnificent.

Three? It is one in every 55k miles.
The published rate of American driving says one in 500k. Estimated non-reported is one per 200k

The last reviewer stating that the movie is worse than Cats.

And that movie drove Andrew Lloyd Webber to get a dog.

Never heard of Polish chocolate. Will have to find and see if I can get any way over here.

Can recommend Canadian choc as well: Purdy’s and Laura Secord at the very least.