So Canada fucked up

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Canada loves Eastern European fascists.

Temu is selling direct what you’ll find at a dozen other retailers sold for some 10-100x markup. These products are all coming from the same factories and warehouses, just labeled with different brands.

It’s so fucking like the GOP to fixate on Emhoff’s for being Jewish and completely ignore how he’s the brother of a senior Uber executive and tied into all sorts of Silicon Valley money.

God forbid we get any actual socialism around here. It’s always got to be the socialism of fools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal

On 22 September 2023, Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian Canadian who fought in the SS Division Galicia of the military wing of the Nazi Party, the Waffen-SS, was invited to the House of Commons of Canada to be recognized by Speaker Anthony Rota, the Member of Parliament for Hunka’s district. Hunka received two standing ovations from all house members, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, other party leaders, and visiting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Hunka’s membership in the Waffen-SS was reported initially by The Forward, which quoted a tweet by the academic Ivan Katchanovsk. The story was picked up by the Canadian media, receiving international attention.

The incident, seen as a political blunder and a scandal, such that it drew comparisons to the most embarrassing moments in Canada’s history, was leveraged by the Russian establishment to further its justifications for waging war in Ukraine, which had been started under a pretext of “denazification”, among other stated reasons. Rota resigned as speaker five days later, and the House unanimously adopted a motion to condemn Nazism and withdraw its recognition of Hunka. Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian government officials apologized to the worldwide Jewish community. The handling of suspected World War II war criminals in Canada became a renewed matter of public interest.

A $500k/plate dinner for a guy with $1B feels a bit like a $500/plate dinner for a guy with $1M.

This is why we can’t relent

What are “we” doing? Not uninstalling our ad blockers? Its not as though people are boycotting the site. Just use Piped, ffs. No ads whatsoever. It’s a late-00s YouTube experience.

Harris is married to the brother of an Uber executive. If you were hoping for a trust-buster, you picked the wrong candidate. Those $500k/plate fundraising dinners she hosts are coming entirely out of the Silicon Valley mega-millionaire bracket.

Speaking of which, anyone notice the hellishly annoying full-screen shitty mobile games Netflix keeps front-paging?

Seriously considering just giving up on the service and going entirely to piracy.

Ohio is absolutely stacked with far-right judges.

They won’t, but there’s a very good chance some Haitian families will get SWAT’d by racist neighbors.

That’ll fade by election day. Trump’s strength comes from the deluge of right-wing media that bombards people. These debates are going to blotted from their brains - if not completely subverted by talk show re-edits and talk-overs - in another month.

There’s this bizarre assumption that debates shape public opinion rather than sharpen prior biases.

Liberals watched the debate and concluded Harris was normal and therefore won.

Conservatives watched and concluded only Trump is willing to speak The Truth to a hostile media and therefore won.

Undecideds don’t like either one of them for a variety of reasons. But nothing these two said on Tuesday really turned heads. It was classic Trump and classic Kamala.

He’s been able to borrow against them for some time. Someone is already holding the bag.

The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since.

Crazy. Who is the Senate Majority Leader right now?

Because the left typically aren’t autocratic.

You don’t need an autocracy to have a functional postal service.

This is Republicans taking advantage of a weak liberal institution, not leftists declining to become tyrants.

Powerful people can just commit crimes in the US and it’s fine.

People are treating the “dump” part of a “Pump and Dump” like it’s some kind of a vindication, when suckers were already fully fleeced back at its $7B market cap peak.

It’s a Mastodon instance with a few thousand users trading at $16/share. Absolutely insane that anyone was buying this garbage at any price.

He simply can’t say it because he’s being politically correct. As soon as Elon Musk liberates us from PC tyranny, it will be fine to call Haitians dog eating n-words again.

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Might be a good video, but I really do hate this shit.

I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be…

The heavy investment in AI is coming under the assumption that these advanced processes will replace huge portions of the human workforce.

So we don’t need lawyers, because we just put prompts into a Law AI and it gives us a verdict. We don’t need doctors, because we just put symptoms into a Medical AI and it gives us a diagnosis and treatment plan. We don’t need salespeople, because we just put the product into a Marketing AI and it spits out a bunch of comvincing ad copy.

the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.

We already connect our brains to our computers. We just use screens and keyboards as our interface.

I suppose you could argue that a guy with a calculator or a camera or a chat app is mentally different than one without it. But I think the goal with AI is supplementing human minds, not complementing then.