Alloi

big W for games workshop

but the "yet" has me a bit worried. we need certain companies to become permanent bastions of human creativity.

animation studios, film studios, tabeltop game studios, video game studios. etc.

the ones that stay human will be remembered forever. everything else is filler and slurry. theres an absence of love in it, a love that transcends the medium in a way thats hard to describe. and i hope it stays hard to describe, so that AI cant take that away too.

its like an invisible watermark that only humans can feel.

theres no way that wouldnt be gamified and taken advantage of. the whole idea behind open source is that it subverts the (programmed) urge to provide knowledge and products for profit, rather than the betterment of society.

if there is always a monetary incentive, it undermines the work of freeing people from paid slop, digital enslavement, and subscription services. it is a work of passion, and love, and it should remain unchained by something as illusory and temprorary as money.

that being said we do "live in a society" and people need to eat. if you use a program a lot and have money to spare, donate to your devs. we shouldnt lock open source behind a pay wall. that defeats the purpose of open source. devs are always more than welcome to do a hybrid of open and closed source of they wish.

i hope they analysed the importance of earth, wind, and fire as well.

the day after the final update my cpu almost fried itself. instantly switched to bazzite. record low temps. fuck windows

i agree that guns are not on the top of the list of important things for most canadians. however you are not going to flip conservative, rural/indigenous hunters without some kind of roll back, as an indigenous hunter myself, who hunts to sustain myself and my family. its annoying that we would rather spend money on a buy back programs instead of using that money to secure the border and dedicate more law enforcment to addressing illegally imported firearms and ghost guns.

if we want a presence from the NDP, and to gain official status back, this is just one issue that would flip a massive sum of voters from the conservative and im sure the liberal party as well.

everything else the NDP wants starts to make sense when you allow canadians to have their privacy and some autonomy back in their lives. everything else sweetens the pot. unfortunately there are a lot of single issue voters when it comes to gun rights. if we undermine the conservative parties policies, like the liberals did, and quite successfully, specifically around gun rights. it would be a slam dunk return for the NDP.

ive spoken to a quite a few people who decided to vote conservative on this policy alone. the rest of their platform doesnt work for them (obviously) otherwise. we need to strengthen individual rights, and workers rights, and we need a better armed population. because none of our wanted policies will matter if we are annexed by the states without a fight.

we unfortunately do not have the luxury of living in a safe world anymore. and we need numbers to ensure that we get the policies that serve all canadians. even the ones traditionally on the other side of the isle.

ill just throw this out there. because in my point of view, i do believe canada, and generally the west itself has a nearing exparation date as far as the normal function of our society goes. we are entering into a death spiral that will likely see our entire way of life dramatically change, and we as a country may not exist in the same way every again. that being said.

i would care more if any of these individuals were actually consistent on issues that really matter.

some of them may be worker positive, others wish to centralise the party further right, others want stronger unions, and increased immigration. but none of them are nearly dramatic enough to fight the only fight that really matters. they care more about the economy and immigration than the environment, nationalising energy projects, or dismantling monopolies. none of them care about attacking the cancer that is oligarch influence in our country.

what we would end up getting is a milk toast feel good government which would spend more money on advertising what the right would inevitably call "woke bullshit" and rile them up about canada "doing a socialism" furthering the divide and increasing separatist support.

dont get me wrong, i love the idea of strong unions, immigration (when balanced with increasing living standards, and not done maliciously to the detriment of immigrants and canadians, stagnating wages, increasing the cost of housing, and creating scape goats out of people who just want a better life)

what we need is someone who will promise not to fuck with legal gun owners, and if anything roll back gun bans on "military STYLE guns" (especially right now when we face a potential invasion from the US) we need someone who is pro worker, pro union, and pro free healthcare. we need a new national standard of pay for healthcare workers and a federally implemented standard that dramatically cuts the progress of privatised healthcare at every corner. we need someone who will dismantle telecom monopolies, nationalise our energy sector, and telecom companies. develope domestic trade routes, international trade agreements. protect our private information, and remove surveillance technology from the police and csis against canadian citizens that would interfere with our constitutional right to privacy. while also ensuring that AI ethics are dramatically enforced by anyone wishing to make them available in canada. environmentally, and content wise. we need someone who will work to create a balanced and fair immigration system that allows our standard of living to increase in spite of new canadians coming over to make a new home. and we need someone to dismantle the system of realestate investment in canada, who will completely remove or severaly reduce corporate ownership of single family homes, farm land, and condominiums. there needs to also be an individual cap on home ownership as well. at the very max a normal individual can own no more than two residential properties in canada without licensing. ALSO, this is extremely upsetting to hear for landlords. we need combined ownership rights from renters and landlords. if you pay 90% of someones mortgage, then you should be entitled to 90% of the equity. we need to dramatically reduce the allure of landlording. it is parasitic. and destructive.

feel free to shit all over what i just said. but honestly our countries fucked either way with the current changes in the world, and perhaps when we rebuild, we rebuild it a bit more fairly once that child raping geriatric fuck down south chokes to death on a big mac.

oligarchs and billionaires should simply not exist, not in canada. not anywhere in the world. they are directly to blame for the negative influence in our country. and so, we should attack the system that allows it. if we corner off our country from them, that is one massive landmass of labour, and a millenias worth of resources they cant touch. fuck em.

regardless of the choices our government makes on that front, ill personally be dying a canadian citizen. and everyone i know personally whos able bodied feels the same way.

we are already gathering the things we may need for a prolonged invasion, for safety purposes ill leave it at that.

but long story short, the united states will never financially recover from this.

evidently raping handcuffed women in porta potties before sending them to a concentration camp, where they will likely be assaulted many more times, and maybe die.

i mean, please do message them, but i honestly do not believe it will matter. ive messaged my MP about these bills before and hes made it clear that the liberals are a unified front in this. in fact every time ive messaged any MP about something that clearly only benefits the rich or surveilance/police state at the cost of canadians, or simply human beings and the environement, their voting records indicate they wiped their ass with my notions and stuck it on the wall with all the other complaints from "the poors"

they will eventually pass digital ID, it is only a matter of time. democracy is an illusion created by oligarchs who stole the reigns decades before any of us were born. the plans in motion are that of dead men, carried on by the brainwashed offspring of the old elite.

this has been the plan since the first byte of data was stored on a hard drive the size of a pickup truck.

they have loads of technically anonymous data from the past several decades, purchases, legal information, health information, voting records, the list is virtually infinite. every metric they could save, they have. now with AI they can sort through it all, and automate the process of control. all they really need to pin the tail on the donkey is digital ID and eventually a physically integrated identification, like the "tattoos" and brainchips that are in development at microsoft, neuralink, and other companies. thats the finale of identification technology in our lifetime. real time information on the entire population, giving everything that your smart phone and purchases cant. but thats definetly a few years off. most of the "we know better" generations will be killed off in the culling that will be ww3. as by design. but the youth who are too young to understand will be raised in a world fully shaped by AI and the digital landscape, hand made by oligarchs to trap their minds and pit them against those who threaten "the future"

one day in our life times, the young who survive "what comes next" will be fighting over these technologies like its apple vs microsoft. xbox vs playstation. edward vs jacob.

giving away every last shred of their free will and bodily autonomy in the process. like the children in pinnochio who turned into jackasses on the island with no limits, no rules, no parents. turned into beasts of burden forever more. by the time the change has happened it will be too late. there wont be any going back. they will become self repairing machines, self sufficient, self fuelling, self cleaning, the house cat of robotic slave labour

any resistance will be neutralized before it becomes a tangible thought, based on probability by the system.

there is a way out of this though. we just have to learn to question authority, and simply say "no". even when we are shitting our pants at the end of the barrel of their legal enforcers, we say no. we have to dismantle the entire system, uproot it. remove all ideas of value in any and every currency. we live smaller, more local lives. where the worst punishment you could ever face is exile. we must become the stewards of the earth like so many claim to be. we work not for the idea of amassed material goods, but simply the betterment of our people and environement. no wars, no killing, no violence, no hoarding of resources. we turn the world into a co-operative. we base our decisions on balance, morality, and progress. we abandon and moderate technologies that harm us, that harm our environment.

they wish to remove our democracy, and to remove our ability to even question the removal. we are living our lives through the lense of people who have never known struggle. who have for generations limited the reach and abilities of the meek out of fear of our excellence catching fire and becoming a spectacle to be admired and remembered. to be adopted by the young, and reach heights of love and compassion that make historians question how we ever lived differently. how we ever fell under the yoke of those who lack the ability to feel the emotion that is the foundation of our success as a society, and species. Empathy.

it is not our weakness, it is the key to our success and survival. it is the basis of every achievement, every science, every nation, every home. and they shun it in every decision they make. for their own enrichment, their own primitive view of the future, they are so small minded they cannot see one without them in it.

these are desperately ill people, and they have no business being in the stations they inhabit. it is our duty as fellow humans to remove them from their mental and physical prisons so they can no longer harm themselves, or others with their delusions. which have very real, and horrific consequences, that stretch generation upon generation.

they look at slavery and genocide as benevolent acts, they look at the innocence of children as a way to seal a deal and enforce a lifetime of loyalty, because they are morally bankrupt and have no loyalty to anyone except themselves, unless forced by the idea of a tarnished legacy.

they simply have no right to control us, they have no right to pretend they can. the only thing stopping us from removing them is a lifetime of illusions of power. the same programming that made people believe in gods made flesh. but the flesh bleeds.

when the time comes. and it will come.

remember to say "no".

and our fuckin rights as well, big brother will be watching every pico second and recording every byte of data, and sharing it with the US government, without warrant.

torture and execute the president on live tv along with his entire administration, and hang their corpses from the fences of the white house. when their bodies rot away, and are ripped to pieces by people, animals, and time, replace them with bronzed 3d scanned copies, with a warning to all future presidents on a plaque that says "this is what happens when you try to dismantle democracy, this is what happens when you put profits over people, this is what happens when you betray humanity"

then pass some laws that say as much.

there is no world where ID verification on the internet for porn will ever be used for anything except government and corporate blackmail.

it likely is. if i commited fraud and stole ten million dollars, and they only had evidence that i stole 1 million, id lie and say i only stole 1 million.

its been known to be worse than germany for hundreds of years, hitler based his concentration camps and the holocaust in part on the american treatment of indigenous people.

they killed tens of millions of people with muskets, 6 shooters, repeaters, and disease, on horses, and trains. all the while enslaving an entire race of human beings in the process. which arguably was the main reason they could enrich and modernize their country in the first place. free labour.

america has always ALWAYS been the bad guy. they just had really really good "marketing" and military strength for the last century.

what is happening now are the final flailings of a dying empire. it will stretch itself thin, bankrupt itself, crash the dollar, fuck the global economy, and be picked apart by oligarchs until mentioning the word "union" gets you shot on the spot, not by a robot police officer, but your fellow "patriot" between spoon fulls of soylent green.

the rot is far too deep, and the purification of chaos is, unfortunately, the only remedy, and an imminant one at that. whether we agree or not, like it or not, its coming, its here. and thats just the way it has to be, apparantly.

any social progress may have to wait a few decades, maybe even centuries depending on the outcome of WW3. if at all.

but, EVENTUALLY, if we survive it. there will be a social revolution, and hopefully that one creates a better life for those alive to live it. likely still just a handfull will enjoy everything life has to offer and more. but maybe, just maybe the masses will take back whats theirs and live fully again.

i imagine seeming invincible on the world stage is more important to a would be conquerer than honouring a fallen soldier, who he evidently sees as "suckers, and losers"

it ends with dead poor people. that is 1000000000% certain.

no US personal died? sounds like something they would lie about. considering they lie about everything.

hes auditioning for trump so he can replace carney if he decideds to turn his sights on canadas leadership in the future.

this guy is such a fuckin loser.

sarcasm, however, is a sign of intelligence, as is the ability to recognize it.

"i was with you up until this.... this kind of defeatism isn't helpful."

thats fair, i understand why you would think that, they spent billions if not trillions of dollars over generations to make us all think the same thing to be true.

i think not acknowledging the truth of how our system really works is more detrimental to a future worth living, than pretending that the comforting illusion of modern democracy is sufficient enough to make the lasting changes we need to survive the next century, and beyond. evidently speaking, it is not.

id argue that understanding the patterns of power and influence, especially in the age of technology and spin, isnt "defeatest", but the first step in enacting the vision of hope that we need to keep living. and that vision varies.

for me, its not left vs right, its up vs down. rich vs the poor. always has been, always will be. love, balance, and understanding, in the absence of greed, fear, and hatred of the unknown.

if we "cut off the head", the power is consolidated to another individual, or group, they inherit the illusion, and the pattern continues, like a hydra. so, the only real solution is to attack the body of it, the system itself.

but power is consolidated after every revolution, at every level, and the patterns continues again, and again, it happens often enough that it has been deemed a part of human nature. Enacted equality is only a flash in the pan in terms of recent human history. So, we need a readily designed system and decades of influence to bring the global population into agreement over what is truly best for humanity, and the world, without global cooperation there will be no lasting change, especially when it comes to wealth inequality. however we are far too divided, ideologically, culturally, physically, financially, to really make that work efficiently. there is no one answer that works for everyone that isnt part of some dystopian nightmare that erases the idea of individualism, or the self, entirely. however its arguable dependant on your world view that the self is an illusion of the ego, and that the ego is a mask for the divine, of which we are all one, splintered, and made to forget, for the sake of self exploration and the expansion of our combined consience. but thats not based in the material, and so should hold no sway over it, regardless of its truth or fallacy.

we arent the first species to "drop the ball" on this planet, and we will for sure not be the last if history has any merit to make that prediction.

so, we either destroy the system, let it destroy itself, or watch as it consumes everything around it, and splinter off into the stars, devouring everything in its path.

humans are bound by exchanging goods and services, for IOU's. our entire society, even in its most base, tribal elements, are ruled by this logic.

as long as that is true, no singular person is free from corruption. no system can save itself from eating its own tail. there is no world where our level of consumption can balance itself with the needs of the environment to sustain us.

as our "pot" slowly starts to boil, people, rich and poor, become more and more desperate, more willing to abandon morals for survival. over the next few decades we will see wars, famines, shortages, and shifts in the world order not seen since WW2.

the issue here is, we are not poised to be in a position of control over how that world order shifts, as regular people. our reach is small, and it would not be allowed to gain any traction beyond "controlled opposition" status if it broke out amongst the people. uncontrolled opposition is always crushed and villified.

i say this as someone in the far left camp, theres zero shot that human selfishness and greed, doesnt win over love and compassion, in a world where 1's and 0's dictate the outcome of someones quality of life. until we address which game we are really playing, we cannot change the rules in a meaningful way.

i have more doubt than hope, but im willing to be proved wrong a million times over.

if you got this far, and still have hope, make some friends, do your cardio, and practice your aim.

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