Good point, bad example. Health care screw ups are provincial governments.

Major capitalist megacorporations are exploiting things behind the scenes in both countries. Canadian bureaucracy has just slowed it down more.

Notice the Big 3 recommendations are always fire 10% and never cut C-Suite comp by 10%.

I can directly speak to the overwhelmed healthcare point. Conservative governments have consistently and deliberately underfunded and hamstrung healthcare in several provinces to make it easier to push for privatization. I have been in some of the meetings and heard it firsthand.

I was even in one meeting during covid where they planeed to announce creating a new long term care facility while explicitly telling everyone not to mention they were also closing two others.

But I thought conservatives liked slaves. Oh, only if they’re married to them. Right.

Definitely! I recall seeing you at the Lodge meetings.

The Jamestown Foundation has a pro right wing US agenda, and its backers benefit from dissent within Canada and divisiveness towards China.

The foundation has received financial support from conservative donors and organizations, which has raised concerns regarding its promoting a right-wing agenda. It has links to right-wing propaganda and the CIA, and it promotes a neoconservative agenda.

The Jamestown Foundation hosted the Nikolai Getman collection, which was later transferred to the Heritage Foundation, indicating some degree collaborative relationship between the two organizations.

Given all that, Woo may have a point.

maybe find out why her current context led to her needing to sleep then and there.

You talk to dead people?

Maybe citizens should start buying location data on Kash Patel, Hegseth, Vance, Thiel, Ellison, etc. You know, so everyone knows where they are at all times in case they want to thank them forcall the good work they’re doing.

if everyone is bullied, then I take they won’t mind if some people drop by to bully them? I have some free time.

I didn’t see anything in the article, so can anyone tell me if it happened to also feed data to the current crop of greedy info-vampires? Who developed it and what network and data systems it fed through? I know it was “the government” and I also know that usually means an outside vendor developed it under an RFP.

When I was young (late 1970s), “How’s it hangin’?” was actually a common greeting. Not usually to strangers, granted, but pretty common.

Some nations’ intelligence organizations are infamous for false flag activities to help with justification for their country’s aggressive activities, and two of those nations are currently involved in massive military attacks on Iran. So, while Iran does have a Russia-like tendency to go after individual enemies in foreign countries, that is not the only plausible explanation. One could argue both alternate suspect nations are fascist with a desire to justify attacks and invasions on other countries.

Maybe Israel has been spending to much time with Donny the deadbeat lately.

Sometimes it seems like it is less “protect the children” as it is “keep the children unsullied for the pedophile overlords” that is just being packaged as “protect the children.” It also seems like the aspiring overlord class wants to track all of the desired slave class to reduce the chances of guillotines. But a lot of how it’s allowed to take hold (in the west, at least) is because of the Abrahamic cult programming so many people still get while they’re too young to look at it critically.

I recognize I come across as a raving conspiracy nut. Perhaps more sedately, I would phrase it this way: the use of heavily hierarchical mythology in early childhood installs belief systems that make the population much more likely to be eager to live within hierarchical social environments that serve the agendas of those best positioned to run, control, and benefit from a hierarchical world. And the mythology positions an unsullied, pure child as highly valued, making both “protect the children” effective, and making “violate the unsullied to prove your power” desirable goals and easy manipulations.

Either way, any long-term solution is more likely to come from eliminating that hierarchical mythology before critical thinking is developed than any kind of universal ID, or the ridiculous OS level age API California is trying to force into play.

Sorry for the rant.

Here I thought it was going to say morning people, i.e., those who comment early in the day, are more likely to make hate comments.

What made you not use the web for your banking? Is the app 100% required? I use the web interface (forcing desktop version) for mine on graphene with no issues.

Are you talking about protecting american monopolies that shouldn’t exist? Or are you buying/spewing heritage talking points?

Why stop at subminimum wage? They should give people the option to work for free as, what do you call that again? Oh yeah, slaves. Republicans like the idea of those, right?