This is one of those “an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” sort of situations.

More soft layoffs. It’s short term thinking obviously, the people with options will leave, the people who can’t do better will stay.

Sucks for those involved, but it was a bubble built on a flood of international students. It was never sustainable.

It would, but how are they going to grift off of that?

Always? We’ve been underfunding our military for generations. This new spending is badly needed catch up to get us functional.

That’s the game everyone is playing. Just stall and run out the clock. There’s no point in working on a deal, because he’ll break it the moment it’s convenient.

Put up a show of negotiating with the US, and work more with other countries. The public in the US seems to forget that the rest of the world are not NPCs in their own internal struggle.

They’ll try anything except solving the real problem.

They’ll get deported on their way out of the stadium.

Of course it’s Doug Holyday complaining. They tried to take the politicians out of the process because of people like him. He’s been councils resident contrarian since the Ford family moved on.

The CRTC is mostly run by former telco people and it shows.

Its the same reason we “couldn’t” do a proper implementation of the emergency alert system, which is why every Amber alert uses the “the bombs are falling” warning level.

I’m guessing it assumes you’re carrying your phone and infers motion from changes in the signal?

Or just uses the phone connecting and disconnecting to signal departure and arrival, in which case Home Assistant has done that for awhile now.

That sounds like being online with extra steps.

Being some flavor of evangelical who raves about “groomers” seems to be the best predictor of being an actual groomer I’ve seen so far.

Typical city council nonsense. They fought them, added all kinds of warnings and pilot projects, and now want a pause because they’re working.

“War on the car” has been a popular talking point for 20 years plus.

It’s become so much easier. You can do it in a minute from the toilet, before you had to buy postage.

Every time we think the bar can’t get lower, they go ahead and prove us wrong.

I just finished Oryx and Crake the first of a trilogy by Margaret Atwood, I quite enjoyed it. It’s a short of dystopian sci-fi. I was put off by her at first because I was forced to read her in high school but I’m glad I gave her another chance.

I’m starting Les Misérables in French in the hopes of improving my written French.

Also working my way through Weapons of the weak which is about forms of peasant resistance.

Kay

Re polarize the power coupling!

My hypothesis is they deputized a bunch of random who answered internet ads and offered them a fixed amount per person they bring in. They get paid the same, so why bother checking?