I will see your clown show and raise you a wanabe despot.
At least you have a choice between to different parties, and when the leader steps down for some reason you know who will take over.
In the UK both parties are near exactly the same, and if the leader steps down they party can elect popo the clown if they want and there is nothing the population can do about it.
Lets see
I can vote for the status quo and vote for the party that spent the last 6 years absolutely *** our country up.
I can vote for the party who had the ability to trigger an election mutiple times the last two years, but declined it because of Jagmeet's pension their coalition agreement. The fact the NDP is full of Hamas shills makes it a hard no, I'd vote Trudeau before those clowns.
So by default that leaves Pierre, the evil right wing Maple MAGA. Is he going to be any better? Maybe, maybe not, but who else is there? The greens and their alcoholic leader? The Bloq "we dont want your pipelines just the equalization payments" Quebecois? The PPC who cant even win in their leaders riding? He's the least worst of the choices.
I thought he was an idiot when he first got named leader of the opposition. Every answer of his was "When Trudeau's not in power, I'll fix the problems." Boyyyyyy thats not an answer, thats not a plan.
The Libs and the NDP are for all intents and purposes the same party. That said, the Cons are also the same party as them just the other wing of it. In other words our Cons are just Progressives driving the speed limit. Pierre is a better option but it really is like being forced to eat diarrhea but maybe it's on a plate or directly in your mouth.
Thats really all it boils down to, whos the best option of whats available.
It probably wont even matter anyways. Whenever election time rolls around, after they delay it because "economy emergency due to Trump" (another "conspiracy theory") they're just going to do the exact same thing they've done in Romania, France, Germany, etc, the same thing they did to Ruby Dhalla and Chandra Arya...they'll just find some reason to disqualify the election or form a supermajority coalition and give themselves the win by default.
In the UK both parties are near exactly the same, and if the leader steps down they party can elect popo the clown if they want and there is nothing the population can do about it.
But your parliamentary system means that every now and then a third, fourth, and even a fifth party is needed for a coalition government. This insures that occasionally new ideas are introduced into your government. You at least have hopes that the new ideas are better ideas and they might even get adopted.
A colleague was injuried while practing krav maga.
That colleague had some kidney problem, and was punched right there. He got very bad after that.
Generally krav maga teaches techniques to self protection in street fights.
But damn... if youre even considering you will end up in a situation where you gonna engage physically against someone else, there are only 2 things that you need for that moment:
1. Run fast. Obviously the very best option is running away as fast as you can.
2. But if you cant ran away... then you better have a gun instead of relying on punches. At least there is a chance the other side give up when they see the weapon.
But worst thing case is that the other person also have a gun, when, in that situation, you wouldnt be in a worst situation if you only had melee attacks available.
So I can see a single situation where punching the other would actually improve your chances of getting away unscathed
went to the Microcenter at 11 am on Saturday from a tip I got from the Microcenter discord. UPS was unloading so I waited by the byopc for 30mins - felt like such a loser
met up with another 3 dudes from the discord - Microcenter management gave us the side eye when we told them why we were there, which I said, "I know. This is my only day off. I'd rather be home drinking a C4 energy drink playing monster hunter." Whole place laughed, the 9070xt clapped from the shelf, and they mentioned they had 6 5090s that just came in.
swiped the Amex and went home. new card doesn't fit in my case. buy a new case. MOBO DIES (seems a bent a pin because I didn't want to remove the CPU cooler cuz I didn't have more thermal paste. I waited till Sunday morning, got a cheap AM5 board along with a kyrosheet. Fix my issue, posted and up and running with those fake *** frames.
Now I need to RMA my motherboard and get some case fans along with a better 12v adaper since the one that came with it is ugly as ***.
Square Enix has just released its financial results for the first three quarters of the financial year ... Over these nine months the publisher sold 14.9 billion yen ($97 million) worth of merch, compared to 12.4 billion yen over the same period in 2023
When asked if it was challenging to get Square Enix to give the project the go-ahead, Saito stated: "I threatened to leave the company if I couldn’t develop Nier: Automata and pushed through internal approvals that way, honestly. They thought it would only sell 300,000 units globally…"
Released in 2017, Automata vastly exceeded sales expectations and has shipped more than 6.5 million copies worldwide across all platforms.
They also have done nothing with it since the first game was such a success.
Almost everything they had wanted to make and cared about they ruined, or the games did poorly or bare minimum.
They are also ruining FF14 (and ff11), because the unit that was made to support them has been using all the best developers in that unit to make crappy other games nobody cares about.
Square Enix has just released its financial results for the first three quarters of the financial year ... Over these nine months the publisher sold 14.9 billion yen ($97 million) worth of merch, compared to 12.4 billion yen over the same period in 2023
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually like brain freezes from cold stuff.
I was in so much pain prior to some recent dental work, it was actually relief when it happened.
Yeah I am seeing an alarming amount of young people just saying *** it and waiting for expensive painful emergencies before ever going to the dentist now, screw any preventative measures to keep life pain free anymore.
I've been paying for HQ+1 dental coverage for 3 dependents in the new country for years now but family still refuses to go unless horrible pain
I think it would have been far worse if I did that. The real hold up was getting an ENT specialist to see me on short notice. No idea why the hell that has to take so long.
-Impact causes root to die
-Gets root canal.
-Suddenly starts getting sinus/ear infections.
-End up suffering from tinnitus for a week or two.. Possibly from the antibiotics/meds. Waking up hearing "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" was kinda ***.
-Find out that root of tooth perforated sinus canal.
-Wait 2 weeks for an ENT to schedule a MRI...
-Waited 2 weeks to get a second opinion because the first ENT decided to wait 2 weeks to give me test results. Scheduled in advance but they were booked..
-Finally get oral surgery scheduled a week later. Tooth gets extracted.. Went through the root canal for nothing.
-Pay for a bone graft and sinus repair.. Bone graft was out of pocket..
-Implant will be a thing in the future.. More $$$$
Ugh it sucked so bad in so many ways lol. Also caused a TMJ flare up which sucks.
Dental Insurance in the US is kind of a joke. I basically maxed out my insurance for the year, and still spent $1500 out of pocket.
I basically maxed out my insurance for the year, and still spent $1500 out of pocket.
I quit paying for it. I had been with Delta Dental for years and they made a policy change during a year rollover that required me to have a six month waiting period before they'd cover anything. The kicker is they billed me for the six month period.
I'm not *** paying whatever it is per month for six months so they can cover...nothing. I quit buying it b/c we mostly have no major tooth problems and our dentist is pretty conservative about not making you get stuff you don't need. It was costing me more per year and I can cover the emergencies if needed. It barely covered anything anyway.
Still pay $2100/mo for health insurance and that's for the privilege of paying >$20k/yr out of pocket for medical bills. The healthcare.gov estimator estimated that our out of pocket expenses this year will be $35k. That's fun.
In the UK both parties are near exactly the same, and if the leader steps down they party can elect popo the clown if they want and there is nothing the population can do about it.
But your parliamentary system means that every now and then a third, fourth, and even a fifth party is needed for a coalition government. This insures that occasionally new ideas are introduced into your government. You at least have hopes that the new ideas are better ideas and they might even get adopted.
Thats really all it boils down to, whos the best option of whats available.
It probably wont even matter anyways. Whenever election time rolls around, after they delay it because "economy emergency due to Trump" (another "conspiracy theory") they're just going to do the exact same thing they've done in Romania, France, Germany, etc, the same thing they did to Ruby Dhalla and Chandra Arya...they'll just find some reason to disqualify the election or form a supermajority coalition and give themselves the win by default.
Pierre is barely better in a George Carlin "It's a big party and you ain't in it." way. They're going to lie and cheat because they lie and cheat. I could say Bernier, but lol, maybe they'll get 1 seat? My area always votes Liberal no matter what, completely demented.
As long as Pierre finds a way to put an end to ***like this and keep my tax dollars in Canada.
I'm not sure he would, at all. It's hard to tell from the outside but those just look like infrastructure development operations. As in, stuff to do political warfare in other countries. You can't just say "I'm doing political warfare in your country", but if you're giving it infrastructure development, help the climate!!!1, launder some money and do influence stuff, then he's probably all for it.
Im still so frustrated by a result I got from a chat bot in whatsapp.
It was the number of a clinic that was processing my health exams for work.
I needed those exams as fast as I could. I tried getting them from the clinic site, but it had a weird bug there. So I send a message to the whatsapp to see if I someone could help me.
But it was not a person who answer, It was the chatbot.
The stupid chatbot asked me to type one of the available optiosn.
So it was exams > results. Clean and easy.
The answer was a link to the site results page. The one I just came back from because I wasnt successful to get the results.
To sum up, idiot chatbot made me waste my time to perform worse than an easy search on Google.
From now on, everytime some chatbot or another AI related tool simply return a link, Im sure its garbage. NONE need AI to find something Google is doing for more than a decade.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
