This is what they want to do to the CBC. Money talks when dealing with private news agencies. CBC has been less contaminated.

Someone sure she has the longest tongue? Did we check everyone? ;)

Very cool!

Grew up Mennonite. This reminds me of a bad joke, usually said tongue in cheek.

"Why did the Mennonite woman cross the road?"

"I dunno. Why did she leave the kitchen?"

Sometimes sarcasm belies a kernel of actual belief. Many Mennonites wouldn't consider the joke ironic.

This Onion article is funny, but it's also not funny because so many people are accurately represented by it, and this is sad.

Old school hardware hacking haha

There are a lot of Canadian products that are only "Canadian" products. Even something like Old Dutch chips -- which (when sold in Canada) are made in Canada by Canadian employees using Canadian ingredients... Is a privately held business owned by Americans. These companies are effectively part of the funnel of capitalism -- profits are extracted from Canadians and sent elsewhere.

And yes, I get it, sometimes foreign investment is nice. Canadian companies invest in foreign markets too. But when you're in a trade war with your neighbour, you want to know not just where it is made, but where the money flows.

Even buying Canadian products at Walmart Canada (an somewhat independent Canadian subsidiary of Walmart in the US) still feeds some of the profits on the sale to the US.

Capitalism is a funnel. Too much profit is funnelled south.

This is because AI (vis-a-vis LLMs) became a religion to many, rather than a technology.

Santa is amused

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It's going to be much much worse than just "hard to get a visa" -- this shitball is rolling downhill and anyone brown should be considering another country.

First they came for...

LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907

He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)

I bet this is a falling out with Hasbro execs on royalties. BG3 royalties were a cash cow this year for Hasbro, pushing Wizards (as a division) to be quite profitable, while almost all other divisions in their company lost money.

So now the agreement is over, and Larian is like: we will own the IP on our next project instead of paying $90M to Hasbro... And fair enough -- they've shown they can kick ass. Hasbro is probably gambling that it's the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer. So they'll kick tires on selling BG4 to another studio.

BG3 will go down in history as the legendary game before enshittification. Larian will make a few great games that don't sell as well -- before selling out to a whale that dumps money on the owner's front lawn (see also BioWare). The devs who made BG3 will found indie studios and make cool shit for a decade or two. So the wheel turns.