So what they're saying is that Canada can win this fight if they've got good aim and a minimal arsenal of tools at their disposal. Got it.
I just watched the final episode of If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student and I had to write something about it... When I first read the description of this anime I thought it looked stupid, "Another low effort anime." But of course I watched it anyway (because I run out of episodes fast on Sundays, haha) and it turned out fantastic!
The description is accurate but severely understates the concept: It's not a comedy but more akin to sci-fi or isekai with a, "what if?" scenario. What would it be like if your dead wife suddenly appears in the form of a little kid, saying she reincarnated? It does a pretty good job of going into the emotions and real-world problems (Japanese 🤣) people would run into in such a situation.
For example, what about the mother of the little girl‽ Wouldn't she be like, "WTF‽" Ummm... Yeah she would! And the show explores that aspect of the concept as well as the family of the deceased.
I highly recommend this anime. It'd probably be a great show to watch with your partner too. Also, make sure to have some tissues handy to soak up the tears!
Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on the man, as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder.
Ummm... That's awfully convenient. He just happened to have brought that exact gun with its suppressor to McDonald's. I'm skeptical.
This isn't as big a deal in South Korea as it is in the US... In the US they're bought with dollars but in SK they're won.
This is just the AI bias showing through: It's all that training.
Electoral College elects The President. No other type of election works like that.
In Texas, a pregnant black woman or immigrant only counts as 1 and 1/5th person though.
Next set of headlines: Hacked Trump documents reveal what everyone already knew and his supporters don't care anyway.
STOP USING TWITTER. It's a stinking, steaming storm drain with a rich guy's RV speeding away from it.
Why would he be embarrassed? He obviously killed it with that cosplay!
In fact, his costume and makeup were so good that even his own daughter (with "good eyes") couldn't tell it was him.
Edit, since folks don't seem to get the joke: Obama's campaign slogan was "Hope"
“...this is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem, this is a social problem, this is a cultural problem, this is a spiritual problem." -Donald J Trump in April 2023
The tower on the left is home to the Tea Wizard who uses parts of the lower floors for the nation's biscuit reserves. The one on the right is host to a princess that's been waiting for rescue by a prince for a very long time now.
Linux never ran on the Commodore 64 (1984). That was way before Linux was released by Linus Torvalds (1991).
I'd also like to point out that we do all rely on non-proprietary protocols. Examples you used today: TCP and HTTP.
If we didn't have free and open source protocols we'd all still be using Prodigy and AOL. "Smart" devices couldn't talk to each other, and the world of software would be 100-10,000x more expensive and we'd probably have about 1/1,000,000th of what we have available today.
Every little thing we rely on every day from computers to the Internet to cars to planes only works because they're not relying on exclusive, proprietary protocols. Weird shit like HDMI is the exception, not the rule.
History demonstrates that proprietary protocols and connectors like HDMI only stick around as long as they're convenient, easy, and cheap. As soon as they lose one of those properties a competitor will spring up and eventually it will replace the proprietary nonsense. It's only a matter of time. This news about HDMI being rejected is just another shove, moving the world away from that protocol.
There actually is a way for proprietary bullshit to persist even when it's the worst: When it's mandated by government.
LGBTQ people and drag queens.
Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong...
Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.
This didn't work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed... That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.
Now we have the government itself violating it's own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷
...as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽