I just watched a news item on how these drivers (Uber, Skip, Door Dash & all) can just buy an existing account & start driving. No background check or even a driver's license required! 🙀
That explains the endless number of "recent migrants" doing these jobs. That and the big cities keep them like slaves.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/9756/Mahou_Shoujo_Madoka%E2%98%85Magica
One of the all-time best shows.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34284/Yuuki_Yuuna_wa_Yuusha_de_Aru__Washio_Sumi_no_Shou
Yuuki Yuuna is a hero. Starts out cute, gets very dark very fast. Season 2 is grim! The monsters are terrifying.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/54722/Mahou_Shoujo_ni_Akogarete
Gushing Over Magical Girls. Fights, monsters, lots of ecchi!
"In the right hands" is the key here. Plenty of lazy-ass coders will use it to make slop, which they then will spend hundreds of hours "fixing" to justify their jobs.
Anyhow, it's still in its infancy. There's a long road ahead.
The lying liars at CTV just lied their way into a hefty lawsuit, I hope!
Many of the comments there seem to think the taxpayers would be "on the hook" for a lawsuit payout. CTV is NOT the CBC. The CBC is Fed funded and thus immune to lawsuit payouts: free taxpayer money is bottomless.
CTV is a privately owned company, their shareholders would be the ones paying for it.
Of course in Canada it would take YEARS and probably be a small settlement, and our "judges" are even worse than the ones in the USA, eh? An open & shut case like this could easily fail due to pure corruption.
A fellow Deist perhaps?
I too think the universe was created on purpose not by accident. That there would be countless forms of intelligent life would be fully expected, not one single planet with it. The universe is BIG! There's (counts on fingers and toes) a LOT of planets out there! The odds that there's no other intelligent life is astronomical. However? Can we ever contact them? That's a big question.
Didn't you catch my name? I've loved many cats over the decades and they loved me right back.
I know there are bad cats out there, I've seen a few sadly, but most are gentle with their family, which includes "their human" too!
I also did say "mostly" right? Of course there are exceptions, things would be boring without variety!
Yes I really had 5 cats back in the day. 😺
There was also the Foreign Orphan Adoption program in Canada (I forget the exact title) that ran at exactly the same time as the Residential schools. It too had roughly 150,000 orphans brought to Canada from the UK & placed in families. City or farm, they were officially adopted & little to zero follow-up was done.
While many lived happy lives, others were treated as farmhands or maids... or far worse.
But it's the same for the Residential schools: most kids got an education & were happy. A far too large a % were abused, but it wasn't all of them. It is illegal for Residential "survivors" to say they had no problem & were glad they went. They are barred from ever speaking positively about it.
Those old-time guys were one-offs. For every Di Vinci there was 1000 who claimed it could never be done. Didn't they draw gliders or balloons? There's always more scientists toeing the "status quo" line over ruffling feathers.
Also: Archimedes discovered Pi (Tau, which is 2x Pi) 2200 years ago but it was lost.
If the Aliens are visiting? Then it's highly probably they have some sort of FTL drive or "space folding" mechanism. Or, like I said, they could be long-lived (1000 year journey? Like 2-3 years to us) or send generational ships. It seems much more likely they'd send un-manned probes though, without FTL.
IDK about 90%, but 60% or so... yup!
That's a huge number considering the "classical wisdom" says women are always the best Mothers. Even idiot feminists say that, yet at the same time they say traditional mothers are bad!
Well, if you'd have said in 1500 that within 400 years there'd be huge machines flying through the air? People would have laughed. A single bomb that could destroy an entire city? Lolz!
So it could be possible. If Aliens have indeed visited here? Then it likely is possible, otherwise it's a 2000 year one-way trip.
It is probable that intelligent Aliens exist, but can they get smart enough to cross those vast distances? That's the bigger question. Even radio contact at those distances is highly unlikely.
That's a good point too: why even travel to another planet to exterminate a species? Just lob a gigantic hunk of rock at them. It doesn't even need to come from another solar system (like in Starship Troopers) there's ample supplies here! Send an unmanned probe, push a 10-mile+ rock a little and presto! Human race effectively destroyed.
I love this "campaign ad" iirc it was made by some guy unrelated to his campaign. Seems like it's official now!
There's an "attack ad" from Bass's campaign that shows him saying all sorts of things... that voters actually want! Talk about an "own goal".
Not really, it may be even worse.
"birthing persons" at least means biological females who gave birth, eh? "Mother figures" includes gay men, trans persons or who knows what else. Including "mothers" is a step up though, but followed by 2 steps back!
I just read somewhere that the sky used to be a different colour before 1820 (?), I forget which colour it used to be. People were forced to never speak of it & everyone who say the old colour died off...
Actually after 1816, the year without a summer due to Krakatoa blowing up, there might be something to it?