Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or... Back in a moment. Thank you Santa.
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Turns out, the Francophone officers they brought in from another province are troubled and confused by ordinary English language conversation, and basically were untrained to deal with 'Les Godon' without getting angry and escalating.
Crazy American analysts are reporting that there must be grass roots support within Canada to bring Canada into the Union as an English only State. Others conclude that the first group of analysts may be pulling nonsense out of thin air, and are probably trying to stir up trouble.
All seriousness, I have no idea what is happening, only a vague awareness that it is interesting and exciting.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, February 21 2022 05:11 AM (r9O5h)
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I'm wondering if Brunel's death has anything to do with Canada.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, February 21 2022 05:12 AM (r9O5h)
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a) If it had been an insurrection, it would have been in Trump's authority to suppress that insurrection, including by calling out the unorganized militia. Lincoln called up the militia to suppress an insurrection that he felt that the ordinary operation of the courts was not sufficient to address.
b) There were a number of strange things about that day, before and after, but Senate and Congressional Democrats are so implicated that it is doubtful that the truth will be known anytime soon.
c) Branding it as an attack on 'our Democracy' is a crock. Democrats used a bunch of terror riots to push Biden into office, and perhaps as part of their longer term plan for ruling the country. Democracy doesn't mean anything more stable or restrained than rule by mob violence. To the extent that Democrats represent democracy, they are a criminal conspiracy. Hanging them via mob violence would also be a democratic act.
d) It would be good if Republican lawmakers did view Democrats as hostile adversaries. As it is, Republican lawmakers appear to view Democrats in an excessively collegial light.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, January 12 2022 11:28 AM (r9O5h)
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apparently the law as currently stands there is that they accept mail in ballots through Friday
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, November 04 2021 01:25 AM (r9O5h)
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It's interesting that you bring up photocopiers. Every machine I'm familiar with has a hard drive tucked away in its innards that stores an image of everything that has ever been photocopied on that machine. Obviously, it will eventually start overwriting older images, but I'm sure there's several years worth.
Also, pretty much every color-capable printer/photocopier prints a nearly invisible secret code on every page it prints (including the date and time in some cases).
It'll probably get you banned from facebook to talk about that though.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, November 04 2021 01:44 AM (LADmw)
That's exactly what I got banned from Twitter for.
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Tuesday, October 05
Daily Epic Takedown Stuff 5 October 2021
PRGuy17 on Twitter is a cut-price Goebbels to Dan Andrews' dime store Hitler. He claims that lockdowns in Victoria saved 120,000 lives, which would require a death rate two to ten times that of the worst-affected US states to be remotely possible, depending on exactly how his fiction is meant to be interpreted.
This thread - it's a long thread - analyses the numbers and figures that the lockdowns in effect killed 52,000 people.
Meanwhile, a quote from the new premier of New South Wales:
New South Wales already had the least worst state government in Australia - not a high bar. Sign that it might actually get better rather than worse with the change of leadership?
Also, yes, the server outage here was due to the same BGP configuration error that took down all Facebook properties and caused issues with DNS servers around the world, and not because I turned off the alarm after it started beeping at 3AM not due to any server issues but because my own internet connection was flaky.
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Wednesday, September 29
In Which Russell Brand Has A Heaping Helping Of Chocolate Frosted Redpills
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Monday, September 27
Digital Tourette's Strikes Again
The Age is outraged at @therealrukshan for reporting without a license.
I blocked you you IT genius. But I can still see your stupid shit in apps that don’t get access to the full API you fucking dipshit motion fuckface Fuckwit.
Or they've just gone completely insane. Hard to tell.
Meanwhile I'm still banned for criticising Dictator Dan.
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Friday, September 24
A Tale Of Two Cities
Sydney
We're still under lockdown - likely for another three to four weeks - and pubs are closed. But you're allowed to get together in small groups outdoors since there's much less spread.
So the government did something sensible and lifted alcohol bans in a lot of inner-city parks.
Melbourne
Police are scouring a park - including air support - after a report that two people were spotted wearing high-visibility safety vests.
And the Victorian government is getting its brownshirts to mass-report any online stream of the protests to get it taken down.
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The NSW state government came in for scathing criticism over being slow to enforce lockdowns in the latest Bat Flu outbreak, and lax when it did so.
Victoria's lockdowns were swift and harsh.
And resulted in a much steeper climb in cases - twice as many cases in the first seven weeks - and reportedly (I haven't checked on this) twice the hospitalisation rate.
Meanwhile:
The Branch Covidians immediately prove him right in the replies.
