A crackdown by whom?

The people who have the power to change it are the people who want it the way that it is.

Protests don’t matter. Boycotts don’t matter. For one simple reason.

You’re not their customer. The people buying the data they collect from you are. There will never be enough people willing to do away with their precious smartphones and tablets to make a dent in ithat.

No. And I’ll explain by way of a quick example.

Every lunch hour, high-schoolers from the local comp cut across my work’s parking lot on their way to 7-11. A group of them, the same boys for the most part, laugh and sig heil each other while using their fingers to make fake hitler moustaches.

Does this make them nazi’s? No. It makes them teenagers who do something idiotic because it’s “edgy” and their peers are doing it. 16 year olds have zero concept of the real world implication of their actions. Their brains are neither fully formed enough or emotionally mature enough to vote responsibly rather than just decide to be a dick bag because it’ll make their friends laugh.

At best you’re going to end up with a lot of spoiled votes writing in Eric Cartman. And at worst, they’ll actively vote in the asshole that makes honest voters made because that’s the “edgelord” thing to do.

Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Chaos makes the news. Boring doesn’t. Countries that are currently being run by mostly functional adults don’t find themselve in the news as much as countries that are a literal dumpster fire being fed by boat-loads of orange toddler piss.

Ergo…the U.S. news is everywhere at the moment.

You know what’s fun? Watching these people pretend like the rule of law actually matters and that Bondi won’t just fucking lie anyway, if she even does bother to show up.

Killpoint and Raw Force

My two personal favourite Cameron Mitchell movies.

One of my go-to orders from the pizza place around here is a Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza.

BBQ sauce, seasoned beef, diced tomatoes, onions, pickles, bacon, and cheddar cheese.

Fucking delicious and I don’t care what purists think.

Basically a bush party, but we had an old abandoned gravel pit just or of town that you could park your cars along the rim with headlights shining down to where we would light a bug bonfire.

No. But his name is french, and that would be enough for uneducated Albertans. That’s the joke.

Far more effective would be to just show the pathetic crowds that actually go to his so-called concert.

Freedom of expression cuts both ways, I’m afraid.

To be fair. It’s Alberta.

There’s a not insignificant chance that if someone named Peter Polliver was on the ballot, a number of albertans would be too irritated by the original’s quebecois name and immediately vote for the “proper canadian” guy instead.

Absolutely. Confidence is king.

Exactly my point. In my brain, that’s exactly how I used it. The two statements were logically related, but were separate statements. The fact that the second statement didn’t have it’s own subject-object-verb is (in my mind) irrelevant.

It’s wild to me that two guys who have only ever made one truly successful property in their lives. (Okay…two if you count Book of Mormon), can keep milking that one property for 1.5 billion dollars.

I mean, I guess you could say that The Simpsons and Family Guy are similar, but with things like Futurama, American Dad, The Orville, etc… even THEY have their hands in different properties. Other than Southpark, what have Parker and Stone ever been working on television wise?

I’m perfectly fine with pretty loosey-goosey interpretations of when to use semi-colons. I realize that there is a specific use-case, but in reality it’s just used for the most part as a sort of elongated comma; where the intention in the writing is to have a longer pause than a normal comma would.

And I’m absolutely fine with that. No one is really clear on the real semi-colon usage anyway. I’m relatively sure that the last sentance in the previous paragraph is the actual correct usage technically, but who knows? And more importantly, who cares?

Gen X. Grew up on an acreage and went to highschool in a small town a few kilometres away.

There was always some kind of party on the weekend. Either at someone’s house, or a bush party/pit party. This was the early nineties. So no phones/cameras.

I’m amazed we survived.

I’m just going to pretend that Buzz Hickey took a beginner HTML course at Greendale and this is the end result.

“Free as in Freedom” doesn’t mean “Free as in Beer”.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a paid service using FOSS software if that’s the route they want to take. Using FOSS doesn’t mean you have to rely on donations only and aren’t allowed to charge. It only means you have to keep the source code freely available.

There’s a pervasive, damaging, and limiting misunderstanding about the word “Free” that has always been a problem in the Open Source world. This notion that things that are Open Source should be “No Cost” just because the source code is readily available and anyone could technically spin their own fork of it if they had the ability to do so.

But NO WHERE does it actually say that FREE means “Free as in Beer”.

If you don’t like it and don’t want to sign up, more power to you. That’s your freedom of choice. And to be honest, an instance asking for a fee probably wouldn’t be very successful.

But pretending that there is something either shady or legally or morally wrong with asking for a fee for using FOSS software is harmful to the very notion of FOSS and the upvote ratio you’re getting is a shameful example of how pervasive the whole “But GIMP/INKSCAPE/BLENDER is supposed to be free!” whining has become from users who have no clue what the “FREE” in “Free and Open Source” actually means.

Don’t let the doorknob hit your ass on the way oot.

I’m going to guess that James Gunn isn’t going to take career advice from…checks notes…Dean fucking Cain.

I can’t be the only one who immediately thought “e pluribus anus” can I?