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Examples of what? An insurrectionist assuming the office of president? SCOTUS approving gerrymandering aimed at suppressing minority votes? Armed, masked thugs with a license to kill asking for your papers when you walk the street? Trump running for a third term in office? Immigrants arrested, held without trial, and deported without due process or access to a lawyer?

We have lots of examples of that. Are there lots of examples in Canada of basic charter rights being violated in such a manner? Or do you dispute that the text of the charter is unclear?

If it's the latter, you're free to read it for yourself. Is there a lot in https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html#h-44 that you find unclear?

You should probably educate yourself about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which has so far held up far better than the Amendments. Its language is far more specific and precise, and the document itself provides justification and context for its requirements... Unlike the amendments, which have largely been re-interpreted and gutted by partisan judges into absurdity.

Do the 13th, or the 14th, or the 4th amendment mean anything these days?

Courtroom trials aren't supposed to be the DA's word against the defending lawyers. They are supposed to be about evidence presented by them.

It wasn't shut down after the acqusiition, it's been dead and just shambling along as a zombie for nearly two decades.

The last impressive things they shipped were Mass Effect and DA:O. That was 19 and 17 years ago.

Everything since has been trend-chasing and running on creative fumes.

There is definitely a $60 trillion market for AI, just not by next year.

It's not a self-own if they aren't the ones why have to deal with the consequences.

Do you think Donnie loses a microsecond of sleep over this?

Your city council may be composed of criminals and racists, but with the courts, you get another shot at getting a slate of people who can help you who might not be.

There's nothing you can do in a society that's 100% biased against you, but in a society that's 50% biased against you, appeals might rule in your favour.

> I think in most cases these rules would have just been ignored by municipalities because they largely exist to protect monied interests not vulnerable populations.

When there are rules on the books, and they are bulldozed over, you can generally sue.

> Anything but address the actual issues that helped catapult them to the top.

The goal posts for those issues will always move.

Look at Japan for instance. For decades, its government's stances on immigration were far to the right of anything in Europe, and guess what, that still didn't stop a far-right faction and its sentiments from taking over.

You can always manufacture anxiety over literally anything, see for instance how the US republican party has made a fight over, like, 10 trans athletes a core pillar of their national culture war.

Which part of 'Western civilization', precisely?

I did not realize the Toyota Camry (most popular non-SUV, non-truck model in NA) was made by Kia. :)

Cost is a factor, but not the only factor or even the dominant factor. Spirit Airlines is, after all, bankrupt.

You see, they aren't the 'right' kind of Germans, and that upsets the 'right' kind of Germans very viscerally.

Every ruling party of every country on Earth already does that.

'I don't like who they let in' is an entirely different criticism from 'They let anyone in!'

It's dishonest to pretend that the latter is happening.

There is nothing they could do to make this legal, because the original excuse for looking her up on Flock was that she had California plates.

Driving with California plates isn't probable cause for a search.

And if does last very long? What's the escape hatch from that?

Praying that it doesn't last very long isn't a strategy.

> we're all needing to learn that we weren't as special as we thought we were.

When will the altmans and the musks of the world learn that?

> At scale people are going to choose A.

Is this why Kias are the most popular cars in North America?

This is an interesting chain of events, but PE will buy the company regardless of whether the four steps you've listed took place or not. Hell, they'd rather buy companies with fat margins, than ones with near-zero margins.

Now it's owners are special and will collect the world's productive economic output.

Whee. Very exciting.

The more we ostracise people doing that now, the less likely it will come up in the future.

In any place of business that I patronize, if I see one, I will request that staff should ask the offender to remove them, or remove themselves from the property.

What prevents murder in areas where everyone has a gun?

Consequences.

The consequences of these glasses should be that in any private space, the offender either remove them, or remove themselves. Just like there are consequences to trying to hold up your phone in a way that looks like you are recording staff or other patrons in many private spaces.

So, it's unsafe.

> and yet CEOs, mathematicians, and everyone else are eagerly feeding the beast their most prized information.

The alternative is starving because someone else will.

That's why those companies are worth trillions.

Putting more political power into the hands of people with deeper pockets (the ones who own the systems, and the ones who pay to use them).

What could be fairer and freer than that?

Is this what the transistor was invented for?

Yes, the solution to that problem is not using anti-user ecosystems, like anything apple ships.

I mean, yes, that's a serious problem for the particular firms involved in it, but I don't really care which of them turn their owners into quadrillionaires. Ultimately, one of them is still going to eat us.

Most likely 3. He has not gotten audited, he is just a temporarily-embarrassed billionaire, and a bunch of tax cheats convinced him that what would really improve his life is the government raising his taxes, because it isn't collecting theirs.

No, the golden goose is ownership over the magic box that does work cheaper than people do.

That market is far bigger than the entire ad market put together, because its upper boundary is every dollar the world spends on white-collar payroll.

Provide a counter-example where you restate it in less-verbose language without losing critical nuance.

This would, however, typically require developing expertise in a field, and then actually reading and understanding the thing being accused of being obtuse and verbose.

If you can demonstrate that you can do that for any arbitrary paper in a field, then sure, you'll convince me that its practitioners are long-winded gasbags.

If the world were just, the consequences for that would be the morons owning the mortgage having to eat a missed payment.

(They'd stop fucking this sort of thing up pretty quick if they faced financial consequences for it.)

My friend, as soon as the felon-in-chief started flexing his muscles, half of them suddenly announced that they wouldn't even support a fucking pride parade. Engagement between '24 and '25 dropped like a meteor.

(Showing up to one, or writing a check to one, is as far as I or anyone else on this planet is aware, is not in violation of any law, as much as MAGA would like it to be.)

There's no need to whitewash or come up with excuses for their cowardice.