Plutarch’s biography of Cicero notes that:

Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly “Who is your father?” “In your case,” said Cicero, “your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Yo_mama"_joke

Youtube?

https://alt.pavethe.earth/

I went looking for coverage of this from the big news media and didn’t find a whole lot.

When the best the CBC can do is one brief mention that civil liberties groups had “several issues with the bill” right at the end of a lightweight report that mostly stresses how urgent it is to combat foreign interference, many Canadians will resort to trashy “news” sites like The Canada Files which from the looks of some of the things it publishes has a pretty high probability of itself being a foreign disinformation campaign.

the harm caused by vaping and why it is not a good way to stop smoking

I’m not up to date with the latest research on the dangers of vaping. When I did look into it some years ago things were very much inconclusive. The only thing that was really clear was that it’s nowhere near as bad as smoking, despite many well-funded people trying their hardest to prove otherwise. Presumably more evidence has come in since then.

But I do know that it is still a very good way to quit smoking. The only way that works for some people. There’s been plenty of research to support that, but it seems pretty damn obvious to many of us who’ve done it.

It’ll probably be a little less easy if the tobacco companies succeed in fully taking over the market with their shitty cigarette-shaped disposable products, so perhaps we can hope that someone considers that when deciding how to regulate the market.

It’s just a thought. On further consideration I’d probably broaden it to any non-Starfleet faction. In cases where there is one involved in the plot I like it when they’re portrayed in more depth than is usual.

Counter-proposal: Same thing, except instead of crew members it’s people from whatever non-Federation civilisation is involved that week.

It’s the one with the glasses. He doesn’t give a damn about God, gays, gender, or guns, except in that they are useful tools for achieving power.

Suddenly I’m worried about AI’s energy draw. “6 percent of global electricity” is not a small amount of electricity.

Further searching turns up the information that “federated” Bluesky PDS instances are limited to ten user accounts each, and API usage limits which may constrain things further. So that would explain why there aren’t any big ones.

So far as I can tell they do all still “federate” through the central server, not directly with each other. So there being not much point in it may also explain why it hasn’t caught on.

Almost as bad as Threads, really.

Well, what’s a popular server? Are there several big ones? Sorry, but I really don’t understand why the answer isn’t turning up in web search results.

PS: Are you sure it isn’t just people who’ve done the “set your domain as your handle” thing but even so are still on the central one? Because even if they have made some small progress towards decentralization they absolutely have not gone so far that there isn’t still a central one.

Is it really? Seems hard to find out. Anyone have a list of Bluesky servers other than the central one with open signups?

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I mean he’s not winning the election anyway, may as well go for it.

I wonder what would happen if he announced tomorrow that he had a really good acid trip the other day and came to the conclusion that what the government must do is abandon the F-35 jet fighter deal, stop subsidizing oil companies, stop subsidizing car companies, stop pretending that rapid population growth is good for us, nationalize most of the telecom sector, get serious about fighting back the power of the other oligopolies that run most of the country, double the carbon tax, cut the income tax, eliminate most of the deductions that make it so complex, tax capital gains at the same rate as other income, consult with economic experts willing to design an effective regime for preventing businesses from growing too large, renew efforts for electoral reform, cancel all the bad Internet bills, fund electrified passenger rail transport, and run all government systems with 100% free software.

I have no data on that. Cheaper and easier to get tlds like .world might be the most dangerous of all.

Mark Carney, apparently. I thought he was still Governor of the Bank of England, but he went on to work for Brookfield and Bloomberg and is now being talked about as a likely successor to Trudeau. Perhaps Canada will follow a few years behind the UK. Some seemingly endless years of thorough mismanagement by the increasingly delusional Conservatives, followed by a nominally left-wing party lurching to the right to occupy the conservative but slightly less-insane position the Tories once held.

They’re probably just as dangerous as .com sites.