The FCC does for example prohibit “obscenity” — not profanity — on cable. No doubt it is mentioned somewhere on their website.

I still have a laptop with a tiny shrunken Windows partition on it in case I need it for some reason, but I’ve not actually booted it since installing debian. I can’t be bothered to figure out how to clean up the bloat, disarm the telemetry, avoid the online MS services, block the ads, dodge the bugs, wait for the updates, get used to all the various stupid ways the UI has changed since the win XP I was familiar with, et cetera.

Using Windows these days is just way too much work, I don’t know how anyone even does it.

They are the regulator for cable TV and therefore do regulate cable news shows. https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/cable-television

The Boomers in New Vegas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IAY7XBRd0&t=120s

There was no recession in 2015.

Huh? That chart looks fine for Harper — the 2008 financial crisis really wasn’t his fault — and quite bad for Trudeau, if we assume that it’s accurate, that it’s representative of something meaningful, and that everything else that happens in Canada is to be blamed on whoever’s prime minister at the time. I’m guessing it’s that last assumption that might be wrong and the break into a downtrend in 2015 started as a result of something that changed a few years earlier, but who knows.

Having gone so far as to read the wikipedia article, I guess it’s the most hopeful sign for democracy I’ve heard about in years.

First on the order of business: Come up with an actual name for the party.

I habitually throw random spelling and grammatical mistakes into my posts and comments all the time, to make it less likely that anyone can fingerprint my writing style and thereby dox me. That is the only reason for any such errors.

Canadian Tire gets to be associated with a brand known for being not Canadian, and Tim Hortons gets to bask in the warm glow of a giant big-box retailer known for selling plastic lawn furniture. Synergy!

Politics has come down to a contest between two teams: One team thinks we’re on one team and they’re on the other, the other team is people who don’t know there are supposed to be teams.

Why kill them all? Wouldn’t the strongest ones make useful slaves for working in the thorium mines? The death penalty should be reserved for the worst offenders like those who have posted offensive JD Vance memes.

As declarations of war go it’s not much, but it’s more then Ukraine got when they occupied Crimea.

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

There was that one opinion poll where they went around asking everyone if they approve of keeping children safe.

Rice and beans curry: Pinto beans, basmati rice, diced tomatoes, chopped spinach, garlic, cumin, coriander, butter, habanero sauce

Cook the beans for however many hours. Add the rest of the stuff plus a little less water than you’d normally need for the amount of rice since there’s some in the tomatoes. Bring it to a boil, let it simmer for however long it takes your rice to cook.

Just guessing, but I suppose it could be cloudflare “verifying” the web browser by subjecting it to all manner of abuse to confirm that it is worthy. Disabling your ad-blockers and such, thus leaving yourself open to all its probes and getting its fingerprints all over your browser’s insides might be what’s expected of the user here.

Oh, I didn’t know nix was a package manager that’s available in debian. I might try it some day. Fortunately it’s not necessary to install it with sh < (curl) as recommended there.

I did eventually find out who he was thanks to Justin Ling’s write-up which is pretty good: https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-charlie-kirk-anyway

Quite a story, but even so the earth-shaking implications of his death seem to me much exaggerated by many.

No acknowledgement from this writer that extremely rapid population growth passed a threshold where people finally became aware that it was causing problems. It’s not too surprising, many still refuse to see it.

What I do find surprising for someone aiming to represent “the left” is the unqualified defence of the temporary foreign workers program.