It’s 100% automatic and electronically based. The marginal cost of processing any NSF is quite literally $0. Even at $10, it’s 100% profit to the banks.
I think it’s time for the Canadian government to carve out exceptions in the gun laws for those who are trained militia and reservists. Like, so long as you are properly trained and completely fail to trigger any “red flag” laws, you should be good to own any weapon clear up to naval artillery.
Canada should also be stockpiling said weaponry for immediate distribution when an invasion does occur. We just don’t have the military to prevent any kind of an invasion, but even a moderately trained civilian can sow a lot of chaos with a basic sniper-class rifle and some elevation. They don’t even have to hit anyone, technically; even near misses that audibly ricochet can delay troops and slow them down.
There is one animated meme making the rounds now, posing the question on whether viewers would want a bucolic near-communist solarpunk future where everyone is happy and has their needs met, or a 40k future of massive mechs that can level entire cities on their own.
I say: why not both?
Crunchy outer shell of 40k that is just enough for a healthy defence of humanity, 90+% gooey solarpunk interior that gives everyone else a psychologically healthy and comfortable life.
I would say avoid the antivaxxers. While measles isn’t particularly deadly, avoidance will be good practise to have under your belt once the bird flu finally makes the jump to widespread human transmissibility… which will likely keep the 50+% fatality rate, at least in the initial strains.
We won’t have to worry about the antivaxxers for long once that happens… give H5N1 a few strains of time, and antivaxxers should become pretty much extinct as a demographic.
Welcome to Canada, Ranjani Srinivasan. Let’s hope other targets of political oppression take your same path.
why people who don't have children should subsidize those that do by paying school taxes.
Because when I grow old, I don’t want a society of young uneducated morons to be in charge.
It’s why I gladly pay school taxes even though I have never had a child, and never will. By funding education to the max, the chances that the next generation becomes even better educated than the last is improved dramatically.
And this is why conservatism is so hostile to education: it desperately needs the incoming generations to be as uneducated and stupid as possible in order to maintain its electorate.
Coffee.
For the first 45 years of my life, I found it disgusting. Then I finally had some “artsy” coffee that actually had a decent amount of cream and sugar in it to cut down on the bitterness and harshness.
I now joke about adding coffee to my cream and honey. It’s not quite that bad. But I drink a full half-litre of it (about 550-600ml after cream and honey) every morning now.
The only thing this does is disrupt their lives again for no reason.
Conservatism: the cruelty is the point.
VM
That still doesn’t solve 99.9% of my issues, it just tries to solve a problem for which I already have a solution actively in-place: a KVM.
In that way it’s become adversarial.
Back in the 2000s, I was able to say that while a fundamental install took only about a half hour to set up, usability tweaks and a full fleshing out of functionality took another 4-8 hours depending on what the user was going to use the machine for.
I just did a Win11 24h2 install. It took nearly 24 working hours before I considered it even minimally functional for my needs. Cycling through Win10Privacy two or three times was particularly frustrating. Registry work alone took me a good 8-10 hours of trying stuff a step at a time and then rebooting to see how it worked.
At this point, the only reason why I am still running with a Windows rig is for those half-dozen programs that don’t have appropriate non-Windows variants. It’s why I’m also running a Mac Mini and an OpenSUSE tower through the same 4-port, 6-head KVM.
America is already hell-bent on utterly eviscerating Science leadership, as Science in general is all just “leftist ideology”.
I wish I was joking. I’m not.
As such, most recently-fired Federal scientists will already be massively oversaturating the American market - assuming their specialty even exists in the private sector - and will likely be headhunted by other countries like China.
By the time we get an administration that is friendly to an idea like the one proposed, America might not even have sufficient professors in those sectors to teach, much less mentors and actively-practicing scientists to hold up that tent for others to enter.
I think this will be a coercive leverage to “encourage” military conscription.
Massive student loans? Sign on the line for 10 years fighting to kill citizens of other countries like Panama and Canada, and your loans will be discharged!
Specific loans like student loans could also act as triggers to deny passports and other ways of escaping the country.