No, they’re just random far-right wingnuts, for the most part. Pretty much anyone living in Alberta could buy a party membership and attend. Same as the NDP, or whatever party you support in whichever province you’re in.

The conventiongoers sure think they know better than the scientific community, at least.

Fundraising idea for the war charities right there.

Failing that, looks like you can buy or rent it in the US from something called Fandango. And probably pirate it, although obviously you’re shafting the creators that way.

I’m sorry, I think they have a lead. You (?) can come up from behind and get ahead afterwards, though, like in the space race!

Indeed. If this happened it seems unwise - even if it was part of an essay suggesting doubling down on Putinist “family values”. I don’t recognise the source, though, and not much else comes up that I trust more on a search.

Edit: I found this. Maybe it’s time to get my Russian practice in. The title does indeed read as described, at least.

It’s always amazing when someone discovers a new way to be shitty that I hadn’t even thought of.

Meanwhile, Canada has no minimum wage exemption, and you still are asked to tip on everything.

Oh yes, can’t forget about libraries just because they’ve been successful forever.

The networking level is solved by Tor and similar, open protocols are still standard at the transport level, and the application layer is served by Linux, the Fediverse and so much more. I think the hardware level is where future efforts are the most needed. That and just resisting the change as much as possible.

(It’s not a level of abstraction, but if it was less of a mess crypto would deserve a mention as an authoritarianism-resistant way to keep funding going. Both for whatever future dystopian blackmarket, and for the providers of the infrastructure supporting it)

That’s just what their conservative party is called - they literally used to be the PCs. Same story with the Saskatchewan party.

They’re definitely going to run out of money eventually, and this isn’t a highly disciplined and ideological place where they can push through desperate measures to keep going. There’s been efforts towards becoming that that during the war, but Russia has been doing the controlled chaos mafia state thing for quite a while, and I doubt it will be enough.

But yes, OP seems pretty anecdotal and I’m not going to put too much weight on it.

Yeah, an actual hypermobility disorder would not help, lol.

It’s so effective in wargames it’s basically cheating. In the one actual deployment it’s seen it has an uptime as good as or better than older models. It now has a unit cost comparable to the Gripen, which is built in a much less high-tech way (for the sake of ruggedness and maintainability, on which it does still have the advantage).

I’m reading complaints here, but you can complain about anything. I’m not even clear on how many are current, since it had a very rocky development and the article is mostly about the Block 4 upgrades.

Hmm. Cows too. You have a whole operation going there. Good luck, and take it easy - you only get one body, and there are tools.

Overkill. My ladies just had a hopper feeding into a tray with a small enough gap to prevent overflow, and a piano hinge to close it up when the tray needed cleaning.

Chickens, if they have a run with enough stuff inside, can be mad entertaining too. Their brains do not work like ours.

RIP you. How are the chick-os doing?

I recognize I’m over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

I had that start when I was a teenager, maybe even earlier. It sounds gross, but so far it hasn’t done anything else.

I’m going to guess mostly the former, with a sprinkling of the latter, since the battery cage people are definitely online a lot.

It’s not moving at all or moving way too much (and in the wrong ways) that causes the problems, per physio people I’ve heard from.