I am utterly baffled as to why any Canadian in their right mind would want to be annexed by the U.S.

Sure, charge them with treason, but give them psych evals. Maybe offer mental health treatment in lieu of whatever Canada does to treason, it’s clearly a cry for help to overcome Fascist Oligarch Cuck Syndrome.

Not that his word is worth a discontinued penny that was accidentally digested and shat out by a coffee bean civet

It has everything to do with identifying and profiling visitors, but I believe ad revenue is just the cover justification. Social media user profiling has crossed the technological threshold into being of interest to authoritarian states, who are very keen to know who the likely troublemakers are and to neuter social networks as potential channels for resistance organization.

That Maduro must have an awful lot of Epstein files

Authoritarianism and leftism are incompatible ideologies. The PRC and USSR both failed at their worker revolutions and swiftly ended up with corrupt oligarchy still controlling the means of production and hoarding the fruits of production. That’s not left-wing, that’s the far-right con game.

I remember a panic some years back about YT funnels of cartoon content aimed at kids, that would lead to weird and sometimes disturbing stuff like “elsa ariel and moana drown together” … I guess the algo has evolved to target nonchildren now

Garbage site, even if the Alphabet CEO wasn’t an oligarch fash toady. Happily running health scam woo ads and refuses to act on reporting of scam advertising.

Whipped cream, the uncool whip

Liar says what

The con-artist/pedo regime lies all day every day, the safest assumption here is this is just another lie or throwaway distraction.

Not only are humans born helpless and remain dependent on caregivers for an enormous extended maturation period - often mothers would not survive childbirth without assistance. Being human is fundamentally rooted in community values, empathy, kindness, sharing, cooperation, generous credit. Any ideology that vilifies these realities is an antihuman perversion, a sickness.

A more freeform game like Toon! might accommodate your character concept. D&D doesn’t.

As a DEI hire of the pedo-shield con-artist regime, Pete Hegseth is about as credible as a meth-addled mynah bird trained on a dramatic reading of the complete works of James Joyce

The word “love” is used in a number of distinct senses. Some aren’t a matter of volition - I love a nice glass of Merlot or a mug of ale with dinner, and I can choose day-to-day whether or not to indulge that taste - but I didn’t choose the preference itself. It just is.

In another sense, love is measured in the time and effort you spend on someone’s happiness. If I say I love my kids but I don’t ever make time to bond with them and demonstrate what it means to be the parent they want and need - then yes we should question if that’s really love.

Trump talk nonsense? Is it a day ending in “Y” again already?

“according to Israeli security officials” is worth about as much as “according to Trump”

MSN “Raw Story” link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-slapped-with-310m-lawsuit-alleging-epstein-identical-trafficking-operation/ar-AA1Rzjid

There’s a historical cycle where the helping professions rotate the terminology out, as the wider culture overloads the old terms with insulting usage. Eventually the new vernacular leaks out into general parlance and the cycle cycles. “Retarded” was once acceptable clinical terminology because "idiot, “moron”, and “imbecile” had accumulated cultural baggage. The latter terms were, themselves, once politically correct alternatives to even older terms.

I think it’s naive to think that THIS time is special, and today’s politically correct terminology won’t ever leak out into common usage as a slur too.

“mistakenly” wink wink

Not an honest mistake, not under this regime

Falling out of windows is all the rage this decade

I don’t know how to factor in the water and energy costs to cook and cleanup, but at this scale I think it’s significant.