GreyEyedGhost

Assuming all of this is true, and I'm not saying it isn't, how does that in any way refute what I said? Sure, call it victim blaming if you want. I'm very careful when I have to go into bad parts of town at bad times, and avoid them altogether when I can because, even if I'm not doing anything wrong, that's cold comfort when I'm lying in a hospital or a morgue. So far it's worked pretty well for me. I suppose that makes me a perpetual victim. Sure, it shouldn't have to be that way, but I don't think my being mugged or murdered is going to tip the scales and I don't have any great desire to be a poster child.

If I support and aid someone who I know is committing atrocities, I hold some amount of responsibility. Netanyahu has put himself in that position with respect to Hamas.

And in a better world, I'd agree with you. But when Isreal spends a decade or more propping them up, well, that's how it goes.

I agree that removing Hamas would make it far easier for there to be a peaceful solution. Unfortunately, Israel and Netanyahu took that option off the table a long time ago. If they don't like that they should have thought about the consequences of their actions. The PLA was willing to negotiate and that didn't work for them. Hamas is far less willing to peacefully negotiate, which gave Israel a handy whipping boy for not resolving this peacefully. Now people are dying and they claim to be the wronged party, when in fact both parties have wronged each other for hundreds or thousands of years.

If you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. Unfortunate that it's messy for everyone around them.

All Kyle had to do to not have any of that happen is not show up. The odds of that dramatically increased when he decided to show up with a gun where he knew a bunch of people, some of whom would would be armed, would be out in force and opposing his views.

Much like a lone women wandering late at night through a crime-ridden part of town getting raped, he may not have done anything wrong, but his bad judgement led to the expected consequences. And before we talk about defending his workplace, there's a reason many places say to not try to stop robberies - the insurance claim is far cheaper than the cost of most outcomes of trying to stop the thefts, even the relatively positive outcomes.

I'm not sure how to access monologs, and the Voyager app doesn't support them. Give a noob a quick tutorial?

Yeah, this is a real issue. I shouldn't have to worry about healthcare if I move or travel between provinces. This could be resolved today under the current system, yet it hasn't. The only realistic reason is the various provinces don't want to. If the feds could step in and make this go away I would be very happy. This would require a constitutional amendment, so I'm not holding my breath. I've heard some rebuttals that the provinces have needs that are too different, but the needs between the north and south of each province are greater than the needs between the provinces and we deal with that (often poorly). Another one I've heard is that the feds can't be trusted to run something like that, but the provinces are doing a pretty poor job in most cases already. All this is besides the redundant administrative costs you mentioned.

Another map that doesn't show New Zealand!

There is nothing in 11 that I want that isn't already in 10, and what I need from Windows vs. Linux is approaching zero.

I got a message on my computer, Win10, saying my computer wasn't capable of being upgraded to Win11, but it would be protected by updates until October? 2025. Nice of them to give me a reminder to switch to Linux.

It's like a reflex now.

Thinking, "Holy shit! Is that even real?"

Checks URL.

Sigh, "Yeah, it's real..."

The obvious solution is to follow the model of Judge Dredd. That worked out well.