Kichae

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

We could less-figuratively use O'Leary as the signal fires of Gondor.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The canon is anything that appears in the games. There are clear timelines between many of the games, asserted within the game text or game subtext.

Producers have gone on record echoing what's states in the HH, both before and after it was published.

Do not mistake the canon for something the producers and designers feel in any way bound by. That's not what the term means when discussing media.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Nelix is not gripping the food near the point of contact with the blade. And holding the blade like that, he's not speed chopping anything.

Claw grip's only really important if you're working quickly with your gripper near the cutter.

Clearly, this indicates that only the officers on board had to ensure Nelix's cooking. He'd never be fast enough to cook for all 150ish crew members.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, further end, at least. There's been very little in the way of movement leftward in the last 40 years.

Giving a sliver of a shit about PoC and vulnerable minorities is not a shift leftward.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In most countries you need to be a party member to engage in internal party politics. The idea that the heneral public makes direct choices for private political organizations is, honestly, kind of weird.

But also, which states require you to be an actual card-carrying member to participate in the primary? I was under the impression that most merely required that you register with the electoral office as a party supporter.

Being a "registered X" is very different from being "a member of X". Members get to do things like go to convemtions where party policy is discussed and voted on. Members get to vie for party nomination. They're part of the internal machinery of the party.

Yhey're not just voters with a party banner.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Federal government has the means and responsiblity to persuade and cajole provinces in certain directions when it comes impacts of policies they are implementing.

I'm not going to defend Trudeau. Not on any front.

But this is a bad take. Any federal government taking a take-it-or-leave-it approach to the provinces is attempting to operate as a dictatorship, and it's something that should be actively resisted or rejected.

The problem right now is that there are a lot of Conservative Premieres, and they can taste blood in the water, so they're circling and stonewalling.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

The Liberals have been unambiguously pro-business since Cretien. It's just which businesses have been the focus of their support that's changed somewhat over time. Neoliberalism has been at the heart of the party since the Red Book.

The current administration has been throwing all of its support behind big city "businesses businessing businessly" businesses. Think of Bill Morneau and his family enterprises, or anything B2B where it seems like something the client company could just do on their own, but they gain a lot of connections by working with the other business.

You know. Rich people bullshit.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like some corporate offices and some parliamemt buildings need to be burnt down

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Remember folks, you have the right to strike! Unless doing so actually meaningfully impacts anything.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

But these workers are not. These workers are fighting for their rights, and that's going to inconvenience everybody else. So, they're going to highlight that inconvenience, rather than the underlying cause.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Albertan minister, a Chamber of Commerce guy and a CN rail official. No union representation. This is a bit shameful from the CBC.

This has been par for the course for a while now, unfortunately. The CBC's most used lens is "How does this inconvenience the average Canadian?", followed by "How much does this impact shareholders?"

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

"Never trust other people," they say. I'm not sure I shpypd believe them, though.

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