So courts will dismiss criminal cases where the person charged can't obtain legal representation, right?

Or will they just go directly to prison?

Alberta: Winning the race to the bottom every day!

Yeah, because students... THEY'RE the ones with all the money.

Yup, first thought was, "Then I guess you'd better pay the mechanics what they're asking for, fuckers."

Yup, haven't voted liberal since he bathed in the applause of thousands, then flipped us all the bird when he got into office.

That was possibly the most disturbing part of the pandemic... People in ICUs about to be intubated, insisting that COVID was a hoax with their last words.

That sort of purposeful disinformation crosses the line into having been weaponized for the purpose of tearing the fabric of society apart -- even worse still is the fact that education has been eviscerated so much over the past 50+ years that such a large percentage of people will fall for it.

... but let's keep expanding the oilsands!

These people are Nazis, and should be treated as such. Fashies get the bashies.

There's going to be a LOT of paradigm shifts without a clutch in September. My buddy's daughter screams like you stabbed her if you take her phone away for more than a few minutes. The addiction is real.

You out there flying kites tethered with piano wire on top of a skyscraper or something?

I would like like to see PP's bullshit called out on a regular basis. He railed against the proposed capital gains tax, but it doesn't appear that anyone pointed out the huge conflict of interest he has -- his personal wealth has (apparently) been built on real estate investing / exploitation.

I like her more than both, but her public speaking savvy is... well... it needs a lot of work.

I'd be willing to accept that over what the other two idiots are offering.

Doesn't he own a dozen investment properties, and that's how he explains his dramatic increase in wealth over the course of his years in parliament?

Jokes on them... I turn the screen off, slap on a pair of noise cancelling headphones, and put on my sleeping mask when I'm on a plane.

It's called Lupron, it's a hormone blocker. It's used for chemical castration of pedophiles, and to put women into menopause.

The side effects make it... A bigger burden than whacking off into a sock.

Having said that...

Ask yourself why it is that you can't be happy. And while money isn't the secret to happiness, the lack of it can be pretty fucking depressing.

I always heard it as "In a cult, a single, charismatic, mentally ill leader tells lies to people, and knows it's all a scam. In a religion, that person is dead."

No, it's an actual fucking cult...

Source: Personal experience with this deranged thinking from family

Just be happy you don't know... because it's undoubtedly dumb shit, and move along. :)

Why the fuck can't we let millionaires and billionaires take a hit now and then?

First, if you have more than one disk, you should be either getting redundancy through mirroring, or building arrays of several disks with redundant methods like RAID5 / RAID6 / ZFS zraid2.

Second, no single copy of data is safe, you must always have recent, tested backups.

Story time...

On the way home from work I stepped off a bus and turned in the direction of home. A young woman who was a few steps ahead of me was being verbally harassed with overtly sexual language by a man. I stepped between them, facing the dude, and told him to fuck off and walk away. Some words were exchanged, and eventually he turned around and walked away. I watch him for a minute or two, then turned around and walked home. The woman he was harassing was long gone.

When I got home and relayed this story to my girlfriend, she said this sort of interaction was COMMON. She'd never mentioned it in the nearly 10 years we'd been dating. It was normal to her. My response was "What the actual fuck? That's bullshit." But it was her reality, and the reality of the woman I saw, and probably dozens or hundreds more, every day.

We collectively need to do better. We need to stop doing it ourselves, and stop our friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, and even strangers from doing it. We need to raise the average and be better.