It's genuinely great to hear that that wasn't the overall goal or intention of the idea.
That said, I think it also does need to be acknowledged that there absolutely were prominent influencers on social media who preached HAES literally - as in, posting videos vehemently declaring the doctors are lying to you and obesity is actually perfectly healthy.
I guess as with many other things, it's a case of the extreme outliers (who in this case, as you say, didn't even get the point) getting the most attention and spoiling things for the sane people.
I think there was a proposal floated with the idea of a new name in Chinook, "Illaheechuck", but it failed to - as you say - get buy in from the public at large. I like the idea of a name in Chinook, though - what better bridge between native and settler than the language they mutually created?
I'm just curious, could you expand on what the rules are pertaining to this subject here? This is the first I've heard of it, since the Rules on the sidebar don't mention it.
"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
Of course I don't condone shooting perps or their lawyers, but I frankly don't have any difficulty whatsoever in understanding him. This case is one of the most vile crimes I've seen in our province, and I can't imagine what the family has had to go through.
And to add to that, while the defence lawyers certainly are just doing their job, their arguments were utterly revolting. An insult to the victim, her family, and the collective intelligence of the people of this province. Supposedly the perp's lawyer has received copious death threats, and again - I'm sure none of us condone shooting lawyers, I think it's hard to blame people.
I'm just glad the jury had none of it and found him guilty.
Anyone who has followed this conflict closely can see alarming gaps in the Forces' equipment. The lack of systems like self-propelled guns, rocket artillery, and weaponised drones / loitering munitions would put our troops in a seriously bad position if push came to shove.
The brutal reality is that Putin's Russia embodies everything the Trump Republicans dream of for America: a boundlessly corrupt, white supremacist, ethnonationalist fascist state whose oligarchs possess limitless power so long as they obey The President.
They call themselves the "party of Reagan", while they trip over themselves to sell the geopolitical future of Europe down the river to Moscow...
I see that they used the wrong tense for "described", but that could be a typo. Other than that it seems grammatical to me. I guess "alluded to" and "described" are redundant, but that's more a stylistic defect than an actual error imo.
I know here in BC the Labour ministry has job centres called "WorkBC" that not only help with resumes and job searches, but actually have dedicated classes specifically for newcomers from Ukraine.
P.S. Welcome! We're glad to have you, and I hope everything works out without too much trouble :)
"Chinese officials visibly nervous at the outpouring of public praise for dead leader [who they had sidelined and demoted]."
Русский, no — Российский, yes.
Well, it's a good thing that the Bad Foreigners are to blame for the issue — otherwise the Kremlin might be forced to engage in critical thinking over the implications of their incessant agitprop for the stability in minority regions, and we can't have that.
I admire your optimism.
"State-sanctioned criminal violence"?
No, sorry Mr. Modi, you're thinking of Gujarat in 2002, not Canada in 2023.
This article has confirmation from the GUR, Ukrainian military intelligence, that Kadyrov is critically ill. There are no exact details on what he has other than that it's related to a chronic health condition, potentially kidney failure given his facial swelling. It's also long been reported that he's an addict.
I also call attention to the fact that Kadyrov allegedly had his personal physician executed in suspicion that the latter was poisoning him. It would truly be poetic justice if denying himself that medical treatment in a fit of paranoia precipitated this (hopefully terminal) episode.
"Great Patriotic War" is the fine conceit of historical revisionism that lets the Russians neatly overlook the unpleasant little detail that WW II started with the Soviets fighting as cobelligerents with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.
Where was that? I hadn't heard of it, but I fully believe you.
This summary leaves out that said "cease and desist" notices also threatened execution for noncompliance — at the same time as the head cultist was urging her followers to kill nurses administering vaccines, prompting her followers to post pictures of their firearm arsenals.
It is only a matter of time before the cultists kill someone.
That's great. Those hideouts always had an eerie horror ambience even in vanilla Morrowind — I look forward to seeing how they're all realised in SkyWind!
Russian Colonel General commanding the Central Military District: war in Ukraine "an intermediate stage" in a longer war for Eastern Europe, which Russia "will have to attack".
Speaking to an interviewer from Russian state media channel Россия 1, Col. Gen. Mordvichev says the quiet part out loud regarding the broader goals of Russian policy: namely that the ambition of conquering Ukraine is only a stepping stone to attacking the rest of Eastern Europe, a course of action which he presents as a necessity ("we will have to attack").
I would opine that statements like these, brazenly uttered to domestic mass media by a senior military figure, are indicative of the realities of Russian ambitions: to revive Russian imperial domination of Eastern Europe by force of arms.
Blood for the Blood God! Glory to Ukraine! ...Wait, what?
So apparently there's a combat unit of the Ukrainian Army who posts their videos as "Khorne Group", @ImmateriumUKRKhorne, and dabs His sigil on hardware like 122mm shells.
Pictured here providing skulls for the skull throne with a guided missile.
That's a crossover I didn't see coming!
The north tower of Exeter Cathedral features perhaps the oldest known surviving cat door, dating to the 14th century
"This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents."
Fasteners believe to be left by locals who disagree with additional infrastructure
> “Total haul from the Superior Street bike lane today, 43 screws and nails found lying in the middle of the bike path, and only on the bike path".
Fireworks at the inner harbour. Hope you all had a good Canada Day!
Busiest I've seen downtown since pre-pandemic — it was good to see so many people enjoying themselves! Hope everyone here had a good day.
Patch #11 - crossplay, balancing and bug fixes
Rejects, Here are the patch notes for patch #11 that just went live! New Feature: Cross Play With this update Darktide introduces Cross Play between Steam and MS Store! We will rollout CrossPlay soon after the update goes Live, and closely monitor our servers for a couple of days. If we detect any ...
- Crossplay w/ MS Game Pass
- New mission condition: Elite Resistance (fewer, stronger enemies)
- Various Blessing changes and buffs to Recon Lasguns, Slab Shield, Revolver
- Many bug fixes
For the Blood God, by Zombine04 - force maximum gore/dismemberment on kill!
Forces enemies to dismember and optionally adds vfx/sfx when they died. You want to see more bloods don't you?
I thought I'd try to contribute here by posting new mods as they get posted on the Darktide modding Discord server.
This one lets you configure the option to force maximum gore and dismemberment on every enemy kill. Perfect for true Zealot enjoyers ;)
River and reservoir levels are dropping rapidly across the province and much earlier than normal due to higher than normal temperatures.
> “We’ve never seen this before,” said Dave Campbell, the head of the forecast centre, in an interview with CHEK News Monday.
> “We are really going to need to see wet weather and persistent wet weather for the next several weeks if we were to avoid significant drought for places like Vancouver Island for later this summer.”
> Environment Canada tells CHEK News that wet and persistent weather is not coming in the near future.
> Officials are asking people to conserve water now as we head into what could be a history-making drought season.
Not looking forward to this, but I guess it's the new normal for BC's climate going forwards... Likely to also increase the incidence of forest fires, I'd imagine.
"Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place."
Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place. Local Russian commanders are forced to provide false reports on their positions so as to not antagonise the high command.
Dmitri of @wartranslated has proven a reliable translator, and Prigozhin — for all that he's a war criminal who we may hope will one day decorate The Hague — has often proven to be more reliably in touch with tactical realities than his counterparts in the VSRF command structure or Russian media.
A necessary caveat here is that underlying Prigozhin's communications is his own political game, IE discrediting the VSRF & Shoigu et al to gain more influence himself, but that doesn't mean he's incorrect in his assessment here.
Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place
Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place. Local Russian commanders are forced to provide false reports on their positions so as to not antagonise the high command.
Via Dmitri (@wartranslated):
- Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place. Local Russian commanders are forced to provide false reports on their positions so as to not antagonise the high command.
The latter part in particular seems to be a systemic problem with the RU command structure — false reports are passed up the chain, leaving general staff out of touch with realities on the ground and unable to give orders that will have the desired result.
Or, as Prigozhin so eloquently puts it, "the General Staff head, after a glass of vodka, screams like a woman, like a pig, demanding to return the positions!"
‘Transformed’ Swartz Bay ferry terminal restaurant opens with new menu
Restaurant was closed for three months
Seems like it's still a far cry from the options available on the Tsawwassen side, but any change has got to be an improvement. Anyone been there since it reopened and seen what they have on offer now?