In mainstream media, women like me are portrayed through a singular lens: Our conservative beliefs. As such, we are easy to hate, mock and scorn.

Yes… it’s almost like people are hating, mocking and scorning your conservative beliefs and not the gender you were born into.

If this is in stark contrast to what you grew up with, the problem might be your environment, not the people calling out the things you can change about yourself.

Where does your aunt live in Canada?

Asking because pretty much every major population area, someone is saying either the weather sucks or the people suck or both.

And “moving to Canada” is not saying much — with 3.5 time zones and pretty much every climate from balmy to “the ice melts and the sun comes out in June”, and with city populations ranging from 3.5 million to 25 people, it really does depend on what you’re looking for and where your aunt lives.

That said, you can get the same change of scenery by moving from Sydney to Melbourne. Oz isn’t all the same (in climate or people) either.

Here’s a question: when Google blurs things, do they go back and blur historical footage too? Is there even historical street view? I thought there was.

It’s more complicated than that; they’ve shifted from domestic concentration camps to foreign concentration camps — so the first thing you’d have to deal with is international diplomacy.

Millions of impeachments, impeachments for me
Millions of impeachments, impeachments for free
Millions of impeachments, impeachments for me
Millions of impeachments, impeachments for free, look out!

Along with the other things here, it took until 1869 for someone to come up with a specific “panda” taxonomy. Before that there were a number of different animals that all got grouped together, some of which looked nothing alike when studied up close, but were experienced in similar ways when moving through wilderness areas.

Kind of like dragons.

In my area there are people with farms who have a kiosk at the end of their road where they stock what they have available — eggs, flowers, cheese, pottery, etc. and a suggested price list, plus a secure drop box.

Seems to work out OK for them. Not sure I’d want to try that in a more populated area, but I HAVE also seen neighborhood libraries in urban areas that seem to survive (box at the end of the walk containing books to share; you can take a book and return it to any of the boxes in the area, and are encouraged to add new ones).

Ah, but this is only the SECOND deal. Doesn’t Putin get to fool him twice before he stops trusting him?

So much for moving to Canada.

In Canada, we believe in the responsibility of both the person and the society around them. Someone might make a mistake and do something wrong, and be held to account for that. But the system that allowed them to make that mistake also comes under scrutiny. It’s why we don’t have concealed carry up here and why firearms and alcohol possession laws are much stricter than in the US.

Funny thing to me is that your attitude doesn’t really match to an era in history; it maps to an age of a developing person. I’ve heard those questions from people in their teens and twenties for the past 40 years. Usually by the mid 30s they realize it’s not so simple. Some people realize it much earlier, a few never seem to learn.

“But it was just a joke, bro!”

Do the computer intrusion and hacking laws require intent? If not, these should be open and shut cases of criminal acts stemming from negligence.

“But nobody was harmed and nobody profited!”

Degrading access to databases harms the authorized users. The AI firms are profiting from this daya theft.

“We weren’t trying to make a political statement,” Smith reportedly said. “However, we were, you know, kind of poking fun at the fact that you know one of the Great Lakes’ names were getting changed.”

Lives in Michigan. Intentionally modified a family photo to have them all in “Lake America” shirts. Then posted it publicly specifically calling out that Canadians wouldn’t like it, and laughing about that.

Some people seem pretty unaware of what a political statement is.

Yes; the question is: how high up is the ledge?

I’d argue that at this point, even though “86” means to remove, “86 47” has been interpreted in a very specific way, kind of like a mob boss telling someone to “take care of him.”

How on earth can this be considered a moderate stance? Just say “state laws should not be where we address these issues” and be done with it. If there’s nuance, then it’s something to be sorted by the sports league itself. If there’s just transphobia, it needs to be called out and then ignored.

Funny; I haven’t seen any change in uBlock origin on Firefox.

It has indeed occurred to me; none of those signs by itself is enough to flag the output as LLM generated. But when you put them all together, and combine it with the fact that the article itself claims everything else (the site pages, the anti-bot analysis and techniques, etc) was all generated by Claude, there’s little room left for doubt.

It might? As long as you’ve got documentation.

You’ll have multiple issues there; none insurmountable.

First, moving to Canada. Do you have citizenship or Canadian ancestors? Are you a persecuted minority from a war torn nation? You already indicated you aren’t entering the country based on wealth or needed skills.

Second: working in Canada. Once you’ve moved here, you’ll need to get a work permit, a social insurance number, and get registered to pay personal and business taxes.

Which brings us to the next bit: you’ll need to register a business and pay the licensing fees. If you’re planning to farm, you’ll need permits and inspections and a business plan for that as well.

By this point you’re likely down to around $100k remaining. You MIGHT be able to find a decent trailer to buy for that price. But then you have to park it somewhere. Where I live, a couple of acres will run you around $5million CAD. But there’s lots of places out in the middle of nowhere where you can get a couple of acres for around $30k. That comes with no services however; you’ll need to bring everything you need from electricity and water to Internet and food. And likely you’ll need to pay someone with a skidder to build you a road to that acreage. And you’ll be in a place with very few people, -40 temps in the winter and hottemps in the summer with mosquitoes and black flies in swarms. And likely you’ll be outside a fire district, so the next wildfire that sweeps through will wipe you out.

I think you’re still missing something then; the way words are bolded, the way bulleted lists are placed, sentence fragment structure, using actual <h#> structure and using it correctly, the even placement of generated images; it all screams “AI”.

One of the reasons AI uses that type of structure is that it is easy to generate nested context that way in markdown, and then convert directly to HTML, and AI agents talk markdown. In fact, pretty much every long form article I’ve seen generated by AI looks exactly like this, right down to the lack of information density.

There were definitely some places that were human tweaked, but most of this was generated in whole cloth off of the logs the website generated.

I tried to read that. Then I tried skimming for the actual content. I found some, but eventually gave up. Claude can definitely tell a long-winded story.