Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we’re staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine’s side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we’re going to side with Ukraine.
Russia’s only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it
Professional. I started out with Basic, then QBasic and Java in high school. Made a Geocities site.
Years later, I was bored and decided to learn Python. Had enough fun doing that that I decided to go to school for it.
Now I’m a full-time programmer, mostly doing web app stuff. I spend much, much less time doing programming for fun, but I’m a huge fan of learning new languages.
That’s a great point – by making public places the only places you can exist while poor, you push all the homeless there and everyone else ends up avoiding it and going to places they have to spend money at. Enforced consumption.
Picnic in the park? Sorry, tent city there. Better go to a restaurant instead.
Baseball at the diamond? Needles and excrement, let’s go bowling instead.
Grab some books from the library? Someone’s smoking crack in the bathroom, I’ll just buy the book from a store. Or Amazon.
Ideally these public spaces would be for everyone, but more and more they’re repurposed for social services.
My wife and I’s first date was at a boardgame cafe. We haven’t had a chance to check out any of the cafes in our new city yet, though.