They don’t know. I’ve talked to Albertans about this, and when you actually ask them what they’re mad about, they struggle to answer. They’ve grown up being taught that everyone else in Canada is fucking over their province, to the point where the actual specifics don’t even matter. It’s just an article of faith.
So, from what I’ve read, and you’re welcome to correct me if I’m wrong on any of the facts here, your DAO operates using a governance token that can be traded on crypto markets.
If that’s the case, those are just grey-market voting shares. All you’ve done is create a corporation and sell shares, while avoiding all of the legal protections that would be afforded to your shareholders if you actually went through the process of creating a corporation and holding an IPO.
So, based on those facts as I understand them, I guess I’d say I have two problems.
Honestly, I’m the idiot here for not immediately assuming this was somehow about attacking trans people.
God I hope they do. It’ll be hilarious to watch how quickly all the incels turn on Trump. Not to mention all the married Conservatives who hate their wives.
I got mine from Structube (family owned Canadian business from Montreal), and I’ve had absolutely no complaints. It’s nothing special, but it does the job nicely. Three programmable heights, holds my triple monitor setup without complaints and its smooth enough that I can raise and lower it with a cup of coffee on the desk and not spill.
The “breakthrough” being that in return for Trump scaling back the new US tariffs, China has agreed to scale back their new tariffs.
So America started a fight, realised they couldn’t win, and then started begging for a return to status quo. And they’re hailing this climb down as a breakthrough.
Do not read about screw worms if you value your sleep. Nasty little fuckers.
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And the sad irony is that if he actually asked the Dems to help him get this through Congress, they’d probably agree. But he’s such an unbelievably terrible deal maker that he can’t actually do that.
I’m a little confused on this point. I took a look at their whitepaper and it says that they’re not using blockchain at all. It’s some sort of proprietary (edit: apparently open source) peer to peer algorithm. Is this something that changed in implementation? I’m not really familiar with this project so I’m certainly not trying to defend anything, just unclear as to why people are calling it a blockchain project specifically.
Edit: OK, after some more digging I see what people are talking about. The project itself isn’t blockchain based, but it’s run by a DAO that operates using a governance token, which is not exactly great.
the United States has a massive $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so the President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency.”
This is, for the record, an admission that the tariffs were declared under false pretenses.
Who are definitely real people and not his sock puppet accounts.
Jesus Christ, he’s still alive?! I haven’t heard that name in years.
For those not blessed with the knowledge of our divine Lord and saviour Derek Smart, God’s gift to fame designers, oh boy, grab your popcorn, this is going to be good.
And by “good” I mean that whatever Derek has come up with will manage to be the most objectively terrible version of that thing possible, and he will aggressively defend it as the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of everything, ever.
Yeah, that’s a block for me too. Anyone that susceptible to easily disproven propaganda has nothing meaningful to contribute.
I think more people need to understand that the doctrine is called that because it is fucking ancient. The first known example of a habeus doctrine comes from the 12th century. It massively predates everything in the US Constitution. It is one of the most fundamental personal rights ever.
And that’s because without it, every other right is meaningless.
It doesn’t matter what you have or haven’t done. If your detention cannot be challenged, then the government no longer has to prove a crime. They just have to arrest you for whatever made up reason they like, and that’s it, you’re fucked.
And, this part is really important… It does not matter if they say it’s “Only for enemy combatants / evil gang members / pedophiles” or whatever, because the government can just accuse you of being one of those things. The fact that you’re not is irrelevant, because you don’t have the right to challenge their accusation.
This is why due process matters. This is why everyone gets due process, because the second you decide that there is any kind of person who doesn’t deserve due process, the government just has to accuse you of being that type of person, and then they can do whatever they want to you.
What made those jobs great for the middle class wasn’t the fact that they were blue collar manufacturing jobs, it was the fact that they were unionized.
Unions and high top tax brackets built the American middle middle class between the fourties and the eighties. Yes, offshoring allows companies to seek lower wages elsewhere, but the solution to that is not sweatshops at home. You need to start by building up strong labour rights and investing in education and infrastructure, which drive investment in job growth. Stop trying to regain all the jobs you lost and work and improving the jobs you have.
Yes, leftists have been warning about globalisation for decades, and they’re right, but lets not pretend that what Trump is doing is even in the same continent as a solution.
“Corrupt reasons” is actually giving him too much credit. He’s tearing up everything Biden did because Biden did it. He did the same thing with as much of Obama’s legislative agenda as he could.
It’s pure pettiness. He can’t allow his predecessors to have a legacy. His ego cannot afford it.
So, all of the 40K systems follow on from the rough rules template of 2nd edition WFRP, which is a really solid foundation, albeit a bit long in the tooth by modern system design standards. There are 5 games and they all share the same basic core mechanics:
Only Rogue Trader ever got a 2nd edition, which made the character creation much more flexible and cleaned up some other system stuff.
Since then, the license and mechanics have ended up in the hands of the same company that made WFRP 4th Edition, and they’ve given it more or less the same treatment. My recommendation would be to pick up Imperium Maledictum, which is basically a reworked version of Dark Heresy built around expanding out the concept from “You are acolytes working for an Inquisitor” to “You are some kind of peons working for some kind of patron”, with the details being a lot more flexible. So you could be members of the ecclesiarchy working for a powerful minister, low level assassins cult members doing hits, low level mechanicus working for a tech priest… Whatever the GM likes. You can still run Dark Heresy in this framework, but with the flexibility to do other things as well.
It’s also a cleaner, more modern version of the system, doing away with somewhat archaic ideas like your skill with firearms being a stat just like your strength. It keeps the core ideas of the mechanics, but strips away some cruft and generally creates a cleaner feeling system. My only complaint would be that it badly needs some expansions to up the numbers of available talents (think “Feats” or “Class abilities”) as they’re kind of the core of how you build a character and right now the small pool feels quite restrictive.
Yeah, “someone said it on Bluesky” isn’t exactly a great foundation for an article.
Also because cars create a huge number of negative externalities that impose additional costs on society as a whole. Pollution, climate damage, accidents, wear and tear on roads and other infrastructure, increased public transit costs because transit has to contend with traffic, etc. As someone who does drive, I absolutely should be made to pay for those costs.