Interesting enough article, and thank you for sharing. But can we talk for a moment about the “About the author” and his apparent inability to decide whether that section should be in first- or third-person?

About the author: Writing is my one incontrovertible passion. Over the past six years, he has authored over 2,200 distinct articles on financial and tech-related topics, spanning nearly 1 million words. And he has been a member of Wcctech mobile team since 2025. As an alumnus of the University of Toronto, Rotman Commerce Program, I bring nuance, in-depth knowledge, and a unique perspective to every topic that I cover. When I’m not writing, I’m traveling the world, exploring hidden confectionaries and restaurants as an aspiring food connoisseur.

Oh, thanks for asking this! I welcome commentary that lets me exclude toxic people from my life - welcome to my blocklist :)

Tbf, he was probably very far away from the war (Russia is massive). And for all that he paid attention to Canada’s flaws, he didn’t pay attention to Russia’s trafficking in people from all over the world to act as cannon fodder. Unfortunately for his family, he didn’t realize his privileges until they got revoked.

Ofc, there’s nothing preventing him (trying to) move his family back to Canada, but I wouldn’t be surprised if any assets he has in Russia are confiscated (the farm, any money he might have, etc). They’ll probably let the wife return, and hopefully any younger kids, but the dad’s fate and that of any older boys (who I feel very sorry for) may be very different.

Welcome to the pyrocene.

Well, we knew we’d get dengue outbreaks one climate change got rolling, it’s a shame they cut so many prevention efforts as well as public health departments. Next up, chikungunya.

Sure, just like that Ring ad where their new software was only going to be looking for lost dogs …

Plus, once they’re approved for one use, it’s incredibly easy to slip in a provision for other uses as well. That whole “we’re doing this to protect the children” thing they keep bleating.

Plus, it’ll feed into federal databases - yay!

Israeli media, including The Times of Israel and Ynet cited unidentified security officials as saying that the alert had apparently been triggered over an altercation between the plane’s two pilots.

So an Israeli or an Israeli asset was definitely involved, got it!

Late is better than never showing up at all - welcome!

Kitten is, in their own way, also nature’s perfection, it’s man who created the dual mockery of kitten and mushroom.

illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to American citizens.

It’s not a benefit denied to American citizens; it’s a benefit denied to people who haven’t lived in the state for a certain period of time. That’s like me complaining that I can’t receive unemployment benefits from Washington state (the highest in the nation) solely because I live and work in Michigan.

Of course, I don’t expect Republicans to understand logic. Or much of anything, really …

Cynically? After the elections are held, Trump and the Republicans are going to challenge every single Democrat headed for office, and SCROTUS will uphold enough of those challenges for the Republicans to keep control (like they did in Bush v Gore). They’ll point back to these rulings as evidence of their impartiality.

Oh, poor baby, did Daddy Putin pull your chain?

somewhere along the way, we turned roads into a political argument. We argue over “DEI bike lanes.” We argue over “equity.” We argue over ideology. […] The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics.

Once again, the right-wing echosphere applies identity-politics labels to something, and once again it’s the left’s fault that that label has been applied.

How about instead of lecturing the left over how to appeal to the right, you go after the right and tell them to stop automatically tuning out the moment they hear one of the phrases they’ve been programmed to react irrationally and emotionally to.

For people who don’t want to send traffic to the Washington Examiner - https://archive.ph/WPJe5

I have full faith that, when challenges to the various seats reach the court later this year, they’ll bend over into knots to support Republicans. And they’ll point back to this one decision to support their claim that they’re not biased.

It’s worse having to dig through a bunch of garbage to find the cable you want

Eh. I coil them up in type-sorted ziplocs with labels, and put them in function-sorted drawers (audio, tv/media, PC interior, phone, etc). Doesn’t take long to find anything.

The only one I feel bad for is the kid

Multiple kids and I assume a wife.

I’m also willing to feel sad for the guy who died. Because we don’t know what way he voted; and even if he did vote for the Orange Evil, I try to limit my “you died” schadenfreude to policy makers and policy influencers (billionaires, politicians, Fox “News” hosts, podcasters, etc).

Israel has plans ready to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them.

Uh, no.

When I left reddit, I asked for accounts on both tildes and kbin. Except tildes was onboarding people in batches, so I’d been active on kbin for like a week before I could create my tildes account, and I just never got momentum over there because of it