I vote either defederate or ban. Even if it is "technically legal" by the current rules, it goes completely against the spirit and intent of this place, and rules can and should be changed over time to preserve that. Bot/AI generated posts are exactly what we DON'T want this place to turn into, and it will take active effort to avoid that.
Jesse
joined 2 years ago
All valid points. My take would be though with regards to your third point. The problem with MMIWG is there's been too many 'statements' and not enough actual productive action taken. And this would be the opposite of actual productive action, spending 150-200 million dollars to comb through approx 60 000 tons of landfill over 3 years while putting peoples safety at risk to maybe have barely a minuscule chance at recovering what is now, tragically, likely an unrecognizable pile of organic matter. I can understand emotionally why the families want to anyway, but it's just not a responsible use of time and effort, let alone money. That said, if the gov't says that money and effort is better spent elsewhere, I would hold them to that, and say that they take that dollar amount and actually put it towards other, more helpful MMIWG causes.
Red 5 standing by
Ha! You and Troy seem to have lots in common you should consider becoming friends. Seriously though thanks for this thread I'm loving it.
If you're going to include a Michael Crichton book in a sci-fi list, Sphere is a far better choice IMO.
And if you make enough spelling errors, your post essentially encrypts itself! :D
Even if it's just an apocryphal story, it's at least a crazy-interesting concept that I hadn't even considered before.
It was where he got his start 20+ years ago, but both him and Sara Watkins (the fiddler) went on to do some interesting stuff to say the least. Their new album was sort of a reunion.
Not EXCLUSIVELY... but kinda, but even though I'm only 1 (or maybe 2) out of the 3, and a bunch of programming jokes and jargon go over my head, I really don't mind. And... if you're going to start with a particular demographic as a core userbase, man oh man could you do worse these days.
This seems to bounce around the internet with no real legit source to back it up, and when it was posted to a certain website starting with R, there were comments from professionals indicating most of it was complete bullshit.
Sadly I don't think there is anything Canadian-owned that's a true alternative. Don't mind the other disingenuous commenter on here questioning your motive, they evidently think that Walmart is just as good for your community as local mom and pop shops, since they all ''employ canadians''. I think your alternative would be to simply order directly from whatever Canadian business you can find online selling whatever you're looking for. Almost all of them still take orders from their own sites and ship Fedex/DHL/CanadaPost etc to almost anywhere. Amazon really is just a convenient middle-man and they're not purely necessary. Basically a streamlined search function and ordering tool and they're completely avoidable, it just takes a bit more effort. I think people should absolutely be making efforts to avoid them, because of their ridiculous market share and their precedent of working conditions and wages, if nothing else.
I don't see a Bay and it's bothering me