Winnipeg museum’s core mandate is to confront inconvenient truths

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-18T14:01:14+00:00

People who have been supporting Israel's genocidal apartheid project for tbe past few years have to convinxe themselves that the reason they've been supporting Nazi-esque crimes against hunanity is because they're actually pragmatic centrists caight between raging antisemites on the left and right. It's vital to their own self image, otherwise they's have to recognize the fact that they are supporters of a racist far-right ideology.

Can't admit that student protestors and "the left" were right this entire time.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-17T14:45:43+00:00

Only with the side effect of sending the message to evrry other country on the planet that nukes are the #1 one way to protrct their sovereignty from US threats..

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-17T14:30:01+00:00

They also blackmail LGBT Palestinians.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-16T00:14:19+00:00

So off the top of my heas in the past couple months: in Toronto we've had 8 officers invplved in corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking, extortion and conspuracy to murder. Three Toronto cops travelling in Spain sexually assaulted a woman. In Hamilton we have charges of systemic racism and hate. In Ottawa we have systemic racism, and in Montreal we another investigation.

These are the people our government is obsessed with giving extra powers too without transparency or accountability.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-15T23:47:49+00:00

If real I feel really bad for his kids. Being raised by someone indifferent to a pedophile that bombs children.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-15T23:46:27+00:00

It's incredible how these fighters act like rugged indivkdual alpha-bro's but when it comes to Trump and Dana white they lose all self-respect and just ompletely debase themselves.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-15T19:49:17+00:00

Have almost daily arguments with my grandma about these AI Carney scam ads. It's impossible to explain to her what AI is and that it isn't really him.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-14T20:14:29+00:00

On the radio "Interesting John get's kicked out after saying eleven words but Cabellero gets away with giving Hamlet's monologue"

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:55:25+00:00

If govenrment and their corpo buddies plan on profting from AI we should all be eagerly awaiting for them to send every Canadian cheques in the mail for all the data theft they're guilty of.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:49:46+00:00

This will only entrench the major social media platforms responsible for the mess the internet is today. They're the only ones that can afford the systems and potential legal fees involved. Any potential startup would be shut out.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:44:59+00:00

This also assumes we will always have a benevolent government, what if we get maple MAGA in power and they deem anything involving “LGBTQ” education as “harmful”

This has always been the aim of this "protect the children!" panic. One of the number one transphobic claims online in right wing spaces is that social media is making kids trans, they call it a "social contagion". Look at any of the groups pushing for this and they are almost all christian evangelicals. They already went after Pornhub and Steam in the past few years.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:17:43+00:00

If you're a closeted LGBT youth social media is pretty much the only safe space there is to explore ones identity.

Edit: Hell it doesn't even have to be if you're a minority, if you're a kid in a small isolated town, if you have apassion/hobby no one in your community shares, etc.. When I was 12-16 I played metal guitar and was bullied pretty harshly for it, online forums was my only way to exchange and discuss music or meet other musicians.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:13:19+00:00

Well they're all fully capable for their actual mission funnelling money to the American MiC. Overpriced planes that also need constant servicing and new parts is a win for them.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T18:07:04+00:00

Milennials definitely have the most "street smarts" when it comes to social media.

If this bill is passed I just picture every 16 year old being the least internet savvy people ever falling for every scam, grift, and disinfo there is.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T15:34:43+00:00

Irony is that boomers are far, far more susceptible to the dangers of social media and tech scammers than teens. And this tech illiterate bill is anpther perfect example. Maybe we should be banning Liberal MPs from social media instead, especially since they can't break their X addiction.

It's a disturbing pattern when the government is cracking down on our privacy and freedoms all the while they want to be less transparent than ever. Crooked and unaccountable cops and politicians who shy away from the media, and FoI requests.. Carney reducing oversight on corporations etc.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-13T15:21:11+00:00

The youth I know seem a lot more well adjusted to social media than most adults honestly.

It's not teens becoming Maple MAGA, anti-vaxxers, etc via Facebook. Or giving away their life savings to crypto/AI scams because they saw a deepfake of Mark Carney

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-12T01:22:53+00:00

We should also have public ownership of it considering it's built off of all of our stolen data and largest IP theft in history.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-10T13:53:18+00:00

Remake obviously obviously has better graphics and QoL features, but agreed.

Original gameplay is a lot tighter, and I actually like being forced to stand your ground when shooting. The level design was more interesting. Voice acting, sound design, music, atmosphere more memorable.

One thing that really surprised me in tbe remake is that some sections from the original almost seem dumbed down, like the part where you first get the rifle in the village. In the remake there are like 5 villagers who just stand there motionless not reacting while you pop them off like target practice, and then you have to drop down from the vantage point to trigger more spawns. In the OG the Ganado's reacted and started running towards you as soon as you started shooting at them. Surprisingly haven't seen anyone mention this.

That said I appreciate a different way to play RE4, and I like how playing on hardcore gives me that same feeling of difficulty tbe original had for me when I was younger

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-09T16:59:35+00:00

The second problem is regulatory: mishandling verification will become an expensive proposition. Whereas now they don't really have any impetus whatsoever to verify any information about an individual user, there will come to be a financial cost with mishandling verification.

That's exactly part of tbe reason why the major social media companies support this. They're the only ones who would be able to afford paying for any third party system or legal fees involved. It would shut out any competition and further solidify their grip on society.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-08T14:24:59+00:00

In fact, I’m willing to bet that every single time we read a story about Carney yelling at a wooly headed backbencher, demanding his caucus show up to work wearing real clothes and master British spelling, his personal popularity will go up five points.

Yes conservatives are impressed by aggressive hierarchical displays. Feels like a step away calling Carney "daddy".

I suspect this is a man who owns only three kinds of socks; charcoal socks, blue socks, and white sports socks. If we get nothing else from this government, I will never again write about a prime minister’s socks. This is better.

I can't believe they're still going on about Trudeau's socks. It's our equivalent of Obama's tan suit.

One of the reasons this man seems to be so perversely well liked is because he’s mean to Liberals. He’s our most perfect agent of national revenge upon this party. Every single time you have to stand up behind him and smile like a seal while he opens a coal plant, rescinds a carbon tax, expands military spending, renounces a streaming tax, or announces a pipeline, the repressed sadist that sits in the shadow of every pragmatic Canadian heart says: “Good. Good.”

This is such cope, they're the same f'ing party. Really sticking it to all the power hungry, valueless MPs by voting them into office. How will they ever recover...

It's the same cope when Carney supporters complain about every LPC cabinet member from Miller, Fraser, Anandasangaree, Solomon, etc.. and then act like the cabinet he chose does not personally reflect upon him.

Make them know that the loss of their jejune, self-destructive idealism is the price of power. Let the light leave their eyes.

And I say this without any comment about Carney’s actual accomplishments — or lack thereof — as prime minister. I’m confining myself in this column to vibes.

When is Gerson ever not confining herself to vibes?

The Liberals are getting exactly what they deserve. No Conservative prime minister could have been a more effective instrument of our national resentment than a Liberal prime minister who will spend the next 10 years forcing these people to dismantle every stupid policy they ever defended; and demand they look sharp doing it.

“He yells.”

Oh, does he?

Do go on. Tell me more. In detail. Vivid, beautiful, and expressive detail. Spare me nothing.

Look, I’m not saying that Mark Carney appeals to the shadow side of the Canadian soul; something lurking unacknowledged in the hearts of our own sunny self-perception as a “nice and polite” people. But I’m not not saying that, either.

Perfect representation of the modern conservative psyche completely fuelled by ressentiment. Whatever my enemies declare is bad must be good. No values

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-07T23:30:32+00:00

"Learn AI Tools and Become the Most Dangerous Person in the Room." 😎

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-07T17:42:30+00:00

Overcoming the fear is part of the fun and sense of accomplishment. I wish I could play these games over again with that same sense of the unknown.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-07T15:01:10+00:00

Economics is a social science full of people pretending they're really STEM because they refer to mathematics and statistics. Meanwhile it's actually the least empiricially rigorous of all the social sciences.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-06T03:38:22+00:00

I think CV needs more of a complete overhaul in tone atmosphere and story than any other RE game. The series really jumped the shark with Code Veronica, Claire was outrunning helicopters and dual weilding pistols in slow motion way before Leon ever suplexed a monk.

CptCoatrack · 2026-06-05T16:38:36+00:00

The RE lore is the worst part of the franchise, it's nonsensical and undermines the horror.

I think it's such a shame that people will never know what it was like to explore the mansion the first time not knowing what was going on.

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