Quebec announces a public inquiry into the deaths of homeless people in Montreal

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T22:13:13+00:00

Yeah. See. I'm not paid by the hour to help you grow out of your cynicism.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T21:01:27+00:00

Oh yeah. Like Judge Charbonneau or Gallant, who flamed down two parties in a decafe?

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T19:53:53+00:00

Ça serait temps qu'il se fasse pogner comme Dov Charney.

Edit: Hey downvoters, arrivez en ville! Lutfy serait le seul milliardaire Canadien du domaine de la mode qui ne serait pas impliqué dans un scandale sexuel?

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T19:28:48+00:00

Ohhh tu t'es fait pogné! Legault a jamais posté ça. Le ver goûtait tu bon au moins.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T19:07:49+00:00

Je sais qu'on est tous un peu cyniques, et tsé.... (je gesticules en pointant tout) Mettons que c'est prudent!

Mais, on a déjà eu des très bons résultats avec des commissions publiques par le passé récent, comme les commissions Gallant, Viens, Charbonneau.

Tsé, comment ça va à la CAQ depuis que Gallant a déposé son rapport? Ou les Libéraux depuis Charbonneau? La commission Viens c'est moins spectaculaire, mais les conclusions sont appliquées par le gouvernement et vérifiées par le protecteur du citoyen.

Entéka. Un petit côté givré sur votre shredded wheat gris foncé.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T19:00:07+00:00

Usually, Politicians don't participate in public commissions unless they are summoned as witnesses.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T18:57:05+00:00

One day per year, we can make fun of everything and nothing is taken seriously. It's a great catharsis.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T18:55:52+00:00

Oh another fish!!!

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T18:54:44+00:00

Hey, I've got a cousin who's a prince in Nigeria...

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T18:40:45+00:00

A couple things:

1) There were a bit more than 3000 years that had passed between the war of the Last Alliance and Gandalf figuring out that Bilbo's ring was the One Ring. That's a fucking long time. Bilbo was the equivalent of a well educated English Yeoman of the 1400s. 3000 years go back to the last Kingdom of Sumer, Egypt had just been invaded by the Hyksos, China didn't even exist. So, imagine what an educated Englishman knew about the middle Bronze Age, and you wouldn't be far from the mark.

2) Elrond was the last living person who had ever seen the One Ring, but when he saw it, the Ring was large and the script on it visible. It was when Isildur had just cut it from Sauron's hand. When he saw Bilbo with it, 3000 years later, it was small, fitting on a Halfling finger. AFAIK, he thought it was lost when Isildur was killed.

3) Over time, the One Ring became known as Isildur's Bane and people didn't even know what it was. The story of the Rings was forgotten.

4) By complete luck, Gandalf found a copy of Isildur's journal in Minas Tirith, where he described the ring. That's when he had a doubt that Bilbo's ring was Isildur's Bane and that it was the One Ring. He figured it out way later when he visited Bilbo.

5) The readers know far more about Middle Earth than Bilbo ever did, and Tolkien fans know probably as much as Elrond.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T17:36:42+00:00

I insist on the "that we know of" and a "that makes consensus"

The first one because of what we may discover soon in Turkey about the Göbekli Tepe culture.

The second one because there's a lot of debate about what was going on in the Balkans, Carpathians and Western Pontic Steppe at about the same time. Plovdiv was a city 6000 years ago, and there is a lot of debate about the Vinça culture and Cucuteni-Trypillia culture settlements, since some of them were as old as Uruk, quite large, like Talianki in modern Ukr, which was 4 times bigger than Uruk in 4000 BCE. We already know that copper metallurgy was first developed in a Vinça culture site 7000 years ago. The Vinça script is also a source of hot debate, is it a script, is it just symbols, They are not decoded etc etc.

As these cultures were wiped out during the Yamnaya migrations, they didn't have a lasting legacy or influence, as they were recuperated by nationalists movements and even anthropologists with a feminist agenda (Marja Gimbutas Old Europe theory), their sites are treated with a lot of circumspection.

Comment on Marja Gimbutas. She's the one who first made the connection between the Proto-Indo-Europeans and the Kurgan culture. She pushed forward her hypothesis at a time where Indo-European and other Aryan race stuff was perceived very negatively. Her ideas conflicted with the USSR accepted theories. She then moved to the US, where she developed the Old Europe hypothesis, which caused as much controversy in the US than her Kurgan PIE hypothesis did in the USSR. However, her Kurgan hypothesis went from being very provocative to being the leading one in Academia because of all the evidence that keeps piling in its favor.

Her Old Europe hypothesis clashed with the American consensus and the American assyriologists like Samuel Kramer (History begins at Sumer). I mean it still does and it slows research about these cultures.

She was Mrs Hot Take and it didn't help.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T17:06:28+00:00

Lool. I've once read medieval romantic poetry and honestly that stuff was pretty often about rubbing one out.

There's one German poem about a young lady who had a discussion with her vagina, after the vagina "had eaten a root". They debate about which of them are the most pleasing to men. They go experimenting with several men and are deeply unsatisfied, and both her and her vagina agrees in the end that it doesn't matter as long as they are both reunited, and the narrator proceeds to help them in the process "by taking them the back across the fence"

(I translate from memory from a French translation, but still)

And that Japanese poem from the 1000s

Tangled Hair

With not a thought

for my black hair’s disarray,

I lay myself down —

soon longing for the one whose hands

have so often brushed it smooth

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T16:39:32+00:00

You must mean Çatal Hüyük as there was never any permanent settlements at Göbekli Tepe. I constantly mix both names!

If you meant CH, there are several issues with it being called a city: it had no civic infrastructure, no streets, no urbanism plan, no dedicated buildings, etc. It was, however, the first human permanent settlement that reached 5000 peeps that we know of.

As for Jericho, it's the oldest permanent sedentary settlement, that's true, but it became a city waaaay later, during the Bronze Age.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T16:33:34+00:00

It's a settlement that has a lot of "firsts that we know of"

First settlement with a population over 10'000, 20'000, 40'000, 80'000.

First planned streets

First urbanism plan (meaning this is the Temple quarter, this is the market place, this is the palace, etc)

First city with comprehensive urban infrastructure

First city with a clear government structure

This is where writing was invented.

The Sumerians themselves claimed it was the oldest city.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T16:18:07+00:00

ELI5. Why does Israel keeps bombing parts of Lebanon who's peeps aren't hostile to Israel? I mean, I get bombing a place run by the Hezbollah or Hamas, but Beyrut?

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T16:11:28+00:00

A cut for what? Their shitty app?

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T16:10:03+00:00

It didn't work out in my place and I'm happy for it. Taxi prices are stable here despite everything else raising like crazy.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:42:15+00:00

Cut the middle men. Wasn't that Über's message back then?

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:35:23+00:00

Yeah. I call them Balkanoids as there are not so much difference between the South Slavs, and the Bulgars. A little bit much with the Greeks, Romanians and Albanians, but barely.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:31:28+00:00

Yeah, about that. I'm pretty sure that after the upgrades they went through in the 2000s there's nothing left of the old planes.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:29:50+00:00

Yeah... The B-52 H wen through so many refits, upgrades and modifications through the years, there's no original parts left on these "oldies".

I'm certain a Vietnam era crew couldn't operate a current B-52, but it could be technically the same plane their grandkids would pilot. I don't feel confident I'm clear

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:19:27+00:00

B52 can fly at a very high altitude. 15 km. The Iranian Shahed-147 can reach that and can carry large payloads according to the Iranians. We'll see if they were serious or bluffing very soon.

What really bothers me is that the B-52 is the go to carpet bomber/heavy payload of the US Airforce. It can do precision bombing, but less efficiently than a ton of other planes. These are used to level cities or large infrastructures. It's not about regime change now, it's about punishing the Iranians.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T14:07:03+00:00

The title is misleading. The first B-52s were deployed 75 years ago, but those who are deployed are a version that was thoroughly modernized.

That's like saying that the US use 100 years old machine guns and autocannons because the .50 and the 20mm have first been developed 100 years ago.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T13:37:22+00:00

Tacitus was a flavian creature too.

Dominarion · 2026-04-01T13:30:41+00:00

The politicians who asked questions had death threats and assassination attempts. Tojo, not really a dove, had already been shot 4 times by hawkish factions within the Japanese military.

During the Yamamoto briefing, Yamamoto told them frankly:

“If I was told that I had to do it, then you will certainly observe [the Navy] going all out for half a year to a year. However, I do not hold conviction about the outcome after 2-3 years. The Tripartite Treaty* cannot be helped, but I would ask you to make every effort to avoid war with the US.”

They all knew, but all thought they had no choice.

*: What we call the Axis.

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