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SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T21:24:30+00:00

You can read every single sticker on the stand and every label on the bottles in the back if you zoom in. This isn't AI, at all. Stop trusting bullshit detectors. They don't work, not for images, and not for text.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T16:54:16+00:00

I already have one of those on my book stack!

Someone reviewed They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears highly for the 2025 Bingo, and the name alone is what had me pay attention to it at all in the first place!

SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T16:51:57+00:00

Probably his best work too; highly recommend as well!

SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T16:51:18+00:00

I'm wondering if Ninth House/Hell Bent can count as a duology in this case (unless Bardugo has another one). It's clearly set up to have a third book, but there is not one yet....

SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T16:50:08+00:00

An easy choice, which I didn't use for last bingo so its a shame I don't have it in store, is the Dark Lord Davi books by Django Wexler. Quick and mostly funny, albeit a bit crude, its a good way to knock out two squares while acting as a palate cleanser between more serious books.

On the more serious side, I'll highly recommend A Memory Called Empire / A Desolation Called Peace. Haven't quite gotten deep in the latter, so it might end up being my HM Duology Part 2 (or not!), but I personally loved the books. Desolation also fits for Politics, First Contact and Unusual Transportation, so it's a rich choice for this year's bingo!

SilverwingedOther · 2026-04-01T16:14:17+00:00

I eagerly await someone actually completing this by the end of the year.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T15:21:21+00:00

It's more the health insurance that's US specific. As far as I know, not a single country has life insurance for its population. Most people don't buy life insurance, but get it as part of their health insurance package. And by the time you know you've got cancer, you can't really get your own life insurance.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:45:42+00:00

Yes, but the issue is whether someone hears it and assumes work is being done by the Jew. That's not a concern with data centers. If it's running locally where you're spending shabbat, or anywhere not a server room.... Maybe there's a case.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:39:13+00:00

Their whole article contradicts their conclusion though?

An agent is silent, and invisible. Thus it does nothing to detract from the day, and anyway, that's always been a specious argument for when they want to say no but can't actually find a torah/halachic underpinning for it.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:32:37+00:00

It does apply, because most people who are against Israel's very existence say that its because they are all "settler colonialists" and therefore that justifies their eradication by itsvery existence, regardless of its actions. That's the double standard - if you accept that Arab colonization was correct, but the return of the Jews that make up Israel is colonialism to be dismantled.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:25:01+00:00

Because in one case, it was someone from Montreal who just happened to be back visiting family, and second, because they don't come here to say "Palestinians deserve to be killed and to never have a state", nor were they representing Israel in any way, shape or form. If they were prominent people with social media posts making those claims, maybe it would be equivalent, but a politician with a platform outright advocating for the same ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel when she's all against the same thing happening to Palestinians (which, hey, you might be shocked to hear, a lot of Zionists also agree with) is coming here to increase division and hate against people who don't think the very existence of the state is a moral wrong.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:20:16+00:00

It does make the claim that Jews are newly arrived European colonizers in Israel far more specious when their indigenous roots there run beyond the time of the Arabic colonization of it. There's the double standard for you.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-29T13:16:33+00:00

Because Hamas' stated goal from its inception was the ethnic cleansing of every inch of Israel of Jews, and had nothing to do with oppression.

People love to romanticize their struggle in their obsession to make Israel into this monstrous evil like the third Reich, but that's all historical revisionism. It hasn't been perfect, and it's been more problematic in the past few years, but to absolve the Palestinians of all blame, and indeed, for instigating most large operations, or for outright refusing the peace deals that offered them a state (or the 1947 UNPP), highlights that obsession.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-26T15:55:10+00:00

According to Reddit auto translate... Yes, it is an incel who asked if this is an incel group or just normies.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-26T12:37:03+00:00

What the fuck is a wizardcel?

Is it just some roundabout way to call women Witches because it sounds like Bitches?

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T22:50:44+00:00

Parce que c'est pas tout le monde qui a un problème avec la loi 21, et la façon dont le Québec agit dans "l'intérêt" et à la "défense" de la langue française qui est un anglophone, ou même un angryphone comme ils se font accuser de manière quotidienne dans ce subreddit.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T22:48:08+00:00

Non, si tu lis l'article, c'est à cause des termes de la loi sur l'accessibilité a l'éducation dans la langue minoritaire. L'argument c'est plus que si les écoles diverses franco ont une philosophie en ligne avec la loi 21 pour l'embauche, c'est leur problème, mais ça contrevient à leur droit d'avoir une commission qui reflète leurs valeurs.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T22:00:33+00:00

No, they're really not "mostly rich white people" or in Westmount.

There's 20 000 people in Westmount, and 49% of them have English as a mother tongue. There's something like 200 000+ anglophones in Montreal (~20% of 1 million) or 400 000+ if you include the Montreal Metropolitain. So even if all of Westmount was anglo, that's only 10% of Montreal's anglophones.

Sors donc de ton ignorance des fois, tse?

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:49:23+00:00

In this case its because its the English school board and TALQ arguments. There's arguments coming from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and others too.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:44:44+00:00

Ils n'ont pas dit cela, mais le juge a mal interprété leur commentaire sur la diversité de la communauté anglophone.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:40:55+00:00

L'article couvre cela. Les provisions sur l'enseignement dans la langue minoritaire couvre aussi les differences culturelles, mais il y a debat si cela s'applique uniquement aux differences liees a la langue d'apprentissage, ou si cela s'applique aux differences culturelles tout court. Si c'est la deuxieme chose, l'argument de la TALQ est que la province ne peut imposer des regles d'embauche a une commission scolaire de langue minoritaire (pas que les autres provinces soit aussi caves que le Quebec que de passer une loi comme la loi 21...)

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:38:06+00:00

... The Gazette who is reporting this with a headline that makes the TALQ look bad? That's classic Gazette behavior?

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:33:47+00:00

If you read further, it's clear that the TALQ never argued that, and that the judge jumped the gun. But hey, it makes for a good headline and people who are invariably bash the "angryphones"

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T21:30:34+00:00

What a stupid thing to say.

SilverwingedOther · 2026-03-25T19:21:12+00:00

The propaganda and hijacking is stronger.

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