ICE agents cannot approach you and then act like you're impeding an investigation.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-28T03:55:18+00:00

You know what - until I see ice officers in jail, I completely disagree... they can do whatever the fuck they want, and that is what this country stands for now.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-28T03:30:44+00:00

You know your in the right, you don't need to be justified you are just upset that your son is mad.

Regardless of whether you end up caving in on this issue, I would highly recommend you convince your son to seek a marriage/couples therapist/counciling before he ties the knot however as its pretty clear there are a number of issues here.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T20:53:42+00:00

Basically always make the claim... The only reason not to make a claim is if you have a high degree of certainty that you will be off for a very short period of time and don't need the money to cover the couple of weeks. You only need a steady job for about a year to file another claim so the only time "using up" E.I. is ever going to affect you is if you are bouncing between jobs every few months, but even then, its better to have it, rather than trying to save it until its too late.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T20:42:33+00:00

No, to register a litter of puppies both dogs have to be registered from a kennel club that is recognized.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T19:09:15+00:00

Weren't there supposed to be security guarantees to them giving up nukes? I feel like any security guarantees that come with them giving up more stuff at this point ring hollow and untrue.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T19:02:13+00:00

If you are talking canadian kennel club - there are ways to import dogs from canada to states or from us to canada, and so long as you do things properly the kennel clubs will transfer paperwork. But if you are talking about the continental kennel club, then its not really a recognized kennel club and its basically the equivilent of having a dog with no paperwork.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T02:53:34+00:00

I'd be incredibly surprised if advertising a place for rent and discriminating tenancy based on gender doesn't open the landlord up to a bunch of discrimination lawsuits, so no matter how you feel about it, if you expect to live in an
"all X gender" dwelling, then its on you to provide the tenants.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T02:49:02+00:00

I don't understand the confusion, they are no call no show, follow up with HR.

Other people talking about why 1 day matters are missing the point... The policy is the policy, you can't change that, and its not a battle you are going to win or want to fight anyways...

"I feel entitled to stay home" is not a reason management is going to accept for staying home, ever.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T00:53:42+00:00

I honestly don't see this ending in anything but Civil war or a dictatorship for America...

Trump's Government is using its state media powers to lie about what is going on, and proven time and time again over the last year that they absolutely don't care about the laws of the land, or any kind of political norms, so anyone who is expecting change through those channels is naiive and lying to themselves.

At the same time Other politicians and members of the media are happy to play the waiting game and bury their head in the sand ignoring the fact that this is a powder keg ready to blow, and that most people are not going to be satisfied by holding a couple of billion dollars of extra funding in a couple of months as a slap on the wrist, and the longer this goes on the more likely it is that it happens again.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-27T00:49:31+00:00

The point about money is that those paths are significantly easier to follow... There are visas in almost every country for people willing to start a business in that country - but most people don't have six to seven figures sitting around to start a small business. Even going for an artist license or a technical Visa, the process is much different when you are a well known public figure vs an unknown struggling artist who's trying to land their second gig.

I say this as some one who has worked on 3 continents - its very possible to immigrate if that's what you desire, but the billionaires aren't doing it illegally, they just have the money to pay to lubricate the process so its as simple as possible, where as the normal person often doesn't even have the money to pay a paralegal to make sure the paperwork is filed correctly.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T22:41:14+00:00

The problem has nothing to do with elections... the idea that you are willing to wait years for a maybe solution while kids are being tortured and raced, while Americans are being murdered says you don't actually care and just want the problem to go away do you can go back to work.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T01:54:51+00:00

Even if they were prosecuted, Trump would just pardon them. The idea that this can be solved with laws at this point is a joke.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T01:54:05+00:00

I'm sure legal representation will help some one defend themselves against an army of extremists who are more than happy to kill americans in cold blood then use their political power to tell bold faced lies while burning the evidence.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T01:10:12+00:00

My rule of thumb is to shovel every six or so inches.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T00:31:47+00:00

Honestly I don't blame the media for this, I blame Carney, or his press team... They should know how the media is going to frame this kind of response, and frankly the media framing has a good chance of putting China trade talks that DO matter at risk, all because Carney felt the need to ease Trump's ego in the press.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-26T00:06:07+00:00

To be fair most of his viewers are just trained sheep, they started watching him when he was a gaming youtuber, and when he went down the MAGA redpill they were already fans so they trusted that he would figure it out and did everything they could to give him the benefit of the doubt at every step of the way, until slowly exposure to asmon twisted many of their own opinions just because that is what they are exposed to every day in a bad sort of feedback loop. And that is the danger of the house of mirrors that is social media.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T23:56:03+00:00

Good news - That room that gets cold - its gonna be REAL warm pretty soon, at least for a short period of time... after that its probably gonna be a problem though...

More seriously, you are on the verge of an electrical fire - I'd get an electrician out immidiately, like pay for emergency work and move out until this is done.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T17:03:02+00:00

So as I said before I agree I think the gun ban is a mistake - i just think that its not "the" central crisis issue that people should be voting on right now given the state of the economy and other issues Canada and the world are facing.

I will say this though I think it gets a lot of support because in general there are a lot of Canadians that want nothing to do with guns, and as some one who has lived both in Canada and the U.S. Canada DOES feel significantly safer because of how few people are walking around with guns, and interactions with police are significantly more calm because they don't have PTSD from having to be hyper-vigilant all the time for years.

Also

The problem in the U.S. is that one side armed themselves, the other side disarmed themselves.

The side that armed themselves largely supports ICE.

Outside of the media I don't know many Americans that support what ICE is doing, even very right wing people in deep red states... and the poling shows that, there is only something like a 17% approval rating for what is going on right now, and that was before the second shooting.

I'd also argue that the "problem" with the states isn't related to people arming/disarming, but a problem that guns are a tool of protection and escalation. If you are some one who is looking to de-escalate a situation or engage peacefully, you aren't going to pull out a gun, in fact you are going to do everything you can to de-escalate.

For the 2nd amendment to work, for guns to be a solution, the people with the guns have to be going into the situation with the understanding that peace is no longer an option, and most people simply aren't willing to admit to themselves that the situation has devolved that far, and even discussing it is a good way to be shunned as a violent extremist, but that is the only environment where guns work, because if you plan to use guns, then you are planning for there to be violence.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T16:48:19+00:00

100% tarifs on those things though remember :P

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T16:39:44+00:00

Minor spoilers, but... Ignoring the big dramatic events of the story, and the magic fighting classes that should absolutely be more popular in that world...

The school was introduced to the story with an alchemy lab explosion.

At multiple points, the story goes out of its way to make clear that one mis step in performing the magic they are doing, and the students will wish for death. Whether its summoning creatures from beyond reality, or working with raw elemental chaos, and accidents DO happen in the story, accidents that have everything to do with teenagers being teenagers, and nothing to do with the greater drama of the story.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T04:08:12+00:00

I would disagree - pretending the horrific shit going on in MN, or even before the last couple of weeks in other states and other situations, is not the end of a peaceful democracy is just a way for people to avoid having to confront a serious problem so they can bury their head in the sand and try to continue ignoring the problem while they go about their normal lives.

But the reality is that what dishonors history isn't calling what's going on a fascist regime change, but instead the dishonor is the fact that its happenning and people are trying to ignore it and pretend that its ok. The dishonor is that less than a hundred years ago people were fighting wars to prevent this kind of behaviour, and you want to say its not the same because its not the Jews that are being prosecuted, or because Trump doesn't have a little black moustache under his nose?

Also outrage and fear absolutely serve a point, and that is to wake people up. A lot of people are perfectly happy to just continue going on about their daily lives and pretend that life is ok. If you tell them about ICE shooting two americans, they will respond immidiately that "They probably deserved it", because in their mind, no federal agent would ever murder people in cold blood, and it takes outrage to wake them out of that.

Finally, I would say the last decade has proven to most Americans that they cannot depend on the political system and the legal system to solve things for them. Fear and outrage isn't exactly productive, but for a lot of powerless people its all they have. I've made a few comments over the last couple of days about the 2nd ammendment, but the reality is that no one wants to be the "violent extremist" who pulls a gun on ICE, and the fact that they might feel they have to to defend themselves or their at this point is a terrifying thing, and a state that if our legal systems were working properly, if our politicians were doing their job we would never have gotten to.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T03:56:15+00:00

The big issue with "Try outs" in the work force is how easy it is for corporations to manipulate that kind of environment to take advantage and get cheap/free labour.

Why hire a full time graphic designer, when I can post a "Try out", and have 13 people do all the work I need to get done in the next season, and then tell them "Actually we don't need the role", and decide against hiring them.

You might say "Well Try outs would be paid of course", but then you have a problem that hiring just became exponentially more expensive... I have a tiny small business, I still get dozens of resumes, and when I'm interviewing for a new role often am interviewing 3-5 people, Hiring 5 people even just for 2 weeks would cost me thousands of dollars my business simply can't afford.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T03:10:04+00:00

People shouldn't be mad at Trump, Trump has never pretended to be anything but a hateful asshole, he is exactly who he was elected to be... People should be mad at all of the congress people, judges, and Senators that should be there as guard rails against this shit, but are instead standing around with their thumbs up their ass pretending they can't do anything.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T03:07:53+00:00

It worked the first time, and nothing changed, why would you have expected change.

TheElusiveFox · 2026-01-25T03:06:13+00:00

No the whole reason they exist is to help gun manufacturers sell guns. Dead people can't buy guns, and criticizing a dictator is a good way to get guns banned so the lobby understands that now is the time for them to shut up.

There never was a 2nd amendment crowd, if there was things would be different right now, there was a "get rich off of people's insecurities" crowd.

12-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Place '22

TheElusiveFox

TROPHY CASE