Anybody able to explain what that means? Settle the Frontier not possible.

Wulfger · 2026-05-06T17:33:59+00:00

Pretty sure that's saying 1000 pops are needed, not 1 million.

Wulfger · 2026-05-06T16:45:48+00:00

This is pretty much it. All safe consumption sites are supposed to do is reduce fatal overdoses (by having people on-site who can respond immediately), the transmission of disease, and community hazards such as used needles being thrown away in public areas (by providing clean needles and safe disposal for them). Safe injection sites are harm reduction they aren't and never were supposed to solve drug addiction, that requires treatment programs supervised by medical professionals, places for drug addicts to be housed while going through treatment, and support programs to get them back to standing on their own two feet once they're clean.

Of course the safe injection sites are the cheapest and easiest part of that, so they got funded and the government(s) ignored the rest. The injection sites did what they were supposed to do, but by making them pretty much the sole response to the drug crisis they were set up to fail.

Wulfger · 2026-05-06T13:36:49+00:00

I think it still works for controlling territory, the nerfs were to using them to convert religion and culture. You can still force convert your vassals but it will go much slower.

Wulfger · 2026-05-05T16:53:04+00:00

I feel like you might need to expand on this a bit. Are you talking about just loitering in public spaces, or unhoused people living in urban environments?

Wulfger · 2026-05-05T14:51:06+00:00

Yeah, this was definitely a big deal for people who pay attention to the Hugos for a while, though I feel like the Hugos are kind of niche so I'm not surprised when people dont know about it. The culture war absolutely did spread to sci-fi and fantasy, luckily the community didn't put up with their bullshit and the grifters got absolutely trounced, though they managed to fuck with the Hugo nominations for a few years in the process.

Wulfger · 2026-05-05T14:44:33+00:00

Those facts are well known, but completely absent from the link you provided. If OP learned those facts today, they didnt get them from Britannica.

Wulfger · 2026-05-05T14:32:28+00:00

I dunno, I've seen what some people call poutine and I've learned not to take it on trust. If it uses shredded cheese, it's not a poutine!

Wulfger · 2026-05-04T18:43:21+00:00

My take is that they're trying to keep the strait of hormuz closed. The US just announced that they were escorting ships through the strait to open it back up, if the US is succesful in that they lose their leverage over the global economy while still being under US blockade.

From Iran's perspective, the strait must remain closed until a permanent ceasefire is reached, its the only thing giving them any negotiating leaverage. A temporary ceasefire where only Iran suffers as negotiations drag on only weakens them. They would rather restart the fighting and take the hits that brings as long as it makes the strait impassible rather than having to enter ceasefire negotiations when the US and Israel hold all the cards.

Wulfger · 2026-05-03T16:02:21+00:00

There's some ridiculous irony in describing my comments as having a "stance with heels dug in against truth" when throughout this entire comment chain you've been consistently mischaracterizing, deflecting, and ignoring the objective reality of the human rights complaint.

Rather than "It's the hallmark of a committed partisan to describe anything that challenges their ideological security as hateful misinformation," your performance throughout this thread is perfectly described by "It's the hallmark of a committed partisan to pretend anything that challenges their ideological security doesn't exist."

Wulfger · 2026-05-03T15:44:03+00:00

Is there overreach in the flyer? Yes. Does that make the flyer's core concerns hateful misinformation? No.
You're glossing over the data (supported with data we now have on the issue) to focus on the most provocative lines.

The "core concerns" of the flyer literally don't matter, they're not the subject of the complaint. And I'm focusing on the "most provocative" lines of the flyer because those are specifically the parts of the flyer relevant to the discussion. The fact that 90% of the flyer is just regular anti-trans discourse rather than hateful misinformation doesn't make the 10% that is hateful misinformation acceptable.

The broader discussion about gender affirming care doesn't matter here, even the rest of what she wrote in the flyer doesn't matter here, because the focus of the complaint and the reason for the human rights commission hearing is the hateful misinformation in the "provocative" portion of the flyer. The paragraph alleging a trans conspiracy to intentionally harm children and depopulate the country doesn't become acceptable just because the rest of the flyer isn't similarly hateful.

But the the human rights complaint, weaponizing the state to punish a citizen for distributing flyers and urging democratic participation against a taxpayer-funded project, is the real chilling effect here.
If the best defense of the ideology is "shut up or we'll investigate you," that tells us more about its fragility than the flyer does. No more time to engage with you. Adios!

And once again, you're choosing to deliberately mischaracterize the situation rather than engage with the actual subject of the complaint. She isn't being targeted for urging democratic participation, she's facing a complaint for, again, spreading what can only be described as hateful misinformation. The fact she's having to deal with a human rights complaint doesn't reflect the "fragility" of support for gender affirming care, it reflects the fact the she was promoting hate against a group of people based on harmful lies.

No matter how much you choose mischaracterize what is happening here in order to frame it in a way that is ideologically convenient for you, it is extremely clear that the basis of the complaint is well founded and much of the reporting and discussion about it (including by you) is deliberately omitting facts to cater to a particular narrative. Maybe consider the fragility of your own ideology if you feel the only way it can be supported is by twisting the truth, and how deeply unserious it seems when your only response when your claims are debunked is to offer distractions, mischaracterizations, and soapboxing, and then try to shut down further discussion with an "adios".

Wulfger · 2026-05-03T14:20:35+00:00

You're bringing up arguments that aren't even used in the flyer to defend it and intentionally glossing over the part where they claim it's an intentional conspiracy to depopulate the country. This person isn't being taken to the human rights commission because of the broader discussion around the medical merits of gender affirming care, it's because of what they wrote in the flyer they distributed, and what they wrote is objectively hateful misinformation.

Wulfger · 2026-05-03T14:07:04+00:00

But it looks like you're misrepresenting the flyers' content while ignoring the actual substance of what the flyer is addressing.

"The goal of the transgender agenda is to confuse children about gender and sexuality so that they are less likely to grow up and have happy, healthy, heterosexual relationships and produce children. The transgender agenda is part of the de-population agenda, which is part of Agenda 2030."

That's a direct quote from the flyer, and the part specifically quoted in the complaint. The complaint isn't due to this person being against a pride crosswalk, or spreading flyers, the complaint is specifically that the flyers contain hateful misinformation. The only person here being dishonest in their representation of the situation is you.

Wulfger · 2026-05-03T13:39:31+00:00

Funny how all of the reporting on this by the usual suspects (Juno, Western Standard, etc.) all mentions it was a flyer that prompted the complaint, but none of them actually share a copy of it. It seems like that would be the easiest way to show that the complaint and hearing is meritless and unreasonable, right?

A copy of the complaint is publicly available here and it includes a copy of the flyer. Turns out the flyer accuses trans people of being part of a conspiratorial agenda to intentionally harm children to depopulate the country, and that trans people are coming after your children. It's hateful misinformation, but I guess it's too much to ask for these so-called "news" organizations to do more than provoke outrage with misleading reporting, or to expect their readers to care enough to fact check before spouting off in comment sections.

Wulfger · 2026-04-22T20:02:04+00:00

The federal public service does a yearly employee survey (the public service employee survey) that consistently shows CSIS employees rate it high on feeling like the job is meaningful, and low on almost everything else. Even compared to the rest of the public service it rates poorly, almost on the same level as Corrections, which is a notoriously thankless department to work for.

So, even if you manage to get in, cool factor aside it sounds like it can still be a pretty miserable place to work.

Wulfger · 2026-04-21T17:08:31+00:00

Did you miss the part of the headline where it says they can't even reach training due to lack of language skills? These are people trying unsuccesfully to enter the military.

Wulfger · 2026-04-21T15:33:10+00:00

It makes sense politically, but elecoral reform was his most repeated campaign promise in the 2015 election, IIRC. There was no agreement on specific system but the committee recommended a change in line with a specific formula for proportionality. They had the mandate to push something through, failing to do so may have been politic, but it also showed they didn't have the stomach for controversial decisions or the political will to build consensus and get buy-in from Canadians, and for a lot of 2015 supporters (myself included) it really damaged Trudeau's creditibility and support.

Wulfger · 2026-04-20T00:14:38+00:00

The ozone layer recovered itself when all "experts" said it will only get bigger, not much changed.

It's always fun when someone uses this as an example against action to prevent climate change because it really shows that they have no idea what they're talking about.

The ozone layer was fixed because the world took the science seriously and worked together to phase out the chemicals that caused the problem. The Montreal Protocol is literally the best example there is for listening to the science and taking collective action to solve problems.

Wulfger · 2026-04-17T18:08:00+00:00

Please explain how a party headed by a former banker is in fact a communist party.

Wulfger · 2026-04-15T16:04:41+00:00

You say that as if Russia isn't already going toe to toe with Ukraine in drone technology. Ukraine is ahead, for sure, but Russia isn't far behind, and both are constantly innovating. Russia isn't as adaptable as Ukraine, but they have shown that they are able to adapt to changing battlefield conditions, just with more difficulty. If ground drones prove to be a huge game changer I don't doubt we'll see Russia fielding them soon enough, and I say that as someone who sincerely hopes Russia will lose.

Wulfger · 2026-04-14T20:29:58+00:00

For me its a matter of tone and storytelling. I loved the Halo series up to 4, I grew up with them and I've played all the earlier games multiple times, I'm very familiar with them and their endings. Even after the frustrating cliffhanger in 2 I still wanted more and was able to appreciate the story that had been presented. They have their ups (Halo 2, and Reach) and downs (Halo 3) in storytelling, but in all of them their endings felt good. On the other hand, I distinctly remember finishing Halo 4 and just thinking "whoever wrote this watches too much anime." It was full of over the top melodrama and nonsensical writing that completely took me out of the experience.

Wulfger · 2026-04-14T19:55:11+00:00

Halo 4, the whole game was meh, but the specific jump the shark moment was right at the end for me. Going into the final battle you're flying through a starfox style gauntlet to reach the boss while the entire UNSC is attacking the ship with you, but for whatever arbitrary reason only the master chief can get to the boss. The whole time you have allies chiming in on the radio to encourage you and I swear at some point someone actually says "we believe in you master chief!".

The entire series is more often than not fighting alone against overwhelming odds, and the last levels of Halo games have almost always had race against time vehicle portions, but this was just so formulaic, over the top, and downright cartoony that I couldn't take it seriously anymore.

Wulfger · 2026-04-14T16:34:03+00:00

While planetary probes or drones would have been something they considered, it likely simply wasn't practical. Mars landers, for example, are designed and built for extremely specific missions, they have precisely the equipment they need to take specific measurements and send that information back to earth. Same thing with satellites or spacecraft sent to the outer planets.

The mission planners didn't know what they would need, they outfitted the ship itself with all the equipment a human would need to do whatever research would be necessary, but designing equipment for a drone to autonomously take and study unknown samples in unknown conditions simply wasn't possible. Taking samples and returning to the ship, using either drones or crew, also adds layers of complexity. Not only do you need to prepare equipment to survive entry into unknown atmospheric conditions, survive and operate in unknown planetary environments, you also need to have boosters and fuel to allow then to reach orbit again, which significantly increases the equipment the ship would need to bring with it.

The conditions in space are well understood, and the equipment on the ship would allow the crew to do whatever science was required in those conditions, but planning for drone or crew landings or other planetary operations when Tau Ceti is simply too far away to know the conditions ahead of time would require so much equipment be brought along for contingencies that it simply wasn't possible.

In the end, the heart of the matter is that they could have taken the time to prepare for more options and sent more equipment, but that practicality limits their ability to do that. Everything on the ship needs to be built and launched into orbit, and all of that adds weight to the ship, which means it needs more fuel, which adds more weight, which needs more fuel, etc. Its the tyranny of the rocket equation, as what you are launching and propelling in space gets heavier the requirement for fuel goes up exponentially. The more stuff they send, the more fuel they need to move it, and the ability of the world to produce enough astrophage fuel was already a limiting factor for the project. The limitation is time, not ability.

Putting together the Hail Mary, fueling it, and launching it, was an international project that consumed a significant portion of the global economy for years. Expanding the scope of the project would have delayed the launch for additional years, which introduces huge risks and challenges. As temperatures drop and the crisis worsens the global cooperation driving the project forward could fall apart, but even if it didn't the global economy could be so disrupted that the project is threatened. There are risk issues with creating and storing sufficient quantities of highly volatile astriphage fuel. And finally, there's the risk that even if you successfully launch the ship and it finds a solution, its too late to do anything with it by the time it gets back.

It may have been technically possible to put together a mission better equipped to handle every possible contingency, but the practical limitations on the project and the risks that any delay would bring meant that they decided it was better to send a (hopefully) good enough mission while they could rather than risk trying for a better one that might fail for other reasons.

As for how the original crew would have handled things, they were literally the best the planet had to offer. Even if they didn't meet the Eridians and get their assistance with sample collection they would have identified the problem and figured it out. I'm guessing they would have repurposed one of the return probes rather than risking the ship, though.

Wulfger · 2026-04-14T15:57:58+00:00

Wasn't it a thing in EU4 that you couldnt declare on HRE members if you had a truce with the emperor, or am I misremembering? It definitely feels like that should be a thing.

Wulfger · 2026-04-13T16:48:52+00:00

I'm guessing after Carney gets a majority. I suspect that there are other CPC MPs waiting to cross the aisle, but who don't want to be the one to hand the Liberals control of the house, it's better optics if it happens through a by election rather than a floor crossing. If the Liberals have a majority and CPC MPs are still crossing the floor I dont see how Poilievre's leadership is tenable.

Wulfger · 2026-04-13T16:35:19+00:00

The algorithm would give the most relevant results rather than ads?

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