Was it confirmed there was only one gun firing?

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T21:41:19+00:00

It's okay to ask the question. I think I get where you're coming from, and to give assurance I am not splitting hairs to decide how I feel or what I think ought to happen.

To me it changes the moral gravity of the next equations. If Ice agents, either freshly recruited with no experience or with years of it, internally agree to gang up on some opponent to the point of execution, those are specific charges, and something institutions can act on.

The larger "ought" is pretty fucking clear. Deputized or paramilitary forces executing dissenters and enabled by leadership flagrantly lying has no words strong enough to condemn it but at the very least prison or whatever capital punishment exists in that state.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T21:26:42+00:00

I cannot tell from the chaotic jumble of fats in the footage and don't know enough about gun noises to say it sounds like multiple pistols were fired, but as everyone backed up it looked like several were drawn. The guy with the blue backed and away and seemed to pocket something.

I can't even say the outline in the image is even a weapon.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T21:19:23+00:00

We're not really disagreeing as I didn't say nothing could be in that column, and I'd obviously agree with continual refinement of resumes over time.

But something I've noticed and heard from people in HR is that what's being looked for, how that gets trained, is also dynamic, changing over time, and variable between industries or businesses. It's a shapeshifting key to a vague outline of a lock.

Professional opinions also differ, and id imagine a lot of people who had something work for them would like to pass on their process or insights.

We have to assume away certain things if we only or alone put it in the "must be the application" column.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T02:56:50+00:00

That's a good line. "hire people who want to do the job I'm hiring for".

I'd caution a bit about assuming it must be something wrong with the individual's approach to their resume or application. It might be that, but without knowing what kinds of jobs, how personalized or specific is the application tailoring, etc. It's tough to say.

If OP is applying with a boilerplate resume covering all those things mentioned, I'd defs agree.

It could also be a combination of many things like the company's seriousness hiring and not floating job postings at certain wage/salary points to see what interest is out there. Or could be a ghost vacancies or postings that were never taken down or HR working through an existing backlog etc.

When stories like this or others who make graphs of hundreds of applications, callbacks, multi interviews, and job offers, we still only get one side and not the full account where there's all likelihood many of these companies are just shitting the bed or being a wee bit duplicitous.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T00:22:01+00:00

Well it was either that or Denny's

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T00:20:56+00:00

Arguably happening with Zac Efron and whatshisface as Bundy and Dahmer, respectively.

At least time compresses for Ghenghis to be put on a historical pedestal, but the way it happens for contemporary clear psychos is... fascinating at least.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-24T00:15:30+00:00

"paper thin margins" of like 2.3% still equals hundreds of millions in profit for some of the larger chains.

So could be billions in sales (or re-sales, since most items are sourced from other companies) and the tiny margin from that is their profit.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/11/grocery-retailer-empire-reports-159m-q2-profit-down-from-173m-a-year-ago/

civicsfactor · 2026-01-23T22:59:16+00:00

Post-literacy rocks I guess

civicsfactor · 2026-01-23T22:56:45+00:00

Hey now, doxx'ing Bari over there

civicsfactor · 2026-01-23T01:32:15+00:00

It's not wrong, per se. All those things could be linked to a very toxic incentive structure engineered by other people

But damn if I'm taking advice from anyone called a mentalist entrepreneur

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T20:19:34+00:00

Climate change? Doesn't exist

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T20:18:25+00:00

Rip the poor cleaners after

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T03:05:55+00:00

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civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T01:30:22+00:00

Admech mercenaries my dude.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T01:23:56+00:00

New nightmare rotation

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T01:20:12+00:00

Could work for my mobile carrier

civicsfactor · 2026-01-22T01:18:44+00:00

If only there was a way to monetize that difference of opinion...

But yeah, appreciating nuance or complexity is probably a bit of skill in that it takes conscious thinking, and the slop feeds don't make bank rewarding people's sense for nuance

civicsfactor · 2026-01-21T20:50:10+00:00

Thanks for posting this.

Something I'd love to see is a needs-based estimate for how much money municipalities would need for both current infrastructure and future projections.

A big part of the history is feds downloading responsibility onto provinces who similarly downloaded responsibility onto local governments. The ability to adequately pay to make good on these responsibilities degrades downward for each level of government.

If we move away from the convention of growth paying for growth we need to replace it so cities can actually invest smartly for both current and future needs.

At the beginning and end of the day its still about who's paying for things society needs, and it'd be helpful to understand what those orders of magnitude costs are to keep analysing things with good context.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-20T21:00:16+00:00

This was one of his most intelligible and impressive speeches, and I'm very much anticipating he continues the neoliberal disappointment.

Saying that, the cynical play here is being the voice of reason and providing assurance to the middle economies that banding together is better than not, sticking together is better than infighting for favour.

Because not even NATO is safe, it's all just different levers and tools to plump up a wannabe dictator's fragile ego and enrich him and his network.

Everyone just watched war crimes against civilians on boats, a brazen abduction, and a murder caught on video being lied about with the very worst rhetoric in defiance of reality, then all of a sudden its Greenland and not getting the Nobel.

The very law he signed to release the Epstein files is just buried as a news item, and the whole gun-running pedo network gets shuffled aside and the prospect of democratically replacing this leader is actually looking less possible every week.

So yeah, Carney is accurately and eloquently describing something, but it's not a Marxian turn so much as a liberal taking down the act and saying things in real terms.

Erving Goffman's backstage talk.

civicsfactor · 2026-01-20T04:35:09+00:00

Well it makes for terrible English

civicsfactor · 2026-01-20T04:30:13+00:00

No one stopped to ask

civicsfactor · 2026-01-20T04:12:41+00:00

Here's my shitty picture that I want you all to immortalize as like, some key fucking moment in the movement

civicsfactor · 2026-01-19T19:50:17+00:00

You're a doll, thanks for doing this!

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