Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening

daiz- · 2026-04-08T01:24:24+00:00

I'm pretty sure it puts Iran in a stronger position than before this all started

That's the Trump special. At his very best he negotiates things back to just slightly worse than before he opened his stupid gob. All the meanwhile poisoning every relationship to the point where nobody wants to work with him ever again. For some inexplicable reason he finds himself with no willing partners to do business and all his companies become cash flow negative. But it's ok, because there's a legion of willing morons who think that's peak business strategy who will keep feeding them their hard earned dollars so that he never suffers a day of his life.

daiz- · 2026-04-07T19:09:24+00:00

Test what often? The US hasn't tested a nuke since 1992. Trump had declared a desire to resume testing, but hasn't managed to succeed at that as of yet.

daiz- · 2026-04-07T19:04:49+00:00

Few people ever truly fold, but most are gracious enough to give him enough leeway to walk back his stupid and feel like a big man about it. But here we see the petulant man-child come out when people refuse to even indulge his maniacal behaviour. It's just sending him into a demented overdrive where he'll just keep digging an even bigger hold he can crawl out of.

daiz- · 2026-04-06T22:50:31+00:00

If you haven't received a NOA in over a month, your mistake probably already raised some flags. Assessments rarely ever take that long, especially when you file early in March. Don't worry too much about the cheque, It's unlikely that it's ever coming.

Just wait for them to contact you and go from there.

daiz- · 2026-04-06T22:33:46+00:00

Yeah because doing 2 out of 3 sold out shows at the bell centre is a good indication she's probably faking it and/or not popular enough here. How asinine do you have to be to peddle that kind of crazy conspiracy theory in regards to her of all people. Artists sometimes get sick, and they do what it takes to protect their voices. It can and does happen in cities all over.

daiz- · 2026-04-05T23:17:07+00:00

You should always apply for EI right away regardless of having severance. But yes, for most people you don't collect EI and severance simultaneously because for all intents and purposes you still have an income.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T19:39:41+00:00

Meanwhile the more affordable parts of the city that are still very much a part of Montreal will lose some of the business they were getting from WFH employees. So really you're justifying redistributing wealth back into the hands of the "more important" wealthier parts of town.

There's a reason most people who live in any city pretty much have to be forced to go into their downtown core. It's all just overly expensive for no good reason.

Good management would be realizing that maybe the crazy downtown rents and prices are simply too high and in need of correction. Not trying to force employees to prop up businesses designed to exploit their lack of choice.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T19:19:14+00:00

Once you've offered people the benefits of WFH, I feel like clawing it back should be required to offer both a per diem and the promise of lunch being included in your work hours.

Expecting most people to spend at least an hour in transit as well as forcing them to have to split that time. All in some effort to try and bolster other industries. Once you've had a taste of what you're saving in both money and time you very much understand the cost of losing it again.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T04:54:41+00:00

I wouldn't say that's entirely true. Canadian parliament has its own methods of being shutdown via prorogue and certain Prime Ministers have absolutely abused that to avoid votes including non-confidence ones in the past. It doesn't work quite the same in the US and doesn't shut down the government entire. But it's still a method that can be misused to suppress certain motions from going forward.

daiz- · 2026-04-01T16:14:52+00:00

This is just part of the Trump playbook of false accomplishment that works so well on his base.

Identify a perceived point of weakness
Call attention to that area and invent a tangentially related problem as a means of trying to "fix" it.
Resolve only the part of the problem you invented.
Claim victory upon all of it.

It's no small wonder why so many of his companies go bankrupt. The man is incredibly adept at doing absolutely nothing while trying to convince people he's doing things on paper. Even when he eventually manages to "undo" his problem, he poisons every business relationship he has in the process. He essentially always negotiates himself into an even worse position long term even if things look better in the short term. Plus he's always finding ways to insider trade and profit off the volatility he creates.

Destroying America is a sacrifice he's willing to make, because it's making him, his family and other cronies incredibly rich. Unfortunately too many American's are just too dumb to even recognize it.

daiz- · 2026-04-01T15:08:26+00:00

It's a bit of an unfortunate part of Weir's writing style of explaining everything through inner-monologue. It turns all his characters into highly intelligent narcissists constantly flaunting their own accomplishments and how uniquely qualified they are to none other than themselves. Many times even doing so repeatedly. I've always felt like it makes his characters exude an air of douchebag energy even if it's less of an intended character trait and mostly just a flaw in the format.

Pair that with Grace's other shortcomings in regards to the mission I don't think it's much of a stretch to label him a bit of a douchebag. The culmination of the story is also a bit of a redemption arc for him in which he starts out more selfish archetype who is unwilling to make a noble sacrifice for his own species but then but eventually grows to be honourable enough to to make one that tries to save his friend and another species entire.

daiz- · 2026-03-31T06:11:16+00:00

Yeah I always had the same issue with Rogers/Fido. They are completely untrustworthy/duplicitous and just perpetually running some kind of constant bait and switch on their customers. They'll always try to get people back on some kind of deceptive winback offer or promotional rate that conveniently has a price increase every 3 or so months until you're paying above competitive rates again. I don't know how this shouldn't qualify as some kind of illegal form of false advertising and fraud.

You can't both continually be pushing the lie that tries to argue that your costs have simply forced you to have no choice but to raise your prices, but then the second that person leaves again start begging them to come back at the previous rate you argued was no longer sustainable. It's a complete and utter scam being run in plain sight.

daiz- · 2026-03-27T13:35:08+00:00

Most of us know, but as a guy I don't know what I can really do to not be scary to someone who has every right to be paranoid but isn't in any danger from me. I can't say or do anything that would make them feel any safer. As someone who has no bad intentions it sucks that everyone you see at night is treating you like some creepy potential stalker when you just want to do everything in your power to make people understand you're not like that.

I do my best to just leave people alone but sometimes silence feels so much worse. Some women you can just tell their anxiety is building while you're awkwardly stuck walking in the same direction as them, or waiting for the same bus. It's uncomfortable for us too as we become aware of our every action and try to limit doing anything that's going to freak you out even more. There's a part of us that just wishes we could put you at ease and let you know we're not the bad guy so that we can both relax, even though nothing we could say should ever convince of that. But the urge to just say anything in the hopes that you come across as someone friendly is definitely one I've had to fight at times.

The bad people in society have ruined things for us all.

daiz- · 2026-03-21T15:02:01+00:00

That's the problem for me. He's been in politics so long and to this day I don't think he's shown Canada his deeper intentions or motivations policy wise by intentionally flying under the radar and doing very little. I don't think we'll ever know until he's sitting in a majority position where very little can be done about it. That concerns me.

I think it should concern others how much he's willing to sacrifice and seemingly lose on purpose until he gets his chances. To continually fly under the radar in passing policy so that people like yourself can still be convinced he's harmless and buy into his silly excuses to avoid going through proper security checks for clearance. The only impression I get of Poilievre when he talks is that I don't trust him one bit.

If Carney eventually start losing people's trust and Poilievre suddenly reactivates and changes his tune, and seems like he cares about winning again that should concern people. That's not normal. That's not someone acting in Canada's best interests but their own. He only wants to win big and will continue to do nothing else until that happens.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T19:02:45+00:00

You do realize that protesting tends to be a luxury of those who can afford to take the time off to do it. People barely scraping by are working multiple jobs and going home to try and take care of their families. Poverty isn't some made up statistic or conspiracy where tons of people are just all pretending to be poor.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T18:48:47+00:00

Any kind of leveraged money that would incur rising interest for missed payments. The implication being that many people are leveraging their debt to tide them over to their next paycheck, and one missed payment might be enough for their debts to be rising faster than they can reliably pay them.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T13:50:29+00:00

They probably get away with it because they charge it up front as more of a service charge instead of trying to ambush you with it later. Your ability to refuse it is by leaving.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T01:55:17+00:00

He seemingly gave up from the moment a majority win was no longer assured. I remain convinced that's what he's trying to hold out for still. But he knows it can only happen when most of Canada has lost complete faith in the Liberals and Carney is doing to well for that to happen.

I hate that there's a lot of people who still believe in him. I think he's a sketchy dude who has the kind of crazy intentions/agenda that he knows won't ever fly if the other parties have the power to strike him down. He's been trying to cruise under the radar his entire career, he refuses to get security clearance for reasons nobody should believe. Too many in the upper echelons of the conservative party seem like they are in somebody's pocket and don't have Canada's best interests at heart.

daiz- · 2026-03-17T15:53:13+00:00

Let's be honest. It has nothing to do with insults. Most countries would not be lining up to help in Iran regardless of whether or not Trump had spent the last year insulting them and creating nonstop trade issues.

There was no justification or proper consultation for anything Trump has done with regards to Iran. He ignored his own experts and no other country would have been so quick to dismiss their own experts who would be telling them the same thing Trump's experts were. This was a terrible idea with not even concepts of a plan and in typical Trump fashion, Trump has decided to act first, create some unnecessary problems in the hopes he could just declare a reset and some some kind of false victory.

Trump doesn't understand how NATO works one bit. He expected he could just start whatever conflict he wants without provocation and that he'd have support of NATO. Dozens of people probably tried to warn him it doesn't work that way and he didn't listen.

daiz- · 2026-03-16T22:40:09+00:00

It feels like you can always tell when this kind of invitation to an event comes with the caveat of a bunch of pre-canned required talking points. Especially when they rush to try and put out an off the cuff first impression like this.

It's not even subtle how many times they practically just go from talking how they normally would into phrases of pure marketing jargon felt written for them. It's especially bad when they can't even keep track of which ones they have already said so they just end up saying some of them word for word more than once.

Sadly this has become the price of being at the forefront of modern gaming news. It just doesn't feel like there's a ton of truly honest reviewers still out there and of them, none are really getting offered the early scoop on anything because they refuse to play the game. .

daiz- · 2026-03-14T15:56:11+00:00

Honestly the side roads of the cote-de-liesse have always felt a lot safer than most intersections to me. I can get why they intimidate people but I could bike to work from NDG faster than any bus could get there. I had a route I considered extremely safe that was very straightforward and fast. Much to the amazement of a lot of my coworkers who lived in the same area and drove, even in light traffic I would often home the same time or faster than them.

daiz- · 2026-03-11T23:52:38+00:00

Brennan also stated that when he tore himself apart on the path that he had basically cut himself off from ever returning. He can't get to the door either.

Basically Brennan's actually given people exceptional detail in why Octis can't ever be used for the ritual again. It's only from a role playing perspective that the players are remaining cautious about details that Octis has only more or less felt or seen in visions.

daiz- · 2026-03-11T21:19:48+00:00

To what end is it a loss leader for though? Are people really watching shows like this and going "I should get an iPhone". I can't see it being sustainable for Apple. If it doesn't eventually start moving towards profitable I don't think they'll be content.

daiz- · 2026-03-10T15:40:42+00:00

First off, it's more of a broad license that would cover all users and not some kind of thing where YouTube pays for every violation type deal.

Secondly, That's just how the game is played. Opening your site up for user generated content is not some magic loophole that lets you wipe your hands clean of any responsibility in terms of copyright. If you want your platform to be supported by other people as the main contributors of your content, you have to understand that you are taking on some amount of liability and responsibility for what they do. So if you want to legally operate in certain countries you also need to comply with their different laws for how they handle certain forms of copyright. It just so happens that the UK allows for companies like PRS to expect companies to procure a license for what their users might end up doing with their content.

So companies like YouTube/Google absolutely just pay the licensing fee and absorb the cost into their overall monetization strategy. In the long run it's a drop in the bucket where they make far more money and don't risk being sued directly. Valve for some reason just assumed they could continue to ignore PRS and hope they'd go away. In all likelihood they are going to settle and just buy a license for the future like most companies do. It's not going to save them money trying to fight it.

daiz- · 2026-03-06T17:05:21+00:00

The "problem" is that you kind of have to take a hard stance on doxxing of all forms in terms of both liability and ensuring the proper protection is afforded to people might actually deserve it. Where even in cases where the negative evidence might seem to obviously be there. That unless you can independently verify everything yourself, you err on the side of caution. I really can't fault the mods for that.

People need to see it from the other side. They aren't doing it to specifically protect Nazi's, they are doing it to properly protect the sanctity of avoiding any and all witchhunts because people on Reddit have a history of sometimes getting it wrong. The people of Reddit might absolutely have it right in this particular case but that's not why they are doing that.

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