It must work better for people who buy tons of disparate shit all the time. Otherwise why would they keep the feature at all?

I’m a pretty consistent buyer. There’s recurring essentials (maybe the brand of dish soap changes sometimes, but it’s essentially the same). There’s one-off larger ticket products. What do you recommend to someone like that?

I’m not exactly sure. I was hoping for something innovative and/or fun that fits the types of things I already own. But I don’t get that.

I get frequently asked by Amazon if I need another:

• large TV
• bidet
• xbox controller
• kitchen knife

I don’t know who goes through multiples of those items during their normal life. I’d expect to be shown something brand new or something consumable.

Maybe I’m doing consumerism wrong?

There’s a giant Conservative sign up close to the highway by me and the guy’s face has a hole punched clean through it.

As much as I find it distasteful that people interfere with election signs, I find the hyperbole from politicians when this gets reported so over the top.

Like, you ordered a few hundred plastic signs from China, smeared them all over the city, and a couple went missing. In a week you’re throwing them all in a landfill. You’re not losing an election and our democracy isn’t threatened because some of your trash got stolen.

So if people use drugs and are evicted from social housing, and there are no tent cities, where would current residents go? Would they be held for involuntary treatment?

Melissa De Genova, the Conservative candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown, did not directly answer the question when The Tyee spoke to her following a press conference Monday.

I am absolutely stunned they didn’t have a coherent and intelligent answer to this question prepared.

If you look closely you can also see his arm sticking out the window, further holding down the roof.

I was coming around a bend on a really wide, “gentle“ road behind a business park. It had no cars parked on the street and was wide open with little traffic.

Come around the corner and see, right in the middle of the road, a driving school car flipped on its roof. No other cars around, no hazards. Just a perfectly placed car on its head, even pointed down the road as though some movie prop guys had installed it.

Standing beside it was a very bored and sad looking cop directing traffic. I think he was tired of every passing car taking a picture as they drove by.

They probably died off because they couldn’t use Polaris for navigation!

I think it was Gandhi who said “the best time to punch a nazi is 90 years ago. The second best time is today.”

Better yet, there’s sites that have filters you can set. So you set the wattage filter to 60w and then…. no fucking results. But if you clear the filter, there’s lots of results, because it turns out their entire inventory has a wattage of “n/a”.

My apartment complex has a Facebook group that serves the same purpose. It’s kind of a mess.

Last week someone posted their security camera footage showing some homeless guy (in his-vis) casing their patio. The neighborhood watch quickly confirmed this scumbag had been poking around the property for days. A police report was created. People went out looking for him.

A couple hours later, the maintenance guy replies to the thread saying the guy is a contractor fixing damaged decks. There are signs up everywhere about it. People got email notifications. And yet they still found a way to create a panic and also waste the cops’ time.

Any time there’s a “popular” thread in that group, it’s always something like that.

My advice is to never join any online community with your neighbors. It’ll just scare you by how fucking stupid the average person is.

What if I watched the entire porn spoof?

Never have I ever seen Titanic.

I know people who will vote the conservative ticket solely because they’re still mad about the BC NDP of the 90s having a bunch of scandals. The “never NDP” crowd are a mirror of the “never Liberal”/“never Conservative” crowd.

When people make up their minds on something and build up a bunch of emotional insulation around it, they’re never going to budge on their position. Their egos can’t allow it. It’s like a slightly less pathetic version of the polarization in US federal politics.

This makes sense if you relabel the BC Conservatives on that graph as BC Liberals. It’s really just a story about the Liberals.

The BC Liberals were one of the major BC political parties. Despite the name, they had no relationship with the federal Liberal party. The BC party was significantly more to the right compared to the federal party. As a result, they captured a ton of centre and almost all of the right-leaning votes. This went on for decades.

Once the BC Liberals got defeated by the NDP, some weird stuff started happening. First they renamed their party from the BC Liberal Party to the BC United Party. This is almost certainly only because Justin Trudeau’s approval rating started sliding, and the BC party wanted to avoid getting a bad rep by name association.

Then they discovered that their existing leadership was actually super unlikable, and MLAs started declaring they would run as independents. Some outright declared for the BC Conservatives (who were, up until this point, a fringe party that didn’t win seats). That created some momentum and more MLAs started jumping ship.

BC United finally collapsed a couple of weeks ago. The party is effectively dead and I don’t think they’re even trying to win any seats next time around.

The situation is analogous to a local burger shop getting bought out and replaced by a Wendy’s. You could ask why Wendy’s is all of a sudden so popular, but the answer has less to do with Wendy’s being popular and more to do with them serving similar food as a previous burger joint, and since they’re in the same location, the same customers keep coming in.

“Why should I change my shirt? He’s the one who sucks!”

Don’t forget that Microsoft isn’t some dumb company trying to jump on the AI bandwagon. They’re a cloud provider and Azure provides lots of AI options.

Microsoft is one of the platforms raking in heaps of money from dumb companies trying to jump on the AI bandwagon. They’re the equivalent of the people selling MAGA shirts outside trump rallies.

Sounds right, and I’m sure worried. They rolled through Kyiv in 3 days because they’re so prepared!

Homeowners are a massive voting bloc.

We’re completely fucked. There’s no way an elected government can address this.

The problem with geosynchronous orbit is that you need to be at a high altitude to maintain it. That increases the packet round trip time to a receiver on the ground. Starlink satellites orbit low enough to give a theoretical 20ms ping. A geostationary satellite would be at best 500ms. It’s fine for some tasks but lousy for applications that need low latency, like video calling.

It sounds like MBA word salad. “We’re adding AI to the phone system somehow”.

Not exactly what you’re asking, but it’s also worth checking your local library. Some of them grant their cardholders access to external sources that might overlap with what you’re after.