I forget how old I am sometimes. I think it was generally missed, which is on me.

It’s the first, iconic line from “The Godfather”.

A man tells his story to Don Corleone, about how he can to America, made his fortune, and did his best to be a “good American”, to trust the police. To trust the system of justice.

He tells how his teenager daughter was savagely beaten by some men who tried to rape her. He went to the police, the men stood trial, but the judge suspended the sentence.

“Suspended sentence? They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom, like a fool.”

The whole scene is brilliant. The whole exploration of the failures of Western justice systems, the alternatives…

The resolution really is, he DOESN’T believe in America anymore.

I understand Toronto isn’t “America”, but I think the parallels in the events, and the story from the film are uncanny. A teenager was brutalized, the sentence was suspended, and the fury brewing in the stomachs of everyone has no legal outlet. The film, a work of fantasy, the father could appeal to Don Corleone. Who do we have?

Maybe I underestimated the cultural impact of The Godfather.

I believe in America.

Edit:

For clarity, I’m referring to this:

https://youtu.be/eZHsmb4ezEk

Guess we doin rockets now

At work whenever we need to build little command line tools, my team is always vexxed by my guideline to have the meat+potatoes in a script that reads well-formatted data off stdin , and outputs well formatted-data to stout. They always wanna have some stupid interactive prompts and saving to files baked right in.

This is exactly why. You wanna save to a file?? > file

You want to read from a file? cat |

You want to save to a file but swap commas for colons? Sed.

You get so much FOR FREE w/ the GNU toolkit, even for what you build yourself, by thinking in streams.

GOOD FOLLOW UP!!

I was about to shit a brick that you went from “go to the official trusted source” to “just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash”

https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc

Still only glancing off of the root of the issue: Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

Glory is eternal

Study was done in mice, and it relies on massaging specific lymph nodes which are easily accessible for massage (sounds like most of the lymph nodes related to the brain-flushing mechanism are too deep in the neck to really get at).

Super curious if/where humans have analogues.

Site but on the blockchain. Site but in the metaverse. Site but with NFTs. Site but with AI.

I’m pretty sure it’s a requirement to have proportional representation, so I’d jump at the opportunity if only as an excuse to abolish FPTP.

I’m in fintech and honestly I wouldn’t have made any of these assumptions… Because I’ve long ago given up on the idea that any real world system is anything better than loose heuristics.

Like, I could be pleasantly surprised at some point… But honestly even if a PO swore up and down that something was “certain” I probably wouldn’t even believe them.

I’m also surprised that they didn’t mention that a flight could arrive on a calendar day before it departs.

They were governors of Florida

It’s like Stockholm syndrome.

Like, yeah, I’m here, I’m in it, I gotta do it so I don’t starve or freeze…

But you’re never going to get me to say it’s a meritocracy. Or efficient.

Some people will though. I think it’s less about propeganda than it is about fear. Like if they take Zeus’ name in vain they’ll catch a lightning bolt.

Tbh after working for decades in the corporate world, I see SIGNIFICANTLY more similarities between that and a fucking game… Or jr high drama, than I do w/ academia.

Capitalism is a fucking joke and anyone who doesn’t understand it’s a stupid game is delusional

Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.

Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.

So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.

Also consider that this comes at the expense of the quarterly cheques you were getting. Inflation is looking at cost of a basket of goods but doesn’t “see” the rebate cheques as ever existing.

You forgot about DRE

That would be amazing.

But since the conservative won with 82% of the vote, even it were a perfect split either would still handily trounce whoever the 18% rallied behind.

Like, this is why PP wants this riding. I’m pretty sure a literal mop bucket would still win the seat if they were the conservative candidate. I think he could drive into Hanna say “fuck Lanny fuck Nickelback and fuck you” and still easily win.

It’s not at all the same.

This would give the PPC one seat total, and deprive the CPC of their current leader.

Your analogy is actually much more similar to PP WINNING the seat. The Liberals being so happy to call a special election is BECAUSE they LIKE keeping PP, the guy they just beat the leader of the CPC. If the libs drag their feet to give challengers the space to make a play for CPC leadership, they’re rolling the dice. They’re choosing the devil they know and beat. Their bet is they think PP is a guy they can beat again.