Which country do you think the people masscred in Tiananmen square were from? Were the people massacred there people known for making silk?

Why would they be referencing silk at all? Yeah they referenced silk thinking “I’m sure people will get get the connection from silk to textiles to Palestinians.”

The Ghorman massacre was referenced in Star Wars Rebels in 2017 and was referenced in the EU in the 1990s FFS. Do you really think the people making Star Wars are clairvoyant? Tianamen Square would’ve been fresh in the minds of people in the 90s I think it’s more likely referencing that event than events that hadn’t happened yet.

See, again, people like this are exactly why we need the protagonist to look directly at the camera and explain things to them.

Indeed.

Thanks for the link!

I was aware of it being referenced in 2017 in Star Wars Rebels, but I wasn’t aware it was in Legends in the 1990s.

Sure… we’d all be better off if only the Ottoman empire continued to exist forever!

SMH

Yes, Star Wars Rebels is so brilliant that they were referencing the Isreal-Hamas war in 2017.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Cargo

Y’all are sounding like qanons with your numerology now.

So there’s a planet famous for producing silk where peaceful protesters are massacred in a public square and you only think of Gaza? There is definitely no place on Earth like that other than Gaza!

I’m pretty sure the Israel Gaza war kicked off with terrorists masscring people in villages and taking hostages, but it wasn’t the IDF doing that shit. Did Andor portray that at all?

I tried to find clips to see what it’s referencing some more but holy shit that show is 90% pretentious speeches. But even then it’s pretty obvious.

You are correct there are some people that need things spelled out for them or they don’t understand it. Some even resort to Qanon style numerology to try to prove weird connections between things.

Anyway, which silk producing country massacred peaceful protesters in a public square? Come on… .you can figure it out! Somewhere where vehicles were used to crush protesters? Maybe someone made a memorial and an authoritarian regime took it down… Hint

Wait, I thought the Jews ran Hollywood and controlled all of the media? How is it possible a movie like this exists?

According to the graph there were fewer US troops deployed in Iraq during the last years of Obama’s presidency than there are now.

So Bush started the war in Iraq and Obama ended the war in Iraq?

Sorry, but this graph just doesn’t fit with the both sides forever war narrative.

The Canaidan died in ICE custody two days before the statement you just linked to was released.

Note we are currently two days after the death of Sayafollah Musallet so it’s a little premature to be screaming about a lack of a press release.

The profile of Johnny Noviello on the CBC came out four days after his death. So definitely premature for you to be upset about not finding a profile Sayafollah Musallet two days after his death.

It’s been two weeks and I can’t find any report from ICE on the cause of death for Johnny Noviello.

The reporting on the Sayafollah Musallet story is currently spotty. The incident just happened on Friday, it was a riot so a messy thing to investigate. There is reporting that the riot was started by Palestinians throwing rocks, and I’ve seen reporting that three Israelis have been arrested. These are unconfirmed reports though. The incident is being investigated according to Reuters. From what reporting there is, it does seem like they’re taking it seriously and it will be investigated and arrests made (if they haven’t been already).

This is one of those stories you should follow up on if you actually care about Sayafollah Musallet. Propganda can go around the world before the truth puts its pants on, but if you actually care about a story to know the truth of it, you’ll probably need to follow up on it a little more than two days after shit went down so investigations can happen, arrests made, reporters can confirm sources, etc.

Also it may shock you to learn American citizens do get killed over seas fairly regularly. What do you suppose the US government does immediately after those incidents? Usually nothing, if a reporter asks, they say something like “we’re aware of the situation”. You just have a greater concern for this particular region of the world than for others for some reason.

The “fight fire with fire” marketing campaign is getting a lot of engagement so we’re releasing the product anyway.

The Canadian government is aware that a Canadian citizen died in ICE custody.

What are we supposed to do?

Launch an invasion to free our people from the terrorist American regime?

Release the Thompson files!

And by that I mean: Promise to release the files for years and then decide no one should be prosecuted and say “why is everyone still talking about that guy?”

It seems he’s learned that the problem with tariffs is that other countries will tariff back.

So now his current strategy is to levy tariffs and threaten countries with more tariffs if they reciprocate.

Same has it’s always been, maybe he’ll TACO or maybe he’ll crash the world economy.

Meanwhile in Canada, it’s become easier to identify products from the US because stores have to put them on discount to try to entice people to buy them. Stores aren’t making money by selling US products at a discount so every time I go to the grocery store, there’s new products made in Canada (or at least non-US countries) replacing the US products.

Happy to report I can now get a head of iceberg lettuce from Quebec in both grocery stores I go to, seems all of our lettuce came from the US before. I had to get crazy expensive hydroponically grown lettuce (or some weird black lettuce) for months. But now I can get iceberg lettuce (“normal” lettuce to me) produced in Canada. It was weird for a bit with some products, but it’s becoming more and more easier and normal to avoid US products. Merci to Quebec for growing lettuce! Hopefully the stores will source lettuce from the EU in the winter.

Not sure how Trump is solving the trade deficit “problem” with this though. Are Americans in the the Midwest buying less oil from Canada (which is THE cause of the trade deficit)? Gonna have to spend a lot of money building pipelines to get oil from the “Gulf of America” and refitting refineries to process that oil. Or God forbid, do a Green New Deal in the Midwest. Otherwise you’d be selling less oil overseas, which would impact trade balance with other countries. But then Canada would sell to those countries instead. But go ahead, fill your boots, I’m good with oil companies having to pay a lot of money refitting refineries as that will just be another version (though less efficient) of a carbon tax.

Canadians are buying less products from the US and it seems unlikely the US is going to buy less oil from Canada any time soon, so it seems Trump’s efforts are just increasing the trade deficit. Carney could put reciprocal tariffs on the US or not, either way Canadians are going to be buying less and less from the US going forward.

Trump is fucking over Americans more than anyone else.

Nah the tariff stuff started many news cycles ago. Trump just really believes tariffs work.

Sure, but this is Trump basically confirming it himself.

Yeah but I find code generation stuff I’ve used in the past takes a significant amount of configuration, and will often generate a bunch of code I don’t want it to, and not in the way I want it. Many times it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Having an LLM do it means I don’t have to deal with configuring anything and it’s generating code for the specific thing I want it to so I can quickly validate it did things right and make any additions I want because it’s only generating the thing I’m working on that moment. Also it’s the same tool for the various languages I’m using so that adds more convenience.

Yeah if you have your IDE setup with tools to analyze the datasource and does what you want it to do, that may work better for you. But with the number of DBs I deal with, I’d be spending more time setting up code generation than actually writing code.

He says the files were written by his political enemies.

Pretty sure he’s in those files now.

It doesn’t have to be boring to make a story about people who always makes the right choice it’s just more challenging to write. You need to write scenarios where it’s not clear what the ethically correct choice is and have the the hero have to figure that out.

A large part of Star Trek (at least back when they had good writers) revolves around that. In fact movies like Captain America Civil War also revolve around a bunch of people wanting to do the right thing, just not agreeing on what that is.

When the writing is bad, stories about a character being bad then learning to be good can be just as boring as a story about someone being good from the beginning. It’s just generally easier to write a story with character learning something because you don’t need to do all that much world building to create an interesting ethical dilemma.

You shouldn’t think of “AI” as intelligent and ask it to do something tricky. The boring stuff that’s mostly just typing, that’s what you get the LLMs to do. “Make a DTO for this table <paste>” “Interface for this JSON <paste>”

I just have a bunch of conversations going where I can paste stuff into and it will generate basic code. Then it’s just connecting things up, but that’s the fun part anyway.

I’m pretty sure it’s just Trump breaking the world order and eroding the freedom of Americans.

When the Israel-Hamas war is over do you really think everything is going to go back to normal in the US and the rest of the world?

The Palestinian people deserve a lot of apologies from a lot of assholes on the internet that have monetized their suffering.

And a lot of people in the Arab world deserve an apology from the Ayatollah of Iran for using them as meat shields in their failed attempt to wipe Israel off the map.