MrManderly

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@chesscom Getting it done even when the wife is busy reading the 7 page life story in a 7 sentence cheesecake recipe

Magnus Carlsen just won the $250,000 Chess.com Open on an iPad because he didn't have a computer and couldn't use his wife's MacBook.

@SenSanders Assassination is official policy of the Democrat Party x.com/patrickbetdavi…

A functioning democracy relies on the premise that people can express their political views freely without fear of being attacked or assassinated. Political violence is political cowardice. It is unacceptable in all forms.

Assassination is official policy of the Democrat Party

@kay_dub_h As ugly on inside as they are on the outside

Vile and trash.

@Aaronpete_ Indoctrinating children into David Eby's apartheid racist view of the world should be banned. This is Canada, all people are equal. There's no such thing as stolen land.

This is silliness. Of course, there’s speech that public servants shouldn’t say when representing the government. Collectively, as a society we agreed to certain things like religion not being taught in school. I’m very clearly on record saying I don’t love land acknowledgements, that I don’t think they’re useful, productive or meaningful. That said, I’ve seen them on occasion be used to connect people with the rivers, mountains, and life around us - and in my view those are land acknowledgements at their best - that we must take care of this planet, protect biodiversity, and do our best to live in harmony with nature. Now, most commonly, they’re empty statements about unceded territory - and I don’t support those. But banning speech like this, I don’t think is needed. It’s not compelled speech and I see those arguing that it is de facto compelled, and if that feels that way then a simple message from the government saying “Land Acknowledgements are not compelled and don’t feel obligated to do so” is a reasonable, measured response. Banning the ability for teachers or any public servant to say something like this is over the top and unnecessary. I know my critics think this is the right move, and they’re welcome to that view. But banning speech always starts with something that’s agreeable to some of the population, but you open that door at your peril, because there’s no guarantee they’ll stop there. That’s why banning speech, no matter how much you hate the speech being said, is dangerous. Yes, today it’s public servants - but tomorrow it could go beyond that. That is the risk of banning speech. That’s why we must tread carefully when politicians offer these solutions.

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@bscholl Elon spent $42 billion giving the world back free speech. That's a million times more valuable than all the other rich people put together.

The idea of billionaires needing to give back is deeply fucked up. Elon is rich because he gave the world many things it wouldn’t have had otherwise. The world pays him back merely with money. If you ask me, the world got the better end of the bargain.

4. I want to be right in the middle of Baal and Apophis throwing their whispered hissy fits

i know this for VERY annoying reasons, but watson and crick's DNA paper is still copyrighted. so much for open science. 842 words. 73 years old. watson and crick both passed away. british taxpayers funded it. nature still owns it. the iconic helix drawing was made by odile crick, who wasn't even an author, and her copyright runs separately through 2078. the data was rosalind franklin's photo 51, taken without her consent. she got no royalties in life. nature still collects them. watson died last november, so under UK law the paper enters public domain on january 1, 2096. 143 years of private rent on a publicly-funded discovery, while nature publishes editorials about open science. i'm the founder of a biotech company and i cannot legally put this paper on our website. the pattern is constant in biology: the moment an observation crosses a publisher's desk, the observer loses it. franklin's photo. paywalled, MTA'd, or licensed back to the people who paid for it. this stuff they do to a scientist's work is even worse than what happens to musicians and artists and no one cares.

@HinrichsZane Those are some whoppers 😮

I fish, therefore I am. Profound right?

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It feels like these young women as so desperate to hear "I love you" that they're willing to pay a stranger to say it.

@MarkMilke Reconciliation is over. All treaties are paid up. Canadians are paid up.

When a First Nation has no treaty and yet receives $1.3 billion over 24 years, never mind since 1867, shouldn't that count towards any financial and land claim against Canada/taxpayers? A new column from Ven Venkatachalam and I in the National Post on the Cowichan decision. nationalpost.com/opinion/aborig…

“The world is more divided and dangerous,” Carney, Mark (2025/26) Jan 3-11-18-23-26 Feb 2-7-15-21-24 Mar 1-6-14-30 Apr 4-9-16-22-28 May 5-12-18-23-31 Jun 2-8-20-27-30 Jul 1-7-13-16-19-30 Aug 3-10-17-21-22 Sep 2-6-14-20-28 Oct 4-9-11-22-29 Nov 1-7-13-18-24 Dec 3-8-16-21-27

@MollySOShea This will be so much faster getting to drowning victims than any other method available.

The most surprising life-saving drone use case? Water rescue. One of the best demos of the day: → Water rescue / drowning response → Delivering auto-inflating life preservers → Precision payload drops (wind-adjusted targeting) → Faster real-time rescue support all carried by X10. "One of the most common requests we got from public safety was helping people in the water in trouble." “Over time, you’re going to see more & more of this, drones doing things to interact with people on the ground & provide help.” @adampbry CEO of @SkydioHQ

@mario4thenorth It can and will get so much worse. Just like fish swimming in water westerners are totally blind to the utopian society their ancestors built for them. They will come to understand what being a fish out of water means.

Listen to what happened to this business owner: -his delivery guy goes to drop off a pizza -it’s a dummy address -pizza guy steps out to look for it -car gets stolen -it was a set up -police are so busy, they don’t show up -have to take a report over the phone -car was used for robberies that night -it was ditched and destroyed -they go looking for the car -cop pulls them over, both looking for the same car -cop gives impression that this is the kind of thing that happens Delivery drivers can’t even leave their cars on anymore to make deliveries. Canada has become a low-trust society.

@Troy22Troy @GurvSC That's a lot of words to say that I'm right

@MrManderly @GurvSC Under the updated map, Carleton retained its core suburban expanse in the City of Ottawa but excluded the Findlay Creek neighbourhood—a rapidly growing, Liberal-leaning area south of Hunt Club Road—transferring it to the neighbouring Ottawa South riding.

I don’t think simply removing Pierre will do anything. We’ve lost 4 elections with 4 different leaders and honestly, Pierre still put up the best result compared to the others. Harper, Scheer, O’toole would’ve lost worse to Carney. Losing to Trudeau three times was the fatal mistake. I think the mistake we are making now is being too agreeable with the Liberals and still using the same political strategy we’ve been losing with for 10 years. The conservatives need to get away from the idea that we are simply losing because Pierre’s “unlikable” and we need to try to not offend people. Be bolder on reform, attack issues we don’t conventionally win on, stop being bland because people are tuning you out when you say the same thing 10,000 times like the 10,001 will magically change something.

@RM_Transit If you're spending $7 billion on 5 kilometers of subway it will have to be a rich enclave to afford it. Governments don't have unlimited money. If we wanted an actual affordable solutions we would be talking to the @boringcompany who could put in a solution quickly and cheaply.

There is no way the tram costs come out so low or that the travel times are this competitive, but fundamentally I think the divide is between those who want more people to be able to enjoy Vancouver and those happy for it to continue transitioning into an enclave for the rich

@JesslovesMJK What most westerners fail to realize is that when communist countries are doing despicable shit they are also "following the law". The law has no morality. Evil people will use and implement the law to abuse people.

I will admit I don't know the full backstory on this but having just watched a documentary on what's it's like to live in communist countries - ie: if you speak out against the government you go to prison - I must say that this looks like that. Comments?