Thanks. Like I said, I’m old. And I have seen all three Star Wars movies. No wonder I didn’t get it.

Huh? Many doctors are women. (And some of the residents appear to be children, when you’re my age.)

Good luck. I hope it goes well for you. You might want to find a different therapist.

Yes, you missed that the bullets were aimed at specific parts of their bodies, so not just an assault on the ambulances: the medics seem to have been dragged out of the ambulances then deliberately shot in the head and heart, before being thrown in a mass grave. And at least one of them had had their hands and feet bound together before being shot in the head. This is a planned and deliberate execution of 15 medical professionals. Maybe the Israeli soldiers lined them up by the grave then shot them.

And what would be bad enough that they would choose to give up their dictator?

Also, in Windows when you finally do run the program it just hangs with “Not responding”.

So they’re planning to hand trans people and women over to the Gestapo for profit.

Canada can either be a beacon for science, education, responsible government and freedom, or it can descend into fascist oppression like the USA. Vote, and keep this man away from power.

How’s your family doing?

Musk cannot take the heat. He has not just the taste and sensibilities of a boy, but the temperament of one. He throws a fit out when things don’t go his way. He wilts. This is someone who can be beat. In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a “glass jaw.” The term “keyboard warrior” comes to mind. But I can think of another word for something that’s so ostentatious and in-your-face except for when it needs to be—a symbol of decadence and insecurity and deregulation that boasts bulletproof toughness, but which breaks into pieces at the first sign of stress.

Elon’s not unstoppable, Wisconsin voters showed on Tuesday. When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.

Well put. Elon is not a tough guy. Make him uncomfortable.

It’s about Quebec’s Bill 96, which requires companies of a certain size to do business in French (so documents and communications must be available in French), and also requires French labeling on products (with parallel English labeling optional). The USA complains that this is too onerous. But Quebec is a French-speaking province, so it’s like complaining that France expects you to do business in French.

The bill:

https://www.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/lois_et_reglements/LoisAnnuelles/en/2022/2022C14A.PDF

Ethnic cleansing is pretty popular in Israel:

80% of Israeli Jews support US President Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, survey finds

He’s addressing the real problems of society: people trying to save the planet, people trying to learn, people trying to use the bathroom without getting beaten up.

This common attitude of “we’re better than that” towards historical fascism is one of the reasons countries like the USA became so ready to succumb to it. If you assume it can’t happen to you, you’ll miss all the signs when it starts. We all need to recognize that Nazism is how ordinary people like ourselves can get when the conditions are conducive to it. Germans in the 1930s and 1940s were not uniquely evil; they were like us. No person or society is immune, and resisting Nazism starts with resisting it in yourself and your community.

It’s so hard to get your head around so many people behaving so badly.

See also:

80% of Israeli Jews support US President Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, survey finds

Every society can fall to fascism when the conditions are right. Humans are pack animals and susceptible to mass delusion.

This is the same US government that’s currently complaining it’s too difficult to do business in Quebec (a province of a country the US is threatening to invade) because native French speakers insist on speaking French. The US is demanding they use English.

That’s what happens when your country falls to Nazism. Anything else would be better.

This may be due to manufacturers locking their machines down with Secure Boot and only installing the keys that allow it to boot Windows. It’s not something that could be fixed by the makers of the Linux install disk. They’d need to persuade the hardware manufacturer to preinstall their key.

The message is: don’t do business with the USA. Find other, more reliable trading partners. It may be a loss in the short term, but bowing to fascist imperialism and white supremacist ideology will be a much bigger loss overall.