Whose bright idea was it to store nuclear waste right next to an ocean coastline?

As I said... not acceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

I'm all for an arms-length agency that controls police data and equipment so there's no opportunity for people within an agency to cover each other's asses.

I think when you put on a badge and assume the authority it grants over others, you should be held to a much higher standard. This does not seem to be a common enough belief to actual have such standards implemented.

It's unacceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

You have a case, you have a case number. The interface is stupid and you can't paste it in, you have to type it out every time. And every selected camera is another query with that same field waiting for the 15 character code.

You get bored, you type in crap knowing A) people rarely check if there's no complaint and B) you have a case.

I can't say that's what happens with every system, but that's why the video logs look like this on the ones I've touched. Which is also why we captured logon ID and didn't just rely on trusting the manual input.

You know what they fucked with far less often? CPIC queries. Abuse CPIC and you lose your job because if you don't lose your job, the RCMP pulls the police service's access. It should be the same locally, but it typically isn't.

Nope. No matter where you look in the sky, on large enough scales it looks the same. There's no indication that things are significantly different in any particular direction.

There can't be a 'source' of a Big Bang that looks like that. It has to happen everywhere or the sky would show signs that it was all accelerating away from a single point.

What we can say is we don't really have much ability to figure out what happened early on. The conditions are too extreme and we don't have any way to model what might have been going on. That's not faith either, that's, "We don't know and might never be able to figure it out".

Maybe Brave respects my choices more, but I still install Ghostery and UBlock Origin.

>If this is true then wouldn't the Biden admin have wanted the BLS to hide or change the CPI reports during those first couple years in the supply chain crunch when those numbers were just destroying their approval ratings?

The difference is between 'spin' and 'outright lying'. Normal governments will show the stats you can examine until the cows come home without being able to say they're lying. They adjust the definition of who is employed or seeking employment, things like that. They can still look bad, because they're still reporting aspects of the real facts.

I think the measure I was talking about is referred to as the "Labor Force Participation Rate", but I'm not sure.

There's a stat - I forget the name for it - but it's basically "The percentage of hours worked out of all those who would normally be expected to be working".

If you're of working age, not prevented by disability, etc., you would be counted. It can't be fudged by not counting people who have just given up, it can't be fudged by counting part time employment. And you can combine that with the wage distribution curve, and then the wealth distribution curve to get a pretty good picture of the overall economic health of your population.

I've never heard of a government that wants that. Generally, economic reports are spun to make the government look more effective than it has been and to protect the wealthy against accusations of hoarding that might result in taxation. A really bad government might just give up on spin and, say, fire people who won't just tell whatever lie they want.

If you think a Chevy EV is pretty cool, you haven't tried Chinese EVs. For the price of that Chevy EV, you could be getting a car that has tech, features, comfort and build quality that rivals quarter of a million dollar luxury cars, and this isn't an exaggeration. The traditional automakers and the Chinese automakers aren't even in the same universe.

Cool, so going forward, I'm going to call your mother Ms. Whorebitch, and anytime anyone asks me what your mother's name is, I'm going to tell them her name is Ms. Whorebitch, and that if you want to have anything to do with me or anything I can provide you, you have to call her Ms. Whorebitch, and I'm going to do this while I am one of the most powerful people in the world.

Sound good to you? I'd have the authority over that interaction, so it must be perfectly fine with you.

Your argument is fallacious. It's based on a fallacious appeal to authority.

Based on your argument, Canada should rename Washington DC to "Fuckface Central". They're allowed to.

The fact of the matter is, we live in a society, and for a society to function, we need to have agreed upon norms.

This breaks those norms, and is causing issues in society. It's antisocial behavior, and it's not even in an effort to change things for the better, which could be excusable.

As far as countries having different names in different languages, of course they fucking do! Everything has a different word for it in a different language! Nippon is not a word in English, Japan is. Deutschland is not a word in English, Germany is.

There are no instances that I know of where a country that speaks a language, has an endonym and an exonyms in its own language, shy of transliterations when referring to the name that other people use in other languages, in their own. So that's like if your name was Jim, but I just always called you Bob.

And, for the record, Füçk Yú. I speak three languages, one of which doesn't even use the Latin character set. I'm quite cognizant of the different diacritics that different letters have.

Also, Canada owns a greater majority of Lake Ontario than the US does. It's not 50/50. ...and, again, Lake Ontario has been named that longer than either the US or Canada has been around!

That was supposed to read "before". My mistake.

Lots of propaganda, lots of raising people to conform, and lots of cuts to education.

Says the uneducated Republican.

What are you arguing? Who are you even replying to? I didn't say any of the things that you're saying, and you clearly didn't either read or understand what I wrote.

If you're reading comprehension is genuinely that poor, then I'm sorry, but we're not able to have a conversation.

What are you arguing? Because the US is not the authoritative source for the names of Lake Ontario or the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Ontario was so named for the existence of the province of Ontario, Canada, or the United States.

Lake Ontario is also mostly contained within the borders of Canada, so if one of the two were to have naming authority over that body of water, it would most likely be Canada.

Also, that's not how these bodies of water get named.

So what are you arguing exactly?

The US government is not an authoritative source for the naming of bodies of water that are not within their control.

Your last paragraph is quite apt; should the president of the United States be able to change the names of things that don't belong to the us, on a whim just because he feels like it? No.

Yes. In fact, I think segregating sports by gender is really fucking stupid. None of the arguments that anyone can make about strength size physique etc. are at all valid. In fact, I think sports would be far more interesting if they were co-ed.

I think being smaller, and having a lower center of gravity can be an asset in many sports, which would give women an advantage that men wouldn't have, and could make for a more interesting team with a broader set of skills and strengths.