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brynden_rivers_esq

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  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • I think I must not be making my point clearly.

    You say “if the king oversteps” and my point about law and norms and all that is that they shape perception about whether a particular thing is overstepping. Lawyers don’t usually protect us from tyranny, lawyers usually enforce tyranny; it’s just the kind of tyranny that is commonly accepted. And that acceptance matters…because people think it does, sure.

    I think you have a very idealistic understanding of what we call democracy these days…if a 60/40 split happened like I talked about earlier came up, you think there would be mass mobilization? You think Canadians have stronger political convictions than folks in the US? I dont…Canadians seem to love to not care about Canadian politics…disinterest in politics seems to be a point of pride to differentiate themselves from those annoying Americans. And it’s way worse than 60/40 there and just look at the place. It’s a mess.

    You say you think the king should have no power and everyone knows it but the commander in chief of your military is a direct personal appointee who serves at their pleasure.

    A crisis doesn’t occur without a context…it would be about something, and certainly something that one side thinks it can win on. I think you imagine any constitutional crisis would be immediately and unanimously handled in a democratic manner by everyone involved, no matter their interest in the underlying matter that lead to the crisis…we’d just all be on-side and do the right thing…I think that is extraordinarily naive!

  • Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East

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  • So much for his Davos speech, eh?

  • 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

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  • Tragic =(

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

    www.tomshardware.com /video-games/390tb-video-game-archive-being-taken-offline-due-to-skyrocketing-ram-ssd-and-hard-drive-prices-ai-driven-supply-squeeze-results-in-closure-of-one-of-the-largest-online-video-game-archives

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • Why?

  • Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces

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  • I know the article is ringing the alarm bell, but I just gotta say I hate the way folks use the phrase “few bad apples” these days. It’s a shortening of the saying “a few bad apples spoil the bunch” meaning even if it was “just a few bad apples” we still ought to fire everyone and start again lol

  • We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now.

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  • Great article. Not sure it belongs on this community but whatever

  • OpenAI is helping the US gov to mass surveil and kill people autonomously

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  • Oh no domestic mass surveillance? I don’t believe you…and if I did, you’re still happy to help mass surveillance everywhere else in the world?

    Man, I wish I knew how to organize people against these ghouls.

  • Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

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  • I bet, that sounds awesome!

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • I see what you mean about the optics of the governor general being Canadian, but legally they’re still bound to do what the monarch says, and the monarch is not bound to do what parliament says! Like, for example, if the UK wanted to drag us into a war, some Canadians might be keen…even if it’s a minority, if the governor general were one of them, we’d either be going or have a conditional crisis on our hands.

    You’re right, of course…what’s going on in the US does show the flimsiness of “western liberal democracies” in the face of fascist tactics. When push comes to shove constitutions and laws are words on paper (and Canada relies on many norms that are not even that!) and they only matter if everyone with power agrees they matter.

    On paper, the US has much more robust rights in respect of their government than Canada does, but to your point, that has obviously not lead to a more society with less government overreach!

    So I basically agree, I think it’s not right to say it’s all completely meaningless though. Like…there may well be things that the king could do to abuse his power for which we wouldn’t have the will to remove the king from power. I guess that’s my point; let’s do it on principal first. I don’t see any reason to leave the letter of the law in a shitty place (and it doesn’t seem you disagree that having a king is shitty) just because outright fascists would ignore it if they came to power. Little fascists may be stopped, non-fascists may find their path smoother, etc.

    That said, if you’re thinking the accelerationist approach of “let adversity harden the will of the people, and we’ll build a new world in the ashes of the old” then hey, more power to ya. Sign me up for the mailing list =P

  • Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

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  • Ooh that’s a very cool aspect; as someone with a wife and a job I find I have a lot less time than I used to for gaming so something like that sounds really appealing! That said, I’m also hoping to experience the multi-user part so I’ll have a hunt around and see what’s still got folks playing!

    I tried MUME, and it’s awesome so far; and lots of folks still play every day who have been playing since the early 90s which is wild!

  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • That’s very true; I still would love to see him guillotined.

  • It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

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  • He’s being downvoted because this was the democrats’ race to lose and they lost it spectacularly. Don’t blame non-voters for not turning up for the candidate that said “shut up about the genocide that we support and that i intend to confine to support”

    Or for a party that abandons every campaign promise other than “things will not fundamentally change.”

    The Democrats could try a little leadership for god’s sake. The top level comment blames the party, the comment you responded to blames the people. That’s why it’s downvoted, I think.

  • ‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

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  • It’s because they think they’ll win those lawsuits. They may be right. They’re gonna pull an Alex jones: “oh come on, it’s a bit! Everyone knows it’s bullshit!”

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • Everyone says this, because so far the monarchy has generally done what parliament asks in terms of, for example, appointing a prime minister, appointing senators, etc. Except there was the "King-Byng affair" in which the crown refused to exercise its constitutional power at the behest of the elected government. Now in retrospect, that may have been for the best...but that absolutely should resolve anyone's question that the monarchy "has zero power in Canada." People generally remember this as the crown "saving us from ourselves" ...I don't have any strong feelings about that, as long as we recognize that it had the power to do something and still does. I think it shouldn't have power...if someone else wants to say it should at least we can talk about that...but when we pretend that the monarchy has no power we have to talk about that first.

    But ask Australians...they had no interference from the monarchy in their democracy until their "1975 constitutional crisis," in which the people voted for a prime minister (some evil socialist who did crazy dangerous tankie things like bring in universal healthcare and pull out of the war in Vietnam...practically stalin), the queen then dismissed him, dissolved parliament, and appointed the liberal party leader as her new prime minister, and told them to have a new election.

    Legally, Canada is in the exact same position as Australia was at that time. The only real differences are: (a) another 50 years of the monarchy not going rogue and fucking with democracy, but also (b) precedent of the monarchy going rogue and fucking with democracy and getting away with it.

    I'm a lawyer, and it blows me away that lawyers here don't know this stuff...like your whole government is built on a rug that could be pulled out from under you at any time! And look...if the monarchy tried to do something that was overwhelmingly unpopular, it would create a constitutional crisis, but I am sure we would get through it and get to the right result. Absurd to leave that risk on the table if you ask me, but fine... What worries me more is when the question is a bit more ambiguous...what happens if it's not overwhelming? what happens if the country is split 60/40 on an issue, but many of the 60% are not willing to cause a constitutional crisis, and the monarchy is willing to push the less popular option? (I mean, we know what happens, that's what happened in australia!).

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • It’s kind of their thing really lol

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • That’s a good point, though powerful people do seem more likely to be a monster, to not see other people as people. Bring a members of the royal family is just one way in which one can be a powerful person. But certainly the way Virginia talked about prince Andrew was that he saw being a monster as his birthright.

    I don’t know what majority of his privilege means…he’s still living a luxurious life on his estate with servants. That seems like a pretty extreme level of privilege to me…maybe privilege no human being should have, but certainly not just for being born into a family of historical mass murderers, and certainly not for being a pedophile. Until prince andrew is treated the same as any other person, I will not believe that he is not getting special treatment on account of his royal status.

    I am an immigrant to Canada and I cannot understand how “chill” everyone here is about the monarchy. Is it not clearly an irredeemably evil institution? I really don’t get it.

    Folks say they have no real power here but that’s definitely untrue, and even if it were (and again…it’s really not)…we should still sever ties, if nothing else to show that we don’t endorse what the royal family has done!

    I, no joke, would rather Canada declare Justin Bieber king of Canada than leave it with the British royal family. Obviously we shouldn’t have a king, but we could at least pick a Canadian I guess. Anyone would be better.

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • I’m not sure what the point is in any case. Whatever about how the monarch is chosen…having a monarch is bad! And this monarchy is particularly bad!

  • MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis

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  • I’m just getting into my first MUD! It’s neat!

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • I think we really should stick to calling him “Prince Andrew.” If we don’t we’re letting the monarchy separate itself from him…but that’s bullshit; he has the privilege of being a prince and his status as prince is not just what gave him the liberty to be a monster, but I think we can assume it’s what actually made him a monster.

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    Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

  • MUD @lemmy.ca
    brynden_rivers_esq @lemmy.ca

    Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    brynden_rivers_esq @lemmy.ca

    Trying to get into MUDs - any suggestions?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Vancouver safe street advocate hit by car on way home from advocacy meeting

    www.nationalobserver.com /2026/02/23/news/vancouver-safe-street-advocate-accident