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https://nitter.net/mitchellh/status/2075261972061594106?s=20

He has CIA experience but his word shouldn't just be taken at face value. The man has unsettling views on buying pardons and excuses some other things away as well. Kiriakou shouldn't be trusted, IMO.

That said, he probably isn't wrong at all about this particular thing.

Thanks for commenting with your experience - that helps frame it somewhat, that a skilled worker may qualify their family. The proof of funds requirement seems like the term used, referred to here [1]. Still a lot of money but less than I was directly told recently, so it is possible word of mouth may have exaggerated this a tad.

If you don't my asking, was your wife's profession, rather than her income directly, taken into account significantly? Thanks again

[1] https://prepareforcanada.com/blog/managing-money/financial-f...

Canada has a fairly tough points system around their immigration doesn't it? Lone, high income developers are what it seems the system is made to attract, but a whole family?

When you say NFTs in your wallet, what do you mean? Links that click through to images are real but their endpoint is mutable and philosophically has the same artistic value as temporary graffiti, not as a store of value like oil paintings.

How did you think about the links themselves vs the destination? That is the rub I feel like. Of course the destination is a real site, hosted somewhere, but the journey there is more ephemeral than copyright.

Didn't greg abbot spend a lot of time trying to make political hay out of persecuting a Muslim charity? Not from the state, so correct me if I am wrong.

"letters to the editor" curated by employees would become a part of their business model and regular contributions would go away? Why would that assumption be incorrect? I wouldn't run a website where a casual user having a moment could result in my imprisonment. I would only allow non-lbtq content that didn't mention race or immigration, as the chilling effect there is real. A DA would for sure come after me if my site became influential.

I don't think there are enough dangs to effectively curate much of the internet, and scaling it back by how much would be the result? 95%? That is before settling on definitions of effectively curate I suppose.

Yeah for sure, I see what you were saying. Changing that part might not achieve the desired effect though is what I was saying. Context dependent on the site here of course, but in a general sense I could see meta et al. being nonplussed by this to a significant extent.

Which would lead to everyone having their own personalized front page? Not controlled by dang so much but still.

There are multiple methods that James hoffman breaks down in this video iirc, if anyone is curious.

https://youtu.be/yYTSdlOdkn0?si=uAo3pipjBA91OV5V

If that reached the supreme court however, precedent sadly might not matter too much.

Really seems like western europe is sandwiched between fascist trends that have taken hold, diverting their own via brexit's failure - maybe something to do with how yellow vests were received in france too? Sure seems like Europe dipped its toes in the water for awhile and is changing its mind.

Defending my own shared identity, I have to repeatedly mention how bifurcated our society is. We are still trying to get out of the water.

You're denying the existence of a marginalized group and claiming, "there is no bigotry here!" You see that that is risible, right?

OAI is doing fine on its own

This isn't my understanding of their current state of affairs, especially regardless their finances?

Hundreds of comments and not one seems to think this is misguided - unusual for this community. Save the children I guess.

Counting from the dawns of the various police forces in the country maybe? Impossible to know, but even then...

Hyperbole illustrates the point pretty well though

Rainbow tabasco required nothing but water, ime - if you have decent sun or a grow light.

These things: https://seedsbeeblooming.com/shop/ols/products/rainbow-tabas...

Can't vouch for that merchant though

That is an ironic hope coming from the one who started the Ukrainian war.

I was asking for the other commenters, to clear that up.

Are you asking a rhetorical question or making a statement?

Was that not an imperative statement agreeing with your cathartic comment? A little weird there isn't an explicit "this is why", but asking questions with a poorly conjugated why along with bad punctuation isn't usually a native speakers habit.

I think it is fair to separate putin and russia. I mean, I don't think he uses our society as proxy for his own ego. I think he really likes Putin.

My first instinct was to close the article as I didn't want to read a Republican virtue signaling to his audience. I wonder if they were trying to sound Republican?

The article itself is a nice, well interesting, dive into the topic; kinda unfortunate.

I feel it bears repeating, Benny Johnson has been paid a lot of Russian money.

His policies were tempered, image-wise and often in substance, by his affinity for Joe Manchin alongside his disdain for Bernie Sanders. Balanced alongside the middle eastern foreign policy, he comes across as centrist despite the BBB.

He wrote that the FCC wasn't a government agency. Hard to argue that is correct, or that their political pursuit of one of trump's "enemies" isn't actually political.

It was more that a tweet no, but an interview with Benny johnson, an avowed political figure paid by Russians at one point?

You are so correct in your first statement yet imply something in your second I think is so incorrect in a wider context that it strikes me like whiplash.

Paying lip service but not addressing that friction was a significant part of what killed the Harris campaign, IMO.

Ah, good point on Severance; that is a proper example. That there is no unnecessary nudity probably helps the story. Old HBO would have had shower scenes and hook ups interspersed throughout. That might not have hurt, but I don't see the need for it in that show at all.

If you'll excuse my rant; certain tenors of violence and styles of humor are the trend I think that makes things childish. You see the one liners and plot points of marvel movies echoed in some of HBO's high profile shows now. Rebel Moon is, with your criticisms, the type of movie/show the other streaming services have been too eager to make imo. Adult in childish ways, and absent a seriousness in the way it expresses serious plot points.

Hope you're having a good one

There is no way hn servers aren't facing a permanent ddos from scripts reading every post, imo.