I am going to save that quote. My current favorite is still from Terry Pratchett.

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’”

This is why privacy rights are critical. All the whiners who say "buh whaddabout da guilty ones?’ Shut up, those people get away constantly despite all that shit and the only people getting harassed are protesters and activists.

That’s why it was manageable and not debilitating.

Ever since 2018 I have been getting a flu shot every year, too. Why? In 2018 I had the worst flu ever. It was BAD. Arguably worse than even the one time I got covid in 2022 (despite being twice vaccinated for that at the time). The horror of that flu made me never want to get the flu again.

I did… but it was never that bad.

OK someone keep me up to date… what happened? I think the last civilization I played was 5, and I dont recall that one being able to change civilizations midgame.

Edit: sorry last one I played was 6. And I don’t remember being forced fo change civs. Was it in a DLC or what?

The surveillance bills and alleged ‘strong borders’ shit that only exposes more and more Canadians to surveillance by foreign enemies is just utter shit. I nearly threw up when I learned about Bill C-2.

I voted for Carney specifically so shit like this won’t happen… but it did!

Veiled? This is as brazen as it gets.

I remember before I was a naturalized Canadian citizen and I had to go through the US border for visiting family or doing some minor business, they would interrogate me and fingerprint me all the time (they probably have my fingerprints in a database). That sucked. But I never went through any searches until recently, and it fucking sucks. I have family in the US that I cannot visit now because I feel like something really bad will happen to me with ICE if I go.