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Any chance that most of our politicians are replaced by magic 8-balls of similar efficacy but 0 cost?

Ah yes, any friends of her enemy (the Alberta public) is her enemy too.

That's the best thing about representative and not direct democracy: you can do the right thing, e.g. pass correct legislation or policies even if it's not popular. Instead they do the opposite. Maybe some day the majority of Canadians will come to grips with how our democracy is mostly just a thinly veiled oligopoly. As a BCer it's probably further away for us than the other provinces.

There's only 408 of em? No? These are rookie numbers then.

Some cops don't seem to have gotten the message yet that the system needs to be blunt and dehumanizing. It'll gladly cannabalize its own to get that message across.

And also, ACAB.

Any chance that > $12.4B is directly taxed or siphoned from the big grocery chains?

No shade to Eby but it doesn't take a lawyer to understand that water is wet.

Since he's a lawyer though, he should know there's more than enough to convict them of attempted treason, conspiracy, or any other inchoate crime thereof. Unfortunately it looks like neither provincial nor federal prosecutors will go after them for it.

TBF, it is a fundamentally woke goal to allow everyone, including poor people, fair and uncontrolled access to information.

Should really be a basic right but what do I know.

Defund

Sometimes videos raise more questions than answers

While bystander videos have allowed millions of Americans to view controversial events for themselves, they are only one part of the story, experts said.

"If there is even the slightest bit of ambiguity, that just opens the door for people to interpret [video] according to their own existing attitudes," said Oliver of Penn State.

Videos only show viewers a moment in time and can be manipulated or edited, said West. Shorter videos that are commonly seen on social media can also be misleading, he said.

"We don't know what happened five minutes before or an hour before or three hours before," West said.

For example, in 2019, a short viral video appeared to show a teenager mocking a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Longer videos of the incident brought the original interpretation into question.

The rise of artificial intelligence and deepfake videos adds another complication to the public's understanding of these events, experts said.

Shah, from the University of Wisconsin, said it's becoming more and more difficult for people to differentiate between AI and reality on social media. People may stop believing what they're seeing altogether.

"The idea of image as truth is also deeply in question," he said.

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As a Canadian this section read like a disgusting acquiescence to present "both sides" and one of them--complete with unnamed "experts"--is just peddling pathetically veiled scare tactics and anti-truth. Ok, sure, videos can be faked or misleading or only show a "snapshot" of an event. With all due respect, part of the solution to this is to record more video. Not less.

TIL NORAD is actually a sales contract.