I'm probably projecting, but I hope people realize that Trudeau did at much as he could without reopening the Constitution, which is a non-starter.

I have a feeling it's neither enough for the reformists, nor enough for the abolitionists, so it's just kind of ignored.

There's some real interesting stuff in here.

It doesn’t take much to destabilize or stabilize the system, Törnberg found. Even if the threshold for disagreement was quite low, the disagreements became amplified to the point where each random interaction was increasingly likely to exceed those thresholds. More and more users were pushed to relocate until what was once a community with a solid diversity of opinion rapidly became polarized and/or overly homogenous.

Conversely, if just 10 percent of users in a given social media community largely agree with your stances, you will be more tolerant toward diverse opinions that contradict your own. “There’s a certain chance that some users will end up in communities where it’s very homogenous and 99 percent of users are disagreeing with them,” said Törnberg. “That will cause them to leave, and you get this feedback effect just because of the structure of interaction. But if you have a filter bubble effect, where everyone is shown 10 percent of their own type, that creates a possibility for you to find the people who you agree with within the community. And that stabilizes the entire dynamics so it doesn’t tip over to one side or the other and become extreme or overly homogenous.”

Törnberg found some confirmation of those dynamics when he analyzed an actual online echo chamber: the subreddit r/MensRights. He found that members of the subreddit were more likely to leave if their posts diverged too far, linguistically, from the community’s center of gravity.

“Who are the users leaving the community?” said Törnberg. “The users that are more ideologically distant are more likely to leave. So it captures the same mechanism of feedback dynamics, where the community becomes more homogenous and more extreme because users leave—[and they leave] because they feel it’s becoming too homogenous and extreme. Eventually it tips over to one direction. And of course, as the community becomes more extreme, there’s this boiling the frog effect where the users who stay are influenced by the community and become more extreme.”

Yeah, that's about as conspiratorial as I'm prepared to get about the whole thing. I don't think the cancellation was for solely political reasons - if that were the case, they probably would have just pulled the plug immediately - but it seems very possible that political reasons were in the mix.

It's one of those things that's simultaneously pretty important and not important at all. Their role in Parliament is ceremonial, but they're still something of a dignitary.

Fun!

Star Trek IV is a bit of a left-field choice, but I'm not mad about it.

The judge's statements are appropriately scathing.

Justice Conlan said he commends the work of the defence and the Crown in this case.

He said it is not the defence's fault "the evidence of their clients has been found to be worthless."

All in all, he said, the Crown proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt on every count.

He said electronic evidence "points overwhelmingly to the guilt of the accused."

He wrote they "paint a picture of loathe and hate by both accused towards the boys, especially towards L."

The judge said a Dec. 28, 2020, audio recording played in court of the women berating L.L. was "so difficult to listen to," and "is just a terrible and shocking exhibit of abuse of L. by these accused."

He said a Sept. 24, 2021, video the court viewed of L.L. using a small portable toilet to relieve himself was "excruciating to watch."

"This court could go on and on, but for what purpose other than to, in a way, continue to victimize L. He should be remembered for more than this."

I’m sure there’s a pitch to studios that could work, but

That's pretty much where I'm at. Is it something I think I desperately need? Not by a long shot.

Could they do something interesting with it? Sure, I guess.

They announced the show would be ending, but gave it another season. That's the opposite of a sunk cost, but thanks for showing your whole ass.

Your definition of "sunk cost" seems...unique.

Since 2004, lower-end new home prices have risen by 265%, while young dual-earner incomes grew 76%