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The first six items on the list are things that I'm actually watching. Did I drop into an alternate timeline when I wasn't paying attention? 😲

They might end up having to pay more money than exists on the planet at that rate.

It almost doesn't matter what the final verdict turns out to be here, because the result of the investigation isn't really the issue.

Because of the institutional history of racism, the RCMP's decision on whether or not to investigate the death (or disappearance) of an Indigenous person isn't considered trustworthy anymore. Their only option if they want to regain some credibility is to investigate even if they don't think it's necessary—investigate every case that's even remotely questionable for the next several decades. They did this to themselves.

This also holds for many other police forces throughout the country. They ignored or dismissed (or even caused) these incidents for many years, and now the chickens are—slowly, but inevitably—coming home to roost.

I hope that the flood of pink sparklies we saw at one point doesn't mean there's a super-hidden route to capture the principal in the original game. 😱

Evidently the bad publicity made the RCMP reconsider whether or not to investigate this. Sometimes making noise does help.

And whether it covered getting firebombed by an inept arsonist. I have a funny feeling that it's going to be a while before he can afford a new car, poor bastard.

Yeah, not even Violinist of Hameln pulled that one. (They did have one character who wore a half-face mask all the time so that they could get away with not animating her lip movements as even a simple flap, and I think I remember several conversations where the speaker was deliberately shot from behind.)

Of course, there's no way Zenshu has VoH's extreme budgetary constraints, where they literally had to make 1 ep's worth of funding cover 2 eps of footage.

So even in the province most in favour, they can't scrape together 20% of the population that thinks this might be a viable option. Talk about nothingburgers.

As far as I got with it, there was absolutely no porn, and less skin on show than your typical modern high school romcom.

The setup goes like this: noble daughter is engaged to the crown prince, without anyone asking her opinion on the matter. After being forced through several years of unpleasant training, she finally escapes, but now everyone in her life is pressuring her to go back "for her own good". It's the fact that they're pretending that the forced marriage benefits her and she's just being stubborn/stupid that makes it icky more than the fact of the forced relationship itself.

Well, you can always make a point of buying direct from China. That isn't necessarily better, but it does greatly lessen the chances of Americans in the supply chain.

While it's possible that they've changed procedures, I seem to recall reading somewhere that after Nixon made some problematic drunken phone calls, the US arranged things so that actually launching the missiles has to go through the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not just the president. Trump may only have the safety in his grip, not the trigger.

Even if he does have the trigger, I'm betting someone would wrestle it out of his hands at that point—not because any of them give a damn about us, but because nuclear fallout in southern Ontario would likely devastate New England, given the general tendency of weather on this continent to move eastward. So you wanna have a revolution? Sending nuclear fallout in the direction of your largest population center is probably a good way to start one.

First of all, we don't actually have to win the trade war. We just have to hang on for a few years. Trump is an old man. Even if he somehow manages to suspend elections in the US, he'll drop over dead soon enough.

Secondly, do you really think he can hold even Panama long-term against a hostile local population? I don't. Greenland would be even more amusing, since I expect the entire EU would back Denmark. Up here, the weather is still plenty dangerous to anyone he might send—global warming hasn't changed things that much yet. Plus, I don't think his own troops would be too enthusiastic about conducting a war of aggression.

Thirdly, I think you'll find that most of this country wouldn't sell Trump a load of organic fertilizer at this point, much less a substantial chunk of our territory. Not at any price. Everyone except a handful of Albertans is pissed off at him and his government in a big way.