Quote from: Brent on May 20, 2026, 09:57:28 PMCC was a smart as a whip master troll. A practicing Christian too.

Most people had a good laugh watching her lead the dumbest posters around by the nose.

RIP cc la tarte. Smart people miss you.

CC didn't suffer fools gladly.

She's gone, Gary Oak's gone and Gordy is retired. The best have left forums and look what we have left.

Quote from: Lab Flaker on May 20, 2026, 10:55:05 PMAre there any tall buildings left!? Lulz

Unfortunately, yes.

Quote from: formosan on May 20, 2026, 12:15:45 PMThat instrument is more common in Taiwan than in Mainland China...the samisan and sanxian are not very different.

There are quite a few variants of the same or similar instrument, but either way, there's nothing more soothing than a stringed Oriental (I said it) vibe.

Sprung Monkey did a cover of "turning Japanese" back in '93, and I thought that the opening riff was fantastic...

Quote from: Shen Li on May 20, 2026, 01:02:46 AMIf they get caught it is a slow trip to the top of the tallest building in Gaza City. It's a fast trip back down.

Are there any tall buildings left!? Lulz

Quote from: Garraty_47 on May 20, 2026, 09:26:32 AMBest I've got is the occasional lolsuit threat, but most (all?) of those were from people on WebTV/MSNTV. The folks on that platform who took themselves seriously took themselves *very* seriously indeed, which made it impossible to *not* mock them.

I don't recall ever getting a death threat though... that's next-level stuff.

You've never struck me as the aggressive "sticks and stones" kinda bloke, so your wurds must've really harmed them! Lol @lolsuit

It had to be members of Gen Y or Z that threatened to sue you for sure... those entitled little shits or clueless when it comes to the how the judiciary actually works or if they even have enough pocket money to see their phantom case through.

I've only been threatened with lolsuits from female Karens as such, and numerous death threats from doofuses continents away.

It's a tuff job being such a character on the interwebz deez dayz!
 

Quote from: Shen Li on May 20, 2026, 01:01:18 AMI had COVID twice. No biggie.

Nobody waants ebola.

Yeah...and yet many governments around the world keep various deadly viruses and bacterial pathogens alive and well...just in case the world goes to shit.

People like playing God, so to speak. 

Barney Frank, a longtime Massachusetts Democratic representative who brought LGBTQ+ visibility to Congress, died on Tuesday, May 19, at 86 years old.

Frank served in Congress from 1981 to 2013 after serving in the Massachusetts state legislature in the 1970s. He publicly came out as gay in 1987 and married his husband Jim Ready in 2012, becoming the first member of Congress to have a same-sex marriage in the nation's history.

The picture is getting even clearer.

Mark Carney was not just some innocent banker who suddenly woke up one morning and thought, "You know what Canada needs? More taxpayer backed climate finance."
No, no.
This masterpiece was years in the making.
First, you help build the global "transition finance" machine.
Then you explain that private capital needs government policy first, because policy makes the investment safe.
Then international reports start talking about how public money, concessional finance, subsidies, and blended climate finance are needed to make private energy projects "bankable."
Translation for normal people:
**The investor gets the upside.
The taxpayer eats the risk.**
Beautiful system.
Then, what do you know, the IFC starts putting money into Brookfield linked transition projects and funds. IFC announced a 100 million dollar investment in Brookfield's Catalytic Transition Fund, plus up to another 75 million dollars for future co investments. Brookfield's fund itself was already targeting billions for climate and transition assets in emerging markets. ([IFC][1])
And now Carney, who helped shape this entire worldview, ends up as Prime Minister of Canada, promoting a Canadian sovereign wealth fund that just so happens to sound like yet another giant public backstop for private capital.
Wow.
What an incredible coincidence.
Nothing suspicious here.
Just a former Brookfield chair, former global climate finance architect, former adviser to Trudeau, former central banker, and current Prime Minister creating the exact kind of public finance machinery that benefits the exact world he came from.
But do not worry.
They will call it "investment."
They will call it "climate leadership."
They will call it "de risking."
They will call it "modernizing the economy."
They will call it anything except what it actually looks like:
**A taxpayer funded safety net for insiders.**
And the best part?
Canadians do not get to pick the projects.
Canadians do not get to pick the winners.
Canadians do not get to opt out.
Canadians just get the bill, the risk, the inflation, the higher energy costs, the lectures, and the privilege of being told this is all for our own good.
Meanwhile, the global finance class gets policy written in the language of public virtue and private profit.
Save the planet.
Save democracy.
Save the rules based order.
Save the transition economy.
And somehow, miraculously, save the portfolios of the people who designed the whole thing.
At some point, "conflict of interest" feels too polite.
This is starting to look like the business model.
Canada is not being led.
Canada is being leveraged.
And Mark Carney did not come to rescue the country.
He came to plug us into the machine.
The new transcript's core allegation is that Carney's sovereign wealth fund idea mirrors the same public finance and private capital playbook he previously discussed around transition finance, policy, and investor returns.  The source is politically charged, but the IFC and Brookfield pieces are real enough to make the conflict question very hard to wave away.

Quote from: . on May 20, 2026, 07:27:47 PMForewarning; the following video is painful and may break your brain.

Apparently it breaks the average Verizon rep's brain. YMMV.

Nobody likes talking to customer service reps.