They were cleared by the U.S. military investigating its own actions, who only revealed details of the investigation after the video provoked international discussion about Iraq. Heck, it’s still a topic: the recommendations of the U.S. military was that journalists should keep them informed about where they are…

Manning obviously has issues, but the “Collateral Murder” video does stand out as one of the iconic whistle-blowing pieces of the Iraq war, with one of the soldiers on the video later discussing publicly the horrific experience, and saying such events happened everyday in Iraq.

I mean freelancing can be great, but it also can sometimes need rules to stop it from being exploitative. Our social and tax and insurance systems are set up for a world in which the vast majority of people work regular full-time jobs, and “freelancing” is done by a few go-getter professionals who are paid extra in…

Ugh, “gig economy.”

It’s not new, innovate, or revolutionary... just business as usual, but somehow overstepping pesky regulations and labour protection.

Because all industries have good and bad parts, and rent’s gotta get paid. Somedays I get to draw super amazing illustrations. Other days I’m designing a PDF for an email. Such is life.

Probably also funny, because although your Canadian accent might be rounded out a bit, the British definitely would say you have a fairly strong Canadian accent I’m guessing? Such things happen living abroad, haha.

The last time I called home, they didn’t understand when I said “sauna” because hanging around Europeans shifted my pronunciation.

Saww-nahhh = North America
Sowww-naaa = Europeans speaking English

I already sometimes say “flat” instead of apartment, but I absolutly will never adopt the British “schedule” or…

I think definitely regionalisms go really fast... weird bits of the accents round out a bit, or at least just enough that your family is alarmed by the change, but not enough that people in other places notice it.

I still get laughed at for my regional accent abroad, and yet people back home think I shifted to a “news…

For sure there’s alot of variance... I have a friend from South America, and actually when he moved up north he was pretty bewildered by the social issues taking up more time than the poverty/volunteerism/Bible study. Not to say that South American countries are hotbeds of tolerance, but yeah... his feeling was that…

I’m sure Jesus would be thrilled about an entertainment spectacle celebrating a massacre.

“Gold Nova” rank is the entry point; if you rank down you lose access, and you have your “Overwatch” score so if you’re bad at it, I guess eventually it just ignores you. Also yeah, there’s multiple people, so it’s not like a single player deciding if she/he bans your account.

I mean CS also tends to have alot of Steam…

Dudes who are not German speakers, shouting Nazi slogans at a right-wing convention. It’s almost as if they’re paying tribute... as if they were Neo-Nazis or something. But that’s too crazy.... :/

In Europe there are tons of straight up Nazi names for clans and users and stuff. I don’t know why they don’t have a text filter to stop people form naming themselves racial slurs.

I’ve reported so many dudes with straight-up Swastika flags, and not all of them are kidding... I generally play muted, but I’ve seen…

This is correct but two things: one is that the only people who can supervise “Overwatch” videos are highly ranked players, so its a small pool of “mods” and they’re definitely at a level where they have familiarity with the game enough to differentiate technical nuance (such as recognizing real skill aside from…

I mean apparently some dudes at a Trump rally recently just started yelling “Lügenpresse” (lying press) which in contemporary German is a Nazi-reference (unless you’re part of the German alt-right, in which case you’re “reclaiming” the word or some bullshit). Needless to say alot of Europeans had bulging eyes at that.

I mean I guess it depends... it seems many of the original members were caught, and INTERPOL actually disbanded their investigation into the Pink Panthers, but former Yugoslavian ex-military dudes still exist (some estimates said there were several hundred people involved in the gang) who are capable of sophisticated…

He was a conservative dude from Alberta who basically shut up about controversial social issues and ran a badly planned conservative economic agenda. Other than tone, I frankly have a hard time differentiating him from the Liberal Party... glad to see him gone, but I don’t think he represents any crazy anomaly for…

That’s a fair enough point on the Highway of Tears... although for weeks Canadian press has been hammering Trudeau on his souring relationship with Indigenous communities.

Look I dunno... I’m an NDP voter; a really disliked Harper, but I don’t think he was Satan. Trudeau I’m still skeptical of, but I do really…

There are bottlenecks in Canadian care (i.e. joint surgeries for seniors), but in general it’s pretty responsive an wait times are short. If you get cancer, you’re getting a meeting with a specialist and surgery within the month – the same speed you’d get in the States with really good insurance. The number of people…

Steven Harper compares pretty favourably to many Democrat politicians. I wasn’t a fan of him, but he didn’t touch abortion or gay marriage, and he shut up all the right wing crazies and was pretty much a middle-right dude. I would compare him to as an Angela Merkel who didn’t get out of the house much.