I’m currently GMing Cyberpunk (because I can’t convince my group to play Shadowrun), and there are a couple of modules that use gender politics as part of their hook and background. I don’t want to mess with those because I feel like it adds to the credibility of the world.

Overall, I tend to make mostly female NPCs. To avoid that, I assign gender based on who they will appear with. If the leader of a faction is female, their sidekick is male. When male driver 1 passes the group to driver 2, driver 2 is female.

Such a weird refusal.

I initially thought there was something weird he didn’t want to tell the RCMP, but he held top secret clearance as a minister, so I guess he’s just being obstinant.

Garmins do.

Damn murderhobos.

How will I know when it’s working?

I liked my Pebble. I’m curious what they do with modern hardware. I’d love something repairable.

Flipped inside out, even.

Attack dog is an unofficial role in political parties:

An “attack dog” in politics is a person, usually a politician or a political operative, who is designated to aggressively challenge and criticize the opposition.

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They are often tasked with the responsibility of delivering negative messages or criticisms that a candidate or party leader may not want to deliver personally, in order to maintain a more positive public image.

He has done this in the past and been effective at it. His successful (unjustified) criticism of the Liberals carbon tax implementation is a great example of that: he managed to frame public perception of the rebate, despite heaps of evidence to the contrary.

Shitting on Poilievre is fine and fun, but it ignores the reality that his party has successfully framed a number of debates in the past. Assuming Carney wins the Liberal leadership, it’s a significant obstacle to him winning the next federal election.

What about the dick pics?

His actions are the stuff we need to examine and prosecute.

Any family and personal connections to Nazism has become inarguably relevant.

Sure. They’re worth talking about. But the bit that matters are his words and deeds. Like you said, he did sieg heil, and he has been doing weird shit with Twitter’s algorithm. He probably has more creepy stuff going on that I’m not aware of.

The official opposition is a part of the government.

From the House of Commons website:

• The leader of the party having the support of the majority of the Members of the House of Commons is asked by the Governor General to form a government and becomes the Prime Minister;
• The party, or parties, opposed to the government is called the opposition (the largest of these parties is referred to as the “official” opposition);

Yeah. Sorry. I know it’s nitpicky, but there’s a lot of almost true stuff bouncing around Reddit right now. I want Lemmy to be better than that. So I’m being picky.

TIL

First of all, figure out your threat model. What data are you trying to keep secret from Facebook? What will happen to you if Facebook gets that data? What lengths are reasonable to prevent that outcome?

Then figure out how to consistently prevent that data from leaking.

I don’t want Facebook knowing my address, name, age, and face - basically I don’t want to be doxxed. I’m not willing to go through the effort of hiding my IP, so I’m willing to give up on that, but the others are easy enough to lie about.

When referring to MPs, “in government” refers to being part of the governing party. He is a career politician, landlord, and attack dog, but the Canadian electorate has only chosen his party to lead three times. He has spent a majority of his career yelling from the sidelines.

He spent about half his career in government. Much of it has been spent in opposition.

Almost. She tried, but failed. That isn’t any better, but let’s keep the record straight.

He wants to be PM. Like Trudeau, Harper, Martin, Chretien, and the other forty-ish people who held office. As well as Freeland, Carney, etc.

The guy isn’t likeable, and I think his policy positions are bad for the country, but wanting to be PM isn’t a bad thing.