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Which personality are you?
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Wasting time, aren't we all. 2 minute personality test to see what fictional character you most resemble: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/
Mine was:
Bad Actors, remember your friends...
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Mixed news today. Credible reports that Trump and America have begun hijacking supplies destined for Canada, France, etc, from tarmacs and aircraft being loaded in China.
Links:
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests
- http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200402-china-coronavirus-face-mask-france-stolen-us
- https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/us-snatches-60m-france-bound-medical-masks-from-tarmac-in-china
- https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/us-blocks-medical-aid-to-cuba-in-show-of-wild-west-brutality
And that Trump is invoking "The Patriot Act" to pressure US companies to keep supplies manufactured there to themselves:
- https://globalnews.ca/news/6772979/coronavirus-3m-n95-respirators-trump-canada/
- https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/3m-says-trump-halting-mask-exports-to-canada-has-significant-humanitarian-implications-1.4881032
- https://mothership.sg/2020/04/trump-3m-10-million-masks/
I really hope, and I mean really hope, that we - and every other country in the world - hold the US accountable for their actions. They are the bully in the playground that should be shunned. Yes, blame their president, but they've had their chance to remove him - and still do. We should keep our borders closed for a very long time after this - and every other country in the world - to Americans, to their products and ideological idiocy. Stop reporting on their news, stop exporting their culture, it's toxic, toxic as hell.
Imagine watching a ship sinking, you're on that ship, an idiot begins throwing women and children out of the lifeboats, hoarding up the life preservers, ...
Actually, you don't have to imagine it. It's real, and it's happening right now, and everyone down there is in awe at his performance.
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Meanwhile, to ensure that no good deed goes unpunished Captain Brett Crozier is applauded by his crew while being fired for requesting quarantine for his sailors. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/03/coronavirus-capt-brett-crozier-gets-send-off-uss-roosevelt/2939098001/
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In better news, BC has seen a remarkable drop in cases, they have almost entirely flattened their curve with under 500 active cases. I personally didn't think they were doing enough, I was wrong. Excellent.
And, Alberta, after a sharp spike the last couple of days once again dropped to levels not seen since a couple of weeks ago - the spike to be expected as symptoms wouldn't appear for a couple of weeks after contracting the virus, if the new cases stand at 10% or less we're winning in a big way.
Here's a useful tool by the government that shows the spread and distribution of infection: https://covid19stats.alberta.ca/
Throughout all of this our government - and premiers - have done extraordinarily well. Congratulations - and Thank You.
Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven
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Been meaning to watch this for a while - missed it when it first came out - largely because of lousy reviews, but it actually deserved better.
How to describe it? Stupidly good looking, blue-eyed Aryans travelling to the ends of the galaxy to stomp out bugs. The sets, effects, bugs, spaceships, costumes, all first rate. The dialogue and plot is stilted and 2 dimensional, but is intended to be that way - it's a satire, after all -- and if you understand that you'll be laughing all the way through - at the call for a medic, at the good-natured butt-slapping in the Co-Ed showers, at the pun "Roger Young" - look for it, the complete unaffected aspect of the troops when roaming through wastelands of carnage and bodies, at the 1-limbed infantryman who welcomes Johnny Rico to the infantry with a "One day you'll be just like me", at the ever-younger recruits, at the eagerness to die for "the species", the suspiciously prescient propaganda of the state "Would you like to know more...?".
Not a great movie, but a very good one, and certainly well ahead of it's time.
Other films by Paul Verhoeven include Robocop and Total Recall.
Podcast: Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts
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I found this an interesting listen:
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jTzhEVBsoyXZ3CzUqvpYx?si=Tx_UBXwNR2m_ClpT0ARSWw
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers
More "EXTREMES" podcasts: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xzmzp/extremes-is-our-podcast-about-people-who-lived-through-wild-situations
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