Author: Blazingcatfur

Will we embrace AI fetishism?

Many cultures view robots as quasi-humans

In parts of Thailand, thanks to a confluence of modern technology and traditional beliefs, a peculiar transport service has emerged. The anthropologist Scott Stonington calls them “spirit ambulances”. Some Thai Buddhists feel morally obliged to preserve the life of an ailing mother or father by any means possible — even if there is no realistic hope of recovery, and even if it goes against the parent’s own wishes. Yet these same Buddhists believe that death should occur in the home, in the presence of family. So the dying parent is kept at the hospital until the last moment, receiving the best treatment medicine can provide, before being whisked home in a specially designed vehicle, the spirit ambulance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

So-Called “Foreign Students” Protest Over Failing Exams

Another group of post-secondary students in Brampton has the public talking this week — largely in the form of criticism — for protesting about failing their classes.

Just like the demonstrations that took place outside of the city’s Algoma University earlier this year, dozens enrolled at St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology — an institution operated in partnership with private a career college called Ace Acumen Academy — are claiming that their school has “failed them for no reason.”

h/t RH

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Arab-Americans Denounce Black Americans For Supporting Kamala

An unpleasant and taboo truth comes out

Arab-Americans on social media have been denouncing black Americans for supporting Kamala Harris. Apparently those Arab-Americans don’t like Kamala because she is not sufficiently pro-Hamas. And they believe that black Americans are not entitled to exercise agency, but must follow the diktat of the superior Arabs. In response, black Americans have brought up that little matter of the Arab enslavement of black Africans that claimed many more victims than the Atlantic slave trade…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

Kelly McParland: While the Liberals fixate on electric vehicles, people are buying hybrids

When politicians make important financial decisions based on a movie they may have seen as kids, it shouldn’t come as a shock if the results prove to be sub-optimal.

Field of Dreams was a hit 1989 film based on a 1982 novel about a 1919 baseball scandal. An Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner repeatedly hears an ethereal voice advising him “If you build it, he will come.” So he constructs a ball diamond in a corn field and, sure enough, long-dead figures from a long-gone baseball team — including Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson — come wandering out of the fields for a game of pick-up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

This awful Eddie Izzard flick doesn’t even qualify for a so bad it’s good classification

Read the thread

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada May Hit Low-Wage Foreign Worker Record Even With Freeze

Canada will try to break its rising dependence on low-wage, temporary foreign workers (TFWs). This week the Government of Canada (GoC) announced it will freeze processing of TFWs in some regions with elevated unemployment. Despite rising unemployment, the program has seen explosive growth with annual volumes rising 300% over the past five years. Just the first quarter of 2024 has already processed more than the annual total for 2018.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

FBI identifies no motive or foreign links in Trump assassination attempt

The FBI has still not determined what motivated a gunman to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump at a July campaign rally in Pennsylvania, officials with the federal law enforcement agency said on a call with reporters Wednesday.

Federal officials sifted through five years worth of online activity for 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and said they found no credible evidence that a foreign entity directed him to carry out the attack. Nor did they find credible material indicating that he worked with a co-conspirator.

Next they’ll claim Trump shot himself.

Revealed: First pics of AR-15 that Thomas Crooks used to shoot Donald Trump, as FBI reveals how he concealed it in backpack

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Michael Higgins: Trudeau’s zombie TFW policy is sucking the life out of Canada’s youth

Justin Trudeau is betraying a whole generation of young people by taking away their jobs.

The prime minister, as well as the deputy prime minister, talks a good game about helping young people get ahead and giving them opportunities.

But the federal Liberals are refusing to abolish a disastrous policy that is spiking youth unemployment as well as giving Canada a bad name.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Kamala Harris’ Canadian connections: What we know about her childhood in Montreal

If Kamala Harris becomes the next American president in November, both Canada and the United States will at least briefly be led by people who spent formative teenage years in Montreal. But whereas one had already been in the public eye since being born to a sitting prime minister, the other was a reluctant transplant from sunny California, uncertain how she would fit into a francophone city. The National Post takes stock of Harris’ Montreal years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

The East Rises in Germany, and So Does Political Extremism Like People Wondering Why Citizens Are Shortchanged To Accommodate Stabby Migrants

Anna Wenske, 69, worked for decades at the national theater of East Germany, where she was born and still lives. “After the reunification, everything went kaput,” she said. She lost her job and her savings; it took her years of part-time work to reach a kind of equilibrium.

Now she resents what she considers the easy path offered to refugees while Germans suffer.

“Too many people exist on this planet and everyone wants to come to us,” she said in a sunny Weimar, “and we tell everyone welcome and we have nothing left for ourselves.” When it comes to Ukraine, she said, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lied when he said he would not invade, “but I don’t trust the United States any more than Russia.”

According to the NYTimes voting for your own best interests is a Nazi thing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", Camp Of The Saints, Germany, Germany - AfD party, New York Times

New York’s Broken Windows

First and foremost, I avoid all confrontation,” Robert Freeman, a 47-year-old bus driver in Queens, remarked to the New York Times. “Me, I just concentrate on driving, and I don’t say nothing.” It was an apt summary of the city’s attitude towards petty criminals, who have been all too happy to take advantage of New York’s deteriorating public order — including in Freeman’s line of work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", "Urban Dystopia"

LILLEY: Trudeau’s latest housing plan keeping ownership out of reach

Justin Trudeau’s latest plan for housing might best be described as you will own nothing and be happy.

In a video posted to social media over the weekend, Trudeau laid out plans to use federal lands to build more homes without giving you the chance to own them.

“Here’s something we can all agree on, we need more housing,” Trudeau says enthusiastically as his social media video kicks off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government