what do you mean? there is a full gov agency that does nothing but check those patterns… I'm willing to bet the numbers probably hold in proportion when equalized to normal application rates

not saying IRCC does a good job or not but if there is something they do, is analyze patterns and apply those patterns like a racist grandpa stereotyping from them

I love the feeling that the dominoes are finally falling...

Moscow is attacked so Putin has to move all defenses there, leaving the rest of the good stuff they were protecting now vulnerable... rinse and repeat

Tim Sweeney suffers from diarrhea of the mouth... I am tired of hearing his bullshit

Because it's not the employees who own the newspapers

Please Americans... don't fall for this again

LOL right after wailing that gaming was becoming unaffordable?! no way!!!

The man... Edison was last century Jobs, best that can be said is that he had a good eye for business but basically just took other people's work, milked them and toss them aside making a profit for himself in the process without regards to the harm he was knowingly causing

Wow, the same honour Eurovision grants to Israel...

Ew Edison...

But yes, some other poster also was surprised something like this could not be started up in Canada

I know our government here is also crappy and has tried to squash related initiatives before but I should look into it more

True, I guess I meant to say it only makes sense in America

This is funny in America

so cute!... no tail?

Adorable!!!!!

They can betray the customer in many different ways... I am not willing to pay $25K to find out

who is "we"?

The reason for that, IMO, is that the "none" people are usually in the camp of "I don't practice any religion" vs "I despise every religion"; so it becomes like having a vegetarian option in a menu, it is good for the vegetarians and should not offend any reasonable omnivore.

The problem of course is the unfairness you point out, added to the fact that most religious people that get involved in these political fights are not in the "I am happy there is a vegetarian option for me", instead they are usually in the camp of "I am a vegetarian therefore YOU should not eat meat"

PS: the vegetarian vs omnivore comparison is just for examples, I know eating meat is bad for the environment and we should all reduce/eliminate it.

so in Texas they don't even ask about other religions? basically if you are not "standard xtian" you are a "none"?

TIL Texas is even more backwards than I gave it credit for

Hey I create my own slop!

Also, this is why I copy/paste... you see, your comment was also made in other version of the same post and I explained it all there.. now I need to copy/paste for you here:

Slate raised at least $111 million in Series A financing, including an undisclosed amount from Bezos. Slate then raised $600 million in 2024 from Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, Jeff Bezos, and General Catalyst, a venture capital firm.[5] In mid-2026, the company said it had completed a $650m series C investment round, which took its total capital raised to $1.4bn.[6]

source

Bezos was seed money AND part of the owner conglomerate that raised all the capital the company started with in 2024. That is enough for me to avoid this like the plague as it will, certain as the sun is hot, be enshitified to the core

If you do not believe me, here is an article explaining how this is all a big Amazon initiative

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/

Ok, that is more in line with what I imagined

yes. they are small so they can work best in urban areas… nobody wants a kei truqk to work a farmein texas