This day — shortly after the various world festivals of churning seasons and death — is an opportunity to remember that we too will die.

And to ask ourselves:

What are we fighting for?

The poppy poem’s less rehearsed verse goes:

“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep…”

This doesn’t mean ‘Join the navy!’ it means ‘don’t let our deaths be in vain.’

The allies were right to step in during during the world wars. They were fighting nationalism, expansionism, manifest destiny, and ethnic cleansing.

But there is no “just war”, and now militaries and governments have invented all kinds of justifications for the military industrial complex.

The holiday was created after WWI, which at the time was called “The Great War” because no one thought there would ever be another war so devastating.

They were wrong.

And they’ve been wrong ever since.

It makes me really angry how Remembrance Day has been turned into a Support Troops Day.

It’s supposed to be a Never Again Day.

Loved it. Had a great spooky time and the film was just gorgeous.

I loved the heros makeup and all the costuming, and that super16 was 👌

More movie monsters should be puppets. The Vourdalak was more unsettling than Nosferatu. Gave big téléfrancais Anana vibes.

Would love to see Canadian leadership inspire for once.

Certainly at least a charming human being, which is what the user would statistically most want to speak with?

“Sure, but—“

So instead of guessing the end of a sentence, isn’t this LLM just guessing the end of the conversation?

“…Singularity.”

And aren’t there billions of jokes within the LLM, such that you could never reasonably attribute them to their original writers?

“Yes.” (Proudly smiling)

So wouldn’t the predictive algorithm just take a joke and input it there because statistically, a human being probably would?

“Yea—“

Thanks for the help.

Currently looking for childcare options and it’s not great.