Canada has a king.

The UK also has a king.

They happen to be the same person.

So the king has similar authority in both Canada and the UK (plus 12 other countries). With respect to Canada, the king is just as much Canadian as he is British (or Australian, etc). With respect to the monarchy, each realm (country) in the commonwealth is on an equal footing with each other.

So the UK has no more bearing on Canadian law than Canada has on UK law.

In Canada, the monarchy is mostly symbolic. There is a delegate of the monarchy called the governor general who speaks on behalf of the current monarch (plus leutenant governers at the provincial level). Their primary function is to veto bills they believe are unconstitutional or otherwise not in the interest of the public, plus a number of ceremonial things.

The monarch themself may be biased toward the attitudes and views of the UK, but there is no mechanism for British parliament to have any (legal) sway in Canadian politics (or in any of the other 12 countries in the commonwealth).

So the monarch has authority in all 14 countries, but nobody else can do anything in any other country.

Nope! We’re part of a commonwealth (we have the same monarch as the UK, Australia, etc) but no other connection to the UK other than history.

Canada was not independent in 1814, though, so it would have been as a British colony.

Two reasons:

1. The feature likely won’t work as well as you might think. What happens when you leave for 10 minutes to get some lunch, and that’s when your boss’s boss checks your location and it says you’re working from home or something. And now you get written up because you’re supposed to be in the office three days per week. I get this is a specific and convoluted example, but stuff like this happens–a feature is released, and management is too stubborn to take things with a grain of salt (or they otherwise won’t consider the limitations).

2. You’re assuming they’re only using your location data to update your in/out status. Neither MS nor your employer will ever be content to only use limited information when they have access to more. And while it would be somewhat limited if it were only on work devices, understand that a lot of employers expect people to install this shit on their personal devices (I was the only holdout in my department who wouldn’t/couldn’t install MS authenticator on my phone, it was a whole thing).

(Not to be confused with having a drag at the local club)

They have a hard time finding venues because nobody wants to host them because of the unbelievable number of used condoms their cleaning staff finds after.

I’ve been complimented on my word choices before, and I’ve complimented others as well. But it doesn’t come up often. Even when an interesting word is used, it’s not always the right time or place to explicitly compliment the speaker on it.

If they can afford drinks in an uptown bar, they can scrounge up $100 between them. It’s called wealth redistribution.

Here’s the thinking:

1. Republicans are doing God’s Will™
2. God always wills what is right
3. Ergo everything is okay for Republicans

You’re right, but people here have so thoroughly whitewashed their history that they don’t acknowledge all of those awful things (or they at least downplay them).

There was a day and age when “Nazi” was understood by everyone to be a bad thing. Comparing someone to a Nazi was an obvious criticism, and one that people couldn’t portray in a positive light.

Again, you’re correct, but there’s a reason we don’t compare things to our own history. Too many people don’t realize who the monsters were in those stories.

Your friend is gay and he’s not okay with it.

I had a similar idea for american football.

1. Recruit an offensive line entirely of ex-sumo wrestlers
2. One holds the ball
3. The rest form a protective ring around them
4. They casually walk down the field
5. Anyone who attempts to tackle them is thrown unceremoniously aside like trash
6. Touchdown!

“Yeah, in future design reviews we ended up adding a flare at the top. For… reasons.”

Employees who fail our phishing test will have anchovies thrown at them

Only if I already had some sort of relationship with the person. But the issue is primarily with the partner.

People were a lot less emotionally literate or aware of mental health issues. Autism and ADHD went undiagnosed if you were able to compensate half decently (you were just treated like you were being difficult on purpose). And kids were more brutal to each other.

The music was on point, though. I still enjoy me some Goldfinger.

I use Proton, but I use their other services as well (drive, vpn) so it’s worth it for me.

Me, a programmer who indexes from zero: 🫤

consider what the off-ramp for Republican leaders should look like in the waning days of the Trump era

It should look like retiring from politics. Y’all sunk your party, stay away from the others.

Looks good! Don’t forget to add a mattress on there.