Cheap as fuck to buy one-off. Expensive as fuck to fully saturate the market.

My handful of run-ins with online advertising have only sold me more and more on Dead Internet Theory. You really need to unload your wallet if you want a meaningful online presence. Otherwise, you’re just pissing down the sewer.

Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.

And you will like it.

In 2005 32 Canadian police-chiefs visited Israel, hosted by the Israeli Police and the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security. This visit was followed several months later by another visit by 39 police chiefs.

Further:

Senstar, owned by Israel’s Magal Security Systems has a major office and manufacturing facility in Carp (Ontario) “providing important assets for the testing and development of Magal’s broad range of surveillance and intrusion detection related security products.” Senstar provides perimeter security equipment for Correctional Service Canada.

$6.5 billion invested in corporations profiting from military- and “Homeland security” related contracts with Israel: The Canadian Pension Plan, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan, Public Sector Pension Investments, Ontario Municipal Employees.

Canadian firms manufacture key components and training simulators for Israel’s weapons and surveillance systems (COAT)

Canada and Israel Sign Declaration to Cooperate on Public Safety

This declaration will allow Canada and Israel to better enhance cooperation in the areas of organized crime, emergency management, crime prevention, and other related public safety concerns. The declaration seeks to establish a more structured framework for the continued cooperation on public safety issues between Canada and Israel.

You can just get another re-keyable lock for any added later locks or replacement lock sets.

All things that are a pain in the ass.

Did you notice your electronic locks all have keys for when they fail?

No, because I don’t have them. I have a fake rock with a key in it and generally don’t bother locking my front door anyway. But I’m lazy and cheap, not terribly interested in changing out all my locks myself or paying someone else to do it for a marginal quality of life improvement.

Still, if you have a need for locked gates, a set of combination locks all set to the same combination or keyed locks with all setup for a single key once again minimizes the need for a bunch of bulky keys.

Sure. And if you’re setting up a security perimeter from first principles, that’s fine. But then you add an interior gate or you need to replace a lock that’s rusted through or yadda yadda life happens, and you can lose the single key design.

Case in point, my front door lock did foul a few years ago. My wife changed out the front door but didn’t bother to sync it with the back door. She didn’t want to bother with an electronic lock because she thought they were too expensive. So now we’ve got a front door that doesn’t match the side door or the garage door. And we only have two keys to the new lock, one of which has been lost almost immediately.

A digital system that I can just sync from my phone would be far more appealing than juggling keys. Or staring at a key dish and trying to remember which ones actually link to which doors.

You still need an interface. Bunch of ways to do it.

I just don’t understand the desire to control everything in your house with an app.

Shrinking the size of my wallet and getting rid of all my keys has an instant appeal. I’d much rather just carry around a single phone-sized multipass than a janitor’s worth of hardware for accessing a dozen different gates and appliances.

I work in IT and I’ve got most of those things.

But it is largely due to the inconvenience of installation relative to just coasting on existing home infrastructure. I also don’t bother with roof solar and home battery backups, a household wide firewall, or anything connected to a raspberry pi. Just implemented Jellyfin over Christmas and my wife regularly throws up her hands at it, preferring Amazon Prime or HBO Max at every opportunity.

For the most part, the cost of an individualized IT component isn’t worth the pain of support. If I was looking for an apartment or a condo, I would absolutely be interested in their building wide IT setup. But the whole point of IT is to deliver at scale. Homelabing can be a fun hobby but it’s a shit-pay second job.

Every time I deliver a pizza to the posh kid’s neighborhood, there’s inevitably a pair of 19 year old twins wearing lingerie, covered in whipped cream, whom I’ve interrupted in the middle of a pillow right. And I have to tell them “No no no, there’s no other way to pay me. I only accept cash or plastic.”

Satisfying two women at once? That’s awful bigamy.

I don’t think it would take a million. Maybe a couple grand.

The sex doesn’t even sound like fun.

It sounds like you’d have to train for it, like synchronized swimmers or Olympic floor dance routines or ballet performances. Get it right and it’s incredible. But you’re spending days, weeks, months mostly just crashing into one another and ending up in a pile of flailing limbs, feeling resentful because the other two didn’t hit their marks.

This feels like one of those “I’ve never kissed a girl before, but I’ve watched a lot of porn” fantasies that works great in your head and horrible in practice.

Panama makes some sense, because of the loch system.

It helps to know the history of Panama. Namely, how it exists because an independence group was sponsored by the US to break away from Honduras, because that group would then give the US better terms for using the soon-to-be-constructed canal.

Each ship that passes takes a lot of their drinking water, and they don’t need to bomb ships to stop them passing.

Ask Noriega about that.

Is this therapy talk

When everything you hear is “Therapy Talk”… :-/

First part: mansplaing and helping are often hard to tell apart. Especially if you get mansplained all the time. In this case I am sure you are in the right.

One of the problems with “Hello, I’m from the internet and I have a story where I was definitely right and the other person was the asshole” is that you’re getting a very one-sided narrative without any historical context.

Just-So rants are a dime a dozen around here. “Why am I the victim, just because I’m a guy?” has - in my experience - been a big fucking red-flag.

Stop talking.

Oh, so you’re stonewalling me?

It’s crazy how Iran deciding to start taking fees for shipping is a blockade, when the entire national business models of Singapore and Panama hinge on their ability to do exactly this.

Nothing worth having comes easy

The existential horror of suicide bombing is implicit in the nihilism of the bomber, an individual who believes their only value to society is as a personification of military technology. The show doesn’t explore this at all. The character doesn’t have any character. He’s just a throw-away threat used to explain another Supe’s disfigurement.

They got away with it because it has similarities with what happened in the past

Naqib is a lazy caricature of a Syrian guerrilla fighter. He gets something like two jokey lines, then gets decapitated. The writers got away with it because lazy caricatures of Arabs in action media are the standard for western media.

Compare him to Ted Sprague in the TV Show “Heroes”, a guy with a legit story arc, a tragic backstory, multiple confrontations with the protagonists, and an ongoing beef with “The Company” (the Vought counterpart in the Heroes setting) that drives the plot forward.

Of course Sprague is a mash up of Ted Kaczynski and Timmothy McVey rather than Cliche Arab. So I guess he deserves a bit more respect.