“Zero warnings”: Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/youtube-briefly-banned-15-year-old-channel-with-no-strikes-and-wont-say-why/

Even creators are treated like a SKU. And the whole lack of explanation is telling.

If you've ever seen a rutting moose go berserk on a tree because the tree kinda looked like moose antlers, you would know not to go anywhere near moose.

Fun Fact: Moose would regularly attack dogs where I grew up because moose are assholes.

Don't fuck with moose.

https://imgur.com/UxGGXSa

lol

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-blasts-eu-app-laws-214628234.html

Atlantis 2.0

https://apnews.com/article/santorini-earthquakes-what-to-know-greece-volcano-fd2e719f516dd45542014c0581fe37d7

I'm not the only one who thinks Canada should put a 15% export tax on oil and gas to the US.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/03/opinion/canada-oil-gas-export-tax

List of Canada's counter-tariffs that go into effect tomorrow.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html

Whisky War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

There is no amount of bribery or perk that makes having children worth it, to me. I am not alone. My guess is that most children are mistakes that don't get corrected, rather than anything deliberate. I think our skill in dealing with those mistakes, or preventing them to begin with, is what is killing the birth rate.

https://www.passblue.com/2025/01/27/finland-offers-more-perks-to-stop-its-declining-birth-rate-women-shrug-it-off/

Apparently this is a thing now. I am surprised they aren't driven out by the raccoons, mind you, who fear nothing and are so well fed they are a probably dying of diabetes.

https://globalnews.ca/video/10988420/whats-with-all-the-wild-turkeys-in-montreal-2