Five different political parties made decent if not spectacular showings in the popular vote during the 2022 provincial election in Quebec.

Four different political parties had candidates who were actually elected.

According to Wikipedia:

• Coalition Avenir Québec: 40.98% of the popular vote, 72% of the seats.
  
• Liberal: 14.37% of the popular vote, 17% of the seats.
  
• Québec solidaire: 15.43% of the popular vote, 9% of the seats.
  
• Parti Québécois: 14.61% of the popular vote, 2% of the seats.
  
• Conservative: 12.91% of the popular vote, 0% of the seats.
  

Just before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming I was in a casual restaurant discussing... something, I have no clue what now... with Robkelk. There were TVs in the dining room running music videos. And in the last moments before I woke up, the one closest to us starting running the video for a collaboration between Nightwish and Olivia Newton-John. And it was good. I just wish I could remember it.

That's all. You can go back to whatever you were doing.

Issue #25 here.

So we can keep proper continuity, we repeat Robkelk's post at the end of the last thread:

(09-28-2022, 07:14 PM)robkelk Wrote: We've secretly replaced Lucius Fox with Lucius Malfoy. Let's see who notices.

Who plays which instrument?

Asking to fill in some background for the retcon.

This has been up on the wiki for a while without changes, so it's likely to be included in the retcon of the introductory story.

I think I might have gone a little overboard in the shout-outs, though... Can anybody (who isn't in the writers' circle) identify them all?

Quote:If the reality of the human race was up to him to define, then he had better get around to defining it. He'd been thinking about this for what seemed like a year; it was time to get it over with.

Don't just rebuild the world; redefine it. No, revolutionize it! No Third Impact. No Second Impact. Just an Earth where somebody could venture over the wall around his heart without risking being hurt, and interact with others on a fair basis, with love, and justice, not like the relationships that his father had manipulated him into. A place where he could spread his own wings and take to the sky, instead of being forced to plod along the ground in a role that other people chose for him. Maybe a place of wonders, where science and magic could meet and then stories would begin, but that sort of whimsy might be too much to ask for, even if it was a small wish. But definitely some place where the horrors that he and Auska and Rei had gone through could be imagined, but as nothing more than a story. He so dearly wanted to live in a place where today was always the best day, he could enjoy everything, and everything would definitely be all right.

And maybe a place where he'd have a chance to meet somebody with a light heart who would like him for who he actually was, and would tell him "you belong"... but not just fall into his life. He'd have to work for that person's friendship. Maybe start with sharing some tea, after school.

For the past several days, when I try to view a Favorite Stories page (any of them) sometimes it will behave normally, and sometimes the most recent updates it will show are from months ago, typically July, sometimes as far back as May. Has anyone else been seeing this, or am I just some middle-point cache's extra-special friend? Tossing my own browser cache has no effect.

Which one's better: being "sheeple" that need to wake up, or being "woke"?

Previous thread.

Since I just closed the last thread, let me repeat Labster's post from its last message:

In the last post of the last thread, Labster said: Wrote:

(09-14-2022, 07:35 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Yeah.  My nightmare scenario is someone doing something that causes the Stewards to push the TOS to full-TVT where we can't even acknowledge the existence of NSFW works.  I'm worried that even without someone doing something, they're going to inevitably creep into that territory.

Given how absolutely useless some of our alleged features are as things currently exist -- just try to use typeahead in the search prompt, or expect pop-up link suggestions while editing; you'll be waiting forever -- not to mention the random and all-too-frequent 50* errors, I agree that it's time to start shopping around for a more reliable host.

I've talked to them.  Apparently they're all freaked out by the way a former steward was dismissed by recall; even though that was a special case, no one wants to make any controversial rulings now.  They're also afraid of vote brigades.  So this is a way of forcing the vote on to everyone else before triggering the controversy, so that they can implement the moderation that was already against policy but required an (obvious) judgement call.  (I have told them that the people who are unhappy now will still be unhappy later because that's what moderation is like.)  So really, we should see this as a null policy change, but a vote to actually implement the existing policy.

I hate to admit it, but I now think my original policy was flawed because humans are cowards -- or morons, or otherwise despicable.  Is it really so hard to do the right thing when the vast majority of people support you doing the right thing?

I just saw Clerks III at my local Regal cinemas. They're having one showing every night this week as a special "Fathom Event" movie.

I saw the original Clerks over twenty years ago and appreciated the artistry even if I didn't really like the movie as a whole. I saw Clerks II in the theater and found it moderately enjoyable, if less artistically compelling. I liked Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to varying degrees. I didn't even bother seeing Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.

Having said all of that...

Clerks III is Kevin Smith's magnum opus. It is by far the best movie of his that I've seen, and quite possibly the best movie he will ever make. It is the single best movie I've seen in theaters over the past several years. There were points during this movie where I was legitimately choked up and on the verge of tears over characters known for dick jokes and gross out humor.

So if you have any interest in Kevin Smith movies in general or the Clerks franchise in particular, I hope you choose to see it on the big screen while you still can.