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It does sound like the student is witnessing calls for the elimination of Israel, which is (in my opinion) way too close to calls for genocide to be tolerated in a school. I'm not sure an art teacher can be faulted for not understanding the geography and history of the conflict well enough to recognize that the map is showing a Palestine displacing Israel, and the students that made the map probably don't understand that depicting Palestine displacing Israel is (I believe) reasonably understood as a call to genocide.

I'm not sure what the school can reasonably do.

I love to be pedantic so I'll point out that it had to be 3 equal mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles

Here's what I think is the relevant part of the video, sorry about the source.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1cubttt/university_of_manitobas_2024_medical_school/

...disparaged Jewish people as a whole...

No, laughably no. It's possible to disagree with the speech's characterization of Israel's actions in Gaza, specifically whether or not they are intentionally targeting hospitals and whether or not they are committing genocide. But to say that the speech disparaged Jewish people as a whole is just factually wrong. It also feeds into some really wrong and anti Semitic tropes of Jewish control of the media etc. Really bad call by Rady.

Does anyone have an analysis comparing the Fremen of Frank Herbert's Dune to the the Aiel of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time?

(...) and would accomplish . . . what exactly?

It would move China's adversary further from its shores. Just like how America doesn't like Cuba being right there, with its rival politico- economic system, China doesn't like Taiwan being right there with its rival politico- economic system.

China wants TSMC

I agree that they want TSMC, but I think Taiwan's semi conductor disablement plan has more to do with guaranteeing international support for Taiwan than reducing the incentives for Chinese annexation of Taiwan.

What I mean is that Beijing can't say to the world "this is an internal disagreement that doesn't concern you" because if TSMC goes up in smoke the global economy is going to bottom out, it concerns everybody's economy. The fact that Beijing can't just seamlessly assume control of Taiwan means that the international community will not support that ambition. It's like Real Politik, but with semiconductors.

Ironically USA initiatives to protect itself from the vulnerability of Taiwan by (re?)patriating chip production will be bad for Taiwan's security... if they ever actually manage to rival TSMC's Taiwanese production. I say this because it will demote the conflict from one of global interest to just regional interest.

But that's all just my arm chair speculation, I don't actually have any idea what I'm talking about.

Totally possible, I wasn't a particularly attentive scout.

I was taught in boy scouts that an upside down flag is a symbol to request help.

It actually is a good symbol to represent the state of America. Just not for the reasons they think

Yeah I remember watching/ listening to an analysis of this I don't remember who it was though. Maybe it was on Nebula?

... then just pay the higher tax rate? You already grossed a million dollars in sales.

It would probably just result in games not being for sale in Canada.

Maybe a progressive tax, not a ban, eg if your game grosses say $1M sales in Canada you pay a higher tax rate if you don't attest that you've set aside enough cash to do this when you sunset the game. Then if you said you'd do it but don't, the CRA can come after you. Revenue from this tax could be earmarked for computer education or indie studio grants or something.

The developers of a game similar to Among Us would be forced to update the game with bots to be compliant?

I'm not a programmer or IT specialist or anything but I think the ask would be more like,

when discontinuing multiplayer service they must roll out an update to allow gamers to specify private server addresses

They don't need to program bots, they need to open the code enough for fans to keep the game functional. Like when I was a kid I could play multi player games with my friends by typing their phone number into the game. Our computers would connect through the phone lines and we could battle for the fate of Azeroth. I still remember the phone number of the friend I did that with.

Yeah I thought that headline might be satire too