So “I’d hit that” means in 300 years we’ll say hit instead of fuck?

Reed Canary grass makes great cob. Hemp is another likely fibre.

A drunk and his goons just took over your bus and it’s headed right for a school, I get it, you didn’t do it! …even though everyone saw them standing on the curb with tommyguns and shitty fedoras before they boarded, but OK.

Whatever happens from this point on is entirely on you and yours, now, though. History is watching.

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.

Massive lying campaigns with no accountability.

People who want simple clear answers.

Amygdaloids who comprise about 20% of any population and are driven by various flavours of fear.

People who believe success like wealth or fame is evidence of merit.

People who believe that social hierarchies are necessary and immutable in some ways.

This is the best answer in the thread. Add in eye contact and eyebrow gesture.

not sure why

Hm. Let us see. Does it benefit other dictators? Yes? Hmmm.

Slightly more than 50% of all people are at least somewhat uncool, in my estimation, and that of course includes Jews, so thanks for confirming that!

It’s merely a shortage of intelligence, not human nature–other than the obvious limitations of a hominid brain–to lack nuance in a situation.

Even the Canadian media keeps getting this wrong. It’s like they are avoiding a taboo, but while people-in-the-street complain about the moron-taxes, we constantly spit fire about invasion threats.

I think the statement you are responding to is not prescriptive, but that the situation needs to be described accurately.

Edit: your edit is an improvement, thanks.

lol I didn’t need the /s

Interesting that Carney was opposed to brexit but managed their central bank through it (as the first foreigner to run it, they wanted him that much) and now is part of, if not coordinating, the fuckyoudonny group of leaders selling their us bonds. Dude seems mild but should scare the shit out of the GOP.

Antivirus film is a new genre for me, cool

it must be springtime

the style police have emerged

discourse now narrows

Category #LeBoycott

I think they are referring to the society that aristocracy has forcefully prevented from developing for the last few centuries.

Don’t go full serial killer please. And while protesting can be helpful and at times necessary, it is only a small fraction of what is required for political and cultural change.

What would I do in your shoes, even though I don’t know their size or colour or condition or style? It seems obvious to me, but I am old and have spent time in places where Canadians have more global power than the locals.

Let’s say I move to Canada as a non-refugee, but maybe a political migrant moving out of concern. Some people are very welcoming and many seem cold or outright distrustful. Some of that seems directed not so much at me, since I check whether I am a mealy whinger or arrogant main character, and I’m not. It’s mainly about my origin and identity.

So I am going to earn trust where it counts. Not for the globally consistent 20% or so of boneheads who are always going to be authoritarian and xenophobic or supremacist in some way, fuck ‘em. Earn trust by building community in meaningful ways.

Work on making friends, while working on making up for the bullshit everyone here is now burdened with because American culture is so individualistic and religious and authoritarian and parochial and violent. Mitigate that shit for my new neighbours, in my own behaviour and by joining local initiatives that are pro-social, like volunteering at shelters or for a refugee organization.

Educate myself on history and local customs and geography. Don’t be the parochial dimwit of stereotypes. These are standard practice for any mildly courteous traveller, mind you.

Canada, however, has a special colonial relationship with the USA that affects everyone. So I pay attention, and remember that the citizens of the USA have long been friendly to, but have also long ignored and belittled and coveted and threatened and financially controlled and culturally dominated my new home… and people are going to remind me of that when I inevitably channel some of the american exceptionalism that galls most Canadians into passive aggressive mockery.

Might as well hold up a sign saying “I’m his dad” with that comment.

Oh gawd what if instead of instinctively flipping the bird at swastitrucks we all started doing the bodysnatcher call-out? Like lining the sidewalks screeching and pointing.

Approximately 15.5KHz. Not out of range for healthy human hearing. Most of us are damaged by noise pollution and blood pressure issues by the time we’re adults and high frequency sensitivities drop off first.

If a CRT is on in a large space with volume off, I can still hear it a bit, but mild tinnitus masks most of it.