RaiderOfALostTusken
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RaiderOfALostTusken
13d ago
It's a fine nitpick. I remember reading a prequel novel ("cloak of deception" maybe?) That flushed it out way more.
I'm a phantom menace defender.
RaiderOfALostTusken
14d ago
I think it's funny now, how everybody (Including Red Letter Media, and myself) mocked The Phantom Menace for making the "taxation of trade routes" a major plot point, and yet, gestures around
The part George got wrong is that he clearly thought that it was going to be the Japanese.
RaiderOfALostTusken
18d ago
Totally, if anything this might actually create political capital to build some pipelines, get rid of internal trade barriers, etc.
RaiderOfALostTusken
18d ago
This is kind of funny - does my writing style sound Indian? Or is it the fact that I don't have much national pride after the country spent the last decade trying to stamp it out?
I am very white, born and raised in 'Berta. Family history Acadia/Australia/Wales/USA mix
RaiderOfALostTusken
20d ago
What I want most of all, is something like the EU - total trade union (so no customs at all), and free movement. If we ended up with that, I would build Donald a statue
RaiderOfALostTusken
20d ago
He's a real estate guy, Canada is a lot of real estate. You could connect Alaska to lower 48 instead of the separation that currently exists.
I am Canadian. I'm neutral to mildly positive on an American take-over, only because our gdp per capita and median wages are abysmally low compared to the USA. Healthcare is...eh, I've tried to crunch the numbers on cost vs time, and end of the day I still think ours is slightly better for my situation. Took me 3 months to get a hernia surgery, and a relative in the states 3 days - but it was $3k for them. Mine was "free". But man, i am an outlier, people here hate america now, moreso than ever before
RaiderOfALostTusken
1mo ago
Did the "cure" happen spontaneously or was there some method that you used?
RaiderOfALostTusken
2mo ago
It's hard to predict what would happen if people actually had skin in the game, but Trump does not have high approval here - maybe this whole thing might change that for negative or positive. I don't think Alberta would be a red state. It would probably be closer to Colorado or something like that.
RaiderOfALostTusken
3mo ago
Yeah that is super helpful
RaiderOfALostTusken
3mo ago
My wife did something really nice for me on my 30th birthday. She reached out to many friends, family, old acquaintances and had them write a little blurb about a special memory they had of me, then she bound it into a book with lots of old pictures.
She asked a few of my friends and siblings if they could make a list of people who I knew that would be good candidates, then reached out via Facebook, etc, and hounded until she got a ton. More of maybe a 1 year plan ahead than 4 years, but it was really meaningful to me and honestly it's kind of like, a personal relic.
RaiderOfALostTusken
3mo ago
I have 0 philosophy background and have really struggled with Beyond Good and Evil. I think i must be missing some key context. Claude has helped a bit but i also have a difficult time trusting that it's giving me the right summaries.
Mind and Cosmos was another one that I just could not grok. I'll have to keep pressing on. But sometimes it feels like I'm reading a book on algebra when i never learned what addition and subtraction were or something
RaiderOfALostTusken
3mo ago
Some are suggesting the "Breloom" pokemon in his twitter header is a reference to shroom culture, but i am not in that space and can't confirm
RaiderOfALostTusken
4mo ago
I definitely get more bot friend requests post elon. There was a while that i was getting lots of fake messages right at first, that's about it
RaiderOfALostTusken
4mo ago
Silver did have a fun exchange with Alan Lichtman who predicted a Harris win due to his "Keys of the Presidency" heuristic. Lichtman one of those "correctly predicted the results of last X elections" guys. Silver pointed out that by his own Keys, it predicted a Trump win - and Alan responded something hilariously memeable like "Nate Silver doesn't know how to turn the keys"
So i dunno. I thought it was funny at least
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
I enjoyed BoBS but didn't really care for the final vignette. There's a semi famous meme that you might recognize and point your finger at.
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
I am lucky to live in a small city with a relatively decent dark sky (can see multiple constellations on a given night), but it's still not ideal for sure
RaiderOfALostTusken
5mo ago
Alright i have an extremely low stakes bone to pick!
So I live in southern Canada, and like many people we got Northern Lights the other night. Except - our northern lights consisted of a greyish haze basically. Yeah you could see something, it was cool! But it wasn't colorful.
Then, when you took a picture with your phone, that monochrome grey turns into a brilliant symphony of color, perfect for social media! But, it's basically a lie - I assume AI upscaling of some kind. And now I'm seeing all these photos from the US/Mexico Border, other southern states, of these brilliant reds and greens and I'm like, is everybody comfortable just lying like this? Surely they didn't actually see any color IRL, right? Did anybody actually see real colors outside of the phone AI upscaling, in any areas of the continental USA?
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
Oh uh....spoilers, I'm sorry
RaiderOfALostTusken
6mo ago
I watched the movie version of this in high school, and have a scene burned in my brain where a baker (?) Falls off a roof and has his genitals cut off and stuffed in his mouth. Is that in the book?
RaiderOfALostTusken
8mo ago
I read an article a few weeks ago saying they wanted to switch to server side ads maybe? The gist was it was going to break ad block. Unfortunate.
RaiderOfALostTusken
9mo ago
He was hired by SNL and then fired quickly after in 2019 after some impressions of Chinese people and what was called "homophobic" humor surfaced from old podcast episodes. I can't remember the specific jokes.
I see his stuff occasionally and he's definitely not afraid of certain things, mental disability and even talking about different races in positive and negative ways. He's pretty moderate i would say, just wants to make people laugh
RaiderOfALostTusken
9mo ago
I sometimes think that in the vacuum of having any national identity (which is bad, patriotism is generally bad as many here would say), the national identity has just become some kind of "feel superior to the americans". It happens at political levels when Dobbs was passed and Trudeau made a big thing about abortion and contracepton. It happens with healthcare, we accept mediocrity because "at least we aren't the USA" and i think we do it with immigration too.
RaiderOfALostTusken
9mo ago
The saddest thing, is if I took a poll, i would bet that more canadians know that Trump was convicted than know that literal sitting MPs willingly assisted foreign governments.
RaiderOfALostTusken
10mo ago
For what it's worth, this happened to family of mine in Calgary. People would take the C Train, walk around the (very nice) neighborhood at the end of it, check car door handles, and then train back to wherever they were from. Locals got wise and started following/putting in ring cameras and realized they weren't local.
There was a land acknowledgement to the Comanche at SXSW this year, which is pretty crazy considering the stuff they did
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