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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

The worst part is that the US government spends more money on healthcare than Canada by a substantial margin, meaning that the problem here is less the insurance companies and more the incompetent government. If they were spending the money properly, everyone would have some degree of healthcare.

ngl, the last good windows was 7. 10 was just about usable, 11 is really silly, I expect 12 to be fairly silly.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/nyt-dragged-for-hilariously-botched-fact-check-of-rfk-jr-s-war-on-artificial-ingredients/

>“But he was wrong,” the article continued authoritatively — before delivering what was meant to be the death blow certain to tear Kennedy’s incorrect beliefs to smithereens.

>“The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the ingredient label,” the report said.

I sorta wish there was an option in youtube to subscribe to a channels videos but block their streams and shorts.

Especially the streams. Some people can do it, other people can't.

Seems to me it's all very logical, it's just also incredibly spiteful. "Oh, orange man won election? Let's leave him a bloody mess so we can blame everything on him!"

Trump ran on peace so it sure looks like they're doing everything they can to destabilize Eurasia.

Really seeing more and more justification for destroying the bureaucracy.

Can you really call something that worked exactly as planned a screw up?

Charter of rights and freedoms

1. Canadians shall have
(A) Except in Quebec of course(...)

Ngl, getting stabbed to death is probably a bit overkill for touching a bum unsolicited.

Otoh I guess it's a hell of a deterrent. A few more stories like this and letcherous old men might think twice.

Threads won't even federate with most of the fun parts of the fediverse.

Her body was cleansed of all spirits including her own.

What even is money at this point?

It's like go ahead. Hey, pay a few trillion in reparations while you're at it!

It isn't like the United States is going to exist much longer anyway, what with all the debt it's getting into. At the rate we're going, Trump's successor could see 64T in debt before 2035.

Remember that RFK speech that got fact checked and made the NYT look stupid about Canadian fruit loops and US fruit loops?

I've got an anecdote.

Our boy isn't a huge eater. He likes his meals and he's a growing boy, but he doesn't remember certain foods and beg for them or anything. Certainly not cereal.

But we have a store in town that sells foreign foods, including some US foods. They sell lucky charms marshmallows in small and large formats, made for the US markets, and we picked it up because "hey, lucky charms!".

We actually stopped buying them because of all the food in our house -- all the chocolate, all the ice cream, all the potato chips, all the cereals, he'd have tantrums throughout the day if we didn't give him US Lucky Charms. It's the only food in the house he'd drop everything to ask for. We've even had Canadian lucky charms, it didn't cause tantrums.

Not to say that Canadian food is perfect, but it's a data point that suggests there's something particularly odd about US food.

I don't even know how the east indians working there found the place.

Yeah all seasons suck really bad. I went with the four season tires that are okay in the winter and decent the rest of the year, and they were pretty decent for the time, the one I had to replace them I just went with winter tires because they were cheaper and then I'll just get summer tires, and the one nice thing about that is then you're splitting the wear up among two sets of tires.

Well yeah, that's just good practice when it's safe to do so. These days I drive a subcompact, so things like not getting your ass stuck at a stop sign are important skills to have. During conditions like that, usually your problem isn't not being able to stop, it's being able to stop way too well and the next time your car stops it's probably going to stay stopped for the foreseeable future.

The day we got smacked wasn't in the middle of a snowstorm though.

Ah, fair enough. One of my later cars had snow tires, but it didn't stop us from getting t-boned on a side street. Lady just ran the stop sign. So yeah...

I'm listening to a podcast on this right now, and it's from a more right-wing perspective but even this guy is going "Well, he sort of deserved it, look at all this crap he did"

Guilt-based morality is such that it doesn't matter what you did, it's what I did. Killing is wrong, and even if for example my kid with cancer was denied treatment it's still wrong, but on the other hand, if my kid died because he was denied cancer treatment that CEO should be sleeping with one eye open.

It doesn't make it right, but in that hypothetical at least I understand and I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing. When you curse someone dig two graves, but sometimes it's worth digging that grave.

Real snow tires are the best. My first few years driving I drove a Bronco II with mud tires and I could see the blade of the reaper an inch from my throat whenever I drove. Once I threw some snow tires on that thing I never worried about driving in the winter again.

Honestly, although I have my way of doing things I can understand why other people would do things in a different way.

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