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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...

That's kind of what I thought it would be.

I assumed the Canadian system wouldn't be so different than the UK system with a federal government, a provincial government, and municipal city/town governments with different powers and responsibilities at each level.

That's why seeing labour being blamed seemed strange. Typically municipal matters don't really reflect party politics.

Is garbage collection a federal matter in England?

Ought to be a hanging offense.

Tbf, I think most people don't have the latest phones since phone companies stopped giving you a free phone every 3 years.

(I had the MotoX 2013, one of the only phones manufactured in America in a factory in Texas. It was great. Lenovo owns the company now)

You're not wrong, but I'm not comparing the US to a hypothetical perfect government, but the actual governments around the world that successfully do the thing.

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.

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