Because they see bikes as things ridden by teens and the poor, and they hate both of those groups.

Canadian Raising – which is what creates the sense in 'Muricans that we’re saying aboot – is actually weakest in the Atlantic region, and particularly with respect to Os. We strongly raise our Is and As, but not our Os. “Out and about” is more likely to be pronounced “oat in a boat” out here.

The phenomenon, more generally, occurs coast-to-coast, though, and originated in the 1800s.

Nowhere in Canada has anyone ever actually said “oot and aboot”, though. Americans just have this tendency to hyper-fixate on the subtle difference between raised and unraised vowels, and see the raised vowels as very cutting. They’ll go “ow-t and ab-ow-t”, or put shingles on their “ruff”, particularly in the south, and find the more closed-mouthed form of these vowels alien.

Fuck 'em. Communication is a two-way street, and if they’re only ever willing to communicate on their own terms, then they’re not sctually interested in communicating.

I know that often, the people being discussed in these sorts of conversations are people we feel we cannot avoid, e.g, parents, bosses, partners, etc., but these people can be excised from our lives. We can move away from home when old enough, we can find new jobs, and we can find new partners. It’s work, and it’s not easy, but there are good people out there who will genuinely want to try, and you can find them.

You gotta dedide that part of your struggles today, though, are that others actually are demanding more of you than you are of them, and that they’re deciding they don’t care enough to do their part in bridging the gap.

That hurts in its own right, but it’s a different kind of hurt. It’s a fuck them kind of hurt.

It’s fun when people allude to having knowledge they don’t display or share. Makes them look like they’re feeling smugly superior while also contributing absolutely nothing to anyone.

It’s the daddy’s money of social media.

Retconing things to protect muh precious twists is not compelling, though, it’s just base metagaming. The unwavering plot is the GM equivalent of the 8 page main character syndrome PC backstory. If I found out my GM was doing that, they wouldn’t be my GM anymore.

This just boils down to “don’t disucuss social power dynamics” at some point, though, and that’s how social power dynamics remain unchallenged, and only ever evolve towards reinforcing the social hegemony.

People need to be able to criticise others’ words and actions when they perpetuate injustice, regardless of whether they are a part of the affected minority, and this criticism should not be viewed through the lens of taking offence.

One can criticise without being personally offended.

But I am home at 1pm, and they still didn’t actually deliver the package!

Careful. That would require recognizing instances as communities in their own right, and some folks get bent out of shape when you do that.

Albertans talk about alienation as if any of us living outside of Toronto or Vancouver don’t experience the same sense of “people only talk about Toronto and Vancouver”.

Meanwhile, Albertans routinely shit on Atlantic Canada, behave as if BC is just Calgary’s port, and complain bitterly and non-stop about the French.

Dani doth complain too much.

The reasons why the wealthy like liberalisation matters, though. The reasom the wralthy want more wealth matters.

Money is power. The wealthy are competing to have the most power. Eventually, that turns to taking control of the state. So, the wealthy will back free trade and deregulation right up until they, personally, are in a position to attempt a coup. After that, regulation and trade barriers work for the particular rich folk who have taken control over the state.

Doom 2 was the peak. 2016 was a strong reimagining of Doom 3, but it was already trying to be something Doom wasn’t.

The Liberals are currently being shored up by the Bloc, so no.

You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.

Yes, but functionally no one voted NDP this year, and that was their pitch, IIRC.

Yeah, it happened quite some time ago now. I think the newsroom merger happened with the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, too, but I don’t know for sure, so didn’t mention it.

Was this not known? I’ve known that my fingers wrinkle the same in water every time since I was 5.

I know in Edmonton, at least, the Sun and the Edmonton Journal had their newsrooms merged. They’re framed as alternatives, but the Sun has taken over the ‘mainstream’ option in places.

Don’t fuck with the territories, apparently.

Way to unlovk splash damage as the new Battleship meta

Are we really getting to the point of attacking OAS now? Seriously? Like, I know everyone loves to hate on the boomers, but most of them didn’t strike it rich, many live in homes that are old and not well maintained, have failing bodies, are being squeezed out of labour jobs, etc. Having a tiny, taxable income stream at a time where society is turning against you isn’t some crazy benefit.

Attack the rich, not the old.