Such a prescient episode.

yes I Am Canadian, bud

Our conservative movement didn’t die out, they got more votes this time than the last few times and the popular vote was split down the middle.

We have more right wing media than centrist or neutral or left wing combined, and much of it is USA owned.

This all happened at the expense of the moderate left and the extreme right. If we don’t ditch our first past the post electoral system we risk Americanized politics.

not sure why

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

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

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

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.

Hypermobility can be a health risk indicator for more than just EDS. Consult your GP.

I graduated from this to accessing the muscles that open up sinuses, and can clear up most congestion with a little concentration. I wouldn’t have noticed except that I cured my headache problem that way, and it has baffled every health practitioner I mention it to.

c/Aphantasia FTW!

I got some training in this. I once had a task of waking everyone up at a forest temple by ringing a giant bell with a hammer over about 3 minutes, at 4:30 AM. Around 400 people relied on that bell to keep things going. But my alarm clock died at three days into a three week session. It was a no-speech retreat so I just dealt with it.

I didn’t miss a bell but the first couple of nights were iffy. Now I will sleep in unless something urgent is going to happen.

Hey account boosting is fine for CEOs

Maybe ‘digital resilience’ is a more accurate, less sensationalist term?

I think you have to drink sandworm bile for that.

Or maybe the NeuroBlaster 3000 Quantum Fibrillator?

In the early 1990’s I dialled 1-800-666-HELL and got an Armed Forces recruiting centre answering machine. All Canadian government numbers were 666 back then, lol. I left a message from Satan Claws complimenting them on their memorable number and it was changed in a few months.

Yarvin’s technobrocratic dystopia will have a bunch of these little states run by CEOs, and you wouldn’t have any voice in how it’s run, but you would be free to leave. Is that what you want?

The Great Filter is not climate or pestilence or asteroids, it’s authoritarians.

It’s great that you want to throw in with defense of our country. You do understand that any USA person who does that would have to check their head for attitudes right? And there would be a high trust bar to vault.

Regarding self-reported individualism: maybe? Definition and study quality matters. The experience of difference is markedly clear, especially to those of us with family on both sides of the border.

And also, ideology is like halitosis, it’s always someone else’s problem, eh?

Responsibility for society starts at young adulthood, which is a fuzzy line because it varies per person. Bizarre that you would try to dissociate being a member of a culture and society without acknowledging participation and maintenance and responsibility… but very “American.” It capitulates to authority.

I keep seeing a response to words like “welcoming” as though it is a binary, for instance. Are you writing as though there’s welcome and deny, and that’s it? Fox News does this sleight of mind, for instance, reducing things to absolutes. It’s how single issue voters are created. Question it.

I once documented a youth conference of diasporic Black students from Windsor, Detroit, and Toronto. As director and editor I had to pay attention closely to the discussion. Some amazing things became clear: fundamental differences in identity and worldview. In particular, the Canadian youth got where the USA youth were coming from, but not the reverse, at least during the discussions.

It was more than about identity, it was about nuance and complexity. Something just made it really hard for the Detroit folks to think in terms more than black white latino asian and a few others, as well as simplifying broader topics. Looking for easy conclusions. The Toronto folk counted over 100 languages spoken at their school and thought in terms of ethiopian, africanadian, igbo, jamaican, trini, etc. The Windsor folk were like, “yeah that and we’re distinct yet linked, our local history explains a lot, and we have to work together across divisions.” Social complexity is pretty natural in canadian discourse.

This, this is one of the difficult things to explain across the border. It’s one of the key things we are worried most about losing in an annexation. And like most colonial relationships, the understanding generally goes one way.

Are you as a Canadian, directly responsible for the neocolonial blights in Bolivia because you are a Canadian citizen?

More than 1/40,000,000th responsible, yes. Directly, I don’t think so, I’m not aware of investments in Canadian mining. My spouse’s pension plan may be investing there, because even though they have some ethical oversight, money, uh, finds a way.

“Direct” is a bit of a false dichotomy however. I benefit from those atrocities in various ways. I pay taxes, I use government services, and the CA government enables this neocolonialism. I work for clients who have done I-don’t-know-what, I use products that are cheap because of this exploitation, and I fail to track many details of the supply chain that would help me avoid participating.

More, I have not donated to miningwatch.ca for years, I haven’t written any letters to officials about it in decades, and I haven’t even been tracking news about the problem lately.

Given that those are all choices I have made, whether active or passive, I bear a little extra responsibility above the basic citizenship share, yes. It’s a lot less responsibility than the choice I made to have children, let’s say, but it is each individual’s to some degree. My life is full of such things. It’s not a burden! It’s the bitter irony of awareness, which is a blessing.

It’s also the basis for a civic mindset that will get us through the great filter.

TL;DR: you leave a wake as you pass through life, those ripples wash up somewhere