20 till I had kids. Now it’s 17/18.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Jesus was killed by his government.

Hockey requires manufactured ice.

Most of the world can’t make a suitable surface for most of the year.

Saskatchewan can make enough to field a whole league of players.

No. I get introduced to people who are “like me” and I don’t like them off the hop.

I recently hung out with my own father, and when he would say words that were in my head, they sounded awful.

People like me. I have friends. I like my friends. But I do question their judgement being friends with me.

Peaceful protestor held at gunpoint refuses to watch violent propaganda.

As such, branded as hypocrite.

Modern politics.

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You can never know.

I’m a proponent of having a long relationship before major decisions. I’m not saying people who have kids in their 20’s are doomed, but I believe that having a longstanding strong relationship prior to having kids is key. The fear is still there, but the knowledge of how your partner reacts to strife and hardship, goes a long way compared to NOT knowing.

As to changes, of course you’ll change. Parenting a newborn is different than parenting a toddler is different than parenting a tween, etc, etc, etc. Embrace the change. Embrace the challenge. Don’t have kids expecting it to be easy.

I also feel that way when I properly pronounce Mon’rree-all

The deposit for a cyberstuck was $150. The package was valued at $16k.

Being happy about lies being exposed is good, but spreading a false narrative about it is bad.

Air Fryers.

It’s a tiny convection oven.

A good while back, Chrome was superior. Faster yes, but also more polished and intuitive as browsers go.

Also, Google was “Do no Evil”, and Firefox was good, but not great.

Today, Firefox is still good, and Google is evil.

Insane? No.

Drunk with power? Obviously.

Source: History.

Fair. Chromium.

Consumer grade Linux Mint is impossible to differentiate from Windows/MacOS.

Install Firefox. Install Chrome. Install Steam.

Test it out on an old laptop or computer. It’s trivial. Your life will improve.

The USA wants a world where AI wants is given permission to consume all copyrighted content for free, but we are charged for access to scholarly papers.

My company of 60 people has us do this and the responses don’t get read. I’m sure 90% of people use GPT to give their responses anyway.

Have fun with that Muskrat

At this point I’d go full Karen asking to speak to the supervisor, then taking my business elsewhere.

Vote with your wallet.

TD Bank (the 10th largest bank in the US) was fined 3BN USD for their role in an international money laundering scheme in Oct of this year.

They gotta make that money back somehow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-penalties-1.7348819

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kldqXZlwk

Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

When they can’t, they’ll own the government, and outlaw it.

It’s like poetry.

You own what is on your machine, that you save locally.

Some companies believe they control the internet, but they do not. They control what is on the computers they own, that they save locally. Sometimes that is information that users have shared. That is their choice.