Maybe they wore a short skirt, so it was their own fault /s

It’s quite something when I really can’t decide if Joffrey would be a preferable king compared to Trump

It can be hard to pay for online goods with Interac, unfortunately. I’d love to see it become more widely available on e-commerce sites

The point has some validity - the presence of an easy solution allows us to avoid internalizing our lessons.

The same was said about my generation (Millenials) because we were allowed to use a calculator. And quite frankly, it’s true - I am less capable of mental calculation than my boomer parents. Now that I have kids I have forced myself to do more in my head or on paper to set an example, and I have improved.

It’s not that their neurons are inferior or that they cannot learn. It’s that it isn’t worth bothering to remember facts or formulae when every little bit of information is a click away.

I have no hope that the American government will do anything. It reaches too many people, and they aren’t going to punish themselves.

There will be a few head shakes, some words about needing to do better. But the American government does not truly stand on the side of protecting the vulnerable, and I don’t believe it ever will.

I must ask the shoes on people: at what point in the house do the shoes get removed?

I’d expect that you wouldn’t want them in the bedroom or bathroom, getting gravel or dirt in bed. Is it that the main living room for entertaining guests is shoes on, and shoes off is for personal rooms? Or do you have a specific set of indoor shoes? Or do your outdoor shoes go everywhere?

I think a lot of the countries that wear slippers got classified as “shoes on”. I have family in the Caribbean and South America who wear slippers, but never their outdoor shoes.

In my opinion they should be called “shoes off” or at least their own category to differentiate from places that would track mud and gravel throughout their house

Deny, deflect, distract, repeat

We have always been at war with Eastasia

Which translates to “even though I hate most people who look like you, I am surprised to find that you have a redeeming quality”

I’m mixed race and I usually get asked which side I more like. Or a mind boggled “What ARE you?” - if I answer “Canadian” it makes them have to squirm around and say “no, not in that way”

Everything’s coming up corpse plants

Will anything cause a revolution?

From an outside-the-US perspective, it feels as though every incremental assault the USA’s constitution is met with a bit of tut-tutting and complaining about why elected members don’t fix things, then back to apathy 48 hours later.

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How long until the presidential pardon comes in?

We’ve been called worse things by better people.

You can’t wait for the media, because the media is largely owned by the far right.

They make highly inflammatory right leaning news programs, and highly complacent left leaning news programs. It keeps the right active and angry, and tells the left to sit down and fret quietly while waiting for due process to solve problems.

It’s important to support Canadian owned news.

You’ll find great quality journalism from The Tyee , the Narwhal, or The Walrus.

I’m sure there are many more - perhaps we should create a list