Can I be the guy that’s known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it’s actually “fewer users”

And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: “There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership”, vs “There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership” (Both are correct in their given context)

It’s about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.

/end of rant.

I miss the prevalence of manual transmissions. Every one of my old first beater cars were manuals. But it seems that they’ve been phased out for the most part and it sucks. Driving Automatics isn’t really driving (I’ll die on that hill).

In answer to your question, no, it’s not unreasonably hard to get the hang of as long as you accept the fact that you’re going to stall it a few times at first and don’t get embarrassed about it, you’ll pick it up pretty quick.

In my experience, the people who struggle are the people who are too tense to learn because they’re afraid of looking like a fool for stalling it while they’re learning. Accept the fact that it’ll happen, and you’ll be able to relax and learn in no time.

The only thing that has kept circling my brain for the last half a year has been the scene in Demolition Man when Wesley Snipes says:

“Please just kill this guy already…”

Why is the ICC not on something European like Proton Mail?

• 90’s Trek is my go too comfort food. Especially TNG and Voyager. Less so Enterprise. And I never got into DS9 at all (fight me). When I’m looking for a random episode to watch in the background, it’s usually one of those.

• Comedy-wise, Community, Night Court (the original), The IT Crowd, The Office, Futurama, all fill the same role as Star Trek above.

• Less often, but still on a pretty regular rotation, 80’s shows like Quantum Leap, Simon & Simon, MacGuyver, Knight Rider. Just dumb shows where they have a one hour adventure and then have a new one the next week; where you don’t have to stress about watching every damn episode because the entire season is one big plotline.

I don’t necessarily look around like I’m being followed. But it took me a very long time to be comfortable listening to music or having headphones on while walking, or in public at all.

The idea of not being able to hear my surroundings and be ready to react to something is still really weird to me. It takes all of my mental effort to put it to the back of my brain while walking my dog.

It’s not even necessarily worrying about someone with malicious intent. It could be not being able to sense another walker coming up behind me. Or two kids playing catch and a ball going astray towards my face. Just the idea of not having situational awareness at all times freaks me out.

I use Cromite. It’s a more hardened fork of Bromite. Which itself is a hardened fork of Chromium.

The only thing I’ve found so far is that it likes to block the discussion threads on some websites. But other than that I’ve had no issues whatsoever.

100% agree. I was just pointing out that the whole situation is not as black and white as people on both sides want it to be.

Am I allowed to have more than one?

The games I go back to when I want to just have some peace of mind would be Rimworld and Crusader Kings 2 (specifically the Game of Thrones mod).

Perfect example of the causation fallacy.

If one were to look at that map out of context, once could say that if the temperature is too cold or too hot, murder rates increase.

We all know of course it’s a map of economic disparity, and a whole host of other societal concerns contributing. But without the context of any of those things, we’re liable to think that correlation equals causation.

It’s an important lesson.

I feel like that’s sarcasm? But yes, I legitimately feel that our system, where the only person who has any “theoretical” power to make unilateral decisions without parliament is some old guy who is content to just stay out of it, is better.

Imagine an America where they could tell Trump. “Okay, you’re king. Here…we’ll even put you on our money. Now go live overseas and fuck off”

Because, and not to sound flippant, that’s just the easiest and most natural way to do it without a lot of extra paperwork.

See technically, a "president* is meant as a drop in replacement for a monarch. A republic doesn’t get rid if its king, they just replace one who was born into it with one they chose and one they pretend to have a bit more control over.

Canada’s equivalent to Trump isn’t Carney, technically it’s King Charles. And the U.S equivalent to Prime Minister would be who’ve leads the majority party in congress.

Could we go through the constitutional rigamarole to change that? Sure. But why bother when he’s content to stay out of things.

Essentially, a parliamentary democracy means that our “Trump” is a deadbeat dad who lives in another country.

I’ll happily keep that buffer in place versus whatever the fuck the U.S had gotten themselves into.

Republics give you Trump…

What I mean is this:

A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and is therefore the “face” of the government in many ways.

Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as “executive orders” because there is no “executive” branch, per se. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump is doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he’s using executive orders to enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN’T been given to one person.

Oh believe me. I would be too. We’d buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I’m just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.

Based on the number of sightings on this map, I’m starting to think that maybe most people have just never seen a homeless person before…

Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

• The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

• The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

• The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

• Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

• The calking and rubber cement that keeps the tiles your walking on stuck to the floor…yep…you guessed it.

Are you starting to get it?

Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.

This write-up sounds like it was written by an A.I… just sayin’.

An abusive partner who enjoys gaslighting.

Shelter in place for a while until decomposition of their muscles makes them completely ineffectual and unable to actually move.

Shouldn’t take long.

Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.