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
it must be springtime
the style police have emerged
discourse now narrows
Don’t go full serial killer please. And while protesting can be helpful and at times necessary, it is only a small fraction of what is required for political and cultural change.
What would I do in your shoes, even though I don’t know their size or colour or condition or style? It seems obvious to me, but I am old and have spent time in places where Canadians have more global power than the locals.
Let’s say I move to Canada as a non-refugee, but maybe a political migrant moving out of concern. Some people are very welcoming and many seem cold or outright distrustful. Some of that seems directed not so much at me, since I check whether I am a mealy whinger or arrogant main character, and I’m not. It’s mainly about my origin and identity.
So I am going to earn trust where it counts. Not for the globally consistent 20% or so of boneheads who are always going to be authoritarian and xenophobic or supremacist in some way, fuck ‘em. Earn trust by building community in meaningful ways.
Work on making friends, while working on making up for the bullshit everyone here is now burdened with because American culture is so individualistic and religious and authoritarian and parochial and violent. Mitigate that shit for my new neighbours, in my own behaviour and by joining local initiatives that are pro-social, like volunteering at shelters or for a refugee organization.
Educate myself on history and local customs and geography. Don’t be the parochial dimwit of stereotypes. These are standard practice for any mildly courteous traveller, mind you.
Canada, however, has a special colonial relationship with the USA that affects everyone. So I pay attention, and remember that the citizens of the USA have long been friendly to, but have also long ignored and belittled and coveted and threatened and financially controlled and culturally dominated my new home… and people are going to remind me of that when I inevitably channel some of the american exceptionalism that galls most Canadians into passive aggressive mockery.
Oh gawd what if instead of instinctively flipping the bird at swastitrucks we all started doing the bodysnatcher call-out? Like lining the sidewalks screeching and pointing.
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.
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.
Yes, about 100M people right next door are probably risky to Canada, because they are drinking the fox poison or allow evil through indifference. Maybe 150M?
About 5 million potential refugees. Difficult for us to manage but we’ll try. The other 200M are (I’m guessing at the local mood here) welcome to visit and maybe immigrate.
The blame USA’ians feel coming from the north, even to allies, is about voting not being enough, it’s not a way to wash away culpability.
I know a few people who feel that we are under imminent threat of unimaginable violence. It does things to you.
Most of them see certain usa cultural behaviours and feel that’s where the risk comes from. It’s too hard for them to articulate or figure out how to filter through it, so it comes out as blanket rejection and distrust. Not sure I have seen any outright hate yet, it’s mostly defensive.
Also I have seen a lot of USA people online confuse that distrust with hate, obviously feeling touchy.
In the west we say “a boat”
Also shoes off in a home.
Because of course we know USA geography, eh?
Orrrrrr, maybe just needs legislators to look the other way just a little bit longer, until the massive public unrest allows for martial law.
It didn’t effect me at all, and now I no longer exist!
Well it is a matrix synapse server that runs the element web app, and I will make sure everyone also uses the element device apps as well, mainly for consistency.
So you have been using Matrix! Element is just a matrix front-end.
Most of our team is nontechnical so Element.app seems like a good skype replacement from an interface point of view. We also tried Zulip, rocket.chat, and Discord. Zulip was the second choice. I just have to ensure they don’t wander off into federated servers by accident, or invite anyone else.
I work with a small manufacturer team scattered around the world, and Skype has been the glue since it was released.
Now Skype is dead (in a month) and I have the opportunity to move things in a secure and non-American direction, so I will try and introduce team members to our shiny new matrix homeserver hosted in Europe.
I’ll be locking it down without defederating, as it’s a teamchat only server. Any advice?
Hey account boosting is fine for CEOs
I think the statement you are responding to is not prescriptive, but that the situation needs to be described accurately.