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I work outside in the heat and I can’t stand wearing long sleeves (usually I just don’t wear a shirt). Of course hot for me is like 85-90F. I’m probably calling it a day if the temperature gets over 95F. It rarely gets over 95F here though.

Who the hell actually has “hand” guns, anyway. 

5 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

I am 100% on the Indigenous protester's side here. However, it's a pet peeve of mind when people claim that the Americas were a peaceful utopia before Europeans came. There was war, tribalism, murder, rape, and everything else that the rest of the world had. The only difference was that the Indigenous people hadn't advanced to the same level of technology so it was less organized. But we barely have any recorded history for the continent, and to assume that they were all hunter-gatherers who co-existed peacefully is pretty naive. Having said that, what happened to their civilization was awful.

Well, to be fair 'we never had walls here' is a pretty uncontroversial statement. I mean, there was mostly free movement of people all over the world really until less than 100 years ago. 

They get snow in Kentucky?

If nothing else, this is at least exciting.

Im guessing that most politicians aren’t really afraid of a job loss or hospital bill ruining them financially.

3 hours ago, Snaynay1 said:

I would like to see Tesla bought by a major car company that knows how to pump cars out so the prices of these things can come down. Fuck I feel like I am going to be 80 before these things become standard.

Give it a couple years and one of the major manufacturers will buy the pieces of Tesla after bankruptcy.

If it only affects those that make more than $10 million a year, it’ll be doing basically nothing to curb income inequality.

I don’t care if you live in NYC or Silicon Valley, a $500k income gives you resources that the average person could only dream of and is therefore reasonable to call it rich.

Like, even the most swanky Manhattan condominiums still have janitors that are definitely not making even $100k, but I’m supppsed to believe that $500k is just doing ok because it’s just so expensive to live in some places? Get real.

3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Well, sometimes. In Canada this year in local elections it resulted in some weird results. The main issue is that many people don't put down second or third choices, so the ultimate winner can still have a sub-50 victory. Also, in almost all cases the front-runner wins in the end.

 

It's really not that great of a system in terms of representative democracy, especially in places with more than two legitimate choices. The only reason Americans like it is because it further entrenches the two-party system. 

You’ve said this before and I’m not really sure which elections you’re talking about. Ranked choice isn’t exactly new in Canada — it’s been used for years for party leadership votes and the results are not how you’re describing them. As one example, the CPC use a ranked ballot, and in their last leadership race Andrew Scheer won even though in the first round he only had 21% of the votes compared to Maxime Bernier with 28%. 

Lmao 

1 hour ago, stepee said:

Is eating ostrich burgers still a thing? I remember a push for it a long time ago in northern cali but don’t really hear about it anymore.

Were they delicious?

4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

All politicians are cults of personality. Bernie, Beto, Trump, etc.

bOtH sIdEs

8 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Damn gotta respect the hustle tho 

38 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

25

OMG

She just has to make it like another 13 months right?

Uh nunchucks are illegal in many jurisdictions around the world. I’m baffled at the reaction to this thread.

I can’t really blame anyone for deciding they want out of this hellhole.

1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

I shouldn’t need to say this but I wasn’t being serious 

 

Also, you probably shouldn’t be insulting people when you have a history of linking to reason.com and PUA blogs and posting rants about the age of consent.  

Oh snap.

Basically, sexual harassment/assault is done by people that do not respect people’s boundaries / feel entitled to do what they want to other people (or even get off on pushing past someone’s boundaries). The suggestion that NDT’s attractiveness would have any bearing on this comes off very incel-ish because no matter how attractive you think NDT is, it’s plainly true that most women aren’t going to enjoy him awkwardly lifting at their shoulder straps or whatever else he is accused of doing. 

He supports organized labor tho so they cancel out.

How about Steve Bullock he seems like a pretty good guy from 5 minutes on Wikipedia.

Woah

47 minutes ago, Chris- said:

You guys, should AOC get the bullet too?

She’s a liberal ain’t she?

5 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/calgary-city-council-votes-to-shut-down-bid-for-2026-winter-games-1.4183155

 

 

The city held a plebiscite and a majority voted against bidding for the Olympics. For those who don't know, Calgary (and Alberta in general) is experiencing a 5+ year major downturn on the back of low oil prices. 

 

I'm very happy about this.

Why would you be happy GOSH! Vancouver 2010 was AWESOME, this would’ve been even better. ALSO Calgary (all of Alberta really) could use a make work project — this would be much better than a fucking pipeline.

edit: @mclumber1‘s idea is the worst idea in the history of ideas.