Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76 13 points 4 days ago

That's exactly how most Germans did respond to it back then too.

Pretend it wasn't happening. Pretend they didn't know about it. Until they get slapped in the face with reality when the allies show up and force march them to dig the graves at the concentration camps.

[–] Adderbox76 30 points 4 days ago

poking fun at its cultish, toxic community.

I don't feel like I'm in a cult.

But then again...that's just what someone in a cult would say...

Oh..God...NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

/s (obviously)

[–] Adderbox76 11 points 4 days ago

I've never been "pro-American" by any means. In my mind, what Trump is doing; (treating the rest of the world like client states, demanding everyone bend the knee) is just an escalation of what any other administration has ever done. But he does it loudly, bluntly, and with no thought to class or subtlety. Previous administrations made use of soft power and coercion while Trump's blunt stupidity just lays it all on the table, not bothering to hide it.

[–] Adderbox76 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well shit. You were my escape plan if Canada gets annexed by Trump or votes in our own version of him.

Not even exaggerating. Once my dual citizenship is registered (Portuguese parents), Europe is the plan.

[–] Adderbox76 4 points 5 days ago

Because you can't cosplay the Robber Baron age without bringing back consumption...

[–] Adderbox76 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The correct response to that would be: Americans visiting Canada must show proof of vaccination status

[–] Adderbox76 38 points 5 days ago

What Trump can or can't do is absolutely meaningless to him. He doesn't care. Chaos is the point.

[–] Adderbox76 27 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I think Ontario has already paused the Export tax unfortunately. But I would absolutely call his bluff. An attack on Canada would mean a full-blown article 5 crisis before Trump has all of the cards that he wants. While he might be that stupid. Others in his administration aren't.

Just in case, a good show from Carney would be to deploy the military to the area because of an increased threat of terrorism.

[–] Adderbox76 1 points 5 days ago

Mine aren't quite that large. I think my biggest one taps in at about 640 rows or so. Where I run into trouble with LO is more in the way of table formatting, certain calculations that and a few other fixable things. But the two biggest ones are simply that my work spreadsheets use macros, which IIRC, LO handles in a completely different way. And also for some reason the copy and paste function works differently and screws up all my V and H LOOKUPS.

[–] Adderbox76 1 points 5 days ago

It's Durc; Ayla and Broud's offspring from Clan of the Cave Bear.

[–] Adderbox76 14 points 5 days ago

Yep. Nothing fishy at all here. Nosiree.

[–] Adderbox76 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This quote in an article from 2012 by Katie Billotte has always stuck with me.

This war on the liberal arts is born from the same desire that produces voter ID laws: a desire to limit democratic participation. The goal of a liberal arts education was never primarily direct economic benefit for the recipient or even the sort of personal/spiritual development about which many like to wax lyrically. The purpose of a liberal arts education was always meant to be a political education. The Latin ars liberalis refers to the skills required of a free man -- that is the skills of a citizen. The Latin word ars and its Greek equivalent techne do not mean art in a modern sense. Instead the word refers to a craft or a skill. Thus, history, rhetoric and literature were seen as the skills a citizen needed for his job: governing.

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