LostWon

I'm Canadian, so no I've never voted for any US candidate. I didn't advocate any particular kind of political action (or non-action) in my comment except not to drive people away if you want to have them on your side.

What simpler point can there possibly be than "Alienating people doesn't earn you their support; it's better to build trust and win them over"? The basic reality is that people don't all think the same way, so they have to be met where they're at.

Laughed out loud when I got to "Whil Wheaton." 😄

This must be why Kayla Detmer looked weirdly familiar in Discovery. Did the Blink Drive also have a genetically special human pilot? I can't remember.

He'd probably not get it, and think the person was coming on to him instead of the intended effect.

Tooth floss and kids toothbrushes (or adult brushes with smaller heads).

Attitude has a range including your standard gel pastes with fluoride.

Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains is not a winning strategy for anyone left of centre. Dividing people only helps the right, no matter who is doing it. I don't even think ordinary folks who've been conned into believing (Maple) MAGA-esque propaganda should automatically be bashed in every case-- just persons in positions of significant power. The priority should always be to seek opportunities to genuinely win folks over.

Also, while it's true there may have been too much immigration in a short time, that's not a primary reason for housing costs rising. Asset prices are going up because homes are treated as an investment. At least according to graphs in this Breach video, there's been no correlation between immigration and housing costs.

Economist Gary Stevenson has outlined many times as well how homes increasing in value for an extended period of time can actually be seen as a precursor to a shrinking middle class, though middle class people often don't see increasing pricing as a feature of wealthier buyers out-competing them.

Doesn't using a car wash without putting the car in "car wash mode" first void its warranty, or was that false news? (I don't remember where I heard it.) Nice way to make a lot of unsuspecting people void their warranty.

Neat. My junior high friend group used to come up with some ridiculous stuff this way! That said, even though playing around with absurdities was very fun, I wonder if those of us here on Lemmy could come up with something dramatic and even moving?

I had it here in Canada, decades ago. My memories are vague but I remember thinking it wasn't bad at all. (Probably no lung, but there was definitely stomach.)

"Unalived" might be a euphemism that's only necessary on certain social media to avoid censorship nowadays, but people were using the term "disappearing" (especially as a transitive verb) during Chile's Pinochet regime, if not earlier.

I probably wouldn't have tried durian or nattou if I didn't know what they were, but maybe I'll notice some exception some day. (I might have still tried haggis since I don't recall it having any smell to it, but I wouldn't feel better not knowing what it was.)