tunetardis

For me, I think it's whatever face I make when I'm in the zone. I'm not really aware of what I look like or contrive to look a certain way. But if I crack a smile, that's a pretty good tell that I goofed up somewhere.

One time I was playing a Robbie Burns event where we were all encouraged to wear kilts. I made the mistake of putting my phone in the sporran (a kind of purse that hangs right over your crotch) and it started vibrating incessantly. I can't even imagine the faces I was making that night!

About a year ago, there was a boycott on the Loblaws supermarket chain in protest of their boasting record profits at a time when grocery inflation was out of control. It lasted about a month before kind of fizzling out.

But I think by comparison, this buy Canadian movement has legs. It's a major nationwide shift in people's spending habits. And the key word here may be habits. Let's say for argument's sake that after 4 years of Trump, a new administration comes in and repeals all the tariffs. By that time, people will have settled into alternate brands across a wide range of consumer goods, and it may be difficult to convince them to switch back again. There's a certain inertia in human behaviour. So the effects of this could potentially go on quite a bit longer than the tariff war.

I suppose if some sort of critical mass is reached, it could push the world from x86-64 to arm? Every modern OS supports it at this point and emulators have come a long way for older software that needs them.

As much as I hate Doug Ford, every time he does something that pisses me off, Danielle Smith is right there like "hold my Kentucky Bourbon…"

Curious. The archived version seems a bit abridged compared to the original? For example, I can't find any mention of his plans to cut foreign aid (which I think is a terrible idea—can't we take the high road for once?).

Thanks!

How do you get an archived link?

When asked about Smith's comments about him, Poilievre himself began to discuss his conservative counterpart, but pulled himself back."Well sh…," he began, stopping before a "she" could cross his lips. "People are free to make their own comments. I speak for myself."

Fine, so what is Poilievre actually saying? From a National Post article:

Poilievre has promised to pay for it by cutting “waste,” eliminating bureaucracy and contracts with consultants and bringing in a rule that any new spending needs to be offset by spending cuts of the same size. He has also vowed to cut foreign aid and stop what he called “handouts to insiders.”

Sounds kind of DOGE-y to me?

That's a tricky one. I guess it sort of means "it is that" if you take it super literally? "It is that I want to try on the suit." But in practice, it just adds a level of politeness and formality to the sentence.

You will hear a lot of masu (ます) and desu (です) tossed in there all over the place when people are trying to be courteous.

They had that protest in every state did they not? But when I couldn't find much on it in the Canadian media, I went searching CNN and other American sites and found very little also, which was surprising to me. Here on lemmy, there were all sorts photos being posted from various cities, and it looked like a pretty big deal?

We somehow have more than 2 parties in Canada even with FPTP. And yeah, it sucks. The left's vote, in particular, gets carved up into tiny pieces and the conservatives take advantage of that all the time. We desperately need voting reform and it occasionally gets dangled in front of us, only to be shot down. Kind of like high speed rail, which is being dangled again of late.

Man that is depressing. I know people like this too, alas.