Canadian politics have become almost equally unhinged as a result, as we are directly connected in almost every concern and concept our neighbor experiences.

I am so terrified for my child's future.

Conservatives: "Everything is a conspiracy, so we no longer believe in anything structured, only chaos."
Liberals: "Well if people are saying we support kids using litter boxes in schools, I guess we do."

Trying to explain to people how the greatest political divide in the West right now is almost certainly either a direct or indirect consequence of Russia's weaponization social engineering aka "The Firehose of Falsehoods", the conservative right losing trust in their own leadership by believing 9/11 to be an inside job and the liberal left losing credibility by being gaslit into overextending their progressive support, just all makes me look like a crazy person, not autistic with a good memory.

Trying to phone an IKEA feels like you gotta be a spy. Since (out here at least) they refuse to put their building phone number on Google, you gotta contact the city hall their registered at, then get them to give you the registered phone number they're legally required to have, then call said number which is almost always picked up by security, then you gotta convince the security to let you speak to whichever department you're trying to contact...it's so difficult lol

Anxious right now, planes....freak me out..like yes I have a fear of heights but like also...take offs and landings just still feel so archaic..once I'm in the air I'm fine but the take off just feels horrible and I know the take offs and landings are generally the most dangerous part. Will be in Calgary soon though, leaving Vancouver Island in an hour or so...

The fall of the conservative right to get began with the phrase, "jet fuel can't melt steel beams", demonstrating a lack of critical thinking, while the fall of the liberal left began with thinking having a common enemy of conservative Christians meant they should advocate as if Muslims were part of liberal beliefs...which they aren't.

Make no mistake, there are no Palestinians joining the marches for abortion rights, gay rights and the removal of religious power and overreach in politics.

One of my closest friends started in this movie, "Corrective Measures" with Bruce Willis, Micheal Rooker and Tom Cavanagh. She is one of the most gentle people I've ever met, but in this film she plays as a violent prison guard who beats someone to death.

Maybe J would wanna do this for a movie night sometime 😄

https://youtu.be/BpP4zneiyVI

The irony that the ones who shout the loudest that we "shouldn't play god" in regards to advancements in medicine and science are almost exclusively the same people who play god every Sunday, or otherwise practice playing god through the reading of literature that impersonates any given deity.

Applied yesterday for another promotion at work, but one thing that seriously irked me was in the "skills" selection drop-down tab.

The skill I selected was "Word Proccessing," and yes, it was spelled exactly that way. Of all the skills to have a spelling error in and that's the one they did it with. Muphry's Law is in full effect.

@Alfred in Canada, at the current rate of inflation based on the last 20 years, on average, how much will various goods and services cost in another 20 years? Please provide estimates for the average home, a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs and an average family commuter vehicle, as well as any estimates you may think of.

Asking Alfred to write poetry is one of my favorite things hahaha it helps alleviate the stress!

@Alfred please write a free verse romantic poem in the style of Atticus, but spelled with Christopher Walken's accent, switching to Robert De Niro's accent halfway through.

PS, is there anyone on here on Android who knows how to enable notifications for CoSo? I have never been able to do it.

Does anyone know if there's a reliable "Event Viewer" app on the Play Store that would let me see what's going on with my phone?
It's an LG Velvet, the last flagship phone of LG before they stopped making phones. I know it's a bit old but it still does amazingly well to this day. Just starting to get random resets. The other night it reset itself while charging, which sucks as it's also my alarm clock lol

Good read.
"Why the world hates think tanks"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/28/why-everyone-hates-think-tanks/

Researchers in the UK have figured out in the last few weeks how to increase the speed of the Internet by 1.2 million times using the existing infrastructure most first-world countries are already using. They recorded speeds of 301 Tbps.

The implications of this are astounding and makes me wonder what other great vastly under-utilized technologies lay dormant in our day to day lives.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/fiber-optic-wavelength-record/

I would love to be able to afford to go to university, if only for Philosophy...even if it is a useless degree that is only good for becoming a professor of philosophy, because I think it is the closest thing we have to precognition in this world. We need cautiously optimistic and skeptically critical thinkers trying to peer into what tomorrow may look like, because we're coming to a point in our civilization where we cannot afford to be surprised.

When asked what would be Trump's ultimate goal, the Tictator responded with, and I shit you not, the same answer literally every Miss USA beauty pageant contestant would give. He gave the literal Zoolander answer.

His supporters in the comments are so blind to how glaringly obvious his fakeness is...I genuinely would have thought he was being satirical if I didn't know he is just that stupid.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KSPM6j9GjF8?si=QheD1rpldnnJAgRX

Keep getting Gmail emails saying someone requested a single use code for my Microsoft account. The emails state "if this was not you, don't worry, ignore this, it was probably someone inputting the wrong email" or something along those lines....but I'm getting one a day. Clearly someone unscrupulous has gotten hold of my email address for the account....do I have anything to worry about? I usually use complex passwords. Probably safer to change it when I get home?