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Guest2553 posted:Show me in the charter where it says I don't have the right to burn to death it's just a different form of MAID after all
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May 10, 2023 04:44
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https://twitter.com/xghostnotesx/status/1656097853012606976?s=20 well now they can't leave!
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May 10, 2023 04:55
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I am working at a refinery right now and my team has made friends with one of the operators here. He's a kind dude in his mid 50s, just a really sweet guy. Brings us treats and stuff, always quick to help. Talks a lot about helping out in the community. We've talked to him a lot. The other day someone went on a rant about how Trudeau had to die, and this kindly gentleman immediately joined in, wondering aloud why no one had done it yet. It boggles my loving mind.
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May 10, 2023 05:31
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Tsyni posted:I am working at a refinery right now and my team has made friends with one of the operators here. He's a kind dude in his mid 50s, just a really sweet guy. Brings us treats and stuff, always quick to help. Talks a lot about helping out in the community. We've talked to him a lot. Yeah, I expect every Albertan has a broadly similar story -- I know I have several! Here's the thing: they're not actually nice people. They are transactionally pleasant, or they are nice to you because you're "the right sort." What we saw during COVID is all these "nice" people wouldn't lift a goddamn finger, or accept even the slightest inconvenience to themselves, in order to save human life. Plantation owners were, I'm sure, always polite and very pleasant in "respectable company". John Brown (happy birthday!) I'm guessing, was less so.
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May 10, 2023 05:44
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PT6A posted:Yeah, I expect every Albertan has a broadly similar story -- I know I have several! Here's the thing: they're not actually nice people. They are transactionally pleasant, or they are nice to you because you're "the right sort." What we saw during COVID is all these "nice" people wouldn't lift a goddamn finger, or accept even the slightest inconvenience to themselves, in order to save human life. I am sure this isn't that surprising, but I am actually in BC. Northern interior of course, but...yeah. It's a really weird disconnect.
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May 10, 2023 05:50
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Tsyni posted:I am sure this isn't that surprising, but I am actually in BC. Northern interior of course, but...yeah. It's a really weird disconnect. That is only BC in a legal sense; east of Rockies = Alberta for all intents and purposes (actually Alberta extends further, to Kelowna and much of Vancouver Island). My childhood was spent in Fort St John. The "Big Smoke" there is Edmonton, slightly less major shopping trips were Grande Prairie.
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May 10, 2023 06:56
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What can even be done for people who have such a powerful case of Facebook-enabled oppositional defiant disorder that they insist the now-annual AB/BC wildfire season is fake news?
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May 10, 2023 13:34
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Mad Hamish posted:What can even be done for people who have such a powerful case of Facebook-enabled oppositional defiant disorder that they insist the now-annual AB/BC wildfire season is fake news? Tell them to walk into the fake fire.
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May 10, 2023 13:47
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That's all well and good until these idiots get their innocent families killed.
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May 10, 2023 13:57
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I wish I could say I can't believe that they think they can just organize a truck convoy to solve this problem, but, well.....
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May 10, 2023 14:54
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Mad Hamish posted:I wish I could say I can't believe that they think they can just organize a truck convoy to solve this problem, but, well..... They are more than welcome to try
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May 10, 2023 16:52
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If you blow your airhorn at the fire it sucks out all the oxygen, putting it out. Checkmate liberals 
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May 10, 2023 16:54
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bunnyofdoom posted:Tell them to walk into the fake fire. The problem is that COVID taught us that they will walk into the "fake" fire, and then we will have to send people to rescue them, they will take up spaces in burn wards while we heal them, and then we will hurt their and their family's feelings if we dare to suggest that what they did was a demonstration of stupidity rather than an act of brave resistance against Trudeau or trans people or whatever the gently caress insane "logic" they are parroting that particular day.
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May 10, 2023 17:15
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The government really needs to put billboards up, "JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN THINK IT DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE"
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May 10, 2023 18:05
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Aces High posted:I mean, I'm all for leaving people to die if you have an evacuation order. As far as I'm concerned, you have accepted your fate, and trying to convince you to leave is a waste of resources that could be better served working with the people who are abiding by the order lol surely no government would ever conglate the 2 categories!
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May 10, 2023 18:09
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CUPE 5047 went on strike today, mostly school support workers of various types. Hopefully they can get a good deal. Can't find their actual demands but I'm sure they're the same as everyone else, pay us enough to eat AND wear shoes, stop privatising us, etc. Good luck to them
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May 10, 2023 18:30
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Another Bill posted:The government really needs to put billboards up, "JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN THINK IT DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE" Just because you can think it doesn't make it true. Just because you said it doesn't mean it isn't stupid. Just because you were told what you said was stupid doesn't make you smarter than everybody else. Touch grass.
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May 10, 2023 19:25
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Question Period today. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-under-fire-for-passport-redesign-legion-calls-it-a-poor-decision-to-replace-iconic-images-1.6393018 quote:Noticeably absent from Canada's just-revealed passport redesign are certain images, a move that has some accusing the federal government of attempting to "erase" the country's history.
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May 11, 2023 01:48
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Oh no. Change. You still have your old keepsake passport with the old images for old time's sake 
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May 11, 2023 01:57
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I have to say that Terry Fox is probably the least objectionable of those icons. Aren't we putting natural things on there instead? More Three Sisters love, I guess
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May 11, 2023 02:15
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As long as they don’t take the canadarm or bob and doug mckenzie off the passport I don’t care
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May 11, 2023 02:22
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We'll never get stubbies for a buck again
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May 11, 2023 03:01
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HackensackBackpack posted:Question Period today. These whiny people need to have their head flushed in a toilet. Or, you know, anything else that might give them some perspective on life. I work with a few veterans, and that was a new experience for me. What I learned was they absolutely don't give a gently caress about any of the things these loving fossils whinge about. I've come to respect them for their public service, not their "sacrifice" or their participation in an absurd national mythos. PT6A fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 11, 2023 |
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May 11, 2023 03:24
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HackensackBackpack posted:Question Period today. Aw man, they're taking Terry Fox off? ... wait, did he do anything bad that I should know about? Because if not.., aw man, why take off Terry?
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May 11, 2023 03:51
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Can we please get people burning their woke Trudeau passports
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May 11, 2023 04:01
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Randalor posted:Aw man, they're taking Terry Fox off? It's a completely new design, is there any particular reason to keep him specifically, rather than any of the other things they didn't keep?
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May 11, 2023 04:04
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The only time I've cared about what's in my passport is when I've reached the utter depths of boredom on a longhaul flight and start leafing through the pages, and the memory of that only lasts until I reach my actual destination. I can't imagine actually giving a poo poo about this.
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May 11, 2023 04:25
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They look pretty cool under UV light, and for $160 for a 10-year passport they'd better!!
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May 11, 2023 04:34
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Like, we rotate images on our money every so often. Helps with preventing counterfeiting. Why should passports be any different? Somehow I don't think Terry Fox will be forgotten.
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May 11, 2023 04:39
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Albino Squirrel posted:Like, we rotate images on our money every so often. Helps with preventing counterfeiting. Why should passports be any different? That’s pretty much the reason passports are redesigned every 10 years or so and this has been in the works for awhile. Poilievre just knows that he and the conservative columnist class can generate some cheap anti-Trudeau outrage over this for our minor league culture wars. The unveiled redesign got the usual suspects—Lilley, Coyne, Gerson, et al.—all riled up and then the Legion got in on it so it made the news. I came across an old Heather Mallick column from the last redesign under Harper where she was all up in arms about it having too many men and no images of Toronto in it because Harper doesn’t think Torontonians are Canadian or something so plus ça change…
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May 11, 2023 04:59
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Albino Squirrel posted:Like, we rotate images on our money every so often. Helps with preventing counterfeiting. Why should passports be any different? Who?
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May 11, 2023 05:01
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The passport should include the image of police and soldiers beating the piss out of the Flu Trux Klan and burning their rigs, but sadly that never happened so we can't have it.
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May 11, 2023 05:06
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https://twitter.com/JuliaWongCBC/status/1656456898143453184?s=20 CanPol 2023: We need to live with the fires. They're here
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May 11, 2023 05:09
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I want to see a stressed out firefighter with an Export A in his hands being like, "fine, loving wander into the fire, see if we loving care. I can't save you assholes from yourself."
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May 11, 2023 05:16
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apatheticman posted:https://twitter.com/JuliaWongCBC/status/1656456898143453184?s=20 Months from now you awake in a panic to your house violently seizing all around you. Somehow you can hear your phone buzzing through the cacophony and manage to grab at it and read: EMERGENCY ALERT / ALERTE D'URGENCE Massive 8.7 earthquake detected, residents are advised to live with it
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May 11, 2023 05:34
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A friend of mine just returned from Japan, and she said they would make public announcements (presumably in the larger urban centres) as earthquakes were occurring. Like, she recorded a video of a public announcement and the shocks happening less than a minute later.
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May 11, 2023 05:56
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Aces High posted:A friend of mine just returned from Japan, and she said they would make public announcements (presumably in the larger urban centres) as earthquakes were occurring. Like, she recorded a video of a public announcement and the shocks happening less than a minute later. Yeah I was too optimistic, the emergency alert in Canada would arrive an hour later after half your house collapsed.
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May 11, 2023 06:06
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infernal machines posted:It's a completely new design, is there any particular reason to keep him specifically, rather than any of the other things they didn't keep? Because otherwise how would people learn history? Not all of us are lucky enough to routinely traipse past lawn ornaments depicting dead white guys https://twitter.com/muradhem/status/1656342187594874891
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May 11, 2023 06:26
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Afraid to look at the results of asking an AI to generate a venn diagram of "people with Ukraine flags in their display whatevers" and "people quietly, carefully, toeing a line labeled Ol' School Fascism" [Disclaimer; I don't think supporting Ukraine makes you a fascist, but I also have pattern recognition, unfortunately]
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May 11, 2023 06:46
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infernal machines posted:It's a completely new design, is there any particular reason to keep him specifically, rather than any of the other things they didn't keep? I don't think it's a big deal really but he did spur a pretty large movement towards funding cancer research that has raised iirc hundreds of millions of dollars. So it seems like a bright spot in our history that might be worth highlighting moreso than people jumping in a lake or whatever. But there's plenty of statues and other ways he is commemorated so whatever.
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