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That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I'm not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn't read the book and think EUREKA!!! It's too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that's why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it's opening, she'll pop up in a surprise since it's before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we've both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

"And that, dear readers, was the last thing Dennis Nedry saw."

I check various polls daily. Yes, Liberals have flattened out. But so have the Cons. All polls still point to 80-90 percent change of a Liberal Majority and it's been that way for weeks with only a few percentage points changing either way. I'm not in panic mode.

edited to add: https://338canada.com/polls.htm

This scrolls through every poll daily and lists them individually. Conservatives have actually been dropping support (44 - 39).

That feels kind of like a half-truth/obsfucation from lapresse.

While we may indeed lack a dedicated foreign intelligence service (I don't know...maybe they're just really really good at their job.) I do know that CSIS rolls a lot of those duties into their own purview. Whether that reaches the level of secret agent spy shit, who knows. But it's not like they're not out there figuring out threats to Canada.

Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term "Noted r-word, Joe Rogan..."

100% think it’s a lost cause. I don’t think it’s going away. I don’t personally think it’s ableist and never did.

I don't think it's ever going fully away. But it is still important to call it out when we see it.

Keep on going, Poppinfresh. You're already polling well behind in your own damn riding and will likely lose your seat completely.

But sure...let's just keep paddling that Trump canoe regardless of the fact that the Trump brand has been suicide for anyone who is not Trump (because happily it seems the rest of the world is still slightly intelligent)

This is precisely why I know he's bought and paid for by the same people who got Trump, Modi, Meili, etc... into power in their own respective countries; because ANY actual politician would immediately serve their own self-interest and decry Trump in order to help him with victory. In fact that's what the rift in the Conservative party is all about right now; his own Conservative leadership is telling him to do exactly that on the campaign trail and he refuses. Why?

Because it's his job to be a Trump enabler, not a politician. He was Shenaniganned into the Conservative leadership role for precisely that reason; not to run the country, but to act as a surrogate for the same cabal of rich people who pull Trump's strings.

Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.

Except for the first one, which (let's be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.

I don't remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.

It's not that I didn't enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn't make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.

Why finish a game when you've already got the in game purchases working for you?

A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don't have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."

I know, right?!

Burn me at the stake for thinking that even in the pits of hell, there are some little moments of good, even if fleeting.

This morning, the guy in front of me at the Tim Horton's drive-thru paid for my coffee. Don't know him. Never met him. Never exchanged three words. He just decided to do it. I just sometimes randomly decide to do it as well. Made me feel good so I did it for the person behind me. I don't know how long that chain lasted, but hey...it doesn't matter.

The world might be shit, but that was a nice start to my day, and a nice start to the day of the person behind me. If I was "Mr. Realist" above me there, the response would be, "well fuck...what's the point? Sure, but the coffee's just going to get cold sooner or later..."

Screw me if I want to take some simple pleasure where I can, I guess.

Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact