Yes.

I’m curious, what attracted you to the Conservatives prior to the Maple-MAGA movement?

During the live coverage yesterday, CBC was saying that the issue wasn’t affecting all users.

King of the Hill. I love the characters so much, especially the dynamic between Hank and Bobby.

If I were having high-stakes conversations, I might agree, but any slight delays in updates is unlikely to affect me. I’m not a high-stakes target of any sort.

• IronFox (web browser)

• Fossify Caller app

• QUIK (SMS)

• Molly (Signal)

• Libretube (YouTube)

• Thunder (Lemmy).

Oops, all FOSS! :)

The only proprietary apps that see regular use on my phone are my banking app and Spotify.

I’m so fucking tired of Americans saying shit like “omg Canada as the 51st state would totally skew our elections Democrat, get owned Trump!”

The reality is, in any scenario where Canada gets annexed by the US, American democracy will not exist anymore by then. Even if there are fake elections, we’d most likely not be allowed to vote (à la Puerto Rico, as you point out).

I do appreciate someone pointing out how utterly enraged us Francophones would be if subjected to US rule.

Some of my ancestors suffered through the Expulsion of the Acadians and that’s widely referred to as a deportation, despite most Acadians not being “sent back where they came from”.

I’m not sure your definition of deportation is widely accepted. None of the dictionaries I consulted mention any implications of deportations specifically referring to sending people to their country of origin.

I just noticed that the Beatles modified an animal’s name to add a musical term (beat) whereas the Monkees did the opposite, removing “key” from monkey.

Yeah I’m French and the Compose key works great, at least for the limited number of diacritics in French.

I’ve never had to deal with this, but my take is that you shouldn’t feel bad for not offering up information, especially in a context where you don’t necessarily feel safe to do so.

I wouldn’t really consider this to be lying, either. Your bosses or coworkers don’t have a right to know you’re trans. Like, I don’t share my spiritual beliefs with anyone at work, for example. That doesn’t make me a liar. You’re entitled to your privacy, even more so when revealing something could be harmful for you.

Best of luck navigating this, it sounds like a rather tricky situation to be in.

I had to know the context for this so I looked it up, it’s from a marketing promo for the 1995 WWF WrestleMania arcade game. The whole video just screams 1990s.

Oh wow I wish I lived somewhere where I could ride around seeing castle ruins, that sounds dope! The closest I’ve found are old abandoned hunting cabins.

Part of me gets where they’re coming from, I think it’s definitely a thing where some inexperienced cyclists on e-bikes ride dangerously at high speeds without having the cycling experience and technique to ride that fast.

However, just like I’ve had bad interactions with people on e-bikes, I’ve had bad interactions with roadies, people on BMX, cycle commuters, mountain bikers… I’ve also had super positive interactions with all of these groups. Generalizing e-bike riders as a whole based on the acts of a small number of people is silly and counter-productive. The more people ride bikes, the more cities have no choice but to accommodate them, which makes things better for everyone.

One of the first rides I did to test my setup before my first small cycle-tour was to the local reservoir! It’s interesting to see the intersection between nature and human infrastructure.

Urban cycling is my fav too, it’s really the best way to explore a city!

There’s apparently a plan for a rail-to-trail which would directly connect my city and the beach, which despite progressing at a snail’s pace has me really excited! It would be along some rivers and creeks in the forest, which I always dig.

Currently, the options are either the highway (which I avoid unless at night because at least it has a shoulder) or the old route, which doesn’t have shoulders but doesn’t have too much traffic either, and most drivers are respectful. It’s a quite gorgeous ride too, going through fields and farmland. No lights and no shoulder are why I opt for the highway at night, though!

I do love me a ride to the beach! The nearest one to me is about 20 or so kilometres which makes it a perfect little day ride with a stop to a beach-side restaurant I really like!

True, you can never go wrong with a food or beverage stop on a bike ride! Some of my best cycling memories are bicycle bar crawls with good friends on nice summer days.