@KyleMau School's out so the children can labour during harvest. Way it's always been. Way it always will be.
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TJ Schmidt
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TJ Schmidt
@_GenerationWhy_
JD. Husband, father, Albertan, Catholic, fighter, and fool. Politics, history, law, philosophy, economics.
Calgary, Alberta Katılım Mart 2010
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I have never understood the Eastern and Northern European mindset of going on vacation during summer.
When your city is 75 degrees and beautiful and everything is available, you go to Greece and pay $300 a day to turn yourself into a lobster.
Instead of just... going in November. You know, when your city is 40 and dreary and grey with 4 hours of "sun "a day.
And Greece is 75 and you get a private beach.
Make it make sense.
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@TheChaosWeeber Went to Chicago and discovered they actively try to preserve beautiful architecture and ensure new large buildings are beautiful or architecturally unique.
Truly shocking behavior.
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I wish Canadas largest cities would experiment more and make more iconic structures because Toronto and Vancouver are dominated by cookie cutter copy paste glass condo buildings.
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@Prominent_Bryan This is literally the source of the great tension between "capitalists" and socialists.
Capitalists believe that economic equality should be sacrificed for economic efficiency and a myriad of other ends; socialists believe equality is the chief moral purpose of the economy.
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Why on earth would this be the only econ indicator that matters?
This is such a weird take
I'm not even saying it doesn't matter but there are many other metrics that matter
Rachel Gilmore@atRachelGilmore
This is the only economic indicator that matters:
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If you have ever worked in a law firm you'd know that sucking dick is non-billable, and therefore it doesn't happen.
Lucius - The Prophet Of Decay@BaneThe76451
Imagine being born with this genetics and ending up as a judge. The female interns at the law firm lining up outside your office just to suck you off day after day. Your wife knowing it and letting it fly. The average male can't remotely grasp this kind of existence.
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@Empty_America Anthropologists once believed that a species of pleistocene human, homo capensis, was smarter than us due to their large brains.
They thought the species may have died out because at a certain point, intelligence is not adapted to survival -- less likely to take action.
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It would be extremely harmful to significantly increase the median IQ of the population.
Dumb Bitch Capital, LLC@dumbbitchcap
If the average IQ of women increases in western countries by even 1 or 2 more points, the human race will literally die out
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@jennineak The court had to have brought him out of retirement just for this.
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the fact that a hot judge could possibly even exist let alone one specifically overseeing looksmaxxing defendants is just… lmao
Pulcy@Pulcys
Clavicular and TheCubanTarzan were seen in court after avoiding jail time by accepting a plea deal related to the Alligator incident in march 2026😳
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This is basically what I refer to whenever someone says that AI will make it so no one has to work anymore.
No one has had to work full-time to survive for almost a hundred years already, if you are willing to accept the living standards of the last century.
But everyone wants modern comforts, hence the reason work hours haven't changed and won't change much in the future.
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There is a lot of farmland in this country that readily pays for a late 19th century standard of living, but simply cannot fund a normal 21st century lifestyle with all the industrial comforts.
Thus the Amish "emerged" to colonize this niche.
Eric Richards@EricRichards22
The Sandy River valley is awash in amish. Five horse buggies on Rt 2 this morning Makes sense, I guess; it's decent farmland but nobody could grow anything that would actually pay for itself and comply with laws
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Without looking it up, what animal goes from smallest to largest from birth to adulthood?
NO CHEATING! 😀
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@jakozloski My wife and I met on Bumble. One and done. Neither of us even had another date with anyone else from dating apps. 2 years later we got married. Happily married for 6 years now with 2 kids.
Honestly, we would have gladly paid Bumble $1000 or something when we got married.
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95% of Bumble's users never paid them a dollar. The 5% who paid generated about $28 a month. The math problem the dating industry has spent fifteen years trying to solve is how to extract more revenue from those users. The obvious solution is to reliably match them to someone they'll fall in love with and charge for the value delivered. This has never been tried.
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That may have vitiated Grey Text's claim if the comedy club comments came BEFORE he drove there. But it came after. There was no indication the deal was a joke (other than the large gap in position on price prior) He drove there, which is where the reliance comes in. Could be argued that driving to the location was also partial performance.
In any case, the joke came too late!
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@_GenerationWhy_ @DietCoke_Esq @wtffolly_ Do you think the flippant nature of the agreement and directions to a comedy club would prove there was not intent of the part of the seller?
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@DietCoke_Esq @wtffolly_ There's an offer. There's acceptance. There's consideration. Then there's reliance. Probably negligent misrepresention.
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@wtffolly_ Bar takers: is there an enforceable contract here?
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@fearmeitsbre Even in Canada there is no duty to retreat from your own property. No US state should have more restrictive self-defense laws than Canada.
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For instance, in Maine, legally I have to flee my home before I can take any self-defense action. If I cannot reasonably flee (maybe I've been backed into a closet, or I'm in a room with a window but the perpetrator is right outside the door and I can't get all three of my small children out before they can get to us, or they cannot flee [because let's face it my 18-month-old is not going to be able to flee!] and believe their lives are threatened as well as my own) then lethal defense is allowed.
That's what happens when gun control gets tight. Moms like me have some serious potentially life-altering choices to make regarding self-defense of themselves and their small children.
In short yes the less you say is better, but you have to make sure it's a self-defense case win with absolutely no room for doubt.
Bre S@fearmeitsbre
A lot of people don't understand that when you don't live in a Castle Doctrine State, you are taught in every self-defense firearms class to say this because if you do not have a watertight self-defense claim, and leave any room for doubt that you could have deescalated the altercation without lethal force, you are the one going to prison in the situation. That does not mean you run your mouth without an attorney. But in the heat of the moment, if you're unfortunate enough to have had to have taken a life, you're not going to be as smart as you think you are in this situation. That's why I have a cheat sheet in my wallet to read verbatim on the phone call from a self-defense firearms instructor that I've memorized that will not incriminate you, and will build you a legal self-defense case, in case I ever run into this scenario, until you can get attorneys on the scene.
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@TristinHopper Isn't a lot of the planned increase in spending just moving the numbers around? That has to be the purpose of the "public servant reserve force".
They spend 1 week a year doing training, and the government gets to say that a portion of their salaries are now military spending.
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If I was compiling a list of actual, material things that Carney has done (ie: not plans, strategies or memoranda), what would be on it? A big one would seem to be defence spending; that has indeed changed dramatically from a year ago.
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@supremeadvocacy I read this as basically marking a return to at-fault divorce.
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The Supreme Court of Canada in a 6:3 split allowed the appeal in part in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16. The Court recognizes a new tort of intimate partner violence, grounded in coercive control and harms to dignity, autonomy and equality. #SCC decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…
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This take only makes sense if you haven't been married for years.
Every married person knows that eventually the wife will view the husband as retarded and incompetent no matter how objectively intelligent he is, and the husband will often pretend to be retarded and incompetent.
So even though they say they want it, it doesn't actually matter.
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This is due to men needing respect in a relationship. Men generally place a very high value on feeling respected because respect is tied closely to their competence/self worth.
If a woman thinks he’s retarded or can’t lead the family, she’s probably not going to trust his judgment, defer to him in areas where leadership matters, or genuinely value his input.
Intellectual parity is probably one of the most important metrics in spouse selection.
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
"Would you marry someone less intelligent than you?" Outright "no": Women: 45% Men: 8% Women are nearly 6x more likely to rule it out entirely. The single largest gender disparity in our deep-question dataset.
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@Birdyword This is strange. Canada has 6 cities with over a million and has only 1/10th the population.
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The fact that there are only 12 cities with a population of more than a million people in a country the size of the US is endlessly fascinating
KUT Austin@KUT
Austin has been teetering at the 1 million population mark for years. New census numbers show it’s finally there. From @_AustinCurrent: kut.org/austin/2026-05…
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@Empty_America The sad irony is, as the median voter becomes older and older, policies to stoke birth rates become less and less likely.
Retirees simply won't vote for wealth transfers to the young, no matter how much it would benefit society in the long-run.
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There IS a very simple way to induce married parents to have 3 or 4 kids instead of 1 or 2, which is all that is required to solve the demographic problem.
Large cash payment upon the birth of child #3 and all subsequent children.
Only question is how much. This scheme avoids most of the negative side effects of baby payments, and also renders the angst about childless adults irrelevant, let them live as they please and pay their taxes.
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“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.
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@beauhightowerdn This is why it's better to stay fat and useless UNTIL your 40s. Then, when you start working out in your 40s you'll be the fittest and most attractive you've ever been and won't feel this pain.
Use relatively like a boss.
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Man.
I'm about to be 43 and I can actually feel myself falling out of my physical prime.
No HRT and I've been able to fight it off through my late 30s and Early 40s by staying active, but not mid 40s ... I am starting to get weaker in the gym, the salt and pepper is becoming mostly gray and I don't think I could even touch the rim anymore.
You somehow in your mind know it will come one day but for it to actually get here is a crazy experience. I see why people have midlife crisis now, because you start to lose the version of yourself that you have been for your whole adult life.
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@TheophanesRex @DwightNewmanLaw @nationalpost I was speaking about referendum results more generally, but yes, a vote on secession specifically requires good faith negotiations.
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@_GenerationWhy_ @DwightNewmanLaw @nationalpost “… the government being bound by the referendum results.”
My understanding is that a referendum, if successful, results in negotiations - which is the opposite of it being binding.
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My initial thoughts on the duty to consult issue in yesterday’s court decision to quash the Alberta secession petition are out in the @nationalpost this morning nationalpost.com/opinion/dwight…
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