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@brianluidog Yes! Very!

@ubolator A very pleasant sample!

Is Norway in serious political decay? I have nowhere near enough info to tell. But like, it seems more UK-like than the other Nordics, because of resource curse. Don't know if that's true on the ground or not.

@skeptrune This is so much more interesting to watch than F1.

motogp might be the best sport

@brianluidog Are they wearing these now?

In Australia the trendy women are no longer wearing sweatpants. I have to be honest, I didn't understand the fashion rationale of grey sweatpants.

“You met me at a very Japanese time in my life”, I say as I consume my bento with the beef katsu sando, thin potato croquettes dressed in umami tomatosōsu and 薬草茶 (herbal tea) at the local shokudo

Me all night coding w/ Claude...

No puede ser 😮

@JJ_McCullough It's like this everywhere, not just in Canada. Well-known thing in the car industry. Ford stopped making anything other than SUVs and trucks years ago.

This is an interesting chart that highlights a cultural change in Canada I wasn’t aware of: “light trucks” began outselling cars in the 2010s with the gap dramatically widening over the last decade. “Light truck” is a kind of broad category that includes pickups and SUVs.

2026

@MattJacksonUSF @agraybee @Fat_DTEA Lots of this actually

@agraybee @Fat_DTEA Oh brother. Don’t tell me there’s more whale scenes and talking to whales in fire and ash. I thought we were past this

I'm glad the Avatar movies forgot all about unobtanium, that was pretty stupid.

It’s this time of the year again😂

@brianluidog What would be an effective state response?

I hope we get an effective state response to Bondi. It's 50-50 I think. Could overreact, could underreact. Davos expert morality is fading, but who knows if it's fading fast enough?

@tszzl @nikitabier Yeah, what's up with that thing not working

@nikitabier let us click the damn thing

Are you not entertained?

@levelsio @brianluidog It's funny you say "other Americans" when neither one of you is one.

@brianluidog It's just that you'll be in a Ryokan surrounded by other Americans in Yukatas 😂

I tried but everything fully booked months in advance Which I think was lucky because Hakone now is a tourist trap full of Americans This one we went was mostly Japanese and nobody spoke a single word of English 10/10

@brianluidog Fairly common here in Canada

Apparently it's uncommon outside of Australia to have barbecue grills in playgrounds and parks? Like if you wanted to grill something, you'd have to buy your own grill and do it in your backyard, you couldn't buy a pack of sausages from the supermarket and grill whenever

@nwoodfine Really? Impressive if true

@ubolator My understanding is it’s mostly in-house.

Cash App has the best bitcoin/fintech branding and it’s not even close. Full of energy and personality. Always evolving. Honestly makes me envious.

@brianluidog In Canada it stands for Labrador

What's the biggest difference between China and the U.S.? In the U.S., "lab" stands for laboratory, but in China, it stands for Labubu. Food for thought, for those of you paying attention.

@astupidmoose All of this to make sure BC people don't move to Alberta.

Moving to AB is weird. You get treated like a foreigner at every step of the process. So many documents to fill out and checks along the way. Also, I got a form yesterday asking if I wanted my tax dollars to goto public school, or catholic school. Lol what?