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I've been reading Beatrix Potter books to my son and it occurs to me that Mr Jeremy Fisher is very clearly a genteel Englishman living on a death world.

@TorontoStar Lmao

Thousands of temporary residents are being squeezed out by Canada’s shifting immigration reality. Here's what the country could lose trib.al/nAeOLrx

@martianwyrdlord I'd be curious if something comes up from the provinces

Is there a single MP in Canada paying attention to this? (There is not)

@martianwyrdlord Iirc TN NAFTA visas (or equivalent) still exist, so for select professions (like engineering) a Canadian (but not a Mexican) can enter the country to work with only a letter of employment & proof of qualifications. But it's been a while since I looked.

There are all sorts of levers the US can pull. Another would be to render Canada's brain drain terminal by handing out green cards to any Canadian with an engineering degree. The truth is that the US has pretty much all the cards here. Canada survives entirely on American sufferance, and the only thing Canada can do is suffer.

@srnorty @martianwyrdlord Why would any state reinforce Canada and in doing so antagonize a nuclear armed nation?

Not inevitable defeat. Canada would be the defender - that's a significant advantage. And it would be reinforced with European troops & weapons, who outnumber the Americans. It could well be a hard war, but if it fought, it would probably win. If Canada was taken by the Americans, it would become a geopolitical irrelevance - it would become a cold Mexico, poor & put-upon. But if it's Europe's key ally on the North American continent, it becomes geopolitically vital, and so wealthy and privileged - a large-scale Switzerland or Norway. That's what it would be fighting for.

When asked who we are, all they can do is vaguepost about "values" they avoid defining, but which they insist are our defining feature. When pressed to be specific, they say the "values" that unite "us" are things like tolerance and equality, which were invented 5 minutes ago and have nothing to do with the biocultural heritage that actually defines us. "Value" traces back to the marketplace, meaning the worth or price of a thing. Values are things you hold, meaning that they can be picked up, discarded, bought, sold, traded away. They are essentially just beliefs, or statements about beliefs, and beliefs can change without changing the essence of the believer. Notice that you never hear them talk about "virtue" anymore. Virtue originates on the battlefield, from Latin virtus: strength, manliness, excellence. Virtues are defining, intrinsic features, which have nothing to do with belief, and everything to do with essence. Consider "I value the truth" vs "I am truthful". The former is non-commital, it says nothing about whether you are being truthful; the latter is a description of what you are. It takes no effort at all to "value" truth; being truthful can be extremely difficult. They prefer values to virtues because values are easy to hold (or to change), can be used to extend the boundaries of imaginary moral communities including all those who "hold the same values" (regardless of whether they even do), and are cheap to talk about. It lets them present themselves as good people because they believe good things, according to whatever set of "values" they use to define "good". As long as they say the right things they can do whatever they want.

@srnorty @martianwyrdlord Defending Canada from America would be a foolish undertaking. A lot of dying, inevitable defeat, and for what? Why should the CAF in that situation die for it? What would be gained?

@martianwyrdlord Invading Canada? Or defending Canada?

@0x49fa98 I know this isn't what he's saying, but it seems to me to be more a question of presentation, maybe even of undercutting the child's impulse to go out and observe/interact with world. Imo scientific explanation can be articulated in a more additive way to child's experience.

@Tobias_Arms @refugemedical Risk of applying is low as other posters have noted, my limited knowledge is that they're to be applied when there's an arterial bleed.

@refugemedical I thought turniquits were for when the arm or leg is gone... as in ,you are ok with that appendage not getting anymore blood and dying. Or are they also used for just putting pressure on the wounds to stop bleeding?

This is why you ALWAYS have a quality Trauma kit when going to the range: "Was at the range in Houston Tx and a guy not far from me was holstering his pistol and he had a negligent discharge (shot himself). I always carry my SOB with me. I was able to get a tourniquet on him and got the bleeding stopped and bandaged up. EMS arrived and took him to the hospital." #refugemedical #refugetraining

@martianwyrdlord Can't smoke a fucking cigarette but you can smoke a joint? Wtf is this

If you're born after 2008 you will never be allowed to buy tobacco, but you can inject street drugs at the safe injection site to your heart's content.

@ChungTzuW Lol

Perhaps Sir Charles Ross specifically requested this for the advertising pamphlet from personal experience

@Harauvatian @conan_esq You know what, let Brandon Sanderson at it.

@conan_esq @CarlDefinitely I hope he dies so that someone competent will basically finish the series, like they did with Robert Jordan

@ouranometrian2 The USGI M81 Maternity Work Shirt of course

The real question is what should a heavily pregnant woman be wearing when maternity clothes dont exist anymore and nothing fits over the belly anymore. A mumu? A large sack?

@Harauvatian @conan_esq I'm baffled he's written two spin-offs for this series.

@conan_esq I just wish this fucker could finish the last book

@i2cjak Can kindles use epubs now? They used to be locked in to the Amazon format

HEY GRIFTING RETARD KINDLES HAVE APPLICATION PROCESSORS RUNNING ANDROID BECAUSE YOU CAN’T PARSE EPUBS ON A MICROCONTROLLER THIS “””DESIGN””” HAS NONE OF THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A KINDLE

@knrd_z I think they can't read, I was convinced of this by one of your posts on literacy.

Equivalent question: everyone in the world is made to answer "2 + 2 = __" in secret. If >50% of people answer 4, then everyone who answers otherwise dies. Perfect overlap in blue button pushers & those swept up in the "2 + 2 = 5" nonsense--now you understand the motivation

@kitten_beloved @justalexoki In Canada, at a specific warehouse, all we ripened were Bananas. The ethylene gas chambers are expensive & pose a safety risk. I'm curious what the actual extent of their use in America is.

@justalexoki A lot of produce is picked green and ripened with ethylene afterwards For some things that doesn't matter much, for tomatoes it absolutely does

people like this think grocery store food is made in machines or something

@ironsightforge @AutoMagArchive Cap and ball is awesome

@CarlDefinitely @AutoMagArchive Yes x.com/i/status/20420…

Italian gunmakers could be reproducing cool stuff like this, but instead we get yet another Colt Buntline special.

@JChantiny @AutoMagArchive Wasn't the big deal the hand fitting?

@AutoMagArchive @CarlDefinitely The Python doesn't make sense to me as a repro, the whole point of the Python is how well it was made not anything about the action.