Good catch, those are two very different things being compared as if they are equivalent. I would expect that the number of Canadians who actually want Canada to get annexed by the US is lower than the number who think it is likely.

Not so fun fact: Ginny Thomas, the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, helped organize and pay for those buses.

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I have about a bunch of plants that should fruit for the first time this year.

Until the Russian government gives up on imperial conquest of other nations, yes.

I think Diaspora by Greg Egan had a chapter with a crab planet, or maybe it was a crab universe. Its been a long time since I read it but I remember a scene where someone kind of turns themselves into a crab so they can talk to alien crabs about math and physics.

I’ve been asking myself that every day.

That might potentially work if you timed it exactly right but I’m skeptical of the idea of gold as a store of value, I think it will get hammered like every other asset class if we’re talking about the end of the US as a liberal democracy governed by the rule of law. Especially if you have actual physical gold you need to keep secured, if things get bad enough that becomes a real liability. If its not physical gold will it still be there without the US legal system to enforce your rights? I would much rather have a pile of freeze dried food than a pile of gold or a pile of GLD ETF shares if it’s actually a worse case scenario.

Kagi has a fediverse lens that works pretty well for that.

It’s amazing he got his career back after all the racist fucked up shit he said. I must not have been old enough for his saying cool things minute, he has been a bat shit asshole for as long as I can remember.

I disagree that they aren’t as tech savvy as Millennials. I would say on average its younger GenX and older Millennials that have the highest tech skills, with GenX probably ahead. That’s referring to percentage, not total numbers.

Not sure yet, more than 1 year at least. It takes AAs so they are easy enough to replace.

Kitchen faucet is hands free if you put batteries in a thing under the sink. I don’t think the last people used it because it didn’t have batteries when we moved in. Works great though, turning a faucet on and off without touching it is really convenient when your hands are dirty.

Park Ranger.

Yes. I don’t know who Bannon is referring to specifically but there’s various billionaires behind him. He was living on a Chinese billionaires superyacht last year before his prison sentence.

If they were genuinely motivated by the risk of kids getting raped they would be trying to ban youth ministers instead of trans people.

A few weeks into a new job someone reported me for being a dick to them. Management was not happy with me until I proved I had never interacted with this person. Turns out it was just a dumb asshole playing some kind of weird office politics.