Why are you people so crazy about this issue?

We really don’t like nazis.

But he’s draining the swamp! And the bogs, fens, wetlands, critical aquifers…

Humidifiers.

It’s just a pool of water with a little nebulizer and a fan to blow the mist out a chimney.

Trouble is, they’re all made by the fucking plague demon Nurgle with the sole purpose of aerosolizing mold and bacteria by having the tiniest nooks and crannies than cannot be reached to be physically cleaned.

And before I get the “you gotta clean it with vinegar every week” comment, two points:

1. You don’t soak your hands in soap and rinse them off and call them clean. You gotta scrub them.
2. Am I supposed to fill a 5 gallon bucket with vinegar to soak the whole water tank every week? Because the chimney goes right through that bitch.

That’s one of the things I respect the hell out of with Bill Burr. He says plenty of shit I disagree with, but also says lots that I strongly agree with. His opinions are truly his own and he’ll voice them to a reasonable point. He’s no one’s parrot.

Hell yeah!

I have procreated and passed off my genes, but it’s bullshit to tell other people that’s the point of being alive.

You gotta do what you feel is right. If nothing feels worthwhile, make the best of the ride!

Pikachu ex? More like Pikacheex, am I right?

Can you provide evidence for this

Oh, no, we’re in lemmyshitpost, so I was just talking shit about the absolutely insane marketing choice to try to sell them as “triangles”.

But here we are talking about it, so fuck me, it’s working.

That’s a very generous assumption for a company whose “flavoured, uhhh, triangles” can’t pass the legal threshold of the word “chip” or “snack”, let alone “tortilla”.

Terminal velocity is really only relevant for objects that go below terminal velocity and then start falling. Bullets famously come out of guns very fast, so fast they go into people.

While air will slow the bullet down, tell that to the guy over over 2 miles away from Viacheslav Kovalskyi

Now, bird shot ain’t sniper rounds, but the point stands.

“Freedom” to “free market” types is the freedom to do whatever you want with no consequences regardless of the impact to others.

“Free market” means if you get duped or swindled then “you deserved it”.

“Free market” means if it really causes harm then “people just won’t buy it”.

“Free market” is way more what most people think anarchy is than what anarchists are advocating for.

Anarchy is “if I want to do cocaine and I die, that’s on me, the government shouldn’t be allowed to control what I do with my body”

Free market is “we should be allowed to add a little bit of cocaine to this baby formula so our brand beats out the competition and no one should be allowed to tell us we can’t”

What? No. I literally just explained that. No, it’s not childish to refuse to take a bad faith call from a dictator to either legitimize their rule or engage in a conflict that would drag the world into a 3rd world war.

Whether you agree or disagree with whether that is the correct political move is certainly up for debate. But to claim it is childish is itself naive.

The answer is implied. No, I don’t believe the same thing, because they are explicitly different situations.

Refusing to communicate with someone is valid when you have valid reasons.

Refusing to take a phone call from a guy actively engaging in a violent robbery is valid for a number of reasons.

Flinging bags of shit into your neighbour’s yard, then refusing to talk to your neighbour’s when they say “this isn’t helping either of us live well; I don’t want to throw this shit back at you, but I will until you stop” is not valid, it is the inaction of a petty imbecile that can’t justify their actions.

Does that answer your question?

Ah yes, who can forget the longstanding free-trade agreement with America’s favourite, peaceful neighbour, Russia. Both sides are totally the same.

Y’know, except for the part where Trudeau is saying it shouldn’t be this way and free trade is beneficial to both economies… but yeah, it’s both sides that are doing this for malicious self interest.

Canada has to respond in a smarter way than a reflexive mirroring move

I’m all ears

I’ll explain it for you. When the US government imposes a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, the cost to US consumers increases by 25%. Now, every other global supplier that was 1% - 24% more expensive gets the business that used to be Canadian revenue. So, Canadians lose US customers. We both lose.

If you want further reasoning on why this is bullshit, the “small government, lower your taxes” Republican government are the ones collecting the 25% tariff that is paid. It is a additional tax with no promise of social support. Do you think Trump will use that additional revenue to issue small business grants or to subsidize the businesses of the oligarchs in his administration?

Now, when people say stupid things like, “Canada imposing tariffs only hurts Canadians” it is very obviously 100% reciprocal. The retaliatory tariffs are meant to put the pressure on US exporters to put the pressure on their government to end the trade war. A few key points on the Canadian tariffs:

1. They match number set by Trump. They are not escalating.
2. They have a definitive and reasonable end. Remove the tariffs and our tariffs will also be removed. Not “stop all fentanyl smuggling” (maybe try having fewer US fentanyl users, huh? That’s meant to be sarcastic. Obviously this is a problem for both countries that we both take seriously.)
3. They are strategic in ramping up the scope of the tariffs which begin with things like food consumables which are easy to forego before increasing to more industrial products which businesses, industries, peoples livelihoods and lives can depend on. This gives Canadian businesses time to prepare and negotiate overseas trade and gives America time to roll back the tariffs instead of knocking out the whole supply chain. Remember how fucked the global economy was when one boat got stuck in the Suez Canal for a couple of days? Obviously this isn’t as big as that, but that disruption lasted months, years even. Sweeping, full-stop tariffs like the US tariffs are going to have ripple effects that last for months even if they’re rescinded by the end of the week.

Finally, to address the argument that the tariffs will strengthen the US manufacturing economy, I will refer back to my point about the government using the tariff income to subsidize American businesses. Small businesses are not (and frankly cannot) replace entire Canadian (and Mexican) industries within a couple of months. That money is not going back into the economy. The US oligarchy, the massive monopolistic industry giants, are the only ones that are going to spring up and, chiefly, profit off this whole debacle. And that’s by design.

It is. But if you fully and openly disclose that’s what you’re doing when selling a individual a personalized product for literally their own enjoyment, I don’t see the harm.

Sure, the client isn’t going to tell people that weren’t there that it’s all generated, but what’s the problem? Someone might believe you were media-attractive 10 years ago at your wedding?

Photography probably put a lot of portrait painters out of business, but it didn’t destroy painting as an art form.

Grab that bag, man.

Hi, I’d like to apply for a mortgage. No, just a kid’s mortgage, thanks.

You’re right in that this is not how families should be. They should be people you care about and trust.

Your family does get a pass for being family; you maybe don’t share the same interests or lifestyle that would otherwise form a distance in childhood friends that eventually fizzles out, but with families this shouldn’t be the case.

But then sometimes your family members end up (or you discover) they are bad people. Yet even then you may stand with them as they sell drugs or rob people or even have killed people; they’re still family and what they’ve done can be understandable even if wrong.

Then there are Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, apologists, and supporters.

Families should stick together, but people also shouldn’t be Nazis. So here we are.

Don’t look up what some countries would consider “an illegally small prison cell”.