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first it's asking her to reach for items, then it's asking her to open tough jars; next thing you know you're asking her to stop estrogen since you like muscular men who do work for you

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Peter Parker, part of gen z, understanding how bad this country is: god I hate America

Steve Rodgers, literally “Captain America”: god me too

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I can understand how "modern person thrown into the past gets by pretending to be a healer/doctor" is as surprisingly common of a trope as it is. I mean I'm fluent enough at bullshitting to be pretty sure I could pull it off to impersonate a doctor in any time pre-1800s. If I have no idea what something is or how to treat it, I could just get the opinion of the other whatever-passes-as-medical-professionals around, but if their suggestions sound like bullshit I'm not doing it. And I'll beat the shit out of anyone suggesting bloodletting or mercury. With my healing stick. I've tied little bells on it, that jingle comically with every smack.

The awesome curative powers of my healing stick come from two separate sources: Placebo, and me using it to beat anyone trying to give my patients mercury.

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Also, medication does not always remove the SAW trap. It just makes it easier to stick your hand into them.

Btw yes, this can absolutely fuck with your ability to recognize your own limits and boundaries

The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

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Also, Tariffs.

Tariffs are a thing, Nintendo knew they were a thing, tried to minimise the impact of them on their product while also compensating for the extra cost, got screwed anyways because everything is so much worse than anyone imagined, and have I mentioned Tariffs.

I have an opinion about the Switch 2 price but y’all aren’t gonna like it bc it’s more nuanced than just Nintendo bad greedy

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Love my grandparents.... on the phone just now my papa was dead serious like “i just think it’s so terrible to kick your child out for being gay . This is a union family and the ONLY thing i’d ever kick any of you out for is crossing a picket line.” okay working class hero!

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Do you ever start bullshitting a paper, and then look over it halfway through and think, ’…Wait a minute, I could be onto something here.’

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Beyond just the MAGAs, I think that Americans in general don't really appreciate that Canada is a separate country with its own history and culture, and that the matter of annexation in particular is a source of deep-seated cultural horror for us. Like, Democrats can joke about how we'd vote for them, but like, I cannot stress enough the extent to which becoming the 51st state is seen as a failure mode up here. It's the stuff of dystopian futures and "bad timeline" alternate histories. We don't want it.

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A lot of people have been framing a vote for Mark Carney as a vote for the "lesser evil".

He's better than a Conservative, but he's still for the corps, basically.

And I'm not going to say none of that is true.

But his housing plan is not. It has the potential to genuinely change the entire course of my life, of thousands of millions of lives. I could get a home. I could have a place to live, a place to raise a family, a chance to do more than scrape by while living with my parents.

There's more at stake in this election than just stopping maple MAGA.

Vote.

Please vote.

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A lot of this rhetoric, specifically the idealisation of these older games, is informed by right-wing infiltration into gaming spaces

Now to be fair I have not watched this video yet. So perhaps this isn’t going to be glazing Fallout New Vegas as much as I think it will, but there will be games like fallout new Vegas again. There are games I like better than Fallout New Vegas. Is each and every game unique? Yes, but to say “this is the peak of gaming and nothing will ever top it” when New Vegas is and definitely was a buggy mess and definitely has flaws is well setting yourself up to failure. Saying Gaming peaked in XYZ year is setting yourself up to think it did forever. Perhaps the fallout franchise peaked that year, but even then I think it’s much better to keep an open mind that the franchise can have a better game than new Vegas.

And I say this as someone who thinks new Vegas is the best fallout game out right now. But to say this is the best it’s ever going to get is setting yourself up for nostalgia baiting yourself into enjoying new games less. Plus I wish people would realize a decent chunk of the fanbase doesn’t consider new Vegas the best game. A majority probably do. But that majority won’t last forever. Just looked up some polling on the matter and the average is around 40% don’t see Fallout New Vegas as their favorite.

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Unless the toss up is between the NDP and the Conservatives.

I am going to preface this with if your Canadian or know a Canadian tell them to fucking vote. Don’t listen to polling. Just fucking vote

But this is 338’s odds for who wins. Remember every single riding matters. If you are in a tossup district for the love of god make sure to vote liberal. If you’re in a safe liberal district vote liberal. If your in a safe NDP district vote NDP etc. just literally anyone but the conservatives

I really really hope Canada learned something from America if the rest of the world could learn how terrible the far right is once again through trump at least that’s a silver lining

But again please if your Canadian vote and preferably vote liberal cause the NDP sure as shit ain’t winning. Even if I like them more than the liberals.

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Hi allthecanadianpolitics. Has anyone else submitted a link to this reddit post, that contains a clip of Alberta premier Danielle Smith on Breitbart, talking about 1. How she is asking the US administration for relief on tariffs so that Pierre Poilievre can win the Canadian election and 2. How she believes that "the perspective that Pierre would bring... would be very much in sync with the new direction in America"? (That's at the tail end of the clip, 7 seconds from the end)

https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/s/ya3aSzhhPb

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The way you wrote the one in your speech baloons made me think it was a four.

This was only slightly confusing

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its all 'be gay do crime' until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton

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Sometimes you see posts about a social media site you don't use and ask

What the actual fuck

women who use tiktok i am talking to you directly. yall gotta stop engaging in this girl math women shouldn’t vote shit. it’s not a silly ironic joke men mean that and they are making fun of you. listen to me. call them out when you see it happen. show the kids who use that bastard app that it’s not okay to make jokes like that. stop being part of the problem and stand up for yourselves

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Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has signed a $630 million settlement with Ottawa that fulfills a Treaty 6 obligation to provide agricultural benefits to First Nations. "This settlement is about more than just compensation — it's about Canada honouring its treaty commitments," said Chief Peter Beatty in a news release. The settlement was finalized March 5 with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree signing on behalf of Ottawa and is part of the so-called cows-and-plows settlement.

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