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Re:Locked-up merchandise is driving customers away on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:12PM (#45242433)
its like this in all of Canada
Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:36PM (#45242186)
There used to be a name for this. "Everyone is different." How people have forgotten this basic fact is beyond me.
Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:34PM (#45242163)
https://www.amazon.ca/Peasants-Knights-Heretics-R-Hilton/dp/...

Highly recommend this book on the subject.

Re:The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think on Saturday September 13, 2025 @09:44PM (#45236729)
acceleration? as in the literal speed at which we translate information through language?
Re:Children and young people's reading in 2025 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @08:49PM (#45236540)
IM-possible!
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Saturday September 13, 2025 @11:06AM (#45232673)
All the conspiracy theorizing is silly, imo. This is just another shot fired in the long history of American assassination. Charlie Kirk should be proud. The is the America he asked for. And this may be the beginning of a very violent period in American politics.
how many NK defectors support the narrative of the NK government? How many corroborate the western reports?
The USA would never have a foreign national executed over a sign...
supporting Ukraine has always been in America's interests. How embarassing it must be for Trump to be publicly humiliated by Putin over a cease fire.
Re:Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:42AM (#45223395)
its usually from shoplifting
Re:Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:35AM (#45223287)
I spoke with Japanese people on the subway. They were very friendly to this gaijin.
Re:Children and young people's reading in 2025 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:59AM (#45199637)
I said girls loved Harry Potter and LOTR. Girls forced me to perform the Harry Potter theme in band class because I was the only one good enough to play it! And its wasn't my friends. It was the entire class.
Re:Children and young people's reading in 2025 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:51AM (#45199507)
I was alive in that time and girls did not like those books, at all (of course WOMEN may be a different story). They liked Harry Potter, and LOTR after the movies came out because Orlando Bloom.
Re:Children and young people's reading in 2025 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:49AM (#45199489)
im getting ready for a life of video gaming and living on a beach in a 3rd world country...
Porn addiction (not the porn industry) ruins lives. It's all going to come out in the next 10-20 years and porn is going to go the way of smoking.
Great. Now where am I going to move to avoid US food???
Re:Toronto's Underground Labyrinth on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:29PM (#45118404)
It's been a major trading hub for over 6000 years, plus the red river valley is extremely fertile
Re:Toronto's Underground Labyrinth on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:25PM (#45118365)
There's no counterpart for Winnipeg in Europe. The comparable are Novosibirsk and Ulan Bataar.
One wonders what to do, when's One's subjects are wont to misbehave so?
Some Indians benefitted, but the vast majority suffered.
King Charles holds the title of King of Canada!
Those are the titles bestowed upon him by the UK. But here is the full titles given to him by all entities (including Canada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_...

In Masai he's known as "The Helper of the Cows" (literally: he whom the cows love so much they call for him when they are in times of distress)

with another several mid-sized countries closely connected to it
There's no realistic way for the UK or anyone else to guarantee Hong Kong political freedom short of war with China.
improvements to India? Improvements to Britannia you mean!
Hmmm. Canada, NZ, Australia and even SA are all pretty darn "British," to this Commonwealth citizen.
Re:How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work? on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:20AM (#44985705)
Canada's financial & political system are due for a reckoning in the next 10-20 years
Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:18AM (#44973875)
The line was to buy Amazon as it was undervalued a la IBM or Apple based on its cloud computing capabilities relative to the future (projected) needs of AI.
this guy gets it. The US is literally creating the market for their own replacement(s)!
Re:American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:16AM (#44973108)
id also guess that the average millennial and gen z have had a sedentary lifestyle for longer than the other age cohorts

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