Cest une pomme!

Reading through these comments is depressing and my only hope is that I will be dead before the droughts lead to food shortages that effect me. I like eating, I like eating good food, I like having good food available when I want it. I don't like being hungry. I hope I'm dead before I have to deal with starvation. At least nuclear war would be quick.

Megaprojects are a pipe dream. We can't even deal with a lowball pandemic together as a nation. What hope do we have of coming together as a world? Let alone for something that isn't going to have immediate consequences slapping us in the face. We're a pathetic society that can't do anything good. All we do is consume. Mr. Smith was right, we're a virus.

We're heading for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future, and all the horrible shit that goes along with it.

In a fucked up way, our only hope is if a mega power somehow dominates the world through some horrific war and consolidates power, while somehow avoiding nuclear war and then does a quick 180° straight into eco-fascism. That's the glorious future we have to look forward to. Life under a global authoritarian regime with severe austerity measures to deal with global warming. People will starve, people will be executed. The horrors of Stalinism will be our reality, and it is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.

I fucking hope I die, because I wasn't built for suffering.

I guess it's kind of technically not referring directly to racism. They are technically white people who are also technically nationalists.

Nationalist - "a person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."
-the google first result definition

White Person - "White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European ancestry, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view."
-the google first result definition

So you could have people who were nationalistic for other reasons, such as economics, manufacturing, self sustaining infrastructure, military power... who also happen to be a white person.

For the sake of argument, semantically, not wrong.
It should be noted that a nation is not a race.

The fact that there are a significant number of racist white people who call themselves white nationalists just ruins the term for the rest of the white people who are also nationalists without the racism.

I assume Nazis like the term because they support a "white nation" and are not treating white and nationalist as two grammatically distinct terms. Kind of a racist double entendre.

Just another example of Nazi's adopting something and ruining it for everyone else.

I vaguely remember something about them trying to revoke some kind of licensing that let people use their intellectual property, but they ended up settling for rewording the licensing because the backlash from the customers was significant. Ie. Boycotting.

Or something along those lines. Business fucks around, business finds out. They'll try again in the future, but there are plenty of other table top games people can roll dice to now.

Mega-Lot 1, a 100 story hellscape of crumbling concrete and rebar. Each level is ruled by a different gang and they are constantly at war. Child soldiers and suicide bombs are a norm. The basement is a tent city full of addicts and those that prey on them. The parking attendants are somehow more corrupt and dangerous than the gangs. Your parking pass costs you $2000 a month, it doesn't guarantee you spot, and owning a parking pass is a stiffly enforced requirement of vehicle registration. Escaping the parking lot each day is a mix of luck and bribes. It saves you 5 minutes off your two hour commute. Being late for work is an indictable offence with a minimum sentence of 15 years manual labor, performing maintenance on Mega-Lot 1.

Edit: spelling

I'm seeing a lot of people saying take the chance.

At the same time I can't help but think how disappointing it must be as a woman to not be able to have a platonic friendship with a guy without them thinking it's something more or wanting it to be. Maybe she thinks you're just a decent friend. If you take that shot there's a good chance she'll keep her distance in the future.

On the flip side I can't help but think of all the stories of girls flirting with guys who are completely oblivious.

Not enough info to make a good determination, other than life is short and you're young, you can afford to take a risk or two. Personally, I wouldn't but that's cause I'm a coward.

If only we had strong provincial governments that were actually working together with the federal government, we could actually see some positive change. They could easily put a cap on gas prices, which ultimately would be tax dollars paying the difference in flux, but they would actually have a vested interest in scrutinizing the changes closely. Gas companies would actually have someone they needed to justify an increase to that has the power to refuse. It's not hard to bamboozle 40 million people with a 2 cent/litre increase every other week, we all have to drive to work. It is hard to bamboozle the tax man.

That said, it would also be easier if they colluded for them to drive up profits and hide the fleecing in our taxes. I guess it would depend on who was in power.

Also Suncor got hacked. Not seeing it much in the news outside of a couple articles. So we can expect gas prices to be effected by that, fun timing with legislation that will supposedly have an effect on prices. How much will be column A and how much column B, I wouldn't put it past what passes for journalism here to push it all onto the legislation.

Please dont give them a logical reason to be shittier than they already are

Scholarly articles have 'impact' measurements. ie. The impact they have on that field. My understanding is that it's a combination of # of times it's been cited, # of times its been downloaded/read with a heavier weighting towards citation. You can filter articles by 'impact' in many library databases.
A theory that is not well accepted will be cited less, even if it's being cited to be debunked the citations still count as impact, however an article with a greater impact will be cited significantly more which suggests the theory is more compelling.

As far as my understanding goes.

Oatmeal. Not exactly date night, but it's hot and healthy.
Get large flake oats, not the instant stuff.
Boil 1 cup of water in a small pot.
Decrease heat to mid-low.
Add 1/2 cup oats. Stir only once.
Cook for 10 minutes,
let cool for 10 minutes,
eat for 10 minutes.

You'll want to watch it closely for a minute or two after you add the oats to make sure it doesn't boil over. If it looks like its going to boil over just remove the pot from the heat till it calms down, and decrease the heat a little maybe, every oven is diff. It still needs to simmer though.

You can season it with whatever you want after cooking it: maple syrup, milk, oat milk, brown sugar, chocolate chips, raisins or other dried fruits (if you do raisins add them to the water before the oatmeal), cinammon, apples... etc.
Maybe a small pinch of salt.

Vegetable sushi, no soy sauce though its made with garlic
Cut cucumber in long quarters
Make 2 cups dry rice
Mix together 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup unseasoned rice vinegar
Add the mixture to the rice after it finishes cooking and while it's still hot
Mix it in until it starts to get sticky
Get a small cup of room temp water
Take seaweed sheets and spread the rice thinly across it, leave ~2 cm at the end unriced (for sealing)
Lay the cucumber across the rice and roll it up, doing the uncovered end last. Use the water to moisten the 2cm stretch so that it sticks to the roll and seals it closed.
Cover and refrigerate them until they cool, cut and eat

You can top with toasted sesame seeds for added flavor.
Candied ginger is also nice.
Matchsticked carrots marinated in sugar and vinegar too.
You can get creative with the vegetable.
I like my wasabi in soy sauce so I won't suggest it.

Edit:
I should also mention that different rice will have different results. Cal-rose rice works well. Basmati rice not well.

It'll be interesting to see how much of the "content" is just bots farming headlines from newspapers, or recycling old content on a schedule. How much traffic is actually user traffic vs bot traffic? Makes me think of the dead internet theory.