Brace yourselves neighbour. The Canadians are angry now.
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Dwight 
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Retired or maybe just tired, but still excited to learn, connect, and contribute.
Philosophical, sometimes facetious contemplations on life and the human condition, and of course, tree pictures.
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🍁 Calgary Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 Treaty 7
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Sometimes we don't know what we think until we write it down.
Sometimes we have to reread it a few times.
Sometimes that just adds confusion. 🤔
The country of Canada does not have a ban on US alcohol sales.
Any such decision is made at the provincial level and some provinces still provide consumer access to these products.
This doesn't change the consumer's right not to buy it.
America 'not at war' with Canada, insists U.S. Treasury Secretary in response to their unprovoked war with Canada.
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How to know that it's almost Fall.
It's only 8°C in the morning, so you dress accordingly and head out, then melt in the 24° afternoon heat. 🥵
Stand back, I think that the coffee is kicking in.
I died once, but fought my way back.
So yes, I think that qualifies as a badass.
"I never stop to be shocked at how shocked the Americans are at the logical consequences of their actions, 'Can you believe they're not selling our booze after we disrupted all of their core industries?'"
- David Cochrane, CBC News
I'm not only angry, but also deeply saddened.
Knowing so many wonderful people in the U.S., including some close friends and even internet acquaintances who I consider friends.. a beautiful thing.
Despite this, I recognize and acknowledge that the country as a whole has irreparably damaged our relationship and with it, any chance for many of us of ever visiting again.. 💔
and it closes our wallets.
I am so radioactive from all of the scans that I've had over the past few months that I could either be deadly for mosquitoes..
or give them mutant superpowers. 🤔
Replying to
@giflian@techhub.social When I asked an owner of a liquor store here in Calgary if he was ordering new inventory of US products..
"Why would I or any business spend money and use up valuable shelf space for products that their customers don't want?"
We've been saving the 'he's gone' celebratory champagne for so long that we decided to have it last night to drown our 'he's still not gone' sorrows instead.
We can always buy another bottle for the happy day.
Trying to catch dishcloths at that mystery moment before they go from fresh and clean to reeking of an unpleasant, pungent, sour, musty odor that makes you feel sickly just touching them.
RFK Jr.. If diarrhea lettuce was a person.
For years I was not taken seriously or outright disbelieved about my chronic pain issues. Even when I was in the Emergency Department, I came to know the futility of expecting a different outcome.
Two months ago, my Emergency visit was no different.
In fact, as expected, they triaged me as a "frequent flyer" of low concern and put me in a waiting area.
I came within seconds of dying there. Technically I did for a few minutes.
I will be recovering from that incident for several months and life going forward will never be the same.
When people try to tell you about their chronic pain and health, believe them. It's probably more challenging than that.
Brief moment while they reload is called a ceasefire.
Our condo unit does not have air conditioning, however, our building's hallways and large lobby do.
Sleeping in the lobby hasn't happened yet, but hanging out in the lobby is nice reprieve during heatwaves.
I'm sure no one leaves their unit door open to the air conditioned hallway. 👀
To have a nation you have to have a culture. Oil and gas is not a culture. Truck nuts are not a culture.
When I'm looking for a household item and she tells me that it's in the usual place that we always put it..
how is that supposed to help me? 😕
One of the largest and the only single-line railroad connecting Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, giving businesses unparalleled access to seamless rail transportation and expanded markets, is Canadian based..
But I'm sure bullying Canada wouldn't have any impact on their crucial transportation logistics decisions. 🤔
Not bad. I made it to noon before my energy was depleted today.
The strait of horrible news
Come on humanity, we're better than this, we cry with a sadness that concedes a truth we already know.
Wait.. Canadian air goes to the U.S. and we don't charge them for it?
89% of Americans want the Epstein files released.
The rest are pedophiles.
We may have got carried away on the amount of Maui ribs we just bought from the butchery.
Replying to
@purplepadma@beige.party as expected, I see that someone felt obligated to explain or correct the mansplaning chart. We are so not good at this. 🤦🏼♂️ 🫤 @michcampbell@fediscience.org
FIFA Genocide Prize
Replying to
@mike@thecanadian.social I was often On-Call, but that only worked if I was at home near the phone and it wasn't already in use.
"What are you planning on doing with all of these plastic bags that you're saving?"
I honestly don't know. 😕
If you don't have anything nice to say about him, speak up so that we can all hear you. 📢
She asked if I wanted my shirt ironed.
I said no.
I'm not falling for that trick today.
Did you know that during heatwaves you can make regular trips to the walk-in cooler at the local liquor store and not buy anything?
They tend to frown on you bringing a lawn chair though.
Replying to
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online Deal. My collection of spare cardboard boxes is getting a bit low.
"Everyone has that one weird uncle?"
Hahaha. Wait, I'm an uncle. 🤔
Dogs are not allowed on our condo complex property and we often have to remind people in the neighbourhood not to let their dogs crap in our yard.. It's not a park.
We say nothing if the dogs just want to lay in the shade of a tree on a scorching hot day.
"We brought the package to your doorstep, then put a notice in your mailbox informing you that we needed you to sign for it and since no actual attempt was made to see if you were home (we don't know who was waving as we drove away), the package has been returned to the void."
We need a locksmith for the jammed junk drawer.
Sorry U.S.
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
I fear that we have already passed the limits of climate change adaptation. We just don't realize it yet.
Arrested for vandalism after looking at the reflecting pool from a distance.
A problem with being woke is the lack of sleep. 😕
The orange bloviating shitgibbon says that AI isn't a concern, it just needs regulation.
This from the guy who absolutely hates helpful regulations and safeguards, so you know that if it isn't yet a full blown problem, it soon will be.
A.I. says that critical thinking has never been a thing.