It’s not so much an conspiracy theory in itself, as it is governments that themselves see conspiracies everywhere.

I live in Calgary, and we had a man who literally got up every morning and protested it. For probably a year or more, through all sorts of wild weather. He’s also to be found at any Christian heritage events, drag queens reading to kids at the library for sure will bring him out, he was a prominent member of the trucker convoy, etc. This is just the crowd you are dealing with here. Unfortunately for us here in Alberta, they now have control of our government and total control over our premier, who has the intelligence of a wet paper bag.

Fairly well I think. I’m responsible and try to stay on top of my health. I’m lucky enough to have very robust benefits coverage, so I’ve always been able to have the cutting edge equipment and treatment at my disposal. I’ve had excellent doctors and specialists over the years too, lots of kind and intelligent people who have made a difference in my life. Different individuals seem to have varying levels of complications with this disease too, and my case doesn’t seem to be as complex as some others that I’ve run into during my journey, so I’m super thankful for that as well.

Mental health can be the harder thing sometimes. It does hold me back in certain ways, and the disease is progressing as I’m getting older. It’s a bit of a mind blower, knowing that something could screw up with my pump while I’m sleeping, and I could just die without ever knowing. The insulin pump in combination with cgm remains the most risky medical device in existence (it’s also super awesome though). I also had a pretty scary hospitalization last year, just the perfect storm of events really, but things got a bit scary for a bit. And that’s from someone’s who’s like on top of it, I have a really good A1c level, I work out, I have the best of the best. It’s still something that could wipe you out, like that clicks fingers.

But I suppose the same goes for the hurtling train coming at you, or falling out of bed the wrong way, right? It’s all about trying to keep everything in perspective: I have a beautiful family, a pretty wonderful life, things are good and we are generally all in good health and happy. I try my best not to let this minor buzzkill define me.

Facebook went to hell when they let our parents and grandparents on. Not that they are to blame, but it was the beginning of the end.

Ahh I see. This is just an unsubstantiated opinion, but I’d bet this would still happen with those clik cores. Sealant has an unfortunate habit of gunking up whatever is in its path, and I bet that little valve at the bottom could still get pretty crapped up. It’s a piss off when this happens with a $3 core, now imagine a $15-20 core, right?

Voting is kind of lame IMO. I wish it would die with Reddit. Large or small votes, my feed always seems to still be what it is, and I don’t filter by votes or anything like that. Don’t pay it much attention other than to maybe acknowledge the person above me.

Actually if my local community subreddit taught me anything, I’ve often got more in common with the downvoted folks.

Do you see or find the line blurring over time? I have to admit I’m having a hard time understanding how this is a total sugar daddy situation, like is there literally no romantic or relationship-like feelings at all here? Based on your description, at least from an outsiders viewpoint, it kind of sounds like you just enjoy spoiling your partner, and they are enjoying the trappings of your relationship.

I’m fairly active, at least as much as I can be with young kids on the loose and a demanding occupation. I get out to the mountains usually once a week or so in the summer on my mountain bike or dirtbike. Road bike once or twice a week too, it’s on a trainer synced up with Zwift or Rouvy in the winter months. I’m not super hardcore with it on the trainer, but it helps to stretch the legs once or twice a week in the colder months. I work from home mostly, so because I don’t get that commute or office walking in anymore, I find I’m often feeling pretty stiff.

I used to be a big skier in the winter months, but not as much anymore. I find skiing has become so thoroughly enshittified and overcrowded now, and I’ve always been uncomfortable with the very real risks of back country skiing. So other than a rare time or for work (“business meetings”), I don’t ski that much anymore.

I’m also pretty thin to begin with, so I haven’t really had to deal too much with the dad bod as of yet.

My answer depends largely on what I’m doing.

Ugg Nuemels are my casual favourite, much to the chagrin of my wife. Cole Haan Classic Oxfords if I have to dress up.

Activities wise, it has to be Five Tens on my MTB, I prefer Shimano shoes on my road bike, and Alpinestar Tech 7s on my dirtbike.

Not anymore. We do have one in the nursery for when the kids were babies, but it’s mostly just decoration now and barely ever gets used.

I’d have to say no to this one. We enjoy each other too much. Money ain’t everything!

Just pop the bead and pull a bit of the tire off and put it in that way. Nothing gets clogged if you do it that way.

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It’s the next stage of corporate capitalism. It’s actually been underway for the past 20-30 years. We’ve seen the rise of the class of corporate overlords, none of whom could actually do the jobs beneath them, and add value of dubious quantity and quality. They take their MBAs and leveraged debt, and hack and chop, leaving a trail of chaos and dysfunctional broken companies behind them.

AI is just the next phase of this, and is going to be an economic destroyer, not value creator. Nobody seems to care that it can’t actually really do much useful, let alone replace people in their jobs. This seems completely lost to all of these corporate dweebs though, because again, none of them could actually do any of the jobs beneath them when the chips fall.

What AI could maybe replace though, is the executive lair of most companies. It’s not like neither add any fucking value, actually having AI in an executive role would probably lead to value creation, as everyone else could just largely ignore it unless it was useful.

What a world we live in.

Broderbund is right up there with top tier game makers, their games may be largely relegated to the history books now, but for all the right reasons. You didn’t even have to be a big video gamer, to appreciate one for their products (think Carmen Sandiego or Sim City). They definitely had an outsized impact on the industry, and I think we’d all be in a better place today if companies like them were allowed to thrive. Instead we get private equity, beta tier releases and preordering. Not to even mention all these stupid remake$

Rocky Mountain Soap is the cats meow, I love their shampoo. The kids really like their bubble bath too. They’ve got a rebranding going on, it kind of smells like external funding, but for what I know of right this minute, 100% Canadian.

Bluesky is definitely quite different. I’m a fairly centre kind of person, maybe a bit left leaning in a lot of ways, but bluesky is definitely attracting a lot of extreme left users. I mean it’s not like that’s a totally bad thing, I’d rather deal with extreme left than extreme right any day of the week, and I still hope the platform is successful. I just don’t find myself using it that much because most of the content is a bit over the top. Also it’s owned by Mormon backed private equity, so there’s that too…big fan of federation social media these days.

That’s sweet! Hopefully they expand out west. That’s the problem with our country, don’t think I can’t appreciate that it’s a capital sucking nightmare to invest in infrastructure creation here. I get it. But there’s gotta be some middle ground, somewhere.

Salted caramel. And their ice cream is super dope.

Just be warned it’s like the crystal meth version of chocolate. There’s no casual use of Purdys chocolates, next thing you know the whole box is gone and you are making the shadiest of excuses on why you need to go to the mall.

How is this a patient gamer, didn’t this game just come out literally this week?