Albbi

joined 2 years ago
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving crazed weasels.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

2027 unless we have a general strike and force an early election.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've got a bunch of CBC podcasts that I love.

Under the Influence has great storytelling and talks a lot about the history of marketing in very interesting ways.

We Regret to Inform You is by the same people and talks about the hardships some people have had to go through before making it big. I really only listen to episodes about people I already know about though.

The Debaters is a great comedy podcast. I also listen to Laugh out Loud and have been caught laughing my head off in the middle of the dog park.

Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe is going through Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe stories and adding a bit of background about each story. I thought I'd skip the background stuff, but it's actually not bad to listen to. Stuart McLean was such an amazing story teller and I always love hearing these stories about Canada.

Quirks and Quarks is a great science podcast although I kicked it off my list for a while until I can clear my other backlog.

One US based podcast I would still recommend (They're not political, but still not pro Trump) is Go Fact Yourself. Great podcast in a trivia game show format. The central idea is really cool. Pick 3 topics outside your field of work that you're an expert in. They then quiz you on one of those three topics with a special guest expert in the topic who comes on at the end. And the people they get are absolutely amazing! They had Walter Koenig on as an expert, and then he liked the show so much he came back as a player.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did a double take on that bumper sticker.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

When I was a kid, there was a game like missile command where letters would drop from space and typing the letter would launch a missile which would destroy the letter. I can only find full word versions of that game now online. Was really hoping to find a single letter version for learning where the keys are.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

There's a long history to the F35 purchase and I wouldn't lay it all on Trudeau after all the sunk costs. I'd more lay it on Stephen Harper for not exploring other options.

Google AI summary

The procurement became a politically contentious issue, particularly after the Conservative government announced the F-35 as the sole option without a competitive bidding process in 2010.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pete Hoekstra doesn't deserve to be mentioned in our news media. As an ambassador, the only thing he's good at is pissing off his host country.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

I was thinking this was similar to Cohen the Barbarian from Discworld.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was wondering if the 10% additional tariff due to the political ad would have any affect, since it doesn't even pass the "emergency drug crisis" test.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And a chicken fried a chicken?

Actually that sorta makes sense.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

I've heard rumours of AUPE joining in. They've been without a contract for a year and a half.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why do you think there wasn't traffic? The eBay link I got the picture from says it's from 1975.

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