MystikIncarnate

I'm in Southern Ontario and I'm definitely not a minority.

I see the racist rhetoric regularly. People see me, a straight white male, and more than a few times, mistake me for a like-minded individual, and they let their racism spew out like bile.

Makes me sick.

It also makes me sick to think that Canadians could be so cruel to the indigenous peoples. I don't think any amount of time, reparations, or anything else, could make up for what occurred.

We're Canadians, if you're not indigenous, then you're either an immigrant, or the descendant of an immigrant. We're all here, equal in the eyes of the law (not law enforcement/police, the letter of the law), and there's no good excuse to act otherwise. United we stand, divided we fall. One country in particular, wants us to be divided. Don't let them win.

Vive le Canada!

Therein lies the issue I have with modern streaming. When Netflix was the only game in town, things were mostly fine. Then I saw content I was actively watching disappear from the service, and research showed that this was due to licensing issues.

I saw the writing on the wall. Copyright holders were gearing up to make their own Netflix competitor streaming service. Which is exactly what they did.

When it all started, I dusted off my tri-point hat and got to work building "my own Netflix" and honestly, it's been amazing. A royal pain in my arse sometimes, but mostly amazing.

I have had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with some of the more recent streaming services, shortly before everyone started cracking down on "asking sharing" bullshit. I live in the same house as one subscriber, but I run my own network, and have my own Internet IP address, so I'm not in their "home" and can no longer use the service because of account sharing restrictions and related bullshit. Anyways.....

One thing that always grabbed me is that my own service puts all my recently watched shows that have new episodes front and center as soon as I open it up.... New streaming services either have that info halfway down the page, with the top of the page dominated by ads for new shows to watch, or whatever popular.... Meanwhile, I mainly just care about the show I've been watching and I want to watch what's new.... What a pain in the ass.

On top of that, I would have to memorize what service has what shows/movies, and if it's anything pre-streaming that's not part of a large franchise, like Star wars or Star Trek, or whatever, I usually have to look it up, or bounce between different services frantically searching for what I want.

No thanks.

The MPAA needs to take notes from the RIAA.... I subscribe to one music service and I never have any trouble finding what I want to listen to. ... Key takeaway: I subscribe to a music service.

I do not subscribe to any video streaming services.

In medical environments being aware of what you make contact with, aka, contact tracing, is absolutely about tracking what the hell you touched.

You leaned on that wall over there for 2.6 seconds after touching this thing contaminated with x, y, and z? Great, now we have to sanitize that, and everything that made contact with it.

Sit down.

We wanted to do it this year on our anniversary, which was about a month ago now, but there was too much going on financially that even throwing a modest party with the budget constraints was going to create problems. We both had job disruptions in the last months of 2024, and things have just been a bit to hard financially to really bother.

We're starting to save for next year already. Planning shall begin soon.

I love it. I think it would be pretty awesome to have a drink fountain for home.

Not sure I could get the wife approval on that....

My partner and I are similar to you. We couldn't care less. I proposed to her, she said yes, we're happy with the way things are, nothing needed to change.

However. Legally speaking, when you get married, you are considered as a single legal entity in many things including court/law enforcement/taxes.

A person cannot be compelled to bear witness to their partners actions in court, in the USA, that's the fifth amendment, in Canada, it's section 11(c) of the charter of rights and freedoms. The basic concept being that you have the right to remain silent (and not incriminate yourself).

While I don't plan on doing any crime or anything.... That's a nice perk.

Also, she hates doing her taxes, so when we're married, I can do taxes for both of us.

There's very few perks here and bluntly, it's not worth the cost...

We're going to elope and just throw a "reception" (party) afterwards.

Confirm this for me. It's not one hole per drink on the first, isn't it? It's two per, since one is for the creamy thick syrup, the other is for fizzy water.

That's why you basically end up with soda water if the syrup is out.

That's correct, no?

A big thing with COVID was contact tracing. As in, knowing who and what you made contact with that could have been contaminated with your sick.

Surfaces were nontrivial in that whole context.

If you didn't learn contact tracing during COVID, were you even in lockdown?

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They won't call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They'll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.

You mean, they're using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?

Impossible.

We're currently unaware of any fixed coordinate system for space itself. There may be one, we have no basis of reference for it.

Oh, I agree. I'm right there with you.

I was specifically addressing butthurt white males.

I, personally, couldn't give a shit what race/gender anyone is, they're a living human deserving of respect, the kind that isn't demonstrated by the asshole in the subject comic.

The only reason I'm calling out white males, specifically those that feel butthurt by the comic and have no sense of humor, is because the previous poster specifically cited that group. I'm a member of the white/male group, so I wanted to speak bluntly "man to man" style to any future visitors. Oh my, there are so many issues with referring to it that way; I'm just going to leave it and hope it comes across correctly.

In any case, anyone, regardless of their race, or gender or anything else you can classify people using, has different behaviors or thinks differently (better or worse) about others based on gender/race/whatever, then they're an asshole.

I will judge others based on the content of their character. That doesn't make me better than anyone else, I'm only stating my intent. If the content of your character is trash, then I will judge you for the trash you are. If you're trying to do right, despite falling/failing sometimes, then thats worthy of more consideration than the trash humans mentioned earlier.

I couldn't possibly give any fewer fucks what color your skin is, or what you have in your pants. Be whatever you want to be, just don't be an asshole.