Perhaps because there’s a big dose of misogyny intertwined with the critique of American Exceptionalism.
Think about how the song would play with genders reversed.
Also, you don’t want to be looking to log into dodgy wifi when travelling with a burner phone to another country.
Physical guides are more secure and don’t require downloading to a burner device.
I believe one or two of the new senators have joined Mastodon as well but haven’t seen much from them yet.
Parksville is likely far more commercial and developed than you recall.
But the beaches remain.
Here are some suggestions with a kids lens:
Vancouver Island
get mid Island then over to the west coast
Parksville - large sandy beaches to dig in
ferry to Denman Island and then to Hornsby Island - fossils! https://hornbynaturalhistory.com/category/fossils/
Qualicum Beach - gravelly and lots of seniors, but a great place to see bald eagles picking up clams and oysters, dropping them to break them open and diving to eat.
Cathedral grove on Hwy to Port Alberni, accessible old growth forest
Alberni - old forestry interpretation site with a logging train in the Cherry Creek area
Drive to Tofino - an adventure in itself
Long Beach
whale watching
If you go to Vancouver, many of the classic stops are worth it
Mapping and confirming the existence of a system larger than the world renowned Castleguard Cave system is the story here.
Did I miss the actual Protostar announcement?
Well, there was something of the kind of CANZUK sharing earlier. But that included SA and India in a kind of outer layer with less complete access.
There’s absolutely no incentive to log in to YouTube now that subscriptions and bells do nothing to control your feed. End stage enshittification.
I do know about the latter. Knew some folks that taught there.
Few courses are taught by tenured faculty at the Ivies. Junior faculty have to justify final grades, PhD students and sessional have to justify any grades lower than B- on any assignment.
Coupling that with the ‘legacy admissions’ where children of alumni have a lower bar to admission, anyone with a B- average has a questionable degree.
No matter how good their programs are, for the lowers tier of students, they’re just institutions of transmitted privilege. Which is why the complaints about DEI mechanisms to balance that are so suspect.
I wasn’t aware whether UPenn was on the same system but it’s a huge thing for private universities reliant on tuition fees and big alumni donations.
It’s interesting how California is shutting down the practice of legacy admissions, and Stanford and USC are feeling the sting.
@Nmyownworld@startrek.website spotted Murf in the poster in the promotional announcement for Star Trek Day.
Nmyownworld’s mention on the Star Trek Day thread was great, but I thought it would be great to amplify it. So here is the image with the colour intensity dialed up a bit and Murf circled to be easier to spot.
StarTrek Prodigy Lives!!!
The production values are sufficiently high that it makes me think it might actually be from an episode to come.