dermanus

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[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

It's Sealy, the stem bolt! Hi Sealy!

Can you help reverse the polarity? Yes you can!

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

In my experience, no. But by all means try. Maybe you can plant a seed of doubt that grows.

Be Socratic though. Fewer facts, more questions.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Right? The same one who kept going on about how Obama was a secret Muslim.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that's influencing him makes it happen even faster.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think facts would have helped you. This isn't something they reasoned their way into. You're not going to reason them out.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Motto for the current admin: "it's only ok when we do it"

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

The article forgot to mention that the trade agreement with Canada is up for renewal soon. What do you want to bet the price of potash in the US is gonna go up too?

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

"What they're effectively saying is that they want data retained on every single Canadian that subscribes to a wireless provider or an internet provider so that they can search the haystack for the needle so to speak, if the need arises," he said.

He gave the example of someone who carries their cell phone everywhere they go, "which is pretty typical."

"Every time they move with the cell phone, all that information is being retained. It is not being retained right now. The government would require its retention," he said.

"It's very, very problematic."

And I'm sure that information will never be abused or leaked or otherwise misused, right? Right?

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile, in Canada we're getting generic ozempic. So kinda going the other way on that. Although it wasnt anything our government did, they just forgot to file paperwork.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's different, it's more of an ensemble show whereas the books are more Quentins story. It got a bit silly towards the end but it was still a fun watch. I suggested it to my BF (huge Buffy fan, mild HP fan) he binged the whole thing in a week.

Sometimes you bounce off shows the first time. It isn't a faithful retelling of the books but it's got most of the major notes.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Yep. Three books by Lev Grossman. They focus more on Quentin, the show features the other characters more.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I'm so over HP. It was a popular book decades ago. I'm 41 (5 years older than the first HP actor) and I remember the "controversy" over the fourth book being so much longer than the others. I've read many other books since then that were better.

If you want grown up magic school stories check out The Magicians. One of the rare cases where the show is better than the books.

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