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Enjoying a slow morning with a cup of coffee, listening to the birds and doing a crossword.

Rolling and smoking a j alone late at night with no distraction, just the calm quiet ritual

Walking while the snow falls on a windless night, when all the sounds are muffled aside from the soft crunch crunch of your footsteps, you can feel the pinpricks of snow melting on your face, the night just feels so still and perfect.

So that's why they haven't trotted them out for the press tour, the closest thing america has to an ace is someone who was shot down twice in a row

I'm convinced that cars are a huge contributing factor towards that atomization of society. Cars turn everything that involves them into an isolated solo activity. They remove every possible opportunity for social interaction while at the same time raising the stakes of any single persons mistake.

Take walking in a crowd vs driving in traffic. Let's say I let my attention wander and I bump into someone. I say "oops sorry my b" and continue on with my day. I do the same thing in traffic and I've potentially caused hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of damage, possibly injured myself and others, and generally caused a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved. And even if I didn't hit someone I've contributed to the oppressive feeling of paranoia that accompanies driving and the fear of damaging the vehicle you've spent a ridiculous amount of money on.

Even something as inherently communal as waiting in line is reduced to a solo experience. When you're standing in a line you can see the people immediately ahead and behind you, you can commiserate about the wait time with them, strike up a conversation, you generally see the people in the same boat as you and relate because you're all going through the same thing. Waiting in line in a car you have no way of communicating even with the people directly next to you, everyone else is reduced to "traffic", you don't see a human just an ugly, smelly, loud monstrosity of metal and plastic.

Cars promise to expand your horizons but all they do is shrink your world

Carbrains don't understand the true freedom that is taking transit on a night out. I never have to worry about a Designated Driver or dragging my hungover ass back to wherever I left my (hypothetical) car. As long as my drunk ass can find my way to the train station I can get home no problem

Same with living close to a grocery store, I basically never check what I actually have on hand since it's less than a block away. I can easily pick up whatever I'm making for supper on the way home or dash out if I forgot something. I can think about what I want to eat on the train home, pick up any ingredients I need on the walk to my place, maybe stop by a liquor store for a bottle of wine for supper, it's wonderful. I'd really struggle with planning meals if going to the store involved packing up a vehicle

I'm convinced the promotion of bacon mania in the 2000s is deeply tied to the intensification of Islamophobia post 9/11

It's the one thing I won't criticize about him, even if he did it for purely selfish self-serving reasons. I won't give him credit for it either but I'll never criticize someone for not joining the US military

You'll see resistance/revenge killings once the Americans start killing people, but the average white Canadian won't give a shit until they're affected personally. So long as it's not their family/friends/neighbours being blown up & shot they'll roll over an accept it

It's fucked that you can sentence someone to life without parole

Edit: it's double fucked someone can get a harsher sentence because the judge didn't get a cookie and a juice box

It's incredibly discouraging, especially since unionizing is risky and you have no idea who's going to rat you out for talking about it.

It's so frustrating, your coworkers will be (rightfully) complaining about how the job sucks and how your boss keeps screwing us but the second you ask if they've ever thought of unionization they look at you like you've grown two heads and start spewing bullshit about unions being useless and dues being a waste of money.

It would be one thing if they were apprehensive about it because of the risk of the company union busting and them losing their jobs but they're actively hostile to any suggestion of collective bargaining

You can't be serious, Russia is hundreds of years older than America

It's been a long time since I watched Stargate but I feel like that's one that's okay to set down before the end