I live in Canada, so I'm obviously biased in the sense that we're one of the countries most affected by US politics, what with them being our largest trade partner and having a massive land border with them.

That being said, are you unaware of the global rise in right-wing extremism and fascism following the 2016 election? The US is the richest country in the world, with the largest military, and they also have a tremendous amount of soft power (at least in English-speaking countries) through their cultural influence in media exports.

I don't understand what you gain by pretending the US isn't a massive global power with huge influence over international relations.

Yup, xkcd #198 to be exact. "Perspective" is the name of the comic, and the text underneath is the title text.

Care to share sources for any of these claims?

I assume by "the trans athlete in swimming" you're referring to Lia Thomas. Here's an excerpt from her Wikipedia page:

In March 2022, Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:33.24; Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant was second with a time 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.

1.75 seconds is hardly "30 seconds" as you claim. Note that this is the only event she won, no one seems to care that she also placed last in the 100 freestyle event, or that even in the event that she won she was over 9 seconds slower than the women's record for 500 yard-freestyle.

As for the MMA fighter, after a quick search I'll assume you're talking about Fallon Fox? It's true she did injure one of her opponents, Tamikka Brents. I don't know much about MMA, but seeing as it's a sport where people punch and kick each other violently, I'd assume injuries happen.

Let's assume she did have an advantage as a result of going through male puberty as a teen. Where do we draw the line in regulating biological advantage in sports?

Caster Semenya, a runner who was assigned female at birth and has lived her entire life as a woman, has higher levels of testosterone than the average cis woman. Should she be banned from competing?

Michael Phelps, a cis man with many Olympic medals in swimming, has an unusually large wingspan, double-jointed ankles, and produces around half the lactic acid of an average person, all of which gives him a biological advantage. Should we rescind his medals?

Why is "unfair biological advantage" in sports only brought up in the case of trans women (or in the case of Caster Selenga, gender non-conforming women who are mistakenly assumed to be trans?)

I've tried searching for "person-independent neopronouns" and failed to find any results.

Care to explain how this is different than referring to one's self in the third person? Because I'll be honest, I have a hard time wrapping my head around this.

My respect isn't conditional to my understanding, but I feel I could respect better if I understood more.

All companies using this shit software should be barred from being landlord and the province should take over

Everything that is necessary for survival (food, water, and shelter at a minimum) should be a public good and not managed by profit-seeking individuals or corporations.

It's worked fine for me across three different addresses. The link I shared in my previous comment also has info on how to report if it doesn't get respected, as the other commenter suggested.

FYI, you can just slap a note on your mailbox saying "No unaddressed mail" and you'll stop receiving the vast majority of junkmail.

Here's a link to Canada Post's website with more info.

I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a "regular coffee".

Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn't parse "regular coffee" as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply "coffee"!

I honestly don't even know why it annoys me this much.

I used to do social media for a small theatre company. I would have adored this rather than constantly fighting with the atrocity that is Meta Business Suite.

Not only is it more readable and aesthetically-pleasing, singular "they" is more inclusive of people outside the gender binary!

Singular "they" actually predates singular "you".

0, badass is not something I've ever felt, nor particularly strived for.

I'm more of a goodie-two-shoes people pleaser type.

I really wish the Greens would push the Libs hard on electoral reform. It's wildly undemocratic that we have a riding (Riverview) where the Cons won with ~39% of the vote, when the Libs had ~34% and the Greens had ~25%.

Que de courage et de résilience de la part de cette personne!

Je souhaite que ses agresseurs souffrent.

Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

I'm glad David Coon kept his seat

Same, he and Megan Mitton in Tantramar are excellent MLAs and we sorely need voices other than Lib or PC in the legislature.

I'm sad for Green candidate Kevin Arseneau who lost his seat in Kent North, he was a very dynamic speaker in Fredericton.

I hope the remaining Green caucus pushes hard for electoral reform; the Lib majority tonight was won more off of Higg's failures than by the actual Liberal platform. As always in NB elections, we voted a government out rather than voting one in. I wish that would change, but it won't as long as we have first-past-the-post.

I'm not thrilled by a Liberal majority, but I must admit I prefer the Libs' tendency of inaction to the Cons active destruction when it comes to policies near to my heart, including healthcare, education, linguistic rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and our relationship with First Nations.

I don't dare put any hope in them to move our province forward, but at least they won't be as active in making NB worse as the past Conservative government was.

I am i mean 😅 which is simultaneously hilarious take my shift on August after bullshit about it with and you want to be nice to you comes across as an avid beer drinker I'd be down to hang out with me you're automatically turn on von when not on home network remotely through it with and you want to be nice to you know you can be a fan of this is the tipping culture I want to be nice to you know.

I believe old mate Jim is referring to Venetian blinds, not that it makes the comic any funnier.

This is a misrepresentation of the criticisms towards the Loi sur la laïcité de l'État.

Don't pretend the CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec) government is particularly concerned about secularism unless it pertains to religions other than Christianity. It was like pulling teeth trying to get la CAQ to remove the crucifix from l'Assemblée nationale, their argument being that it was a cultural and historical symbol, not at all religious! How do you reconciliate wanting to keep a cross in your legislature with loi 21's goals of eliminating the wear of personal religious symbols?

Note: the cross did get removed eventually after some pressure from QS (Québec Solidaire).

Separation of religion and state is something I am fervently in favour of, however I think going after public servants wearing a niqab as part of their personal beliefs while actively trying to keep a crucifix up in the legislature are the actions of a government motivated more by xenophobia and racism than by secularist ideals.