themcgrath.bsky.social
He/Him.
Uncle. Senior millennial. General Purpose Nerd.
Once-owner of @modwiggler.com Now I just work there.
He's just this guy, ya know?
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Simplest and most comprehensive answer yet. Thank you.
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Don't get me wrong;
Corn good!
Corn industry good! Subsidizing corn til you have more than you know hat to do with so you start turning it into ethanol, but it's all more energy and carbon intensive than existing fuels, and now you're so used to corn ethanol that it's hard to quit it; bad.
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Appreciated!
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(also Canadian. Hello neighbour.)
But then why not call it "Regular"?
Are there benefits to Ethanol free (for the engine, I mean. Not counting moral benefits because the whole corn derived ethanol thing turns out to be an awful idea)?
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I am fascinated by how many fuel options you have. Is that standard across America? Why is "Unleaded" an option? Are they not all unleaded?
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Also, the existential dread of living during the violent collapse of the world order which is just barely abstracted away enough from your day to day life for you to feel both guilty and helpless at once.
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That's what all of EA does, all the time. You've just found the AI branch of it, which arguably has a more compelling case than the boltzmann brains branch.
All of EA is a con.
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For the record, I would be actively supportive of a real discussion to that end. But it never seems to happen. It's always just angry rhetoric like "Rah Rah Not My King!" And left at that.
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Elbows Up started well before the crown got involved. It's just a rallying cry to fight for Canada in the face of threats and aggression.
Asking that our head of state - and head of a closely allied state - make a show of support is its own thing, albeit to the same end as the rallying cry.
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It certainly helps having a (marginally smart) car that beeps at you if you do and doesn't auto-lock the doors before you can get back in
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I'm so clever and original
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If he still has party support, a low ranking MP in a safe riding would step down for the leader to take his seat via by-election. There's already talk of that happening for Pierre in spite of the federal loss.
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He delivered on dental care promises (or at least the start of) without even forming a government. I thank him for his service. A real shame that Canada will never see what he could have done if given a chance to lead the nation.
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Awesome. Thank you!
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Any plans to expand good.store into Canada? Because I love your products, but, you know. Trade war.
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Any political party that can't survive a fair and well informed electorate deserves to die. Any party that depends on and refuses to condemn trolls and misinformation deserves to be ripped apart.
I'm talking about the Conservative Party of Canada.
Vote strategic. votewell.ca
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1) If they were dire wolves, and they produced a suitable population, would it then count as a de-extinction?
2) Did you expect to see Jurassic Park type shit like this sooner than this?
3) What else are they working on that they haven't told us about yet???
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How long / how large an audience did it take for you to learn to tune out that ubiquitous background noise of entitled complaints? I know it's never 100% but there's still a learned skill there
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Fair. I was thinking something about empathy being vital to both left wing agendas and being self-aware about how this comes across.
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I think I enjoyed it for the side plots more than the main spectacle of Mark Getting His Ass Kicked.
e.g. the exploration in Season 3 of "Do Superheroes get to pursue personal happiness over service to humanity" and "How does society respond to the casual presence extra-judicial entities"
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"just mushrooms??"
Either that's how he likes his pizza (in which case, What The Fuck), or he got fed up with the task of adding toppings (in which case, What The Fuck.)
What a sad, unrelatable, sweaty nerd of a man.