kevinhallatt.bsky.social
Museum Professional & Historian
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Canadian citizen first and foremost — always.
Elbows up.
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The new bridge in Windsor connecting to Detroit is gonna be named after him. Excited to cross it for the first time in the near-ish future.
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Perhaps too simple, but an extra bit of money so he can spend some time going to outings or events and meet some new buds. When I went to college there was a few things I had to pass on because I just couldn’t afford it.
Worse case, he spends it on some fast food inbetween classes.
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If you’re Canadian living right on the border you use almost all spellings interchangeably and both imperial and metric, and both Celsius and Fahrenheit. F for hot things and baking, C for cold things.
Was so frustrating learning to spell while growing up, seeing two different ways to do it.
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Just heard he is stepping down as NDP leader too. Excited to see what direction the NDP goes going forward under new leadership. All the parties were overdue for fresh leadership I think.
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That’s the disingenuous tactics of the conservatives. “It” can be whatever you want it to be. It lets a person hear what they want to hear, and also avoid stating explicit policy that can be publicly scrutinized.
It’s cowardly, to say the least.
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More and more people are beginning identify with their home state first and as an American second. Bipartisan too. I honestly think that we will see the collapse of the US in my lifetime, officially or de facto.
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Don’t blame them. Why sink with the ship when it’s the captain rocking the boat?
Let’s treat individual states as their own sovereign countries. Stop talking to the US fed gov, let’s talk to New Yorkers, Californians, Michiganders directly.
Surely the party of small fed gov wouldn’t mind?
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Of all the people I’ve spoken to, I think I can safely say all this 51st state nonesense is not the will of the American people. This is not a betrayal by the common American. It’s whether or not those in the pilot seats will respect that will or not that makes me worry.
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I’m living in the US atm (working on fixing that ASAP), and will be voting from abroad. This will be my first Canadian election of many in my life. I’ve been nothing but tense since December, a LPC win will do wonders for my worries. Carney is the guy we need right now.
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For example, there was one poll that showed LPC in the lead by +15%! But most show them in the lead by more around 4-7%. So a high lead poll, while possibly true, should safely be taken with a grain of salt.
Nothing is concrete until the actual vote. It’ll be interesting to see how accurate after
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There is more info on the actual website 338canada and also a list of all of the polls included to make this graphic. Never trust an individual poll, look at the bigger picture. One can be an outlier. Many, paint a picture.
And ofc an obligatory: vote regardless!
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This is the aggregated results of dozens of recent polls. The majority show LPC winning, with variation of by how much, but very few show PP winning. This variation is due to polling methods and simply who actually answered the poll. Some polls can be flawed or intentionally misleading.
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Exactly. Theres many applications that this can be used for beyond human consumption — although im not against that, especially in processed forms where you cannot even tell where it came from. Protein is protein. I have more interest in cultured meat than insects though.
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Check the website for the aggregated data. Liberal is 42% and Con is 37%. NDP isn’t even double digits, 9%, which is wild. Numbers as of today ofc.
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I mean, for starters: does this even work in the rain and snow?
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Show it actually working irl, otherwise this is pure science fiction. Miltech startups always showcase high tech CGI concepts that go nowhere and are plainly unfeasible in real war conditions.
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How about he actually refutes your arguments instead of just calling them bad and donating killer drag names to you?
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I will say, it does have a learning curve and the amount of dice needed at higher levels of play does make it annoying if you are a table top no tech purist group. But on foundry? Immaculate.
The initial learning investment is extremely worth it.
3 action economy my beloved.
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The only thing that could threaten my vote at this point is learning he still plays 5e (or whatever 5.5e is?) instead of PF2e.
PF2e is the only thing I’ll get evangelical about.
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Exactly how I feel. Let’s cement these values into our society first. Can always improve even more later.
Progress isn’t being lost everywhere — look at S. Korea’s failed coup, and protests across the globe and in the US.
The moment we lose hope is the moment we have been truly subdued.
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Carney must be a massive reprieve for the socially progressive (or atleast apathetic) but fiscally conservative people.
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Gotta let the CPC win a few provinces federally, lest they call it rigged.
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Did we remember to even thank trump for being our seeing-glass for what modern conservative policy brings?
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Judging a person by what they say is only one facet of making an informed judgement of character — you should also judge a person by the company they host.
Remember that. For politicians, strangers, friends, and even how you present your own self.
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I am honest to a fault. If speaking out for what I believe in gets me into trouble then so be it. A life spent hiding from myself is not a life worth living.
For me at least. I understand I have certain advantages and privileges in life that make me comfortable enough to take this stance.
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A good point, I would consider it if I were staying here.
But I also believe silence only helps tyranny, and hiding behind anonymous handles mutes me. I also want to know my minority friends to know I am on their side.
Also a historian, I want history to know where I stood during these times.
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I’ve studied a lot of Nazi German history and its… it’s not looking great. The Germans tried deporting and making minorities illegal in other ways, and once they realized that was expensive and difficult that’s when we saw the death camps.
I remain hopeful, but I’ll be hopeful from in Canada.
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I’m really afraid that they may detain Canadians WW2 Japanese-American style, and deport Ukrainians back to Ukraine… but the Russian occupied portions.
I knew my career, museums/history, would be endangered but I never thought I’d be worried about my freedom and life. Nothing is sacred to them.
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I personally know several people who are deciding against traveling to the US because of all this. It’s very much real and not sensationalism. Brain drain too. I’m leaving to go back to Canada ASAP. I even have a Ukrainian friend that says they regret not fleeing to Canada instead of the US.
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NDP support being halved so quickly is crazy. I think many are doing strategic voting for liberal though, although I’ve heard many people say they want new leadership pretty badly too. CPC and NDP could benefit from leadership changes.
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Which presuming a defensive war, is likely what the invader would to you anyways. Kinda damned if you do or don’t. At least one has an independent sovereign nation at the end of the tunnel. Nobody wins in war. Hell, in many ways Europe is still suffering from WW1, let alone WW2.
It sucks.
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Conscription is a “break glass for emergency” level policy. As in like, if we don’t do this we won’t exist as a sovereign country anymore. You always want to incentivize volunteering instead at all costs. Conscripts make for less motivated and typically inadequate soldiers anyways.
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Mandatory service is going 0-100 for sure. Let’s maybe look for more tempered solutions and alternatives first. There’s other ways to prepare for the worst instead of transitioning into a de facto war government in peacetime.
There’s no putting the lightning back in the bottle if this happened.
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The classic “good king” fallacy. There is a reason why it doesn’t work, or doesn’t last at least.
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It is a Canadianism to absolutely dunk on JJ and ridicule his absolutely moronic and downright traitorous speak.
Bud, just move to America. Right leaning grifters are in high demand, you can make it work.
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Definitely not the majority thankfully. It is the apathy that scares me the most, on both sides. For every insane person who wants to invade Canada, there’s probably 100 that just doesn’t care if it does or doesn’t happen unless it directly affects them. Or says they do, but do nothing.
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Many Americans on both sides of the political parties sees the world outside of America as Americas sandbox. It’s truly disgusting. I don’t understand why so many feel they have the right to dictate the fate of other countries or groups, for good or ill.
Not all Americans, etc etc, but still many.
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If the worst that will be done is not thanking them for their service…
The apathy that Americans feel towards happenings outside of their borders is disgusting.
Canada can only rely on Canada. We can’t rely on protests or soldiers disregarding orders.
I appreciate your sentiments though.
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A significant number of products sold at Aldi come from Canada. Most are marked appropriately. It’s somehow cheaper to purchase there than it is in Canada itself. Raises interesting questions about why food prices are so high in Canada, yet the same food exported is cheaper.
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Don’t give unsupervised children guns — real, airsoft, or pellet.
Source: lucky I didn’t shoot my eye out as a kid.
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Trump has created so many jobs… for Chinese workers putting whatever he says on hats and shirts. I wonder if they ever get tired at the factory, from laughing at the irony of it all.
He easily could have arranged to have these made in the south with southern cotton if he really cared.
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This is advanced lack of self awareness…
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Nous aimons le voir. Excellente nouvelle.
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And if an employee does bend a rule for you, keep it to yourself. Just because they can doesn’t mean they are necessarily allowed to.
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PPs alt account
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True, most of my boomer folk I know in the US who voted MAGA actually like Carney a lot. Contrary to popular perception, many people on the right are only on the right fiscally, not socially. A fiscally wise yet socially progressive (or atleast not regressive) candidate is a winning, popular, combo.
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Yep, you gotta read peoples hearts rather than putting all the weight into the words they choose. Some of the greatest kindest people have some of the roughest shells. Being ignorant is not a sin.