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It's a US vs. everywhere-else-in-the-world spelling thing. Everywhere else is 'grey', full stop. 'Grey fox', 'grey wolf', etc.
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The more time passes, the more plausible it becomes that "a long time ago" was simply the 1970s all along. Just ask a teenager in 2025 how long ago 1977 was, they'll tell you.
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Conservative weirdos: "[she] has gotten her[self] in trouble since she announced her run. Four years ago, she posted a picture of herself on her Instagram page"
Also conservative weirdos: "dayum girl, lemme get a peek-at-chu in that Charizard onesie"
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No, the 'p' in pterodactyl should be pronounced.
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Who?
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Shoot my shot? 😳 But, Alie, you're married... surely everyone's favourite podmom Jarrett would object...
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Let's bring back thoſe long eſſes, so we can write about miſchievous perſons again.
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🤨 Literally every sender's number from Canada and the US that isn't in my contacts will show up as "+1 (###) ###-####" in my iMessage app...
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You mean white and gold? 😉
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How do you feel about letting one of those weird "two-Ls" Allys on though, Alie-with-one-L? 🤔
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VN = Vietnam
KH = Cambodia
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The coins are the size, shape and colouration they currently are only as a vestige of when they were made of silver. The old silver 5-cent was replaced with a larger nickel one in the 1920s, but otherwise they've been basically the same size since. Except now they're not made of precious metals.
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Granted, the lowest are $15/hr in Alberta & Saskatchewan, which is obviously still much higher than the American federal minimum, but when you convert to Canadian dollars (at today's rates 1USD=~1.4319CAD) 20 states (+ DC) have minimum wages more than the Canadian federal minimum.
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Ehhhhh you're being a little disingenuous here...
Federal minimum wage only applies to federally-regulated industries; the provinces & territories have their own minimums, almost all of which are *lower* than the federal. The only ones higher are BC ($17.40), the Yukon ($17.59) & Nunavut ($19.00).
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It's crazy to me that a judge would even be eligible for jury duty in the first place. Really?! In Canada judges are disqualified from being jurors. In Alberta, anybody "engaged in the administration of justice" is disqualified; even law *students* aren't allowed to serve, let alone a sitting judge!
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Trump's relative lack of popularity is one thing, but that paragraph at the end of your first screenshot is pretty bad... "In today's Qunnipiac poll, 31% of votes have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 57% have an unfavorable opinion." Yikes... 😬
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Yeah! 😅 My first thought reading this word-of-the-day: "Forget 'bumbershoot', what's a 'dreich day'!?"
(FYI for others: 'dreich' = Scots for 'dreary')
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Whoa bud, spoiler alert.
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... wireless (!) keyboard, RF tuner accessory to plug into a TV, complete set of DOS2.1 disks and manuals, BASIC on cartridge, and a football game I can't quite remember the name of. We loaded it into said pickup truck bed, drove it to the landfill, and literally threw it into a pile of garbage. 😔
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My parents had a PCjr, and I'll always lament that we ended up just throwing it out around the year 2000. By "throw out" I don't even mean "took it to an electronics recycler": I mean I helped my dad load it into the back of a pickup truck, along with a monochrome monitor, pair of joysticks...
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(Might make some American listeners realize how glib they are about "how much more freedom we have than the rest of the world", and how facile—or even straight up DELUSIONAL—they seem when lecturing other people about "freedom"...)
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Suggestion for a future ology: constitutional law in *countries other than* the US.
Being in the US I'm sure that's not something very easy for you to find an ologist to talk to, but I think it would be enlightening for a lot of listeners.
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True, but they're not, like... savages about it: they cook the humans over a fire.
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... overproduce eggs, poultry and dairy products. They throw tons of product out annually. By contrast Canadian farmers operate under a strict system of production quotas to prevent that waste. Consumers pay stable prices that give farmers stable profits. You guys should try it sometime.
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... one of the biggest complaints all of Canada's trade partners have. They want it gone, because they want to flood the market with cheap product and drive Canadian farmers out of business. Farmers in most of the developed world operate with massive government subsidies, and vastly overproduce ...
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Won't happen. The Canadian egg market operates under a government-mandated "supply management" system that strictly regulates production, importation of foreign production, and pricing. Wholesale prices are fixed, so consequently retail pricing is very stable. The supply management system is ...
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Oh, *that* P-word.
I thought "Why would the White House press secretary have any reason to say 'penis'? Granted, she does work for Donald Trump..." 🤔
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SNES turns 35 this year... 😮💨
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Who said what...?
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If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before.?
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Here I was thinking you sold underwear and katanas. 🤔
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I wonder what Danielle Smith calls that, if not "irresponsible and selfish"? 🤔
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... so a junior backbencher stepped down and there was a by-election in a "safe" riding, whereas there was already a months-long vacancy in Calgary-Elbow because the former Justice Minister had resigned? That seat—my home riding—sat empty for nine months.
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Remember when Danielle Smith's predecessor resigned his position as premier and leader of the UCP, and they didn't have a leadership vote for another five months after that, and she won but didn't even have a seat in the legislature...
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1.21 jigabytes!? Great Scott! 😯
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The DynaTAC 8000 was commercially released in 1983 along with the AMPS network, for the low, low price of US$3,995.
The two grey phones on the right side of the photo appear to be later versions from the early 1990s. 🙂
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However, the "cell" network didn't exist yet. Motorola & Bell Labs collaborated to develop the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS), which was tested for commercial use and built out over the following 10 years. The AMPS network went commercially live in 1983 in the US.
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These are actually a bit later than '68. The fella in the photo is Marty Cooper, who was the chief designer of the Motorola DynaTAC: the first commercially available handheld mobile phone. Most of the pictured phones are prototypes from the '70s; Marty made the first call on one in April, 1973.
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They didn't bring another "home" PC to market for five years thereafter. That successor model, the PS/1, was introduced in 1990. And I know about *that* one because my grandparents had one! It also wasn't a great success for IBM. Not coincidentally IBM stopped making home computers in 2001...
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No worries, Lary. 🙂 I only knew that was a PCjr because my parents had one. They're the only people I've ever known who had one, and most people I've talked to about it had never even heard of the PCjr. Although it had some neat features (wireless keyboard!), it was a spectacular failure for IBM.
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That's an IBM PCjr, which came out in 1984.
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Correction: *yet*. Don't have nerve damage *yet*. 😐
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Ugh, I'm not sure what's worse: the grinding on the way up a flight of stairs, or the grinding on the way *down*... 😞 I don't have the luxury of nerve damage: it friggin' hurts!
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I think of this episode every time I have to submit to the dehumanizing security theatrics at airports. The 9/11 terrorists 'won' in that respect: almost 25 years later we *still* put up with being treated like scum. "Full-body scanners" are our 21st-century "phaser sweeps" & "blood screenings".
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Changeling-O'Brien gloats, laughs and teases about how few of them are there: "just four of us, and look at the havoc we've wrought. 😈" Disproportionate responses, paranoia and fear were turning Earth's own people against each other, turning otherwise respectable people like Leyton into zealots.
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My favourite part is that Leyton isn't entirely wrong: there *are* changeling operatives on Earth, and they *are* up to no good. However, it's Sisko's confrontation with the changeling impersonating O'Brien that cements the decision to unravel Leyton's plan.