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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • TL;DR they think he should look at electoral reform again

    A huge wedge of the liberal voter base were disenfranchised when Trudeau promised electoral reform, practically guaranteed it, and then just announced they weren’t going to do it but don’t worry here’s legal weed. Many of them were youth voting for the first time, and that betrayal set the tone. If he set it in motion before the election, is it possible they’d recapture at least some of that base? Sure. Would I vote for him? Not a chance.









  • I translate:

    be a biologist
    research clovers
    everyone says “clovers have 3 leaves”
    its a law of nature
    go outside
    find 4-leaf clover
    i better take it to court for violating laws of nature

    This is obviously stupid. Discovering something that violates a descriptive ‘law’ means the law was wrong. And yet, people do this in conversation all the time.

    Sometimes casual conversation begins with a “But”. E.g., someone might say “But anyway, have you seen that new movie Oppenheimer?”

    Grammar nazis react to this by saying “You can’t say ‘but’ at the start of a sentence if that sentence isn’t a rebuttal of the previous sentence! It’s a law of english!”

    ‘Laws’ of english are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. But alas, we live in a society 😔