Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Chilean wine is great. I recommend the Emiliana Coyam. Mmm
Everyone sleeping on dill. It’s a travesty!
Counterpoint. If she is high enough fey, this creates so many opportunities for the DM to fuck with the player in fun and creative ways.
Eg: spell fails, but she pretends it works. Discount applied, item is cursed. Etc. All charm spells cast by user now have inverse effects, and their feet smell bad.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
0·1 month agoFair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?
Even Reddit didn’t start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.
This advice generalizes. There aren’t enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
0·1 month ago“space music” – I played Mass Effect 1 long ago and got hooked on the idea of musicians trying (and often failing) to make music for futuristic settings. This is like Star Trek episodes that reference classical music but some person has to predict what classical music will sound like in 2300. So they go with with future retro stuff and it just tickles me. So I seek out these sorts of experimental musical pre-trend predictions cause they’re often hilarious.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
0·1 month agoThere are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things – and they’re pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence
0·1 month agoMust be a leadership review coming up. Pandering to base.
We are in zone 3. We usually trim after first frost. How we trim depends a bit on the plant. Eg: roses get cut back to a ball about a foot in diameter (and wrapped – some go in the garage if in pots); while blackberries get cut down to the ground if they produced this year – or they get wrapped as they stand are if they didn’t (they have a two year cycle, but rabbits fuck with them in winter); we have a decorative tree called a “smoke tree” which we trim back every year so it doesn’t grow too large.
I think it is a common high school shop class project. Or similar.
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pics@lemmy.world•Unbelievable. Our bed for a three day river tour in Borneo to see the orangatans.
0·1 month agoDaaaaad. Get off the internet
I’m a big fan of The North East ;)
Manitoba should invade down that highway – see how the rest of Canada feels when the Riel Rebellion …
Ah nevermind, let bygones be bygones.
Or logging, or farming. There’s a bunch of reasons to have low population density road networks.
Troy@lemmy.catoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump has turned the National Guard into mall cops. Cost? $1 million a day.
0·2 months ago$1M/day…
Okay, assuming $50k/yr cost per person, that’s something like $135/day for each “cop”. That’s like 7000 people if salary was the only thing.
Since I don’t think there are even 1000 of them deployed in DC, then there’s a lot of overhead going somewhere else. Uniforms, admin, whatever. Likely some good old fashioned corruption and grift.
Also, I’m kind of surprised that number is that low.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some trends/fads that you are glad the world has moved on from?
0·2 months agoSaw (or rather heard) a few at a football game recently. They’re still here, but at least it isn’t a stadium full.
Instead we use cowbells like God and nature intended ;)
Epic answer haha. My other half grew up in a Soviet apartment block, so I get stories from her about that on occasion. Mostly about not owning any of it except their contents. Definitely a “poor but housed” situation – don’t look behind the curtains. I’m not sure it’s a good idea either. During the collapse of the Soviet Union when the power and heat shut off, they were burning furniture in there – but I guess that’s a testament too a solid construction haha.
Anyway, fun reply! :)
Was in Regina for the weekend (I’m a Bomber fan, don’t hate me) and had a nice time! We were looking up real estate and comparing against Winnipeg and it seemed similar ish. But that doesn’t tell us about the rental market which sometimes has weird emergent phenomena.
If you were benevolent dictator of Canadastan, how would you fix it?













Probably not. Reddit post from four years ago has this image, and that’s from before AI was good enough to do fingers. https://www.reddit.com/r/sbubby/comments/kgjoai/my_neighbor_baphomet/
From the comments: “This piece of artwork was made by Herdis @asep.h.thefallen”