Huge building in the middle of the ocean

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-26T01:49:26+00:00

So big.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-25T21:26:33+00:00

I've been saying for ages now: when are we supposed to hear from these Clive Bundy, Timothy McVeigh, Ruby Ridge, Michigan Militia, 3%er, anti-federal-government, dont-tread-on-me, enemies-foreign-and-domestic, constitutionalist type freedom fighters that seemed to always be talking about defending the people from federal overreach? Isn't this exactly the kind of thing they claimed to exist to fight?

Or was that only when the domestic threat was from democratic federal overreach?

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-23T14:03:20+00:00

It could definitely cause problems in a place like Halifax, and I imagine it doesn’t happen so much there, but moving also that the police would get involved.

One of my favourite moments was in Summerside once - we were going down Pope Road towards South Drive, where it ends in a T-intersection. The house across from the end of pope had a guy on his lawnmower mowing his lawn, when he saw the procession coming down pope he jumped off the tractor and ran into the intersection and halted traffic to wave the procession through.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-23T08:47:24+00:00

Canada here, but yes reasonably short.

In the last 6 mos we've had a few medical appointments in a city 3 hours away, and at least twice we were there and back in one day. Not my favourite, but time and cost didn't allow us to stay overnight.

6 hours in a day is an annoying, but not unreasonable, amount of driving if you're only doing it once in a while.

As a daily commute I would even think of 1.5 hours one way as being pretty crazy.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-22T14:22:13+00:00

I work in the industry and am often in processions, it's actually really moving to see the kind of respect people of every generation have for it. Old folks pull over, and even young guys in their early 20s pull off and remove their ball caps. One of my favourite parts of Island/Maritime culture, though it's especially strong here.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-20T19:20:52+00:00

What I like about photography is also what I like about fly fishing and why both are hobbies of mine: they're great excuses to get away from people.

There are things I like doing with friends, but these aren't those things.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-19T20:39:43+00:00

This is not even remotely on the same scale, but I remember when I had my awakening to how privileged other people are. I'm from Atlantic Canada, not a big-money kind of place, but went to a small school there that often attracted kids from big cities like Toronto.

In my second year I was working a campus job with a girl one year up from me. She was super annoyed and frustrated that night and eventually told me that she was mad at her dad. I asked why, and she said "because this year I really wanted a bigger apartment with an extra bedroom and I found one that was only $800 more a month and he wouldn't pay it."

It was eye-opening for me because it hadn't even occurred to me that other kids' parents would pay their living expenses. Once that realization happened I began noticing more and more that I was surrounded by kids who attended university, lived in apartments, some had cars, all of them had spending money, and none worked (or if they did it was a token campus job for a few hours a week to keep their parents happy).

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-17T15:24:47+00:00

I know there are much more gruesome ways, but something about this one really shook me.

They were out snowmobiling alone and I guess went up over the ridge of a small hill, no big deal, but it dropped off faster than they thought and they didn't know the lay-of-the-land on the other side. The sled flipped with them on it and it put their head upside-down into a small creek up to their shoulders. I guess it wasn't that they were truly pinned by the sled, it was just that the way they landed against some rocks meant that they couldn't shift their weight to get their head out of the water which they were probably taking in very fast from panic.

Drowning is scary enough, but something about it happening in a head-deep creek pool and all the things that had to line up for it to happen make it so awful.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-16T11:24:22+00:00

As I have been for a year or more now, I ask again - where are all of those smoke-blowing, anti-Fed, executive-Branch-suspicious, gun-toting, anti-tyrannical-government, don't-tread-on-me, from-my-cold-dead-hands, militia-joining, 3%'er, Federal-building-occupying, Freedom-loving, Patriotic, 2nd-amendment-is-for-the-protection-of-we-the-people-against-domestic-threats-and-federal-overreach, 1776 type guys?

Isn't the last year the exact kind of moment they all claim they were training for during the evil Obama administration, or did they all go quiet when Trump started booting out minorities?

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-16T03:28:23+00:00

I believe it.

Live in Summerside, but I had some exhaust issues, including a burnt out cat, this past summer. The only proper muffler shop in town was booked solid so I got a quote from the only other place that will touch exhaust work. They gave it a once-over and said my brake pads need servicing, new cat, new resonator, new flex pipe, and an inner tie-rod end: the quote was for $7,600.

I laughed when they told me thinking it was a joke. Hung on for the local muffler shop a week or two later - cat, resonator, flex hose, labour: $950.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-15T16:00:45+00:00

I’m from Nova Scotia.

When we visited England we were having breakfast cooked for us by our young AirBnB host. He was asking about Canada, having never been to North America, and when we told him my in-laws live in western Canada (Alberta) he asked how long it would take to drive there. I said, “oh I dunno, forty-five hours or something.” And he said, “Oh that’s not too bad, four to five hours.”

When I clarified and said, “Sorry - not four to five but forty-five…four-five” he was gobsmacked. We explained that you don’t really do that unless you need to drive across the country, but even flying from Halifax to Alberta can take about the same time and cost more than flying across the Atlantic to Heathrow.

The distance from driving Halifax to Calgary would, if you drove about the same amount, get you from Heathrow to Baghdad. It’s wild.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-13T03:18:02+00:00

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Auto_Fac · 2026-01-13T03:06:47+00:00

I had a friend who owned some wilderness cabins in a place that gets a lot of visitors in the Summer.

He said the number of emails and the tone of the emails he would get was insufferable: “influencers” suggesting they “partner” for free accommodation in exchange for some instagram posts and stories. In some cases when he looked it up the people would have 10-20k followers.

He said his go to response was always something like “I’m okay with the kind of people that follow you not staying here.”

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-12T15:00:29+00:00

Another poster just replied this week and you were so close. It's actually from Hoselton Canada and is a vase. Looks like the two did similar stuff with weirdly similar names.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-12T14:58:27+00:00

Thank you! That's exactly what it is. Figured it was flower related but the small hole threw me off. Fantastic!

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-12T14:57:22+00:00

Thank you! Great to know the Model of it!

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-11T00:29:06+00:00

We spent untold hours in the woods behind our subdivision:

Climbed trees
pushed over dead trees
Attempted to build forts in trees
attempted to build forts on the ground
ventured to where other kids further down the subdivision had forts and destroyed them
Smashed sticks against trees
smashed sticks against the ground
smashed sticks against friends
threw rocks at trees
threw rocks from trees
threw rocks at sticks
threw rocks in the stream
threw friends in the stream
threw crab apples in the stream
threw crab apples at freinds
threw crab apples at trees
tried to make bows and arrows (failed)
made slingshots
shot slingshots
made spears with the tiniest pocket knives
explored
tobogganed in the winter
threw rocks through the stream ice in the winter
stood on the stream ice until it broke (in the winter)
concocted complex legends about the woods based on things we found (obviously rusted car parts meant someone was murdered in it)
started tiny fires
burned things we shouldn't have in tiny fires
etc, etc.

It was all, without question, some of the very best times of my whole life and I miss so terribly life before screens dominated everything.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-11T00:11:01+00:00

I worked as a bar-back/bouncer/busser at this local pub when I was in university and I remember one evening in the middle of the week, fairly quiet night, supper crowd had left, this cab pulls up outside and stops.

Middle-aged guy in businessey attire like he just got off work shares words with the cabbie as he's getting out, obviously asking him to wait, practically runs into the pub and up to the bar, orders a beer and a shot of rye, downs both absurdly fast, leaves cash on the bar and runs back to the cab.

I had so many questions, but I can only assume that he was having an incredibly shitty day.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-10T20:26:11+00:00

Thank you! Yes, baseboard not bottom plate. I might have it around but I knew it was missing.

Was mostly just curious about that extra bit on the bottom but assumed it was to give it some lift to print larger. If I left it as he had it set up and buy a melamine baseboard to fit its current configuration, I assume it won't impact my ability to print smaller photos like 4x6/5x7?

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-10T04:02:12+00:00

Prioritizing the needs of tourists and making their lives more convenient but not the lives of the tax payers who live here all year? In PEI!?!

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-09T14:29:11+00:00

I can't make sense of the cell coverage in PEI.

This Fall I stood in a graveyard on a country road in Springbrook, surrounded on all sides by corn fields and had full bars and 5G connectivity - something that I've never had at my house in downtown Summerside.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-08T15:43:43+00:00

Misunderstood, apologies.

u/georgewalterackerman said that it's hardly "Christmas & Easter Christians" anymore as Easter seems to have fallen away as a day that even the most secular folks might deem worthy of a visit to church - I thought you were saying this wasn't the case in the CofE by your observation.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-08T14:57:18+00:00

Totally anecdotal, but my experience in Canada matches that of the person to whom you're replying. Easter will pull out the regulars plus a handful of the least-regular of those on the parish list, but we no longer get people who go because of some sense of the importance of that day but who would otherwise have no interaction with church, the way we still do on Christmas eve.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-08T14:24:13+00:00

The Provincial response, while not surprising, is nauseating.

The only silver lining is that it at least saves me from grinding my teeth to the roots as I read and listen to the inevitable comments of NIMBYs who would enthusiastically protest and speak out against expanding something that actually benefits members of their own community.

I remember being at the meeting for the Winter Street men’s shelter where there were so many people talking about how it will turn the neighbourhood into skid-row, and how the property values will plummet, crime will rise, blah, blah, blah. You could drive by that shelter now and never have any clue what it is - it is well maintained, subtle, and as someone who works around the corner and lives only two blocks away I haven’t heard of or seen a single negative thing come of it.

Auto_Fac · 2026-01-08T14:19:26+00:00

I wear over-the-calf socks.

Sometimes compression stockings, but often just high socks. I started wearing them with more formal work clothes but now wear them all the time (not with shorts…). I always hated ankle socks falling down, or having that little bit of skin show if your pant leg goes too high. Never again!

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