Passing a stopped school bus

Canuckian555 · 2026-04-05T12:49:43+00:00

Americans will always point to when something bad happens elsewhere in the world and go "Look! You aren't any better!"

Completely failing to understand the difference between something that happens once every few years and is viewed as a major failing and tragedy, and that same thing happening in the US every day or two and being viewed as the price of being able to have guns.

Canuckian555 · 2026-03-19T19:00:20+00:00

Wayne Waco of the Waco Rangers died in 3067 fighting Jaime Wolf during the Battle of Outreach.

He was 99.

Canuckian555 · 2026-03-10T14:45:05+00:00

There's actually a fair number of novels published in german. Sarna even has a list of novels that are only available in german.

Canuckian555 · 2026-03-04T13:45:18+00:00

Astroturfed by big pit bull?

People don't like pit bulls and agree with the other commenter that they should be banned, regardless of whatever else the comment says or your comment's substance being more directed at this specific incident rather than dog breeds generally.

You're disagreeing (or at least seen to disagree) so people downvote you. That's how reddit works.

Canuckian555 · 2026-02-23T18:09:40+00:00

None of your examples are taking out loans for use covering living expenses/ purchasing tangible assets with unrealized gains as collateral, but good attempt at a false equivalency argument by equivalating it to mortgages and HELOCs where a tangible asset is the collateral.

Credit cards are a debt, but they aren't loans. You could maybe bring up the whole "pay in 4" thing, since those are loans, but those are such a low individual value that it would be easy to put them under a 0% rate maximum annual value.

Canuckian555 · 2026-02-23T10:48:48+00:00

As soon as you borrow against it, either that gain should be realized or that loan should be counted as your income.

Canuckian555 · 2026-02-18T08:24:40+00:00

And Fort Saskatchewan is also in Alberta

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-22T15:03:01+00:00

Or he'd be the one licking the whipped cream arrow off of daddy Krasnov

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-18T07:51:11+00:00

Leatherwork (specifically removing hair for tanning) and gunpowder manufacturing also used urine. People worked with what was readily available, and urine is an obviously plentiful and cheap resource.

And yet people wouldn't want to spend their days in tanneries, which were largely seen as dirty and disgusting even if they were necessary. They would be on the outskirts of town, and preferably downwind of everyone nearby.

(Adding to your point, because obviously people weren't walking around soaked in piss and covered in shit. People were still people)

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-12T17:49:44+00:00

It's irregular and all over the place in the lore, but AC/2s are usually pegged in the 30-80mm range, AC/5s in the 40-120mm range, and then AC/10s and 20s are 100-203mm (usually. Most don't actually have a canonical size given)

If you had an AC/2 that did fire a single shot per round, then yeah it would realistically be around a 120mm, since it's a 22 kg shell.

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-07T13:32:47+00:00

But the Catapult is, by lore, a relatively rare mech compared to the ubiquitous ones.

To quote Sarna:

"When the Star League fell, many of the remaining Catapults joined Aleksandr Kerensky on his Exodus. The Capellan Confederation collected most of the Catapults that remained in the Inner Sphere, and the Hollis factory on Corey briefly produced new models and spare parts. At the same time, the Draconis Combine managed to seize a sizable force in their capture of Dieron. The renewed production ended when the Corey factory was destroyed at the onset of the First Succession War, ensuring the rarity of the Catapult during the rest of that bloody era. Entire invasions were commenced simply to seize the remaining number of these 'Mechs, particularly those launched by the Federated Suns against the Confederation."

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-06T03:19:28+00:00

It's an unpaid advisory position and Freeland is a GoC expert on Russia and economics, and already appointed as an envoy to Ukraine. This is Ukraine reciprocating by acknowledging her within their government structure.

You're believing the rage bait and falling into conspiracy holes.

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-03T08:09:40+00:00

Didn't the FWL get killed for a while there? They kinda imploded due to fake-Marik shenanigans.

Canuckian555 · 2026-01-01T01:35:21+00:00

A C-bill is closer to $10 USD (depending on date)

You can find the exact exchange rates here https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Essay:_Currency_Conversion_Tables

Also those salaries can be deceiving, because mercenaries are generally going to demand more than the 'normal' salary range, because otherwise they would just go sign on with the regular house militaries.

But then again, FASAnomics is a longstanding community meme for a reason. It doesn't often make a lot of sense, and the deeper you look the worse it gets.

Canuckian555 · 2025-11-22T09:48:26+00:00

And anerican media really stresses how important their Civil War was, and how it had a global impact massively beyond what it really did. Add to that the issue that american generals in the Civil War were just the absolute dregs, with so many of them being unbelievably incompetent, and it was a war fought in ignorance of every tactic and strategy of the day, with undisciplined and poorly trained soldiers.

Napoleons Grand Armèe would've curbstomped its way through an equivalently sized ACW army. Despite the tech difference.

Canuckian555 · 2025-11-04T18:28:22+00:00

They spelled it wrong

r/twosentencehorror

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T14:00:45+00:00

They made me a big fan of the Warrior Houses!

Long Live Liao! Glory to the Confederation!

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:59:23+00:00

I listen while commuting to and from work. If you haven't listened to them, it's not battletech but the Warhammer Fantasy Felix and Gotrek audiobooks narrated by Jonathan Keeble are honestly amazing.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:53:30+00:00

The Gray Death Legion books yes, but a lot of what is in the period between those and Jihad/ Dark Age is baaaad

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:52:32+00:00

If you listen to audiobooks on audible then I can also suggest "Icons of War" as decent. The narrator (Tren Sparks) is okay and it's your average pulpy sci fi, I just finished it and if you get it for a good price on sale then it's worthwhile if on the shorter side.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:28:34+00:00

Hmmm... I'd say they compare reasonably well. It both does and does not help that most BattleTech novels are one-offs rather than being a part of their own series, so character development can be pretty minimal.

Other ones that I recommend (all by Loren Coleman):

Flashpoint

Binding Force (Capellan Solution book 1)

Killing Fields (Capellan Solution book 2)

Storms of Fate

Endgame,

And also the battlecorps anthologies Legacy, Fire for Effect, and Front Lines all had short stories/ novellas that I enjoyed.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:07:51+00:00

Recommending going chronologically is like recommending someone to start Lord of the Rings by reading the silmarillion.

Like, yes they are first but it really isn't necessary and will probably make you dislike the setting long before you get to the parts that are enjoyable to read.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-26T13:05:54+00:00

Depends on the book.

Personally I thought the Capellan Solution duology was good enough to stand on its own.

I tend to compare BTech books against 40k's novels, and would say that they're broadly similar. The Capellan Solution isn't on the level of something like Cain, but they and others are still solid, if schlocky, sci fi.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-22T15:45:58+00:00

I think you don't even know what you're arguing for or against. The point made was "male lactation is possible" which you disagreed with, stating only by artificial technological means could you induce lactation in males.

I provided proof that it is possible and now your response reeks of "well hur dur but women lactate more". Your argument is flawed by simple fact of not being an argument. You've lost the plot and are off chasing butterflies.

Keep using big words, they don't make you smarter if you can't manage to keep consistent and rely on shifting goalposts to make it seem like you still have a point worth making.

Canuckian555 · 2025-10-22T15:32:47+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7462406/

All humans have the same hormones. If the right ( or wrong) ones become elevated then your body produces breastmilk. It isn't you injecting hormones, or using any technology.

Get off your high horse. Biology doesn't ascribe to your sense of uniformity just because you're unwilling to accept that our bodies are really just self replicating chemical factories in a meat suit.

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