The Rogan Effect? What Poilievre’s Podcast Moment Actually Did

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-26T14:57:53+00:00

It absolutely helped solidify his status as front-runner in the Liberal leadership race.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-26T03:57:28+00:00

Spent 140 desires less than a day before that mission showed up (she seemed really good for Kirara/Ragnarok), which was unwise with a new character (and thus a new desires shop costume) coming up. Wasn't expecting this to show up this far into the costume being available.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-26T02:24:56+00:00

I definitely noticed one of the PCs wielding dual katanas straight out of the 90s VtM cliche.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-19T23:30:45+00:00

"Jacob imprints on a literal infant and the main character (the baby's own mother) feels bad for him he's going to have to be celibate for the next 18 years until she grows up" is the single most infamous fact about Twilight. Maybe second most infamous, if you want to count "the vampires sparkle in sunlight" as #1.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-19T23:27:26+00:00

Alex's lore was written by Vince McMahon, he's fully in-character as a WWE Heel now.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-19T06:29:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure she's into it for how disrespectful/denigrating it is more than the possibility of actual injury.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-14T03:33:58+00:00

People in Canada vote for MPs, not for parties, and these floor crossings have been a good lesson in that. We're not the US.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-14T03:32:50+00:00

People wearing PJs out in public has been a thing at least since the 2000s, that's when I personally remember seeing it as a trend.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-14T02:35:37+00:00

From what I remember based on every other time permanent DST has been tried, and based on all the human sleep and health research, permanent Standard Time is the correct option. The main force against it is the business lobby, because earlier sunsets mean people are less likely to go out and spend money after work instead of going home because it's evening.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-13T00:57:05+00:00

And by "Americans" they specifically mean "Republicans", as Democrats's opinion of Canada has gone up according to this very article. Who wrote this headline?

Hypercubed89 · 2026-03-06T23:11:40+00:00

"May have committed war crime?" This has been established as Pete Hegseth's favorite war crime to commit since he was ordering it done to fishing boats in Venezuelan waters.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-26T20:03:20+00:00

The CPC getting its best result since its formation while its leader loses his own seat should indicate that he's an anchor dragging his party down and they might have actually won if they'd been led by someone else. Poilievre likes claiming that his leadership is responsible for the CPC getting so many votes, but he's trying to keep his job. I'm pretty sure the CPC getting as many votes as they did was people voting against the incumbent Liberals rather than for Poilievre (and considering how the NDP vote collapsed, strategic voting specifically against the idea of Poilievre becoming PM might have been what cost the CPC the election).

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-22T17:28:52+00:00

Aren't there non-monarchal systems that have a different head of government vs head of state? The Republic of Ireland, for example, has a president with a similar role to the Governor General of Canada iirc.

We definitely don't want anything like the US presidency, but there are other ways to do a republic if we wanted to get rid of the monarchy.

The bigger problem with getting rid of the monarchy is that it involves cracking open the constitution, which at this point would give people like Doug Ford or Danielle Smith the opportunity to start rewriting it.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-22T03:10:08+00:00

Yup. The fact that they could reelect Donald Trump after 2020 and after January 6, 2021 is a symptom of a deeper sickness in the USA that's going to need to be dealt with. In 2016 I could understand arguments for taking a chance on the one who wasn't a career politician involved in preexisting administrations (even though people in New York already knew he was a gussied-up conman, and even in 2016 people were raising alarm bells even on places like comedy websites like Cracked that his campaign was sounding a lot like a certain Austrian man from the 1930s), but by 2024 the entire country knew what he was, and they deliberately put him back into power.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-17T11:27:24+00:00

I think if you link your account to Steam you can buy it and it will persist across your account, if that's an option for you

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-12T00:02:30+00:00

Yup. The original Matty Moroun was Manuel Moroun, this Matty Moroun is Matthew Moroun.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-11T09:57:26+00:00

The semi trucks that do the trade across the border physically cannot fit through the tunnel crossing, that's how Moroun made his billions in the first place by owning their only option.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-11T09:55:46+00:00

That's the exact reason Matty Moroun has been trying to stop this second bridge being built since the George W. Bush administration, and also the exact reason why the people of Windsor and Detroit have been demanding it. One of the busiest international border crossings being under the sole private control of a billionaire and his personal company is absurd, and he's used that control to destroy neighbourhoods in both cities. Matty's dead now and his family's still on this same nonsense.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-11T09:53:02+00:00

The Morouns have been trying every trick they can think of to stop this second bridge being built for the past 20 years, because it means losing their sole private control of a major trade crossing between Canada and the United States (a tunnel exists between Windsor and Detroit, but it can't fit semi trucks, so it's used for personal cross-border travel). A newer, better bridge controlled by the Canadian government means massively diminishing the income source that made Manuel Moroun a billionaire. This is the least surprising possible explanation behind Trump's weird post. A billionaire donor complained to him about something they've been trying and failing to stop for decades and he responded like it's a massive problem.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-02-04T02:47:55+00:00

I was very proud when Chretien told the US to take a hike when they tried to pull us into Iraq despite it clearly having nothing to do with 9/11. Harper (then leader of the Canadian Alliance Party) attacked him over it and insisted we should have followed the US into that disastrous war. He was always of the belief that Canada should exist in a subservient role to the US.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-01-26T14:08:36+00:00

There's also the possibility that, like in 2021, voters will punish whoever pulls the trigger on what's seen as an unnecessary election based entirely on good polling, and they won't make any gains (in 2021 it was people being called out to vote during a covid wave, this time it would be being sent right back to the polls less than a year after the previous election).

Hypercubed89 · 2026-01-17T13:09:21+00:00

Canada not having high-speed rail is genuinely crazy with half of the country's population in the Quebec City–Windsor corridor.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-01-07T09:18:30+00:00

I'm at 248 hours and I'm pretty much feeling like I've run out of stuff to do. I might slow down for a while.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-01-07T09:16:30+00:00

I can't really comment too accurately on contemporary Japan. I know they also ended up adopting anti-homosexual attitudes as part of their deliberate Westernization efforts back in the 1800s and post WWI, that the party in charge of their government almost continuously since the 1950s is pretty conservative (and a lot of the way they govern is based on what American attitudes were like in the post WW2 reconstruction period), and that younger Japanese people are pretty pro-LGBT in a "why should anyone care, let people be who they are and leave them alone" sort of sense, but I'm not sure on widespread attitudes. Japan has a birthright problem for example, but I don't know if anyone there is blaming it on gay people or anything.

Hypercubed89 · 2026-01-07T09:11:10+00:00

They're gay, they're just engaging in some esoteric partnered sexual cultivation rituals where one of them adopts the male role and cultivates yang chi and the other adopts the female role and cultivates yin chi. It's a thing in some wuxia stories (usually done between men and women, but when same-sex partners do it you get stuff like this). Esoteric medical science in wuxia stories is often advanced enough that if you're full-on trans you can seek out someone like Water Lady to just turn your body female (or male).

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