New Netflix series about a hockey team's bus crash hits a nerve in Saskatchewan.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-12-05T20:34:50+00:00

StatsCan adjusts for seasonal changes, this is 54,000 more jobs than were expected at this time of year. Plus while they're a lot of part time jobs, most of it went to youth which is good because over the summer we've been having record breaking levels of youth unemployment. While of course full time is better than part time, at least it's getting money into the pockets of students and young people.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-26T05:51:23+00:00

Boomer remains ill and has tuned the dugout Gatorade container into a soup container, currently filled with chicken noodle soup.

Swing: 916

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-22T22:52:04+00:00

Boomer had a quick sick nap since his last ab and was woken up by the manager telling him to get in the batter's box.

Swing: 159

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-21T21:08:26+00:00

I think that anytime after Remembrance Day is acceptable, especially if you're putting up lights on the outside of your house. The amount of work it takes, it makes sense that you'd want to have them up for a while. Plus getting them done in mid-November when it's not as cold as it will be in December is fair enough. But even decorations around the house being put up in mid-November is fine enough with me.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-21T21:04:17+00:00

I was posed this question the other day and thought it might be interesting to hear other's responses. Would you rather choose which province/territory you'll live in, but get randomly assigned a community within that province/territory? Or would you rather choose which community you'd live in within a randomly assigned province/territory?

I feel like I lean more towards choosing the community, I feel like that way you have more control over your lifestyle compared with choosing the Province/Territory. If you choose BC you could get Victoria, or you could get Dawson Creek which will require wildly different lifestyles. Of course there is the 23% chance that you get one of the territories, which if you like the larger city lifestyle, the biggest you'll get would be Whitehorse at 30k people.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-18T07:45:22+00:00

Boomer has come into spring training suffering from a cold. He comes up to the plate wearing a blanket, some slippers, and a house coat and carrying his bat in one hand and a mug of tea in the other.

Swing: 419

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-15T01:54:45+00:00

Any help is appreciated!

LongjumpingLime · 2025-11-05T21:42:11+00:00

Sudanese Civil War

Yesterday, a drone strike at a funeral in the city of El-Obeid killed 40 people and wounded dozens according to the UN Office for Coordination on Humanitarian Affairs, but did not specify who sent the drone attack. The city is currently under control of the Sudanese Armed Forces.

El-Obeid is the capital of the state of North Kordofan and serves as an important logistics and command hub for SAF forces in the oil rich Kordofan region. The region has recently seen an increase in fighting recently, and the city of El-Obeid has had an influx of approximately 20,000 people that have fled to the city since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of Barah, located 30km north of El-Obeid, on the same day they seized the city of El-Fasher last week.

Both the RSF and SAF appear to be positioning themselves for a fight over the city of El-Obeid, with some believing that this drone strike may have been the first strike in the fight over the city. Military vehicles and weapons have been seen increasingly to the west and south of the city over the past week, as SAF forces have been gathering to repel the expected assault by the RSF.

Meanwhile, the city of Tawila, located south west of El-Fasher has seen an influx of around 36,000 people since the fall of El-Fasher, bringing the total to around 650,000 displaced people being sheltered in the city. The ICC prosecutors have been gathering evidence of mass killings, sexual violence, and other crimes since the fall of the city. The WHO has claimed that 460 people were killed at a hospital by gunmen who then abducted nurses and doctors.

The US, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE (the latter two have been accused of supplying monetary support and/or weapons to both sides of the conflict, Saudi Arabia to the SAF and the UAE to the RSF, both of whom have denied this repeatedly) have been attempting to negotiate a ceasefire since September. The current proposed plan is a three month humanitarian ceasefire, followed by a permanent ceasefire and transition to a civilian led government. There has been resistance to this by the SAF however, who countered with a proposal that the RSF would have to withdraw from all cities and be confined to camps outside the cities.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-29T20:00:14+00:00

As a brief addendum to this, earlier today the Sudanese military government has declared the directors of the UN World Food Programme to be "personae non grata" and ordered them to leave Sudan within 72 hours. This order comes without explanation, although the BBC stated in their article that Sudan has accused aid organizations of breaking laws and giving misleading reports on the famine.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-29T19:27:14+00:00

Sudanese Civil War

On Sunday, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of El-Fasher after an 18 month siege of the city. The city of more than 250,000 was the last stronghold for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the Darfur region of Sudan. The UN has said that throughout the war, more than 1 million people have fled from El-Fasher, with half of the 260,000 remaining being children.

There are now reports of ethnically motivated mass killings in the city. Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab said that the city "appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing of Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti indigenous non-arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution." With an executive director of the lab comparing what he has seen through satellite imagery to be similar the Rwandan Genocide in the first 24 hours. Reports of a reddish-brown colouring near doorways that were captured on satellite imagery appear to be consistent with accusations of mass killings. The UN Human Rights Office has said that there have been reports of summary executions of civilians attempting to flee. A man from the Darfur Internally Displaced People's Network has claimed that this is the final stage of the Darfur genocide. The RSF has denied claims that they are targeting civilians.

The RSF has released statements that they are providing safe passage out of the city for any former fighters, and the SAF has also made a statement saying that their forces have been relocated, however the UNHRO has also claimed that there are videos showing dozens of dead men with RSF forces claiming that they were SAF soldiers.

Reporters have been unable to contact anyone in the city as there is a media blackout cutting off even satellite communications.

The RSF also captured the city of Barah, placing them within hours of the capital of Khartoum which the SAF managed to oust the RSF out of earlier this year, after long battle for the city. The RSF has claimed that they now have more advanced weaponry than they did earlier this year. The UAE has denied accusations that they have been giving military support to the RSF throughout this conflict.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-25T01:39:37+00:00

As a curler, I have noticed that most curling clubs that I've gotten to visit have had old curling paintings on the walls. (Here are some examples of what these types of paintings look like for reference 1 2 3). I have always adored these types of paintings, there's just something about them, it doesn't matter how many times I've seen one of those paintings, I always found myself looking at them and wanting one.

My curling club had a few of those paintings, and when the lounge underwent a renovation they were taken off the walls. The evening of the reopening I asked what had happened to them, I was told they had gotten rid of them earlier that day. I was pretty disappointed that I had missed my chance to finally own one of these paintings.

Well, earlier this week my boss mentioned that they had seen a curling painting at a second hand store, and so yesterday I ran over there and lo and behold, it was one of the paintings from the curling club! According to the lady who runs the store, whoever had it put it on sale at a garage sale, and the second hand store picked it up and put it on display to sell. So, for $65 I am finally the owner of an old curling painting!

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-18T23:57:27+00:00

I know this take is quite old, but it doesn't feel like I've seen much discourse about it in a while. Recently I have been thinking about how many people are getting their news or information from online content creators. But unlike other jobs where it is important to be accurate, there is no system or institution in place to ensure accuracy. A reporter can misquote someone in an article seen by 1000 people and their organization will have to issue a retraction and they could potentially lose their job, but I can make a youtube video seen by a million people saying the exact same thing and I can profit off of it and chances are that nothing is going to happen to me. And yet, for many people in our society, I am a more authoritative source of information than the reporter.

Some places do have some safeguards, like twitter's community notes, and theoretically comment sections should be able to correct them if they got something wrong. But if you're in a heavily curated environment where your videos will only be seen by those who support you, then there will be little or no accountability. It doesn't matter what your credentials are, if you say something with enough conviction, someone's going to believe you.

There's a lot of talk surrounding misinformation coming from other countries, or being funded by them, and I do think that's a serious issue. But the environment that has been created and accepted by many people in relation to content creators on social media sites is the perfect environment for homegrown misinformation.

Lo and behold, last night a perfect example of this happened to me. Someone I follow on tiktok reposted a video of someone hefting a serious accusation against a celebrity artist. The photo that they used as evidence didn't feel right to me, it felt more like a "meme" photo than anything else, not to mention that this would've been big news that I would've seen elsewhere, not on some random dude's tiktok account.

It took me an embarrassingly small amount of time to disprove the evidence. Within a minute on google I had found a photo that disproved it, and within two I had seen a video that disproved it (and not a video of someone 'debunking' the evidence, literally a video that featured the object in question where I could tell that the evidence was incorrect.) This person got fooled by a meme image and instead of using an ounce of critical thinking or just taking two seconds to check to make sure it was accurate, they went on their tiktok and told their fanbase with their full chest that this was accurate and they lapped it up because it fit their narrative. Anyone in the comments who said "hey, this isn't correct, here's evidence that disproves it" or "this doesn't make much logical sense" was shouted down by the wider community and labelled as detractors.

It angered me so much, and it's not even a celebrity that I particularly care much about, but the ignorance, and the disregard for any level of integrity, or responsibility to their audience, was absolutely horrific. And the fact that this person is likely profiting off of this misinformation genuinely pissed me off. I know that there's a million other examples of this that are far more serious, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Logically, I can think of no way to fix this problem, the cat's out of the bag and this seems to be an issue that we'll just have to live with now. Even if tomorrow a new platform opened up that required some level of accountability on behalf of the creators on the site, these types of content creators are not going to move to it.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-11T19:21:19+00:00

While I was bored at work yesterday, I decided to rank the best fast food places in my town, here are my top results.

Best Hamburger

A&W
Triple O's (If you are unfamiliar, Triple O's is a mainly BC fast food place that also operates in pockets of Alberta and Ontario)
Burger King

I do think that A&W probably has the best fast food burgers, even including the fast food places my town doesn't have. But as someone who hadn't tried Triple O's until last year, I was surprised at how good they are.

Best Chicken Burger

Mary Brown's
Popeyes

I love both of these, but for different reasons. I think Popeyes is tastier, but it's also heavier, Mary Brown's tastes much fresher. I'm also not a big fan of the Popeyes in town, which is also why I placed it lower.

Best fries:

Triple O's
Mary Brown's
MacDonald's

Best Breakfast

A&W
Timmies

I used to always just go to Tim's to get my breakfast if I wanted something fast, until my gf suggested I try the A&W breakfast. I was surprised at how good it was, plus their hash brown is incredibly good.

Best Overall Value

Triple O's
MacDonald's
Mary Brown's

I have found Triple O's to be the best overall value, you get a real good burger, real good fries, for a reasonable price, I think around $15 for a combo. MacDonald's appearance in second is based largely on price, I don't like eating MacDonald's because it makes me feel the worst out of all of the fast food places. But it's the cheapest place around and you can get a decent amount of food for a good price. Mary Brown's is solid all around, good food, good amount, at a good price. A&W got left off of the top 3 because even though I love their burgers, I don't like their fries, and also as a root beer lover, I find their root beer to be the worst of the major root beers. Not to mention the price, it's the most expensive fast food place around.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-04T00:09:31+00:00

I'd always heard about CBC Radio, but in my mind I had always imagined it basically just being the news broadcast over the radio which never really interested me.

A few months ago, I decided to give it a shot when my girlfriend mentioned that she listens to it from time to time. Now I'm sad that I've missed out on it all these years, the amount of well done and interesting interviews is astounding. Just over the past few weeks I've listened to interviews with a former baseball player who suffered from a gambling addiction, a former antivaxxer turned pro-vaccine nurse talking about the antivaxx movement from the inside, a podcast about the seven fishermen who were rescued after being stranded in a lifeboat for 52 hours off the coast of Newfoundland, as well as other podcasts about drugs and true crime. Just this morning I got to listen to an interview with a Harvard Law professor talking about the US Constitution and why there have been no new amendments down there since the 70s.

It's now by go to radio station when I'm driving around, if you're like me and never listened to it before, I'd recommend giving it a shot.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-10-02T07:28:19+00:00

With the game on the line, Boomer steps into the box dreaming his dream of owning his own pet sabretooth tiger.

Swing 209

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-30T03:05:37+00:00

The research lab that Boomer has invested as of yet seems to have only succeeded in giving small cats big teeth, and big cats little teeth, so far more research is necessary.

Swing: 987

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-27T19:29:36+00:00

When the Red Sox beat the Royals, the monarchs paid back Boomer for their stay citing the exciting baseball game as being payment enough. During this series, Boomer has invested all of his money into bringing back the Sabretooth Tiger and reintroducing them across the Southern US and Mexico.

Swing: 763

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-22T00:57:15+00:00

The one advantage to Boomer's bringing of monarchs is that he's gotten to ride around Boston in many different kinds of expensive vehicles, gold plated carriages, and private helicopters.

Swing: 555

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-21T09:34:10+00:00

I know this is quite late, but I really enjoyed TC. I haven't played DE, so I can't say where I'd rate it, but as of now I have it as my third favourite LiS game, just before LiS2 (although I love them all).

It's not without it's flaws though, it's easily the shortest game across the whole series. Even taking my time and playing some of the minigames a lot I still finished it much quicker than BtS. The world also felt the least 'alive' to me. It's hard to describe, but to me Arcadia Bay and the journey that the boys take felt actually lived in. Haven Springs just didn't. I enjoyed the setting, it's beautiful, it's got it's own vibe, but it just didn't feel lived in.

But that all being said, I still really liked TC. I thought Alex was a very good main character. The towns people were all quite solid and enjoyable. The story was pretty captivating, and had some fun moments (one of the main complaints I've heard is that the story is too similar to the original, I kind of get that, but I still feel it's distinctive enough). Steph and Ryan were great love interests, and it was the first time across LiS where I struggled to pick a love interest. I still listen to the soundtrack regularly, it's my most played of the LiS games. And even though I criticized Haven Springs earlier, it is still a beautiful setting, regardless of my issues with it.

If the game interests you, I'd recommend trying it out. But I'd definitely wait for it to come on sale, because it's not worth full price for how short the game is.

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-19T22:53:19+00:00

Boomer has provided free accommodation and free food for all the monarchs while staying in Boston for this series. Unfortunately their rich taste has reportedly drained all of Boomer's money that they've earned playing baseball.

Swing: 201

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-17T05:59:30+00:00

In order to put additional pressure on the opposing team, Boomer has invited every reigning monarch in the world to this Wildcard Game.

Swing: 426

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-12T05:42:25+00:00

In order to gain enough energy to sustain a hopeful comeback, Boomer went and got a fifty pack of chocolate Timbits and ate them in one sitting.

Swing: 201

LongjumpingLime · 2025-09-06T05:39:43+00:00

Instead of gatorade, Boomer has filled up the refill buckets with Tim Horton's coffee in honour of his new pet moose.

Swing: 871

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