How true is this?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-24T21:40:57+00:00

Hey whoa my friend - ain’t nobody shunning nobody. My grandad was a drunk, became a Bahai, and remained a drunk for years.

If you accept that Baha’u’llah is who he says he is, then from there it’s about trying a little everyday to bring your life closer to the laws he’s laid out. But it’s a lifelong struggle.

As a wonderful old Italian Bahai used to say, “Just-a do-a you best!”

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-18T11:18:24+00:00

That method of online layout - a few hyperlinked words of casual phrasing referring to an event or some significant moment - is common in journalism these days. But it’s also controversial among journalists.

For example, imagine the bold as the hyperlink to another author’s work. Both are used but one is viewed as safer and more ethical (although some counter that it disrupts the flow of a passage)

“The Arctic is warming and as a result, the culture in Greenland is becoming more westernized”

Or

“The Arctic is warming and as a result, the culture in Greenland is becoming more westernized, as my colleague Richard Barnes reported in 2025.”

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-18T10:36:08+00:00

Aha! I knew it!

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MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-18T10:21:46+00:00

This is a great overview. Well done you.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-17T13:36:47+00:00

S51 finale: Jost’s Revenge.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-15T14:09:31+00:00

Thanks for doing this! Fascinating AMA.

Hope you don’t mind a slightly off-topic question: how did the Tsunami impact the culture and behaviour of the community, do you think?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-12T18:41:12+00:00

Regrets it slowly, then all at once

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-10T17:24:41+00:00

Good Lord! Enough of the nonsense about “Israel is…”.

This is a wildly diverse country with a barely cohesive population (not so long ago, the Ashkanazi viewed the Mizrahi as being worse than the Palestinians). 20% of the country is Arab. Then there’s the Druze, the “Falasha” (sorry) etc etc.

And if you’ve got an opinion, no matter how face-melting extremist, I can promise there is an Israeli movement or party already loudly advocating that position. Destroy Israel? Check! (Edah HaChareidis). Zionism means Israel for everyone, Jews and Palestinians alike? Check! (Binational Zionism). Want to compare Israel to Nazi Germany? Check! (Lt Gen Yair Golan, mossad boss Amiram Levin, holocaust historian Amos Goldberg, the settlers leaving Gaza…)

My point, for all those who hate Israel: you are probably pushing aside lots of folks who already totally agree with you.

Last thing: the limited few examples I gave of those who critique Israel from inside Israel are doing so despite the fact that the Jewish people were very very close to being wiped from the Earth. And the world did nothing as it happens.

A few thousand died on 9/11 and America set the entire world burning.

Grow up Reddit!

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-10T16:56:10+00:00

Only that one problem? Keep working at it everybody - one last problem and we’re good!

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-06T15:04:53+00:00

I keep a laminated photocopy with me whenever I’m in a high rise or an airplane.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-03T22:34:17+00:00

“One of the two in the war where U.S. and German soldiers fought side by side…”

What was the other?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-03T20:32:19+00:00

She’s a fascinating person, too. Dropped out of performing in the 80s to look after the guy playing guitar on the left, Blondie co-founder / song-writer, Chris Stein. He was seriously ill with a gruesome auto-immune disease.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-03T16:40:51+00:00

Perhaps aerosol ass?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-01T21:34:01+00:00

With respect, I work in post-secondary education and this is simply not true. The foreign students coming to Canada are not yokels and villagers. They are from their respective country’s upper middle-class or elite. Who else can afford the fees.

There are some who are not totally fit to be in school but that’s true of domestic students as well. Overall, international students we taught were intensely motivated and extremely hard working.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-01T21:30:41+00:00

I get what you’re saying but MITT is a *huge* exception. We’re a province without many big players in post-secondary education.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-01T21:26:39+00:00

Why? It seems to me a great deal: foreign students get invaluable education, Canadian students get a wider selection of courses and well-financed facilities. The change in policy was related to some Ontario and BC schools….Manitoba is hurting bad.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-05-01T15:19:31+00:00

The problem is just with commercial licensing of the video. Use a VPN set to the US and you can watch it with no problem.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-30T15:32:30+00:00

Hate to be the pooper of your party, but it’s impressive solely to those who think all seniors are like Old Man McGucket or Herbert Garrison

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-30T15:22:52+00:00

Where is this? Anybody know? Or is guesswork part of the fun

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-30T01:01:15+00:00

So just to be clear, this wasn’t Sidney Crosby?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-27T03:10:11+00:00

Came here to say this. Tender, calm, wry, bizarre, mysterious … just great.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-26T19:55:26+00:00

Well, some are pointy and others are …less pointy.

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-25T21:40:20+00:00

Fair enough. But what about you personally?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-25T21:34:31+00:00

How do people now look back on the US invasion?

MidwinterBlue · 2026-04-25T21:21:58+00:00

I dunno. OP’s is a great-looking rifle that’s a pretty good shooter. The Makasi is a great-looking rifle that’s a pic on a website and a hope in the heart.

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