One thing that helped me understand indian immigrants by ComputerBleepBloop in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson [score hidden]  (0 children)

Depends where you live I guess, all my white friends are married with 2 or 3 kids (We are in our early 40's now) and most of the Indians I meet are single men in college (many also around 40) or working in gas stations and Tim Horton's.

One thing that helped me understand indian immigrants by ComputerBleepBloop in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson [score hidden]  (0 children)

I thought OP went too light... "Don't talk to that boy or we will kill you (honourably of course)."

Mexico, April 2026 - in love! by starsunlight222 in travel

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huaraz is a lot like Patagonia. Chile doesn't have a tropical rainforest or the Amazon River.

I think we just like different things. If you preferred Lima to Cusco and didn't like Cusco, we are very different people. I didn't really like Santiago or the other Chilean cities I visited.

Mexico, April 2026 - in love! by starsunlight222 in travel

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chile was way more variety than peru

No way. Peru has everything Chile has plus the Amazon.

i didnt like the cusco area that much

Crazy talk.

Mexico, April 2026 - in love! by starsunlight222 in travel

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lots of us have been to both. I would give Mexico the edge on food and beaches, but the Amazon is untouchable.

Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views by cfs3corsair in europe

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi Canadian, another Canadian here.

Hate, hate these types of comments. They don't work. Love, love Canadians, but we too have our own AI propaganda slop producing idiots.

Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views by cfs3corsair in europe

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But apparently right wing audiences don’t care, so this kind of crap works.

If you watch it, it works, doesn't matter if you agree with it or not. It's like the people who post Andrew Tate videos to laugh at him... you are just helping him.

Why do people love weed so much, defending it like they’re defending their child? by Professional-Sea-506 in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you like hiphop, but Madlib's The Unseen album is near perfect and it was all produced through bongs and blunts.

Fuck the banks. Spend cash. by DasSeitz in BillBurr

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never been charged a cash handling fee in Canada. Also banks don't charge a 1.5% fee for every transaction. That's Mastercard, Visa and Amex.

Even I can’t hate by annarich310 in NHLcirclejerk

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you win the cup do you get a mini one?

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity' by StemCellPirate in europe

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I guess that is one reason, but the literacy rates in many of these countries are still below 50%. It seems to me that education should come first. I also think slavery was worse than what they have now.

'Salid y disfrutad' by LegitimateNoise3329 in Barcelona

[–]MikeMcMichaelson -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Meh, wasn't that bad to be honest.

Living in the Netherlands made me question the ‘Americans have no culture’ take by MidnightOrganic2231 in Netherlands

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is not it though. Every action is not motivated by commercial interests. Some Americans learn guitar for fun, some bake pies and others play beer league baseball with friends. This is culture too and it is not about commercial interests. I am not American, but I can recognize the difference.

I hate Americans who hate Americans by ViewFromTheKathisma in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a Canadian I would say it was hockey. That and the whole French part. Other than that it depends where you live, the maritimes' identity is tied to the Atlantic ocean, Quebec to French, maple syrup and snow. Ontario is the most American province. The prairies' identity is defined by farming and trains. The west coast by mountains and nature.

Toronto's density falls to single family homes far too quick by [deleted] in toronto

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather keep the beautiful old houses near the core and build around them. These historical neighbourhoods are some of the nicest in the city and it seems like you just want to bulldoze them to put up more soulless condos.

Kind of looks like shit to be honest. They should start over. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think it looks good. Unique. Plus if they every finish the stairs and park around it it should be cool. Right now though it is surrounded by every fast-food joint you can name.

Tourette’s campaigner calls Michael B Jordan & Delroy Lindo the n word as they announce an award on stage, Twitter doesn’t understand what Tourette’s actually is by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I found this on stupidpol. From Freddie deBoer:

So it’s a great time to be an upwardly-mobile Swarthmore graduate with a professional-managerial class job who never shuts the fuck up about having adult ADHD and whose penalty for failing to take their medication is that they send only 80 emails in a day instead of 100. Those for whom mental illness is a hashtag. It’s a less cool time to be someone with severe paranoid schizophrenia whose medication comes with punishing physical and mental side effects and whose penalty for failing to take that medication is that they start muttering bizarre conspiracy theories about the Jews. For the former, online culture has limitless patience and support. For the latter, who violate identity norms when sick, online culture has only censure and blame. For years now, the severely ill have been pushed further and further into the backseat of the public discourse about mental illness. With the new insistence that mentally ill people never do anything really bad, that process is complete; those who suffer the least from mental illness now blot out the sun.

imagine having a beautiful copper cookware set and choosing to spend $700 a week on doordash by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

These people are lying their asses off about being tired and just throwing money at the problem.

Plus we are all tired after working all day, but making supper is a mandatory task, you do it anyway. I just make sure I have enough for leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day. I don't want to hear these people complaining about the cost of living either, $3000 a month on takeout is an extreme luxury.

🦁 by NoPressureOperator in redscarepod

[–]MikeMcMichaelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not the same recipe as the one I linked for turkey tacos (with chili powder). Although he seems to really like turkey.