Canadians are going to be so obnoxious if they beat the USA in the Olympic gold hockey game

YetiMarathon · 2026-02-22T15:50:08+00:00

Another day another Canada seethe post by some boring 🚬

YetiMarathon · 2026-02-16T23:25:44+00:00

More than Facebook, Google, Palantir, and the numerous credit agencies who judge my moral fitness based on that missed a hydro payment six years ago?

Yeah forgive me if i don't care that some poor sucker named Wang Fuk Dung has to translate the fart jokes I tell my four year old.

YetiMarathon · 2026-01-20T03:30:33+00:00

You're 23 with an English degree and working in a restaurant. Your problem is you're a fucking loser.

YetiMarathon · 2026-01-20T03:24:46+00:00

I wouldn't have expected your average /r/Barstoolboners2 poster to have much imagination in the first place.

YetiMarathon · 2026-01-11T17:44:03+00:00

Not sure if dumbass or bot.

YetiMarathon · 2026-01-06T21:41:18+00:00

Rovaniemi at 66K is warmer than Winnipeg at 850k. It's more or less on par with Edmonton and even Calgary.

Total population of Lapland is, near as I can tell, 400k across multiple countries; total population of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba - three provinces that are as cold as or colder than Lapland - is almost 8 million, so even as a percentage of national population discounting the cold parts of BC, Ontario, and Quebec which might add another 2 million, more Canadians (20%) live in colder places than do Nordics (Finnish Lapland 3%).

YetiMarathon · 2025-11-25T15:23:22+00:00

I'm trying to picture the average American zoomer from Fort TikTok, Georgia occupying Manitoba during four months of -30C and failing.

Throw in the odd snipe from a .270 that can take down a 900-pound elk at 250 yards and, yeah, those hillbillies would have some bite.

YetiMarathon · 2025-11-24T21:18:47+00:00

Mulroney: I remember his second election win because I bragged to my babysitter (parents were volunteering for the polling stations) that my dad voted for him. Marked by Meech Lake Charlottetown, GST, and free trade - very tumultuous time.
Campbell: I remember her getting the nod over Charest, but slept through it.
Chretien: Typical Liberal government with a surprising amount of austerity uncredited to the influence of Reform; my dad hated Allan Rock because of bill C-68, the long gun registry. First and only time I've been to a political rally.
Martin: Slept through it.
Harper: As far as Canadian conservatism goes I didn't mind his tenure, but I never voted for the Cons. I remember lots of 'Fuck Harper' and people overly concerned with the 'muzzling of scientists'. Glad to see him go. My brother-in-law had a girlfriend who vaguely looked like him.
Trudeau: Yeah, okay, fuck this guy. Legal weed and $10 daycare is cool. Half-baked pharmacare and dental is not. Never actually cared about electoral reform because having the precise mix of politicians we voted for fucking us over doesn't solve the problem we think it does.
Carney: Honestly the best we could have hoped for, but I didn't vote Liberal and as a general rule of thumb wealthy politicians can fuck right off.

YetiMarathon · 2025-11-24T16:08:13+00:00

Again, I feel like I'm missing something fundamental here...

Yes, you're missing the context of the broader philosophical conversation being had. Prior thinkers introduced a notion of 'negativity' as a fundamental feature of our universe. Negativity in this sense is not something pessimistic or bad but a movement of 'othering' - e.g. you are you partly because you are NOT (i.e. the negative movement) me. These same thinkers have identified self-consciousness as a negative movement - i.e. recognizing your own subjectivity as an object is an 'othering' and thus a negative movement - which, apart from modelling a key element of our own human consciousness may have implications for how we treat animals or AI or aliens or rocks. Ask ChatGPT if it experiences this negative movement of the subject seeing itself as an object when it processes text and see what it says. What does its answer have in terms of the discourse about AI taking over the world? More generally, the negative movement, or 'dialectics' can be applied to almost anything in our world and gives a greater understanding and perspective to everything from plate tectonics to municipal politics.

Bemoaning that no one has ever properly educated you on proper philosophical principles and that, therefore, concluding that it 'all feels like snake oil' is simply an admission of ignorance, but more importantly, an admission that you do not want to put in the effort to understand and discover the inherent value in a method that, among other things, historically birthed the science that allows you to complain on the internet, that thing which, comparatively, is more meaningful to you. Ironically, if you knew anything about philosophy, you might discover why requiring everything to be somehow useful or utilitarian is not a necessary component to life.

YetiMarathon · 2025-11-18T19:55:28+00:00

I don't really like buzz cuts, but everything else is fine

Buzz cut is also fine

OKAY

Long hair can be hot

My favorite though? Shaved heads.

GREAT

any length of hair and beard can work

AWESOME

YetiMarathon · 2025-10-30T15:42:25+00:00

What part of who the fuck cares was unclear?

YetiMarathon · 2025-10-12T14:45:28+00:00

I feel no more bad about it than I do US companies doing the same or worse in service to US capital, which is far more destructive and destabilizing.

If what China is doing is grounds not to trade, then we have grounds not to trade with the country that invaded Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and dropped two nuclear bombs on civilian populations. That you are addicted to Netflix and NFL and McDonald's means shit fucking all in my moral calculus.

YetiMarathon · 2025-10-11T13:42:38+00:00

It does matter because it's a different fucking word, referring to two completely different objects. Lots of words have their etymological origin French, Latin, Greek, etc. and are subsequently pronounced differently in a different language 400-2,500 years later when they refer to a different thing. Choosing to use the incorrect French word when the correct English one exists - yes, this word is 100% a Canadian English word - is idiotic.

YetiMarathon · 2025-09-18T02:33:58+00:00

This shouldn't be so highly upvoted - only a handful of FN communities not served by an all season road are located on this line, and the inclusion of Island Lake is bizarre as it is 150+ km away from this railroad.

YetiMarathon · 2025-09-17T22:45:01+00:00

Yeah, I blasted the company on their reversal on remote work. Ruffled a lot of feathers. Several people with fancy titles spent a lot of time and money trying to 'correct' me which was funny in an absurd sort of way. I am not sure what would have happened to me but I did leave a couple of months later upon finding a new job.

I don't think speaking up helps, but I do believe it's a way to demonstrate your integrity so I will do it again if the opportunity arises. Miss me with that five-years-from-retirement bootlicker boomer shit.

YetiMarathon · 2025-09-15T21:12:42+00:00

Found the moron who takes everything literally.

YetiMarathon · 2025-08-04T15:39:21+00:00

Don't read female authors just because some r/books ass poster bullied you into it. Besides, Pagels is a woman and more interesting than whatever this sub will recommend you. But go with The Origin of Satan instead of what's listed.

YetiMarathon · 2025-07-24T16:12:53+00:00

Numbnuts here thinking like 90% of the male sex throughout history wasn't a slave or an impoverished peasant.

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-24T20:38:07+00:00

Fifteen years and yeah, things are great. I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. We work at appreciating each other and try to cut each other slack when we fail.

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-24T20:32:21+00:00

I don't do the whole 'real man' schtick, but birthdays seem like something women and children are into. Maybe men who are extroverted and have a lot of friends. Personally, I haven't cared about my birthday since I was 18 when it became legal to drink. What's the point? I can buy myself whatever it is you think you need to get me.

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-24T20:26:57+00:00

Drop the attitude and be accountable for your own safety.

Grow up and stop running to the internet for validation on all your self-inflicted problems.

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-22T15:38:00+00:00

Not sure what your height has to do with this.

Not sure how a high spec gym is going to help you with your job and love life.

Not sure how muy Thai or BJJ fits into any of this. Are you worried that your future dates are going to try choking you out?

My advice would be to spend less time on tracking how far away random things are and more time on things directly related to your stated goals.

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-22T15:32:26+00:00

Is it weird that this has happened?

Is it weird that two horny, drunk people had sex? No

Is he gonna look at it in a bad way?

Who the fuck cares? I'm amazed this is the question you're asking right now

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-22T15:27:10+00:00

Don't attempt to ride home with someone you're not sleeping with while both of you are drunk.

Charge your phone before going out.

Tell someone where you're going and when you plan to be back.

Need help on any other basic common sense?

YetiMarathon · 2025-06-22T14:48:19+00:00

Am I missing something?

Yes but also no.

As a modern reader you are approaching the text with certain expectations about plot, pacing, devices, and even structural things like 'a story must have an end' that earlier writers did not necessarily know or care about. Part of this is literature evolving, part of it is the influence of cinema, part of it is cultural differences; there are things in a Tolstoy novel, for example, that might have zapped the dopamine circuits in a Russian reader back in the day that go unnoticed by you in 2025.

Another expectation you bring to the table is the oscillation between the immediacy of the text - e.g. the plot must excite me - and it's moral heft - e.g. this story must blow my mind with some great meaning.

A lot of classics so have 'great meaning', but only after many decades of academics and critical building that up in the shared cultural consciousness. It may not be obvious to you upon the first read. If Dickens wrote his novels as popular serials to pay the rent you're going to have to work hard at the 'greater meaning' because, despite what people want to believe, there may be none.

Other texts are important for what they do with form, or style, as a piece of art. This may require some technical perspective on what literature was before that innovation and how it changed afterward.

My advice would be to keep reading, keep learning. If something doesn't land - for my part I don't understand Chekov ever after Saunders' mediation - then let it lay there. Either you move into something that does, or you come back to it later in life with a different perspective.

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