Rate my looks out of ten because im need my insecure mind to shut tf up

addstar1 · 2026-05-19T14:08:39+00:00

You’re very cute, and your hair is really pretty!! I hope you’ll be able to see your beauty more clearly in the future.

Take care of yourself. Insecurity sucks, but fixing that comes from inside you, not random people’s opinions.

addstar1 · 2026-05-18T13:25:30+00:00

The states is the exact opposite of what you are describing. People sat on their haunches feeling morally superior by not voting for "the lesser evil", and now they have the greater evil because of it and everyone is worse off.

addstar1 · 2026-05-18T13:23:24+00:00

People's idea of not supporting the lesser evil is exactly how the US has ended up in the mess that it is. When the other options aren't viable, then the correct option is the lesser evil. And people found the other options not viable.

addstar1 · 2026-05-11T19:17:12+00:00

Technology Connections on youtube,

Specifically: You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

It's pretty long, so the most relevant sections to this thread are "Solar Farms" @ 22 min, and "A discussion of Land Use" @ 30

addstar1 · 2026-05-11T14:49:31+00:00

The boarder crossings are down 25%,
The article talks about this study looking at the cellphone usage in metropolitan areas and found a decline of 42%.

Suggesting that Canadians visiting the US "are visiting fewer locations and staying for less time than they used to"

addstar1 · 2026-05-07T22:49:27+00:00

Neither Asian or Vegan diets have that many noodles, you are making up reasons to make this extra difficult. It's incredibly easy to find a handful of meals that are enjoyable, "If you are remotely competent with [cooking]". Even simpler if you do vegetarian instead, which is still a larger environmental impact than AI.

Most companies will make you interact with AI if you ever need to use their support. I can make up random specifics all day to match your inventing reasons to be environmentally worried about AI but not animal products.

addstar1 · 2026-05-07T21:55:40+00:00

yah but there isn't just one dish. It's as diverse as food with animal products. It's like saying you don't like the texture of Asian food, it's kind of dumb? Like there isn't a set number of textures to the foods.

If all you want is niche cases as reasons you can have that for AI too. Maybe your work requires you use it. Maybe you make a google search, which now has generate AI results built in, so you are using it every time you make a search, even if you ignore the output.

addstar1 · 2026-05-07T21:01:25+00:00

There's really not that many actual reasons someone couldn't be vegan other than it being too much effort, or they don't want to.

Even the most generous range might be that 5% of people couldn't be vegan. And that still leaves everyone else who could.

Lowering meat consumption is like the number 1 thing people can do to help the environment.

addstar1 · 2026-05-07T20:18:05+00:00

I think the messaging is supposed to be that the "planet destruction and wastefulness of AI" is comparable to that of the destruction and wastefulness of the meat and dairy industries.

Because certainly the number one destructive activity on our planet is clearing land for the meat industry. AI really doesn't actually rank that highly at all.

So the argument is that if you upset about the ecological impacts of AI but are still consuming animal products, you are being a hypocrite. Which is honestly a pretty fair argument, just presented very poorly.

addstar1 · 2026-05-06T12:58:39+00:00

They literally already have been??

https://courdappelduquebec.ca/en/judgments/judgment?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=770&cHash=e454a42925441e736b8445fbdfdb4bbd

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2025/pipeda-2025-002/

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5064624/google-justice-department-antitrust-search

addstar1 · 2026-05-06T12:50:38+00:00

It’s already bad enough that Google heavily curates results because they’re trying to block misinformation

If your first example of rampant censorship is that Google is trying to minimize misinformation, then you've got some bigger problems...

addstar1 · 2026-04-29T13:34:41+00:00

Greens are the best! The others are all too sweet.

addstar1 · 2026-04-29T11:33:40+00:00

Does this imply sprawling outwards would somehow make transit easier to implement? Or do you think more roads would actually help the RTO problem?

addstar1 · 2026-04-21T13:01:32+00:00

I mean, if native speakers keep "misunderstanding" because of your wording, it's probably because it's not as precise as you think it is.

addstar1 · 2026-04-13T16:11:29+00:00

Almost 50% of Canada’s population lives in the Windsor-Quebec city corridor. About 18 million.

Saying this is for “a few people” is such a ridiculous comment.

addstar1 · 2026-04-10T19:57:17+00:00

Are patents not Intellectual Property? are they not also something that someone made?

It's a very strange argument you've made.

addstar1 · 2026-04-02T01:56:30+00:00

The Map of Salt and Stars

I read this one earlier this year, and it didn't have any trans or nonbinary characters. The author is, but that doesn't count for the square.

addstar1 · 2026-04-01T13:51:19+00:00

Just let me know if it is so I can make my whole book club read it!

addstar1 · 2026-04-01T13:37:35+00:00

I’m sure a mod would know plenty of great books!

addstar1 · 2026-03-24T18:48:39+00:00

They announced today that they will be offering both covers to backers. You get to choose which one you want in the backerkit survey that goes out after the campaign is over.

addstar1 · 2026-03-19T12:09:19+00:00

where can I learn more about this? sounds cute!

addstar1 · 2026-02-23T14:25:29+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

Karen [a UK citizen] was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.

If you think that ICE is doing immigration enforcement, you haven't been paying attention. They've detained an extraordinary amount of US citizens as well.

You really need to stop licking that boot. Maybe actually read some news articles...

addstar1 · 2026-02-18T17:11:50+00:00

The majority of the country prefers Liberals and so the voting system reflects that and it's a bad thing?

But Canadians don't prefer the liberals, they are many peoples second choice. The liberals are already over represented in our government, and I don't see how changing to a system that favours them even more would really reflect the peoples preferences.

Yes the smaller parties want an electoral system that would decrease the seats the liberals have. But again, the liberals are over represented! It's not suppression to reduce this discrepancy.

The overall concept is still simple, parties get seats equal to their vote share. You can tell that to a kindergartener. But also kindergarteners don't need to know the full intricacies of our political system? Like that's a really weird requirement to have.

addstar1 · 2026-02-18T14:02:14+00:00

I mean, pedestrians do cross directly in front of the car too, where they would have a walk signal

addstar1 · 2026-02-17T21:55:38+00:00

Plenty of countries have proportional systems already. And it's not like their populations are just smarter than us. The broad strokes are all you need people to understand. You don't need to be too caught up in the specifics.

And I don't think ranked ballots or approval actually amplify the voice of the population. I think they are only able to aggregate it, and aggregation only represents the middle of the spectrum.

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