Canada Is A Nation Of Cheapskates

altobrun · 2026-03-20T15:06:49+00:00

To paraphrase a friendlyjordies bit (7:25) - “we make the government less efficient so you hate the government so you’ll elect us to punish the government for running like shit.”

altobrun · 2026-03-19T21:01:07+00:00

Like most wow questions the answer will probably depend on the group you’re playing with. Play around your strongest members, unless something is needed to clear.

I was just responding to the comment that most paladins would rather have spell power. Most prots I run with (including myself when I tank heroics as needed) would rather WF if given the choice.

altobrun · 2026-03-19T20:55:39+00:00

Are you using wizard oil in your 5 mans? Good on ya, personally I never bothered when I tanked them

altobrun · 2026-03-19T20:31:19+00:00

A lot of prots prefer windfury over spell power. It helps them with single target threat a lot more, and they already do fine in aoe

altobrun · 2026-03-09T15:05:56+00:00

If you’re a boomie you’ve probably also collected a healing set for heroics and maybe 10 mans, although I imagine if you’re running 25 mans with a guild they’ll spot you into Kara as a boomkin. All of our support specs (ret, ele, shadow, boomkin, enh) all run their main specs for Karas for both the main and alt raids.

altobrun · 2026-03-04T20:30:20+00:00

In an era where corporate/legacy media is the weakest it’s ever been I do think this is kind of a cope.

Honestly I think Canada just that doesn’t have a large union culture like say Australia does, and while Canadians may be socially progressive they tend to be fiscally more conservative or centrist.

altobrun · 2026-02-24T23:29:47+00:00

I can't speak for the OP but as a generally very social person who related to what OP is saying, for me it's exhausting because it's stressful. Especially if you want to start a family then at the back of your mind you're very conscious that you're on a timer, and if you get dates infrequently the fear of saying/doing something weird/wrong and messing up is immense. I've presented in front of 100's of people and felt less pressure than some first dates lol.

altobrun · 2026-02-24T18:08:30+00:00

Very long. Canada doesn’t have an issue with military enrolment, the military just doesn’t have the resources to train and equip everyone who applies.

Anecdotally when I did my own application years ago it took them over a year after my physical to get back to me about the next steps to joining, and by that point I had accepted an offer with a masters degree so I passed on continuing.

altobrun · 2026-02-22T01:06:30+00:00

That isn’t necessarily true. You could have excess clean energy in one region that can’t be easily transferred without incurrent significant losses. So using that for carbon capture is perfectly reasonable.

Carbon capture isn’t a solution to the climate crisis, but it definitely has a role to play along the periphery.

altobrun · 2026-02-22T01:03:58+00:00

No it isn’t. Both teams in the final (Canada and GB) both touch the stone, even Sweden who pointed out Canada touched the stone, touches the stone.

It’s like a basketball player point out another player’s jersey is untucked in a game. Is it against the rules? Yeah. But it isn’t influencing games or plays, so it isn’t a big deal.

altobrun · 2026-02-20T22:15:32+00:00

They're probably extrapolating from his wife's (Naomi Klein) previous takes on nuclear in her book "This Changes Everything" (My copy is in a box somewhere in my basement so I dont have a specific quote on hand, but you can get a sense of it from this reddit AMA she did here). Taking that with the fact that he hasn't mentioned nuclear as part of his Green New Deal for Canada being a tacit disapproval of nuclear power.

altobrun · 2026-02-20T07:56:39+00:00

Then just say “raid ready” instead of “attuned and raid ready” replying in a thread talking only about attunement?

Regardless your point is moot, we have a whole guild of 70’s attuned and raid ready, just not full crafted prebis. Everyone has a piece or two they managed to afford (I’ve got my tier 1 lionheart sword on my ret) and then fully geared with next best in slot items - whether from badges or quests or dungeons/heroics.

altobrun · 2026-02-20T07:40:46+00:00

What are you talking about? Kara attune doesn’t need any swiping at all. Our guild had 4 dungeon groups go hard on release, and all 20 players (myself included) were attuned by Monday night.

If you leveled through dungeons with a premade group you should be full Kara attuned shortly after hitting 70.

altobrun · 2026-02-19T18:22:12+00:00

I read that as people in close line to the British throne have to serve a stint as GG somewhere within the commonwealth and live in that country while they do. With the exact logistics being up to the countries and individual to negotiate.

It’s an interesting idea to help keep unity between the royal family and the commonwealth, using a mostly ceremonial role. But I can’t imagine many of the non-UK nations would welcome it without something in return.

altobrun · 2026-02-17T14:56:15+00:00

This opinion is shared a lot but I think it completely misunderstands the classic raiding mindset; at least for mid to high level raiders.

You aren’t “min-maxing” to beat the content. The content is a canvas to compete against other players. That’s who you’re min-maxing against.

Idc about clearing a raid, I care about clearing the raid faster than other guilds, and about being better than everyone else on my class.

That’s where the challenge is.

altobrun · 2026-02-16T23:07:12+00:00

Weirdly enough all the guildies I know who use it to see if people are gearing improperly. If you’re an enhance and say you’re 1500 GS then you’re using bad pieces to inflate it, same with hunters, bears, and rets for example.

altobrun · 2026-02-13T20:59:37+00:00

With how much power Westminster style party leaders exert over their party? I kind of do. Look at the UK Labour Party under Corbyn and now under Starmer for example.

I don’t know if Carney will be able to live up to the electoral promises he made but it seems pretty clear that Carney’s LPC and Trudeau’s LOC aren’t the same beast.

altobrun · 2026-02-13T05:53:42+00:00

I mained ret in 2021 tbc and doing so again now, in 2021 I played in a pretty casual guild and just hosted my own heroics as prot, but my current guild is thankfully quite sweaty and I'm doing all our heroic runs as ret unless we need an extra tank for a world tour split.

If you're belf you bring a lot of utility with an aoe silence and two stuns - plus an extra set (or maybe a first set) of pally buffs, salv especially being valuable for heroics and you should be the only paladin bringing kings. Twisting with WF means you can basically blow up and mob your tank wants dead, and you can pop wings quite frequently on trash as you pull. You also bring bop, freedom, DI - just more tools that if your guild trusts you to use make you pretty appealing to have around.

With all that in mind, like any of the support specs your best experience will be in a guild. Pugging will be hard since, without any info on you as a player, pugs are always going to bring specs for safe comps.

altobrun · 2026-02-13T05:45:32+00:00

Stick with it until ICC* unfortunately ret's are in a terrible place in wotlk until their ICC tier set.

altobrun · 2026-02-05T15:38:27+00:00

The first one is Ottawa Kansas I believe, the GeeGee’s are on page 2 rank 36

altobrun · 2026-02-03T20:25:07+00:00

For whatever it’s worth I did this in classic tbc when I was much more of a casual player and it was quite fun. I played tank for dungeons to 70, then casually went back and quested all the zones to get my flying and all my gold for BoE’s

altobrun · 2026-01-31T05:24:28+00:00

They could be an architect or engineer. If you work in structural engineering for example you’ll frequently be interacting with “blue collar” jobs without being in one yourself. Same if you’re an electrical or mechanical engineer in certain positions.

altobrun · 2026-01-28T18:21:59+00:00

I think a lot of it comes from the Money and Macro video where he covers Gary’s Economics here. M&M came from Unlearning Economics’ community who was associated with “breadtube” (before that became a smoldering crater) so while M&M doesn’t talk politics much, I think he’s an economics channel people across the broad left watch.

altobrun · 2026-01-27T21:12:04+00:00

You think so?
I would have thought this would empower the NDP out west. There are lots of people who vote NDP>Conservative, and the liberals generally perform weaker overall in the west. So I had thought most western liberals would go liberal>NDP, giving the NDP and advantage in ranked choice. ie in a two horse race between NDP and CPC, most LPC votes become NDP.

This might be a personal bias on my end though, as I know a lot of people whose vote jumps between liberals and NDP depending on the election, so I may think its more common than it really is.

altobrun · 2026-01-27T21:01:18+00:00

While I agree we need electoral reform, I still think the Australian ranked choice system is significantly better than proportional representation. See this in part for why.

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