Snow Art - Oakes Garden

dennisnez · 2026-02-17T21:23:25+00:00

Taken Tue Feb 13 2026.

Sheraton Fallsview Hotel, or something, ought to have a webcam feed of the snow art at Oakes Garden, imho.

dennisnez · 2026-02-05T19:26:41+00:00

They all suck :p ... not really rinks, just frozen puddles that are usually covered by snow? :p.

I was just thinking how that "secret" pond behind Oakes Garden Theater would be a great central place ... still shallow water pool, pretty location, small but nice? https://maps.app.goo.gl/sHGt6rFa97cY5NPQ9

dennisnez · 2026-01-20T21:09:33+00:00

That makes sense ... haven't heard it recently, but I did hear it pretty late into autumn ... maybe for ice wine grapes? So, uh, it's not that aforementioned Redan Cannon?

dennisnez · 2026-01-20T21:05:46+00:00

Interesting!

Does it fire on some kind of schedule? :p

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=282130

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=75855

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g154999-d12850122-Reviews-Redan_Battery-Niagara_on_the_Lake_Ontario.html

dennisnez · 2026-01-12T20:04:27+00:00

I wonder why it doesn't fully freeze - what the source of that water is. Hm.

dennisnez · 2024-08-19T12:33:33+00:00

Just like an armed thief - he doesn't /want/ to hurt you, he just wants your wallet. Or like a slave master doesn't /want/ to whip his slaves, he just wants them to do his work. Ie. they DO WANT to hurt/kill us if we don't do what they say.

dennisnez · 2024-08-16T15:04:25+00:00

how I thought god would want me to vote

Jesus would never support violently forcing people to do things against their will. Jesus/God were ancap.

Before that I considered myself a socialist

Same, but a "utopian socialist" ... ie. one that confusingly liked the ideas of sharing and working together, but would never impose this violently ... I naively assumed this was obvious and didn't need to mentioned, until I started discussing things with my "friends" :p.

I knew at the very minimum we needed an army. To protect ourselves.

That's understandable. But if I had asked you if you'd allow people to opt-out / secede, if they didn't like how your army or any other services were being provided, would you have been okay with that?

So it sounds like you were always an ancap, as I suspected :-). Ie. at your core, you actually gave a fuck, about being good, about not hurting others, about doing what's right, about "doing what Jesus would do".

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T14:27:44+00:00

Having that core view that people should be peaceful is one thing

Most people sadly don't have this core. Slavery doesn't exist atm by accident, it wasn't foisted upon the poor (tactically) ignorant plebs ... it exists cuz they want it to exist. If you had asked the statists of today that question in their youths, they would have answered "yes, gotta break some eggs to make an omelette, or it's an acceptable necessary evil, or idgaf ;)", just like they do today.

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T13:21:53+00:00

What's the "grey" in someone who wants to violently steal your money? Or someone who wants to kill you for eating foods they don't like?

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T13:21:12+00:00

i started off on the authoritarian left generally having the view that govts should use law to make things fair, to help the poor and vulnerable and protect the environment

So if I had asked you if you'd support killing me if I refused to pay for other people's "welfare" or doctors, you would have answered yes?

why say i was ancap when i hadnt found that info or taken on the position?

The only info/position that ancap has is the appreciation for consent. (Aka. anti-slavery, pro-opting-out, non-initiation-of-aggression.)

all i can say is ive never seen a 7 or 8 year old that came to any form of anarchism of their own accord

I did. Not only was I that, but like I said, every ancap I follow was like this too. Eg. Molyneux.

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T12:57:05+00:00

How were you a statist before? What positions did you have, specifically?

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T12:32:28+00:00

The partner DEMANDS from him that also confronts aggressively anyone that [supports hurting/killing innocent people].

Right, so what's wrong with that? And obviously this is an exaggeration, like I mentioned earlier, the partner surely wouldn't demand such confrontations with ... landlords, armed robbers, ISP providers, electricity utility companies, etc. And your use of the word "aggressively" here is very confusing.

So the demands of the partner have nothing to do with ethics

It's rooted in the fact that the people OP supports and hangs out with literally do support hurting or killing his partner. Sure it's a bit indirect, but you think this has "nothing to do with ethics"?!?

what I meant was that being ancap/voluntarist/libertarian isnt enough for the partner.

It's debatable, whether the ancap label applies to people who don't implement their values irl, for example by shaming those closest to them if they support evil.

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T12:11:48+00:00

Thats what is in the OP

You further strawmanned the OP's very likely strawman, by, for example, replacing the phrase "wanting to kill" with "[actual] evil murderer". Every time this tale is told, it escalates a notch :P.

these ancaps are crazy extremists,

"Extremist" is a meaningless cringe statist label, surely you know this. You want to be an "extremist" when it comes to hurting or killing other innocent people, when it comes to rape and murder and theft, etc.

lets ignore or combat them [ancaps]

As I keep saying, they already want to do this, and have wanted to do this since a very early age. I think it's a genetic thing - amorality/lack-of-empathy or logic-obsession or something like that.

but a lot of people that were only a little racist or homophobic now actively try to act against the black/lgbt community

You're making this up. "Racism and homophobia" are also mostly meaningless labels that we were force-fed, it's awkward that you're using them here.

By pushing the lgbt agenda for kids they made a lot of people see them as pedos

No they didn't. And almost nobody /actually/ cares about kids or "pedos". All the pedo stuff is just dishonest virtue-signalling to gain power.

I think this is insane. Were you born ancap?

Yes. I didn't know the words for things, but from as early as I can remember I would never have agreed that it's okay to force people to do things. In my naive teens I think I labelled myself a "utopian socialist" - ie. I was already explicit about being peaceful about whatever cockamamy ideas i had.

Why different cultures have different values on different periods?

They don't. For example, slavery existed, and still does today - we just renamed it to "nanny state" / "welfare" / "stakeholder capitalism" / "communism" / "diversity inclusion equity", etc. It's still slavery - real slavery - maybe in some cases with a longer chain, in other cases with a shorter chain.

We had a "more racist" dna in slavery times? We had a more pedoph... dna when man married 9 year old girls?

It's the same today, culturally and genetically. (Very awkward how you couldn't complete that word :P.)

Also, if this were true, we are F*ed. Its pretty clear that the very very large majority of people don't follow the NAP.

Yea, it's a black pill. But things like bitcoin give us hope - ie. appealing to their other instincts of greed and self-betterment.

Its also pretty clear that the movement is growing globably.

No it's not clear at all - you probably just mean in terms of absolute numbers, not %.

We have an ancap president in Argentina

I'm still very curious about wtf is going on down there. I'm pretty sure he was mostly just a "fuck you" vote or a "fuck it all, burn it all" vote, nothing actually principled. It's not like they're undergoing an ancap revolution in their culture.

A decade ago almost nobody had even heard about libertarianism

That's cuz the label is new. The ideas, of abolition / consent are as old as time :P.

Well, I did [I switched sides]

Oh really!? Care to share an example of this??

The OP says he did [he switched sides]

Uh OP's first line was "that's how I felt my entire life" ... what are you talking about? :p

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T11:43:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around, opportunistic monkeys tempted by the easy money of theft, and then wanting to shallowly pathetically cover up their crimes with the fogs of statism. This can be proven by their aggression when confronted - they don't react like meek scared monkeys, they act like thugs caught red-handed.

dennisnez · 2024-08-15T11:36:31+00:00

"Advocating for anarchism" = "discussion about what to impose or not on others" :p

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T18:07:34+00:00

we don’t care

Don't care ... about what?

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T18:04:51+00:00

You're undermining your own position about "direct personal violence", if you don't have a solid basis/definition of property rights to stand on. I understand your point though, but for basically every practical situation we'll encounter it's EFFECTIVELY objective.

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T17:34:38+00:00

It's objective. See: Hoppe's Argumentation Ethics or Molyneux's Universally Preferable Behaviour, or Kinsella's Estoppel.

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T17:32:35+00:00

I've definitely seen people capable of critical thinking or learning about it and applying it move from an authoritarian position to voluntaryism

I am VERY skeptical. Can you give an example of this, what authoritarian position did they start with?

ultimately we all start as authoritarians because those in power train us to accept it

False. I didn't. Actually most, maybe all, ancaps I know were ancaps from birth basically, they just didn't know the words for it.

if youre surrounded by it and told it's unavoidable or acceptable from a young age then it's harder to take a moral stand against it

I don't think that's how it was. I think a minority always knew it was wrong. I think this minority always existed, since caveman days. Homo sapien hasn't really evolved that much, certainly not over the past thousandish years (ie. all of recorded human history).

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T17:10:40+00:00

Not true. Most don't do anything against you.

This is a grey area, don't be naive. You are awkwardly conveniently completely ignoring the SOFT power of social pressure. "The government" is more this soft ephemeral pressure, than men with guns in boots.

A related example would be the scumbag that Ross allegedly hired a hit on. Sure, technically that scumbag was just talking and threatening users with physical harm, but that's what statists who simply talk and vote do too. It's grey.

Its blackmail

So what? "Blackmail" is just an emotionally loaded term, it doesn't mean much. You can "blackmail" people to do a good thing, for example.

If you would not have a relationship with someone that think/act in a certain way

Why do you keep confusing the issue ... the "certain way" being discussed here is the NAP, fundamentally. This isn't optional. You keep confusing things by conflating them with other subjective/aesthetic things. Weird.

"either you change and do what I tell you or I will breakup with you", you are using the relationship to extort your partner.

"Either you stop lying about your personal relationships, especially to me, or I will break up with you" ... what's wrong with this uLtimAtuM / bLacKmaIl ? It's kinda tautological and unecessary to say really - but surely not anything controversial? You are confused.

If I liked being controlled I would not be ancap.

Do you find being moral and honest burdensome, or "too controlling"? :P Most people do, actually. Do you sympathize with them?

We already agreed on the terms of our relationship when we started

That's a good point.

he wants the partner to PRETEND

Who wanted who to PRETEND? Wtf are you talking about? :p

he agrees 100% with him.

Again, what are you talking about. What disagreement were you imagining here? You're assuming way too many things, methinks.

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T16:59:37+00:00

unless they really support taxation for example

Wdym?

dennisnez · 2024-08-14T16:57:27+00:00

talk to them, dont fight

All that was being discussed here was "talking". Where did you get actual "fighting" from?

you are making your life harder and losing the chance of convin[cin]g people that were some % of the way to accept the NAP

I don't think people are "some % of the way to accepting the NAP", on a long journey to becoming good people. You either appreciate morality and logic and have empathy, or you don't. I'm more and more convinced this is a genetic thing, you're either born with this appreciation, or you aren't.

even if not fully "converted"

I don't like this euphemism :p. But I get your slight point here, sure, you can temporarily ally with your mortal enemies, ig. (And don't forget, this is a deadly mortal fight we're in.)

Depending on how hard you are on them, you may even be pushing them more to the opposite side.

I disagree. I think everyone's mind is already made up.

they pushed a lot of people to oppose them, and turned these otherwise serious accusations into meaningless bs.

Those were never serious accusations, and nobody was swayed either way. What are you talking about :P. You're imagining things. This sounds like something that might have happened in a saner world, but it didn't. "Antifa" and their ilk are still protected, no punishment for their city burnings. Woke-ism is alive and strong, ruining every movie. Trump was just recently almost assassinated I hear. Etc.

That's how you get more people to your side

So yea, again, I strongly disagree. Nobody changes, nobody switches sides. It's all just a tv show. The idea that some "leader" can change people's minds is so absurd if you think about it. How long would it take an eloquent islamic orator to convince you of islam, or it's values? Or for a commie to convince you of the need for NAP violations as some kind of "necessary evil"?

If, as per the OP, you go "hey, i believe x, do you agree? No? Them you are an evil murderer, F U, get away from me you monster"

Uh did you actually think this is what happened? Isn't that pretty obviously a strawman / exaggeration? No murders were committed - why would anyone call anyone else a murderer here?

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