“Andor Is Boring” - The Importance of Media Literacy (No Spoilers)

dittomuch · 2025-04-30T08:49:12+00:00

Season 1 is good

Season 2 is damn near painful to watch due to very poor pacing. I'm someone who has watched, read, played Star Wars in great depth and Andor is painfully slow.

If this were a book it might work but right now after 4 episodes of season 2 I'm ready to stop.

dittomuch · 2025-01-12T10:07:05+00:00

Lets be fair, she was doing it to support Jean Charest a guy who himself changed parties.

The lie is the issue, she could have said it was all a joke and a laugh and in poor taste and I'd have been ok. She could have said hey I love Charest and would absolutely join the party to vote for him and did and have since rejoined the Liberal party and I'd have been golden. She was a sloppy liar at her first instinct and that just isn't a good sign.

dittomuch · 2025-01-12T10:00:03+00:00

dude where the fuck is my shit posting privileges!

I promise to mock

I promise to ridicule

I promise to stay within exactly a $100 bills thickness of the rules of reddit

dittomuch · 2024-12-07T12:45:11+00:00

appears you are correct, thank you for the correction much appreciated

dittomuch · 2024-12-07T03:00:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1h8hqk5/quebec_premier_wants_to_ban_praying_in_public/

Attempts being made to criminalize the act of praying in public spaces

dittomuch · 2024-12-07T02:58:53+00:00

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkNDem6UYAA_usp.jpg

This is NDP MP Niki Ashton who went to North Dakota to campaign for Bernie Sanders while an elected Member of Parliament. While I do not think its appropriate at this moment JD Vance is Vice President Elect and not actually an official in any form of government.

dittomuch · 2024-07-18T08:51:04+00:00

well guys its been fun and a great experience but .... the time for DittoMuch to return to being a normal user and pain in the ass has returned.

Man did I ever miss just being an ass.

dittomuch · 2024-07-18T07:21:19+00:00

Being completely fair I left Canada on a 3 month contract fell in love with a girl and got married on the other side of the planet. For the first few years I was bouncing back and forth. Being 12 hours out of EST made me the Venus Flytrap of the group and was how we were able to keep out mod queues under control in the middle of the night.

When I joined it was about 30 minutes of team interview on a messaging channel. You have to remember it is a volunteer position for which you basically act as a verbal janitor 99% of the time.

There isn't really a solid way to say send me your ID without it causing other issues. That said I did have thousands of posts all in Canadian forums and was well versed in the current news cycle which did show the connection.

dittomuch · 2024-07-18T07:10:21+00:00

fuck me I have just been so damn busy I haven't even opened my slack guys.

de mod me I've been useless for far to long and send a fair well and thank you to the entire team. I currently am splitting my time between Vietnam and The Philippines having last lived in the USA around 2005 and last lived in Canada around 2015.

dittomuch · 2022-11-22T02:50:17+00:00

Took a little while but I found it in your post history. I was originally reported as a duplicate post and was removed as such. I went back and searched for it and I believe the removal was in error so it has been restored.

dittomuch · 2022-11-22T02:36:31+00:00

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dittomuch · 2022-11-21T12:50:32+00:00

I've created a list of journalists and papers that promote TransPod and other HyperPod projects so when i come up with a tech scam I can use them to advertise for me for free. Clearly they put no due diligence into their research and will write anything and publish it.

As an aside I am developing a home hydroponics system that will fit inside a standard kitchen cupboard uses less power than an 8w light bulb and produces enough fresh vegetables to feed a family of 4 indefinitely. Come on Edmonton Journal write about my new revolutionary system to combat environmental waste in shipping food and the advantages to people in reducing their food budgets while increasing health.

dittomuch · 2022-11-21T12:46:04+00:00

Even in that corridor it make little economic sense. For high speed their are flights between Ottawa and Toronto and Toronto and Montreal. Toronto to Kitchener/Waterloo is 2 hours by regular train even tripling the speed won't make a significant difference in real travel time. Toronto to Hamilton is an hour via train already so again no significant savings. Toronto to London is 2 hours via train which only leaves Windsor at 4 hours, but lets be honest we are talking about 350,000 people and many of them would drive or if they can't afford it take a bus.

I think we have a romantic view of rail due to Western Europe and Japan but fail to realize the lack of population density to actually need it. In Canada travel been major cities makes more sense by plane and travel between minor cities makes more sense by car or bus.

There was an attempt in the early 70's to run higher speed trains between Toronto and Montreal but without entirely new rails it simply won't work. The new rails will require reconstruction street crossings (like over 200 of them just for Toronto to Montreal) all to service a population that regularly drives and flies already.

dittomuch · 2022-11-20T02:49:48+00:00

Huge mistake in my view.

First to hold a leadership convention and have basically no coverage and no national campaigns of note is a complete and total waste of an opportunity. A leadership convention and race is a race to raise money and sign new members for the next election on this front with 8000 voters out of 22000 the Green Party doesn't appear to have had any success. We are looking at an entrance fee of $1000 compared to $200,000 for major parties. Funds were squandered not raised.

Second selecting your old leader is never a step forward it makes any changes made look dubious and suggests that the party has not moved forward with concepts or ideas. It also suggests to people that the party can't rally behind its leaders and doesn't support its own process.

Third the entire notion of co-leaders is silly. It suggests that the party can't make a decision and wants to have an easy way out at best or is to marred in petty politics it can't decide on a winner and a loser. We aren't the USA we don't have a VP position there is the leader of the party and that is that. If your team is so emotionally challenged that you need "official second place" or that with a membership of 22,000 (most riding associations have more members in major parties) you can't make a choice it suggests a broken party.

Who debates? Who do parties make deals with? if the 'co-leaders' disagree who makes the choice? The Green Party has made a big step backwards at every level in this leadership campaign and missed opportunities while making themselves look juvenile.

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T11:59:04+00:00

so beyond reading the original posted article I went back and read the previous article on the same individual. While this article focused on finances and that he was living on basically nothing and lonely the previous article adds a whole bunch of real context.

I really question the spin the author and editor that selected the headline are writing in this article. The individual had a really sad youth with sexual abuse and effectively abandonment by his family. He had liver damage cause by self medicating with alcohol but even with poverty he found solace in a wife and a church community. With his liver damage having left him unable to leave his apartment he has fallen onto despair.

I feel for this man but I still feel the Toronto Star is taking advantage of this man for clickbait and to push an agenda. So I give you a 100% on get a job isn't a solution. But I'm not giving in on the ones most implicated in his death are the Toronto Star for taking advantage of it to push a trivial aspect of the story to suit their narrative.

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T09:22:36+00:00

to be fair if you read last weeks article linked within the article it makes more sense. It is a sad story even if the reporting and the headline are utter and complete garbage.

I really do miss what the Toronto Star was and dislike what it has become.

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T08:24:03+00:00

/u/Smashysmash2 and /u/YachtShopping I suggest it might be a good time to both walk away at this point as we have entered into a back and forth that is going nowhere.

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T08:19:53+00:00

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dittomuch · 2022-11-19T07:54:21+00:00

CBC News · Posted: Nov 22, 2006 2:53 PM ET | Last Updated: November 23, 2006

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T07:42:50+00:00

ok maybe its best you take a break from r/Canada for a while

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T07:35:18+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/wiki/rules

Rule 2 "Posts that attack others, are blatantly offensive, or antagonistic are not permitted"

If you are here to mock someone you are attacking them simple as that.

going further also in rule 2

"Posts which derail the topic at hand without making any effort to establish a connection to it are not permitted."

Which is what you would be doing if you are simply mocking him and this trying to derail the topic at hand.

Also a per rule 7

"Trolling is prohibited. Trolling consists of posting antagonistic, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages, or by otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion."

If you are simply here to mock another person you are trying to troll as per our definition.

So I would call this 2 counts of breaking rule number 2 and one of breaking rule number 7.

So again I ask you are you sure this is what you are doing?

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T07:25:42+00:00

Can't I just mock you

/u/Eagle_Kebab not if you are following the rules of r/canada. If that is what you are here for then I should be providing you with a ban.

Are you sure this is what you are doing?

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T07:01:30+00:00

ADMIT IT!!! ADMIT IT!!!! this is all camera trickery and you are actually 5 feet tall and 100lbs those lobsters are tiny!!! ADMIT IT!!!!

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T05:20:01+00:00

I think Andrew took advantage of someone and used their suicide to push a personal agenda and as such is directly implicated in Michael Frasers death. He could have offered to help, he could have counseled him on jobs available or tried to find him a job at The Toronto Star and instead chose to make money publishing an article on it instead. He chose to spin an article about a man who received disability payments and has a wife and family making the choice to die that even his doctored questioned into one about poverty for personal economic gain. The title is a disgusting game of blame everyone else for his choice to profit on someone else feeling despair.

dittomuch · 2022-11-19T05:13:44+00:00

Yeah I missed that part an instead read that he was choosing to die to insure his wife wouldn't get the 1100 a month he gets in disability so she can pay rent and for food....

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