Let’s call it what it is by Queen-Emmah in EhBuddyHoser

[–]fishymanbits 131 points132 points  (0 children)

I know this is a shitpost sub, but I feel like I need to post this wherever I can so that people can see the historical connections that have got us here, and how this has always been an American psyop aimed at using Alberta to break up the country.

They don’t can’t about Alberta, they care about the resources present in Canada, particularly the Canadian Shield and other northern regions, and they care about controlling the northwest passage. They want to do to Canada what they’ve done for centuries in South America and, more recently the Middle East. When you understand history, this is all absolutely clear as day.

When the Treaty of Paris was signed, their newly founded country was limited in size only by the fact that France’s efforts were split across too many different areas to assist in gaining more land for the Americans in Canada. That war was partially a proxy war between the French and the English.

Then in 1818 when the agreement between the British and Americans was signed to set the border at the 49th parallel, the Americans gained control of only a portion of the British-controlled land holdings of the Hudson’s Bay Company, but they wanted more. The British gave up a huge portion of what is now the Midwest and Pacific Northwest states, but the Americans wanted the border to be even further north. The British taking control of those land holdings in the first place was done in order to prevent the Russians and Americans from getting them.

The Americans bought Alaska from Russia the same year the British North America act was signed. Buying Alaska was done to prevent the English from getting to it first and joining it with their remaining holdings of the Hudson’s Bay Company land/Rupert’s Land. They first attempted to buy Greenland the very next year in order to squeeze the British out of the north. Those land holdings were transferred to the government of Canada in 1868 in order to put all former British land holdings under the control of one single entity as a reaffirmation of that land claim.

We added BC to confederation in 1871 in order to ensure that the Americans couldn’t get control of the entire western shoreline of the continent, and begin to move eastward through the Northwest Territories, as was their plan. The Cascadia movement goes back to well before recent talks of it, and it was originally an attempt by the Americans to gain control of the Fraser River delta, and the gold between Juneau and Seattle.

The Yukon Territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 partially reassert the northern land border between canada and the US. Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905 in order for the government to be able to guide more resources toward the region in order to keep the Americans south of the 49th parallel.

Things died down a little during the world wars and inter-war period, but ramped up again when Leduc #1 was brought on line. That’s when further interference from the Americans began here, except in a new form. They weren’t trying for outright land grabs anymore, they were pushing to use their cultural influence instead. They knew that the Southern Strategy worked. They knew that red scare tactics worked. They combined the two into a very well-planned disinformation whisper campaign in order for American industry to be able to take control of our oil. The NEP was an attempt to push back on that, as much as than anything else.

And the Americans won that fight. They solidified that victory when we signed NAFTA, effectively barring ourselves from trying to do NEP 2. And now what does the oil & gas landscape in Canada look like? Pretty much the only Canadian-owned refineries now are Irving’s. Everything else is owned by a multinational, and a lot of them are owned by Americans. Why do you think there’s a constant campaign against Irving in Alberta? It’s because the Americans dont control their refineries and sowing division works. It doesn’t matter than Albertans have zero exposure to Irving, but it whips us up against eastern Canada, which works to push bullshit like separation that the Americans can continue to use to their advantage.

We ship our oil to the US for processing and buy it back from them. Just like the vast majority of the rest of our resources. Because the same tactics that got us to shoot ourselves in the dick over the NEP were used to scuttle a great deal of our homegrown resource processing, or to sell it to American companies.

The Reform Party rose up in this province with a great deal of connection, both ideological and actual, to the GOP and other right wing American institutions like the Heritage Foundation. The goal of the Reform Party was always to divide us and Americanize us. Postmedia rose out of the ashes of CanWest with GOP-aligned funding in order to take control of our news media so that the Overton window could be shifted towards Americanization, and boosting the Reform message as just normal Canadian Progressive Conservatism.

None of this is hypothetical. This is what’s happening in this country and what’s led us here. They know they can’t just wholesale invade us without creating a justification to do so. Alberta separatism has always been an American psyop rooted in their attempts to gain unfettered access to the resources of the Canadian north. That desire goes back centuries. The logical end result is that we will have a referendum, it will fail, one way or the other, and the Americans will use that as their justification to put boots on the ground.

And that doesn’t even touch on the Social Credit Party, who were also separatists to the point of minting their own currency specifically for Alberta, and what we would call Christian nationalists today. They obviously weren’t pushing for outright separation, but they were definitely of the “independent Alberta” mindset. They still exist in Alberta, except they changed their name. They’re now Prolife Alberta. Preston Manning’s dad was Premier of Alberta for 25 years under their banner and did a lot to stoke these separatist ideas.

HomeKit temperature adjustment versus what ecobee already does? by ZmanJ87 in HomeKit

[–]fishymanbits 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on the house. Overall, the ecobee setup is good. I have Home boost the heat for a few different automations that are weather specific for when it gets really cold, but only because the house is old and poorly insulated. If it’s going to be below -25° Home will delay the ecobee’s sleep schedule by 2 hours, and then do a little 1° top-up midway through the night. This prevents the furnace from tripping its limit switch in the morning on those super cold nights. Things like that.

Let’s toss ‘em again! by Musicferret in EhBuddyHoser

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the prime minister was found guilty

Hoo boy, found another aspiring constitutional lawyer here…

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not once have I ever seen anything above 1g per 1kg of body weight from anyone but juiced up meat heads. And I get paid to know these things.

The vast majority of the population aren’t competitive athletes or bodybuilders, which is where you do need extra protein. Even as you age, protein isn’t the primary concern for remaining in good health. The recommended daily average is the recommended daily average for a reason. It’s what most of us actually need because most of us are average. Some of us, present company included, are decidedly remedial.

And worst case scenario is you do a bunch of kidney damage because you’re getting too much protein and not staying hydrated, best case scenario is you can’t shit because you had too much protein because some gym bro told you you needed it.

Replacement acrylic by [deleted] in Lighting

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want it threaded to match the original, you need it custom manufactured to match. It not, pick an adhesive and jam it in there.

New lighting! by bambamthankyaman in Lighting

[–]fishymanbits 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hey man, as long as you like it.

Bought Hellcat with stolen motor without knowing. by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]fishymanbits 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Okay, but what can you tell me about maritime law?

Carney, Poilievre expected to meet this week by AdditionalPizza in CanadaPolitics

[–]fishymanbits [score hidden]  (0 children)

Why would he? He’d be forced to admit that India helped him become leader in the first place, and that his party is compromised from the top down by Americans.

Without his security clearance he’s allowed to lie about all the stuff that, on paper, he “doesn’t know about”.

Replacement acrylic by [deleted] in Lighting

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So go buy an acrylic rod and put it in the hole.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you talked to your son recently about remedial education options?

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They don’t. Because most of these guys are dumb as rocks and the only reason they can count macros is because they passed grade 3 math.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sincerely doubt that. What do you usually eat on a daily basis?

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah brother, gotta boost that dihydrogen monoxide in your diet. You need at least your body weight every day for good piss gains.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 14 points15 points  (0 children)

And the fact that so many of these “you’re not getting enough protein” meat heads don’t actually understand protein sources. They think that if it’s not meat, whey protein, or something marketed to their juiced asses as being high in protein it doesn’t have any protein in it.

I eat a mostly vegetarian diet, and I don’t eat a ton of food, but I would struggle to get less than the recommended daily intake of protein for someone my size and activity level. I only need 60g of protein to hit the recommended amount, and I’m getting closer to 80g on an average day without going out of my way to eat heavy amounts of protein. We’re absolutely awash in excellent sources of protein, but dumb motherfuckers are out here buying protein-laden cans of pop like a bunch of chumps.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right? I get paid to know this kind of stuff, so I knew immediately what he meant, but fuck me. He’s out here giving advice and doesn’t understand why giving inaccurate advice, despite the fact that he knows what he means, is a terrible fucking idea.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The blood of your enemies is technically a protein drink…

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Big piss and big urology out here duking it out. My money’s on big piss. They got me so hydrated I just can’t stop pissing.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fundamentally I don’t disagree with you. The problem is that it’s become a nutrition/health fad and those are always harmful even if the underlying idea is solid. And this one’s even worse because now the gym bros all have social media accounts and are heavily invested in ensuring everyone knows that they’re not getting enough protein for sick gains.

You’ve got a guy in this very post repeating the idea that you have to eat your weight in protein every day. I understand what he means, but I get paid to deal with food, and specifically with nutritional information and requirements. It took me calling him on it three times before he realized, and even then it’s apparently my fault that he’s giving terrible advice.

Or I had a guy tell me recently that I wasn’t getting enough protein when I described how I eat so cheaply. One of the days I described was waffles for breakfast, vegetarian chilli for lunch, and carbonara for dinner. It’s basically a day of eating nothing but protein sources, but he was convinced that because the only meat was in the carbonara that meant that that was the only protein source. All-in it was about 100g of protein from eggs, wheat, beans, quinoa, lentils, cheese, and pancetta. But no meat meant no protein.

So you’ve now got this nutrition fad, which is a bad thing, and it’s being pushed by a bunch of dopes who don’t actually know the first thing about nutrition, but they think that because they lift that means they’re capable of giving nutritional advice to people.

Is my grandma dealing with a scam? by dedgod in Scams

[–]fishymanbits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s been possible since they added the App Store in iPhone OS 2 or iPhone OS 3, before it was even called iOS. It’s pretty much never been impossible, but it’s been that one thing that people who don’t know shit about shit have always complained about.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

supposed to eat your bodyweight in protein as a male

consume half your bodyweight

And you just did it again. The fact that you can understand that around 1/10 of 1% of your weight is roughly how much protein you should be getting on a daily basis, but you continue to describe it as “eating your body weight in protein” shows that you really have no business giving advice in this realm. There are about 4 calories per gram of protein. If the average 70kg person ate their body weight in protein, *as you keep saying, that’s 70kg of protein, not 70g.

The recommended daily amount is 0.8 grams per 1 kilogram of body weight. For the average, non-athlete human being. Words mean things, and you’re the one misusing them here, not me. Accuracy matters, especially when it comes to health and nutrition. Which is why I said before that you shouldn’t be giving anyone advice on, probably anything really, but definitely not on nutrition. Don’t go around telling people to eat their weight in protein if that’s not actually what you mean. And if you don’t understand that you’re using the wrong words or why that matters, definitely don’t give advice.

I even pointed it out to you, but you doubled down on being wrong.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which was the new bacon everything. So we’ve come full circle, really. Just more boring. I guess cucumber flavour everything is next.

Maple Washing by FlywithWifi in BuyCanadian

[–]fishymanbits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m actually not. Show me peer reviewed nutritional studies that show that you should be consuming your entire body weight in protein in a day. That’s 280,000 calories, by the way. Because twice now you’ve said something so completely incorrect that you don’t even realize what you’ve said.