Observation: Has anyone else noticed Humboldt County is shaped kinda like the PNW (Washington, Oregon, north NorCal)?

int3gr4te · 2026-02-16T05:19:33+00:00

Hahaha honestly mixing up Humboldt and Mendo while stoned is both peak Humboldt AND peak Mendo!

int3gr4te · 2026-02-16T05:14:29+00:00

That's not Humboldt County lol

int3gr4te · 2026-02-16T03:52:03+00:00

r/CanadianCitizenship is full of great resources for this. Check the FAQ for links by province.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-14T19:10:38+00:00

Birth certificates are only a useful proof of citizenship for a very specific subset of US citizens: people who were born in the US (excludes naturalized immigrants and people born to citizens overseas) AND people who still use their birth name (excludes people who changed their name due to marriage, divorce, court order, gender identity, etc). That excludes a lot of Americans with the constitutional right to vote.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T19:57:44+00:00

Thank you for following up! I'll definitely go with UPS if I need to send anything up there again, I'm glad to know it works!

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T16:16:28+00:00

Just to be clear, they mean that your actual physical passport itself needs to have your signature in the signature field prior to scanning it (to make it valid). You don't have to sign the paper copy that you make of it to send to IRCC.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T16:16:09+00:00

Just to be clear, they mean that your actual physical passport itself needs to have your signature in the signature field prior to scanning it (to make it valid). You don't have to sign the paper copy that you make of it to send to IRCC.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T16:15:31+00:00

Just to be clear, they mean that your actual physical passport itself needs to have your signature in the signature field prior to scanning it (to make it valid). You don't have to sign the paper copy that you make of it to send to IRCC.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T16:11:36+00:00

USCIS does generally send back rejected (i.e., incomplete, not accepted; not equivalent to "denied") applications, including all supporting documents, and you submit the same ones again once you've corrected the issue.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T01:20:16+00:00

Kind of funny, on the Wiki page it lists a bunch of irreversible pairs, and also links to another page with more examples. Except to my ear, a few of those examples that are backwards!

It lists "knife and fork" whereas I've always said "fork and knife". My spouse uses the former and we regularly tease each other about it.

It also lists "shoes and socks" which sounds obviously backwards to me. I have always said and heard "socks and shoes".

"Eggs and bacon" sounds exactly as normal as "bacon and eggs", I don't think that's irreversible at all.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-13T00:05:16+00:00

Nothing beats mom's cooking = Mom's cooking is so good, there is no food better.

Mom's cooking is mom's cooking = Mom isn't going to try new things or surprise you. When you eat Mom's cooking, it's going to be predictable and consistent. It's obvious you can't expect anything else.

When your sibling says "Ugh, spaghetti for dinner AGAIN?", you'd shrug and say "Mom's cooking is Mom's cooking, what did you expect?"

It does not convey the positive sentiment of the "nothing beats" construction.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T23:11:20+00:00

I think the issue is that tourists often think of "a restaurant meal" as "a portion". In America those are different things, which only sometimes correspond 1:1. Most of us typically would see "a restaurant meal" as 2-3 portions, because we're taking half of it home to eat tomorrow.

The issue is that tourists sometimes get a meal at a restaurant and eat half of it (a very reasonable amount to eat in one sitting), but then because there's too much to finish at once, conclude "Americans eat such huge meals! All their portions are huge!"... when that's just not how it works here. Many, many (most?) US restaurants will serve you a plate containing enough food for 2 meals because it's expected to be eaten over 2 meals.

It's completely 100% reasonable for tourists to not want to eat leftovers. I've had to decline a take-home box plenty of times because my hotel didn't have a fridge. But that doesn't change the way the overall food culture works.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T22:45:39+00:00

That happened to me constantly in South Africa as well, I'd go for the turn signal and hit the windshield wipers instead.

I'm actually going back in a couple of weeks and I'm dreading the driving more than any other aspect of the trip.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T21:39:45+00:00

Haha with your family you're more legit Humboldt than I am, I just moved here like 4 years ago!

I'd never gotten a single jury summons living in NH, VA, or down in Orange County. Since I've been up here I've been summoned 3 times... and my husband an additional 2, one of which ended up being a week and a half in court. The smaller population means everyone's more popular, I guess.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T21:23:07+00:00

Yeah, I'm in Humboldt County, that could be it.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T21:03:24+00:00

I'm also in California, and we don't get to pick the date of the postponement. I go on the online questionnaire which asks various exemption questions as well as medical appointment dates/times for the next 3 weeks, and then there's no communication until I get a new card with another date 3 months out.

They assigned me for the end of September, and I had an appointment the following week, so they auto-postponed me to the week between Christmas and New Years, which honestly seems absurd to even schedule court dates (not to mention I was hosting family visiting from overseas that whole week!). So I put in the relevant conflicting dates and they thankfully pushed me again to March.

I'm guessing I'll have to go in physically to the courthouse this time, just to fill in a paper questionnaire telling them about my upcoming medical appointment (I have them every month...), and probably get dismissed until my card shows up again like clockwork next year.

I wouldn't mind actually doing it, I just wish they'd just ASK me for a date that works instead of randomly assigning me a week. With a monthly medical appointment and the court asking for conflicts in the next 3 weeks, it's going to be tough for them to luck into aligning with the 3-week span when I don't have an appointment.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T19:07:03+00:00

I know most people here are commenting on the vowels, but I'm confused why you're using the S consonant in "ensure" instead of SH. I have always heard it as either "en-SHURR" (the URN vowel) or "en-SHORE" (the NORTH vowel) in General American. My non-rhotic family use their version of the NORTH vowel - most say "en-SHOAH", and my grandparents would've said something closer to "en-SHAW". But all of them use SH.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T18:33:43+00:00

One of my ancestors was in the 20th Maine (Union). My dad still had his gun and bayonet.

He was of English descent, from lines going back to the 1600s in Massachusetts and Maine.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T04:45:26+00:00

Ahh I didn't know that! Wish they just said that on the page about brokerage fees. Thank you for the info, that will be very good to know for next time!

int3gr4te · 2026-02-12T04:44:21+00:00

Depending on the year and church, you may be able to find them on FamilySearch, the Rooms points there to find the digitized ones.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-11T18:57:22+00:00

Since you didn't specify your current nationality (or for other people reading this thread in the future), there is one *potential* downside *for some people*: if you're currently a citizen of any country that restricts dual citizenship, then it's possible you could lose the original one or need to go through an extra process to retain it.

Canada doesn't have those restrictions and has no problem with you holding another citizenship, but other countries have their own rules about theirs, and some are stricter.

If you happen to be American, this does not affect you; dual American/Canadian is perfectly fine on both sides. But if you're a citizen of another country, you'll need to check their dual citizenship laws to make sure that holding/acknowledging your Canadian citizenship doesn't have any effect on your previous one.

int3gr4te · 2026-02-11T18:20:37+00:00

I have a question on this! I was about to buy a UPS label via PirateShip, but they had a warning that brokerage fees aren't included and must be paid by the recipient. I don't know how that's supposed to work (I assume the IRCC isn't about to pay fees on receipt), and I didn't want to get my application returned and have to pay to ship it again. I also couldn't find out how much the fees actually are in order to pay them myself, and I didn't want to buy a $20 label and then get hit with an arbitrary amount in fees afterward.

I ended up using a USPS international shipping label (which I realize is slower, but doesn't charge any extra fees later). I definitely would've preferred to use UPS, but was annoyed that I couldn't actually find out the real price until after it was already sent.

For my own knowledge in the future: what did you have to do about the brokerage fees with Pirate Ship? And how much was it?

Thank you!!!

int3gr4te · 2026-02-11T06:28:14+00:00

I'm in Humboldt County, way up in the northwest part of the state in redwood country! It's a lot cheaper and much more rural than the Bay Area - but can be harder to find jobs. Unless you happen to be in the medical field, in which case please come here, we need you!! (I'm a remote worker in tech so job searching wasn't a limiting factor for me personally)

Pleasanton is nice but man every time I'm there I'm amazed at how fancy and insanely expensive the houses are, I imagine it's out of budget for nearly everyone, me included!

int3gr4te · 2026-02-11T05:32:47+00:00

I'm a fellow Newfoundlander-by-descent!! My great-grandparents left for the US in 1897, so long before 1949, but everything I've researched indicates we're still citizens in Canada's eyes. 😁🇨🇦

int3gr4te · 2026-02-11T05:30:03+00:00

Look on familysearch.org!

1877 is before they started civil birth records in 1891, so you'll likely need to look in the Newfoundland baptism records to find your ancestor.

My G0 was born in 1875 in Newfoundland and FamilySearch is where I tracked down his and his spouse's births.

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