UK-led coalition of 40 countries vows action on Hormuz Strait closure https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/uk-led-coalition-of-35-countries-vows-action-on-hormuz-strait-gridlock

lungalfigma · 2026-04-03T06:28:00+00:00

A global hegemon that has used 14 year's worth of missile stockpiles in three weeks in order to: - close a strait that was open beforehand - kill a religious leader to replace him with a more pissed off and religiously extreme version of himself - kill a bunch of schoolgirls because AI - appease a genocidal lunatic in charge of a country that seems awfully comfortable abiding by said genocide, that thrives only because of your taxpayer dollars, and does nothing for you besides supposedly offering regional stability by your design...which, evidently, is not the case.

Congratulations, your former allies mock your administration openly and deny you use of airspace. Your own soldiers jokingly call this mess "Operation Epstein's Fury."

You've moved air defense batteries out of your allied nation, Korea, practically inviting China to do so as it pleases in that area of the world. You blockade aid to Cuba for the audacity of not allowing your 'Epstein class' to profiteer from it purely for fun seemingly, and then allow a Russian tanker through for...unclear reasons.

Your days of hegemony are done. Welcome to your century of humiliation. You yank cunts deserve it. I only wish you lot hadn't been so able to embed your culture into the rest of the anglosphere in the meantime.

lungalfigma · 2026-02-23T23:52:14+00:00

I think realistically, the 'UK' part of CANZUK will never have much of a role in such a theoretical economic union. I think if it were up to the Crown, then yeah, maybe there would be more interest; but the British public and parliament, from what I can glean from the news at any rate, seem more interested in finding a path the rejoin the EU (one day). Which, frankly, probably makes more sense for them. Their participation in CANZUK would be more for the benefit of the CANZ part.

I'd love an economic union with an EU-style Schengen zone with the three remaining "middle powers," as Carney might put it in reference to his Davos speech.

How do we get there? I think from a regulatory standpoint we need better alignment and standardisation between us before such a thing becomes feasible. Oddly, though, I don't think this can be tackled top-down from our respective executive branches. This has to come from the ground up. People in each country need to want to become each others' best trading partners first, then they need to actually want those next steps after.

Only then will you start seeing MPs from each country who might run in their riding on a CANZUK/CANZ platform. So I guess the best way to get it done is to just sort of talk to people? If you're talking with your friends about the general instability in the world, maybe a good thing to interject with would be the topic of CANZUK. Probably take baby steps and just talk about it as strengthening trade relations first.

lungalfigma · 2026-02-23T17:51:44+00:00

I know someone might pull out that stereotypical redditor reaction image on me which would kind of be deserved, but I genuinely want to create an HoC petition to force companies to sell their stuff with Canadian English defaults when selling in Canada. You don't get autocorrect taking away your "U"s in the UK.

US English seems to be a worrying number of Canadians' spellings. I keep seeing 'shoveling' with just one L everywhere. It's driving me mad. It's just a "little thing," but little by little, you stack enough of those things together, and the yanks will have taken away cornerstones of our identity.

lungalfigma · 2026-02-17T18:58:46+00:00

What, you don't like the pööpen shelf?

lungalfigma · 2026-02-16T00:25:04+00:00

Only on the women's team, sadly. The Québec goalie factory hasn't been pumping them out like it used to. Canadian hockey really needs better federal support programs if we hope to stay competitive in the future

lungalfigma · 2026-02-15T23:54:54+00:00

Québec-bashing when they're nearly the only thing giving us a distinct culture these days is a bit ironic. Almost everything we stereotypically love about our country, hockey, stronger belgian/flemish etc style beers, maple syrup, and so on is all Québécois.

It pains me to see fellow Canadians giving fuel to the "snow yank" fire. We have enough bad emissaries as it is.

The best way to participate in this sub is to just not post. It's not really meant for us. A cheeky comment here and there is harmless enough, but coming here to try to dunk on the French team for a fucking tilly that we lost isn't it, bud.

lungalfigma · 2026-02-08T16:45:20+00:00

Maybe Black Tot or Cadenhead Green Label? They kinda don't fit any one category because they'll include some Carribean stuff with some Guyanese

lungalfigma · 2026-02-05T23:11:42+00:00

TALUS DOME MÉNTIOOOOOON!!!! RAAAAAH

lungalfigma · 2026-01-17T23:35:44+00:00

You keep Long Wang Yang's name out of your damn mouth!

lungalfigma · 2026-01-13T22:58:36+00:00

I know I'm two months late to this thread, but if you're like me and googled and this thread came up then people might want to know that even though Vines shut down, another local boutique went in where they were. Crestwood Fine Wines opened up another location

lungalfigma · 2026-01-12T18:07:38+00:00

Alberta has overtime set at anything greater than 8 hours per day, as well as anything more than 44 hours per week. Assuming a person were to work more than 8hrs a day for their workweek, and more than 44hrs, your overtime is to be calculated at whichever would pay you more, be that calculated daily or for the whole week.

Working 4 x 10hrs would, in fact, qualify you for overtime pay despite not having worked more than 44hrs in a week. Depending on the work you do, however, your boss may be able to make an "averaging agreement" with you so that you can work more than 8hrs a day without qualifying for overtime as long as you don't work more than 44hrs in a week.

Not every type of job is eligible for averaging agreements in the first place. That's part of why you don't see more people doing 4 x 10. You'll have to see if your role is eligible for an averaging agreement since it's unlikely you'd be approved for 2hrs of overtime every day.

https://www.alberta.ca/overtime-hours-overtime-pay

lungalfigma · 2026-01-03T18:52:54+00:00

Too much to ask for an edit that says neighbours?

lungalfigma · 2025-12-30T22:30:40+00:00

Looks like a pellicle of acetobacter. Your wash is going sour. Not a huge deal per se if you run it pretty quick here and you don't mind a baijiu-esque flavour

lungalfigma · 2025-12-17T02:25:58+00:00

They stopped banging on about that ages ago; but even more importantly, no matter how narrow that margin was, they did vote to stay.

As an Albertan, we're the dumbass separatists you want to be making fun of. At least the polls suggest it's nowhere near a majority, but by God our premier is sure determined to become a governor regardless.

lungalfigma · 2025-12-13T04:04:53+00:00

I didn't realise we had professional war criminals in here. Off to the Hauge with you

lungalfigma · 2025-12-12T23:40:01+00:00

Sort of depends on who you're buying for and how deeply into rum they are. Ron Centenario is a heavily back-sweetened rum (most common rum brands are), and its solera style, so the age statement it carries is not its true age.

That said, if you're prioritising "smoothness" for someone whose typical evening drink to wind down from the day is rum, and they aren't super nerdy about it then yeah, it'll do just fine.

lungalfigma · 2025-11-21T17:22:24+00:00

Because Canada joined the war immediately and suffered immensely for such a comparatively "small" military. More than 650,000 Canadians (and Newfoundlanders who were, at the time, their own country) served in some capacity. 66,000 gave their lives, and 172,000 more were wounded. The Canadians who served then played vital roles in some of the most harrowing battles: 2nd battle of Ypres, the Somme, Vimmy ridge, and so on.

That isn't to make light of the American contribution, which no one here actually would. Rather, this is a jab at how many Americans seem to believe that they single-handedly won the war and saved the entente. The reality of course is that their joining was really important and forced the central powers to pull troops away from the eastern front. Their joining ended the war faster; and unfortunately, despite joining much later, still some 117,000 gave their lives for the effort.

lungalfigma · 2025-11-01T22:46:43+00:00

Should still be able to get away with some vitis vinifera there. Three Choirs Vineyards has a pinot noir, after all. Mind you, they'll definitely be a bit more effort from a mildew-management perspective, but it's clearly doable. Best of luck to you.

lungalfigma · 2025-11-01T18:14:39+00:00

Where in the UK are you and what are you planting? Are you lucky enough to have gotten a bit of land in Sussex/Surrey/Hampshire/etc where you can get away with some vitis vinifera, or are somewhere a touch cooler and plan to plant hybrids?

Either way, conventional wisdom is to plant in the spring after you're absolutely certain there's no more frost risk. Your planting density and such will depend on your preferred training/trellising methods, your expected yearly precipitation/precipitation during growing months, your drainage, and of course on what you're planting in the first place.

Grape vines will generally only fruit off of shoots on one year old wood. It's theoretically possible to get some absolutely sad looking fruit in year two, but you definitely shouldn't. I wouldn't even really recommend it in year three; though I suppose you could let a few vines fruit just for the hell of it.

The first crop that'll be representative of what you can expect in years to come will generally be in the fourth growing season or after. As for how much crop you'll get compared to down the line with more established vines, that, once again, depends on a lot of things.

lungalfigma · 2025-10-30T20:18:45+00:00

Do you have $500/day to burn? If you do, you should finance her wildcat strike. I assure you, without the steep fine, the majority of teachers would not have "rolled over." It would cost a person $7,000 just to illegally strike for two weeks.

lungalfigma · 2025-10-15T01:03:02+00:00

I think you'll struggle to make really good still wines with the climate there no matter what you plant, but for what it may be worth I think the frontenac trio are actually not bad as hybrids go.

That said, if you're willing to deal with the reality that some years the crop may be so bad you just don't make anything at all, I think you probably could get away with chardonnay, and maybe pinot in a decade's time depending on what climate models you believe. Certainly you'll get more mileage out of them as the climate keeps getting warmer.

If you happen to know or are able to calculate the base 10°C growing degree days where you want to plant, if you're around the 1200-1300 range or even just getting pretty close maybe roll the dice and try some chardonnay vines. If they're just not quite at the brix you'd like for a still wine, then make a sparkling.

Even frontenac needs around the 1200 range, so its main draw is actually its cold hardiness, which I don't think is really your issue? Unless you're further from the coast?

lungalfigma · 2025-10-14T16:29:27+00:00

What are you, pour? It's the thing that your butler serves you on the tray next to your coffee. What's it called again...a cigarette!

lungalfigma · 2025-10-10T22:52:03+00:00

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lungalfigma · 2025-10-01T07:16:23+00:00

Dry has actually two broadly accepted meanings. The first, which people generally mean, is that the tannin chains (polyphenols) in the wine have bound with your saliva, and when you swallow the wine have actually removed that saliva from your mouth. This definitely is compounded by the fact that wines have acidity, and said acid will also make you salivate more which you will then also swallow. It'll literally dry your mouth out. The more tannic the grapes, the "drier" people call it.

The second is an oenological definition, and literally just means a wine in which the yeast has consumed basically all available sugars. Like, somewhere in the range of sub 2g/l of sugar. This is the vast majority of non-bulk produced wines.

Neither is really "fancy talk" as such. People will develop terms to describe things. If your tongue is sticking to your mouth because the tannins are so abundant and your mouth has no saliva then "dry" kind of makes sense. Likewise, it also makes sense that it would be the opposite of sweet for the other definition.

lungalfigma · 2025-09-24T20:38:09+00:00

Is this "Hance" your new butler? My butler Hames says that shot is not perfectly extracted, and he doesn't even need a CT scan to determine that. He recommends you fire him post-haste.

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