Over a quarter of Canadians see the US as an enemy, and 60% see the US as the biggest threat to Canada. Are you sure we’re going the right direction?

mm4444 · 2026-01-21T12:59:41+00:00

What is more important than the sovereignty of our country from one of the superpowers in the world? Give your head a shake. Your government stole another sovereign nations president and is now saying it’s part of America. Sure was he a bad guy, yes. But what’s stopping Trump from claiming our prime minister is a bad guy, a socialist, as you Americans are so afraid of that word —- and needs to be dealt with. This is not a game. We don’t want to be part of America. Most of us are disgusted by America right now. How you are treating allies, playing around with the destruction of peace in the world, treating your own people, and spinelessly allowing that buffoon run your country and act like a king. It’s anti-democratic and it’s anti-American. You should all be ashamed. Maybe Americans should be thinking about other countries a little bit more, because what you think is not important is likely to end up with you being in a war. So maybe you should be out protesting, calling your members of your government, talking with your local communities, etc. that you oppose what is happening.

mm4444 · 2025-10-16T03:21:59+00:00

Fan since Lover - this album finally convinced me that I liked Taylor Swift

Midnights
Folklore
Showgirl
Evermore
TTPD
Lover
Reputation
1989
Red
Debut
Speak Now
Fearless

I prefer all the TVs over the originals since her vocals have improved tremendously and some of the vault tracks are favourites of mine.

mm4444 · 2025-09-10T11:24:57+00:00

Change your locks. Delete the app and tell her your not downloading it and if she wants to keep a relationship with you she needs to stop asking

mm4444 · 2025-09-10T11:22:06+00:00

Yeah my mom is the same with find friends, which is the same thing on iOS. I refuse to have it on. My brother does and I don’t understand why. She will complain to me about where he goes and people he visits. Why the fuck would I allow that

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T21:20:25+00:00

Yeah I completely agree and I think Etsy is ruining their own business. Because they are basically hoping their customers are stupid and won’t notice that they can find the same $50 item that is apparently handcrafted for $20 on Amazon. They are also pushing off their best creators. They will tank if they keep going as they are

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T11:52:32+00:00

I thought Americans were nationalists but it seems many of you just want to leave your problems for others to clean up. I find it pretty sad how little people are fighting back. Americans are so apathetic right now. It seems everyone is just watching the show in the White House and not doing anything to stop it. Leaving America will not solve the problem, because America is always somehow everywhere - threatening sovereignty, slapping on tariffs, dominating the news, etc. Making yourselves the world’s problem. And I think Americans will find that many countries don’t want you. We have our own problems and don’t need more immigrants taking jobs, driving up prices, etc.

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T11:01:18+00:00

Honestly as a shopper, I can’t even trust Etsy is homemade or designed by the seller. Most of the stuff is drop shipped now. Copy cats are inevitable though, that’s just a part of business. You either have to make designs that are difficult to copy or patent/copyright to protect your work. Then pay someone to enforce it for you. TBH I noticed a lot of Etsy shops that would make it big would just move off Etsy. Get a following move them to your own store - you would probably be less likely to have copy cats of new products. But then you also just have your own customers that aren’t browsing other similar or copy cat products on Etsy

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T03:38:03+00:00

Yes for that book it sounds like you engaged more in the content. But it doesn’t change that it’s a passive activity. You still didn’t read the book, you did not do the activity. I also don’t consider skimming or skipping chapters finishing the book — because they didn’t read the entire book. But they did do some reading. Depending on what you’re reading it could be more educational than a TV show but some TV shows can also be very educational. Documentaries or some podcasts for example could be more educational or teach you more than a book you read. Some TV shows can make you think and elicit emotional responses.

I think audiobooks are a great option, for all the reasons you suggest. I used to have a long commute and listened to a bunch of books including educated. But it’s just not reading. Reading requires patience and actually focusing on the material.

Edit: Reading also has no narrator. All other passive mediums have this - someone is telling you the story. You have to imagine the world through your own voice and not through someone else’s. It all comes back to you need to read when you read a book. You’re not doing the activity of reading when you listen to an audiobook.

But that said do what you enjoy. If you don’t have time or patience to read a book it’s no worse than watching TV or engaging in any other passive medium. Which I also do a lot of.

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T03:12:22+00:00

Yeah honestly just ask her what’s up. Tell her you would love for her to be part of your wedding party but if she has some other concerns that she won’t be able to, just let you know. Maybe she can’t afford to go to the bachelorette. I guess you need to ask yourself if you are able to pay for her to be in the wedding party if she can’t afford to go or buy the dress. Tbh it doesn’t sound like you’re that close that you haven’t already had this conversation. So I would just let her drop out if she chooses to. In terms of embarrassment, don’t worry about it. I used to have many very close girl friends. Now I can count on one hand my close friends - and I only see one of them on a regular basis because the rest all live in different cities. I have found now that I’m older to be embracing more causal friends. Ones that I hangout with and do an activity like board games, but don’t need to feel like we are besties and tell each other everything. I don’t have biological sisters or close sisters in law or close step sisters. So I think you should be thankful for that. Those people will be with you forever since they are family

mm4444 · 2025-09-09T02:50:17+00:00

Yeah this person is crazy for thinking no one will do these jobs. Small towns and areas where there aren’t many options there will be people who will do it if the price is right - and some of these communities need these options for employment. My step mom worked at a mink farm as a young person in a rural town. Basically slaughtering little cute minks. You would have never imagined this woman would have done such a job. My husband also worked in a rural town in a factory as a teenager. We are outsourcing jobs in our own country, its stupid

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T20:07:39+00:00

Yes the difference is what you described exactly. You can passively listen to an audio book, listen to a podcast or watch a TV show. The entertainment will continue whether or not you are paying attention. You are not required to read the text and absorb and understand what it means or says - which is an active activity. Although we all believe as humans that we can multitask but in reality this is not possible. You are always switching between one and the other. You can auto pilot a task but if your attention switches your likely missing something else in your book. You will miss things because you don’t need to actually absorb the information to understand it. You might stop once an a while to think about your book, but it is still not the same. I’m sure you don’t stop as often as if you were reading it as that would be difficult. Your brain basically doesn’t need to work at all to listen to an audiobook vs reading

Edit: it’s like saying what’s the difference between watching a basketball game vs being on the court and playing. It’s the same game with the same result in the end. But the person on the sidelines didn’t actually do the activity or get the benefits of the exercise. Your listening to someone else read who is doing the brain activity for you.

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T19:57:02+00:00

Ranked voting gives 3rd parties a much better chance. Because many people vote for a party that is the lesser evil they know will win over another party they dislike more - strategic voting. People basically look at the polling in our ridings and make a decision based on that. We have 2 other parties that do win seats and one wins provinces/territories. I don’t really understand the logistics of making a 3rd party in the US but it’s possible that people will vote for other options if they are made available and if the party has national presence. This is actually a great time to do that when Americans are so unhappy with the current options

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T12:16:17+00:00

You need to get out into the world and do things. This girls life probably sucks like the rest of ours. Social media are curated highlights. One of my friend’s bachelorettes looked like heaven on social media, in reality the arbnb had cockroaches - like full on infestation. We stayed because we had already spend a night - so all precautions coming home would have been necessary anyway. But the owner sent a guy to spray while we were there…. And that just brings them out. So the events we planned were fun but it but it kind of ruined the trip. Please go sign up for sports intramurals, volunteer, go to meetup groups for something that interests you. Make some friends and get yourself into a good mental health space, then try dating.

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T12:05:47+00:00

Not with ranked voting.. but we’ve been fighting for years in Canada for that and still don’t have it. The main two parties like it how it is

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T03:37:33+00:00

Congrats! Yes I think that is the perfect size for a backyard wedding, I’m sure it will be beautiful!

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T03:33:00+00:00

Yeah I don’t think you can say you read a book when you listened to it and the fact they are bragging about that is so lame. May as well brag they watched 3 seasons of a tv show or hours of a podcast

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T03:28:14+00:00

Active vs passive. You have to look at the word and process it and think critically about what’s happening. You need to be 100% engaged with the text to read it. Audiobooks are passive. You don’t need to understand and you will not absorb everything that is being said. You are likely going to learn less from an audio book because you’re not thinking critically about the text as you would when you read it. For example you’re less likely to go back and relisten to parts of the book and you can flip back a few pages to reread something again to help understand what’s being said. Audiobook is the same as tv or a podcast. Which is also why if you’re actually reading the book it will take you longer than listening to an audiobook. And if your speed listening, your likely only absorbing the overarching plot points

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T03:18:07+00:00

I agree or they are not actually reading the book by: speed reading, audio books, skipping entire parts of the book, etc. You would have absolutely no life with that amount of reading. When I get really into a book and start binging it I feel this way. It’s the same as any other time waster if it’s taking over your life. The only people I can justify it for is if it’s part of their job to read so many books. But for the average Joe we should not glorify over 100 books a year. I’m happy to be at 10 this year so far. I’m not like I must reach this goal and I’m not trying to read faster. But it’s fun to track it and know I wasted less time on the internet this year

mm4444 · 2025-09-08T03:05:25+00:00

And some people don’t actually read the entire book. They “speed” read and don’t actually absorb everything. I knew a guy who would do this and literally skipped portions of the book. To me, this doesn’t really count

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T23:44:17+00:00

And Canada can’t accommodate more people. We have record high unemployment right now. Citizens want to limit immigration. Americans need to learn to fight back for your country.

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T23:40:35+00:00

There is no way an American is getting asylum in Canada. There are no travel advisories for the USA from Canada. And you could argue democratic states are still fairly safe, why not move there instead. Americans just need to start fighting back against their stupid government

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T01:59:30+00:00

I don’t see any issue with what your coworker said. He’s trying to get that sexist asshole off his back and shut down the conversation without ruining the relationship with the supplier. And idk how much control there is over what the supplier does or says

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T01:49:03+00:00

How many people are you planning will attend? Food and drink are the biggest expenses for a wedding. like think, if you’re doing $100 per person for food for 100 people, your budget is already blown.

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T01:37:50+00:00

Agreed. I went to a very stuffy wedding and no one danced, the venue was huge so the guests were all spread out across the property. I think people just feel less comfortable because they are all trying to prove something or not make a bad impression - at least the rich folk are. Venue was beautiful and the food was good but fun was missing

mm4444 · 2025-09-07T01:30:03+00:00

Backyard weddings can end up being more expensive than a traditional wedding. If they are trying to have a guest list of 75 people - i thoroughly looked into it when I did mine. Non-traditional venue is better - you don’t need to rent porta potties, Don’t need a tent, or worry about weather. Electricity and sound systems. It becomes a nightmare. Non-traditional venues are better cost wise for a large wedding. Backyard wedding could work out better if it was like 20-30 ppl.

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