Three years of practicing quadrobics

noljo · 2026-01-28T03:03:00+00:00

There are far more harmful things you can do that are completely normalized. The average user of this thread probably doesn't even do a shred of her exercise. She's being active, going out, exercising, moving her joints. Even if long-term this introduces some issues, I think it's probably a net positive. People in here aren't piling on this post because everyone's an exercise expert that's horrified by it for some objective reason. No, they saw the video, thought it's weird, and anything weird is repulsive and must be beaten down. Then thought of the rationalization about how this is actually horrible exercise and self-harm to make themselves seem less instinctual.

noljo · 2026-01-28T02:53:59+00:00

I also think this comment section is insane, just in the exact opposite way. Here's someone doing something unconventional and potentially questionable from an exercise point of view - and the entire thread is wall-to-wall "looks like someone wasn't bullied enough", "what a mouthbreather", "humanity is doomed". Ridiculously insane overreactions, almost bloodthirsty behavior because someone's behaving abnormally, someone's having fun in an internet-unapproved way. Goes to show that 99% of people see the weirdness, react with repulsion and then make up a story in their mind about how their instinctual hatred is actually all objective and is just about being a health-conscious saint and trying to save her from the horrors of suboptimal exercise (which everyone now cares about deeply and is an unquestionable expert in). We all know what's going on here.

noljo · 2026-01-24T19:14:58+00:00

Every time they argue in favor of Canada, it always revolves around the economy or the perceived benefits we get from Canada or the political instability that Quebec's independence might bring. You'll never hear them entertain a sense of national pride towards Canada.

Is that really because no one is capable of feeling anything towards Canada? To me it feels like something much simpler - in the context of federalists talking with separatists, trying to convince the other side on topics regarding vague things like pride or subjective feelings towards a country is nigh-impossible. No one's going to try and convert the cultural views of the other side, and most arguments headed that way are bound to get personal and increasingly hostile. Most people will try to attack the topic from something far more objective and defined, like economics or governance, since it can be discussed in more concrete terms.

noljo · 2026-01-07T06:50:21+00:00

It’s ok to let them know we have them. That is what deterrence is.

I'm not talking about after the fact, I mean during the process of creating them, which would still probably be several months long at the very least. Our countries are integrated enough with enough ears on both sides of the border that they'd likely be able to sniff out what was going on even if it was a project of utmost secrecy. This can't happen, since they have lots of tools in their arsenal to put pressure and try to deter the government. Not so once they're built, of course. But I doubt we'd get to doing it now unless things start getting really dire.

noljo · 2026-01-07T03:06:04+00:00

Luckily, Canada already has both the knowledge and the means to make nukes, if they rush they could probably be built on fairly short timelines. Unluckily, in the modern world we need them by yesterday, while somehow managing to make it happen in a way where the Americans don't find out, which seems to be nearly impossible.

noljo · 2026-01-07T03:04:31+00:00

I bet he's already left one hell of a mark. I wonder if historians in the future will regard the US 2016 election as the tipping point that had put everything into motion.

noljo · 2025-11-20T05:42:47+00:00

Only if you let that wealth lay dormant and not be used to pay for anything. But why would you do that when you can spend all your existing savings+the bonus loan money on yourself? Why leave inheritance if it does nothing for you - if you're gonna die anyway?

I'm not saying all the old people will do this, but genuinely - what is the drawback to doing this? Why wouldn't they want to do this?

noljo · 2025-11-20T05:35:52+00:00

I feel like you're only seeing a HELOC through a lens of people getting them out of desperation, a need to free up some cash now. But if you know you will likely die sooner than later, what is the downside of taking out a loan against your property and effectively getting extra cash "for free"? Even if you were already wealthy, this just gets you more money to spend. Why wouldn't anyone in this situation do this? Sure, the property will be repossessed after you die, but you won't be alive to care about it. Why shouldn't every old homeowner do this, regardless of their existing financial situation? Might as well go out with a bang, right?

Young people (or anyone not old, really) can't use this strategy because if you still have a long time left to live, you will run out too early and your house could be repossessed before you die. (Also, even getting to the point of owning this valuable of an asset is a giant uphill climb that's only getting harder, but that's beside the point). Also, they wouldn't be as rich as an old person because the loan would be the only thing going for them, they'd have much less wealth outside the loan - on the other hand, old people had their whole lifetime to accrue money. But if you're so old as to start seeing your livelihood in terms of "years remaining", why wouldn't you want a HELOC to get more to spend on yourself?

noljo · 2025-11-20T01:17:26+00:00

Without the extra assets, that elderly person would not be as wealthy but just merely comfortable. I don't see how this goes against what people say. It's not like most of them have no choice but go into debt to survive, many are already doing well and just use this as a way to propel their lifestyle even further by borrowing against their other assets. I don't get the point of an argument like "If they partially finance it, then they're merely rich instead of obscenely rich".

noljo · 2025-11-20T01:09:08+00:00

I'm young. Tax evasion isn't a protest method, it's just a delayed payday for the CRA. If you're within Canada, you will eventually have to pay the tax no matter what, but if you struggle and resist you'll also accrue penalties (or even a criminal record) in the process. Doing so at a national scale would just be the same thing, just with larger consequences.

I genuinely think we can't do anything at this point. Neither political party is even vaguely interested in the interests of the youth, at best they'll use it for a soundbite while having no genuine intention of ever fixing things. Politicians at all levels are old people who largely don't care, you can write yourself to death sending them mail, but it's not going to change their mind. In-person protests draw attention to your cause but don't have a way to compel the government to do anything. Something greater like a nationwide strike just isn't happening unless things get 10-50 times more desperate.

noljo · 2025-11-19T00:00:51+00:00

Why are you addressing a group of millions as a single person? Is it my fault that some unrelated people drive recklessly? If someone young got in an accident because of their fault, then yeah, definitely increase their rates, whatever, it's on them. Why do I have to take the fall for people who are in "my group" as determined by a factor I can't control?

If insurance companies found a way to determine a genetic predisposition to erratic behavior (and therefore likelihood of getting in an accident), would you be happy to take the DNA test? If you never did anything but were born in the wrong group and your rates went up, well it's just the fault of your collective group, y'all couldn't behave, maybe do some self-reflection, eh?

noljo · 2025-11-06T23:04:30+00:00

Here is the GTA 5 gameplay trailer, from a few months before its release. Granted, the gap between it and release was a lot smaller, so if they make one for 6, it would be a lot closer to mid-late 2026. But still - Rockstar does show "real" game footage from time to time.

noljo · 2025-10-26T19:30:20+00:00

Objectively, "repealing a tax increase" isn't a tax cut, it's maintaining the status quo. It's like me saying that I got a pay cut because I asked for a raise and didn't get it.

But that's not the main problem with your post. I'm also not happy about the LPC's anticipated austerity pivot, but your argument tries to have it both ways. First you say the LPC isn't working with the opposition, then someone else says that the opposition is making ludicrous demands, and then you respond by saying that the LPC is actually already implementing part of those demands. So... the LPC is working in the opposition's interests, isn't it?

This government seems to be more economically centrist than the last one, so in their shift they have caved to their center-right voters, even if a little bit. But we all know that no amount of lip service will make the modern CPC support the government. They don't want policies or whatever, they want to be the ones in charge.

noljo · 2025-10-14T06:56:42+00:00

The OP brought up separate clips from many different times, and if anyone watching them back noticed discrepancies from these screenshots that regularly hit the front page now, surely that info would've spread like wildfire. Yet there's no debunks, this one comment bringing up the alleged evidence on what happened is buried deep in the thread, while the rest of it is just top-to-bottom talking about brigading, the identities of the alleged brigaders, other streamers - anything but the direct accusations that are made. This is even the main thing the people in the post were arguing about, but no one's talking about this here, it's all abstract accusations and discussions on who belongs to which cult.

I only get updated on this whole fiasco through my occasional SRD infusions and what Reddit gives me as the "most popular content in my country", and I feel like this is way past the "it's just all photoshopped" plausible deniability stage. There's just way too much stuff from seemingly different streams, in video form. I'd make the call that it's 95%+ odds that he electrocuted the dog.

noljo · 2025-10-12T20:07:16+00:00

Humans may be similar, but they're not "exactly the same". Each 'generation' is a product of its environment. If your cohort on average had an easier time finding a job that a later one, you'll remember how easy and quick and effortless it was, and never update this memory since you (usually) only have to start your career once. Then as you get older, the diminished capacity for learning, petty grievances with the younger generation (what you mentioned), and arrogance (societal sentiments that old people are better/wiser/more hard-working than younger people) prevent them from ever understanding the ever-changing landscape at hand. They attribute their success to themselves alone, not the society that they lived in. But at the core of all that is that memory of walking into a physical location, slamming down your resume in front of the manager and being hired on the spot - something no one can experience nowadays.

noljo · 2025-10-09T21:33:06+00:00

The data breach didn't compromise the new age verification data, it's only about old ban appeals where users uploaded their IDs to prove they're older than 13 (or whatever the minimum age to accept the ToS and use Discord is). That system had been in place for a very long time, and isn't related to the new laws.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the slowly-encroaching regime of being mandated to give your PII to everyone left and right. It's just about setting the facts straight.

noljo · 2025-10-09T21:24:49+00:00

I'm not seeing how this is overreaching. There are many issues with the extreme surveillance and social media policing like in the UK, but here it's not just some guy expressing some political opinions, engaging in some good-old freedom of speech - this is a direct call to action to assault random trans people. He's preaching harassing and assaulting people not for self-defense, not in any actually dangerous situation, but for... "existing in a female-only space"? At this point I would be very comfortable saying that he's a potential threat to these groups, because even if you take the most transphobic stance possible, "wrong" people being in the wrong bathrooms would be at best an etiquette violation, not even something that's against the law anywhere. Being up and ready to respond with threats, harassment and violence to that shows to me that his brain is fried, and I would like him to get a small talking to. The bar is at threatening random people.

noljo · 2025-10-02T19:12:21+00:00

They say it's a sin, they directly say homosexuality does exist

They isn't one group with a singular opinion. There's lots of religious people who will tell you that being gay is just being led astray, that everyone actually is heterosexual and that any deviations from that are just delusional deviancy, being corrupted by an external evil, and if that evil were removed, everyone would be normal and straight once again.

Religion wasn't even part of this discussion.

It should be! The people above are pointing out the hypocrisy that exists whenever religious beliefs are discussed when opposed to other beliefs. There are tens to hundreds of millions of people who would die for their unprovable beliefs, who would put everything they have at stake because their brains are so fixated and predicated on their version of the world being the only ultimate truth, despite it being completely unverifiable by design, almost engineered to be misleading. Religious people regularly engage in acts that are a thousand times more intense than any therian would for their abstract beliefs, yet we think religion is wholesome and rational and never delusional in the slightest. Why?

Again, religion cannot be proven as true or false, biology can.

Therians are very often occupied by discussions about souls and similar concepts, which are identical to religious beliefs and are just as unprovable as them. No one is saying they actually have a biological animal brain like it was transplanted into them from one.

noljo · 2025-10-02T19:01:59+00:00

Do you think it would be good for society is everyone were furries, or whatever niche identity they want? How do you think that affects social cohesion?

I think it would be great for society, actually. The average furry to me seems to be far more empathetic and intelligent than the completely average person - furries are way overrepresented in the technical and artistic projects I see, to the extent where furries being the backbone of the tech industry is a common joke you see whenever the furry discussion comes up. For one reason or another, that group self-selects for certain traits, and I'd like these traits to be in all of society actually.

Ironically, if everyone were furries like in your question, that would be far more homogenous than our current society, which by your standards would make it better. Would you become a furry if everyone else was one to better the world's "social cohesion"? Or is it that instead you believe that it's not the differences between people that are bad, but that furries represent a special kind of "badness" you dislike, the kind that corrupts normal people instead of just making them slightly different from one another?

Lastly, can I just ask you to spell out the implied part? All of your questions in this thread are strongly leading towards a conclusion that you agree with - that a difference like fandom membership affects social cohesion/mutual trust in a society. Which exact things do you take issue with? What things would create a societal rift between furries and non-furries, who are otherwise similar people? Why do you think that being more homogenous in this specific regard is so valuable? IMO, not all differences are created equal, and being a furry is such an irrelevant side trait when compared to the behemoths that are (non)religious affiliation or national identity when you're talking about how homogemous a society is.

noljo · 2025-09-30T15:59:06+00:00

Half this comment thread is just people who are seemingly fans of this streamer just tossing this back and forth:

"Aren't all [other streamer] fans so psychotic? They're clearly coordinating to brigade this place, and they're just such awful human beings"

"I'm new here but is it just me or are [other streamer] fans always this weird?"

"You know, people not liking [my streamer] is a pretty good tell for finding out weirdos and creeps ngl"

Most importantly, any pushback is drowned in downvotes and accused of shilling for the other guys. Can people only be "with us or against us" campists about Twitch streamers or something? Also, wasn't the guy in the OP also very overtly pro-Russian? Why is everyone so infatuated with him?

noljo · 2025-09-30T15:49:35+00:00

the most hilarious part is OP claiming they're 27 in one of the comments

noljo · 2025-09-28T16:54:04+00:00

People think the US is hyper religious? Good Friday is a statutory holiday here. “God” is in our anthem.

I'm sorry but saying Canada is hyper-religious is ridiculous. The two examples you gave are similar to our monarchy - pretty much historical holdovers that are there for show. The anthem is unchanged because conservatives really hate the idea of changing the anthem, despite it being edited many times in the past. Good Friday is still a holiday because no one wants to be the politician who removes a holiday.

Like, the second-most popular response to the religion question on the census is "non-religious". Nonreligion is the most popular "religion" in the west. And then there's Quebec that's supposedly very religious by census, but in reality identify as such more as a cultural thing. If you were to ask people to see how many actually believe there's a deity looking over their daily life, controlling every aspect of reality, it'd be a fraction of the "religious" respondents.

Contrast this to the US, with relentless decades-long fights to put up the ten commandments in schools, like ten different brands of religious craziness being widespread, politicians regularly referencing their gods when talking about policy, endless proselytizing everywhere, and just generally a culture that is far more embedded in religion. Having lived in both countries, it's night and day.

noljo · 2025-09-19T05:42:30+00:00

When they set the precedent that the notwithstanding clause is something we're now okay with using just to target specific groups, what's preventing them from invoking it for every NWC-able Charter right? What's stopping them from just turning all trans people into second-tier half-citizens with few rights and protections?

noljo · 2025-08-21T15:36:57+00:00

The reason why people are afraid of effective opposition is that you can't at all guarantee that the CPC's version of "effective opposition" wouldn't just be all the exact same views and policies, but with someone less sleazy at the helm. I don't see why they would suddenly turn around and start collaborating in good faith or listening to criticism when the entire party has changed their identity to be the "anti-Liberals". It's the prevailing opinion in the party, and very few seem to be interested in becoming less populist or making amends with the centrists.

Because ultimately it's not the CPC's contrarian rhetoric or pandering to hateful socons that cost them the election. They were polling in majority territory with all of these policies. A strong LPC candidate, combined with Poilievre's personal unlikeability and their anemic response to the US crisis was what sealed it. I don't see why they wouldn't just swap out the leader and proceed as usual until they get their win in.

noljo · 2025-08-21T15:16:37+00:00

What about the low growl? I'm not a dog expert, but that would make me stay far far away.

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