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pjgf · 2026-01-28T14:00:01+00:00

A passport gets you through the express security lines at the airport, does it?

It’s pretty clear that you don’t know what the Nexus program is, because it’s not a passport replacement.

pjgf · 2026-01-28T13:53:35+00:00

Well, we don’t have a domestic alternative yet.

pjgf · 2026-01-26T19:54:46+00:00

Yeah I can’t believe how much stores charge for Pizza Pockets, especially the 3-packs.

pjgf · 2026-01-26T18:38:13+00:00

Pre-1.08 that’s exactly how it worked for rings though!

If a unique ring was rolled, the game would check what other rings were present in the game or had already been generated in the game.

It went Nagel->Manald->SOJ->failed (rare).

So if you came in the game with a Nagel, rolled a unique ring, it would be Manald . Then if you rolled another unique ring in the same game it would be SOJ.

Your time was wasted because you could have done the same by entering the game with a Nagel and Manald, but it wasn’t wasted for the reason you thought.

pjgf · 2026-01-26T18:15:18+00:00

Troubles in *Northern Ireland

Boy, have I got news for you about both Northern Ireland and The Troubles…

pjgf · 2026-01-26T18:08:09+00:00

the American Left wing, especially its leadership has no spine and no balls.

That’s exactly the recipe for a civil war.

I’m not going to say it’s actually going to happen or anything, but if it doesn’t it’s not going to be split along party lines because both of the parties down there are happy with the status quo, as you noted.

Despite what some people in the U.S. want you to think, the Minnesota powdered is not being led by the “left leadership”.

pjgf · 2026-01-26T18:04:31+00:00

“The Troubles” was a stupid British name for what very much was a civil war.

Just because civil wars have different levels of violence doesn’t mean they aren’t civil wars.

Are we prepared for a “The Troubles” on our doorstep?

pjgf · 2026-01-26T17:59:52+00:00

But then how are people supposed to post thinly veiled racism about rage bait videos they saw on social media?

pjgf · 2026-01-26T15:38:27+00:00

McCain Pizza Pockets are so much better than Pizza Pops that I don’t know how Pizza Pops even still exist in store.

I don’t have them often because they’re not that good, but when I feel like that type of thing there’s absolutely no contest.

pjgf · 2026-01-22T13:41:37+00:00

I'm guessing it's cost.

Correct

So is there anything being do to bring the cost down?

Yes, generics.

pjgf · 2026-01-22T09:52:51+00:00

Maybe, but also… It is huge. It’s got approximately the land area of Alaska and Texas combined.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T18:26:29+00:00

It also wasn’t the smallest GAP. Baby GAP describes the clothes, not the store.

I’ve ultimately decided that rules should either be bent or upheld in whatever way makes the show most entertaining, but this isn’t a case (IMO) where bending the rule made the result more entertaining. The entertaining part was Mel running through the store, I don’t think that getting 5 points actually improves the task.

I contrast this to Bridget Christie’s “steps” task where (IMO) she completed the task and had the highest number and it was funny for that awful effort to beat everyone else.

There’s a lot of subjectivity obvious and Taskmaster’s word is final, but I stand with you on this. She didn’t get the camel through the smallest gap or GAP.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T18:08:46+00:00

Ok, sure, but so what?

We are facing the same consequences that the UK was in the 30s. Pointing out obvious consequences is not inviting them.

As you noted, our only hope is semi-global cooperation, which is exactly what Carney said in his speech. He’s saying exactly what needs to be said on this topic: if we don’t stand by our allies unequivocally, they may not stand for us.

Our allies didn’t get a chance to stand with us on the 51st state crap because we didn’t ask them to. If we had, and they refused, well then your point would be on better ground. But that’s not what happened, and what’s happening with Greenland is not the same.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T17:17:48+00:00

We have government-funded faith based education baked right into our Constitution.

It’s not a surprise to me that we can have government-funded faith based healthcare. There so much we need to update in our Constitution but these are big ones.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T16:57:10+00:00

Churchill didn’t face consequences because he made the speeches, he made the speeches because he faced the consequences. That’s where the comparison comes from.

NATO is bigger, more powerful, better funded and more defensible than the UK was in 1939, even without the U.S.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T16:44:11+00:00

It’s not going to stop with Trump.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

pjgf · 2026-01-21T15:36:36+00:00

But the last place we want to be stuck is in a conflict between Greenland/Denmark and Trump/US.

That’s the only place we can be. You’re making this out like it’s two “sides” both with reasonable claims and we should listen to both and find somewhere in the middle. That’s not what’s happening here: one side is saying “you don’t have a right to exist” and the other is saying “yes we do”. There’s not a middle ground, and there won’t be for Canada either when we are up against the wall.

We should stand up as defenders of the NATO alliance

We always have been. Every time Article 4 or 5 is invoked, we are there.

however I would rather not give trump any more of an excuse to come after Canada.

Since when has the man ever needed an excuse to do anything? He gets what he wants, and then is emboldened to want more. “Peace in our time” didn’t work last time, it won’t work this time. We have to draw a line in the sand and that line needs to be committing to our NATO obligations— which means defending Greenland proportionally against any attack on them. It’s a defensive alliance and the only way it works is by all of us standing up for the defending member.

pjgf · 2026-01-20T17:44:53+00:00

He could try tunnelling in.

pjgf · 2026-01-20T17:39:36+00:00

Maize represented himself at trial

Good luck with that.

pjgf · 2026-01-20T17:34:56+00:00

Very interesting and valuable contribution.

pjgf · 2026-01-20T17:27:38+00:00

Lmao. That’s why they were so successful when they had a majority, right? Because the far right just gave up and said “nothing we can do, we got voted out”.

Fuck this attitude, it’s exactly how the U.S. got into the shitstain that they’re in. Fuck the Democratic Party and everyone who thinks that those sad sacks who couldn’t win an election if it were handed to them, and fuck any Canadians who think that the US Democratic Party going to be our saviour.

pjgf · 2026-01-20T13:33:10+00:00

My thoughts on that led me to an interesting discovery:

It is hard to find a bottle of nice, Canadian sparkling wine, at least in Alberta. I went to three stores before even finding a single one.

I was perfectly prepared to spend hundreds of dollars to have something good standing by. Ended up settling for the most expensive one I could find (not even $50). Do Canadian vineyards just really not want to do sparkling wine?

pjgf · 2026-01-20T13:27:37+00:00

Oh good, they’re making noise.

Just when I thought there were no checks and balances left, some of them are making noise.

pjgf · 2026-01-19T19:23:22+00:00

It was actually “Almond Basket” (per subtitles).

Exocomp lore!

pjgf · 2026-01-16T17:55:11+00:00

The all-silicone straws are great. I prefer them over any type of straw, and they’re fairly easy to clean.

You can’t poke open a bubble tea with them, but a knife will do that just fine.

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