That’s really good news, and how the ball got rolling in Canada. The NDP (social democrats) passed single-payer in Manitoba, then the LPC (centrists) promised it during a federal campaign to outflank the NDP at the national level.

I’m not usually one to advocate leaving the country you love, but I just finished a re-read of The Handmaid’s Tale and it has me spooked. That book is much closer to horror now that I am an adult and these things are taking a shadowy shape in America. All I can say is be ready, and we will be here if you need us.

Just moved here for a museum job about a year ago and I am SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS! My grant is until 2020 at least so I’m reallllly hoping I get to take advantage of this while waiting out the entire orange presidency from this SoCal oasis.

I moved here 18 years ago from the reddest state in the Union (Indiana) and I haven’t regretted it even for a second. This is where I really belong.

There are places that are not expensive. You just have to commute.

Or maybe just don’t smoke in any public bathrooms anywhere. Other people have asthma, allergies ect and also would like to take a piss without smelling like an ashtray at the end.

I’m really enjoying my Fyre Festival experience.

All of this makes me especially happy to live in Canada.

Zero rating the practice where ISPs (mostly mobile data providers now) provide you with free access to certain preferred content, while charging you to access other content.

Is it possible to copy that Gold Master? My suspicion is that he copied it before he sent it back to Blizzard, as insurance. In case one day he felt like releasing it. Blizzard thanked him in a very mild way, and then started thinking about this. They realized that he might have done this too, and they’d have no way…

If you advise someone and he/she doesn’t ever listen to your advice, are you really advising anything?

The government gave us Interstates.

You seem to be confused. A deferral does not mean that you don’t have to serve, it means you don’t have to serve *immediately*. Robinette was going to serve those two years, but it is common for the military to wait until your athletic career is over for you to serve them, because the early years of your career are…

Like, why would anyone try to actually scam us?

How fucking boring that looked. Like christ it’s basically a prettier looking Medal of Honor: Frontline with even less content than earlier titles like CoD 2 and 3.

Obama could charge whatever he wants as far as I care.

Words are important.

Why on earth would you think that a tortured explanation of the subtle, but ultimately meaningless, differences in the meaning of a foreign word would get you labelled as pedantic?!

That stuff grows wild out there. I’ve driven by fields of this stuff that didn’t look like it was tended to. Kind of difficult to remove.

The reason no one mentions the dead man’s crimes is that they are irrelevant to the way he was treated while in custody.