Not in my experience. If you don’t want to see politics there is a robust blocking system on Connect (and other apps I’m sure) that you can use.

It seems like you don’t know the definition of the word truth or you’ve been taught an inaccurate version of it. They way you write makes me think that you read a lot online and I’ve noticed in the last five or so years that there seems to be a push by some people (typically with ulterior motives from what I’ve seen) to dilute the definition of truth to accomodate the propagation of their worldview.

The truth of the conversation is that the guy was wrong. Calamari is not caviar = True.

This idea of adapting the word “true” to conveniently dodge outright wrongness on a topic is a problem. You’re using the wrong word if you’re saying things like “my truth” or “your truth”. It would be more accurate to say “my/your understanding”.

As I mentioned before, the truth is something that exists outside of you. You refer to facts to describe the truth to the best of your ability. No one expects anyone to have a complete understanding about everything. Incomplete knowledge is just fine so long as you accept when others fill in the gaps or correct you.

Its OK to be wrong. If people accept their own fallibility, they grow with every conversation they have.

How did you get that from what I said?

Here lemme flip the script on you. If you can’t listen to someone and absorb information without immediately conjuring negative assumptions about them, you might not be fun to be with either.

The point was that facts are facts. The fact that calamari is not caviar is not malleable (unless you’re in Estonia I suppose lol). It’s just a cold hard fact that outside of Estonia they’re two completely different things. In this situation there is no spectrum of rightness. You’re just either right or you’re wrong.

I’m not saying that its worth dying on the calamari hill in public. Handle that debate however you see fit.

Facts exist outside of you. Facts are already confirmed/researched and we just call upon them in conversation.

If an argument is based around a fact, there is indeed a right and wrong side. The accuracy of your recall of a given fact is the meaure of rightness in the argument.

iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.

I like to think I got pretty good at guitar. I’m no virtuoso but I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve been truly stoked about where I’m at skill-wise a couple times.

As a kid I always thought I’d plateau in my mid 20s and would never really progress from there but I’m 35 now and I feel like learning in general is still an easy thing to do, or at least get started on.

Here’s a clip if you wanna check out some playing.

I also feel like I’m a pretty good music engineer/producer. I like covering songs to practice my skills. Here’s one I did recently.

To the tune of Industry Baby:

He is a Babyman A stimkin man And sometimes he’s a chimkin man. He’s begging on his knees Mommy please Won’t you give me zoppity"

He’s a Sphynx. His name is Babyman, he’s stinky, and when he acts a fool we call him Chimkin Man because he looks like an uncooked chicken flailing around the house.

Zoppity is his freeze-dried venison food, named after a reference from The Office. “Bippity boppity, give me the zoppity.”

Zero and yes. Best friends for 10 years, married now for the last 5.

Times Square had massive Mullvad ads last time I was there.

Do we need to start review bombing sites that are doing this similar to how review bombs happen on Steam?

Good luck at your next appointment! 🤞

Thorium had the furry porn. I use it for work as I need a Chromium browser for compatibility. Librewolf for everything else.

bright side to him winning is that it made a ton of people I don’t like really mad

I’m genuinely curious here so I have a question for you. Why is making people mad so appealing in this situation? I can’t really see a true benefit beyond personal spite. Is that all it boils down to?

https://grapheneos.org/

Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.

This is me with watermelon.

Personally, I’m not feeling that same vibe. I think the solidarity against the US is a very good thing, but the sheer amount of ways Canada is just “America Light” is very depressing. Its to the point that our flag has been so sullied by absolutely shit tier movements in the last 5 years that I can’t stand to see it anymore.

Every time I see a private flag pole, bumper stickers or anything kind of patriotic merch my knee jerk reaction is “I bet this dude’s a fuckwad.” I know that I’m painting with a huge and shitty brush but I just can’t even fight against it anymore. I know it’s wrong. I just don’t care, and that makes me sad.

I live comfortably here, but given even a minutely convenient reason to emigrate I think I’d take it.

Canada is a car infested, anti-human shit hole just like America. To paraphrase Steve Harris of Iron Maiden a bit “We oil the jaws of the war capitalist machine and feed it with our babies immigrants.”

Wine is a translation layer, not an emulator so you’ll likely appear in the Linux users list.

Anything that Steven Wilson has made. Dude’s a living legend.

I only do baisc maintenance and setups for my friends now.

I’ve heard of beta blockers, but I’ve never looked into it. I’m kind of hesitant when it comes to dealing with any kind of side effects.

I worked at probably the best luthiery in North America. Got let go because I couldn’t keep up. I have tremors which makes fine dextrous work very difficult. At the time I was also going through a brutal break-up too.

Really bad time for me. Also working at this place was like playing a couple good games of beer league hockey and immediately getting drafted into an NHL team. I feel like if I took another shot at it, it would go much better second time around. But it just wasn’t meant to be at the time. No matter what, it was always going to be a massive uphill climb, but I was super dedicated to doing it and doing it well. It’s unfortunate it came to such an abrupt end, but I understand why it had to happen.