A large scale conflict like that would have economic and security implications for the rest of the world. Nothing exists in isolation.

It’s a lot of processed bread / carb products and very little protein.

Yeah because the US is the ally of my country. Geopolitically if you’re from a BRICS nation it’s not a concern. NATO and 5 eyes nations aren’t supportive of an ambitious China expanding influence and territory.

It is just common sense. Nations never do things for just one reason. Possession is 9/10ths of the law - if they fill Antarctica with their facilities they can later claim they have so many facilities they should just govern Antarctica. Not a bad strategic move in times of global warming.

$30k over 5 years isn’t a lot of money. So like what $6k / y taxed through the nose to work in a horrendously toxic environment? This is pizza party boomer logic.

Thank you.

There are a few considerations:

1. This is a small town. My philosophy is to be friendly with everyone and not burn bridges. Being friendly doesn’t mean being friends or going to coffee. It could be that we might end up working together some day or being at a party. In small towns you do need to exercise some social grace to make sure you don’t hurt others’ feelings.
2. The amount of times women say “no thank you” directly and still get interrogated by a series of why not questions. This is so common. I shouldn’t have to rationalize, defend or explain why I said no.
3. Then, women get into a situation where we really firmly have to say NO and suddenly we’re a bitch if we say that to the wrong person and open to violence, threats or stalking in the worst cases.
4. Also, we are socialized from a young age to be “nice and polite.” That doesn’t just go away. It’s like why don’t men talk about their emotions? It’s a social structure - it doesn’t mean it’s right, or that we shouldn’t work to change it.

Oh I have friends of different genders - I know how it works.

This person, for me, has made it clear they want to relitigate high school and started, without any invitation or explanation, randomly trash talking someone we went to high school with. I didn’t respond. Like what am I supposed to say to that? It’s not a positive person I want to hang with. I think they got stuck in our small town and are fixated on the past.

I think when I say I don’t have time because of personal issues and explain what those issues are (impending death in the family), that is a clear sign to the other person to not bother me until I reach out, especially since they are just a former classmate. We never really hung out.

There is a bit of social “take the hint” skill required, and people need to be aware of the general vibes they are giving. I don’t want to hear negativity if I don’t have a previously established relationship with you. I think some people try to jump the gun on friendship. In the early stages, as acquaintances, if I’m being nice it doesn’t mean I want to hear about all of your problems.

Establishing a trusting, reciprocal friendship takes time and I think people who have social challenges are often not aware that they are coming on too strong and too fast.

I think the point that what felt like friendly conversation to OP may have felt intrusive to her is so important.

I’ve been dealing with this a little myself recently and an old classmate from High School. This person keeps messaging me every few months on Facebook, has asked to go for coffee, knows I am in a relationship. I told them hey I’m dealing with a lot personally - I don’t have time to meet up. I’m not really interested in meeting up, but they still keep messaging. I don’t respond and they still message. I want to have good relationships with people from my hometown but what do I do? I thought I made myself clear in the nicest way possible. Initially I was ok to say hi from time to time but this person has come on too strong and too fast.

I worry that maybe this woman felt she was making herself clear and OP was unable/unaware/unwilling to read the signs because they were impaired. Rather than saying her actions to seek help from the institution were “austere”, perhaps OP should accept that she felt she had to seek help because the actions were threatening to her. Was it too much and too fast? Did she feel cornered and that she couldn’t exit the conversations? Were they deep conversations every day when a wave in the hallway would have been sufficient? And especially something that I feel was missed in the initial text - was there touching at all? Impaired people might feel like they’re touching in a friendly way but it can be extremely intrusive/unwanted to someone who is not impaired.

Fuck these guys for real. I had just set up a raspberry pi and nfc tags. I’m not buying their shitty ecosystem even harder now.

Oh sorry I thought we were buying quality products for life in this community, how silly of me.

It’s insulated VERY well - that is one of the brand’s specialties.

What about a Zojirushi electric hot water boiler? Hot water every day on demand!

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Russia’s handcuffed because they’re being backed by Iran for their invasion of Ukraine.

That’s such an overly simplistic solution for a complex issue, though.

Using that logic no despotic regime should ever be in power. But they are and have been and will continue to be.

The Taliban shouldn’t be back in power in Afghanistan, and Russia should just ditch Putin. People just need to read the 2nd amendment and grab their guns, gotcha.

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The r/Canada subreddit was taken over by far right wing mods and astroturfed to all hell with Conservative nonsense and Convoy support. I found myself speaking up more and more there because it was full of homophobic, racist antivaxxers and that is not an exaggeration.

This feels like it was written by someone who has never been on Lemmy because that has not been my experience at all.

Reddit is fucking full of bots astroturfing right wing political nonsense and we’re not getting that on Lemmy because those instances are often defederated.

Or, you know, he’s one of those guys who signed up for world when he should have gone to exploding heads.

Could just be an honest mistake, but it doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be held accountable and I’m glad he has been. If I read the headline correctly I think the PM has also made a formal apology on behalf of the Canadian government as well but someone feel free to correct me on that because I didn’t quite get to reading the article.

I think the Speaker’s riding is North Bay? The way a lot of small towns / northern cities work is someone tells you “oh I know him he’s a good guy” and you just kind of take it at face value until you find out otherwise.

Now that’s not the way international protocol should work, obviously, and of course the Russians are going to use it.

I don’t necessarily believe he was “put up to it” because the simplest explanation is just Northern Ontario word of mouth gone awry and applied to an international diplomatic event where it absolutely should have been fact checked. If I recall correctly, the Speaker said it was a last minute decision.

I have a contact in the house so I can update if I hear any whisperings. My question is: is the Chief of Protocol responsible for reviewing the Speaker’s remarks. The answer could quite conceivably be no, and if so I think that process should be reviewed.

That’s not the context though and misrepresents the situation.

The Speaker of the House invited this guy because he knew of him from his riding. Without doing research or looking further into the circumstances of this individual’s service, the speaker made the decision to recognize this individual.

This has nothing to do with the PM. It’s the speaker and he resigned.

It’s pretty disgusting that people try to twist this into a partisan issue so they can dig at the PM. It’s disingenuous and kind of shitty to misrepresent this situation tbh.

Here’s my hot take: the Giuliani connection is relevant- as a prosecutor he targeted the Italian mob so the Russian mob could gain a stronger foothold. They are all so beholden to Russia and it’s so obvious that it’s been a decades-long connection.