I cleared all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3. I expected…something…anything?

It happened to me for the first time at Calgary Stampede this summer. I refused and was denied entry to a concert I’d already paid for.

Also the Alberta separatist movements are backed by American oil companies Russian front groups.

Fixed it for you.

Aren’t these everywhere? Where I grew up they were called taverns, but this basically every bar that isn’t some scam for young people. Find yourself a dive bar and enjoy.

That is an omelette. What makes you think it’s not?

Not like that, no.

Well we did have them. Still do in many cases although they are under pressure. And the Stronachs built their fortune through Magna supplying parts into manufacturing facilities.

I don’t know if we can cut those deals with China or not. But the low cost of those vehicles reflects low wages. So you can have cheap vehicles where every dollar supports a foreign economy, or more expensive vehicles where we pay a good wage to our friends and neighbours.

I’m with you. My ideal vehicle would be the electric equivalent of the Mazda B2000 - compact single cab short bed pickup. Slate held some promise but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. The closest thing is the Maverick but it’s over-engineered and a crew cab.

If you think this is a Kang and Kodos situation you are legitimately insane. On one side you have a PhD level economist (Oxon) who is former Governor of the National Banks of both Canada and England, and on the other you have a convoy supporting career politician who has been playing partisan gadfly since he was an undergraduate at University of Calgary.

Your quickness to bring in " throw away your vote" as legitimate strategy screams of trolling.

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Well your realpolitik option is a supersized portion with Poilievre. Until we get proportional representation we are all hostage.

I have played with using two signatures: a fancy legible one for work and my usual one for personal stuff. When I started signing documents that were sort of public I was concerned about someone using a signature from one of those documents for identity theft. I left that role around 10 years ago so haven’t had to worry a out it since then.

It’s a defensive posture. It’s those things that are keeping us from random 1,000,000% tariffs that would take a decade to litigate. Nobody wants it, but we kind of need to play along while we figure out how to get out of this mess.

We were part of that cabal - it was called the auto pact. In a sane world it integrated our manufacturing processes so that we could be players rather than consumers. The Canadian market is small and fragmented so we don’t wield any power as a consumer nation. Be careful what you wish for.

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I know. I’m sorry. Some mornings I just can’t help myself. Once I’m fully caffeinated I can keep my little outbursts contained.

Somehow I think the little one is more impressive. Just a little lean for some momentum and the arm extension. The big one is wow! but you can see the whole coil and hip shift generating the power.

I do it because I want to see the other endings, or mess with the loot thats available on one path versus another. It’s a way of exploring the game as a construct. I’m curious why you question that approach?

Engage pedant mode!

The Swedish word for moose is “älg”.

Moose is an Anglicized Algonquian word. The Algonquians didn’t have a writing system so English just used the double o to represent sound phonetically.

Ø is a sound that we don’t really use in English, sort of a slightly backed and rounded “eux” as in the French “deux”. Doubling it means you pronounce it twice - it’s a a long vowel. M-eux-euxse.

Pedant mode off!