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BenVimes

@ BenVimes @lemmy.ca

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  • Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty

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  • According to his Wiki page:

    "In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio."

  • 'Trump bump is over': Confidence free falls as voters blame President for market 'chaos' - Raw Story

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  • I seem to remember visiting their homepage last year sometime, and every headline was some variation on [Name of politician][aggressive verb][target of ire][reason for the spat], e.g.:

    • "John Bloggins slams Joe Blow for wearing a plaid tie"
    • "Mary Sue rips Judicial Committee for goat scandal"
    • "Peter Flarking haymakers Geraldo over unreturned library books"

  • Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate

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  • And this is the saddest part. The primary victims will be young children, suffering through a potentially deadly disease because of their parents' credulity.

  • Our allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.

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  • It doesn't matter if you guys somehow manage to get adults back in charge in the next 2-4 years. There is nothing stopping another Trump-esque person from being elected again soon after and tearing everything down again. Until you guys purge MAGA and can prove you are in no danger of a relapse, we simply can't trust you.

  • Cuban MAGA and scammer gets what he voted for.

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  • From what I understand, Republicans, especially in Florida, put out political ads targeted specifically at Cuban immigrants. They play off the inherent hatred of communism in this demographic to convince them to vote against the "radical Marxist Democrats."

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  • Conservapedia is absolutely wacky.

    The curator, one Andrew Schlafly, once tried to write a new, improved, "more conservative" version of the Bible. But, Mr. Schlafly is neither a historian nor a linguistic scholar, and he couldn't consult the source texts. So, his way of "correcting the liberal bias" found in modern translations of the Bible was just to change the words in a modern English translation (probably the 1611 KJV EDIT: Apparently Schlafly prefers the NIV) to better fit his politics.

    One of the changes I remember reading about was altering the words in The Beatitudes to be things like, "Blessed are the managers, for they provide for their employees," and such. He also deleted parts he didn't agree with, like removing one of Jesus' utterances from the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." According to Schlafly, Jesus' executioners knew exactly what they were doing and thus shouldn't have been forgiven.

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    My online foreign friend is wildin

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  • I think so too. The doctors didn't even mention the possibility when my son was born, and if we had wanted it we would have had to specifically ask.

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    My online foreign friend is wildin

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  • It was very common in Canada too. My parents decided to break the cycle with me, but I was the only uncircumcised guy in the locker room growing up in the 90s.

  • Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning?

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  • I met my partner through a dating site. In the two years prior to that, I had used the site to meet over two dozen other women, which led to no long-term relationships but did result in a few short flings.

    I can say that what helped me was expectation management. This was actually my second time using a dating site, and the first time around I was super picky, looking for "green flags." Correspondingly, I messaged very few women, and met even fewer (four in two years). The second time, I realized that someone having a sparse profile didn't mean they were a boring or lazy person. Sometimes it does, but other times it just means they aren't very good at writing about themselves.

    I'll also say there's only so much the metrics of dating sites can tell you about someone and your compatibility with them. There's a level of response bias to the questionnaires on these sites, i.e. people answer the questions based on what they think a potential partner might like, not their genuine beliefs and preferences. You'll never discover your actual compatibility with someone unless you talk to them, so I took the approach of, "unless there are explicit deal breakers in your profile, I'll ask you on a date and we'll see how things go."

    There's also the expectation management for the frequency of matches, responses to messages, dates, and beyond. Dating apps aren't magic machines that will get you hooked up in hours. They take work, and you'll see a lot of rejection (most of it just utter silence). There can be long dry spells. Sometimes you'll need to take a break because you've literally messaged everyone on the site and you need to wait for more members. And sometimes, they just won't work for some people. That sounds harsh, but it's true. Success for many of these sites and apps is highly dependent on one's physical attractiveness, and some people simply did not win the genetic lottery.

  • Circadian Rule

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  • Honestly, I always liked getting up early on weekends (at least before I had kids). Those hours been 7 and 10 were mine in a way that my other free time wasn't. Because everyone else wanted to sleep in, I had no social obligations and thus could do whatever I wanted. There was a certain joy to having all my weekend chores done early. Or, if I didn't want to do chores, I could just relax and not worry about trying to align with anyone else's schedule.

  • AGDQ 2025 raised more than $2,556,305 for Prevent Cancer Foundation (PCF)

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  • I watched some of that original CGDQ stream live, and it's amazing how far they've come.

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • I fully appreciate that, and it's the same in Canada for many people. I've witnessed it personally. I'm very fortunate to be in a position to handle that sort of thing.

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • The hospital just wrote it off instead, so the cost was passed to the Canadian taxpayer. Lucky for me, but frustrating all the same. I would have rather the insurance pay like the were supposed to.

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • Hell, I'm from Canada where we have (mostly) socialized medicine, and the one time I made a claim on private insurance it was denied. That was after I had called them to confirm that yes, my policy (should have) covered that expense.

    And it was only a few hundred bucks too, so my frustration was more about the principle of the thing rather than the cost.

  • Canada leaders agree to unite against Trump tariff threat amid reports of retaliatory measures

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  • The article says "Canadian leaders" but only mentions the Deputy PM by name. That troubles me.

    Canada is on track to a Conservative government in our next election. The current Liberal regime is long in the tooth and Trudeau is unpopular. One of my biggest worries is that the new Conservative government will put appeasing Trump over the interests of Canadians.

    I looked at a few Canadian news outlets, and it seems that this announcement by the Deputy PM is coming on the heels of a First Ministers' meeting, which is the council of the PM and all ten provincial premiers. Nothing about this indicates that the federal opposition is on board, though the most conservative premier (Danielle Smith of Alberta) seemed to think it was a productive meeting.

  • Canadian town at standstill over councillors' refusal to take oath of allegiance to King Charles

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  • They might, but I can't say for certain. I didn't mention it because, again, I'm not a Canadian lawyer, and the basic info on provinces vs territories was far more accessible.

  • Canadian town at standstill over councillors' refusal to take oath of allegiance to King Charles

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  • I am only a Canadian, and not a Canadian lawyer, but I don't think it will be as simple for Yukon. The biggest reason I can think of is that Yukon is a territory, and not a province, and so has different constitutional standing. From the government webpage:

    There is a clear constitutional distinction between provinces and territories. While provinces exercise constitutional powers in their own right, the territories exercise delegated powers under the authority of the Parliament of Canada.

    I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that the same legal maneuvers Quebec used may not be applicable.

  • 12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon

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  • This was one of the first games I followed the development for. I was super pumped because I loved Star Wars in general and Knights of the Old Republic in particular. I even got the deluxe pre-order.

    Unfortunately I wasn't able to get into it at the time, probably because at that point I was pretty sick MMO quest structure after several years of playing WoW.

    I've always thought of returning, mostly to experience the stories, but I've just never found the space in my life for the time commitment.

  • If anyone knows about evolving, it's Jeffrey Combs.

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  • There are lots of reasons for women to keep their maiden name. In the case of my wife, she had two good ones:

    1. She didn't want to become disassociated from her scientific publications.
    2. She didn't want to complicate or redo any immigration paperwork.