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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow!

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  • I worked on a game that supports it. It was total shit compared to paying with a controller. Nintendo dev tools were fucking archaic at the time which made it stuck to work with. What are you playing?

  • Man with vintage miniature race cars, USA?, 1950s?

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  • Would they be considered vintage back then?

    J/k, that's a cool pic.

  • The reality of Discord and its alternatives

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  • Damn, I think I've finally forgotten my ICQ number.

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    We dont talk about what happened to Alex Pretti enough.

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  • Don't take it as a personal attack maybe?

  • An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch

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  • Before 10 or 15 years ago you weren't allowed music with voices, and most people used classical.

  • Most food animals are smarter than a baby.

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  • I mean, I think they're saying we should be eating baby animals, right? Because they're dumber than babies, so therefore completely edible!

  • Nah, yeah, y'all

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  • No yeah for sure bud

  • Nah, yeah, y'all

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  • No yeah donchaknow

  • Sad but true

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  • I'd tell you but ████████ wouldn't like it and I'd have to ████ you.

  • Seen on the door of a Fortune Teller

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  • "DecemberJanuaryFebruaryWho the fuck even knows!?"

  • U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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  • American car companies refuse to make the cars people want and instead try to tell people what they want, and then cry foul when people buy imports that have what they want.

  • Where do I find cool stickers?

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  • Skate shops. Skateboard companies make a lot of cool stickers.

  • Removed

    Corus Entertainment shutting down several popular channels in Canada | National

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  • Looks like some double posts have rolled in, fyi

  • The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel

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  • Did you read the article? It's about money and risk because of the war. It isn't some altruistic thing because they care about people's lives.

  • If you catch them studdering, run.

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  • "Employees were complaining about low morale. So we threw them a mandatory after work pizza party for team building! It was a real hit, almost everyone showed up!"

  • "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means.

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  • Yeah, I was just more commenting on their use of the "hill to die on" thing than the quality or value of their argument. Like there wasn't anything I was doing to indicate it was a hill I was willing to die on, certainly not any more than they were.

    That said, it wasn't just downvoting, several other people also jumped in to argue with them, and honestly they just seemed to be acting antagonistic for no reason.

    And while downvotes aren't always an indicator of a weak argument, they certainly can be.

  • "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means.

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  • So weird, someone just told me I was willing to die on a hill for my opinion when they were getting downvoted to oblivion for their opinion, and holding to it.

    I.e., figuratively, they were on their hill taking shots from all sides, unwilling to yield, and yelling down to me - with my similarly opinioned compatriots - that I was willing to die on my hill. It was so bizarre and I was thinking about how they didn't understand the meaning of the phrase, and then I came across this post.

    This may not be the case here, but idioms like this can sound particularly weird when they're in a language that isn't your first language. This one doesn't sound weird to me except when used in the wrong way lol.

    So just to be clear, the phrase isn't just about having differing opinions, nor actually putting your life on the line. It is about steadfastly holding to an unpopular (currently, or in the immediate context) opinion in the face of adversity. The more unpopular it is, the bigger the hill it seems to be, with fewer people defending it. In the military context the idiom derives from, hills were strategic goals and holding hills gave advantages. The harder a hill was to defend and hold, the more willing you needed to be to die to defend it (literally). In the idiomatic sense, "dying" might be more like getting yelled at from all sides - or downvoted in a huge way...

    You said you have a few opinions you would be willing to die for. That's probably a bit more extreme than this phrase is intended for.

  • Electric hydrofoil ferry completes record 160-mile voyage using standard fast chargers

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  • Thanks. I'm not write sure why this whole conversation is even happening...

  • Electric hydrofoil ferry completes record 160-mile voyage using standard fast chargers

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  • inane ɪˈneɪn]

    adjective

    1. lacking sense or meaning; silly:

      "don't badger people with inane questions"
  • Eh Buddy Hoser @sh.itjust.works
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    PP shitposting himself

  • Eh Buddy Hoser @sh.itjust.works
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    PP says no to vaccines

  • Eh Buddy Hoser @sh.itjust.works
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    PP slogan in the works

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    What an incredible smell you've discovered!

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Should one of Canada’s longest-serving female inmates be granted ‘mercy’?

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-longest-serving-inmate-unlawful-confinement-9.6976272
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Does anyone else remember the Buckley's tagline being: "It tastes awful, but it works."?

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Jamaicans start to reveal devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c5yl09v025lo
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The White House hasn't looked so good since 1814

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with Anti-American sentiment in Canada

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/us-ambassador-to-canada-disappointed-anti-american-campaign-1.7637534
  • Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca
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    AI draws me a picture to explain how pressure regulators work

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Going solo

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Is this Yar?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Party Up

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Air Canada returned her missing suitcase, but it now had a knife, toiletries and ticket scanner inside

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/air-canada-mystery-baggage-1.7592756
  • Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca
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    There were none - except maybe that one...

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Trump threatening 35% tariffs on Canadian goods across the board

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/trump-35-per-cent-tariffs-1.7582563
  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Animated images (may be specific to i.imgur.com) are not displaying properly when clicking the post thumbnail, but work when clicking the post title

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    It's never inconvenient to die in battle!

  • Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca
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    This self-contradiction made me snicker

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout