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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Sure all American refugees can settle in Nunavut. Locations to be reserved for the American savages by the government of Nunavut.

Americans will be expected to stay on these reserves and not mingle with local populations

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago

I hope enough Canadians with two braincells to put together will know better. An election is coming here soon, and Moneybags Musk is going to dump loads into bringing American foot-kissers into our Parliament.

McMAGA: Make Canada Make America Go Away.

[–] Magister 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Canada next PM in a couple of months is a mini trump/Vance...

[–] ummthatguy 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, can't exactly go south either. So...

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree 2 points 6 hours ago

It’s how I am feeling these days…

[–] Tarkcanis 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In all honesty, no. Not unless you're a refugee, rich, or highly educated (especially MDs), and that first one has been closing over the past few years.

[–] ummthatguy 2 points 8 hours ago

Might qualify for the 3rd. Not an MD, but have plenty of specialized training.

Even so, just a topical meme I cranked out. Work and family are here. Gonna make the best of it, no matter how much I have to drink and watch Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so sorry. It's awful right now. Hunker down. We'll get through this. You deserve better.

[–] ummthatguy 22 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Appreciated. We all could do with a little better. In the meantime, we've got our escapism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Really making me wish we could request asylum within the Federation.

[–] ummthatguy 3 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be watching all 900 hours or so of Trek on a loop.

[–] ummthatguy 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Y’know, after seeing all of these memes for so long… maybe I’ll actually try watching watch trek to get my mind off of things. Any recs on where to start??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Watch the first two episodes of next generation. Then skip to season two. And enjoy

[–] ummthatguy 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Always a tough question. TOS, while dated, is the primer. I grew up as TNG was airing. It's janky and problematic until about the 3rd season. DS9 is the best of the best as far as I'm concerned, but it's a slow burn to build the characters and get to the meat of the arching story. Of course, there's a chronological approach, however, kinda messy.

Try out one for a few episodes, see what strikes your fancy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I was born and raised in the wilderness .... if I saw any of you guys wandering around my area, I'd invite you in to live with me. Just don't mind the smell, the beaver castors I have drying or the forever stew on the stove. And it wouldn't matter to me if you were Canadian, French Canadian (calais!), American, Chinese, Russian or even Irish, I'd still invite you in.

[–] ummthatguy 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Mighty neighborly of ya, but my levels of familiarity are yet to drop quite to that position.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can live without either .... I grew up for about the first ten years of my life basically off the grid and learned how to hunt, trap, fish and gather my own food, water and build shelter and basically live on my own. By the time I was about 11 - 12, mom and dad were basically treating me like a working adult that could be tasked with lots of things. It was how they grew up and were taught. I thought it was just normal stuff until I got older and realized we live in a more modern world far removed from hunting and gathering.

Which is why I never really worry about losing the grid ... or being removed from the grid ... or in watching the grid fail.

[–] ummthatguy 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That's a truly rare perspective these days. Got a mild shade of "rustic living" as a Boy Scout some decades ago. Might not fare as well, but could certainly survive for a bit. The "be prepared" mantra keeps ringing in my head.

[–] nialv7 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

lol, Canada? you haven't been following the news, have you?

[–] ummthatguy 6 points 9 hours ago

Beginning to get the picture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Square metre maybe. Unless you'd like to join the tent encampments that have cropped up in the last decade. :/

[–] ummthatguy 2 points 8 hours ago

Not an avenue where I'd hoped to have common ground, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

That's a shitty flashlight