I love learning new things that had just never occurred to me before. It happens a lot more here than it ever did back on Reddit.

Capitalism doesn’t care that what made Star Wars special in the first place was that it only came out every twenty years of so.

There’s no profit in Absence makes the heart grow fonder

That’s called being a Dilettante. Jack of all trades, master of none.

No offence intended, but that’s hardly uncommon enough to be show-worthy.

My ability to correctly and perfectly parallel park nearly 95% of the time is one of the skills I’m oddly the most proud of.

Well, regardless of who you remove, you can’t change the original timeline. That original timeline will just keep trucking along as usual. What WILL happen is that a new timeline will branch off; one in which said person no longer exists. But you would never see it unless you travelled back in time and affected the change personally; meaning you’re now in that timeline; an active part of it, and thus never able to return to your original. If you travel forward again, you’re still in the new timeline. If you travel back, you create yet another new timeline; once in which the wave function collapsed to show that you travelled back in time.

It’s a wave function collapse. We live in a universe where that wave function collapsed to say said person existed. If we blink them out of existence, we’re essentially re-opening the box, which creates a new tangent. But that original collapse still exists. It happened; it’s immutable.

Re-rolling a dice doesn’t change the fact that it’s already been rolled before.

Weirdly enough, the best example of that is ironically the season three episode of Community called “Remedial Chaos Theory”

There’s a cheese called Limiano that is both the brand name and the name of the cheese itself since other than some flavoured versions, they only make the one kind.

The nearest city to me that has a proper Portuguese market where I can find it in Canada is Edmonton, so whenever my parents go there for their own needs, I get them to pick me up some.

If you can find it, try it. Soft and creamy; somewhere between a cold brie and a dutch edam. Smooth taste. I describe it as “inoffensive”; it doesn’t smell and it doesn’t taste too strong.

First girlfriend. Was 16 or so. Was coming home from seeing her, walking through the garage with a big dumb smile on my face.

My dad, without even turning to look at me just says;

“Don’t be bringin’ no babies home.”

And that, as they say, was that.

Supporting ActivityPub doesn’t excuse being owned and operated by META.

Will Bsky eventually shit itself like Twitter did? Sure, maybe. That seems to be the normal path nowadays. And when it does, I’ve still got my Masto account that I try to keep active as well. But at the very least, Bsky is a different company. I can have a bsky account without being dragged into an entire META ecosystem designed to put their chosen content in front of my eyes.

Even at it’s worst, the fact that Bsky is it’s own thing and not owned by a mega corporation puts it automatically about Threads, regardless of ActivityPub.

Portuguese Bacalhau a Gomes de sa

My absolute favourite, and she knows it, so luckily she makes it every time I go home for a visit.

I usually just go track down Bob Ross episodes streaming in a thousand different places nowadays.

Also keeping with the theme of Canadian Treasures who moved here from America, I thought Robert Munsch had passed away, but turns out he’s still kicking. Though he’s come out and said that he is suffering from dementia and no longer able to write.

One of my earliest school memories is him coming to read to us in the school library.

Poor Americans don’t know what they missed out on. There’s a very small list of people who I would legitimately call “Canadian Treasures” and he’s pretty much at the top of it.

The kicker is, he was an american who came to Canada to help Mr. Rogers develop a Canadian version of his show, and then decided to stay.

Some people do enjoy an “English muffin” but they’re not very popular, much less loved than crumpets

Wait wait wait…hold on. Canadian here. I thought English Muffins and Crumpets were the same thing with different names…