That entire statement sucks

1906 or earlier from what I can see from historical rental listings in our local newspaper

It’s been a while since I installed arch manually, but wouldn’t that only help you understand a bit on disk partitioning and some basic commands like copying files/chrooting? You generally learn that stuff the first time your install breaks on any distro

It’s just straight up illegal for medical professionals to report drug use in Canada. The government doesn’t want people to die because they were afraid to go to the hospital

Yeah… I wasn’t actually learning a whole lot. I live right across the river from Quebec though so I’m hoping to move over there to immerse myself in French a lot more.

I’ve always been bitter because my whole Dad’s side of the family is Francophone but never bothered to speak the language with me :(

My celiac-ass should not have gotten excited about that sentence. For real though that doesn’t sound good

I can assure you, the APIs I work on are not that put together looking. Maybe if you lit the food truck on fire, that’d be a good analogy

Ottawa desperately needs one of these. Centretown is completely owned by Loblaws

I just gave up Duolingo at 1770 days for French which hurt to do. I was mostly just maintaining a streak at this point and with the news of them using AI to replace their employees (even if they retracted it), I decided to quit.

I’ve switched to Babbel now which has been really good so far

I remember cutting my hand pretty good on one of the old metal beyblades as a kid. I loved those things

Definitely not sourced but I think there was some assumption that was because the feds told him to hold off

Yeah I absolutely despise Doug but he’s (somehow) a master at images. He, unlike PP, knows that Canadians/Ontarians are in elbows up mode so that’s the role he’s going to play since it really costs him nothing. If Ontario decided tomorrow that they actually love Trump, then he’d be Trump’s best friend in the world

God damn it Carney has been disappointing me immensely

Fair point. I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to that

New York should just become Southern Ontario

I think people can vote to kick people but that’s it really

Honestly maybe not after a long run but sometimes when I’m really dehydrated I legit crave milk

While the US has problems, merely having a constitution (1) the courts meaningfully refer to (2) that demands special effort to amend isn’t clearly a problem.

I can agree with that. I guess what I take more of an issue with really comes down to “American civil religion”.

Americans seem to be taught (from my outsider perspective) that the basis of which the US was founded upon is perfect and needs no changing ever. There’s so much propaganda surrounding the founding documents that even suggesting changing something is basically akin to blasphemy. Like look at the second amendment. Even suggesting that maybe it doesn’t fit into modern society is considered heresy.

That sort of thing is why I really don’t like politicians claiming that their country is “the best in the world”. You see it in Canada too, and I hate it because even if it’s true, it just sort of waves away the many improvements that can be made. There’s ALWAYS things to improve upon

That’s kind of my point though. In Canada, the only reason I know our constitution is even looked at in 2025 is because my friend works in environmental policy. The amount of times I hear that some American was exonerated in a court case because <something> broke the <something> US constitutional amendment is crazy. It’s just weird to me that a short document that was mostly written so long ago plays such a part in American law, especially with what you mentioned about it being so hard to update. This has been said to death but the right to bear arms was an amendment written when guns were single shot and took ages to reload.

I guess I’m confused at your original response. Like I know other countries have constitutions (my own does even). What I’m saying is that it only seems to be the US that holds their constitution up as some sort of biblical document that’s near impossible to change or update. I know the “founding fathers (🤢)” intended it to be a living document which it is not.

Americans seem to assume that the opinions of some random dudes near 3 centuries ago are perfect and shouldn’t ever be changed