I’m Canadian, so no I’ve never voted for any US candidate. I didn’t advocate any particular kind of political action (or non-action) in my comment except not to drive people away if you want to have them on your side.

What simpler point can there possibly be than “Alienating people doesn’t earn you their support; it’s better to build trust and win them over”? The basic reality is that people don’t all think the same way, so they have to be met where they’re at.

Laughed out loud when I got to “Whil Wheaton.” 😄

This must be why Kayla Detmer looked weirdly familiar in Discovery. Did the Blink Drive also have a genetically special human pilot? I can’t remember.

He’d probably not get it, and think the person was coming on to him instead of the intended effect.

Tooth floss and kids toothbrushes (or adult brushes with smaller heads).

Attitude has a range including your standard gel pastes with fluoride.

Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains is not a winning strategy for anyone left of centre. Dividing people only helps the right, no matter who is doing it. I don’t even think ordinary folks who’ve been conned into believing (Maple) MAGA-esque propaganda should automatically be bashed in every case-- just persons in positions of significant power. The priority should always be to seek opportunities to genuinely win folks over.

Also, while it’s true there may have been too much immigration in a short time, that’s not a primary reason for housing costs rising. Asset prices are going up because homes are treated as an investment. At least according to graphs in this Breach video, there’s been no correlation between immigration and housing costs.

Economist Gary Stevenson has outlined many times as well how homes increasing in value for an extended period of time can actually be seen as a precursor to a shrinking middle class, though middle class people often don’t see increasing pricing as a feature of wealthier buyers out-competing them.

Doesn’t using a car wash without putting the car in “car wash mode” first void its warranty, or was that false news? (I don’t remember where I heard it.) Nice way to make a lot of unsuspecting people void their warranty.

Neat. My junior high friend group used to come up with some ridiculous stuff this way! That said, even though playing around with absurdities was very fun, I wonder if those of us here on Lemmy could come up with something dramatic and even moving?

I had it here in Canada, decades ago. My memories are vague but I remember thinking it wasn’t bad at all. (Probably no lung, but there was definitely stomach.)

I probably wouldn’t have tried durian or nattou if I didn’t know what they were, but maybe I’ll notice some exception some day. (I might have still tried haggis since I don’t recall it having any smell to it, but I wouldn’t feel better not knowing what it was.)

I don’t know if it has that effect normally or you mean it would be laced, but they probably wouldn’t eat a strong-smelling food in the first place. (Speaking for myself though, I sure would try as long as I know what it is.)

I thought it might be a cute way to say they’d be a waste of time and money.

Yay! Please stick with this, EU! I hope this spreads globally. 🥂

The reasoning is in the article.

In Soviet Russia, the country runs the criminals?

Nostalgia, largely. I went less and less over the years but in my case it wasn’t because of infrastructure issues or lack of staff-- though these are big issues both for the kind of prestige they wanted to have, and to remain accessible to the wider public. For me it was because they started going pseudo-luxury long ago (though clearance sales were fun at first), and because they eliminated meeting places like restaurants along the way.

Seems this is an effort to put people off their guard. Those of us who pay attention will probably know for sure when the election is in swing.

*edit - Just in case, I’ll clarify: I meant we will know for sure what their PR strategy is. I’m not doubting he wants to annex Canada.

Bonus double-entendre that what they’re driving is ass.

This sounded off to me, but maybe everything does. Another off-sounding idea I’ve heard: Gillian Tett, an editor and columnist at the Financial Times, seems to think there’s a good chance Trump wants to hyperinflate the US dollar so he can somehow set more favourable repayment terms, when time comes due for them to renegotiate. I expect that would lower their credit rating even more but I guess Trump in that scenario doesn’t care about that.

Normally I’d say it’s possible for people who have been through failure (in his case, bankruptcy) to know things that more successful people don’t, but whatever logic he has is overruled by his apparent narcissism so it’s hard to be sure if what he thinks he’s going to accomplish has some basis in reality.