Because of wave function collapse.

Think of it this way:

We live in a universe where we did NOT travel back in time to kill Hitler.

If we then jump backwards in time to kill Hitler, we create a tangent universe in which we DID travel back in time to kill Hitler.

Its not the act of killing Hitler that creates the tangent universe, its the act of going back in time itself. We are moving from a universe in which we DIDN’T go back in time to one in which we DID.

If we then travel back to before our initial jump backwards, yes, we are travelling back along the original universe, but we are then simply creating a third tangent universe starting from THAT point.

100% agreed. Such a fun show.

I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.

Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they’ve created a new timeline. It’s both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they’ll only be travelling along the new timeline.

That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I’m not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn’t read the book and think EUREKA!!! It’s too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that’s why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it’s opening, she’ll pop up in a surprise since it’s before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we’ve both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

“And that, dear readers, was the last thing Dennis Nedry saw.”

I check various polls daily. Yes, Liberals have flattened out. But so have the Cons. All polls still point to 80-90 percent change of a Liberal Majority and it’s been that way for weeks with only a few percentage points changing either way. I’m not in panic mode.

edited to add: https://338canada.com/polls.htm

This scrolls through every poll daily and lists them individually. Conservatives have actually been dropping support (44 - 39).

That feels kind of like a half-truth/obsfucation from lapresse.

While we may indeed lack a dedicated foreign intelligence service (I don’t know…maybe they’re just really really good at their job.) I do know that CSIS rolls a lot of those duties into their own purview. Whether that reaches the level of secret agent spy shit, who knows. But it’s not like they’re not out there figuring out threats to Canada.

Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term “Noted r-word, Joe Rogan…”

100% think it’s a lost cause. I don’t think it’s going away. I don’t personally think it’s ableist and never did.

I don’t think it’s ever going fully away. But it is still important to call it out when we see it.

Keep on going, Poppinfresh. You’re already polling well behind in your own damn riding and will likely lose your seat completely.

But sure…let’s just keep paddling that Trump canoe regardless of the fact that the Trump brand has been suicide for anyone who is not Trump (because happily it seems the rest of the world is still slightly intelligent)

This is precisely why I know he’s bought and paid for by the same people who got Trump, Modi, Meili, etc… into power in their own respective countries; because ANY actual politician would immediately serve their own self-interest and decry Trump in order to help him with victory. In fact that’s what the rift in the Conservative party is all about right now; his own Conservative leadership is telling him to do exactly that on the campaign trail and he refuses. Why?

Because it’s his job to be a Trump enabler, not a politician. He was Shenaniganned into the Conservative leadership role for precisely that reason; not to run the country, but to act as a surrogate for the same cabal of rich people who pull Trump’s strings.

I guess I should point out that I’m a cis male. I didn’t even look at what community I was in. Just saw an interesting topic on my “all” feed and immediately thought of two people I look at for inspiration in management. My apologies for intruding. Didn’t mean to at all. Didn’t even notice the community name. I’ll show myself out.

Without muss, fuss or ego, she just takes control of whatever situation she finds herself in. And she’s strong enough that everyone accepts it because she leads by example and proves that she knows what she’s talking about every time.

Quiet confidence.

Very much reminds me of Tyrion Lannister telling his grandson that any man who has to keep saying he’s the king is no true king.

Kathryn Janeway and Ellen Ripley. Both for the same reason; leadership ability.

Throwing your hat in with Trump is absolutely toxic worldwide, and yet MAGA just doesn’t fucking get it.

Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.

Except for the first one, which (let’s be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.

I don’t remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn’t make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.

Why finish a game when you’ve already got the in game purchases working for you?

A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don’t have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."

I know, right?!

Burn me at the stake for thinking that even in the pits of hell, there are some little moments of good, even if fleeting.

This morning, the guy in front of me at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru paid for my coffee. Don’t know him. Never met him. Never exchanged three words. He just decided to do it. I just sometimes randomly decide to do it as well. Made me feel good so I did it for the person behind me. I don’t know how long that chain lasted, but hey…it doesn’t matter.

The world might be shit, but that was a nice start to my day, and a nice start to the day of the person behind me. If I was “Mr. Realist” above me there, the response would be, “well fuck…what’s the point? Sure, but the coffee’s just going to get cold sooner or later…”

Screw me if I want to take some simple pleasure where I can, I guess.

Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

For me, “like”, “love”, and “in love” are not separate emotions. They’re the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.

“Like” and “Love” are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.

• You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say “hey…this person gets me and I’m happy being around them. I LIKE them.”

• You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you’re sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say “Hey…I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them.”

“IN LOVE” is the one that takes work. Because “IN LOVE” happens long after you’ve started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s like the old saying “Yes, we fight. But there’s noone else I would rather fight with.”

They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.