I sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica
Hearing that Chad is being abused by the user community infuriates me beyond all capacity for patience with people.
This is a Social Media platform for Pete's Sake. It's not a life-or-death service. When it's working, enjoy it, when it's not, take a damned break and relax and wait for it to be fixed.
If you want a corporate experience with customer service people paid to take your shit, go back to Twitter.
At what point does a government cross the line to kleptocracy? I think #Ford has reached it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/land-owners-developers-ottawa-urban-boundary-expansion-1.6660490
Today in 1807, Joseph Brant died. A Mohawk military and political leader, he fought for Britain during the American Revolution & established the Six Nations Reserve in current Ontario on land gifted to him by the government for his war service.
#Ontario #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canada #Canadian #Indigenous #FirstNations
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?