The dinosaurs want us to be successful and join them, that’s why they keep helping us!

Be strong for Elwood.

When the dinosaurs send arks to bring us home to glorious Planet 9, I’ll make sure to save you a seat.

It’s going to be glorious.

Now I need to deal with USB-C to micro USB and USB-A for my old devices. Things will be better eventually, I guess, but it’s just shifted the annoyance around for now.

My phone is slightly easier to plug in though.

Wait til we discover the launchpads in the geologic record.

I have it on good authority that the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, they predicted the Chicxulub collision and escaped the Earth on arks. Of course they realized that their warm blooded servitor species would survive the impact and evolve sentience much like their own (they created our genomes, so it was easy to predict), so they hid the launchpads until we would be ready to see them.

The arks landed on Planet 9 (the big one, not the lil one), since it was less likely to be hit by similar events. They hollowed it out, helping to create Pluto and Ceres, and have been living in there ever since.

Discovering the launchpads will show them that we’ve achieved sufficient technological prowess for them to reveal themselves to us. I can’t wait!

That’s good enough for the AI.

I work for an established US company, but I’m in a foreign country.

I expect my employer will receive tax cuts, so the company should have more cash. I expect this means my job will be more secure in the short term.

However, I believe Trump has talked about international tariffs and lowering the US dollar. So that could remove some certainty.

When an online conversation is getting too heated, stop responding for a while. Give everyone a chance to calm down and get perspective.

I’m learning so much from these comments…

Yeah, housing in Canada is stupid right now. Vancouver is one of the worst, but affordability is an issue.

In the other Vancouver:

4 bed 4 bath: https://realtor.ca/real-estate/27623083/2507-w-37th-avenue-vancouver?utm_source=consumerapp&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialsharelisting

4 bed 2 bath: https://realtor.ca/real-estate/27564850/2925-mcgill-street-vancouver?utm_source=consumerapp&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialsharelisting

Vancouver is the third most expensive city in the world

I hope you have a lot of money. Housing is brutally expensive on Canada’s West Coast.

We’d be happy to have you though.

Remember when you just needed to count teeth to detect AI images? Those were good times.

Climate change. On our current course, the best case scenario is famine, war, and a really shitty world for billions of people. The worst case scenario is self-perpetuating cycles that wipe out our civilization and maybe humanity.

It’d be cool if those didn’t happen.

public education that is not indoctrination

What jurisdiction are you in?

It’s like having kings or elves in a fantasy story. Readers know what to expect, so the writer doesn’t need to establish that they’re in charge, or that they’re noble, etc. They’re archetypes that most consumers are familiar with.

And writers stick to what they know. If they’ve been exposed to these mythologies, then they’ll use them. If they’re exposed to other mythologies, they’ll use those.

For a brief shining moment it seemed like the first Canadian housing subreddit might actually have an effect. And then it imploded. So we had to wait another few years for politicians to catch up and do almost nothing.

I’m glad you got out of there.

Most of the jobs I’ve gotten were through friends I made at uni. Thanks to my education, I’m capable and skilled, but the friend network I made at school has gotten me in for interviews.

Layer your clothing.

An undershirt + a shirt + sweater + jacket + a shell is a really warm combination. On your legs, long johns + pajama pants + regular pants is great.

As the seasons change, you can omit items to get just the right temperature.