I remember watching TV as a kid and deciding that, when I grow up, I want to be just like:

A) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,

B) that hot Mountie from Due South, and

C) The Littlest Hobo

They couldn’t make Mrs Doubtfire in this day & age - no one would believe Pierce Brosnan and Sally Field make enough money to afford a live-in nanny.

Also, they couldn’t make Mrs. Doubtfire 2. Full stop. There will never be a sequel to that magnificent gem.

That’s very close! I bet he was a spooky character.

1. Do you feel like a side character in other people’s lives?

2. Are you the protagonist of your own story?

3. Does it ever bother you to have to deal with people that don’t see the individual, the person behind the badge?

4. Are there any ways you’ve found to help people see you, instead of seeing an authority figure?

Have you ever seen a ghost?

Why do cows wear bells?

Because their horns don’t work

Hmmm, not necessarily all that bizarre. The title on the Lenny link states that 15% of ALL Reddit content is corporate trolls trying to sway public opinion - now that this gentleperson has kindly provided the link to a non-paywall version, I can see that this is 2 studies, one from 2018 and one from 2020, one of which states that 15% of the top 100 subreddits may have experienced corporate trolls and/or bots posting content at some point, but they don’t say how much.

Huge difference between the title and the substance of the article, they buried the lede in a somewhat clever way. Chances are the author (and editor) are well aware that most of their audience doesn’t have an account, and aren’t going to create an account - therefore, by posting a misleading title (or letting others exaggerate the claims in the title through links on other platforms) they can reach a far larger audience, and sway public opinion more effectively, by burying the actual context behind the paywall.

I mean, I don’t know that that is what’s happening, but it makes a lot of sense and kind of rhymes with the whole point of the article, so yeah - I don’t trust their motives either, and I can definitely see the logic behind distrusting paywalls on principle.

Mooneys Bay, Ottawa ON

Holy forking shirtballs great tip OP, thanks for the heads up. Thought it might not be visible within the city lights but turned out to be a fantastic show down by the Rideau River at Mooneys Bay. I went full double rainbow, started laughing and crying at the same time, it was awesome.

“Can I be frank with you?”

“Sure! You be Frank and I’ll be Ernest”

And where else are we going to go? This country is just three monopolies in a trench coat masquerading as a fair and competitive market. We don’t have any choice. Galen knows this.

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From Shopper’s Drug Mart website:

2014

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Far right column, fourth one down from the top. I like that it’s a visual pun on the Japanese flag; the little red dot on a white field inside the larger dot effectively depicts a little Japan inside the larger nation, a microcosm of the nation itself.

It’s a very effective vexillological distinction of a part within a whole, while still maintaining the effect of the original flag design.

I also find it funny that it seems to be a flex on all the other prefectures, this flag subtextually implies, “We’re the most Japanese prefecture that has ever been, we are the essential core of this nation and our absence would leave a blank empty void. Don’t fuck with us.”

My lock screen image is cropped from a collection of James Webb Space Telescope pictures of the month. I love the surreal orange-y photonegative effect, the hexagonal focus lines, and the black circles where the stars overloaded the sensors. If you’re looking for backgrounds, that currently my main resource for beautiful and mind-bending images.

One that particularly stands out in my mind is the image they released highlighting one single galaxy cluster that appears in 3 different spots, because its light got deflected by a couple of massive gravitational sources along the way - the 3 different spots vary by about 1000 years in the time elapsed since emission, it’s wild

Sames. It’s weird, but it’s moving towards an edgy “lolz I’m so random” type of energy. They’re not shocking me like they used to - it feels like Rick has moved towards a natural conclusion to his story. He’s quite literally ascended into something like godhood by now; it’s very difficult to relate to Inspector Gadget Rick, I don’t have much in common with him anymore. I don’t feel sorry for him anymore.

There has to be a reckoning for what he did to Prime - until we get that resolution, and probably afterwards as well, I don’t like Rick. He’s not a good person, or a compelling antihero.

I really enjoyed the cold open of this episode with Jerry’s grandma being passive aggressive at the golden gates; I hope we get another big bad, someone who actually kicks Rick’s ass and poses a significant threat.

Let some other characters take the stage. Kill Rick and Morty off, or banish them outside the Curve for a couple of episodes - ever since Eyepatch Morty mentioned a multiverse of Summers seeking revenge I can’t stop thinking about how badass that would be. I want to see Summer team up with Space Beth and Bird Person, if the show structure is shifting towards a serialized format anyways they should just commit instead of dancing around from episode to episode.