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It’s beautiful
Jun 11
Canada’s Forgotten Prohibition Plebiscite of 1898
Why it was never implemented: brilliantmaps.com/canada-pro…
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Guy in mid-19th century has visions of God & Jesus, claims the gospel has been corrupted, retranslates the Bible, says God has a wife, establishes kingdom of God, proscribes alcohol and tobacco, ends up at war with the government.
Could’ve taken Beijing if he had kept marching.
Jun 8
If Mormons are Christian, then is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?
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May 29
Opinion: Riding sizes in House of Commons should reflect current population realities
Ontario, B.C., and Alberta are massively disadvantaged. Rebalancing would increase electoral fairness on the House floor
nationalpost.com/opinion/opi…
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May 28
Reforming Parliament seat distribution could help douse Western separatist flames: report nationalpost.com/news/politi…
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May 25
Ontario has virtually no land border with the US. The Mississippi-Missouri watershed reaches Alberta. None of Canada’s major regions are connected by high-quality freeways.
Facts such as these woven into a little thesis about Canada for your edification in the blog post below.
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May 17
Looked through the replies and QTs and couldn’t find anything about emissions, which is interesting because this is just about the most CO2-heavy lifestyle possible.
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May 16
Useful read on how this problem developed in Canada. Initially parliamentary supremacy prevented it, but the imposition of the 1982 Constitution gave federally-funded & often bureaucratically-directed legal activist groups broad leeway to direct policy through the courts.
May 16
This loop (state-funded leftist activist org cooks up case for sympathetic judge to rule on to order another part of the government to do something) is a substantial part of how 21st century Western govts coordinate/operate/rule.
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May 10
I knew before my mission but the way I first found out at 14 was a kid at school making fun of me for it.
At church you heard a lot about Joseph and Emma but not any other wives, unlike with BY. It wasn’t *hidden* but leaders & teachers avoided talking about it, understandably.
May 9
I served a Mormon mission from 2002 - 2004. None of us missionaries knew that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy. I was never taught that as a Mormon kid. I don't think I found out until I was in my mid-twenties, and I didn't find out about it at church. I found out about it online.
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May 10
RSR was a turning point; many adults either didn’t know about JS’s polygamy or only had a vague notion of it and found the book shocking.
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May 10
I think it was defensible for the church to put its best foot forward and avoid talking about Joseph’s polygamy to broad audiences, but that is in fact what it did. The idea that it was common knowledge and only idiots didn’t know feels like an alternate reality to me.
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I think conservative church members (I am one) should flip on climate change. Would fit with the crunchier vibe conservatives have these days. Modernity messed with a lot of things. Abundant fuel is great but turns out there are side effects. Make the atmosphere fresh again.
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I actually don’t think it’s the management. Canadian teams struggle to attract and keep talent because non-Canadian players, now the majority, prefer to play in the US.
EDM and WPG are particularly disadvantaged because of few direct flights to the US and the worst weather.
You really do need to ask yourself if the Oilers pissing away Connor McDavid's 20's is the worst mismanagement of a generational talent in North American sports history.
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No matter how talented the GM they are going to struggle to convince talented goalies playing for US teams, who can play anywhere they want, to come live in Edmonton.
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Apr 21
“Ok maybe it was a little bit”
In 28 seconds, Juan Dehlin states that he deliberately branded his podcast to cause brand confusion.
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Apr 21
1% of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War.
Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice.
None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice.
DEI has gone too far for too long.
(BTW, I wonder if the same discriminatory hiring practices apply to janitorial, food services, and facility maintenance jobs. Or does the unjust treatment only apply to "elite" tenure track positions?)
Apr 20
This week the only university in Newfoundland, @MemorialU, posted 5 tenured professor openings:
- AI-driven Navigation
- Computational Biochemistry
- Genomic Mapping
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Community Health and Substance Use
Each job stipulates that no white men may apply.
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Apr 19
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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Apr 11
Lots of members think the church’s old teachings (on tattoos, Sunday shopping, working as a mom when you don’t need to, etc.) still apply, some others seem to think they don’t and maybe never have. I don’t blame either camp; the last 15 or so years have been genuinely confusing.
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Apr 11
I have been bothered by this for years and yeah, I’m at the point where I am complaining about it publicly. I have gone through more appropriate channels until now and have gotten more mixed messages and what appears to be uncertainty even at high levels.
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Apr 11
I don’t know what is keeping the church from teaching clearly one way or the other on so many practical questions but I know it is causing confusion and I’m desperate to see it get figured out.
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