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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why indeed? I always imagined that if I had a pile of gold coins to stash, I'd put it under a rock out in the woods somewhere. The beach doesn't seem ideal. If there's a big storm the rocks might get moved around.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[Imperial Tobacco Canada] also supports the federal government’s regulations to limit flavours to tobacco, mint and menthol

Tobacco companies and nanny state crusaders: United in wanting to make vaping less tasty.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Oh, so that's why my old history teacher had so many stories about travelling in places like Syria and Afghanistan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I have actually done that, long time ago. Seems to me you want to make the super-strong fortify enchant potions, wait until after fortify restoration has worn off, then use the potion. I don't remember why, but that was how it worked for me I think. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

How many did you play?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If people are even taking it seriously I guess it means we won't have long to wait for world war 3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

when creating an account it asks your age.

Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn't follow that system to get whatever they're looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won't be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

This is not an investigation of any wrongdoing, it's their attempt to impose "age verification" on the Internet starting with porn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1% is a little much. 2% is clearly excessive. 5% is ... I don't even know.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know much about the finances of Canada's cozy little club of giant telecoms but it's very tempting to imagine that they became accustomed to ever-increasing profits as they jacked up the prices to unsustainable levels over the past twenty years, and now they've finally hit the point where it cannot be sustained any more. The line no longer goes up. Maybe it's not exactly the final crisis of capitalism, but it's a start.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it a big spoiler, or did you mean to say "protagonist" instead of antagonist?

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