Almost Intelligent

From a place called Musquash, NB, currently living in Dartmouth, NS. Freelance writer, mostly for Second job as a goalie coach. He/Him

[Almost Intelligent @ColinHodd]

@ChetanHeer19 @GregBalloch My thought exactly. "What was that? Oh, the puck? Yeah, you guys take care of that for a sec, I'm kinda busy over here."

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@Girrl_Friday I've definitely stepped in it before by coming in hot and trying to score points. I'll probably do it again.

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@Girrl_Friday I am guilty of doing this, but I really wish we had developed social norms around coming screaming into conversations we aren't directly involved in. The internet lets us just jump right into everyone's business before we know anything at all about the situation.

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@OneKenBoi I keep wondering how many people who voted for Trump really understand what they just did. Some of them, for sure. But this dissaffectation with reality and the mania that's followed is impossible to understand.

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@FridayInHalifax An excellent Batman line in a movie replete with them. Personal favourite:

“Get out of here or that suit's gonna be full of blood.”

Batman: “Mine or yours?”

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@KevinisInGoal Whenever this happens to me I try to pretend I’m just in a club with other like-minded geniuses. It really soothes the ego.

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Here's a three-step comprehensive decision-making guide for your Halloween costume:

1. Should I wear a Klan costume, yes or no?
-> If brain said no, no.
-> If brain said yes, no.
-> If brain said "everyone is too sensitive these days!", no.

2. No.

3. Absolutely not, you moron.

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@DartmouthDerek Magic money from somewhere!

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@TheSilentG Agreed. Convenient how “the enemy” always ends up being a minority group without a lot of power, eh? A whole bunch of grown-ass adults lining up to punch down.

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The poor. The homeless. Immigrants. LGTBQ+ people. These are the targets of our current grievance-fueled conservative politics.

Grow. Up. None of our problems can be laid at the feet of these people. Be an adult and look for solutions that aren’t scapegoating and bullying.

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@AndrewBerkshire He’s fascinating to watch. If you had no context for him and saw him score a goal, you’d assume that must be a perennial 40-goal scorer.

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@GregBalloch Get out of my head!

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@DartmouthDerek Lovely to watch people use personal bigotry and frustration with their lot in life to justify the same old bullshit. Beyond their immorality, these approaches do not, and have never, worked. People will be shocked to find that their problems are not solved by hate and violence.

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@liz_hallett @realfatapollo Yeah, I mean sincerely, it was good to have multiple sane-seeming options. You made important contributions to the conversation the whole time.

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@BDingz They’re about as bad as I expected. No freelance contract in 2024 is great but the Postmedia one was laughable. Sorry you got let go from two gigs.

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@FridayInHalifax Yeah. It's classic pareidolia. There are patterns to be interpreted and there are multiple explanations that *could* fit the data. But there's that pesky reality that means that for a lot of things there is actualy an answer and usually it's very mundane.

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When did we let airlines make the argument that they're not selling you a ticket for a particular flight at a particular time? Because that's what they fall back on now and it's ridiculous. We pay money upfront, they make whatever changes they like and say too bad.

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@PerilousWood @FridayInHalifax Agreed. Sometimes it's interesting, but sometimes it's not. Since they're all pretend, you can get some mileage out of using them as metaphors or analogues to real-world evil, but there are diminishing returns for sure.

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@FridayInHalifax Not saying it's a good impulse, but I struggle to connect with media that's like "Did you know the world SUCKS!?" without strong counternarrative. It's why I don't consume a lot of true stories about people whose lives were hard. I'm definitely missing out on excellent stories.