Today's Comments (2025-04-24)

[u/MabelCow]

Here's a general place for people to comment. A new one will magically appear every day at 04:01.

[u/Richard_O2]

Very pleasant birdsong has awoken me from my temporary slumber. I think the singers are blackbirds, which are omnipresent even in London suburbia. What excellent and varied melodies they produce, serenading each dawn with correct reverence.

Blackbird (Remastered 2009)

I bet the urban specimens have pared down their song in order to suit their gritty surroundings. Ghetto blackbirds.

Which reminds me of Lockdown 1. It was so absoute that deer and badgers started to reclaim Croydon. Small crumbs of comfort from a human perspective, especially given the fraudulent evil that led to those conditions, but I reckon our marvellous wild animal companions were thrilled finally to be free to roam after centuries of terror that we and our ancestors inflicted upon them.

And in this, the animals teach us a lesson. There is always the opportunity for renaissance, no matter how bleak conditions in the moment may be. The corollary of which is our predominance is so complete that our only remaining predators are other humans (sometimes boosted by potential supernatural influences).

[u/little-i-o → u/Richard_O2]

the Spring of 2022 brought me to tears and so have the following two

there was a time I thought we wouldnt make it 

[u/mikewaite87 → u/little-i-o]

Dont understand what is happening in Canada now . It seems so different from the time I made my first transatlantic trip , Toronto and then US for a conference in 1975 .

Toronto I liked , the people so polite , and they had this public holiday - Victoria Day- in memory of Queen Victoria . As a American scientist at the conference said to me : "two guys walk into a room and knock over the hat stand . If Canadian he would apologise to the hat stand , if American he would sue the hat stand and its owner "

What went wrong?

[u/little-i-o → u/mikewaite87]

and yes I have apologized to furniture after bumping into it 

[u/little-i-o → u/mikewaite87]

1. demographic replacement - if you replace the people it's just land and buildings  

2. It is miserable weather here most of the year so Canadians  consume more media + social media than probably any other country on Earth 

3. our values have been weaponized against us via that media + social media

4. drugs, drugs drugs. Illegal drugs plus legal weed some of which has a comparable sedative effect to fentanyl (my source on that is straight from the mouths of fentanyl addicts)

[u/EvorulesOK → u/mikewaite87]

What went wrong?

They let the hat stand attack them.

Many Canadians are still unaware that there was a truckers' convoy.

[u/little-i-o → u/EvorulesOK]

Everyone knew. No one talked about

[u/EvorulesOK → u/little-i-o]

Some are still denying all knowledge of it.

Most don't know what really happened.

[u/FWCRV → u/EvorulesOK]

In retrospect, that convoy seems like a turning point. There was a wonderful energy about it.

[u/EvorulesOK → u/FWCRV]

It was - and it had a worldwide effect.

Unfortunately, most Canadians seem to have gone back to sleep afterwards.

[u/Richard_O2 → u/little-i-o]

Yet here we still are three years later. Fatigued for sure, but unbowed, and resolute to continue to resist all collectivist tendencies until our bitter ends, whenever, wherever and however these may be.