Adderbox76

My ability to correctly and perfectly parallel park nearly 95% of the time is one of the skills I'm oddly the most proud of.

Well, regardless of who you remove, you can't change the original timeline. That original timeline will just keep trucking along as usual. What WILL happen is that a new timeline will branch off; one in which said person no longer exists. But you would never see it unless you travelled back in time and affected the change personally; meaning you're now in that timeline; an active part of it, and thus never able to return to your original. If you travel forward again, you're still in the new timeline. If you travel back, you create yet another new timeline; once in which the wave function collapsed to show that you travelled back in time.

It's a wave function collapse. We live in a universe where that wave function collapsed to say said person existed. If we blink them out of existence, we're essentially re-opening the box, which creates a new tangent. But that original collapse still exists. It happened; it's immutable.

Re-rolling a dice doesn't change the fact that it's already been rolled before.

Weirdly enough, the best example of that is ironically the season three episode of Community called "Remedial Chaos Theory"

There's a cheese called Limiano that is both the brand name and the name of the cheese itself since other than some flavoured versions, they only make the one kind.

The nearest city to me that has a proper Portuguese market where I can find it in Canada is Edmonton, so whenever my parents go there for their own needs, I get them to pick me up some.

If you can find it, try it. Soft and creamy; somewhere between a cold brie and a dutch edam. Smooth taste. I describe it as "inoffensive"; it doesn't smell and it doesn't taste too strong.

First girlfriend. Was 16 or so. Was coming home from seeing her, walking through the garage with a big dumb smile on my face.

My dad, without even turning to look at me just says;

"Don't be bringin' no babies home."

And that, as they say, was that.

There's no better time than now to start divesting ourselves from our reliance on the dumpster fire to our south.

Shore up trading relationships with Europe and the rest of the world. Increase our military spending to the NATO promise (possibly more since i don't trust the orange dick-head not to try something stupid). Make it very very clear that our foreign policy will not always align with the united states and that we are a sovereign nation.

The U.S. is clearly losing it's sanity, and it's mind boggling that our politicians are ready to go down with them.

Portuguese Bacalhau a Gomes de sa

My absolute favourite, and she knows it, so luckily she makes it every time I go home for a visit.

I usually just go track down Bob Ross episodes streaming in a thousand different places nowadays.

There is no "ethical debate" anymore. You're system is broken to the core and I don't blame Biden at all for saying "fuck it".

Hell, if I were him I'd use my so-called "Presidential Immunity" to do whatever he can to fuck up the MAGA agenda before he leaves.

"I'm putting 6 new judges on the supreme court, all democract. Why? Because fuck you, that's why."

"I'm giving two of our nukes because fuck Putin"

I long ago stopped thinking about biological age (not in that way...get your mind out of the gutter), and started thinking more in terms of social age.

I'm 48. But I'm divorced, no kids, live alone and most of my biological peers are married with kids, and even some grandparents by now. As a result, my friend group consists mostly of people in their mid to late 30s who are closer to me in terms of current life status.

In that respect, there really is no difference between anywhere from late 20s to late 40s I would say. However...

41 to 18 is a little odd. I have employees around that age and I generally look at them as kids, not peers, even though we all work together.

Also keeping with the theme of Canadian Treasures who moved here from America, I thought Robert Munsch had passed away, but turns out he's still kicking. Though he's come out and said that he is suffering from dementia and no longer able to write.

One of my earliest school memories is him coming to read to us in the school library.

Poor Americans don't know what they missed out on. There's a very small list of people who I would legitimately call "Canadian Treasures" and he's pretty much at the top of it.

The kicker is, he was an american who came to Canada to help Mr. Rogers develop a Canadian version of his show, and then decided to stay.

Something that is able to potentially be explained by following the scientific method.