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Someone in the comments there make a good point:

It is so disingenuous to say "last year" when it was a little more than a month ago.

His excuse that the social media team posted it from the official account instead of his account is farcical. This whole thing is too bad a taste in my mouth.

Moose are revered and they are to be respected!! They can stomp your face effortlessly.

I believe Aboriginal cultures have many deep ties with the moose. I think some people hunt and eat them, but it's not really a thing on a menu where I am (urban west coast), and is moreso a maritime/Newfoundland menu thing.

Regardless, we build many statues to them: (I have only seen one of these in person [top right, Deer Lake Newfoundland].)

Image transcription: Five moose statues from around Canada. Moose are 2m or ~~8~~ 6.5-7 feet tall (at the shoulder), so these are some bigass sculptures. One, which was a memorial for a man who died of cancer, is now covered in bras for breast cancer awareness/fundraising.

Edit: converting metres to feet is hard to do in my head.

Positive reinforcement works better for helping people quit :(

Especially when quitting smoking tanks a person's dopamine levels. It takes weeks for the body to re-regulate production.

To anyone reading this who has quit/is quitting: congratulations! It's tough, you have shown a force of willpower and should be proud of yourself.

Love, a fellow Canadian.

Edit:

As with other forms of punishment, aversive methods are generally less effective than positive approaches. It is more important to reward and praise desirable behaviors than to react negatively to unwanted ones. Encouraging a person’s ability to enjoy self-affirmation and self-pride will help them internalize healthy attributes and to become a person deserving of admiration...Shame doesn’t motivate prosocial behaviors; it fuels social withdrawal and low self-esteem.

Source: took some psych courses
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/longing-nostalgia/201705/why-shaming-doesnt-work

The Exit Polls that were a verbal conversation upon leaving might not be accurate if they are asking women in front of their partners, right?

I'm not USian, so IDK how those polls work. I'm just dismayed that that many women would vote for a pedo rapist who took away their bodily autonomy.

Kevin begs to differ!!

three panel comic from "poorly drawn lines" in which Kevin the Magical Bird is wearing shorts that don't cover his bird ass feathers. 1st panel: Kevin: "Do these shorts looks stupid?" 2nd panel: Grey bird: "I wouldn't say stupid." 3rd panel: Grey bird: "But I would be thinking it."