Do you think Quebec would face this same level of interference if they decided to hold another referendum on Independence from Canada? 🤔
The double standard against Alberta is impossible to ignore.

Critics of Jimmy Kimmel are wondering if his entire family are deranged about politics after his sister-in-law reportedly bullied a local grocery store over pro-Republican cookies.

According to a report from a respected Los Angeles business, Carly Kimmel complained at the 78-year-old Vincente Foods grocery store in Brentwood after seeing that the store was selling cookies with Spencer Pratt's campaign logo.

Quote from: Garraty_47 on May 22, 2026, 07:02:15 PMInternet Relay Chat (IRC)

IRC servers were connected to via a Chat Client (mIRC was my favorite) for real-time messaging (like a shoutbox) but users could register a channel/room with the server so that it still existed even when nobody was actively using it and the room owner had other controls that made the room owner more or less the forum equivalent of an Administrator for that room.

The rooms were in a lot of ways *like* a stand-alone shoutbox but with a lot of extra bells and whistles. Not quite Discord-level toolkits, granted, but definitely a precursor to platforms such as Discord.

Like an early version of Discord?

I tried figuring out Discord. I should have tried it sober.

Quote from: Herman on May 22, 2026, 06:20:06 PMIs IRC some forum from the past?

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

IRC servers were connected to via a Chat Client (mIRC was my favorite) for real-time messaging (like a shoutbox) but users could register a channel/room with the server so that it still existed even when nobody was actively using it and the room owner had other controls that made the room owner more or less the forum equivalent of an Administrator for that room.

The rooms were in a lot of ways *like* a stand-alone shoutbox but with a lot of extra bells and whistles. Not quite Discord-level toolkits, granted, but definitely a precursor to platforms such as Discord.

Once the world's sugar superpower, pre revolution Cuba produced 8 million tons a year and exported to over 100 countries, supplying 40% of global exports. Today, it rations sugar for its own people and imports it from Brazil. Communism 101 folks.

That caboose could make rounder circles than a compass.