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Oh Geth I was just kidding bud [chat]
BeNarwhal
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Geth I'm actually very busy today.
But here's [chat]?
But here's [chat]?
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Everybody must be commuting or something.
I’m in a hospital room waiting for my brother who is in surgery
Edit: so I’ve been pretty peeved at the long wait!
Oh man sorry to hear that, is he going to be ok?
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God I dunno. I’m not in the operating theater or anything. Hopefully? Please?
@skippydumptruck ok, so, basically, Kennedy was all "I, the fifth justice who legalized gay marriage, am retiring, Trump gets to pick my replacement lololololololol," and I was like "but I literally just got gay married like three months ago, fffffff." I'd actually wanted to look into Canada for a while, but Querry was not down. Until that night, when she said "so, Canada: should we move there? I think yes. Ok. Yes. Did we just decide to move to Canada? Yes."
So, that was the entire explicit thought process at that point. But it makes sense. We are leaving America specifically and (at the time) exclusively because of worry of top-down persecution. I mean, we're not worried about being murdered*, but it was, even then, transparently clear that Kennedy's retirement meant that my brand new marriage was going to get attritioned down to as small a thing as possible. That was the whole of it, and now is still most of it (once we made the decision, other positives became clearer).
So I have not looked into other issues a ton, because there is a single point on which America is quickly going to become intolerable and Canada is not. Canada also is closer to family than, like, New Zealand. We also meet the requirements to immigrate very quickly, because we are skilled young people with education. Canada also has Pacific Northwest, which I have wanted for a long time. I miss the Pacific. We were always going to move back there. It is the one big thing I have always asked of her.
Anyhow, everything I've looked into other than queer stuff has basically been: Canada has all the problems the US has, but less bad. It has a Trumpish populist - but he's premier of Ontario, not Prime Minster of Canada (incidentally, Ontario dropped from tied with first to tied-with-everyone-who-isn't-British-Columbia because we're leaving America to flee that kind of shit). Healthcare has problems, from what I can tell - but it's better (and way more stable) than what we have here. I think it's been largely the same in most of the ways I've looked at. I don't really have a sense of the specifics of some of those - hate speech and corruption? No idea. Probably better to ask actual Canadians. They seem disappointed about recent elections, for what that's worth?
But it's better in the ways that I care about, and I am not going to have to worry about what the next court case is going to mean for my marriage, or watch the legislature like a hawk, and that means everything right now. Can you imagine not worrying about the government deciding overnight that you don't get all the marital benefits others do? I can't, but I bet it's nice.
*in the places we'd live. I am absolutely on the lookout for being murdered in rural areas.
Yeah, this is how we use PDFs to do e-signing. It works very well as far as getting responses back. Likely because the recipient doesn't have to be capable of sending a word document back.
Fill in* the spaces, do a digital signature, we both get a copy, hooray.
Well I mean is it like a scheduled thing or was this like after an accident or something?
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I will be cryptic and respect his privacy by saying neither
Edit: which is to say it is urgent, scheduled yesterday, not routine, and it has not been immediately obvious precisely what is wrong.
Hopefully we’ll at least know after today
Game is hard. That was about a 4 hour run, and nothing carries over. Got super far though, first try!
Hope it all goes well :bro:
https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/special-event/worlds-pickem-coming
@credeiki @Sir Landshark @Casual Eddy @spool32 idk who else watches pro league
Well I hope everything turns out all right in your understandably scared time.
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oh god I really have no idea
Uzi to win it all, but TL will at least make it out of groups, 100T probably won't, and beyond that I got nothing
I'm on the KR hype train as always. I expect a good showing out of Afreeca.
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There is some chance that, were the USA to invalidate same-sex marriage, yours would no longer be recognized by Canada either.
Seems an easy problem to solve if they are living in Canada.
TWO
TWO WEDDINGS
AH AH AH
And a half funeral
Don’t wanna support Riot but worlds is so hype
Only if they become residents citizens. Performing a marriage in Canada that isn't valid for US citizens may not have any validity here - Canadian officials might not even be willing to perform it. There are kinds of marriage legal in various countries that we don't recognize. It wouldn't have any real-world impact though, except on the 1040 form where they wouldn't be able to file a joint return.
The program we are applying for skips straight into permanent residency, because I ain't got time to slow down.
Like even if the US did try to retroactively annull every gay marriage (instead of the much easier tactic of refusing to honor the benefits of those marriages) why would Canada go though the trouble of finding gay expats?
Canada would still recognise it.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The grand display of everything (... except for the large plant and my avocado sprout that I maybe killed):
The first and third here are the maple sprouts I collected. Today I finally found some sprouts of this one plant that has kind of oak looking leaves, so I moved one of the maple sprouts to clear room for those. The fourth is the delonix regia from the original batch.
The first two here are the unsprouted delonix regia and jacaranda mimisifolia seeds, followed by the first pinus aristata and the picea mariana (a second one sprouted!):
The first and last here are the other pinus aristata sprouts, the second is a bit of cedar that I broke off and which probably won't grow roots and will die, and the third is the jacaranda mimisifolia sprout:
This is the biggest maple sprout I found, followed by some offshoot from a bush by the grocery store that had put down roots:
All in all, they seem to be doing all right.
@So It Goes @desc
They have a more restrictive idea of speech and their freedoms in that regard are guaranteed less strongly.
the way the game is designed absolutely is brilliant and also internally consistent/true to itself in a way that gives me a boner
but
it takes too long for me to get where I wanna get in the game. I've spent hundreds of hours playing the game but I've never been consistent or committed enough to really be able to play around with builds and see end game stuff. I know this is an easy topic to debate so it's not like I think I'm "right", but I personally know that I need PoE to develop a little faster to love it as much as I want to. it's the main thing diablo 3 has that makes me bother to play it.
That doesn't change your citizenship though!
Yeah they wouldn't bother at all. For purposes of living in Canada, they'd still be considered married. Hell, Canada might even take a positive stance against such a move in the USA.
it's just, not cut-and-dried.
That’s not relevant here tho. I’m a US permanent resident. If I want to get married I don’t have to fly back to the UK for it, I can get married in the US just fine. No matter what the citizenship status of my marriage partner is
That's correct, but only because the UK says it's cool if you get married abroad and they'll count it as a UK marriage as long as $basic_conditions are met. And further, the USA recognizes UK citizens who are married according to their home country as being married people here as well.
But they don't have to! We don't recognize foreign child weddings here, for example.
I'm down for this!