grabyourmotherskeys @ grabyourmotherskeys @lemmy.world

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I love NYC. For the first 48 hours. :)

Ha ha, I know. But his work gets the point across.

Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn't need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

Yes, and even stuff you might not publish could show what you are looking for to an eventual illustrator you might work with.

Yes, that's true and a big reason I don't paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

I can't believe the US voted this complete idiot in as president. Just wow.

Before cheap, ubiquitous photographic reproduction, drawing was taught to people as a skill.

You might not be the next Gary Larsen (I'm no dillitente) but I bet if you tried you could become a good illustrator.

Having said that, you still have to learn inking, coloring, etc.

Just wanted to say I think most people can learn the skill in the same way most people can learn to write a rhetorical essay or do arithmetic.

Edit: not trivializing your issues, friend, just offering encouragment!

They were perfect interviews.

If you are in Victoria, I get it; yikes...

That's a very specific economic environment which is different from "the average Canadian" so, yes, you are probably bang on.

Also at issue: maga people who donate to Trump think experts are "dumb" so they might see this a huge waste of their money.

Fortunately, they will never hear this so their peace of mind is assured.

Not sure what you are paying but I checked a retail survey of fresh fruit and berries in Iceland and they are about 21g/$ CAD fresh where the current price of fresh organic blueberries is 36g/$ at my local Edmonton Walmart.

Iceland has a local blueberry harvest so not sure how that affects pricing but looks cheaper in Canada. Also upick are often priced above market now, its a family experience more than a way to get affordable food like when I was a kid. Just my two cents.

Exactly. Right out of the authoritarian playbook.

In Hungary, Orban stopped government advertising and big business followed suit.

https://www.eurozine.com/viktor-orbans-war-on-the-media/

And we will all be merged with cars.

I heard this guy going on about this amazing machine a company had invented to sequester carbon. They were not happy when explained that a tree does the same thing and they grow like crazy just about anywhere.

We already know what we need to do but people don't want to do it.

It's probably just our terrible network in the area (also not US).

Tech, yes. Lived experience, meh. :)

One of my most disappointing moments as an adult, which is really saying something, was getting my wife a 5g phone and realizing it was not noticeably faster in any way to the one it replaced while on a 5g network using any data service.

We don't have 401k here in Canada but it sounds like an RSP where the employer decides what options you have for investment.

I have nothing against financial advisers but they do steer you into investments with management fees. That's how they earn money.

I think you can self direct and choose investments which let you keep (reinvest) more of the returns. Just my opinion.

I guess if my employer was matching my contribution I'd put up with just about anything. :)

Anyway, just my opinion and not necessarily good advice for everyone.

I was about 8. My brother and cousins in their late teens (almost certainly stoned) were hanging out with me while our parents enjoyed a few drinks. This was normal at the time. There was even indoor smoking then!

Anyway, I'm reading the D&D Monster Manual I got for Christmas and am telling them about dragons. I explain there are dragons that can shoot out clouds of poisonous gas and accidentally let a fart go that I'd been desperately holding in for a while at that point.

Still the biggest laugh I've ever got and it really was an accident.

We were not the kind of family where anyone let on go in public so it added to the hilarity.

I don't know how 401ks work but buying individual stocks is basically like gambling. You don't need a financial advisor but you should treat financial planning like a part time job reading and learning until you are confident in your decisions.

Also, everyone brags about their wins and forgets to mention their losses.