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#51

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - November 28, 2025, 03:50:33 PM

Beetroot yuck.

#52

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Tamas - November 28, 2025, 03:47:00 PM

Yeah I think it'd be tasty I like beetroot, balsamic and walnut and can see how they work together (often in salad together) after all.

I also think for Waitrose that's admirably restrained and not that pretentious

I rest my case. 

 

Beetroot yuck. Walnut meh. The whole thing, bleh.

#53

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Josephus - November 28, 2025, 03:37:56 PM

Heard Ukraine also has to pay 50 ducats to Russia, and loses 100 stab. 

#54

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - November 28, 2025, 03:37:20 PM

I think there might differences in how a MOU is, well, understood between Viper (& us easternly layman) vs what CC understands of it.

Culturally in Quebec, MOUs are rarely, if ever, renegaded upon. They've been effectively the contracts.

It is the same here.  But this is not really an MOU.  It is a framework setting out a number of preconditions which AB must meet before the Feds do anything. My assumption is they called it an MOU for optics in AB.

#55

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Grey Fox - November 28, 2025, 03:31:50 PM

It's not too late America, you can still stop it.

#56

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Grey Fox - November 28, 2025, 03:28:54 PM

I think there might differences in how a MOU is, well, understood between Viper (& us easternly layman) vs what CC understands of it.

Culturally in Quebec, MOUs are rarely, if ever, renegaded upon. They've been effectively the contracts.

#57

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - November 28, 2025, 03:24:21 PM

Yeah I think it'd be tasty I like beetroot, balsamic and walnut and can see how they work together (often in salad together) after all.

I also think for Waitrose that's admirably restrained and not that pretentious

I rest my case. 

#58

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by mongers - November 28, 2025, 03:17:52 PM

How does Imperator play?

I really like it.  A lot of hate was generated because of the initial game design. But all that was changed.  Unfortunately, too late to keep the player base.

Incidentally it's at 80% off on Gog.com at the moment if someone here hasn't got it, yes I know unlikely but still:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/imperator_rome?pp=6f8d8f210854c162dca2dee85c455b93ca4df625

#59

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Sheilbh - November 28, 2025, 03:14:22 PM

Yeah I think it'd be tasty I like beetroot, balsamic and walnut and can see how they work together (often in salad together) after all.

I also think for Waitrose that's admirably restrained and not that pretentious

[Time quoted Hoekstra: "A Canada that it would be very easy to target with 500% steel tariffs, or one patriot missile aimed at Parliament Hill,' he added, rather incredulously.'"]

#60

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - November 28, 2025, 03:09:10 PM

Oh, I like that one.
Time Magazine not fact-checking their sources.
They attributed to Hoekstra (US ambassador to Canada, very... charming individual ) a made up quote by the Beaverton.

'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine

In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact
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In the Oct. 1 article about the United States' eroding alliances, there's a section that references U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra's recent appearance at an event hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

At the event, Hoekstra voiced his disappointment with the anti-American sentiment that's spread across Canada in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and his quips about Canada becoming the 51st state.

Time quoted Hoekstra: "A Canada that it would be very easy to target with 500% steel tariffs, or one patriot missile aimed at Parliament Hill,' he added, rather incredulously.'"

Except Hoekstra didn't say that — The Beaverton, a satirical news site in Canada akin to The Onion, made it up for this article titled, "US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve."

I would bet good money the author of the article used AI to write it.