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I am an Acadian from Nova Scotia, Canada, specifically the subgroup of Eastern Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Western Newfoundland Acadians.

Yeah that's because Europeans historically wanted to divide themselves from people further East. But it's the same damn land mass. But if you look at genetics, there is still significant divergence. Like, I am a French-Canadian and the genetic distance between me and someone from Scandinavia is...

Having been to South Africa, you can tell that by looking at them. I was in a bar in a predominantly white community, and I bet this dude who would be read a black for sure in North America... but he was white. Like, he lived in a white community, spoke Afrikaans, had a thick white South African...

Well, yeah... there's a common ancestry there isn't there? The common ancestry not being very "politically correct" to say, "the Aryans". I remember a Kurdish guy I worked with one time bringing it up, and apparently a lot of Kurds are proud of this heritage, but yeah I had to be like "Shhhhh...

I always found Pepper Keenan from the metal band Corrosion of Conformity had a stereotypical white American look. Moreso when he was younger but I cannot find a picture. Here's a music video. They're lyrical content usually touches on American history and politics too.

Interesting. Would that mean many European populations came from there was back as well?

As far as animals in my area, cougars scare me the most. They’re one of the closest wild relatives to domestic cats (like the domestic cat, cougars are part of the “lesser cat” family) so they’re quiet when they hunt. You’ll never see or hear it coming till it pounces on you and bites your...

Do you like fish or seafood? Well, please make informed decisions when you buy. Don't buy anything from Clearwater. Actually, to be safe, don't buy anything imported from Canada. If you haven't heard on the news, there is a dispute between indigenous ad non-indigenous fishermen in Nova Scotia...

These events are actually what lead in part to the negotiation and signing of the original NAFTA. Well, a mix of factors: English-French tensions in Canada and the instability of the Mexican Peso both presented significant national security risks to the USA, and the US government (I think it was...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis. I have to say there is a lot of creepy irony here, in the sense that exactly 50 years later, Canada is again under national lockdown, with the same emergency powers being invoked by a prime minister with the same name. Anyway, thought I'd...

Side note: Some COVID measures piss me off. I accidentally burned myself really bad last week and had to go to the emergency room to get it treated. The rule in the hospital right now is patients only, no family of patients. Anyway, around the same time as I came in, another old lady came in...

But yeah, I had COVID-19 two months ago and so did my cat. My cat will be immune for the rest of her life. I probably lost my immunity already.

Well, I think once they find a treatment that works, they will end lockdowns. They are closer to that than a vaccine. I am not hopeful about a vaccine because there have been cases of reinfection, and well, antibodies for other coronaviruses only last for like 2 weeks. The common cold is also...

Well, if someone gets a tickle in their throat and coughs next to you, it could happen. Or someone with COVID squeezes a tomato but decides not to buy it, then later you buy and eat that tomato. COVID is very contagious, it has an R0 similar to that of the common cold, and you know how easy it...

I don't like wearing a mask but I do. We're not required to wear them on the street, but indoors, yes. I don't care, whatever, you gotta do what you gotta do. Having had COVID myself, I would say wear a mask, it may seem ridiculous, but it's not. I don't want to get into graphic detail about...

The culture war is the fight over shit like masks... people yelling at Wal-Mart staff for the store requiring masks. Like seriously, I thought they were free market capitalists... well, Wal-Mart is a private business, if they want to require customers to wear masks, they are well within their...

Actually people here are quite conservative, and conservative and liberal leaning people here respectfully disagree all the time, we're just not into that culture war nonsense. That shit is unacceptable behaviour, I don't care what anybody says. I'm sick of the double-standards of right-wing...

it means if you beat the shit out of right-wingers like we do here in Nova Scotia, you’d be able to have a drink in a bar. bars are great. so is brunch. I drank in a bar last night, after swimming in a public pool... now I am going to brunch and after that I am going to rent a kayak and go to...

it’s actually unfortunate that Trump got COVID because now Trump supporters no longer believe the virus is a hoax. I was hoping they’d all die off because they believed the virus was a hoax so they didn’t take precautions and caught it.

and here in Nova Scotia, the most COVID safe zone in the world, everything is open. This is what happens when an area doesn’t have right-wingers who make a culture war out of social distancing and mask wearing. Well, we do have such people, we just beat the living shit out of them until they...