Not a great fit, but maybe Strange Animal by Gowan

Now that's an invention we need! Remotely self-unclipping draws to reduce drag on meandering routes :D

There's a Greg Egan story (might have been Luminous) as well about rival (and incompatible) mathematics systems in the universe.

Some cool impacts along the fractal boundary between the different realities describable by the different systems.

Nope, but unless he's in his 60s, he probably doesn't have decades more experience.

And if he's a climber of note, he probably doesn't need you jumping around in his shadow being a dick to people. shrug

Why are you assuming anybody's level of experience?

There are a some people out there with "decades more experience" than me, but there are probably more with decades less.

Point is, OP posted an issue he had. I responded with the likely cause of the issue. Now you're jumping in being a dick - that is the true reddit moment here.

Yeah... there's no keeper, but the dogbone looks rather tight. In most draws the top opening is usually a little more than an inch long so it doesn't bind and pull the biner if/when climbing past the draw.

It's hard to see from the angle in the video, but it looks like the opening in the sling is rather tight around the base of the biner.

The top loop of your quick draws should be very loose on the biner to help prevent this from happening. Similarly, you should only ever have rubber keepers on the bottom biner of your quickdraw.

Here's a mountain project thread about exactly this happening

Moby Dick always makes me think of the Black Keys... Maybe "Next Girl" by the Black Keys or maybe "I Got Mine"

You look at how he has voted over the past 20 years as an MP.

I think Occam's Razor is that she likely ran into the dude coincidentally rather - especially considering she and her BF had run into him off and on multiple times.

For it to have been planned would require the advance planning, secret contact, and then lying about it later, and maintaining a cover up (if the BF didn't end it).

It just seems like the simplest explanation is: She went out (as she often did), ran into her FWB (as she occasionally did), she was drunk enough that getting some benefits didn't seem like the wrong thing to do.

Bad, drunk decisions brought about the FO stage of her F'ing A.

I absolutely agree, I just don't think there's any need to jump to "She planned to meet him."

It's more likely that they hang out in the same circle, so are likely to run into each other. Running into him isn't the problem (which is coincidence or circumstance) - it's the going home with him (which is a choice)

That's just small town life. The town I grew up in (around 60k people) only had 2 bars that anybody under the age of 30 went to. They went to one in the summer because it had a patio (even though the bar itself smelled like vomit), and the other one in the winter because the patio bar smelled like vomit.

If you were in town and you went out, you were pretty much guaranteed to run into everybody.

In Alberta, Family docs can bill something like $38 for an appointment. Shoppers Drug Mart is billing $100 for a phone consult about medication.

This is how private health care makes its profit.

Bluey is 100% inspirational and aspirational as a parent.

It is amazing the sheer volume of good parenting modeled in that show, as well as the modeling of appropriate child behaviour for the kids watching it - and it still manages to be a pretty awesome show that doesn't come across as preachy.

The way we put it to our kids is that there should never be secrets - and then described secrets as "things that we are not supposed to tell each other", but surprises are ok. A surprise is something that is going to make a person happy when we tell them later.

And followed up with how important it is to tell us if anybody ever asks them to keep a secret from us.

It's possible, I just feel the ideas wouldn't have taken root if he wasn't already thinking about them.

You mean the violent, human trafficking, and raping misogynist who had a massive online following to which he promoted his violent misogynistic viewpoints, coached boys and men to follow in his footsteps, and helped usher in and popularize the phrases "high value man" and "flipping the script" on a female partner. That Andrew Tate?

Yeah, I can't imagine why I might have singled out the human trafficking rapist and man-o-sphere coach, Andrew Tate.

Because if somebody used the phrase "high value man" to me, or suggested that I needed to "flip the script", I would have laughed in their faces because any healthy-minded person knows that a man's value isn't just what he earns, and a woman's value isn't just her looks and her ability to bring a child into the world.

His family's statements and thoughts wouldn't have taken root the way they did if he hadn't already been cultivating the seed.

Schools aren't hiring because they don't have the funds. Conservative governments across Canada have been slashing education budgets for years. The schools just don't have the funds to hire more teachers.

Even when they are claiming to be "increasing education funding", the increases do not keep up with enrollment growth or inflation meaning that it is essentially a per-student funding cut.

Alberta has gone from middle of the pack per-student-funding, to dead last over the past 6 years 

I fell bad for OP and all, but his head was already a mess. His comments about being a "high value man" and "flipping the script" suggest that he was prone to spending some time in the man-o-sphere of red-pillers and Tate.

His brain was likely already poisoned, and that is why the words of his Father and brothers resonated and were able to take root.

The way Tate and the man-o-sphere prey on insecure mens' thoughts, and turn it all around to be women's fault is reprehensible. I'm sorry OP got caught up into it, but it sounds like he may be on a better path now.

I feel this. My nieces and nephews grew up with my parents as a second set of parents. But having my kids so late, my parents just can't be present and involved the same way with them.

I am beyond grateful that my kids have had the chance to know and be loved by my parents, but I also recognize that gift is very time limited.

Your kids will get to know your parents to some degree through the stories you tell, so it isn't completely lost, but there is no love quite like a grandparent's love.

I very much "wanted" kids through most of my growing up. I suspect largely because it is so programmed into us while growing up. I imagined I would have the standard life: graduate high school, go to college/university, meet someone there, date while finishing school, get married after graduation, get a job, and start a family around 25-27.

For various reasons, the wheels fell off those tracks during the University years. By my 30s, I had dated quite a bit, so had a fairly good picture of what I wanted in a partner, and was over the "I need to be seeing someone to be happy" mentality of my 20s, so started readjusting my life expectations to include the idea that I might not end up getting married and having kids.

It just worked out that I met my wife when I did and ended up readjusting my expectations back. I just had a lot of personal growth between my 20s and my late 30s that I suspect made me a way better dad - though definitely a less "fun" dad.

As a counterpoint... I was way too selfish, impatient, and immature in my 20s/early 30s. I probably would have been a "fun dad", but I might not have been a "good dad."

We had our first when I was 43-turning-44, and our second 18 months later. It has been absolutely exhausting, but I am way more patient and selfless than I believe I would have been if I'd had kids earlier.

But who knows... I might have risen to the occasion and put my selfish and impatient ways behind me :)

Just going to drop this here...

/r/Canada sub-reddit has a pretty colorful group of mods  and by colorful I mean neo-nazis and white nationalists

I'm old enough to remember when the Wildrose party was upset that the NDP was implementing campaign promises, because "Everybody knows that campaign promises aren't supposed to be followed"