the election issue of course being
do we want these asshole oligarchs as our leaders or not?
I went down to Vegas back in April for Sick New World. I loved it there, even if it apparently isn’t what it used to be. Of course things will never be the same, but I saw the appeal.
Shit, I would never go to Vegas except for conferences
Why would y’all want to come down here to go to Vegas?
I used to go all the time as a child. The surrounding area is really pretty, there’s a lot of good trails not that far, and Hoover Dam had water.
Nowadays, I have no fkn idea
Pinball Museum and Hall of Fame.
There is no other reason to visit Las Vegas.
Defcon is a nice conference
I miss LISA as well. Covid casualty.
At least there’s less temptation to go there. Professionally I might be pretty pushed to go.
Herpes?
Brain damage?
Our household is still doing a full American boycott, or at least as much as we realistically can. No buying US groceries, no Amazon, we cancelled all our streaming things and certainly no US travel.
And every time I hear complaints from the US about how their liquor industry is suffering or whatever… good! Their president keeps talking shit about us, deliberately tries to fuck our economy up and continually threatens to invade us. Until they get rid of that asshole and do many other things to fix their shit, I don’t care if they all go broke and I hope everyone else keeps it up as well.
What really pisses me off is half the stuff we bought in our last shopping trip says “Product of Peru” or “Product of Mexico” on the front, then you flip the blueberries over and it has a US distributed by address on the back. I’m doing my best but they’re making it harder to spot.
A state election going Democrat doesn’t make me want to visit the GOP controlled USA which threatens Canada, so this is irrelevant. Also CAD is 66 cents currently.
Also CAD is 66 cents currently.
This is irrelevant. Historically, Canadians would go to the US even with this exchange rate. This is not a major driving issue. Yes, there would be lower cross border traffic because of exchange rate, but not like this.
To call attention to the exchange rate as an issue, gives them coverage that the problem is the exchange rate, not their extremely fucking awful attitudes/policies/abuses and evils.
The exchange rate may matter more to people when everything is already more expensive than it used to be.
That would be true if it stopped Canadians from traveling. It has not.
Canadians are traveling less to the US.
I only spoke for myself in that comment. The exchange rate matters to me.
More than the fascism does?
Vegas had cool shows and entertainment. I miss Penn and Teller, and the short flight was nice. Vegas had some nice desert hikes.
But here I am in Japan downing a bowl of ichiran ramen and planning a walk through the torii gates tomorrow. The yen is pretty cheap right now too.
(Well not NOW now, it’s 4am)
The USA ain’t worth the effort or the risk, and they don’t respect us.
Penn and Teller… ironically Canadians.
No? Penn born in Massachusetts (thank god for autocomplete on that one, holy hell), Teller in Pennsylvania (ditto).
Maybe because it’s insanely expensive to go to Vegas now?
No, because it’s full of Americans.
Also, getting interrogated at the border? not to mention, maga.
I have personally passed up a trip to Vegas over US nonsense this last year.
It was a shit hole at the best of times.
Las Vegas can’t die fast enough in my book…
Canadians refusing to be insulted by nothing more than a pedophile plus the smartphone gambling apps were bound to take it’s toll. I read a while back that LV is only catering to the whales now and are doing better than ever. I guess that news story was wrong.
LV has such a violent homeless problem even police are scared to enter some old parking garages.
Went once, that was enough.
Thanks Canada! I’m sure it will help.
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