Thread Title: Round 3
- 2025: Let’s Try Again
- 2025: Be There or Be Square
- (20 + 25)² = 2025
- 2025: The Year in Proactive Review
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Will close in a bit more than 24 hours
I didn’t have this in my “extinction event bingo”, but seems like it should be added:
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Ironically, we will not try again, because too many people voted “Let’s try again” 
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Let’s try to change the title again.
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… And we’re not even a week in
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Do y’all think we’re getting another pandemic in 2025?
- Yes
- No
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This year is better already! 
let’s make canada great again
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This trying 2025 again stuff, how does it work? Can we do that now already? How many chances to retry do we get?
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You may re-try as many times as you like until you made it great again
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I’m far from expecting greatness at the moment.
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I find most days have some greatness, if you’re willing to have your expectations subverted, even if the times in general are far from great.
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I rewatched Lord of the Rings this Christmas. Here’s a quote
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
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One of my favourites from a great story
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The economist has a geopolitical thought experiment about that!
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Eurovision is the way to go.
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Wouldn’t joining the EU piss off USA? Don’t think they’re keen to do that.
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I love that we’re invited
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If the US is pissed off enough already maybe that doesn’t matter!
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The “meat” of the article is behind a paywall, but the subheader is already a bit off:
“Europe needs space and resources, Canada needs people.”
Isn’t Europe in a big birth rate decline crisis anyway? 
Just like with the “new year resolutions” and similar “grand plans”, if you replace the concept of “having dreams” with “having a realistic/achievable goal”, things always look better and, unsurprisingly, tend to actually get better. 
On a daily basis though, depending on where you live, things can be really bleak despite what you might do, since it is the general environment and situation that, unfortunately, ruins your day.
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There are other ways to increase population. One of the points in the article is that Canada has been generally better at integrating migrant people than Europe has.
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