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I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ

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Leave US Strategic Command Twitter account open for child to tweet from:

"Canada: Totally okay, these things happen."

Leave US Strategic Command Launch Portal open for child to launch missiles against Ontario, Canada:

"United States: Totally okay, these things happen."

I think you mis-stated that last line:

> Leave US Strategic Command Launch Portal open for child to launch missiles against Ontario, Canada:

"Canada: Totally okay, these things happen."

I was 50/49.9/.1 the correction would be Canada being okay with Ontario being nuked, or the target changing to Quebec and Canada still being okay with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

Quebec is the Texas of Canada, if I recall correctly.

There was a third, though unlikely option of the target switching to Alberta, but it turning out to be okay, because it just happened to coincide with a sudden invasion of hyper-intelligent rats, and the human population had already evac'd.

That being said, thank you. You genuinely brightened my day.

I guess that’s one way to explain to Alberta the eventual consequences of its rat policies.

> Quebec is the Texas of Canada, if I recall correctly.

That's my understanding too. Or California with a more serious Calexit movement.

As someone from Ontario who moved to Alberta, you deserve a Chinook when it's -30 out.

Haha, well I'm not sure how Canada feels about Ontario. I'm sure there a few places they wouldn't mind. However, they would probably still say sorry regardless.

What a wholesome response!

For most companies and organizations, this is absolutely understandable. WFH is challenging, and balancing childcare even more so.

In this case, though, it begs the question - why does US Strategic Command even have a Twitter account? Are they going to post fun and engaging tweets about the nuclear football? Twitter seems like something this agency should not be doing.

Why not just look at the account? Recent posts include...

Link to a reasonably informative description of a research project on some sort of advanced ramjet being developed in partnership with Norway

Retweet of a paper detailing recent developments in China's plutonium production capability

Video interview with some Lt about life aboard a submarine and the general submarine career field

Photos of some sort of training exercise using very large bombs and a link with more info

Info on how air force bases operate with covid

Etc...

All seems pretty interesting to the types of folks who would follow the US Strategic Command twitter

I can see orgs like this making social media accounts just to claim the space/username and prevent squatters or false messaging.

As for why would e.g. US Strategic Command ever need to actually post something? I'm at a loss to be honest.

If they collaborated with Russian Strategic Command to re-enact the Zero Wing meme, it would be comedy gold. Beyond that, no clue

I think the culture of being engaged with the public is more of a good thing than a bad thing, regardless of how 'useful' it is.

Personally, I think my brain gets tired of having to filter non-stop PR. Actual engagement would be fantastic though so as much as that exists I’d claim provides a good potential.

I'm particularly tired of military PR.

> What a wholesome response!

FWIW the @CAFinUS account is a good follow, with a mix of history, humor, etc. Pretty good for a government account.

Canadians are generally sensible, chill folks. Remember the Michael Moore thing about testing whether people locked their front doors?

> Canadians are generally sensible, chill folks.

I see you’ve never lived in a Canadian city that has lost the Stanley Cup. Or in the case of Montreal, won it.

It’s fine to have one, but I dislike how corp/gov accounts inevitably become about their new CEO (don’t care) or Bob from accounting celebrating 30y on the job (don’t care).

Canada’s border agency account likes to tweet pics of them “expediting” vaccine clearances while border holdups are their fault in the first place.

Like, thanks for circumventing your slow process, but let’s not celebrate your on-tarmac releases as an unusual practice.

Meanwhile when they reduce their hours of operation (useful), they bury it on their website because people might (rightfully) complain too directly.

Relevant xkcd (from the what if book)

https://i.imgur.com/WIoNgYS.jpg

Canada didn’t write that, it was their social media account manager, which might be outsourced to a firm.

It might even be the same person who manages the United States account.

The Canadian government has a culture, which is related to Canadian culture, and both of them have a lot of influence over what is considered acceptable to post on their twitter account. Therefore, a tweet on an account publicly associated with them reveals information about the culture of Canada.

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