You can find people like that on Hellotalk (although that seems to become a bit of a pickup place lately) or there’s a website called conversationexchange.com. Alternately, you can ask chatgpt to have a conversation with you and set how difficult you want the language.

Interesting. Miami is indigenous. It may be a good choice as it’s already a place name and possibly less objectionable to the US Americans.

That is an indigenous word.

Fine. You can party on dudes if you want.

I think you need a hyphen between “party” and “on.”

The statement by the Canadian Prime Minister said they were making good progress until, at the last moment, the U.S. introduced some conditions that were “unfair, uneconomical and called into question the reliability of any deal.”

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations

We visited there last year. Nice city.

You should have named it Stay. It would’ve really messed with the other dogs.

Thunderstruck by Walk Off the Earth. Female vocalist, a wild twist on instuments that just seems to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnGkIxhFGU

Where did he go in Ontario, Canada? The map has him landing in the middle of one of the least populated areas in N. America.

Terry Fox. One of humanity’s gems.

Just got back from our camp where I’m doing renovations. It’s only accessible by boat so all supplies have to be loaded in the trailer, brought to the boat, loaded in the boat, brought to the camp, then unloaded onto the dock. Makes for slow going, but the peace and beauty out there make up for it. Today, I’m going to church, picking up groceries for the week, then heading back to camp.

It’s the internet. What do you think?

We play speed Uno. If you have the identical card as the card that’s played, you can lay it down if you get it to the pile before the person whose turn it is lays down theirs. Play then continues from you.

In the U.S., the letter Z is pronounced zee. The rest of the English-speaking world pronounces it zed. Thus the difference.

Many companies like websites, tv, radio, etc. depend on the revenues from advertisers to pay their workers and expenses. If they didn’t have that, everything would likely turn to susbscription or a regular pleading for money so they could continue.

Canada. You don’t pay for a broken arm or a checkup. You only pay for things like physiotherapy or massage. Dentisit is covered if you’re old, young, or not making much money. Pharmacy is covered (with a small fee) if you’re old. The emergency room works on a triage system so, if you’re not seriously sick, you’ll probably wait a long time. There are long wait times for specialists in some areas. I can’t speak for everyone, but the care my extended family and I have received has been excellent.

Aren’t they pronounced the same?

Bullwinkle and Rocky

It’s too bad we can’t get animals (including ourselves) to hold it all day then dispense it into a fuel tank for home use.