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[–] 31 points 1 month ago

Over the past decade, rats increased by 390% in Washington DC

These things just write themselves, don’t they?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Her name is Marlaina

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This was always bullshit.

    History lesson time: late June 2020, BC had worked and sacrificed to eliminate Covid locally and had done it, the province was one of the first outside China to have cases, but we had beaten it. Because of that, we had public Canada Day celebrations.

    July 1st: a bunch of Albertan morons drive to Kelowna so they can party, reintroducing covid to the province.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Kelowna is just Alberta lite anyway. Lots of those people probably have vacation homes out there haha

    Also as a Victorian, covid spread here from Vancouverites looking to party. Covid on the island was a fucking nightmare. Most packed camping season ever I think. Bathrooms were mostly closed and I'm still finding human shit in 2026 lol

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago

    July 1st: a bunch of Albertan morons drive to Kelowna so they can party, reintroducing covid to the province.

    I bet they complained about our healthcare, government and culture, demanding that we copy them. KLF would’ve done it, the bc conservatives are traitors.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It’s not that there are no rats in Alberta; they are just actively illegal there and hence uncommon. If rats are found on your property, the government can compel you to exterminate them. Rats cannot be kept as pets.

    Dead rats and even small infestations of rats have been found before so I don't understand what makes this one special.

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    Ya, and its name is Marlaina.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    Fool-meat Albertan-things boast rat-free lines-borders, yes-yes! But Clan Skryre has breached the perimeter-zone! Dig-burrow beneath the oil-tar sands, steal-snatch the black warpstone, quick-quick! The Great Horned Rat claims the prairie-lands! Yessss yesss.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    And it's due to climate change. Fitting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    How so? Alberta's climate is getting less harsh but it was never the reason that rats weren't present. There are much more hostile environments in Canada that have rats.

    I also think that Alberta was never truly rat free. I know people who have seen them in Calgary before. There is just no way that they magically disappear at the BC border for instance. Rats crawl into people's vehicles and then those vehicles go back to Alberta.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Ahahahahahaha!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Probably why the UCP is politically done.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Imagine believing that the rats stop at the Provincial border, repelled exclusively by the power of oil revenue...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I think I smell a rat.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Marlaina Melania Danielle Smith enters the chat

    “Did someone summon me? Do you want to hear about oil? Is this the Sunday brunch Tammy Lich sorry I mean people from my church invited me to?”

    🐀🐀

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Hmm I feel this is Andrew' Pantons fault

    Pretty sure they were talking about it A few weeks back on the regulation podcast and making jokes about they just find rats and take them over the border etc

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The jail is there so it's not surprising someone smelled a rat.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Her name is Marlaina

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    yes we call her danielle smith.

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  • Hilarious. A community of people who think they are special realizing they are just humans. Poor little rats. I bet they are better stewards of the earth than any of the "albertans"

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    And her name was Marlaina

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How embarrassing for the fascist UCP. Hurting trans people more important than the health of the province.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago
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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Her name is Marlaina

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Rats have taken over this province for awhile now.

    It's been awful.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago

    Thanks to Danielle Smith and her UCP ilk.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I know albertans who have seen rats in calgary before. Alberta has never been rat free. That said I lived there for 24 years and never saw one.

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  • 1 comment in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world view that post

    They have a huge rat as the Province’s PM

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