Probably a geolocation device as well. Be careful out there.

Do you not realize I’m talking about you?

Very cool. You can reach out if you or she has any questions. I’ve far from an expert, but I have submitted and am currently waiting.

Sounds open and shut. If you haven’t already, put together all the paperwork you intend on submitting, minus the one you are waiting for. They want color (sorry, colour) copies of the certified copies. Yes, you read that right; do no send the actual certified copies; make color copies of them, as nothing will be returned to you.

There is evidence that you can file now with what you have (the online copies of your great grandfather’s birth record), and amend them online to the application once you receive them. That’s what I did. Certified copies all the way up the chain until the Canadian ancestor himself, for whom I submitted a simple print out (not certified) of his birth/baptism record. I’ve since received the certified copy from Quebec, which I’ll upload as soon as the application appears accepted and online.

You! I like you.

It’s hard to take seriously your complaint of the poorly educated when the complaint contains poor spelling and grammar.

Do you have any paper proof of the connection your Canadian Lothario had with his US born offspring? That’s likely a sticking point if you do not.

Do you think people who are doing this “just in case” are the types that voted republican?

And just so we’re clear, the law that allows for this is a Canadian law.

Sure. Pretty much certified copies of documents proving your Canadian-born ancestor was born in Canada (commonly birth or baptism records), and certified copies of birth records linking you to them through every generation.

For me, I had access to my, my father’s, and his father’s, birth certificates. Easy. I ordered a birth certificate for my great-grandmother from the US county in which she was born to Canadian-born parents. I also ordered birth/baptism records for both my great-great-grandparents from the cities/provinces in which they were born. Packaged it up along with a family tree and sent it off. Still waiting, but feel pretty confident I’ll get word back that Canada recognizes my citizenship through descent.

The cost to request a formal birth record from Quebec alone (via the BANQ) recently went from $30 to over $300

Well shit, glad I got mine in early. I would agree with the sentiment of “costs skyrocketing.”

I myself am “applying,” but am not doing it “just in case” nor do I intend on moving there. I’m earnestly doing it because Canada is cool, and the spirit and letter of the law is recognizing “lost Canadians” as Canadians. I honestly don’t look at it as an escape route, but ask me again when my son is draft age.

What costs? My biggest expense was the $80US for overnight fedex. Add $20 for citizen photos and 1 barely broke a c note.

It is if you’ve ever picked up your passport.

Not “eligible” for citizenship, actually de facto citizens. If your ancestor is from Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. People “applying” (such as myself) are simply writing for official recognition.

I’d argue that the id.Buzz actually existing makes more alike the old busses from the 50s and 60s.

That’s all it is, isn’t it? Habitual.

I selfishly hope they remove that too. I was booted from Reddit a few weeks ago and now I can only browse old /r. If there is no old /r, then there is no Reddit for me, which would end up being a good thing.

Seriously, folks, how hard is it to just walk away?

Respectfully, walk away from Google.

That’s the thing, I don’t think it’s impossible at all.

The problem with your explanation is that Intel is troubled enough to be purchased, and the US currently has no issue allowing monopolies. In a world in which Paramount is buying Warners, and Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot, AMD buying struggling Intel is not an obvious joke. Or at least it isn’t without some additional tag. “AMD set to buy beleaguered Intel in an all-DDR5 deal.”

Look at any of the websites trying to be the Onion. They seldom get the thing that makes Onion headlines just right.

Your Patriots joke works (and would be a pretty good April Fools joke) because it’d come out of nowhere. If you make the same joke but about the Washington Commanders changing their name to the Corporals (a joke structured the same way as yours), it wouldn’t be as obviously a joke because that team has a history of name changes and Trump telling them to change their name isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Your Patriots joke also works because the joke isn’t that they’re changing their name, it’s that they are changing their name to the opposite. “New England Patriots changing their name” isn’t funny. “AMD buying Intel” contains the same amount of information; that is to say nothing funny.

I said before that a joke has to have context to make sense. That’s not quite right. It has to have context and we all have to kinda agree what that context is. You assuming that an AMD/Intel monopoly is impossible is what makes the headline a joke for you, but if I disagree about the context (that said monopoly is possible) than it doesn’t work. Judging from the other replies, I don’t think I’m the only one for whom it doesn’t work.