Personally, as a European, I would be pro this happening if Canada wants to join and the EU is willing to let them join.

I get that geographically it wouldn't make much sense, but culture is also important. Geographically, Belarus for example should join the EU instead of Canada, but I think most of us can agree that Belarus should not.

Honestly, even if time travel were theoretically possible to be invented, there's also a high chance that we're just going to destroy ourselves before we get to that point anyway.

Oh, for sure. I wouldn't want that. To be fair, I just want to not be looked at weird for never having been in a relationship more than I want a relationship at this point.

That's not to say that I would want a horrible relationship just so I can say "I was in a relationship". But oddly enough some people would view me better if that happened, because it means I was able to attract someone.

Spot on! There is some overlap for sure, but I don't agree with the notion that if you can't get a relationship, it means you're a conservative.

I've never dated and am not conservative at all, but I sometimes feel like I'm looked at with suspicion by other leftists when I mention this.

I sometimes see someone being sad about not having had a partner, and someone will reply stuff like "Have you tried not being sexist?", even if there's nothing in the post to indicate that they are sexist. But some people immediately assume that, because never dating but being progressive does not compute for them.

I'm not who you were replying to, but I agree and disagree with your comment.

I'm not saying someone can't be happy single. But society makes it hard to be when the world revolves around relationships, being a virgin is used as an insult, etc.

But I do agree with you that not everyone needs to have a partner. I don't see myself ever getting into a relationship, and to some extent I'm often close to making peace with that, until I see a post, a comment, a video, etc, that makes me feel inferior due to it.

I do appreciate, though, the fact that you admit not everyone needs to have a relationship and that not everyone will have one. I'll take this approach every day of the week over the "Naaah, I'm sure you will be in a relationship soon cause everyone does!", followed by moving the goalpost (it's always "soon" regardless of how many years have passed).

Monkey's Paw.

I've been playing EU4 since around 2018-2019 (on and off, to be fair, not consistently), and still don't know a lot of stuff about the game.

It probably doesn't help that I'm playing it on and off because I keep having to relearn things I used to know.

"Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay", except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.