Hmm. What areas? AFAIK they're on all the same continents as humans, and a few species get as far north as places like Canada. I guess Ireland famously has no snakes, so maybe there. I'd expect northern Canada and Ireland could both get dragon myths by import from distant lands.

So, that's my attempt at an explanation.

They know the answer already, and are probably both trying it.

In US terminology, since that's the language I know, they try for "competition" rather than "conflict". The difference being whether they respect each other's sovereignty for the most part while trying to bury the other, and don't take straight-up military actions.

To achieve this, you provide a long series of "offramps" - opportunities to pause and de-escalate - on the path between peace and MAD, and ensure there is no benefit to either party to do any specific escalation. Mistakes will happen, both deliberate and accidental, but they're very unlikely to all happen at the same time, so even if things get tense there's offramps left, and game-theoretically they will take one because nobody wants a full-scale nuclear conflict.

Messed up, but not really surprising. All the people evangelical churches send to Africa have made an impact.

Thank you for this enlightening post. I'm truly better for it. (/s, non-salty)

I second this one. CBT is the current scientific golden standard for when you're your own enemy in general.

Yet another broken immigration thing.

I'm biased, but Alberta is still reasonably cosmopolitan, at least. It's also not as cheap as we thought apparently, because of the other costs of living.

I don't know about Manitoba, but I would have to be truly damn broke to consider Saskatchewan.

Assuming they're checking the emails at all.

Remember when that guy decided to read a book while his Tesla was doing basic lane following, and merged into a semi? I 'member.

Yeah, we're maybe 15 years behind the US on that stuff. Of course, very few young people are into it, so there's a demographic headwind. We also have faster immigration, and if the US goes really ugly that's going to lead to a crackdown on the troglodytes here.

It's an optical illusion caused by a very tiny temperature inversion in the atmosphere surrounding the event. /s

I think they just have an editorial policy about not stating the obvious when the obvious is something the courts have to rule on, legally speaking.

That's neat (the cultural part, sorry you got teased so much). I guess America creates enough butthurt for the whole continent, amiright? :P

Has somebody done this?