Applied Epistemologist

Feynman: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Me: Freedom is the ability to tell experts to fuck off.

@MakkStephen He actually needs something a bit more physical. That business of forcing women to touch his balls is sexual assault.

This Yaniv fellow needs to be relentlessly criticized and called out.

@sarkonakj There's a difference between vandalism and blasphemy.

Burnout on a pride crosswalk: charge the driver Graffiti on a historic statue: wrap it up and box it in, indefinitely

@AndreaMicieli Give the councillors rabid pit bulls.

It’s members of the public who need therapy dogs for the average City Council meeting, not councillors themselves.

@dervishgirl1 I'm far more concerned about the Canadian people's right to exist than the rights of the Israeli, Jewish, Arab, or Palestinian peoples.

“Hell no” 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

@JimmyLevendia What a great link. It led me to this. x.com/ChMark161/stat…

This happened right on the very quiet side street where I grew up, and it was a revelation. Turned out to feed into a whole interurban electric rail line stretching 50 miles out into the countryside, all now gone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_S…

TIL that Toronto has its own railway gauge. I'm not quite sure what this says about Toronto or Canadian culture, but I feel that this is the key to understanding Canadian identity. Toronto-gauge railways - Wikipedia share.google/kmgTM4lMABN9KC…

If this were in any way true, it would be the best argument for voting Liberal.

@iowahawkblog They didn't choose "Winnipeg" because they weren't sure they could spell it correctly.

Oddly enough, due to a geographical oddity, our story begins SOUTH of the border in Windsor Ontario. It's south of Detroit, Google-map it. Anyhoo more than 100 years ago, Detroit car makers set up plants in Windsor for the Canadian market. The models were basically the same as US; a Canadian Model T was exactly the same a US Model T. Local manufacture was largely due to tax advantages. But eventually there was a marketing advantage to having distinct branding for Canada, with the vehicles becoming a source of Canuck pride. Nowhere was that pride greater than Canadian farms who were treated to the special pickup brands like Mercury and Fargo. Mercury was basically a rebadged Ford (1953 Mercury M-100 shown), and Fargo a rebadged Dodge. But for my money they have a bit more pizzazz and mystery to them than their US equivalents. It is kinda weird though that Chrysler chose an American town name for their Canadian trucks; I guess "Winnepeg" had too many letters for the badge.

Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo! Get in hosers, today's episode of Dave's Car ID Service is taking off for the Great White North with a salute the oddball world of Canadian-spec car models and brands. Pictured airdropping a keg of Elsinore over Toronto: Bob & Doug McKenzie's 1977 GMC Vandura from the Canadian cinematic masterpiece STRANGE BREW (1983). Sadly not a Canada spec item, but there was an era when residents of Canada had a bevy of cars Detroit (more specifically Windsor) made especially for them - albeit minor twists on their American cousins.

One thing I enjoy about x is using it to mock and abuse government agencies. Get in now before they acknowledge defeat by closing comments.

@csiscanada As a Canadian government organization, you should focus most on eliminating international racism against white people, our largest racial group. Have you investigated possible foreign links to this egregious example of anti-white racism? chairs-chaires.gc.ca/program-progra…

✨ March 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. At CSIS, we recognize that protecting Canada includes countering hate and extremist ideologies. Building a secure, inclusive society is a shared responsibility. ✨

@JohnIbbitson So much less dictatorial than this posting, calling for the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act.

@MaxFromMax Unfortunately, we didn't retain the cultural confidence, power, or arrogance needed to sustain it

@MaxFromMax I think the key to getting there is that that way of living was an expression of the dominant culture. Deeply English Canadian values of fair play and reserved hospitality, combined with the relative smallness and diversity of the immigrant population, created kind assimilation.

No punches pulled 💪🔥

@MaxFromMax We 🇨🇦 GenX didn't grow up in a time of great economic prosperity relative to the boomers, but racial/cultural issues were a solved problem. The only argument against returning is that that state was somehow unstable, inevitably leading to now.

@ChMark161 Sounds good to me. We mvst retvrn.

@MaxFromMax We all knew my top engineering class was disproportionately Chinese background and male, and disproportionately not black, but zero people thought it was discrimination, and profs treated us as individuals. It can be done.

@MaxFromMax The first option, that it's not a prof's job to have an opinion on the question or care, is the "neither" case. In my GenX Toronto youth, we didn't care about race and made that attitude normative.

@MaxFromMax "Students are individuals and it's not my job to have an opinion on overall group differences" is fine. "All differences in racial outcomes are due to systemic discrimination and correctable with opposing discrimination" is not. Which do we see in academia today?

@MaxFromMax As an engineer, I'd rather my daughter be taught by a "race realist" than by someone who believes that the obvious average differences in engineering ability/interest between white/Asian men and black women are due to some kind of "discrimination" that it's his job to reverse.

@JimmyLevendia @yuanyi_z Well, he is at U of T. One can see where he got the idea.

@ChMark161 @yuanyi_z Tim is such a dipshit:) Really does think Canada is just another set of Blue States under a flag of convenience.

Dude you are in Canada.