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@TristinHopper I dunno about that. My dad retired from rural Alberta to a half acre at the top of a mountain in the Shuswap, tore almost every tree out himself, flattened it and planted grass. He’s already loony.

Although I'm much more inclined to the view that environment shapes politics, and that if Alberta looked like B.C. they'd also just be a bunch of loonies.

"Paradise is BC governed by Alberta." - Papa Hopper

Carney says the US is now a "weakness," but: -91.6% of Carney’s investments are in US companies. -He studied at Harvard (Only Canadian PM without a Canadian degree). -Half his kids currently reside in the US.

@RealDeanCain This is part of the fun, it’s high melodrama.

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>be a medieval English peasant >live next to a forest >forest is full of deer >killing a deer: death penalty >killing the king's rabbit: death penalty >fishing the lord's river without permission: heavily fined >keeping a pig on the common: permitted >but the common is being enclosed >slowly, one act of parliament at a time >eat pottage >eat bread >eat turnips >watch the lord's gamekeeper walk past >watch the lord eat venison at the manor >protein restriction enforced by law >fast forward to 2026 >new argument: you should eat less meat >for environmental reasons >the powerful have always had an explanation >for why the poor should eat less beef >the explanation changes every few centuries >the outcome is the same >the venison is still at the manor

Chinese Ebikes are hot right now

In the 1980's, Canadian broadcaster Global found a loophole in Canadian broadcasting legislation. Instead of broadcasting test patterns on screen and losing out on overnight revenue, they could send a cameraman into the city to walk around and film the streets of Toronto. Global producers decided to create their own original music to accompany the show instead of losing out on licensing fees. Because the show was entirely "Canadian Content", this allowed Global to leave key primetime slots open to broadcast American content. The show was called Night Walk. Although Night Walk was created to exploit a loophole, the footage that was left behind now looks like a time capsule.

The Self Help Trap

@GundamIsHere I’m a female She-Hulk fan, and John Byrne’s She-Hulk is exactly the tv show I want. You know - fun.

Let me get this straight if you're an actual fan of she-hulk and own these classic comics & you didn't like the Disney show featuring a frumpy feminist you are "FAR RIGHT" 😂 btw this is serise two of she hulk and arguably the more successful run, that lead to her popularity.

@jonkay @preta_6 Both of those things are control issues.

I still don’t understand why the same people who are so neurotic about their health that they still wear masks also see no problem with eating 14 bags of Doritos for dinner

'AI Is Totally Safe And Development Should Continue Rapidly,' Says Totally Genuine, 100% Human Scientist buff.ly/z8j59R7

I think about this often

@walterkirn Please do, this show looked really interesting.

My old friend Val Kilmer. Recognize him? Playing my older friend Mark Twain. I have to write a short memoir of the summer he hired me to help with this show. One of the funniest interludes of my adulthood.

Podcasting lets people speak vaguely about a topic while creating the impression of thorough treatment. I’ve often pushed back on something a podcaster posted on X, only to be told by their fans that it was “thoroughly addressed” somewhere in a three-hour podcast. But when I listen to the relevant section, it doesn’t deliver. It’s often just more vagueness and dancing around the issue, avoiding making direct, falsifiable claims they can be held to. There’s a reason many podcasters don’t write articles about the topics they discuss. Writing forces them to make coherent arguments without fluff. It forces them to connect every link between premise and conclusion. It forces them to cite sources accurately instead of speaking vaguely off the cuff. It’s also easier to be misled by smooth-talking podcasters. People like listening to podcasts because spoken language is the more natural way humans have received information throughout our evolutionary history. But that doesn’t mean it’s the best way to communicate with precision. It’s not. Podcasters also form relationships with their audiences. They speak to them like friends, even like family. None of this is necessarily a bad thing, but it can lead people to lower their standards for accepting the claims they make. A statement communicated verbally by a skilled orator can sound convincing, when the same statement written down plainly would seem absurd. This is why people who both write well and speak eloquently—think Douglass Murray and Christopher Hitchens—are so influential. Podcasting also puts a moat around claims due to the effort required to extract the relevant information. Fewer people are willing to wade through long episodes, constantly hitting ⏩ to find the segment in question, and then transcribe the audio into text. Podcasters can also more easily claim they were taken out of context, whether due to clipping or failing to have watched the previous week’s 3-hour episode that supposedly laid all the groundwork. It’s more difficult to claim this when your arguments are stated clearly and succinctly in writing. Podcasts are great. But anyone presenting themselves as a public intellectual and making serious, high-stakes claims about the world needs to do more than talk. They need to write.

@ryangerritsen More entertaining than anything else from the Junos though.

Instead of deaf people just watching the actual artists perform, CBC puts a sign language interpreter on to perform air guitar & drum solos for them to watch along side of it. Whats going on in Canada? It’s a 24/7 nut house

@TheophanesRex @MsMelChen Except for the part where they wake up.

@MsMelChen Replaced New Zealand with Canada and your post applies equally.

It's fitting that 🇳🇿New Zealand's national bird is the kiwi: Because like the kiwi bird which was isolated with no predators, it lost the ability to fly and became easy prey when threats arrived. New Zealand imbibed the luxury belief that geography equals security, that "international order" is a given, and that someone else (the US or Australia) would always come to the rescue. Then when Chinese naval task forces started conducting live-fire drills near its waters and aggressively militarizing islands nearby, it finally woke up. Today New Zealand's army is small, while their navy barely has any fighting vessels left; their air force has NO fighter force whatsoever. This situation was really supercharged under the former PM Jacinda Ardern. Not only did New Zealand cuck itself by with pacifist posturing, it also indulged in her favorite ideological program, implanting DEI in every domain, and adopting the "Maori ways of knowing" in science curricula (lmao). Then Adern abandoned the country, took her family, and went to Australia (LMAO). Now, New Zealand has to build its armed forces practically from scratch. New Zealand is learning, late, that in a contested world, hard power still matters and predators don't respect flightless birds. This is the consequence of electing people drunk on idealism. Now, the NZ government is pledging billions to recruit personnel, buy helicopters, drones, anti-tank missiles, and boost spending toward 2% of GDP. It's a necessary correction, but rebuilding combat capability from near-scratch will take decades

@TPostMillennial Someone put on her lipstick in the car…

Thoughts on the new Nashville Predators Pride logo?

Beijing's "Two-State" Strategy Targets Indigenous Land Claims and Resources to Undermine Canada's National Sovereignty, and Mark Carney's PRC Pivot Makes It More Dangerous thebureau.news/p/beijings-two…

@Byron_Wan I love Robert fails

This 🇨🇳 Unitree robot just slapped a kid in the face…

You can stop the continuity wherever you choose. Amazing Spider-Man was cancelled after issue #38 around my house.

@LaLigaEN Alavés, apparently.

Who can stop Celta? 🤔 #CeltaAlavés 3-0