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Watch closely, this isn’t happening by accident. Doug Ford is following the same playbook we’re seeing elsewhere. Step by step, it mirrors what Danielle Smith is doing in Alberta and what the U.S. system has normalized for years. This is how it starts:
Underfund public healthcare → create frustration → introduce “alternatives” → normalize private, for-profit care → bring in insurance-driven models. And let’s be clear the capitalist private insurance companies have been eyeing Canada for decades. There’s been pressure going back to the Harper era to open that door. Because once it opens, it doesn’t close. Universal healthcare isn’t just a system it’s a safeguard. And if people don’t pay attention now, we risk waking up to something very different. This isn’t fear-mongering. It’s a pattern. And patterns matter.

yes AND many ppl that get called out in good faith love to act like people are demanding they grovel and flog themselves and commit seppuku, when a simple "yeah that was uncool my fault guys" would have sufficed

“People have asked me why I don’t just drop the price again, but I refuse to give my home away cheaply just because of the ridiculous economic climate we’re in.” Remember that struggling young people should just pick up more work, and lose the avocado toast, but older people shouldn’t be forced to lose a lick of profit in a housing market that has been horrendously inflated to the detriment of everyone who actually makes this country work.

Mandatory

Turns out there was no “order” and no fear of “offending” anyone. It was simply a guidance that said “hey if you are treating a foreigner don’t assume they’d understand idioms even if they are fluent”. But I expect John Cleese to make this about Muslims in 3, 2, 1…

This is what robots are supposed to be doing not making art and writing scripts

Feminists actually respect men more than pick me tradwives' do. Tradwives reduce you to a paycheck and a bodyguard. They want a tool, not a partner. Feminists demand more from you because they know you're capable of more. They want emotional intelligence, shared responsibilities, and an authentic human being, not a 'provider' robot. Stop confusing 'submissiveness' with respect. Feminism is actually the one wanting to share the weight of the world with you. Let that sink in.

@coughdropsh Octavarium by Dream Theater Sun of Nothing by Between The Buried and Me Ghost of Perdition by Opeth Age of Shadows/We Are Forever by Ayreon

Everyone drop their favorite 10+ minute songs im sick of the 3 minute long brainrot music i need an adventure

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-inte…

i could look up the word “the” using gmail’s search function and it would gleefully tell me i have never sent or received an email containing that word in my entire life

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

Cogwork Core OST is amazing, actually took my breath away the first time I heard it

The fact that this idea is so culturally sticky is so bizarre to me. You can just not be a Christian and also acknowledge Jesus was a real person. I don't know why it's emotionally important to people to be like "no, and I need a stupid reason to not be Christian."

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

@JC0l3_ All modesty standards are socially constructed.

please make me understand how a nipple is a núďë and the entire b0ob is not?

Millennials having creative control is so funny because we are ridiculous 😭😭

WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!? 😂

Cannot stress this enough—he was a fucking podcaster

Evangelicals do not have beliefs. Evangelicals do not have beliefs. Evangelicals do not have beliefs. I don't know how many more examples we need. It's not even hypocrisy, this is just what the religion is in the US. Belief-free. There is exactly 1 doctrine in American