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@iandcosmos @RemnantMd Please, what does it mean, to you.

@RemnantMd Someone needs to check again what causality means.

If elevated cholesterol (LDL/ApoB/LpA) is the cause of atherosclerosis, how come we don't see these plaques in veins? It's the same blood circulating throughout the system. Veins also have endothelium, and a sub-endothelial layer. The smoke is not the fire.

@TristinHopper It’s not like the Canucks have ever won a cup…

I'd like to reup my thesis that Canada and the Toronto Maple Leafs suck for the exact same reason, and largely thanks to the same people.

@newstart_2024 Consider the lesson of the gospel of John: the first word was the name of god. That’s actually a radical anthropological insight. Human language and the sacred share a common origin and we are centred as lingustic beings… that insight is both fully secular and sacred!

Andrew Huberman said something that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. He’s spent decades studying neuroscience, yet he openly admits that one of the most powerful tools for breaking destructive habits and surviving unimaginable suffering isn’t found inside the brain alone. It’s the act of surrendering some of that constant top-down control to a higher power. Whether it’s God, Christ, or a more general “higher power” (as in AA), people who hand over the impossible burden of perfect self-control often succeed where pure willpower fails. The science shows it works for addiction recovery, grief after horrific loss, and staying sober in environments designed to pull you back in. Huberman’s not saying science has all the answers. He’s saying this phenomenon — giving control to something outside yourself — is so effective across cultures and history that we can’t honestly talk about human evolution or behavior without it. It’s one of the most intellectually honest takes I’ve heard from a hardcore neuroscientist. What do you think is actually happening when surrendering control to something bigger makes the hardest things suddenly more doable?

@kareemformayor You reduce crime by overturning the many bureaucratic powers that are happy to endlessly mediate it. With modern surveillance and biometric tech you could almost eliminate crime and don’t even have to imprison (…) But they (judges, privacy commisioner, etc.) won’t let you…

Investing in parks, libraries, and community spaces is how we reduce crime. That’s why we’re committing 400 new frontline workers and a historic $1.35B investment in parks, recreation, and pools.

@bouvard38829538 They're not that dumb. They'll ask for California.

If we really took out a bunch of major Iranian military leaders we must be in real trouble now. Time to ask the Iranians to dictate their terms for our surrender before they demand the East Coast.

@jaycurrie Truth and reconciliation means Canada does owe a debt to First Nations, or at least to individuals. But it must also mean a debt is owed to Canada and needs to be articulated. This is basic anthropology; one might study the potlatch and take gift exchange seriously....

Leaked transcript from Eby's DRIPA meeting is a mess. First Nations leaders calling it "absolute betrayal," "colonialism," and "Indian giving." Eby wants a 3-year pause on key sections because a court ruling turned UNDRIP into "eat the whole elephant" legal chaos—especially around mining rules. Non-negotiable, he says. 1/ globalnews.ca/news/11758323/…

@SamoBurja @curtis_yarvin Just possibly, some elites know any uprising has to be fueled by outside power, but their attempts at fueling have so far not born fruit.

An important reason the West needs a more honest account of power is so that our elites are less delusional. For example the myth that the people can rise up against the government is directly responsible for U.S. elites honestly expecting authoritarian regimes to fall if we bomb their civilians.

@bouvard38829538 A quick google (somewhat surprisingly) only turns up sources with few details. Apparently he was friends with Trump’s dad first. That would explain the son’s sense of betrayal when Bibi congratulated Biden in 2020.

@truepeers One would have to trace the history between them, which I think goes back a long way.

That Trump genuinely likes Jews, Israel and Netanyahu is an "anomaly" that the groyper and groyper-adjacent communities will never process and this generates all kinds of convoluted analyses and florid fantasies, not necessarily distinguishable from each other.

@bouvard38829538 I suppose one might ask, does the liking grow from an identification with scapegoats or from an initial nothing much…

@truepeers Maybe, but from everything I can see, Trump does.

@itsqail Back in the 70s when DS was just starting out in Canadian tv, i got in a schoolyard fight. The Vice-Principal was doing the usual VP routine until he learned my opponent’s name was Suzuki. “Are you the son of…” and the VPs demeanor changed completely, like we were high society.

They used to talk about David Suzuki like he was Jesus in elementary school

@TheRealKeean Maybe Albertan hopes have nothing to do with geopolitical realities and imperatives.

Americans are going to be sorely disappointed when they realize Albertans are not hoping to untether themselves from Ottawa just to handcuff ourselves to Washington.

@JDHaltigan Not exactly chaos since they attempt to rebuild order through various cults of human sacrifice.

Systemization is male-coded, not female-coded. Empathisation is female-coded. This is why the Great Feminization of all of our sense-making institutions has been catastrophic for civic functioning. Order is subverted by "caring." You end up with civic chaos & derangement.

@JimMcMurtry01 No doubt following Ghandi and making homespun, or better yet, not appropriating that industry and ordering direct from Bangladesh!

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@mattwridley @GuruAnaerobic Can someone explain why all the different deciduous species come into leaf in close temporal proximity. OC it’s all shortly after the equinox, but is anyone frontrunning its neighbors, or do they all “see” that would be a zero sum game?

This is wishful thinking. Trees compete for sunlight and shade each other to death if they can. If they were really trying only to cooperate and not compete they would not do that. There's symbiosis and commensalism yes, but also competition.

"Jewish anti-Zionist roots" is deeply misleading. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Jews opposed the *creation* of a Jewish state for various understandable reasons. Today, anti-Zionism means the *destruction* of a Jewish state, and it's a fringe belief among Jews.

@jaycurrie If US weren’t also weakened by liberal-democratic failure, it would have dealt with Canada by now. But separatism will push the imperial imperative to the fore. If we still believe Canada should have a chance to get its house in order, what makes US intervention more/less likely?

I don't live in Alberta. I live in BC but I support Alberta Independence simply because it may well be the last hope for Canada as a whole to get back on track. Fiscally, culturally, politically Canada has entirely lost the plot. 2/

Alberta Independence advocates have easily met the signature threshold on their petition for a referendum. In the middle of an Alberta winter, with almost no media coverage and, in the process, identified the activists Independence needs. 1/

@JohnRustad4BC @oceancape now, “rights”…refer to claims on others with no basis in tradition or established social obligations; indeed, that is their justification, that those traditions and obligations have constituted unjust exercises of power, marginalization and exclusion… anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2302/2302kat…

As someone who actually chaired the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Mr. Thomas has seen firsthand how these so-called "human rights" tribunals have morphed from a simple, quick way to deal with real discrimination into something far more dangerous: ideological enforcement bodies that punish ordinary Canadians for wrongthink. The recent $750,000 judgment against Barry Neufeld is a perfect example of how out of control these kangaroo courts have become. An elected school trustee dared to publicly criticize the SOGI 123 curriculum and the push of gender ideology in our schools. For that, the BC Human Rights Tribunal decided he "poisoned" the workplace for teachers he never even worked with and ordered him to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for "injury to dignity." Lets just call this what it is; this is state-sponsored intimidation. These tribunals were never meant to police political opinions, parental concerns about what their kids are being taught, or debates over basic biology. They were supposed to handle straightforward cases of discrimination in jobs or housing, quickly, fairly, and without turning every disagreement into a financial catastrophe. Instead, we've watched them become slow, expensive, one-sided processes where the deck is stacked against the respondent. No-costs awards mean even if you win, you lose thousands in legal fees. Frivolous complaints get used as leverage to force settlements. And "hate speech" or "discriminatory environment" claims are stretched so far that simply questioning the latest progressive orthodoxy on gender can ruin a person's life. David Thomas warned this would happen years ago. He was right then, and he's right now. When tribunals stop reflecting broad Canadian values and start acting like activists with gavels, they lose all legitimacy. That's why, when Independent MLA Tara Armstrong introduced the Human Rights Code Repeal Act, I and many of my colleagues supported giving it first reading. The tribunal system has strayed too far. It's time for serious reform or outright dismantling of these kangaroo courts . Real human rights deserve real due process: full rules of evidence, proper courts like the BC Supreme Court, and protections for free speech that actually mean something. Political debate, especially about what we teach our children, should never be treated as a human rights violation. British Columbians are fed up with this nonsense. Parents should be able to speak out about their kids' education without fearing financial ruin. Businesses shouldn't be fined tens of thousands over pronoun disputes. And elected officials shouldn't be dragged before unelected adjudicators for expressing views shared by thousands of their constituents. Enough is enough. We need to scrap the activist excesses, restore fairness, and protect the fundamental freedoms that make this province worth living in. The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater long ago. It's time to drain the tub. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

@slooperbia50068 @centerstudy_ If you don’t believe that scenes are epiphenomenal, reducible to some base of material factors first dependent on revolutionary events, then origins are common misreadings or iterations of previous ones.

@slooperbia50068 @centerstudy_ I think we can talk of more than one origin, in a chain of scenes. Not sure what would be unstrict about that.

everything is nothing but the unfolding of its event of origin