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@anotherglassbox @gregbradyx Frankly, being the subject of a hit piece in the Mail only increases her appeal.

@gregbradyx greg do you think the (largely progressive) normie population of toronto is spending much time concerned about what’s in a conservative british tabloid or is that just something someone terminally online would care about?

Always good when the Mayor of the biggest city in Canada is a laugh-out-loud punchline in a massive paper. She said more about ICE in an 18 second video than the fact her police force is embroiled in the largest corruption scandal any North American police department has faced in over a decade.

@R_S_Fowler @g_meslin @liberal_party @stevenmackinnon @lesliechurch @juliedabrusin They do! Sadly a subway tunnel would require going quite a bit deeper (see the current Ontario line)

@CroakerBC @g_meslin @liberal_party @stevenmackinnon @lesliechurch @juliedabrusin They already have a large walkway tunnel to that terminal that goes under the lake.

This, from the Province’s press release, represents a QUINTUPLING of passenger volume. To an airport accessed off a cul-de-sac at the foot of Bathurst. Adjacent are parks, a school, a community centre, the Martin Goodman Trail, surrounded by tens of thousands of residents.

@R_S_Fowler @g_meslin @liberal_party @stevenmackinnon @lesliechurch @juliedabrusin I feel like if you try and dig a subway under the lake, you're going to have a bad time.

@g_meslin @liberal_party @stevenmackinnon @lesliechurch @juliedabrusin Ideally there would be a subway station under the terminal. I really fear that the entire area of lower downtown will reek of jet fuel in the future.

@JRBalvinn @zanderyow I'm not sure where you're going here, because Union Station and BB are an eight minute drive apart, so nobody's saving much time on that one?

@zanderyow Pearson is jam packed. No one looks forward to the lines there. Not everyone wants to take transit either to the airport. After a long flight many just want to take a uber home and not everyone lives next to union station

@MatildaLyonne @Captain_Quark @tradered86 @patapackala @maxtmcc Since when? I mean, I'm asking. I seem to remember they do actually magically conjure gold, and I doubt there's much restriction on conjuring regular human money.

@CroakerBC @Captain_Quark @tradered86 @patapackala @maxtmcc Nope. Alongside food, money is one of the other arbitrary things that you cannot generate magically

The Harry Potter economy seems to have basically no private sector? Everyone either works for the Ministry or something probably funded by the Ministry (healthcare) or is some kind of small business owner. Education is almost nonexistent. There’s some entertainment jobs ig

@Captain_Quark @tradered86 @patapackala @maxtmcc Quite possibly generating them out of thin air with something like a duplicator.

@tradered86 @patapackala @maxtmcc Probably, but citizens aren't directly interfacing with Muggle food - they're unfamiliar with Muggle money. Now the economist in me is thinking about trade and currency exchange - if, say, wholesalers are spending Muggle money on food, where do they get those pounds?

@DataJuggler007 @facetedcarapace Well sure, but do you have three people on hand to eat the burgers?

@facetedcarapace I can make 3 burgers for the price of one in a restaurant. A place near me is $19.50. With tip it's like $23 or $24 to eat a burger

by adulthood every American should be able to make a cheeseburger at or surpassing restaurant quality at home

@dasanil I'd love to learn what they cut to fit this in the schedule, though.

Good idea, in principle.

@SleeplessSW @Newpers77150010 @MuseZack Caladan was ceded to Fenring (iirc) when the Atreides moved to Arrakis - nobody there had any claim. And in any case, Paul knew a universe-shattering Fremen war of annihilation was going to happen either way.

@CroakerBC @Newpers77150010 @MuseZack Wasn't there an entire planet though that was the Atreides homeworld? Even if his house was dead, was there nobody else on Caladan that would have had a legitimate claim?

A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.

@Newpers77150010 @MuseZack @SleeplessSW Paul didn't give a shit, because if he lost, his house was dead, and if he won, nobody was going to be able to give him trouble over it.

@MuseZack @SleeplessSW Paul’s use of them skirted right on the edge of acceptable. Their use is meant to be restricted to thinking machines. Not other humans. The fact he doesn’t directly use them on humans and only uses them on a wall in order to attack humans.

@eogfelton @its_hipolita Arguably (and it's been a while) you need enough water to start poisoning the sandtrout , which will give you more access to their captured water, rinse, repeat. Arrakis has a massive water reserve, but not an accessible one.

@CroakerBC @its_hipolita But my point is polar caps and sand trout are all part of the existing planetary system. You need extraplanetary water to tip the balance on Arrakis.

I think something that's not getting discussed about Dune is how heartbreaking Arrakis is. The Fremen stockpile water for the terraforming project but they will never be allowed to complete it: water kills the sandworm, which makes the spice which makes space travel possible.

@eogfelton @its_hipolita There's also the polar caps, and a lot of the water is captured by sand trout - presumably storing it as the Fremen do makes the caps shrink a bit and the trout less happy.

@its_hipolita Stockpiling water was a nice indicator of the Fremen’s patience and long term view but it didn’t work for me in sci-fi terms. How are you gonna add more water to a closed system? You’re just reducing the amount of free water elsewhere, right?

@amp6700 @donnelly_b It is, in fact, clean, safe and beautiful. Even when it's chucking it down with rain.

@donnelly_b Well I’ve lived here all my life for 55+ years and I remember it as the best city clean safe and beautiful. Tell me it’s that now…between the open drug use, massive crime spree, massive population growth, woke ideology policies, constant radical propaganda parades, homelessness

Truthfully, I didn't think so many people would be this offended by my unwavering hometown love.

@retronymph @RobertSecundus I agree! But people will, with the existence of prequels, wonder where to start on the reading order, so "where do I start" is a perfectly fine question, to which the answer is probably still "Start with Dune."

@CroakerBC @RobertSecundus you should not do that

why would anyone wonder where to start? Book 1?? obviously??? DUNE. Dune, the first novel in the Dune series, is where you start Dune. The question people actually have is where you should STOP.

@mauddweeb Where do we sit on "Honored Matres"?

the worst thing that ever happened to dune was becoming something the normies know about most people should not know the words lisan al gaib or kwisatz haderach

@JonCrowellOrg @mattyglesias I knew a couple of farmers, long ago; they routinely worked 18 hour days, and made very close to nothing after breaking even, and were perpetually exhausted. I don't know when you'd have time or energy to do remote SWE work. Maybe as a hobby/toy.

@mattyglesias I think subsistence farming with a remote software engineering income could be a good way to make it work.

@Bernhard_Econ @EricDLombardi Canadian grocery stores famous for not colluding on pricing, and for the diversity of market actors available.

@EricDLombardi My feeling is let the market decide. If consumers don’t like it they can take their business elsewhere.

Algorithmic pricing almost certainly goes against the consumer interest and the perception of fairness among many Canadians. However, is banning it the right thing to do? I’m not certain. Regulating it may be harder than people think, too. Curious what my followers think?

@jtimsuggs If you feel like something similar but modern, Alex Freed's Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is a love letter to that original series

After the most insane reading spree of my life, I have officially finally finished reading the original X-Wing series! There’s legitimately so many times where this series could’ve ended, yet even when it continued, it still was nothing short of exceptional. Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Alliston have easily become two of my favorite Star Wars writers ever. These final two books honestly work even better when you view them as an epilogue of sorts for that original run. I highly recommend giving this series a read and encourage anyone to believe the hype. Genuinely peak Star Wars, billions must read!

@Philippe_Kaido @quibvs Tleilaxu face dancer, schemer, and general shitbag.

@quibvs I think he got wiped out off my memory bc wth is he ??

“Scytale is a fan favourite from the books” this is news to me

@Freerborn1975 @danwaterfield Well you could, or you could sell the weed and buy more tomatoes than you could grow in that space.

@danwaterfield I find it funny that in a lot of ghettos where people complain they have no access to fresh vegetables ..they growing massive amounts of weed indoors...and have been for decades now. If you can grow weed you can grow tomatoes.

Have any of you ever actually attempted to grow a vegetable