Fuck Ford, fuck her racist bullshit, and fuck her charter school where Derek Fildebrandt’s kid(s?) attend.

As soon as this was announced, gas in Calgary jumped up 12 cents.

Fuck that teacher. She needs to get out of education and work for Jason Kenney’s brother or somewhere else her shitty opinion will be applauded.

All of them baked.

Silk Road Spice Merchant, out of Calgary.

Not only do they carry top-tier spices, but they likely have multiple types of black pepper for you to play with. And they’re good people.

Cannot speak highly enough about them.

Always has been.

SNL appeals to a certain demographic. As the cast and style chang, you age out. The result is that you look at ‘your’ cast as awesome, and everything after as cringe. Then, after two generations of TV, you find that it’s funny again. Maybe not as good as it once was, but pretty decent.

People 7-10 years younger are going to experience EXACTLY the same thing - shifted by 7-10 years.

And the exact same thing will happen with music.

Good.

Generally, because that’s not how cartoons are voiced.

However, table reads at comic conventions are a popular thing.

That is sonething I would occasionally see in SoCal. Here, esoecially in pleasant spring weather, it seems impossibly out of place.

In the early '80s, BBSes were a source of piracy. Also, local user groups would share or rent tapes/disks of software ‘only to be used that month,’ with a wink and a nod.

In the mid-'80s, I was downloading…images from FTP sites around the world, and also assembling multi-part uuencoded files from Usenet.

This was all before the web, and It wasn’t new then.

Not by a long shot.

The fact that only two parties swap leadership back and forth is true, but we frequently have minority governments in Canada; and thst means third parties can act as the deciding factor, and bring pressure on the sitting government.

The reason that the Liberals and the CPC hate the idea of PR is that it would just about end the prospect of majority governments.

I’m convinced that Poilievre is there to be so terrible that the opposition rallies around a single leader/party (Carney ATM), and squeezes out the alternative (NDP).

In other words, his job isn’t to win, it’s to turn Canada into a two-party system.

Most of 'em. Here are some highlights.

• vi/vim. The one true text editor
• thunderbird. Standard email client
• musicbee. Absolutely the BEST audio player/organizer anywhere. Sadly, not available on Linux
• potplayer. Just a simple, high quality video player
• LibreOffice. Used to be almost as good as MS. Now it is far better.
• FIrefox, sort of. I’ve lately switched to Waterfox, which is from the same code base as ff.

Holy shit, what BS hubris.

I will never celebrate the death of another human. Not even Trump.

I will be glad that the world just got better, and curious about whether the US fascists can find another mouthpiece so successful as he.

But his death isn’t likely to change much in a party he rebuilt to venerate him.

May he lose again.

Irresponsible shithead man-child.

Quit making new accounts. I’m tired of blocking you over and over.

You are actively making the fediverse worse.

It’s weird, but not NEARLY as weird as your obsession with age-gap relationships.

How many accounts are you going to get banned on this question?

You’re clearly looking for validation, not explanation. Off you go.

Yeah, it is.

All people face risk in one way or another. Some willingly take on risk to help others or for some different reasons.

First off, being a cop isn’y nearly as high risk as (say) logging. Do you shrug and say “oh well, they knew what they were getting into” when a logger dies? Or a nurse?

Some will point out that ACAB, but even if that’s true, being a bastard isn’t a comprehensive deacription of a person. Humans, even shitty and broken ones, are complex creatures.

Personally, the only people whose deaths I don’t mourn (or at least have empathy for) are those rare monsters who are so sadistic and evil that they barely qualify as human.

Empathy for others, without conditions, is one of our most defining and best traits as humans. It’s worth cultivating.