For sure, I’ve heard that argument, but I wonder - if I had wealth that I wanted to protect, and I thought a strong Conservative party was a means to that end, I’d want Poilievre gone yesterday. Still remains a mystery to me what CPC supporters see in him, in light of all the evidence in front of them.

I’m trying to understand the point you’re making.

LPC is advancing hard on all those files. Curious to know what you make of that.

when one is not evil (which rightwing politicians are almost by definition).

In the Canadian context, could you explain who you are talking about, and why you think they are evil?

I think the country runs best when there is a competent opposition. Having a dysfunctional official opposition is a bad thing for democracy, and not something anyone should wish for. Even if we disagree with the stance of the opposition, we should want them to be at minimum, logical, representative of the principles of the people who cast votes for them, and an effective check on the government.

And anyway, in Canada, federally, we do not have a single electable pro-trump politician. So, if there’s something to be thankful for, maybe it’s that.

Politically, Poilievre is an enigma. Somehow, in spite of everything, all the blunders, cringeworthy gaffes, miscalculations, party defectors, he was literally chased out of Ottawa. And yet, he’s managed to stay on top of his party rank. How on earth did he overwhelmingly pass leadership review? It’s a mystery to me.

What catastrophe would it take to actually chasten this man, and his party? I shudder to think.

“He got me,” Schmidt said of the snake’s bite. “That f***ing Dispholidus boomed me.”

Schmidt added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.

Schmidt then said he wanted to add the snake to the list of reptiles he wants to observe this summer.

“If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.”

Wonder if Motorola feels the same way.

Could be. I think that would be unfortunate. AB’s provincial government has gone rogue, and there is a very vocal minority of crazy people. The majority of Albertans are rational, reasonable people and the province has a lot to offer Canada.

CC BY-SA is this, in spirit.

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See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

There are other flavours of Creative Commons licenses that might suit you better. Anyway, worth looking into.

Another example of the fact that 20-30% of people are totally irrational, and this demographic is well distributed and not region specific.

Another good reason, maybe even the best reason to pass on Marty Supreme, is because it sucks.

Excuse me, for the record it’s pretty warm in Calgary right now!

So in a sense, shouldn’t artists be suing Spotify and 3 main major record labels for 13 trillion dollars?

This might be of interest to you!

“German scents exhibition combines 1,000 years of fragrances with art and history” - Associated Press

My most used resource in the kitchen is a culinary school textbook. Plenty of recipes in there if I feel like challenging myself, also good if I forget how to do something simple like how long to poach an egg for or how to make bernaise sauce. Probably can get one used for hella cheap, it doesn’t really need to be the latest edition anyway.

Internet-wise, check out the Marginalia search engine.

It’s good if you already know what you want to cook, and are just looking for a recipe. Marginalia is focused on indexing old blogs and stuff written by humans, and has tools that allow you to filter out blogspam and recipes that exist only to push affiliate links.

I prefer to avoid popular cooks and cooking websites because they structure their recipes around engagement and polished images & video work, and it’s aggravating. 90% of the time all I’m looking for is 15 lines of information. I don’t want to click that bell, I don’t want 4K slow-mo shots of someone cracking eggs to chill lo-fi beats, I want a recipe.

EU cares very little for the individual’s rights

Compared to who?

This is so idiotic. At the outset, the notion of writing a whisky act stood a better chance of fucking things up rather than making Alberta whisky less confusing to the market. Saying “we care about Alberta Whisky” then not even putting in the effort to actually write the legislation? Clown shit.

The UCP seem incapable of thinking anything through to its logical conclusion. This type of shortsighted bullshit hangs over absolutely everything they say and do.

This is interesting. Do you have any thoughts on why someone would want to utilize the epstein data for ML? Like, what’s the point, in your opinion? Just lulz? Or, something else?

Ayy, fellow Return of the Obra Dinn lover. Such a good game. Peerless in terms of vibe.