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3 days agohmmm…I wonder what percentage of the Canadian Population is Albertan and Saskatchewanian…
I live in a province of traitors.
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I hate Doug Ford at the best of times, but I have to admit, he’s kind of effective in terms of being a loud-mouthed asshole to clap back at their loud-mouthed asshole.
5·4 days agoOh god yes…
50% never leave the small town they grew up in. Spend their evenings spending the majority of their paycheque on booze and playing the VLTs in the local bar (which is on the bottom floor of the town’s ONLY hotel, BTW) while their wife takes care of the kids and wonder where her life would be if she hadn’t gotten knocked up immediately after highschool.
But their shit life is ALL the Liberals (Canada) / Democrats (US) fault, apparently.
2·4 days agoBecause they are clueless.
In their tiny, pathetic, syphilitic minds, every country must have the same problems as the U.S. It’s inconceivable to these morons that Greenland wouldn’t actually have a large percentage of homeless people, because the U.S. does.
The conversation probably quite literally went like this between two morons sitting in Mar a Lago:
“Hey, let’s just get some homeless people to show up.”
"Do they have homeless people in Greenland.
“Of Course they do! Look around. They’re everywhere…” (Completely ignoring the fact that they’re not actually in Greenland.
If Texas is anything like Alberta/Saskatchewan up here (it is)… I’ll take a stab at it.
75% of those people who you went to school with who were learning all of this right along with you, went home to parents who derided, blathered, and sometimes flat out beat those “librul” ideas out of them in the name of being a “god fearin’ christian family”.
Nothing they learned lasted past highschool when they married their highschool sweetheart, got a job at the mine and voted exactly the same way their parents and grandparents had for decades…
While I desperately want to believe that we have finally reached a tipping point where it becomes time to start investing in companies that make diagonal shaped blades, I’m resigned to the fact that no matter how angry we get, most of the hoi polloi is too lazy to care about it as long as they have the newest fun gadget in their hands and a bigger TV than last year.
“Yeah that doesn’t surprise me.” – Anyone whose ever seen an Italian Giallo film.
Carbon Capture is a fraud. It’s always been a fraud.
Our Conservative Sask Party government blathered on about it for years as an alternative to “Trudeau’s evil Carbon Tax”. And it went about as well as you’d expect.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/carbon-capture-projects-not-meeting-targets-1.6241420
TIL “Adviser” isn’t actually a misspelling of “Advisor” but an actual legitimate alternative spelling.
I was all ready to come in here and rake Reuters for such a basic error, but figured (as I usually do) that I should check my facts before making an ass of myself. Good thing I did…
That’s a very fair point. But it’s still annoying.
Not when every app decides to use a different point version of the same damn platform.
"Hello Mr. Application. I see you’d like to use the Freedesktop-SDK 23.08.27
“Oh…well hello other application. What’s this? You want to use Freedesktop-SDK 24.08.10? Well…I guess so…”
Edited to add: Yes, I know that flatpaks will upgrade to use updated platforms. But it doesn’t automatically remove the old one, forcing you to have to run flatpak remove --unused every week just to keep your drive clean. That’s hardly user friendly for the average person.
Vance is the Eric to Elon’s Don Jr.
I don’t mind flatpaks in a pinch, but having to use them for literally every app on my computer is an unreasonable amount of bloat.
9·8 days agoMy impression as an atheist is that there is no special sauce that makes human intelligence impossible to achieve. It will happen eventually.
Our brains are computers made of meat. Nothing more. Our thoughts, our dreams, our consciousness itself is quite literally just chemicals, hormones and synapses instead of circuits, binary code and wiring. There is no soul that would prevent true life from arising once the computing becomes powerful enough for it.
What pisses me off the most about Conservative politics is two-fold:
Their use of simplified three-word demagoguery specifically with the goal of making their base hoot and holler at some perceived enemy, but not actually have any policy to back up what is in truth a very complicated issue. (ie. axe the tax)
And second, their constant banging on about “Corporate handouts” to businesses that they blame the liberals for doing, when everyone (except their cultists) know that they do it ten times more. And yet media never calls them out on it.
Sorry. I know this is all well trodden territory by now. But every time I see that smug puncheable face, he repeats the bullshit behind that idiotic sign.
Trump’s entire business sense amounts to “slap my name on everything so I look rich and powerful”.
Dollars to Donuts says that his first thought was to call it “The Gulf of Trump” and some quick thinking aide changed the post before it could be released.
I’ve always believed deeply that the European Union was a model for how we, as a species, have to evolve in order to reach that next step. Not in a Star Trek ideal of “one planet”, but at least in a “cooperation” that allows us to stop fighting each other.
Hell…I’m even a believer IN a North American version of the same thing. Just not in the way that Trump is wanting it and NOT with Trump anywhere near the decision making process. A North American federation on good terms with the EU federation would be great as long as adults were in charge and sovereignty was respected rather an a man-child shouting out bullshit all the time.
I think he already has. The U.S. is still militarily influential of course, but no one…NO ONE…takes their political leaders as anything more than unhinged toddlers anymore.
conventionally, the US is the world hegemon as far as naval and air power goes, they are unbeatable.
I see what you’re saying. But that Hegemony is based entirely on military bases spread on foreign soil in countries who would immediately upon the start of hostilities annex them. No one “individual” American military base could possibly win a battle surrounded by a suddenly hostile foreign country that they now find themselves an enclave in. Just like that…within days, American’s global reach would vanish (with the exception of naval power of course)
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one. It’s a great discussion to have, though I’d never like to see it proven one way or another.
It occurs to them fine. They don’t care. American attitude is “fuck you, I’ve got mine.”