Rob Bos

Oh gods… the man really is an idiot. :( At least Harper was shrewd.

He may be too dumb to be effective politically, I hope.

I wish they’d put the number of standard drinks on the can. Having to calculate it for a 500ml 6% drink or a 150ml 8% or whatever gets tedious.

I put it in the “teddy bear” category. If we see people with a teddy bear at the carnival, we’ll try the games

Spam us with getrich quick schemes and we fall in line…

Wow!

They could add a bid price, so that you automatically buy at a certain price level. Sure, you could bid 0.10, but they’d probably never actually take it. And that way, they could know how much money is laying on the table. If there’s a thousand bids for $50, that gives them a pricing signal.

I heard Royal Canadian Air Farce guy imitating Preston Manning there. Refooooooorrrm.

“The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

We tax land as a percentage of its value. Why not stocks?

In BC it depends on your status. Asylum seekers can apply after a waiting period. Tourists should get a private insurance plan, or you’ll have to pay for it at whatever the BC Medical rates are, which should be pretty reasonable compared to US rates. Permanent Residents would probably already be covered.

I would say no* but the asterisk has a few paragraphs involving funding sustainability, cryptobro involvement, and dubious decentralization.

Amen. I’ve been making a good buck selling calls on TSLA this last week.

My synology box is 8 years old now and still getting patches. I would actually buy it again. Good work.

They wouldn’t need to. Soft power would be sufficient to get them nearly everything they want, without risking boots on the ground.

The main risk to us, from a military perspective, is if the USA collapses federally and the states end up fighting amongst each other. The Midwest states will collapse into chaos and feudal fiefdoms, lacking access to trade opportunities (IMO) so border raids there will be the big risk. Actual military occupation might be a concern if the dice rolls the wrong way in the East - Toronto and Quebec are very vulnerable, and sitting on huge reserves of fresh water plus the St. Laurence seaway.

It would be a hell of a thing if Canada ended up with alliances with the southern slaveholding states.

Im assuming you’ve looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

Yeah, that’s about what the Broadway tunnel is going to cost for the Skytrain extension in Vancouver.

Edit: Though of course an urban tunnel cut down an extremely busy street is worst-case scenario. That money would probably buy you a lot more rail elsewhere.

The Broadway corridor has possibly the busiest transit line in North America and the per-passenger cost will be quite low, when it’s finished.

Then SpaceX is forced to adhere to political considerations and budget priorities. NASA oversight and intensely risk averse culture would not have allowed spacex to build a rocket factory, or risk throwing away prototypes for rapid iteration.

I feel like the Americans might frown on Canadians attempting to vote in their elections or assassinating their political leaders.

Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.

It’s a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.

This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.

Austria, you listening? Time to get the team back together, I think.