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2026-08-15 21:28:00 UTC

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Could you please send this to my kids?

2026-08-15 02:26:09 UTC

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StatsCan says they are lying. Half of Canadians are paying above 40% for just housing.
It is clear they have a consistent success with obviously false numbers. It worries me so many Canadians cannot look at their own situation and see how it proves their study #misinformation / #disinformation / #propaganda.
If something is wildly inaccurate for you, it is probably inaccurate for everyone.

2026-08-09 17:53:42 UTC

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A gift link for the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/well/grandma-hobbies-crafts-knitting-quilting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4FA.tMsL.SEGSHt2LAxSu&smid=url-share

2026-07-22 00:06:39 UTC

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This one gives me 'sci-fi future city book cover' vibes.

2026-07-10 18:07:34 UTC

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BBC show Top of the Pops?
I am so confused… I cannot imagine time-based one time passwords being related in any way to a show…'

2026-05-18 14:42:47 UTC

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I am stuck in classes until end of June, and Joyeuse needs the mast plucked to replace masthead light. Still unscheduled.
Bon voyage!

2026-05-07 20:09:01 UTC

When I see people posting links to progressive articles, authors, who are posting on #Substack, I do not know what to do.
I am trying to mindfully not support publishers who platform hate, intolerance, which Substack does. So I am not going to like, or boost, a post which links there..
I want to tell writers like Dean Blundell they are being a tool - creating a feed used to identify progressive thinkers on a surveillance site.
And I want scream at the link poster for marketing such fools.

2026-03-30 21:42:27 UTC

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Yes. Both insurmountable by the available evidence.
One was already achieved.

2026-03-30 21:34:44 UTC

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That sounds a lot like the #FUD corporations and experts were saying when Wikipedia began. "You can't build a useful encyclopedia with a bunch of #netizens. It won't be accurate! It takes thousands of authors and editors! It takes decades! Bound to fail!"

2026-03-30 02:26:04 UTC

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Here's an interesting url from your article link: http://cbcnews.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/02/08/alta_oilbomb990208
Which, in 2007, redirected to
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/02/08/alta_oilbomb990208
Which, it turns out, was crawled by Archive Org: https://web.archive.org/web/20001218065100/http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/02/08/alta_oilbomb990208

2026-03-20 16:37:15 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/116262358371469034
* Quelle surprise.* #GinaRinehart pulls a lever that #billionaires forced many countries to include in #TradeAgreements: #ISDS.
Don't know why the Tyee thinks this is rare/unusual/'little known'. Investor-State Dispute Settlements are common. Imo they are added to agreements because #WTO courts are too fair. They allow rich people to sue every taxpayer in a country, and win because they are rich, not because they have merit.
Rinehart: https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/05/16/10/nga-1.jpg
ISDS news: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=investor-state+dispute+settlement+isds&iar=news&noai=1
#note1s3k…04ql

2026-02-23 04:09:15 UTC

TheConversation: The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars - https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870
#Australia #BikeTooter #bike #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #urbanist #AusPol #NZPol

2026-02-13 20:05:01 UTC

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I was referring to Canadian Research Insights Council #CRIC. Angus Reid is still not listed in their membership - https://www.canadianresearchinsightscouncil.ca/member-directory/ (which surprises me, as I thought I'd read there was some reform penalty thing they went through.)

2026-02-13 19:02:16 UTC

@npub1spc…3gwu
I am thinking back to the Spring 2025 elecction, and before that to the late fall to winter of 2024-2025. As I recall it, at that time the Canadian pollster trade group expelled Angus Reid for cause; basically determining outcomes before conducting the survey. And my recollection was the pollsters as a block got everything wrong, with one or two switching in the last weeks.
Reid, imo, is same class as Fraser Inst.
Inspired by your toot - https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/116064640484605722
#note16gp…lr9a

2026-02-08 17:26:47 UTC

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At the time I read it as a shot across the bows: recall the CPC - backed by every Canadian pollster - were set for an historic majority.
And this was what they were going to do to all the party leaders who had gained their security clearance.
It was a threat, not an excuse.

2026-02-07 03:19:38 UTC

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But the challenges from the D.C. and Federal appellate courts, which deal with thornier issues than courts 1-11, suggest they, alone, need the attention of 9 justices.
That would suggest 35 justices, as the upper end of the spectrum.
This was the gist of what I found a couple of years ago. I expect the number should be in the 20s, at least, but I think the courts of the nation should be making the decisions as to how many, and how best to organize it.
6/6

2026-02-07 03:16:47 UTC

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But how many? The starting number is usually 13 - Thomas Jefferson's connection to the courts of appeal. But as *certiorari* has doubled the load, which suggests 26 to some scholars.
Jonathon Turley thought *de minimis*, in 2012, was 19. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-lawmakers-prepare-for-supreme-court-health-care-ruling/2012/06/14/gJQAzsKldV_story.html) His study of the topic has resulted in higher and lower numbers since then.
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2026-02-07 03:16:11 UTC

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What is rarely appreciated is most cases reaching the Supreme Court are business cases. This is why caseload is more related to GDP than it is to population. The USA is currently the largest economy in the world by capitalization. Its court system is also the largest by volume.
It has the smallest ratio of justices.
Logically, it should have the same ratio, possibly a higher ratio as the complexity of its precedence is likely comparatively higher.
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2026-02-07 03:15:33 UTC

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More importantly was SCotUS gaining *certiorari*, to review administrative bodies as well as lower courts. It alone has doubled SCotUS cases as plaintiffs apply for such reviews.
Finally, Administrative law - legislation governing executive branch agencies - has grown over the past centuries. Remember, originally there were almost no such agencies.
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2026-02-07 03:14:44 UTC

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In 1807 Thomas Jefferson tied the number of justices to the number of Circuit Courts, then 7. The circuit court responsibilities are now largely in the US courts of appeal, of which there are 13, with two of them (D.C. and Federal) being notably larger.
With the change in 1911, the district courts also had expanded responsibilities and case loads.
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2026-02-07 03:13:30 UTC

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I will need to be at a certain library to recreate my previous research - which likely should be done anyway as it has been a couple years. I cannot use the legal resources remotely.
That said, there has been a fair bit of popular coverage, particularly during and after the 2020 election.
The basic question is 'how many justices should SCotUS have?' Here are a few thoughts.
1/6 (long!)

2026-02-06 18:51:48 UTC

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Language is wonderful! When you have a community speaking your language, you naturally share and develop your culture and worldviews together.
But humans are intelligent, which is also a euphemism for lazy. It is just easier to stay in your comfort zone, going to shops where everyone speaks your language, join political parties in your cultural group, etc.
Imagine NYC's burroughs, all as separate islands, with a sea of language between them. Switzerland. Europe.

2026-02-06 05:34:41 UTC

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The electoral college is an anachronism with no particular rôle today, other than as a risk to the electoral process.
The reason for #4 is the ratified treaties. The Constitution lists them as 'Law of the Land'.
Those ratified treaties include the Geneva Conventions and Protocols, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Charter of NATO, amongst others. Enforcing them would, for example, have seen M Netanyahu arrested and tried, rather than fêted.
3/3 finis

2026-02-06 05:33:28 UTC

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Mandatory voting is easily enforceable; the current system already records *if* you vote. The system in Australia works reasonably well; it is easy enough to be excused from voting, but because almost everyone *does* vote it is a community event, usually known as 'sausage day' because they are given away at polling stations.
SCOTUS 2000 decision over-ruled the Constitution, affirming Federal over State in elections.
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2026-02-06 05:33:03 UTC

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Just got back to kbd, and it's nearly my pumpkin hour, so pardon my brevity.
I will be looking for that citation tomorrow; there were a surprising number of studies about how many SCOTUS justices are needed.
Switzerland is less homogenous than NYC, w/4 official languages - German, French, Italian, and Romansch and 26 Cantons (think burroughs, only bigger and often geographically divided ) But it is smaller in population.
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2026-02-06 00:47:14 UTC

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32 came from a research study of national supreme courts in the world. The last time the number of justices was changed was in the 1800s - they **reduced** the number.
I agree the constitution should be challenging to change, but because of involvement. In the current system it is artificial hurdles, and they favour politicians. Perhaps instead it might be similar to Switzerland, where constitutional changes must be approved by national plebiscite.

2026-02-05 22:50:11 UTC

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Third, modernize all three branches.
1. SCoTUS should have ~32 justices to manage the caseload.
2. Constitutional Convention: it needs to be easier to update like more modern Constitutions, and untouchable by politicians.
3. Modernize elections - no electors, proportional representation, mandatory voting. States, not Fed, conduct elections.
4. Enforce the law of the land: ratified treaties, legislation, and the Constitution.
2/2 finis

2026-02-05 22:47:51 UTC

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First, it dates to the 1970s, when the Koch brothers wrote their manifesto and began working to implement it.
Second, if the citizens can hold it, the Republic has the tools to restore itself. I would organize locally, unionize/federate with others, and seek guidance from lawyers. Win the fall election. decapitate both parties (not their members,) and impeach members of SCoTUS who have violated their oath.
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2026-01-31 21:50:55 UTC

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But it has very specific meanings in Canadian law, and a different one in standard English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chattel

2026-01-31 20:12:13 UTC

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JFC... The #UCP has a member group which wants to re-institute #slavery in #Canada? #WTAF? omg… Do women in #AB realize THIS IS THEM, TOO?
6. Freedom to Keep and Own Private Property, Including Land, Livestock; and **Chattels**;
#ABPoli #ABLeg #CdnPoli

2026-01-29 21:43:48 UTC

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As a sailor who has floated most of the oceans at one point or another… I do not see any part of the west coast of Canada as safe for shipping at the Panamax size or higher, including Vancouver and Seattle. The waters are narrow, high latitude tides & currents, topography mountainous with an 8-month rainy season complicating the water flows. Heavy commercial and private traffic from small to large vessels, barge and log booms throughout.
For oil, the risk is simply too high.

2026-01-21 16:44:31 UTC

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My experience has been a mix of widths, depending on origin country. Particularly with upholstery (from Italy) and outdoor fabrics (Sunbrella) the widths all seemed in SI? otoh flannel, quilting prints are solidly imperial (bdum-tish.)
Ooo, fun side-distraction… are they in UK imperial, or US imperial?

2026-01-17 03:24:44 UTC

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oooo, sailrite...
I almost had a sea-going Pfaff, but I was outbid.

2026-01-13 23:42:08 UTC

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@npub1sjf…2zjw
Fridays for Good.

2026-01-12 18:42:44 UTC

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Shouldn't party leaders be chosen by the party's loyal base? But then I think—any party leader could become Prime Minister.
And pretty soon I am in knots, mentally.
Is it normal to join parties whether or not you strongly identify with their core political point of view? By joining is one promising to vote solely for that party? Can one join multiple parties at the same time? How long does party membership last? Are you on party donation lists forever after?
2/2
#cdnpoli

2026-01-12 18:42:14 UTC

@npub1mvm…jgeg @npub1hp7…etwp [@bonitazarrillo_mp](https://mastodon.social/@bonitazarrillo_mp ) @npub1mqy…2gyv @npub1m5f…9jec @npub1spc…3gwu
I am not a joiner. I grew up in the #USA and the party politics discouraged it. I moved to #Canada decades ago, yet still feel ignorant of political party systems here.
For example, a post from @npub1fc5…0ldw just flitted by, suggesting #Canadians join the #NDP to be involved in their leadership vote - https://tech.lgbt/@Caution/115883403438660860 This also happened during the #BCGreens/#UCP/#CPC/#LPC (though much less for the latter.)
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2026-01-09 00:29:37 UTC

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You couldn't cut twenty words? <ducks away from incoming missiles>

2026-01-05 04:54:10 UTC

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That southbound plume off NW Greenland… freshwater?

2026-01-04 02:47:08 UTC

@npub19xy…lkfq
Any insights on the incoming #BCStorm, in particular wind direction and speed at the next several high tides?
#BC #wx #weather #Canada #WetCoast #CoastalFlooding

2025-12-29 00:27:50 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/115799579207920408
People identifying resiliency factors as "harms" are exposing just how ignorant and wrong they are. These are exactly the factors which reduce risks for the negative outcomes she identifies.
Anti-science and pro-fascism seem directly linked. As usual.
#note1h89…wx5m

2025-12-26 18:46:47 UTC

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Query: does this correlate with real estate, especially agricultural and light industrial?
(A phrase from my rural childhood stays with me: an acre is always worth an equivalent acre. It is not true. Productive farmland varies wildly, but in step with currency flows.)

2025-12-25 19:19:01 UTC

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I loved it, but was unable to finish due to work commitments. It's still on my reading lists.

2025-12-03 22:59:27 UTC

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Gotta love those crystal clear night skies…

2025-12-03 22:51:06 UTC

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Question: If you were able to schedule your MRI at, for example, a BC health service, would they be able to bill ABHealth?
Not that you can assume BC has more available slots, but finding available capacities outside the province but still within Canadian public health may allow more timeliness. (It may actually be more expensive, however, for the transportation.)

2025-12-02 23:16:33 UTC

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From the #Wikipedia article about M Lebda:
"In 2010, Lebda co-founded Tykoon, a financial-services platform for children and families."
Musta been such a great person…

2025-11-26 16:01:17 UTC

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Cannot comment with any value on that; I do not know.
I am far more concerned that an across-the-political-spectrum group of Canadians agree to coordinate and plan a political action to the detriment of the nation and its government
Or were offered a free trip by Israel, and were so gullible as to take it..

2025-11-26 03:47:24 UTC

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You're welcome!
I was doing it for my own edification, and realized I may as well share some of the results.
Imo, these individuals may not have any political view in common but a belief the country of Israel has special status. OTOH, Anish Dwivedi…

2025-11-26 00:29:58 UTC

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* Steve Paikin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Paikin
* James Pasternak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pasternak
* Annamie Paul - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annamie_Paul #GPC/Ind.
* Rick Perkins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perkins #CPC
* Don Stewart - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Stewart_(Ontario_politician) CPC
* Kevin Vuong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Vuong LPC/Ind.
2/2 finis
#CdnPoli #Israel #ONPoli #NBPoli

2025-11-26 00:28:51 UTC

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Notes, tags, links
* Denis Coderre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Coderre #LPC
* Michael Colle (not Mike Colletto) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colle LPC
* Chris Collins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Collins_(Canadian_politician) #NDP/LPC/Ind.
* Anish Dwivedi - No wiki page, 7th most highly paid GoC employee, and GUS North America's CSO. - https://www.ontariosunshinelist.com/people/anish-dwivedi/office-of-the-premier
* Ben Mulroney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Mulroney
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#Israel #Palestine #Canada #CdnPoli

2025-10-27 18:51:07 UTC

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Iirc, ice-free poles + antarctic springback (and ongoing northern continents springback from last ice ages) = ~72 m total sea rise.
Total polar ice sheet melt is currently assumed certain. (Potentially preventable, but no evidence suggesting it will be prevented.)

2025-10-08 19:41:40 UTC

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What a moron Lutnick proves himself to be when given a mic.
Canada is merely the reason the USA is in second place on auto manufacturing.
China is #1.

2025-10-06 17:29:42 UTC

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Agree to all the above, but none of us are mentioning *why*: the Le Pen sisters and the FN/NR, who have the support of various international groups engaged in political meddling within France.
It appears to me M Macron is acting to prevent an upwelling of 'populism' in reaction to the actual populism of French progressives. I think he is misguided, but well-intended.

2025-09-21 15:14:51 UTC

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It seems to me, you aren't saving the Republicans, nor the country.
In practice, unaligned voters tend to swing the results. It shouldn't be this way. The voting system is the well-known and -documented issue. And the dominant parties both prevent it being improved with evidence-based changes.
This being the case, citizens need to prepare for the right to vote being eliminated. Their labour will be their last tool. #GeneralStrike.

2025-09-19 20:38:07 UTC

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To: MP Vince Gasparro
CC PM Mark Carney, MP Jeff Kibble
Today I learned #Canada has banned #Kneecap, an outspoken musical group from Northern Ireland, from visiting the country.
It was announced by the Parliamentary Secretary (Combatting Crime) on Twitter. MP Gasparro had posted, some 48 hours earlier, that he and PM Carney met with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs to "…help provide more security to Jewish Canadians."
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#CdnPoli #CIJA

2025-09-19 17:20:38 UTC

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Got a source? Writing a letter to print and send via #CanadaPost …

2025-09-11 18:43:15 UTC

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uh…
Seailor's website starts with ABoK #400, and many lines of #402. (Higher style can be achieved with 3782-3784.)

2025-09-06 00:05:07 UTC

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After a 150 m climb and 200 m descent, the sun was a red ghost, and Mount Sullivan and the rest of Salt Spring Island completely lost, in the wildfire smoke and haze yesterday.
Perhaps not the best air quality for that ride.
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/115/154/395/909/187/072/original/02a6074fae6c092a.jpg

2025-09-03 18:49:57 UTC

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Quick question: who pays for the roads?
According to the AASHO Road Test heavily loaded lorries can cause 10,000x the damage/maintenance cost of passenger vehicles, and 7,800x if at normal loads.
That is usually another huge cost distortion to allow road haulage to not pay its own way.

2025-08-25 00:04:03 UTC

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This was the BASIC I used to build UNIX tools for MS DOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIC_programming_language

2025-08-23 15:26:14 UTC

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Oh, I must dispute! One should only consider what someone has done.
Actions, not words.
Tabling C-2 was enough for me.

2025-08-20 16:43:52 UTC

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I suspect, for most people whose net worth is in the top 10%, they have very few real assets in their own name. Most will be owned by holding companies, which in turn they own. It is rather like bullion: few people stockpile it at home; instead they own paper which says they own gold stored in Fort Knox.
Ultimately it means *they* are mobile, and they can trade/sell their shell company shares if that makes financial sense for their goals.

2025-08-20 05:46:53 UTC

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A wealth tax is different than an income tax.
It applies to how much a person is worth, including their properties and investments, rather than the gains they realize within the year.
So a billionaire will owe 10 million, every year, for each billion they have.

2025-08-20 05:26:42 UTC

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Ooo, ooo 🙋 I have this answer!
Applying a wealth tax indicates a lack/loss of control of the governance of a region by those with extreme wealth.
As wealth is, in part, accumulated as a measure of power *and as a defense*, this appears threatening to those who have a superabundance of it - even if the tax is not particularly noticeable by them.

2025-08-19 03:03:14 UTC

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I meant Kurek. I had not noticed a previous statement that he would be running in the next election.
Hmm, now I have to rethink my knee-jerk assumptions. It still sounds like "vote for the jerk, it's only for 3.5 years then I will be back to work for you." But there's likely more context.

2025-08-19 02:57:13 UTC

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Well, today he said he would be running for the seat in the next Federal election.
Which sounds a bit desperate on the UCP part.

2025-07-23 16:35:17 UTC

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Probably typo: “…the idea of an *impeding* La Niña…”

2025-07-23 15:05:51 UTC

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Can you add a special note on the #BroughtonArchipelago for the next week or so? I am planning to #sail about, possibly meeting up with the #SalishSea Smallboat #Sailors group who are planning a venturesome voyage from #VancouverIsland to the #MarinePark in mostly small open #boats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Archipelago
#wx #bcwx

2025-07-15 01:46:30 UTC

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Dang! One could nearly jump boat-to-boat to shore!

2025-07-13 20:37:50 UTC

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Bonne chance! At least now you will be doing Juan de Fuca in the favourable direction.
I was surprised and curious hearing where you ended up to know how you chose the weather window.

2025-07-09 17:50:52 UTC

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While Bill C-5 has been passed, it has substantial legal flaws which may not pass constitutional, treaty, and charter challenges. At least portions of this mammoth bill appear to be illegal power grabs.
People who are opposed to it should be coordinating with like-minded people to ensure at least those portions are struck by the courts.

2025-07-04 19:22:20 UTC

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…carrying it back to the cockpit, watching all the while as the boat gently drifts away from the neighbourhood. Setting it down, quietly, quietly, another sip of tea.
And, far enough away, raise the sails, so noisy when least effective, and sheet in enough to get way on, make my course and jam the sheet, for now, ghosting the whole world.
2/2

2025-07-04 19:21:58 UTC

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This. This is my favourite thing.
In the crowd of the anchorage, sipping tea, checking the current and breeze, walking catlike to avoid disturbing anyone. Preparing for an easy, unhurried sail hoist and, when all is in readiness…
…pulling the boat to bring the rode vertical, waiting until the hull settles back at the right angle, the right time, then sharply break it free and hand-over-hand…
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2025-06-29 21:27:09 UTC

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I recall, hazily, a school lecture about this focused on considering wages as a form of dividend. Where the shareholder extractions remained under 14-17%, the system was stable. As profits exceeded this point, it inevitably destabilized, as workers could no longer maintain SoL and would rebel.
Because they have no future, and nothing to lose by dying.

2025-06-18 03:19:10 UTC

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While I would like to believe M Carney is making all these decisions, it is far more likely he, and the legislation being tabled in his name, are being manipulated.
It is also important to be reminded that, unlike most MPs, M Carney does not have a degree in law, or in polisci. He is rather unprepared to swim in this sharktank.
#cdnpoli #politique

2025-06-16 20:50:58 UTC

Hey @npub1tcc…4342 !
New install of Fedora 42. Install Element. "Your has a supported keyring but encryption is not available" — https://mamot.fr/@Amgine/114693872786906789
Chasing back on Gnome Keyring side, it appears Fedora does not have the keyring in the default location - https://mamot.fr/@Amgine/114694704090564254
But so far I am stumped trying to figure out where it is. Any suggestions on where to ask how to resolve this?

2025-05-29 20:28:31 UTC

@npub1lje…ql7a
Okay, I finally got around to looking up my #FountainPen and source…
https://www.knightswriting.ca/collections/twsbi-fountain-pens/products/twsbi-eco-t-clear-fountain-pen
This, or its immediately previous generation is the entry-level #pen which has gotten me totally addicted to them. The real problems now are:
* I am collecting paper 'worthy' of using the pen.
* OOooo, shiny! ink! (The horrible people at Knights sell sample sizes.)
* If I spend two days deciding what I will write on fancy paper with beautiful ink, that counts as *working*, right? right?

2025-05-24 02:38:46 UTC

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'Two party' systems are really one party - centre. And in practice, they are almost always centre-right, because …
How to say it?
People do not want to sacrifice what they have to get something better. Even if the 'sacrifice' is immeasurably small. They will not tax themselves in order to have utopia. They will literally starve their services into collapse and failure. Consistently, repeatably.

2025-05-12 04:01:40 UTC

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<cheers erupt in #Canada, the popcorn box goes flying>
Congratulations Watson-Brown, the Greens, the voters of Ryan, and really all of #Australia!
What a fine example of how preferential voting can work to represent a riding...
#AusPol #cdnpoli

2025-05-05 02:47:31 UTC

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no no no... too soon!
There are (at least) 84 other ways to tie a tie, first: Archiv.org: The 85 ways to tie a tie : the science and aesthetics of tie knots - https://archive.org/details/85waystotietiesc00thom

2025-04-24 02:22:21 UTC

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Smaug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaug

2025-04-15 20:45:21 UTC

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Question: what do these nations use for similar distribution of vlunerability information, to address the confusion/lack of information?

2025-04-13 23:53:36 UTC

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The real problem, imo, is data centres doing it wrong.
The average internal combustion engine uses a closed-loop cooling system in which the coolant absorbs heat and then exchanges it with air. Most buildings taller than 6 stories do the same.
Yet somehow we think it is okay for data centres to pump fresh, potable water through their cooling systems and dump it into whatever local drainage system.
Make 'em take care of their waste. All of it. Including waste heat.

2025-04-13 23:42:43 UTC

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The correct approach to "stop the unamerican, illegal, and unconstitutional actions he takes" is to impeach the President.
Yes, really, that is the **correct** response. It means he should **no longer** be President, not because a lot of people oppose him, but _because of his actions as President._
All we need is for the House of Representatives to act on their Constitutional responsibility, and the Senate to consider their arguments as statesmen and jurists.

2025-04-13 23:28:17 UTC

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The second issue is: why is all this water required?
Data centres use water to move heat. Taking that heat and releasing it into the lakes will cause the downstream lakes to be too warm, likely killing much of the aquatic biome which has developed to meet natural seasonal highs and lows, and is already struggling with human-caused climate change.
There are many other issues as well, but these are the top of mind for me.
2/2 finis

2025-04-13 23:26:49 UTC

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Sadly, problem not solved.
First, you are talking about a region where water is actually a major problem - even though the "Great Lakes" sound great on paper, surrounding urban centres are drawing more water from the system than is naturally being replaced. All the great lakes are trending lower over time. It is not being addressed because the lakes are shared with Canada, and that means federal negotiations, and the USA has, traditionally, not done this well.
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2025-04-01 22:51:59 UTC

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Mortality and morbidities are generally described as incidence per 100,000.
back of envelope scratching:
US 266:100k HNWI
CN 033.5:100k
JP 098.8:100k
IN 006:100k
DE 083.8:100k
CA 156.5:100k
UK 082.1:100k
FR 074.3:100k
AU 155:100k
HK 573.3:100k
It might seem that Hong Kong is an exceptional concentration.

2025-04-01 22:00:58 UTC

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In Cowichan--Malahat--Langford they chose LPC versus the 4-time winning and incumbent NDP.
But also, note that Conservative lead. In a riding which I think last voted Cons for Mulroney, and whose largest demographic is the Cowichan nation.
Maybe, just possibly, perhaps, 338 is providing shit weighting because of projects like SmartVoting?

2025-03-28 22:11:08 UTC

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He wasn't afraid to turn down the media coalition debates in both French and English in 2015.
His acceptance of the TVA debate was seen at the time as being due to too close to the election date to have much impact, and because only a small percentage of the QC market would tune in.
It is noteworthy that he lost that election, and M Trudeau was able to use refusal to debate against him.

2025-03-28 20:55:58 UTC

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You're correct, and I was wrong about that.
When I went looking for it, I was reminded of the private debates which happened, and recalled an argument at the time his campaign was not participating unless they got the questions before hand - due the many scandals they didn't want to talk about (e.g. paying Duffy's fines.)
But I could not find archives stating this.
OTOH, here was a good contemporary analysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/3fwymh/comment/ctsqcqh/ (Sorry about it being Reddit.)

2025-03-28 04:28:32 UTC

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Huh. I wonder why the Globe and Mail chose to editorialize on this, **and** to spread misinformation?
It is not factually accurate that "all leaders agreed to TVA debates in previous campaigns." M Harper rather infamously refused all debates, as I recall, in one campaign.
One might almost assume they were smearing the candidate.

2025-03-27 21:33:04 UTC

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back up often, with notes, while tweaking…

2025-03-23 22:53:20 UTC

<sigh>
Hey #biketooter s! The long range weather forecast is, roughly translated, "rain until June, with regular 'atmospheric river' events to break up the monotony."
I need rain gear.
What gear will keep me somewhat dry and warm on the wet coast of Canada?

2025-03-22 12:20:21 UTC

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Which book?
Because Stevenson absolutely did know that ships of war, whalers, with their large crews, would use pulling boats when becalmed. Trade ships, with minimal crew, did not.

2025-03-20 20:59:56 UTC

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I helped sail a boat from Hawai'i to the San Juan Islands. I have hiked the Sunshine Coast trail. I have worn through the bottom bracket of a bicycle, and put 10s of thousands of km on two human-powered wheels
I cannot change the world's views about air travel. The time differential is just too great for most people.
But in a couple years we will be heading back to the EU to volunteer with WHO, and we plan to train to the east coast, and catch a ship for the crossing. Because I *can*.

2025-03-16 15:58:46 UTC

Wait, what?
I do not think 'Lose the lead' = 'Perdre la tête'… at least, not on Wiktionary: FR —https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/perdre_la_t%C3%AAte EN — https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perdre_la_t%C3%AAte#French
Is there a #Québecois sense to this phrase?
h/t @npub10u3…66zg https://mstdn.ca/@jd/114172849743861313
@npub1jje…cgzd
#devoirs #LanguageLesson #français #French
https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/114/172/889/198/204/937/original/68e5f1a8f26a2dbe.jpeg

2025-02-24 15:30:34 UTC

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Iirc, this was a joint production with the USA's CPAC.
IOW: it was US-based media corporations, probably at the behest of the White House, meddling in Canada and trying to push this même, to normalize it.

2025-02-16 17:50:15 UTC

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Reviewer #2: do a different stody, accounting for X, Y, and Z, because that's what interests **me**.

2025-02-16 17:42:48 UTC

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I wish the chart were on a per capita or per housing unit basis… <sigh />

2025-02-12 15:43:00 UTC

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I see it as abuse. The individuals have not enough experience to realize they are ordered to do immoral/unethical things, including crimes. They cannot foresee the life risks they are taking. They each believe they are immortal.
This is why wars are mostly fought by the youth, under the orders of the old and corrupt. Adults are able to see refusing is ultimately less harmful to themselves.

2025-02-10 19:44:46 UTC

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<nod nod>
Just do not put much trust in certain aggregators with three digits - it may come as a complete shock but they are actually marketers for an industry.
They are not telling you facts. They are influencing you.