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2026-04-20 10:23:56 UTC

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Right?
People taking out loans to fund a vacation? Then taking years to pay it off?
And the "Disney adults" segment?
I dunno. The whole thing was just bizarre to me.

2026-04-20 10:18:05 UTC

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Sounds like the Zac Rios video I saw on the topic.
It was just boggling what people were spending.
We'd taken the kids to Disney World in 2012. It wasn't cheap, but even adjusted for inflation it was nowhere near what they're asking now.
We did it the once, and none of us wanted to go again.

2026-03-11 17:38:00 UTC

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Engineering was almost all men and at the other end were the BSc Biology classes which were well over half women when I was going through in the 80s.
Some of that was due to overlap with nursing and pre-med, but third and fourth year were all biology majors.

2026-02-10 23:58:19 UTC

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The condo board had a Discord channel, which was somewhat useful for sending messages to other owners or asking questions from the board.
Since I sold it, I've no use for it anymore.
"Smash that Like button, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Discord!" Uh, no. No, I don't think I will."

2026-02-10 14:11:42 UTC

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Uh... yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?

2026-02-10 11:23:47 UTC

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II can't hear the term 'super massive black hole' without also hearing this opening riff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3_a-PMTw
I should get help.
🙂

2026-01-29 23:13:19 UTC

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Every time I see his stupid face I'm reminded of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
I also have an issue with the coverage. It's always something like "Nearly 30% of Albertans have at least some support for separation".
So just over 70% of Albertans don't. And if you look further support drops to ~15% once some of the complications are mentioned that come with self governance.

2025-11-28 00:08:48 UTC

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I was brought up with Monte Cristo sandwiches being two pieces of French toast, with chicken, ham and cheese filling. It's a heavy sandwich as it is.
In Florida, I was treated to one which had been battered, deep-fried, coated in confectioner's sugar and served with jam.
That seemed unnecessary.

2025-09-24 12:33:37 UTC

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“But to you who are listening, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” – Luke 6:27
“On the contrary: If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” – Romans 12:20
“If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?” – Matthew 5:46
“Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.” – 1 Peter 3:9
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” – 1 John 4:20
etc
It's almost as if they haven't even read the book they like to club people with.

2025-09-15 20:05:08 UTC

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The emissions growth was almost entirely from oil & gas in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The other provinces have been trending downward.
That also includes all sources, like transportation. Generation in Canada is pretty clean overall.

2025-09-15 19:26:39 UTC

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Canada
2000 Demand per capita (kWh) 18,386
2024 Demand per capita (kWh) 15,708 Change -14.6%
Pretty significant change given the increase in population and GDP over those years ($774B to $2.16T in constant US dollars).
Bear in mind also that ~85% of Canadian generation is hydro/nuclear/renewables, with the remainder natural gas and coal.

2025-08-27 10:35:30 UTC

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C5 has been overblown by left wing extremists.
Regardless of the content of the law, the constitution guarantees meaningful consultation with first nations, and the SCC has already established guidelines for what that constitutes as a minimum. The SCC has already ruled that that process does not give FN a blanket veto over projects in the national interest.
Projects mainly at the provincial level have already been delayed because of courts determining that the consultations with FN have not been sufficient. The same will happen at the federal level.
Municipalities are under the jurisdiction of the provinces, who are completely capable of clawing back any funding directed to them by the feds. And we've already seen this done by Alberta on a number of occasions in healthcare.
As it is, housing prices are trending down, even in BC and Ontario, with increasing supply and lower immigration. Other provinces are building more residential units, and are improving faster. Ontario and BC's governments are not helping the situation there, with housing starts actually dropping in Ontario.
NG has been selling at a deep discount because the US has been the sole export market. Prices are going to go up to something more rational. Higher prices encourage efficiency. I don't see this as an issue.

2025-08-27 01:00:31 UTC

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No, Carney does not have the power to drop strawberry box houses wherever he pleases. The SCC has struck down a number of attempts by the feds to usurp provincial jurisdiction, especially so after the 1982 patriation of the constitution. It's why they had to back off of the NEP and ended up selling off PetroCanada.
No. Australia has no next door neighbour who has been buying natural gas and heavy oil in bulk for decades, and doing so at a discount because we've had no access to alternative clients.

2025-08-26 22:27:34 UTC

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Condescension is so unappealing.
He's doing about as much as the federal government can do without screwing up other sectors of the economy. He can't just start bulldozing land for development, he doesn't have the power. It's up to municipalities to set zoning rules and regs, and they're broadly unwilling to allow things like multi-unit backfills and such.
At best, the feds could provide funding for housing development to the provinces, but the provinces would have to be onboard, and there is absolutely no guarantee that they wouldn't turn around and cut provincial taxes, as they've done in the past with healthcare funding.
The only commonality with the Aussies is the product is the same. They don't have access to the US market in the way Canada traditionally has. All that's happening now is the shifting of clients if this goes through.
That being said, high NG prices encourage energy efficiency and conservation. Which is what we want.
It's pretty difficult to get people in the Prairies to switch to heat pumps when NG heating is dirt cheap. Unlike New Brunswick, for example, where high NG and oil prices mean that near 70% of home heating is electric.

2025-08-26 19:47:37 UTC

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Housing remains provincial jurisdiction. The feds have limited scope for action, much less so if the mostly conservative provinces decide not to cooperate. The same goes for most welfare programs. I think it was a mistake to have oversold what the feds were able to do.
The one thing that will absolutely make things worse is a recession, and we're just skirting the rim of the bowl right now. So economics are going to be the priority.
Has he shifted priorities? Seems like it. It's the way it goes. The aphorism "No Plan Survives First Contact With the Enemy" exists for a reason.

2025-08-07 16:52:39 UTC

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The 'Conservative' epithet has long been usurped by rabid, radical, right-wing, populists and grifters.
Their only ideology is a toxic mix of hatred, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, avarice, with liberal dashes of the Dunning-Kruger effect and Supply-side Jesus.
Whatever their firmly held beliefs are today can change 180 by tomorrow because there is no solid foundation, only whatever the script du-jour is from their leaders.

2025-07-15 19:56:06 UTC

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Re, the DST. That was the amount to be paid retroactive to 2022. The annual income was going to be small, and entirely paid for my Canadian companies who wanted to advertise on those platforms.
So US trade is relevant then, which is my point. Right now, as we speak, roughly 75% of our trade is with the US. Changing that by any significant amount will take decades, even if incentivized.
Prior to WW2 we had significant tariffs on both sides of the border with the US. It stifled trade, but didn't stop it entirely. We lost out on efficiencies of scale due to our smaller market size, so we paid more for goods. We could go back to that, but it will take a long period of adjustment.
Even at that, it won't stop entirely. Sending trucks/trains across the border is just cheaper and faster than shipping to the EU or Asia, or even to Mexico.

2025-07-15 19:19:09 UTC

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He's doing pretty much exactly what I'd hoped for.
The Digital Services Tax was just another form of tariff. Google, AWS etc, had already been collecting a surcharge to cover the costs of the tax that Canadian advertisers had to pay. Despite rosy projections, it was only ever going to bring in less than a billion in gross revenue. Lord knows what the admin costs would have been.
So it ended up being an easy concession to make and took some of the heat off, at least temporarily.
As satisfying as it would be to kick Trump in the nuts and piss on his carpet, all it would do is provoke a shit tonne of retaliatory measures and increase instability. The people who take that on the chin are always going to be workers.
With 75% of our exports going to the US we are not in the same position as the EU, or the UK, or China. Until we can diversify our client markets, we have to be cautious.
Taxing commodities like copper, steel and aluminum, just makes US finished goods more expensive. That's a trade advantage for us. Retaliatory measures that we take had best be targeted not to do the same thing for our industries.
Carney isn't negotiating in public and he's keeping things moving even if at a glacial pace. The longer he can drag things out, the closer he gets to the mid-terms and the more pressure lands on Trump to sign something he can show as a win. It was a strategy that helped to limit damage the last time. Makes sense to pull the same play now.
I think a fair number of people thought of the Liberals as NDP-Lite, which has never been the case. They drift left or right depending on the mood of the country.

2025-06-02 12:43:22 UTC

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For whatever reason, we used WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, then switched to Office, I think with the switch to Win95. It was a rough transition, I do remember that.

2025-05-05 19:01:00 UTC

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The CPC have had this issue where they import a lot of talking points and strategy from Republican campaign consultants. More often than not, it's only going to have limited success in Canada, if any at all.
At some point they need to realize that we're not nearly as partisan as US voters, and not nearly as religious. They need to modify their messaging accordingly.

2025-05-05 18:47:02 UTC

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Proxies certainly played a part in their strategy.
PP had also been in campaign mode for about a year and a half prior to the writ dropping. Anti-woke stuff and hob-knobbing with bad actors on the extreme end of the right wing and the "trucker" protest organizers, the Jordan Peterson "interview" while avoiding the legitimate press, and such. All aimed at securing the right flank from the PPC. The rest of their narrative was constant attacks on Trudeau.
That could have been effective, had facts on the ground remained constant. The problem was that they didn't. Trudeau left and was replaced by super-serious candidate Carney, throwing all that groundwork out the window.
But people aren't likely to forget all that once into the campaign and PP attempted to moderate the messaging. PP had defined himself, and it wasn't going to appeal to moderates and certainly to left leaning voters. There was a brief clip of a 94 year old dyed-in-the-wool conservative who'd voted that way all the way back to George Drew in 1953. She said she was voting Liberal for the first time in her life because she just couldn't vote for that nasty man.
The old rule of thumb was to keep your powder dry until the writ drops. Have occasional fund raisers, do the glad-handing, listen for feedback, keep it vague, and low key, that sort of thing. The key campaign issues quite often reveal themselves only after it's underway. Money and effort spent before that can be a complete waste.

2025-03-25 16:32:46 UTC

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Now there's a deep dive !
I have a Toonces Driving School t-shirt. Only a few old heads get the reference. 🙂

2025-03-23 22:26:07 UTC

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So far, I don't have the urge to shoot you square in the face, so by that metric, you aren't nearly that bad.
🙂

2025-03-19 12:23:32 UTC

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Cassie and Maggie questioned by state troopers about which country they prefer during an otherwise normal traffic stop.
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/canada-or-america-touring-folk-duo-cassie-and-maggie-questioned-by-state-troopers

2025-03-18 12:02:56 UTC

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With all the political foolishness, I look forward to the [@50years_music](https://mastodon.online/@50years_music ) posts.

2025-03-13 02:43:46 UTC

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Right in the feels.
Songs From The Big Chair released in 1985, the same year I graduated high school.
☹️

2025-03-02 15:38:23 UTC

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I always thought white pelicans were coastal.
I was really surprised to see a group of them 'fishing' in the river behind my place in Winnipeg the first summer I was here. It turns out they're a common summer visitor.

2025-02-25 02:24:04 UTC

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The thought had crossed my mind. The 1920s Teapot Dome scandal under the Harding admin used to be considered the height of US federal corruption, then came Watergate in '72.
Looks like there's a new champion and it's not even close.

2025-02-08 17:44:40 UTC

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This is what happens when you use American consultants. They just find and replace 'America' with 'Canada' and use the same script. It comes off as tone deaf.
The issue they have is that a lot of traditional Canadian values like social welfare and a sense of community are diametrically opposed to the current 'smash and grab' tenets of the CPC.

2025-01-15 01:00:27 UTC

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The French parts of Canada do.
Mum would make about a dozen or more tourtière for Christmas every year and give them out to family and friends.
Similar to this recipe:
https://hiddenponies.com/2013/12/a-canadian-christmas-tradition-tourtiere/

2025-01-02 06:12:28 UTC

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It was definitely a design of its time.
It sold so much better than the classic two seat '55-'57 T-birds that it's difficult to argue with their decision. And '58 was a recession year.
I'm just impressed that they were able to make those complex panels in stainless steel.

2025-01-02 05:59:33 UTC

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Yup. If, as a new company, you decide to do something none of the established players are doing, maybe some due diligence is in order.
Anyone with experience in manufacturing stamped steel knew the issues with completely flat panels, as well as dealing with stainless steel.
Ford made a dozen or so stainless steel Fordor sedans as far back as 1936 as part of an R&D effort in materials science. They learned a lot. The material was difficult to work with, costly and difficult to repair. The cost of the car made it uneconomic.
They repeated the exercise with a Lincoln in the 1960s and with the '58 Thunderbird, more for publicity than anything else.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/757/216/365/617/130/original/ae85f6237efb216e.jpg

2025-01-02 05:48:58 UTC

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Going to throw in the Aston Martin Bulldog too. They intended it for production but the company was short on cash again, and they just couldn't carry through.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/757/184/139/757/174/original/cc69144a592a2226.jpg

2025-01-02 05:43:01 UTC

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If you want to stick with rectilinear styling, it could be argued that none carried it better than the Aston Martin Lagonda.
Certainly controversial, but the thing looks like it was actually designed by actual designers.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/757/152/711/531/774/original/e014710aebc75aa5.jpg

2024-12-12 22:28:44 UTC

How the gang-nail truss plate lead to McMansions.
This is an interesting perspective. I knew median house sizes have about doubled since 1970, but never thought about the technology behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIeLGkSCMA
#architecture #engineering #McMansion

2024-12-10 22:51:50 UTC

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In the same vein:
🙂
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/630/970/474/682/201/original/ee8436459dfdbce6.jpg

2024-12-08 21:32:57 UTC

#silentsunday
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/619/329/782/680/985/original/21337503286fa8a0.jpeg

2024-12-08 00:05:06 UTC

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Trudeau has been vilified by a non-stop firehose of completely fabricated invective, often from foreign actors. Idiots and those with a pre-existing hatred of his name lap it up.
That inevitably leaks out to people not following politics.
Whether that has staying power or not, I don't know at this point.

2024-12-05 01:08:13 UTC

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We've got to convince the "move fast and break things" folks to take up skydiving.

2024-12-04 23:53:09 UTC

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There is going to be a lot of finding out over the next few years.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/597/233/604/422/973/original/521d1dae485bcaaa.mp4

2024-11-15 02:38:44 UTC

#AMAaSitcomCharacter
#HashTagGames
Hey Red. Have you ever run out of duct tape? And follow up: is it duck tape or duct tape?
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/484/640/438/665/710/original/6a2887bcdeebe6fe.jpg

2024-11-13 05:33:33 UTC

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Compare that to the Ford Lightning:
2019 - January Ford announces electric Lightning
2019 - June First prototypes are undergoing testing
2021 - May Production vehicle is introduced
2022 - April Job 1 leaves the production line
2022 - May First customer deliveries

2024-11-13 05:27:41 UTC

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In the history of his various companies, not once has he ever hit scheduled mileposts. Every model of Tesla was years behind schedule before finally hitting the market.
The Cybertruck was the most recent example.
2012-13 - rumours and hints or a Tesla pickup targeting the conventional F150
2019 - Concept truck introduced
2021 - scheduled job 1 of production run
2023 - actual production starts
2023 - November has first handful of deliveries to customers.
2024 - multiple recalls and stop production to deal with defects
Initial RWD base price rises from $39k to $61k. First year production is limited to Foundation series only, base price in excess of $100k, with trimotor Cyberbeast now $120k.
Range has been reduced from promised 500+ miles to an EPA estimate of 320-340 miles depending on model. Even with the optional $16k range extender, range is limited to 470 miles.
- The bullet-proof glass doesn't make it to production.
- The 'exoskeleton' is scaled back to typical unibody structure as in the Honda Ridgeline.
- Bullet proof body panels are limited to door skins and proof against very small caliber (.22LR, some .223)
- The built in ramp from the concept does not make it to production.
- The promised sleek $3000 'Basecamp' tent ends up looking like a $300 aftermarket tent from Walmart.
- The aero wheelcovers chew up the tire sidewalls and are recalled. New hubcaps are more of a conventional design.

2024-11-11 14:44:46 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk
#RemembranceDay

2024-11-11 14:24:44 UTC

Lest We Forget
#RemebranceDay
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2024-10-19 00:27:10 UTC

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If you can't see the difference between a massive, industry dominating conglomerate with a history of devastating what it considers to be competitors, and an instance run as a hobby, then I can't help you.
Frankly, I can't believe anyone could be that naive.

2024-10-19 00:03:56 UTC

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If I wanted to be on Threads, I'd have a Threads account.
As far as I'm concerned they can fuck all the way off.
I moved to an instance that blocks Threads so I don't have to interact with them.

2024-10-16 21:34:29 UTC

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"PLEASE NOT CANADA, PLEASE NOT CANADA, PLEASE NOT CANADA, PLEASE NOT CANADA, PLEASE NOT CANADA, ...."

2024-09-11 23:24:10 UTC

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Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam or Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

2024-09-10 05:13:47 UTC

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So few people know his back story.
#uspol #batboy
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2024-09-05 19:52:34 UTC

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My grandfather had some of Reeve's albums. This song always seemed weird. Moreso as time and attitudes changed.
I always thought some variation of: "Damn Dude. Let her go, 'cause baby, she's gone!"

2024-09-03 19:03:29 UTC

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If incarceration reduced the crime and recidivism rates, the US would be the safest place on the planet.
IF they [the Ford government] were actually interested in reducing crime and saving money, they'd spend more on social services, as the Nordics do.
Edited for clarity

2024-07-30 19:22:04 UTC

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Both of my grandmothers were about the same age as Mary Trump. They looked like typical little old ladies.
How in the hell does a person with that level of privilege end up looking like a Disney villain?

2024-07-07 03:20:03 UTC

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