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My main reasoning behind having a buffer of gasoline stored (I rotate through it, no need for stabilizer) is so that if something absolutely catastrophic happens I can make it to a relative’s farm without having to stop for gas along the way. It also happens to be handy for the less-catastrophic-but-still-annoying situation we might be facing now, of a sudden fuel price spike.

One of those times it’s nice to be a prepper, even if only on a relatively small scale. I bought a couple of months’ worth of gasoline last week.

Damned illegal alien criminals. They’re not sending their best.

If they had that sort of lobbying power I doubt we’d see UBI to begin with. Regardless, “evil people might thwart it!” Is not a very good reason not to try to do good things.

Ironically, I think that the positive impact of UBI is probably well enhanced by various free-market processes. There’s the cost of living balance you mention, but it also makes it easier for market forces to affect wages. When people don’t literally have to work simply to survive, it gives them the option to say “no, this job sucks, I’m walking away from it” much more easily. That means that employers will need to be more attentive to their employees’ needs if they want to keep them.

From NYT:

As for Mr. Trump’s threats of annexation? “We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

Fuck these guys. They’re the usual entitled American idiots, blundering around in foreign countries without understanding them.

“It’s done,” [ambassador Hoekstra] told National Post in his first-wide ranging interview in Canada since he was confirmed to the role last month. “From my standpoint, from the president’s standpoint, 51st state’s not coming back,” he said. “The president may bring it up every once in a while, but he recognizes it’s not going to happen unless the prime minister engages with the president.”

Hey, Hoekstra? Maybe we’d believe Trump could get the message pounded into his sponge-filled skull if he’d stop bringing it up.

They’re holding it in Kananaskis, nicely tucked away in the mountains away from easy access by protestors. There’s a lot of people in Alberta who’d show up and make a scene otherwise.

IMO this is fine, it’s not really a pension plan’s role to be trying to manipulate what industries are doing well. A pension plan should be primarily focused on getting good long-term returns.

If you want that to not happen then you should focus on policies that make carbon-producing industries not produce good long-term returns in the first place. Then the pension plans and everyone else will stop investing in them as a natural consequence.

If they remain profitable and your pension plan stops investing in them, that just means you’re handing free money to the people who remain willing to invest in them.

Because the world wouldn’t be literally on fire, that’s hyperbole.

If she linked getting rid of daylight savings time with separatism I would be seriously conflicted when casting my ballot.

The opinion polls for Brexit were a lot closer to 50/50 than Alberta separatism is.

Part of me wants to get it over with so we can answer the referendum with 95% telling her to go swivel, and hopefully put this nonsense to bed once and for all.

The other part of me dreads what shenanigans she’d get up to trying to distort that number.

I don’t know how it is with federal elections, but I volunteered in Alberta’s recent provincial one and the day after the election we were going around and collecting every single NDP sign we’d put out there first thing in the morning. There’s a law about it, and we’d likely be wanting those signs for next election too.

There were very few yard signs for this federal election, not sure why. But I’m seeing a lot of them scattered around as litter still. Maybe federal elections do it completely differently.

Extreme fringes make insane demands that are not popular within Alberta, and the headlines say “Albertans demand X!”

It’s worth worrying about and opposing, sure, but I assure everyone that plenty of that worrying and opposition is going to come from within Alberta from its actually-sane people.

Speaking of being full of shit. As per that link, you’re going to great lengths to cherry pick “favorable” results out of the wide variety of options that the polls covered.

Also, that link is from 16 January 2025. Trump hadn’t even been inaugurated yet. Do you realize just how big a shift in Canadian (and global) opinion has been going on in the time since then? The whole point of the article this thread is attached to is mocking how Poilivere’s party has lost, a result that’s in large part a result of the increase in Canadian identity and patriotism that’s followed in the wake of Trump’s attacks once he was in office.

Beyond just a little alarming. Over 40% of the population basically said “We don’t want Canada to survive the next four years” with their vote.

No, that’s going way too far.

Bear in mind that although you might be focused on this election as a single-issue voter, lots of other people don’t share that focus. When there’s polling specifically about whether Canada should join the US the positives are in the below-10% range, comfortably into “just crazies and loons” territory. But a political party like the Conservatives have a wide range of positions and people can find them compelling in various ways. Conservative voters also want Canada to survive, they just have different opinions from you on how to accomplish that and what “survival” means.

I’m quite happy that the Conservatives didn’t get into power, I think Carney is the right person to be leading Canada right now. But let’s not jump to painting people we disagree with as being all a bunch of lunatic monsters.

strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada.

Only of you pretend there are no Canadians. Once you factor in the cost of generations of hatred, terrorism, and insurgency from the people America just stabbed on the collective backs, not to mention the international reaction, maybe the old idea of paying for our resources in fair trade would have worked out better.

And, best of all, walk among them in the continental United States. A vast, sprawling country of crumbling infrastructure just waiting for a saboteur’s gentle nudge, awash in easily-accessible guns, and demonstrably populated by sheep who can be panicked into decades of self-destruction by a couple of buildings getting knocked down. Who haven’t experienced war anywhere except as entertainment on their TV screens in centuries.

Here’s hoping that even Trump’s idiocy has a limit before it comes to that.

I’ve used the word “conquer” for this, but even then that makes it feel kind of like a board game.