Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.

Me too, plus I don’t tailgate!

Country Grocer

how would you know which places to patrol, and when?

This is an extremely regional problem to solve. Where I am, which is a village and exurban-ruural, you would go to the electronics recycling depot and see if they have any choice items. Also you could call the various independent pc repair people to see if they have anything no longer supported but functional for free or cheap.

Also there’s various thrift stores that sometimes have computers cheap.

The closest big city is Vancouver so to curb cruise there I would pick upper middle class neighbourhoods with alleyways, and drive around on garbage collection days. I wouldn’t really dumpster dive unless I knew of a likely source from hearsay.

Fuck Sobey’s with an artichoke.

They bought Thrifty Foods here on the west coast and the purchasing became less local, staffing policies got shittier, pricing got worse, and it generally just fell into boycott territory for me.

The locally based grocery chain that remains here is pretty good so we still have that, but choice vanished, thanks capitalism.

I have a bunch of old macs here with different distros onthem, mostly Mint, that I have been trying to give away to locals (without being obligated to provide support, which is the stickler apparently). They all run great. One could dumpster dive or curb cruise, or around here, lurk at Recycling.

down the Xitter it all went

Autocorrect.

It’s not the rage at all. A minority of misinformed people in Alberta and an even smaller percentage in BC and Saskatchewan are back on their hoser soapboxes.

The people against it are very against it. But whatever, it’s not going to happen without violence, as most of the lands don’t belong to the provinces, it’s mostly treaty or crown, and it triggers some very high feelings.

I have hired and fired before. If someone came to me with a resume that slim, would they even get the interview… nah.

He’s never made anything, his expertise is misleading rhetoric, so I guess if he were ever to get an actually productive job making things it would be advertising where he can VERB the NOUN all day.

You can seize the means of Production and lose society to those who own the means of Reproduction (of society): communication. Media, culture, education, history, and Law are just as fundamental to society as ownership, and as a shaper of motives, has more inertia, therefore momentum.

American oligarchs have a long lever into Canada through ownership and influence of our media, both legacy and online. We are going backwards without fixing that.

Windsor is a union town but the vote split was brutal.

No worries, queen Liz was always the leader in our riding, she is very personable and genuine and the constituency support is non-partisan, so she kept her seat with a good margin.

Massive lying campaigns with no accountability.

People who want simple clear answers.

Amygdaloids who comprise about 20% of any population and are driven by various flavours of fear.

People who believe success like wealth or fame is evidence of merit.

People who believe that social hierarchies are necessary and immutable in some ways.

Rod and Gun* clubs, and similar groups, are all over the country. They have all of what you need. The diversity of a group might vary based on things like region but charter-rights Canadian values are generally a baseline.

If a search engine isn’t helping to find an appropriate target sports group try calling local gun ranges and asking them for contacts.

*god and run clubs

One of those fears is of the mad cruelty of a few men, the other is of the mad cruelty of thousands, if not millions, of attackers and supporters.

Terrorist puddles!

David Eby comes across as department head in a midsize firm. Bureaucratic, bland, but competent in some ways.

He’s kind of all over the map, instead. Full of surprises. Carney seems like that too.

It’s important to read the resumes of those you hire. In Smith’s case, she went from university to agitprop then to radio shock jock before politics.

In other words, all she’s ever done is blahblahblah persuasion and rhetoric. She’s never been employed making anything other than misinformation and wealth for the wealthy.

She’s a trained professional… liar.

Not surprisingly, another Albertan great deceptor with an empty resume runs the national rich-get-richer party.

Pelosi=left?! Get rekt.

Well yes, but it’s a big spectrum right? Most workplaces are authoritarian so we have habituated. A shitty boss who schedules you badly is not a slave owner. The cons are pro-oligarch, believing that merit is demonstrated by wealth and sometimes breeding. All the parties accept a monarchy even a bit, sorry Bloc, and have a traditional leadership structure so some authoritarian tendencies are everywhere.

Conservative parties throughout history have trended toward either aristocratic stratification and sometimes despotic populism. It’s not even close, and disingenuous to both-sides it. Tankies would be the closest comparison.