In BC, Rustad makes Smith look smart and diplomatic. Yet the last election had these mouth breathers losing by a handful of votes.

Foreign influence, social media, lies damn lies, and the failure to implement media literacy in schools in the 1990s led us to this. Well, add the flapping tatters of colonial settler ideology as a base layer, I guess.

Oooo, sepi gets it!

User LemmyKnowsBest publicly claims that all laws are just, fair, and teasonable.

Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% – splitting hairs.

I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.

I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.

In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you’re in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.

Thank you!

It is important to remember while Alberta’s carbon emissions are very high, it is not their most toxic export.

That honour goes to The Right Dishonourable Stephen Harper, whose guidance of the deceptively named International Democracy Union will send ripples of suffering and extinction throughout the timeline.

Well, we all have varying degrees of parochialism in our local outlook.

It’s also, in the simplest way, incompetent.

All those weeds provide some ecological service in some way. If you look at my yard and note it’s covered in tall straggly white flowers, you could say weedy, and be right. I would clarify that wild carrots are helping convert our heavy clay soil into good tilth, and supporting a massive number of pollinators and pest predators.

And why would we put up with yellow dock going to seed everywhere? It’s the most nutritious chicken fodder, and it also gives tilth to heavy clay.

Don’t get me started about dandelion!!

Yes, I generally think that is the case too.

Fraser Institute strikes again! Traitors to Canada and humanity.

You may be right, but ostensibly, tariffs and other barriers are an attempt to make trade more fair, as the business conditions in China are significantly different and give various unfair advantages over jurisdictions that have higher labour standards, safety standards, environmental standards, and fewer subsidies.

So in that sense, we don’t want to subsidize the oppression of workers who give up a decent living to save us some money, etc…

I realize that things like safety standards can change much faster than legislation.

You meant to type right turn on a red.

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.