yes, conservation laws apply to your diet.
sorry.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
i want to address a silly point, just so it's written somewhere.
when i copied all of my comments off of the internet, i wasn't able to get exact dates and times for many of them, and didn't make the effort to be careful about it for others. so, as i'm reconstructing the comments, i'm making approximations as to the exact dates and exact times.
i assure you that i'm not making up new comments. i frankly have better things to do. and, i'll remind you that the point of this is actually to build the liner notes for my aleph-discs: this is a music project. but, a very keen individual could no doubt point out that certain things are not in the right order...
sure.
first - get a life.
second - i'm doing this as best as i can.
all i can do is acknowledge the defect and carry on...
there's a point a little later on where this shifts, and i make a stronger point to record the time and date as i'm archiving.
when i copied all of my comments off of the internet, i wasn't able to get exact dates and times for many of them, and didn't make the effort to be careful about it for others. so, as i'm reconstructing the comments, i'm making approximations as to the exact dates and exact times.
i assure you that i'm not making up new comments. i frankly have better things to do. and, i'll remind you that the point of this is actually to build the liner notes for my aleph-discs: this is a music project. but, a very keen individual could no doubt point out that certain things are not in the right order...
sure.
first - get a life.
second - i'm doing this as best as i can.
all i can do is acknowledge the defect and carry on...
there's a point a little later on where this shifts, and i make a stronger point to record the time and date as i'm archiving.
at
11:44
there hasn't been a methodologically sound poll conducted in ontario in over five months.
but, the liberals should be concerned about recent evidence suggesting that ndp support may be overtaking them, hokey methodology or not.
but, the liberals should be concerned about recent evidence suggesting that ndp support may be overtaking them, hokey methodology or not.
at
10:59
what i will say is this: i had problems with skater/thug bullies in high school, but the jocks mostly left me alone. not entirely; i had to dump a full bottle of water (actually, his bottle of water - it's not an exciting story, that's all there is to it) over the head of the star hockey player as he was sitting in class in front of everybody at one point in grade eleven because he kept spraying me, but mostly.
i just took the bottle of water off his desk, took it to the bathroom, filled it up (full.) and slowly drained it over top of his head, as he sat there in shock, and the rest of the class gasped. detention. but, he left me alone after that.
the fact that i made the football team in grade nine probably had something to do with the fact that i was mostly left alone.
i just took the bottle of water off his desk, took it to the bathroom, filled it up (full.) and slowly drained it over top of his head, as he sat there in shock, and the rest of the class gasped. detention. but, he left me alone after that.
the fact that i made the football team in grade nine probably had something to do with the fact that i was mostly left alone.
at
04:38
my dad was a high school sports hero, so he had some expectations that i had no intention of ever living up to. i never learned to skate, but he had his way in forcing me into playing football for a couple of years. grades 8-9.
i made the football team in grade 9. i didn't even try, really - but i did show up to one of the tryouts kind of pissed off about something, and in need of winning a race. i was legitimately fit, if not muscular - not tall, but thin and in good cardio-vascular health. so, i could beat most of the jocks at 100m, 200m, 500m - really any distance.
they pencilled me in as a defensive back. the job was to be as fast as the receivers, and that was a job i could do.
but, i had more interceptions than tackles.
that was kind of a problem, in the end.
i just didn't have the aggression to hit people, and wasn't interested in developing it.
but, if i was more angry and less apathetic, i might have been a decent safety.
i didn't bother trying out in grade 10.
i made the football team in grade 9. i didn't even try, really - but i did show up to one of the tryouts kind of pissed off about something, and in need of winning a race. i was legitimately fit, if not muscular - not tall, but thin and in good cardio-vascular health. so, i could beat most of the jocks at 100m, 200m, 500m - really any distance.
they pencilled me in as a defensive back. the job was to be as fast as the receivers, and that was a job i could do.
but, i had more interceptions than tackles.
that was kind of a problem, in the end.
i just didn't have the aggression to hit people, and wasn't interested in developing it.
but, if i was more angry and less apathetic, i might have been a decent safety.
i didn't bother trying out in grade 10.
at
04:14
i'd take a cockburn or fisk article over qatari propaganda, any day.
because facts don't depend on the skin colour, religion, ethnicity or gender of the person reporting on or otherwise reciting them.
because facts don't depend on the skin colour, religion, ethnicity or gender of the person reporting on or otherwise reciting them.
at
03:10
i may prefer the qatari vision over the saudi one, but al jazeera is state propaganda, and speaks for nobody besides the qatari ruling class.
the idea that it's some kind of genuine voice of the arab street is laughable.
but, more poignantly, it points to the ideological errors that are taking over the contemporary left, which is being tricked by identity politics into latching on to a mouthpiece for an aspect of the ruling petrostate. it is placing religious and ethnic identity ahead of a coherent class analysis. and, that can never be anything besides deeply reactionary.
as a consequence, you have these people out there running around spewing this turko-qatari propaganda as some kind of indigenous narrative.
these people should be treated as laughingstocks.
they're useful idiots.
the idea that it's some kind of genuine voice of the arab street is laughable.
but, more poignantly, it points to the ideological errors that are taking over the contemporary left, which is being tricked by identity politics into latching on to a mouthpiece for an aspect of the ruling petrostate. it is placing religious and ethnic identity ahead of a coherent class analysis. and, that can never be anything besides deeply reactionary.
as a consequence, you have these people out there running around spewing this turko-qatari propaganda as some kind of indigenous narrative.
these people should be treated as laughingstocks.
they're useful idiots.
at
03:06
even if she loses, it would be divine to watch naomi smack down trudeau in the debates.
and, historically, the purpose of the ndp has been less to actually win, and more to change the narrative. the current ndp is just another status quo neo-liberal party.
she might have to take over the greens, instead.
so, it's easy to come up with a convincing argument that running for - or, unfortunately, against - the ndp would be in line with advancing a social revolution - and even that it's a necessary step in order to really advance it.
and, historically, the purpose of the ndp has been less to actually win, and more to change the narrative. the current ndp is just another status quo neo-liberal party.
she might have to take over the greens, instead.
so, it's easy to come up with a convincing argument that running for - or, unfortunately, against - the ndp would be in line with advancing a social revolution - and even that it's a necessary step in order to really advance it.
at
02:18
i am still hoping that i am given the opportunity to vote for naomi klein for prime minister at some point in the near future.
at
02:03
if the nep had been a failure, it wouldn't be as reviled as it is in alberta.
the only failure that i see is justin trudeau.
i don't exactly want to bring back the nep. climate change was not a pressing problem in the early 1980s, and one would hope that the elder trudeau would react to the evidence differently today, given his insistence on "reason over passion". i don't know if he publicly commented on climate change in his time out of office.
but, bringing back the basic idea of the nep - which was to utilize the country's national resources for the benefit of the national interest, rather than the benefit of foreign interests, and in particular foreign capital, which is the status quo - would certainly be a step in the right direction.
we are unlikely to make serious steps towards transition so long as the industry is in the hands of the private sector.
the closest thing to a political voice that we have in canada today, towards that direction, is naomi klein - who heads a faction of the ndp that has been completely ignored by the party's politburo.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/03/13/Kinder-Morgan-Make-Trudeau-One-Term-PM/
the only failure that i see is justin trudeau.
i don't exactly want to bring back the nep. climate change was not a pressing problem in the early 1980s, and one would hope that the elder trudeau would react to the evidence differently today, given his insistence on "reason over passion". i don't know if he publicly commented on climate change in his time out of office.
but, bringing back the basic idea of the nep - which was to utilize the country's national resources for the benefit of the national interest, rather than the benefit of foreign interests, and in particular foreign capital, which is the status quo - would certainly be a step in the right direction.
we are unlikely to make serious steps towards transition so long as the industry is in the hands of the private sector.
the closest thing to a political voice that we have in canada today, towards that direction, is naomi klein - who heads a faction of the ndp that has been completely ignored by the party's politburo.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/03/13/Kinder-Morgan-Make-Trudeau-One-Term-PM/
at
01:59
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