retarded, but completely predictable.

https://globalnews.ca/video/4699924/conservatives-link-carbon-tax-to-job-losses-during-question-period

listen.

these projections have been being made for decades - the fossil fuel era is coming to a close. supplies are dwindling, making continued extraction using expensive methods uneconomical in the face of cheaper next-gen technology. consumer demand is shifting to more ecological choices in the face of impending climate disaster. and, increasing levels of inequality are shattering the middle class and making automobiles a luxury, rather than a norm.

the government in alberta has known this for decades, and ignored it. they have only themselves to blame for the situation they are in.

the government in ontario tried to adjust, but ended up with their hands tied by a combination of restrictive global trade policies, a lack of investment by the federal government and a population turned hostile by the ramifications of the former. we should have been a market leader, here. we still can be. but, if we don't adjust to the changing economy, and the existing government is unlikely to do so, then we will have nobody to blame but ourselves. for all their stale rhetoric about market theory, they're more likely to stand up and blame the job losses on "eco-terrorists" then they are to adjust to the market. they may even deflect by blaming the carbon tax.

and, it's time for the trudeau government to put some of it's rhetoric into action. if it continues to maintain the status quo in order to support the rise of canada as a petrostate, in the face of all evidence suggesting that this is delusional, as it has done, then it will only have itself to blame for it's collapse. their own policy wonks saw this coming. they presented solutions in their platform. they can't pretend they've been blindsided; they need to accept they were right the first time, and do what they said they were going to do, in the first place.

they should bring stephane dion back and put him in charge of a special task force on transitioning the economy.

and, if all of these people do nothing, or insist in turning back the clocks at the behest of the rest of the planet, they are going to preside over a collapse they were warned of, and did nothing to prevent - and be correctly held responsible by history for it.

the reality is that gm makes dirty gas guzzlers that should be regulated out of the market. so, stop holding on to yesterday's economy and start focusing on retraining for the econmy of the future, instead.

this is an opportunity to nationalize a large factory and retool it for less destructive purposes, like solar panels or even electric cars.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gm-oshawa-trudeau-ford-1.4921331

i was supposed to do things today, but the weather was really impossible. i'll have to get out tomorrow, instead. i had a lengthy sleep and feel refreshed.

i got one of the many calls i needed to make done, out to sport chek. did i mention this here? the red airwalks came in looking used - i'm going to guess they were the floor model. but, i wanted to wait for the grey ones to come in before i made a claim, to see, and they were brand new. they didn't have another pair in stock, so i couldn't replace them. well, they're just worn a little - they'd look like that in a few weeks anyways. which means they'll lose a few weeks on the longevity, too, but that's a proportionality issue. so, i got a 15% discount on the shoes, which is $6.00, and i think actually fair. but, i also got a 15% discount on my next purchase at the store.

so, remind me to spend $800 on my next purchase at sport check. muahahahahahaha.

no - seriously. i'm going to put that to good use. i'm thinking i might need a new winter jacket, soon; the one i have is around 13 or 14 years old, now. it's still a good, warm jacket, but there's a few rips in the pockets.

i've also been thinking about the lost firefox history. i cleared out the existing history rather substantively by removing all of the youtube, google, facebook & blogspot sites - which i don't need to remember. that was well over 100,000 pages. so, i shouldn't have to worry about that again for a while.

but, it's not like i'm going to have a lot of these stranded lost comments on random sites, and i think i remember realizing that on the last run through this, in mid-2017, as well. almost all of my posts are going to be made through facebook, google or disqus. if i posted somewhere via some other method, i almost certainly made an account, and i'll have a listing of that somewhere, too. so, the only things lost are anonymous comments - and how many of those are there? there might not be any at all.

i'll take a look through the other machine when i get through this process, but i shouldn't be that concerned about it.

i must get the audio tomorrow, and i'm going to need to do some write-ups as well. first, i eat. i may not get any work done until tomorrow.

religion places humanity at the centre of the universe, initially with the heavens revolving around the earth, and as the sole agent of manipulation, be it in a destructive or protective capacity. whether the myth is that god placed us in command of the garden and gave us the free will to eat the apple, or the aristotlian hierarchy underlying linnaeus, or the eastern karmic wheel, we are always placed at a summit, as the highest form of creation, and ultimately put in charge.

this is our world.

but, that is bullshit.

the shamanists had a more scientific understanding: we are but one component of a system that must be understood holistically. the other living entities on this planet have agency, and are capable of undoing our damage. together, they are much more powerful than we are. life is not fixed in creation, but constantly changing - adapting, evolving...and ceasing to exist, too.

you think you can destroy the planet? think again: it is the planet that will destroy you. and, that just makes the necessity of interdependence in a greater ecology that much more apparent.

don't misunderstand me - i clearly try very hard to keep my waste down, and support any programs intended to increase recycling rates.

but, one of the reasons i'm alienated from a broader activist movement is that it instinctively takes inherently religious worldviews - even when it thinks it is taking a scientific one. the right does this, too. it's a reflection of the underlying - and very wrong - axiom system that our society erects itself on. these are stories we hear as children and never entirely discard.

we think that the chemistry of life has changed on our planet several times. we think that the oxygen in our atmosphere is largely the result of biological waste processes, and that it actually led to a mass extinction, before life evolved a way to turn the thing that was poisoning it into the thing that sustained it.

this was created in a lab, but we know this already exists in the wild. there are already plastic-eating microbes on the loose, breaking down the environmental plastic. if we continue to convert the world's carbon into plastic, life will evolve to find a way to utilize it. and, that's not a fantastic projection - that's science.

https://www.popsci.com/bacteria-enzyme-plastic-waste

woahwoahwoahwoah.

let's not pretend as though cutting me a large check is going to change the thrust of my purpose to exist. i'm still not going to want to raise children. i'm still not going to want to date, or find a partner. and, i'm still not going to want to go to major rock concerts or festivals, either.

i could maybe travel further to small or medium venues.

i was thinking the other day of the time that my step-mother gave me a sponsorship package for some kids in africa. the kind of thing where you send them like $1.00/day and they write back to you and what not. i don't really know what she was thinking; maybe she thought it might spark some interest in me. but, i never even read the letters.

and, they kept sending them - to my recycle bin. i never even opened them. no interest; no feeling of responsibility.

this actually produced somewhat of an angry response in this woman, who seemed to think i had some kind of obligation to interact with the kids that she bought for me.

but, i didn't buy them. so, don't look at me. all i could tell her was that she bought them, and it's her responsibility to deal with it. i didn't consent to this. you can't just dump that kind of responsibility on somebody that didn't ask for it - i have rights and stuff.

at the time, i hadn't fully formed the opinions i have today, and i wouldn't have been able to articulate the kind of political disagreement with such a program that i would articulate today. i don't think sending money to africa accomplishes anything besides fostering dependency. i'd rather send that money to a local communist party than send it to starving kids that will probably end up as child soldiers, and then cannon fodder.

i just didn't have any interest in kids. at all.

and, i still don't.

i'm interested in my work, and that is all.

i have not had any plastic surgery at all, and i don't want any.

all of these fake, plastic people walking around...

i would hate you - and you'd know it, and you wouldn't like me, either.

california is not in the list of places i would consider moving to. forget about the earthquakes and fires, i actually don't think i'd like it there very much at all.

i'd prefer seattle or portland - but would no doubt actually end up in victoria or vancouver.

actually, i think that blow dried hair looks fake and slutty.

sorry.