Sunday, September 14, 2025
while i think that this is irrelevant, as the law is unconstitutional anyways, i would support removing this provision.
at
06:03
this is a case that could potentially have the law struck down as unconstitutional, and not be saved by an oakes test.
the woman is a horrible retard, but she poses no credible threat to anybody's safety. she should not be arrested, she should be allowed to speak freely, in order to discredit herself.
at
04:35
if carney wants to walk back down this path, his laws will just get thrown out in the end, too. this is settled law. hate speech is free speech. violent speech is prosecuted if the threats are believable and imminent.
if somebody is causing enough of a disturbance, you can charge them with lots of things - assault, harassment, trespassing, uttering threats, etc.
if somebody is just yelling at you, and you don't like it, that's too bad. if you want to live in canada, you'l need to learn to tolerate it. if you can't tolerate it, you should move to iran.
at
04:12
what is against the law is uttering threats.
the various rulings, including keegstra, have all clarified that any law restricting "hate speech" violates s. 2b of the canadian constitution, regarding free speech. keegstra was explicitly clear that what conservatives/progressives call "hate speech" is always protected by s. 2b.
however, in canada we have a section of the constitution that allows specific laws to infringe the constitution if they pass something called an oakes test.
1. There must be a pressing and substantial objective
2. The means must be proportional
a. The means must be rationally connected to the objective
b. There must be minimal impairment of rights
c. There must be proportionality between the infringement and objective
if a law in canada is found to be unconstitutional, but it passes the oakes test, the unconstitutional law may be left in place.
the court has repeatedly found that any restriction of speech, include what conservatives/progressives call "hate speech", is always an infringement of s. 2b, but they will not strike the laws down on the specific case that the speech is determined to be violent. you can hate the jews as much as you want, and you can scream it through a megaphone in public, but you can't threaten the jews. that's when the court lets the police enforce the laws it has determined are unconstitutional.
that is why these cases require a warrant to be issued by the attorney general, which i think is not strong enough. police should never be allowed to arrest somebody for these charges, or any charges, unless they get a warrant from a judge. however, the law is written to prevent officers from making these decisions and get a warrant from the ministry precisely because the court has ruled it unconstitutional, and only saved it because the case at hand involved violence. if the police were to try to charge somebody with public incitement of hate, advocating genocide or any other hokey attempt at restricting speech that some people don't like, and the case did not involve credible threats of violence, which is also required to prove a threat in court, the court would strike the law down. by forcing officers to get permission to lay charges, the government is trying to save a law it knows has already been struck in principle, and is hanging by a thread, due to the specific case at hand being about violent threats.
ultimately, police should just charge people with uttering threats when it comes down to it, as that's what is actually criminalized, and not bother with the attempts to restrict speech that comes up in political discourse. the court will not convict you of just offending somebody, in the end, even if some asshole judge forces you to go through an appeal. you have to threaten somebody for these laws to result in conviction, and the threats have to be imminent. you'd be more likely to get a conviction if you just stuck to the laws against threats in the first place, and sidestepped the minefield of trying to call it hate speech.
at
04:09
ignorant right-wing activists, some of which call themselves "progressive", will frequently repeat the conservative slogan that "hate speech is not free speech". that is complete and total ignorance. the supreme court of canada has been abundantly clear in explicitly and literally stating that hate speech is in fact protected as free speech in canada, but the parliament continues to pass unconstitutional laws and then have them struck down when they get tested.
at
03:47
the number of extremely troubling incidents involving police thugs arresting people for posting words on the internet is extremely alarming, but the issues need to work through the court system.
this law against "advocating genocide" is a very weird law in canada. in canada, we don't have "hate crimes" in the sense of it being against the law to hate people. i am a strong proponent of hating people. i'd rather see the government outlaw loving people and send dirty fucking hippies to jail for love crimes than have them get on the ass of cynics and recluses that rightfully hate the society, because the society is sick and the culture sucks, and is getting worse with more immigration from backwards societies. if we have to choose between criminalizing hate and criminalizing love, i'd vote for criminalizing love. there's nothing more fucking annoying than a goddamned christian. but that's not what this is about.
in canada, a judge can increase the sentence of an existing crime, like uttering threats, if it's determined that the motivation was hate. if you get caught spraypainting a synagogue, you'd get charged with vandalism, and might have an additional sentence if the judge thinks your vandalism was hate-related.
"advocating genocide" is consequently not what you call a hate crime in canada, but is a literal restriction on speech, similar to the thrown out laws against spreading fake news in zundel, which is leading precedent. this law has not been tested, yet. it is clear that a law against "advocating genocide" would be dead on arrival at the supreme court, citing zundel. in fact, the law itself seems to be a reaction to zundel. i would advise any legal professional, including police, to assume that the law is unconstitutional, but just hasn't been thrown out yet.
the last news entry in the case is that the guy was released on bail while he underwent a psychiatric hearing. i would expect these charges will be dropped, due to no chance of conviction, and prosecution not being in the public interest.
if you were going to in theory charge somebody with this, it would be intended for politicians seeking power. to arrest some idiot for posting on the internet is not consistent with a free society, and the police should be roundly condemned for doing so.
at
03:25
what was wrong with the name "ottawa river parkway"?
i think you'll find that people in ottawa still call it the parkway, always did and always will.
at
01:38
“China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip,” he wrote
the reason that china has leverage - i would consider the idea of it having control be an incorrect mischaracterization intended to fulfill ulterior motives that is typical of trump - over russia is that the west placed sanctions on moscow.
if there's a desire to eliminate china's leverage over russia and increase western integration and influence instead, which i would support and would consider to be smart policy, and which should also be applied to india, then the solution would be to reduce sanctions and lift tariffs, not increase sanctions and apply tariffs.
if russia could sell more of it's resources to europe, it wouldn't be so reliant on china; the fact that russia is prohibited from selling it's resources to the west is the cause of the problem, not a solution to it.
the western media has developed a tendency to present root causes of conflicts as solutions to them, which it has recently also done in presenting nato troops in ukraine as a solution to, rather than as the cause of the current conflict.
if the united states succeeds in completely blocking russia from selling it's resources to europe, russia will be left entirely reliant on china, and that's actually exactly what china would want.
it's not clear to me what the thinking is regarding tariffs on china. it would likely have no effect except to raise taxes for european capitals, and perhaps to accelerate china's movement towards selling to it's own market, and other markets in asia. european workers would be left worse off, but the european governments would probably mostly reinvest the tax money into social services. it would likely actually benefit the chinese economy, overall.
but, while i don't even understand the logic on placing tariffs or sanctions on china and don't expect it would really do anything at all, tariffs and sanctions on russia from europe are abysmally stupid policy, if you're trying to generate influence over moscow.
i would suspect that might actually be the point, if the new us policy position is just to profit off of selling weapons to europe and not really give a fuck about what happens next.
at
01:22
if you really do the math around what it actually takes to buy a house and the amount of money people are making, even on minimum wage, it's worth asking if the real problem canadians are facing in relation to housing isn't their addictions to drugs, tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, debt, fast food and gasoline.
if i had $3000/month, and i were to rent a reasonably priced $1300-$1500 apartment here in windsor, i'd be able to put $1000/month into a savings account and, with interest, have enough of a downpayment to buy a $250-$300K house in less than two years. that's barely minimum wage.
it's not clear to me why young people aren't able to do this, other than that they waste their money on poor lifestyle decisions, in large part perhaps inherited from their parents, and then complain that they can't afford housing as a result of these lifestyle choices.
the canadian government may consequently want to research a cost-benefit analysis around the question of it may be worth trying to get smoking rates, marijuana use, alcohol use, indebtedness, fast food consumption and gasoline use down as a part of it's housing strategy. people might find they can afford to buy a house after all, if they'd just make more intelligent choices with their money.
at
00:56
Saturday, September 13, 2025
jokes aside, the most reasonable thing to say about charlie kirk is this: the only good fascist is a dead fascist.
at
19:17
conversely, this nolan quinn guy is doing tremendous reputational damage to the conservative party and the government of ontario, and by extension to ontario as a place of investment or migration, by acting like a fascist that doesn't believe in free speech.
do we not have free speech in ontario? of course we do.
i want to make it clear to doug ford that he has to act - he should be immediately removed from cabinet.
at
19:10
reputational damage?
please. the university of toronto should be proud that it employs people with enough good sense to call the piece of shit out for what he was. it's not reputational damage; those comments increase the school's standing.
at
19:09
they're claiming it's from golfing. right.
he's sure teeing off.
sure working on his putting.
i dunno, maybe he's thinking of arnold palmer, that's why it's about golfing.
at
18:46
my best guess is that trump is actually suffering from chronic jerk off syndrome, due to being a horny old man.
at
18:39
trump's hand is just experiencing male pattern skin loss. you normally don't notice it, because he uses a dry brush to pull skin from his arm over it.
at
18:05
speaking of kirk, mexico and canada need to sign an agreement to work together to develop transporter technology, to transit goods around the united states.
or, perhaps, we could develop a giant vacuum tube in the shape of a parabola that slingshots commodities over the karman line.
at
17:53
a teacher's strike would be against the law, via this legislation.
a picket line would be "intimidation", and the law would say that workers have the right to cross picket lines and cannot be intimidated into solidarity with the union.
that is how the law would be used, not to go after psychotic religionists that suffer from the mental illness of belief in god.
at
17:42
there's almost no chance they'd arrest muslims for blocking churches, as has recently been done repeatedly in montreal.
conversely, it's pretty likely that they'd arrest workers for picketing in front of public infrastructure.
at
17:41
this is backwards, fascist bullshit and should be vehemently opposed as undemocratic.
while a part of me would welcome rules that would prevent things like pro-muslim protesters blocking gay pride parades, i realize that they're more likely to be used against socialist activists than against pro-religionist groups. i can't ascertain why blocking a religious building should be seen differently than blocking any other building, and this consequently couldn't possibly be interpreted as constitutional, or worth saving if it isn't.
the state should not be concerning itself with regulating protest in any manner whatsoever.
at
17:36
i'm updating this again.
i've been in and out and saw a number of things over the last two days, and then get this - i come home last night around 21:00, and there's a key to my apartment in my mailbox, which worked. at 6:30, somebody started banging on my door.
i filed some police reports and got my locks changed.
i dunno how to process it. it looks like nothing was stolen. were they even giving me the key back? i don't know. i know that there's now exactly two keys to get in here, and i have both of them.
i have not had any symptoms of being drugged since august.
as i've been in and out, i've been splitting my meals up a bit, and eating smaller amounts when i'm in. so i'm updating this to now include a cream corn & bacon recipe, which is the same as the other side dishes:
- fresh dill & garlic
- cheddar, monterrey jack & mozarella cheese (five slices each)
- caesar dressing
- bacon with bacon grease and margarine from pan
- mix
- a can of cream corn
- nutritional yeast, hemp
- franks, pepper
- mix
it should be hot. if it isn't, nuke it.
- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.
- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine
- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon
- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise
- june 20th: caesar salad without subs
- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad
- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets
- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs
- june 24th: caesar salad without subs
- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai
- june 28th: broccoli soup
- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)
- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 1st: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 2nd: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 3rd: 10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).
- july 4th: a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.
- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 7th: two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.
- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.
- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)
- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips
- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips
- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)
- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)
- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)
- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.
- july 16th:. pasta with minor subs (5)
- july 17th: pasta with minor subs (6)
- july 18th (on the 19th): pasta with minor subs (7)
- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)
- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)
- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)
- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.
- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3
- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)
- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.
- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)
- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.
- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)
- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam.
- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.
- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.
- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)
- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)
- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).
- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).
- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).
- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)
- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)
- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.
- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.
- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)
- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early.
- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.
- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.
- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).
- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.
- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.
- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.
- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.
- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.
- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.
- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.
- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).
- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.
- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 10th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa.
- sept 11th: green beans that were intended for the 10th (eaten on the 12th), with mushroom soup and bacon. first skipped pasta. later, first cycle 4 guac with red pepper (eaten on 13th).
- sept 12th: canned corn that was intended for the 11th (eaten on the 13th) with bacon. 2nd skipped pasta. first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 (eaten on 13th) with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles (eaten on 13th). 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.
- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. first skipped. (eaten on 14th)
- sept 14th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. second skipped.
- sept 15th: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 16th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 17th: pasta with minor subs (36). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
at
16:59
if you're really paying attention, the liberal party doesn't see canada as a scandinavian style society, the way it used to. rather, the liberals are insistent on seeing the islamic autocracies in the middle east as social and economic models to follow, rather than as moral abominations to condemn.
canadians have not had this explained to us. we're just being replaced. in fact, trudeau did use the words "population replacement" on more than one occasion, and nobody really even noticed, let alone understood.
even if canada had the demographics and oil resources of a country like saudi arabia, that wouldn't make their social and economic systems as something that canadians would want to emulate, but the elite investor class doesn't care. to them, religion is a tool to order and control society with, and canada's lax productivity just demonstrates we need more domination from the top down. it's not about the ideology, itself. the idea is that canada would be more profitable to their investments if it had a more authoritarian society; although that would contradict most economic theory, the global data over the last 50 years questions the theory.
the basic reality is that most canadians aren't very concerned about maximizing profits for investors. they want to live free lives. they don't see themselves as slaves in a petro-theocracy and aren't going to react well to suggestions that they are, but that's the underlying suggestion, if you're really reading between, and sometimes on, the lines.
at
07:16
you do know who killed the phony cap'n kirk, right?
ze jews.
it's always ze jews.
so just nail him to the nearest telephone pole, then. fine. whatever. it's not like anybody on the left is ever going to give a fuck, or anybody on the right is ever going to reconsider. the american right already has it's own hagiography. this won't really change much.
it might even be fitting to see a buddy phony kirk.
at
01:48
Friday, September 12, 2025
of the five projects announced by carney, they aren't all backwards and regressive.
mining projects are intended to maximize stock returns. are these companies going to refund taxpayers for the gifts they are receiving, or is this just a strict handout to stock portfolios? i'd guess the latter. i'm not particularly opposed to the mining, but this isn't a public works project, it's corporate welfare, and a government handout to the ultra rich. if these mining companies want to expand their operations, they should pay for it themselves. if government is going to lend them money, they should do so at 20+% interest rates, and then tax them through the mouth when they get the resources out. if the companies don't agree, we should nationalize them and do it ourselves. whatever you think of this, it only benefits a handful of people at the expense of major public funding. government funding for projects of this sort should be opposed, but there's no opposition.
the nuclear power plant is being marketed as an energy solution, but the project fails basic physics. the amount of carbon you burn during uranium extraction is astronomical. it's actually one of the dirtiest forms of energy production, when you take into account the entire fuel cycle. if there was some easy to access source of uranium, that might make sense, but this is, counter-intuitively, just a handout to the diesel industry. worse, these plants will probably never get built, anyways. this is another handout to stock portfolios, and will likely be a boondoggle. conservatives should pay special attention to this one.
a better idea would be to build more clean hydro, but the canadian government won't fund hydro because it doesn't create "added value". that's their language. what they mean to say is that investors don't profit from hydro generation, because it's basically free after you build the dam. you can't package and sell hydro. they've tried to do it with hydrogen, but nobody buys into it.
the lng project is hopelessly backwards. once again, industry should fund this. it's the definition of short-sighted capitalism for the state to show up and expend massive resources chasing a temporary european market. by the time they build the infrastructure, the issue in europe will have resolved itself one way or the other, including, potentially, via pipelines from qatar.
the port expansions are reasonable, and i don't oppose this.
overall, carney is behaving in a way that was predictable and should have been expected. it was well understood that he had substantive investments. he is consequently hijacking the canadian state to provide corporate welfare that will help the stock market, and throwing everybody else under the bus. two of the five projects will never get built. you should expect him to talk about the stock market and the economy as though they are the same thing. you should also pay attention to the subsidies he does direct to the manufacturing sector, and see if you can pull out a pattern for his portfolio.
i can predict his demise.
he will be accused of corruption, and might get charged for it.
at
01:42
i reorganized this a little and am updating it, and also posting a green beans casserole recipe, which is similar to the recipe for the baked beans, instant rice and chinese noodles, with the exception that it has garlic and mushroom soup.
i have a big pile of canned food that i should be able to move with me. while i've purchased items like vegetables, juice, cheese, sauces, etc i am actually still eating through the food that i got at the food bank in july. i didn't go in august or september.
i will make sure to go again before i move and move the resulting bounty, whatever it is, but i'm not going to stockpile or hoard food bank food while i'm here. the gave me a giant amount of pasta, lentils and canned food. i will eat all of it (i did have to throw out a tomato, and a cucumber, unfortunately, and i do regret it), and i will wait until it's done before i go for more.
i was intending to eat the can of green beans with the salsa i had yesterday, as i ate all of the kidney beans, but i decided against it. kidney beans are good in a giant bowl of salsa. i didn't think green beans would be, so i put them aside. i was supposed to figure out what to do with them this morning, but i didn't get through my salsa until noon, and then i had the hearing at 13:00. i spent all afternoon sorting through ads.
so, i'm going to start with the green beans tonight, and i might actually leave it at that and have the pasta dated for the 12th, instead.
put this in the bowl in order:
- fresh dill & garlic
- cheddar cheese & monterrey jack
- caesar dressing
- bacon with bacon grease and margarine from pan
- mix
- a can of green beans and a can of mushroom soup, cooked together
- nutritional yeast, hemp
- franks, pepper
- mix
it should be hot. if it isn't, nuke it.
- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.
- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine
- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon
- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise
- june 20th: caesar salad without subs
- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad
- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets
- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs
- june 24th: caesar salad without subs
- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai
- june 28th: broccoli soup
- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)
- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 1st: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 2nd: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 3rd: 10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).
- july 4th: a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.
- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 7th: two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.
- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.
- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)
- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips
- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips
- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)
- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)
- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)
- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.
- july 16th:. pasta with minor subs (5)
- july 17th: pasta with minor subs (6)
- july 18th (on the 19th): pasta with minor subs (7)
- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)
- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)
- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)
- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.
- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3
- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)
- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.
- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)
- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.
- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)
- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam.
- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.
- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.
- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)
- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)
- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).
- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).
- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).
- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)
- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)
- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.
- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.
- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)
- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early.
- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.
- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.
- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).
- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.
- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.
- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.
- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.
- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.
- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.
- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.
- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).
- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.
- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 10th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa.
- sept 11th: green beans that were intended for the 10th (eaten on the 12th) + first cycle 4 guac with canned corn (eaten on 12th).
- sept 12th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 14th: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.
- sept 15th: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 16th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 717th: pasta with minor subs (36). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
at
00:28
Thursday, September 11, 2025
odsp is working the way it's supposed to. don't get upset about that.
but the market is completely psychotic and utterly broken. it's a market failure in front of us. the fact that odsp is the one thing that is working in the face of market failure is a reflection of it being shielded from the market, which has gone bonkers.
at
23:47
for now, the 45% increase in my odsp income since 2022 combined with the 45% decrease in rent (in windsor) since that time has actually opened up some pretty awesome apartments (for me) at the top of my price range, all while banking cash to use to pay for a house next year or the year after.
i'm going to see an 800 square foot 2-bedroom condo tomorrow night. that's actually bigger than the basement apartment i had when i first moved here, with the difference being that this place looks almost brand new and full of people that bought the condos and that other place was 100 years old and full of smokers on welfare.
on saturday morning, i'm going to see a basement that's probably almost as big, is laid out well, but doesn't have a stove and might not have a cable hookup.
i'm also going to see rotting basements in the same price range as i was previously paying, which would give me almost $1000/month to dump in a savings account. if i go with the latter option, it will be to save up to buy as fast as i can, and i might find myself actually getting close to the 40k odsp asset limit just via savings, pretty fast, at 12K/yr just savings, plus what comes up in lawsuits.
this is a reflection of the continued absurdity of the market. you still couldn't afford the rotting basement on literal welfare or osap, but the convergence around odsp is actually working out quite well, if you can get landlords to listen. it'd be nice to find a 600-700 square foot apartment in a normal apartment building for somewhere in between, but that doesn't exist.
if you can use the irrationality of capitalism to your benefit, you have to do it, and i set my life up so i could. on some level, i'm morally opposed to this, but i have to maximize my self-interest, regardless.
you can be exploited by the system, or exploit the system. there's no middle point. it's eat or be eaten, and you can get it or not get it, you can be the slave of the society, or you can enslave the society in return. i'm not naive about this. i don't watch tv, so they can't brainwash me, nyah nyah.
i wouldn't imagine i'd want to move out of an 800 square foot two bedroom condo in a nice part of town any time soon, so i could find myself with a nice down payment in a few years, after the court cases are done.
at
23:36
the place i moved into on may 10th, which has been a disaster, just provided me with a functional $4000-$4500 settlement, with a possibility for an extra $2000-2400 coming. i will need to sign a lease to get the extra $2400.
i have another $1200+ coming from the cdb. i'm asking for $10000+ on my hearing on nov 4th.
small houses in windsor are dipping under $200K, and they aren't selling. if i wait a few more months, they could start pushing to $150K.
with all of this cash flushing in, and prices crashing, i'm seriously considering buying a bungalow.
at
15:19
i'm not going to bother with the platitudes about gun violence, because i don't really align with that spectrum. i'm in canada; i've never seen a gun before, and i never want to see one. but anybody could have run up and stabbed the guy.
i'm more concerned with the state trying to martyr this guy. don't let the fuckers do that. he was an asshole.
at
12:46
do you know who else cared about "arab sovereignty"?
osama bin laden.
we're sleepwalking right back into world war two, where the russians are tasked with saving the world from a nazi-arab alliance that the british were unable to contain.
at
11:51
it seemed as though america had learned that it had to be aggressive with islamicists in order to prevent them from launching attacks. by reducing resources on fighting islamic extremism in order to engage in a stupid war in europe, trump is severely exposing the united states to further attacks by islamic extremists, and you can be sure they're coming.
at
11:27
ok, i don't care about charlie kirk getting killed. from what i can tell, he was an asshole, anyways. stop clogging my newsfeed.
at
11:20
america should be focused on fighting terrorism, not blathering about "qatari sovereignty".
israel tracked the fuckers down and gave them what they deserved. america should be standing with them and applauding them for it.
there was a time not too long ago when america had leadership that wasn't as soft on terrorism as donald trump is turning out to be.
at
11:11
are canadians so reliant on the state that they have to ask permission to die?
to an extent, the right is making a point - these are frequently not cases where somebody needs a doctor to administer the suicide, but situations where the expression of free will should be done autonomously. self-ownership means you have the right to kill yourself, and the right to ask others to do it for you if you can't, but the focus should be on doing it yourself.
i might concede that assisted suicide be restricted to scenarios where the individual is unable to do it themselves. if you really wanted to die, and you could, you wouldn't call a doctor and wait for it, you'd just do it. in some cases, the hesitation might be instructive.
at
07:20
what?
i'm a godless liberal. i don't know anything about this shit.
there's only one captain kirk, and it's captain james t kirk.
at
02:18
if they ever did shoot william shatner, i'm sure he'd make the most of it.
i'm....
dying. i...
tell my wife....all of them....
i
can't...
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SPOCK
at
01:00
i spent all day thinking they assassinated william shatner. i assumed it was a delayed over reaction to his bad acting.
it turns out they killed somebody named charlie kirk, not captain kirk.
i have never heard of this person before, and have no comment, other than to say i'm happy cap'n kirk is still kicking after all.
at
00:49
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Qatar has been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate within its borders, which has been one of the justifications for the Qatar diplomatic crisis that started in 2017 and ended in 2021. In 2014, David S. Cohen, then United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, accused Qatari authorities of allowing financiers who were on international blacklists to live freely in the country: "There are U.S.- and UN-designated terrorist financiers in Qatar that have not been acted against under Qatari law."[1] Accusations come from a wide variety of sources including intelligence reports, government officials, and journalists.
at
18:47
by harboring hamas, as it has been for decades, qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism, and should be called out for it and treated as one.
at
18:45
nobody should be "negotiating" with the leadership of hamas. this is a designated terrorist organization. they should be hunted down, arrested and extradited to israel.
what are you "negotiating" with? there hasn't been a election in gaza in decades, and these people don't even live in the country.
this is a group with not a shred of any sort of democratic legitimacy. it's an organized crime syndicate. these are criminals and they should be treated like it.
at
18:44
qatar's response to israel's attack on hamas in qatar should be to arrest the hamas leadership and charge them with terrorism.
...in case qatar wasn't sure where they were?
israel has just shown you where they are. so, send them to jail.
at
17:34
i generally would not make israel a ballot issue. it doesn't affect me directly.
mark carney is making it a ballot issue, and inciting me to vote him out of office on it.
at
17:05
canadians clearly need to be re-evaluating their relationship with the liberal party.
i applaud israel for it's actions in aggressively prosecuting the war against terrorism and condemn qatar for providing safe haven to terrorists.
at
17:03
the way to understand this is to realize that the liberal party has essentially reorganized itself as a free market corporation, rather than a political party. if you talk to people in the liberal party, they apparently reject the westminster-democracy rule that sitting mps can vote for their own leader. this is wrong and delusional, and i'd like to see a caucus revolt in the canadian liberal party that does result in a change of leader just to re-establish the actual rules, rather than these make believe rules the liberal party invented in a back room somewhere, but it demonstrates what carney is: he's the ceo of the liberal party first, and prime minister second. the way he became prime minister demonstrates that.
keeping that in mind, noam chomsky explains mark carney in the following clip:
at
09:13
history will blame the massive recession or depression we're heading into on these tariffs, but i think it's actually going to be because the banks won't cut rates. interest rates have no effect on inflation, and aren't going to undo tax increases (which is what a tariff is). however, they will always cause recessions.
at
08:41
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
being at war with russia is bad enough, but if we lose poland, who will perform russian music for us? the poles are relatively good at it. it would be a major loss to the cultural tapestry to lose access to polish pianists.
this sucks.
at
23:49
poland just closed the chopin airport in warsaw due to concerns about russian movement into poland.
well.
i've been arguing that if russia goes over the dnieper, it has to go to the vistula. it can't just stop in a field mid way and draw a line on the map a la i love lucy. they aren't the british empire. therefore, they can't cross the dnieper, as it will be world war three.
unless they've lost their fucking minds, i guess. then, they will cross the dnieper on their way to the vistula, and it is world war three.
no comment from france regarding territorial claims to the airport, yet.
at
23:37
the idea that qatar is some kind of neutral arbiter is absurd.
israeli strikes on the hamas leadership outside of the country - not just in iran and qatar, but also in egypt and turkey - are long overdue. israel's justified goal is the absolute elimination of hamas and that requires terminating hamas officials in other countries. they should expect that fate. it is imminent.
at
23:30
talking about leveraging government resources to determine a strategy to reduce or "cure" autism at it's root causes is not crazy speak, it's refreshing, and something i'd like to hear more of from the united states and any other government. you might even call it "progressive" in the legitimate early to mid-twentieth century sense of the term.
however, i'm certain that it will be determined in the end that once you diagnose autism in development using genetic analysis, the only real solution is abortion.
now, i'm actually in support of that, because i don't believe in god. i don't see the point in the burden. i'm not interested in some kind calvinist elect, or some kind of jobsian ethics play or something. the existentialist literature doesn't need this entry, or at least not by state dictate. amy connet barrett probably isn't, because she does believe in god.
there are already lots of good reasons to put restrictions on where people can smoke, and to try to get the world off of oil. the reality that air pollution is causing higher prevalences of autism is just another one to add to the already long list.
at
23:02
to legitimately reduce the number of cases of autism, you want to:
(1) severely limit the amount of air pollution coming from burning carbon in trains, planes, automobiles and trucks.
(2) prevent people from smoking cigarettes or marijuana indoors or near residential areas, where pregnant women exist.
these are the two major preventable causes of autism: cars and smoking, not vaccines.
at
09:12
it's worth pointing out that thimerosal is largely banned in canada, and the canadian government wouldn't let kids under the age of 6 anywhere near the stuff.
generally speaking, you should avoid contact with any sort of mercury for a wide variety of reasons. mercury is highly toxic to humans in any context. it has little to no legitimate use in civilian applications. you should have essentially no contact with mercury at all.
however, this isn't really about vaccines, it's about a chemical that is used to keep bacteria and fungi out of vaccines. that issue should be studied, but the reality is that it already has been, and the issue reduces to questions around proper use of the product. this isn't a concern regarding the safety or efficacy of the vaccine itself.
i would agree with my government's position, which is that it's not worth the risk of mercury exposure. there are other anti-fungal agents to use to protect the vaccines that are less dangerous to human health. the united states should follow canada's lead and eliminate the use of this product in vaccine storage.
democrats should be aware in that taking a kneejerk pro-thimerosal position, you're aligning with multinational chemical conglomerates seeking to maximize profit and not with the science, which is clear that the product is toxic.
that said, the science around the causes of autism has also advanced over the last 30 years. today, we understand that autism is caused by often random genetic mutations in the womb and isn't some kind of disease you can "catch" in childhood. the idea of a cure for autism, which is what i think rfk ultimately wants, is probably impossible, in any post-natal context. we're talking about gene editing at a very early stage of fetal development. the question as to whether environmental toxins in air and water like pollution from factories, including mercury, as well as car exhaust and second hand tobacco and marijuana smoke, may contribute to the genetic mutations causing autism in the wombs of pregnant women would be helpful public policy worth developing and responding to, in the form of increased regulations limiting emissions of harmful toxins in air and water. the trump administration has largely opposed and undone this sort of regulation of industrial emissions.
at
08:55
it seems a little over the top to just slaughter them all. if you had a geriatric facility full of old people and a coup died of covid, should you kill all of them?
it shouldn't be that hard to test each of them for the virus one by one and kill the ones that have it and then repeat until you're sure it's gone.
at
08:17
Monday, September 8, 2025
rick moranis didn't actually disappear after 1994, he just took the role of rivers cuomo for the next 20 years.
at
22:09
well, i mean, at some point she's gotta refocus towards people half her current age, as that half is becoming a third, or a quarter, and that's not sustainable.
at
20:46
i actually hear that taylor's next album, after she goes back to school to get an english degree, will be a science fiction themed concept record, involving a metaphorical love triangle.
hope she finishes it, before it falls into a black hole.
at
20:45
taylor swift actually seems to fancy herself as some kind of english major.
umm.
i'd actually encourage her to go to university as a double english-composition major. she could afford it. she'd get in anywhere.
it might be what she needs to refocus.
at
19:15
again: europe just announced a trillion dollar arms purchase intended for ukraine and called it a "peace conference". this was in fact a dramatic escalation. the russians predictably responded.
i don't like any of this, but what russia is doing is understandable and justifiable, so long as the west keeps trying to militarize eastern europe.
at
02:44
Sunday, September 7, 2025
what it really demonstrates is the carney wants canada to make cars. because he likes cars. and hockey. and guns.
we thought we were electing some kind of academic.
turns out, he's essentially cletus from the slack-jawed yokel.
at
21:57
this is to update the catchup list again.
i have a downpayment down and hope to be out of here before the end of the week.
right now, the meals are stabilizing, but i'm skipping lots of things to get through the pasta before i move. that means that i'll be eating a lot of fruit and salad after i move to catch up on those items.
- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.
- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine
- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon
- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise
- june 20th: caesar salad without subs
- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad
- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets
- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs
- june 24th: caesar salad without subs
- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai
- june 28th: broccoli soup
- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)
- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 1st: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 2nd: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 3rd: 10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).
- july 4th: a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.
- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 7th: two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.
- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.
- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)
- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips
- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips
- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)
- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)
- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)
- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.
- july 16th:. pasta with minor subs (5)
- july 17th: pasta with minor subs (6)
- july 18th (on the 19th): pasta with minor subs (7)
- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)
- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)
- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)
- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.
- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3
- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)
- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.
- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)
- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.
- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)
- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam.
- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.
- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.
- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)
- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)
- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).
- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).
- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).
- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)
- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)
- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.
- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.
- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)
- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early.
- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.
- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.
- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).
- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.
- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.
- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.
- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.
- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.
- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.
- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.
- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).
- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.
- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 10th: first cycle 4 guac with canned corn.
- sept 11th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 12th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 14th: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.
- sept 15th: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 16th: doubled up salsa with green beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa.
at
20:13
this language is bizarre, and i don't know what any of it means.
i don't know what "woke" means, or what "woke authoritarianism" is. i know what authoritarianism is, and it is right-wing. i agree that the bill was an attempt to enforce a right-wing authoritarian conservative perspective on the general populace.
polievre's response doesn't appear to be very liberal. his position is broadly ideologically equivalent to trudeau's, but they seem to disagree on what type of expression should be restricted. it's consequently better described as a nitpick than as legitimate opposition. polievre and his conservatives would enforce an equally right-wing form of authoritarian conservatism, they'd just choose targets like transgendered people instead of focusing on "hate speech".
neither party is advancing a liberal agenda, which would be to promote free speech on the internet. the ndp certainly didn't promote that either.
the people's party might be the party closest to that position, and consequently the closest thing to a liberal party, which is probably why they succeeded in substantively cutting into liberal party support. as mentioned previously, this is extremely dangerous, as the people's party has immensely regressive pro-market political positions. if they ever won an election, they would ruin the country's economy and destroy it's social safety net. however, they are the only party actually supporting free speech, which is the position almost all canadians actually support.
if this ever became a ballot issue, and canadians got legitimately fed up with the government trying to tell us how and what to think, the only outlet is the libertarian right. that's an extremely frightening proposition.
at
17:19
the online harms act, for example, is an extremely conservative piece of legislation. you would define the party or parties that support such a thing as on the right of the spectrum, and those opposed to it (unless they are opposed because it doesn't go far enough) on the left.
at
17:10
i don't know what "virtue signalling" is and i'm really not very interested.
censorship is something that conservatives are supposed to believe in, in order to protect the youth from ideas it considers to be dangerous. that is practically the definition of conservatism, and if you believe in any sort of censorship, i will label you right-wing and call you a conservative. this idea of left-wing censorship is a contradiction in terms. if some supposed left-wing group tries to censor you, what they're demonstrating to you is that they aren't left wing at all, they're conservatives.
conversely, liberals reject censorship and believe in free expression, perhaps subject to stringent rules that can be modified in extreme circumstances. i believe in almost total free speech, except where there's an existing power imbalance. institutions with power that would advance dangerous ideas need to be restricted from doing so. functionally, that means that i believe and promote virtually any type of free expression, except for religion. i strongly oppose the idea of religious freedom, and rather argue very aggressively that religion needs to be severely restricted in it's operating ability by a secular state. an ideal society would dispense of religion altogether, and the question in front of secularists, humanists, progressives, socialists, liberals and other leftists is how to discard of and eliminate religion in an enlightened fashion that minimizes the required oppression in that goal to what is necessary to get to that end.
supposed leftists that argue in favour of religious tolerance are in fact really conservatives.
this is a political spectrum based on what the words conservative and liberal actually mean, and it is what i enforce when i write.
by those definitions, mark carney, justin trudeau and joe biden are all conservatives, as was barack obama. donald trump, on the other hand, is more or less a liberal. michael ignatieff was a conservative, whereas stephane dion was the last liberal leader of the liberal party in canada. bill clinton and both george bushes were both broadly categorized as liberals, as was ronald reagan and jimmy carter. stephen harper was a conservative, but brian mulroney was a liberal.
i could go on for a while but you get the point.
i'm not interested in party affiliation, i'm interested in what the parties actually say and where they actually exist on the spectrum.
it's relatively clear that pierre polievre and mark carney are both conservatives, but carney is far more conservative than polievre. carney is distinctly and firmly on the right, whereas polievre is more of a centre-right, which is about where trudeau was.
at
16:25
what's happening right now in canada is that the liberals have swung so far to the right that the conservatives are campaigning to their left, and it might work, but you can't believe them. the tfw program in canada is becoming something like nafta in the united states. both parties campaign against it when they're out of power, but neither cancels it when they get in.
the conservative are the ones initially responsible for expanding the program, and justin trudeau campaigned against it, and then expanded it further. i would expect the conservatives to be no different than the liberals.
the program is popular amongst businesses because it allows them to minimize costs on wages. it's unpopular amongst everybody else because it legitimately takes jobs away from young people. the fast food restaurants in canada don't hire teenagers anymore, they import workers from guatemala. it's absurd.
the united nations has likened the tfw to modern slavery, which is essentially correct.
the canadian political system is about to break, and it could be heading into a danger zone. the ndp is dying. who do people vote for to oppose the two-headed monster? this is the kind of scenario that generates parties on the extremes of the spectrum.
at
07:33
the federal government should pass a law obligating companies that force their employees back to work to buy carbon offsets to compensate for the unnecessary emissions it's producing. this should be proportional to the amount of pollution they're generating via unnecessary transit, which should be reported with their taxes to the cra.
at
01:14
canada spends almost $100 million dollars a year in salaries for mps and senators and an additional $100 million dollars a year in pensions. we spend even more on staffers and other administrative staff.
if these sick freaks really want to spend more public funds on buying guns, they should target their own salaries for a 20% reduction, first.
they could immediately raise 40+ million dollars a year for their war games by cutting their own salaries and even more by cutting salaries for staffers and secretaries.
at
00:12
if the government is really insistent on the need for cuts, the first thing they should cut is the salary and pensions of mps.
a 15-20% cut in the salaries of all mps and ministers, and a 15-20% reduction in pensions for mps, should be first on the list.
at
00:02
Saturday, September 6, 2025
there's a lot of pop stars that are really exist merely as fashion and have no discernible talent as composers or performers. they do what they're told for five years, ten max, and then they disappear into obscurity. this mostly means dancing around like sluts to music that somebody else makes. they get paid some small percentage of what they made for the conglomerates that directed them. the truth is that they're at best actors and mostly dancers. they write little to nothing.
the frustrating thing about taylor swift is that it's readily apparent that the woman did have some talent and might have chosen to use it, but instead threw it away to maximize profit.
it's difficult to respect a person that would prioritize profit over art.
she'll be remembered for what she is/was and not for what she might have been.
at
22:20
should i say something about taylor swift getting married?
i think this is a reality tv production, directed by the nfl. and i think it's very lucrative for everybody. sales are up across the board.
so i think they'll stay married so long as it's profitable.
i've been disappointed in taylor swift, as an artist. i think she didn't live up to the potential she had and has instead had a career of vapid capitalist schlop. it sells well, but it's garbage, as substantive art.
and i think that travis kelce is possibly the ugliest, least attractive human being i've ever seen in my life.
but, you know. it sells. whatever.
at
22:09
for many decades, the state tried to colonize the inuit by ridiculing their food and making them reliant on western food, imported from the south. it was stupid and unsustainable. if they had succeeded in colonizing them, and to some extent they did, what's next? do they try to grow lettuce in the rocks? the only possible outcome was a reliant, dependent population, which is in nobody's interests.
i've studied this at school; i did a research paper on it in 2013. colonization in the south had the initial desired end point of trying to convert the indigenous plains people into farmers that could grow produce to export and tax for the crown. it was at least a coherent project. what actually happened in canada is that the government in ottawa decided that the indians were too savage and uncivilized to be converted to farmers (you can look that up) and moved them to reserves instead. ottawa's plan to develop a farming economy in the plains wanted to replaced the indigenous groups with settlers from the united states, but few came due to the weather, which is extremely cold for half of the year. ottawa had to instead aggressively import farmers for their agricultural plan from eastern and northern europe. for that reason, the canadian plains have a high percentage of scots, irish, swedes, danes, norwegians, finns, poles, balts, ukrainians and russians. my mother is partially descended from finnish settlers to the region, on her mother's side.
they seem to have thought they could do the same thing in the north, and it could only be due to ignorance about how extreme the climate was, and still is.
in recent years, the state has apparently shifted direction and now wants to reverse this process by fostering more self-reliance, after trying to force dependency on them for decades. this was inevitable, and one of the things i pointed out in the research paper. they need to develop their own food economies, they can't indefinitely get hooked on $20 bottles of coke, ultimately paid for by taxes from the south. it's unsustainable, self-defeating and stupid and it's ultimately viciously cruel on top of it.
now, donald trump wants us to buy guns from him and put them in the north, but he seems not to really understand (and i think most canadians don't understand) that we don't really have complete sovereignty over the north, in canada. the north of canada is a semi-autonomous region within canada, and may at some point in the future retain full independence in the global nation-state system. that was the unstated goal of the plan that chretien put into motion in the late 90s; for now, the south is responsible to protect the north, but the north will eventually need to protect itself. this is not going to be ottawa's burden forever.
every time the inuit have been asked, they have told us that they don't want these guns from the south on their land.
if anything good happens from donald trump, if there is any positive outcome from this harmful competition and pointless conflict he is forcing on us, it may be that it acts as a catalyst for northern autonomy in canada. however, they have a long way to go.
step one is to help them relearn how to feed themselves, which we took from them on purpose to make them reliant on us.
at
18:57
we are getting extremely mixed signals from mark carney. is he increasing spending or cutting it
i would expect that he at least understands that you shouldn't slash spending in a recession.
at
01:10
Friday, September 5, 2025
the problem with reclassifying marijuana in the united states is that the classification is about medical use. the basis of "medicinal marijuana" is not that smoking pot is going to cure anything, and especially not cancer, but rather that it's been considered cruel by some judges to tell terminal cancer patients they aren't allowed to smoke pot, on the basis that it might be bad for their health, due to the fact that they'e dying anyways. the basis of medicinal marijuana legalization is actually one of the most cynical and sarcastic rulings i've ever read. it's truly brutal.
the reality is that smoking pot has absolutely no medicinal or clinical value whatsoever. that is absolutely clear. that is the reason it's a schedule one drug.
moving it to schedule two or higher would suggest that marijuana has some value as medicine. it doesn't.
you need to either leave it in schedule one or remove it from the list of controlled substances altogether.
at
15:15
they're starting to call trump a national conservative, which i suppose would be nacho for short.
at
15:00
Thursday, September 4, 2025
as i said a few weeks ago, they're going to crunch the numbers here and realize the summer around the great lakes was below average heat, not above average. we're on the other side of a blocking pattern that is making the west hot and the east cold. when you crunch those numbers, it will come up above average, but summer started late here, had a few months of average days around 30 degrees solid and now looks like it's going to end early. that's going to be below the long term mean - the new mean, relative to new averages.
at
14:16
there was a chinese emperor that used to drink mercury in a futile search for immortality. organ transplants put a lot of stress on anybody's body, and they won't even do them at all past a certain age. that's not the ticket.
i have spent quite a bit of time contemplating a way out of the futility of finite existence via the idea of transferring consciousness from one host to another. swapping out parts on an old body is inefficient, when you could just get a new body that was built from a clone of yourself, perhaps with the genetics modified a little. for example, if i was to clone myself, my clone would be xx and would develop that way.
we'd have to find a way to generate brain dead clones that can grow without experiencing it, so that we could upload ourselves into them. it might take a while. you'd have to be able to back up your brain to disk to do this.
the issue is the same as with ai - this would require immense amounts of data, to the point that it isn't feasible. i had set myself a pascal's wager with this, but abandoned it as impossible. we'd need quantum computing first, and then some paradigm shift in data storage, which is reaching it's limits.
a better approach to immortality may lie in crspr style gene editing that turns off cell death, but you'd probably just end up with cancer. there are reasons we die, at the cellular level. if we could address and undo those, we wouldn't necessarily need to.
however, we'd have to eliminate microbes, as well, or we'd just get sick and die, eventually. there's a story by isaac asimov about this.
ultimately, the hard truth is that we're evolved to die. we're vessels for the dna, which we increasingly understand and may be able to take control of in the near future, inverting the relationship. at that point, it's no longer clear what we even are at all; we'd become free to define or redefine what we are, as a species.
at
05:56
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