the liberals generally don't pretend that they don't represent the banks first and foremost, but they're also generally relatively enlightened about. it's noblesse oblige; it's charity. sure. 

but, as a poor person, i almost always end up voting liberal (if i vote at all) because the ndp are just fucking clueless. their policies are often even worse for poor people than the conservatives, but they market themselves otherwise. it's worse than a charade, it's a scam.

yes, it's true that your average bourgeois middle class landlord is just trying to feed their kids, too. ok. fine.

the point is that they shouldn't be allowed to prey on the poor to do it. there should be laws that protect the poor from being feasted upon by the middle class, who are just being middle class. it's like criticizing a lion for being a lion; you don't tell a lion to behave, you lock it up to stop it from being a murderer.

i know better than to get frustrated with the ndp, it's just....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

The NDP also said that it wants to cut off low-interest federal loans, along with what it calls preferential tax treatment and mortgage loan insurance for large corporate landlords.

AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!

fuck.

fuck.

FUCK.

so, let's instead have high interest bank mortgages for "small business owners", which will be passed on to working class and disabled renters in the form of higher rents. 

winner: banks. loser: poor people.

what a bunch of fucking idiots.

*sigh*.

this is utterly stupid. again.

the problem right now is bourgeois professionals in the middle class buying cheap houses with small downpayments and having to hike the rent to pay off interest rates. that's what is happening to me. the people that bought my home are not corporate landlords, they're a middle class family trying to find a way to pay their own bills by offloading them to renters. this is called rentier capitalism and it is not about faceless corporations, it is about regular people in the middle class acting like parasites by using rent as a side hustle instead of working a second job to raise extra money. it's the latter that needs to stop, not the former.

in fact, if a large corporation bought this house (it wouldn't, but go with me) outright with cash instead of with a minimal downpayment and a huge loan with a high interest rate, it could charge less rent because it would have lower margins. that's actually what low income people, need - more upper class owners buying property that aren't paying interest rates and can operate at lower margins. i'm probably going to end up in a corporate apartment building with a higher margin because i can't afford the offloaded hike on interest rates that smaller landlords are paying right now, which is blocking me from renting another basement apartment.

a far more informed, intelligent and helpful policy would be to ban people from renting property until they have paid off more than 75% (or more) of the mortgage on the property, first. the middle class should not be allowed to offload their bills on the poor by buying up cheap property that they'd never live in themselves and then inflating the rent to levels that drive the poor further into poverty, and which they have no choice but to pay. this is predatory and parasitic; it's "rentier capitalism" at it's worst. this cuts the banks and the middle class bourgeoisie (who are the problem) and not the corporate sector out of the process. it would discourage bourgeois middle class people from becoming rentiers and shift the process of renting properties back to the wealthy (and to the corporate sector), which would lower rent costs because it would require less borrowing from the bank and because it would assert an economy of scale, rather than five million "small business" independent mom and pop entrepreneurs that need to raise money to pay for their kids and fund their cocaine habit somehow.

but this is the ndp, canada's protest party for rebellious 12 year-olds, and they're instead going to blame it all "on corporations", without any sort of analysis, which they simply don't have. the ndp should have a deeper class consciousness and a coherent class analysis. they don't. they want to appeal to the alienated children of the bourgeoisie to send them funding and donations, instead.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ndp-federal-election-2025-jagmeet-singh-housing-affordability/

google recently announced it has developed a new quantum chip that is not always wrong, but merely usually wrong. it may get a correct answer, occasionally. 

this is being hailed as a giant breakthrough.

this is the device they need to put the chip in to lower it's temperature to close to absolute zero:

absolute zero is colder than outer space.

it's colder than the end of the universe.

colder than margaret thatcher's dead remains, and this is very much a race to the bottom, the bottom of existence, itself.

it's so cold that matter halts to vibrate, although it's important to be careful in understanding the difference between what we call absolute zero in existing models and an actual bottoming out of existence, which is something lower than it.

you are never going to have an absolute zero enclosure in your pocket calculator walkie talkie, but you maybe you can pay mit to log into their computer, if you need to solve some np problem for work before the end of the universe.

the quantum computer itself is a schrodinger's cat. 

it's a dead end and the saviour of humanity at the same time.

if you want a serious way to address solving np-complete problems in polynomial time with reasonable amounts of energy and using reasonable amounts of memory, quantum computing is an extremely poor approach. if quantum computing ever works, it's going to be for mainframe computing, strictly. your phone will never be a quantum computer.

using bacteria is a far more serious idea that could very seriously be mass manufactured.

it's the hindus that are leading the way on this, right now.

https://scienceline.org/2025/02/bacteria-can-now-do-complex-math/

the guy they put at the top of the most wanted list was most wanted for operating on hell's angels territory and refusing to buy drugs from them.

it's a demonstration of how the country really operates.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/canadas-most-wanted-man-arrested-in-italy/

i will decide if conan runs the world or not. he has no say in the matter.

the way i see it is that if the world is going to be absurd and incoherent, it might as well be satirical, too.

i'm giving elon musk an ultimatum to immediately cease and desist copying conan obrien's appearance or to let conan run the world instead. if elon musk does choose to continue running the world, he needs to make his appearance more conducive to the purpose. for example, he might base his appearance on michael jackson, instead.

your choice, e-lo.