everybody knows canada has the best comedians, but that doesn't mean we have a deficit of scholars. it doesn't mean we look to them for wisdom, or vote for them, or ask them for advice.

what's next?

bob and doug's accounting advice youtube channel?

tariff time! excellent!

we're really this stupid. really. 

the true north dumb and bleak.

The population of Baffin Island was 13,039 as of the 2021 Canadian census. The island, which is the largest in Canada, has one of the lowest population densities in the world, with only about 0.03 people per square kilometer.

the canadian north is a giant, barren wasteland that will cost untold billions or trillions to defend.

it's not worth it.

i want to change the narrative around "arctic defence" in canada.

the tory media is increasingly telling me i need to sacrifice things to save the arctic from russia - things like health care, and a functioning civil service.

can you explain to me why, exactly, i would give a fuck if russia conquered baffin island? because i'm struggling to care.

i think we should call the yankees' bluff on this one and keep defence spending down to focus on heathcare and education instead. if they want to protect the arctic from russia, let them do it. i don't give a damn. 

the counter-tariffs were not smart. they backfired. it was predictable. we need to adapt.

this is tricky.

the liberals are correct in pointing out that the counter-tariffs are stupid. putting tariffs on the united states is not a reaction to protect workers. counter-tariffs are also an attack on workers, or most of them are.

it is in our self-interest to determine which counter-tariffs are a shot in the foot and remove them. that is the correct thing to do - not as a concession, but because it is hurting us and it was a stupid reaction in the first place. i don't know who consults austin powers for economic advice.

however, the americans will interpret it as a concession and push back harder. that is also true, even though it isn't a concession.

tariffs are hard, and justin trudeau's not a smart guy. this is what happened.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-removing-retaliatory-tariffs-1.7614909

my legs are sore from squatting yesterday. 

my workspace isn't set up and probably won't get set up here at all, so i have a tabletop on the floor where my workbench should be. i had to squat to fix the windows 98 pc. it's booting into windows 98, i just have a few more minor tasks to finish before i can put it back where it was. this is a major relief for me. i actually had a god cry when it didn't boot, but i'm under a lot of stress.

last night was so disgusting it triggered my asthma, even with the windows open. i slept all day. i'm waking up limp like i should, but i can also hear them talking when i wake up, tricking themselves into thinking their therapy was successful because i stopped yelling at them, and it's extremely disconcerting.

i had a lot of things to do this week. after i get the studio area cleaned back up, i'll need to take the gparted cd (which i was taking out of the windows 98 pc. it sits in there because the machine does have a windows xp partition, and i find the best way to dual boot is to go into gparted and change the boot partition. the only other way that i know of is to install grub in a linux partition, but i'm actually using a pata hard drive (it's a p3b-f. this is a very good asus board from the late 90s. it has ide channels, no sata. so the dvd players are ide, too. it has a floppy connector.) and it's only about 80 gb. the triple boot with a linux partition might make sense if i had a larger drive, or wanted to use two drives. but my old psu couldn't handle two hard drives and two dvds at the same time. it doesn't matter. i need the machine to run the soundblaster live! with the input bay, which i need to finish period 3 recording projects. it will need to hold out at least that long.) back to the windows 7 laptop and see if i an get my usb key back.

i need the xp partition because windows 98 has difficulty reading usb keys. it can barely read dvd players. the board has two usb 1.1 slots on the back.

i need to get out to do things this weekend, hopefully. i am feeling and looking better, i just need my hair to behave.