what israel should do with these pathetic losers that keep going back there on dingies is capture them, treat them as enemy combatants and carry out prisoner exchanges with their home countries. the intent would be to create an international incident that embarrasses their families, but also to enact some compensation for the time and effort that they are being forced to waste on dealing with this. some more wealthy enemy combatants may be exchanged for an amount of money, whereas others may be exchanged for some political prisoner somewhere.

israel should try to profit from this. they shouldn't pay for it and then give them back for free.

while they are held captive, the combatants should be isolated in camps to prevent them from raping and murdering people, given that they don't seem to think there's anything wrong with that.

what carney has actually demonstrated - this is his actual record, which canadians should have tested more aggressively before they elected him - is that he has a tendency for dramatic rhetoric that is not well thought through, that has little grounding in reality and does not develop into workable policy.

in fact, the faceless bureaucrat coming out of the office has turned out to be a better politician than policy maker - he is better at writing speeches than he is at writing legislation, and he tends not to follow through on specifics. he's a drama queen more than he is a policy wonk. he belongs in front of audiences more than he belongs in front of legislatures.

in a lot of contexts, this might be what the establishment wants (in what is actually a snub to the common wisdom, which is that voters would see through it, it turns out that you actually can become incredibly popular in canada by running for hockey and against america after all. the experts were wrong - we actually are that simple-minded, as a people.), but in the context of canada right now, it's actually what the serious people were trying to get rid of. the country has ignored too many serious issues for too long and is now in desperate need of serious policy before it's too late. mark carney is not creating serious policy, he's walking down the same delusional path back to the nineteenth century that the liberals were supposed to be trying to get us off of. of course, the conservatives present no alternative, but instead are an even less serious option.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/21/mark-carney-climate-canada

after a number of detours and redirectons, i am finally putting up the last few mirrors in the bathroom.

i have made a number of extra purchases to finalize the space:

- a water filter in the shower (water softener)

- a new shower head

- mirrors in the shower

- shower shelving

- more shelving with a large mirror across from the sink on top (so i can see behind me by looking into the mirror)

- extra soap and shampoo

- brushes, combs, tweezers, etc

- some small usb devices (shaver, plucker, pimple remover)

- a hair straightening iron

- extra wall shelves for these devices

- a side shelf for toothbrushes and other things to get it off the sink

- i finally installed the makeup shelf with the power extensions 

- a cushion for the seat

- lights in strategic parts of the room

i need to put mirrors up on both of the inside doors and on the window, which is right over the sink.

it's a fucking spa. 

next step is a long and overdue shower.

curves and quotas are not the answer, either. it goes from grade inflation to magical grade thinking. it's even worse to apply a normal curve on everything.

students that go to top schools should be expected to get high grades. if 65% of students at harvard cannot get As no matter how hard they try, it is going to create de-enrollment and a strong incentive to study somewhere else. it's easy to predict that that 35% will be full of nepotism and the rest of the student body will need to buy it's way in. this is going to be a disaster.

it is apparently a radical proposition nowadays to suggest testing students aggressively and awarding them scores based on their test marks, and letting the data fall as it does. that's the system nobody wants.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/harvard-faculty-votes-to-make-it-more-difficult-for-undergrads-to-earn-as/