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.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday, September 8, 2025
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.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
c'mon, rick. there's a song for that too.
but c'mon, rick.
this is what i want you to do. call larry david. the two of you are going to work on a series - and this will be the last thing you do, before you officially retire - where you, rick moranis, are fucking pissed off at the world for calling you bob. you will play yourself. you get to be a grumpy older man, and the gag is that you're sick and fucking tired of everybody calling you bob, and you're going to make sure everybody knows it. you get to just yell and scream at everybody and be old, and the underlying joke will go on for ever. it's a gag that has no end, that keeps giving. rick moranis being angry for being called bob is a joke that will never end, never wear out, never not be funny.
unfortunately, it seems as though bruce willis has completely forgotten that he was supposed to die hard.
the way this works is that the synapse that remembers he's supposed to die hard is trapped in an area of his brain that is slowly collapsing, and a flood of dangerous proteins is slowly filling up the lobe, threatening to dissolve the synapse. the synapse has 24 hours to block the proteins, and regenerate elsewhere. the synapse will be aided by a young rick moranis, who for some reason is a micrometre tall, and is screaming at everybody to stop fucking calling him bob.
there's two ways to do this; you can do this using set theory (which is what chomsky did, and has precursors in some of the more absurd philosophers that chomsky would go on to criticize, like badiou), or by using functions, which is more modern and minimizes the use of the cumbersome and maybe problematic (see axiom of choice) components in set theory. so i didn't exactly study chomsky directly in computer science class, but the conversion of his theory of grammar into a modern framework, using mappings and functions. mathematicians nowadays would generally prefer the language of functions over the theory of sets.
i did, however, a take a math course in automata theory at the graduate level that was built almost directly on chomsky's work, which was different than the computer science courses that used chomsky's hierarchy as a foundational part of the theory of computation.
yes, you will study noam chomsky if you take high, or even mid, level courses in computer science or computer mathematics. his work in the theory of languages (which he assigns to galileo, and which i have criticized him for doing, as i think that's wrong) is foundational in computer science. he will be remembered as one of the most important computer scientists and computer mathematicians of the 20th century, amongst other things.
i remember the first time a professor wrote the chomsky hierarchy on the board and i burst out laughing. i thought to myself that that can't be what he wants to be remembered for.
it will be a great irony of history if we forget everything else, and remember chomsky only as the blurry figure from the distant past that gave us the chomsky hierarchy.
i have actually taken graduate level courses in artificial intelligence.
it's not what you think it is. it's really actually the same thing as a google search. every time you searched google over the last 30 years, you were using a system that is functionally identical to what we call "artificial intelligence".
the physics of cognition is immensely data and computation intensive, so much so that the idea of using a computer to emulate even the intelligence of a bird or small mammal is beyond the limits of current technology, and beyond the limits of what we can project as future technology. all we can actually do is automate the process of searching a database, which does not remotely emulate cognition, let alone intelligence.
i have previously called for industry to refrain from using the term "artificial intelligence" to describe advanced and automated search algorithms. they should call it what it is, not what it isn't. as it is, artificial intelligence is just a marketing term.
this remains the best short analysis of ai for a general audience that i'm aware of:
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
my understanding is that there's now only three ways to remove xi from power.
1) he can die.
2) he can retire.
3) he can be overthrown.
as he continues to age and others begin to look past him, his abolition of term limits leaves the ambitious with no peaceful path to power, inviting them to try the third option, or at least the first.
this is the value of term limits in democratic societies but especially in undemocratic ones: they prevent revolutions of personality, by allowing for non-violent overthrow.
if xi is telling the chinese political establishment that they need to go after him to get rid of him, he very well might get it. on top of that, his successor will gain both civilian and military control. that's potentially frightening.
be careful what you wish for.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
i agree with the decision to ban abbas from the un, and think that all autocratic heads of state that rule without democratic legitimacy should also be banned.
however, i'm uncomfortable with the united states making the decision, unilaterally.
the united states should have introduced a motion in the general assembly to ban all autocracies from the general assembly. it still can.
my income has gone up. housing prices and rents have both come down.
there's currently about 20 small houses on the market.
for $850, i'd be most likely to get a room, in windsor.
i'm currently paying $1200/month. i can pay up to $1300/month.
look at this:
there's currently about 20 small houses on the market.
i don't have $10,000. yet. if i win some of these cases that keep getting stalled, i might soon.
prices are likely to continue to fall in windsor for a while, and interest rates are coming down. look at this:
for $850, i'd be most likely to get a room, in windsor.
in a few months, i might be able to buy a two or three bedroom house. that would be the end of this bullshit, and allow me to get back to working on my art.
do i have anything to sell to raise $10,000? i don't have anything of any real value. i have a lot of stuff, but it has no retail value, not even if i sold all of it. and it would cost me three times the amount to buy it back.
my family should have given me some money, but it's refusing to do so, and forcing me to sue them, and i haven't had time to do the paperwork.
ugh.
the way out is right in front of me.
how would i reform the education system?
1) i would add four years to high school. if we all agree that we need more than 12 years of schooling to compete in today's world, the extra four years should be added to the public education system. functionally, this would mean that the existing universities would be converted into new high schools that teach grades 13-16. it would make sense to create new, smaller campuses in less centralized locations. we would rename grades 1-8 as elementary school, grades 9-12 as middle school and grades 13-16 as high school. these new high schools would function like high schools and not like universities. they would not be specialized, but have provide a broad based education. in our society, all students need four more years of english, four more years of computer programming or general use, four more years of science and should all be required to take courses in economics, law, civics and other areas that are required to function in reality. the society will be better off with a more educated populace, in addition to a more educated workforce.
2) that said, if you want to drop out of school at grade 12 and get a job in construction, you should also be allowed to do that. only up to grade 12 would be required by law.
3) the university system would need to adjust. it should continue to offer four year bachelor degrees and two year masters degrees.
4) however, the function of this new system would be different. most people would be expected to go to work after grade 16.
5) for the small number of people that continue to university, university tuition should be free, but entrance requirements should be extremely high. you would need to have straight 90s in everything all the way through high school to get into university, and you would not be able to pay your way to get in, at all.
if this guy in new york was really a socialist, he wouldn't be promoting small business libertarian capitalism by promoting co-ops to distribute organic quinoa to the children of rich new yorkers, stuck working in offices without getting paid. that is the most unsocialist approach conceivable.
1) they need collectivized worker action to improve wages. interns should organize and go on a sit down strike in their offices.
2) socialism in food manufacturing requires super production through automation, which necessitates following through with the capitalist stage. small business co-ops slow this down and prolong the mundanity of boring capitalism.
the production issue is sort of abstract.
but real socialists in new york city should be agitating to unionize these interns.
i am not interested in free markets. i do not support small businesses with non-unionized workforces that have no benefits. that is not left-wing. that is right-wing.
i support efficient, large conglomerates that produce at scale and sell at cost and that have unionized workforces with good benefits. achieving socialism requires attaining a stage of super production, including in food manufacturing. the socialization of production will only occur by taking control of large conglomerates; socialism is cock-blocked by small business libertarian capitalism relying on free markers to function.
food co-ops have always existed.
however, they tend to have much higher prices than corporate grocery stores because they don't and can't operate at scale. the more food you make, the cheaper is to produce. for that reason, these kinds of stores can only exist by offering specialized products to the upper class, which is what the proposal in new york city is really about: subsidies for the children of the wealthy, socialism for the rich.
the idea that non-corporate stores are going to somehow lead to lower prices is the kind of economic illiteracy that has been a problem on the left or decades. it's completely backwards. these types of stores always have higher prices.
food prices are currently high due to rising input costs (including the cost of oil-based pesticides), taxation, tariffs and other factors in production, including wages.
trump can't get this international students thing right. first, he bans international students because they're anti-semitic. then, he wants to bring in an absurd number of chinese students, and if you listen to his reasoning, it's clear that somebody explained to him that the previous position was dumb, so he swung to the opposite extreme. both positions are stupid.
the government shouldn't be interfering in how academic institutions choose students, and that should be a foundational principle in any democratic society. the academies should choose the best students available, and they should do so based on merit. universities are not supposed to be a way to hand out social welfare, but i realize they are.
if there's one place in society that an attack on "dei" makes sense, it's in the schools. schools should not be trying to "provide opportunities" to people, that is not their mandate. the mandate of the academy is to advance education, not to redistribute resources. it is the mandate of government to redistribute resources.
in canada, the state had to step in because there were a large number of diploma mills set up that were importing international students in order to capitalize on their very high tuition fees and it was creating housing stability problems for poor people, while adding nothing of value to the country itself. these diploma mills are not serious institutions and their expensive diplomas have no market value. worse, a disturbing number of our accredited universities and colleges were beginning to participate in this process in order to maximize profits, which was breaking the education system. the state had to step in to regulate this, but it did so in the most lazy way possible. instead of setting maximum numbers of students, it should have regulated the entrance requirements. if canadian universities had higher minimum entrance requirements by legislation, they wouldn't be able to capitalize on these high tuitions from international students.
universities are not a business, and do not exist to generate profit for shareholders. more public ownership would also help, in addition to forcing the schools to set higher minimum entrance requirements. in canada, all universities are public institutions; that should be strengthened. schools would still be able to determine their own specific requirements relative to each other, but the bar should be raised so that the floor is higher and that should be determined in law. that would solve the problem.
there should be no C students allowed. sorry.
for the government to do the opposite and say it is going to bring in a set number of students from a foreign country and i guess find them schools to go to is blatantly undemocratic and probably unconstitutional. that is not the role of government in a democratic society.
if the ndp want to regain the interest of canadian workers, here's a pro-tip: don't elect an upper class lawyer with a turban and a ridiculous beard.
there were lots of things going on. it's not that simple. but, it's not insignificant. jagmeet singh was tolerated by the workers, until he wasn't.
it's up to the ndp to choose what it wants to be. does it want to be this make believe vehicle for workers? then it needs to listen to them, and let them choose a leader that represents them. does it want to continue the real vehicle of the ndp, the mission of the ccf, and be a religious party, the conscience of the nation? does it want to be a vehicle for an upper class elite of the highly educated?
i would rather vote for naomi klein than avi lewis, and i think naomi klein can win a seat and avi lewis can't. but i also realize that would crush his soul, and she won't do it, until he consents. pressure needs to be put on him to get him to step aside.
a functioning queer pride movement would be focusing on criticizing the cult of islam in places where it has usurped power, including indonesia and palestine.
the useful idiots on the ground herein the west are not being manipulated by palestinians or iranians, it's the russians. and they're just too ignorant to understand.
it should send a blood-curdling chill down the spine of any queer person or any queer ally in north america, to see these right-wing muslim groups successfully prevent queer parades from marching. that is absolutely frightening.
i've been searching for apartments, and i didn't eat last night, because i ate too much the day before. so, i wasn't reading the news.
this is to update the catchup list again.
- 6 glasses of juice - 4 used in unlisted meals (two poutines, two cilantro rices) = 2 glasses of juice, minus 1 after aug 29th meal and 0 after au 31st.- 3*25 = 75 g of broccoli - 50 g of broccoli for guac last cycle (as accident) + 25 g after skipping on 26th (forgot) = 50 g of broccoli, used in aug 29th meal
i made my beans the same way as the other side dishes, but with a few extra ingeredients, because they're beans:
- cumin, cayenne, paprika, oregano
- dill
- monterrey jack
- nutritional yeast, hemp
- caesar, franks
- bacon with bacon grease and margarine from pan
the lentils were more filling than the quinoa, but i made them the same way and it worked out well enough. the beans & lentils together was too much. next time, i'll just eat the lentils.
- 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.
- sept 6th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
i did some groceries on the 29th.
missing items to be distributed through meals in the next two weeks:
- 11 avs (4 poutine onion soups, 6 pastas, one tomato sandwich), but reduced back to 10 after aug 28th pasta meal uses two and 8 after aug 29th uses 4 (regular, 2), then 7 after aug 30th meal, 6 after aug 31st meal and 5 after sept 1st meal, 4 after sept 2nd, 3 after sept 3rd, 1 after sept 4th and 0 after sept 5th.
- 150 g of pineapple to be used in upcoming meal, as required
- 2*0.5 = 1 red pepper
Sunday, August 31, 2025
poland is a backwards catholic theocracy.
i don't want to be like poland, and i don't want to "catch up" to polish spending on guns.
when will poland catch up to canada on per capita health care spending?
Canada's per capita healthcare spending is substantially higher than Poland's, with recent estimates placing Canada's spending around $8,740 (2023) compared to Poland's approximately $1,544 (2023) or $2,925 (2022 PPP adjusted).
a society that spends more on guns than hospitals is a backwards society.
russia, iran and india, together, are not really "eastern" countries, but represent the eastern boundary of western civilization. all three nations and cultures are fundamentally western societies.
as we are heading towards a major war with china, putting sanctions on india was very stupid. the chinese have predictably responded by trying to pull the indians in closer.
if we want to win a fight with china, we require russia to be on our side, or we will lose. the indians are not as pivotal, but it would be easier with them on the side of the west than the east.
both russia and india know what side they're on and want to tilt westwards, but america and europe are making it impossible, to their own eventual demise.
like many leftists, i had some cautious optimism for bolivarianism as devised by hugo chavez, but maduro is not an appropriate successor. from what i can tell, claims of rigged elections are mostly propaganda, although the revolt by the small venezuelan upper middle class against the much larger working class is very real. maduro does seem to retain popular support overall, despite being extremely unpopular with the wealthy. maduro is being targeted as a russian proxy, like assad was; it has nothing to do with democracy, it's a part of this post cold war clean up operation that's been underway since 2003 and has resulted in the americans removing about a dozen russian-backed dictators or democracies (the form of government doesn't matter and it isn't what this is about) and replacing them with washington aligned autocrats. the orwellian irony is that while the governments removed have sometimes been democratic, the united states always replaces them with obedient dictators.
i don't have the intellectual support for maduro that i did for assad, who i think should have been allowed to carry out his reforms. the best way to a stable, democratic syria was through assad. as expected, the americans (via turkey) replaced him with a bloodthirsty islamic fascist nazi dictator, which assad wasn't. the new regime in syria is everything america falsely accused the old regime of being.
maduro isn't worth supporting and should really resign. if he had some democratic legitimacy at one point, he's been president too long and needs to move on.
The Generalplan Ost (German pronunciation: [ɡenəˈʁaːlˌplaːn ˈɔst]; lit. 'Master Plan for the East'), abbreviated GPO, was Nazi Germany's plan for the settlement and "Germanization" of captured territory in Eastern Europe, involving the genocide, extermination and large-scale ethnic cleansing of Slavs, Eastern European Jews, and other indigenous peoples of Eastern Europe categorized as "Untermenschen" in Nazi ideology.[7][5] The campaign was a precursor to Nazi Germany's planned colonisation of Central and Eastern Europe by Germanic settlers, and it was carried out through systematic massacres, mass starvations, chattel labour, mass rapes, child abductions, and sexual slavery.[8][9]
Generalplan Ost was only partially implemented during the war in territories occupied by Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II, resulting indirectly and directly in the deaths of millions by shootings, starvation, disease, extermination through labour, and genocide. However, its full implementation was not considered practicable during major military operations, and never materialised due to Germany's defeat.[10][11][12] Under direct orders from Nazi leadership, around 11 million Slavs were killed in systematic violence and state terrorism carried out as part of the GPO. In addition to genocide, millions more were forced into slave labour to serve the German war economy.[5]
The program's operational guidelines were based on the policy of Lebensraum proposed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in fulfilment of the Drang nach Osten (drive to the East) ideology of German expansionism. As such, it was intended to be a part of the New Order in Europe.[13] Approximately 3.3 million Soviet POWs captured by the Wehrmacht were killed as part of the GPO. The plan intended for the genocide of the majority of Slavic inhabitants by various means – mass killings, forced starvations, slave labour and other occupation policies. The remaining populations were to be forcibly deported beyond the Urals, paving the way for German settlers.[14]
the politician apparently assassinated by the russians was literally the founder of the ukrainian nationalist socialist, or nazi, party. it's about time, and i'm glad they got him.
ukraine has a very weird history with nazism. one might expect ukrainians to be reflexively opposed to an ideology that ranks exterminating them to generate lebensraum as one of it's primary priorities, but the ukrainians were fighting against stalin, and they wanted to get rid of their own jews, as well. if the nazis had actually managed to win against russia, the ukrainian nazi collaborators would have been the first to go. you can't really make sense of it other than trying to put your self in a position where you have to choose between hitler and stalin and cannot choose a third option. it's one or the other, and these ukrainian groups were going to end up dead, either way. would you rather be killed by hitler or stalin? it's beyond faustian; it's more like a mass shooting in modern america, followed by imminent suicide.
it doesn't make sense, but it's real: there are a lot of nazis in ukraine. this guy was organizing them. he had to go.
like they say - the only good nazi is a dead nazi.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
so, canada needs to have 60 billion dollars worth of submarines so it can engage in combat with russia.
that is the most retarded thing i've ever heard. the overwhelmingly superior russian nuclear subs will chomp through these little things like an orca toying with a dead shark. it's a joke.
it seems as though there are some little boys in ottawa that want to buy some new toys to play war with, and that's the last thing the country needs right now.
we'd be better off spending the money on ice breakers and on expanding coast guard capabilities to do things like help whales evade ships. this is a potentially epic waste of taxpayers' money.
Friday, August 29, 2025
that's, right. tariffs are a tax. just like obamacare.
so, what trump needs to do is get his Trump Tax through congress, like obama got his tax through congress.
we branded obamacare with his name and it stuck. trump brands everything. why haven't democrats done that yet? call it what it is - it's trump care, it's the trump tax.
this is to update the catchup list:
- 3*25 = 75 g of broccoli - 50 g of broccoli for guac last cycle (as accident) + 25 g after skipping on 26th (forgot) = 50 g of broccoli, used in aug 29th meal
my normal salsa is prepared for nachos and for eggs and consists of:
- one lime
- one beet
- 1/2 tomato
- 1/2 red pepper
- 2 big cloves of garlic
- one avocado
- 1 tbsp cumin
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp oregano
- 1 tbsp cayenne
- fresh dill
- pepper
- frank's hot sauce
i am skipping the salsa for the egg meals while i go through food bank food, so i doubled it up in a large serving bowl and expanded it into a meal by adding
- a can of kidney beans
- ceasar dressing
- nutritional yeast
- hemp seeds
- ten slices of medium cheddar cheese.
- two extra avocados (from catchup)
- 50 g broccoli (from catchup)
- 25% grapefruit, 75% orange juice (from catchup)
- 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 2 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of kidney beans. two avs.
- 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.
i will need to do some more groceries at this point, if i haven't moved yet.
missing items to be distributed through meals in the next two weeks:
- 11 avs (4 poutine onion soups, 6 pastas, one tomato sandwich), but reduced back to 10 after aug 28th pasta meal uses two and 8 after aug 29th uses 4 (regular, 2).
- 150 g of pineapple to be used in upcoming meal, as required
- 6 glasses of juice - 4 used in unlisted meals (two poutines, two cilantro rices) = 2 glasses of juice, minus 1 after aug 29th meal.
- 2*0.5 = 1 red pepper
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