i am appealing an order that, at it's core decision, affirms the consequent.

the horrors.

this is the judiciary chosen by justin trudeau, folks.

i just called the sheriff.

there's no enforcement scheduled for today at this address. i was told there would be. it could be that the property manager doesn't understand how this works and doesn't realize that enforcement doesn't happen on the day of, but that you need to call, send a notice, etc. i guess i'll find out by the end of the day if an eviction notice comes up on the door.

i don't know the technical cause of eviction.

the heat was shut off last night, which is a characteristic of the stalkers being present. the stalkers like it to be very cold. there are some muslim migrants on the main floor, who are potentially easily manipulated, but who i am gathering have little understanding of what is going on around them, and they turned it up to 30 when they woke up. i had to teach them how to use a thermostat, as nobody else was going to, but they don't understand temperature. they understand hot, cold and on and off but they don't understand 30 or 15 or 27 or 0 degrees. i don't know if the representation of numbers is confusing to them (i thought otherwise because they're hindu-arabic numerals, right?) or if they don't know how to count. it's become extremely easy to emigrate to canada recently, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that they can't count. the kids don't go to school and nobody is working. i hope they realize that the subsidy they are getting is temporary, but there's little indication they do. it'll probably run all day. i don't blame them - it's below zero outside.

i guess i'm planning to lock myself in here, unfortunately, but i'll check the situation when i go up. 

new york city, new jersey state and virginia state are races that the democrats should take for granted and, in new york city, both of the candidates were democrats. i understand that democrats want a reason to get drunk, but this is about as flimsy a reason to start chugging as i could imagine.

democrats also won in detroit, which was a shift from an independent, who had been mayor for ten years and is running for governor. they also held mayors in seattle, pittsburgh, buffalo, minneapolis, new orleans, boston and elsewhere.

the most notable actual win for the democrats on the 4th was the city of omaha, nebraska. does that suggest farmers and the region are pissed off by the tariffs? it might. i'd keep an eye on that.

functionally, the elections provide no information about demographics in upstate new york, in the rust belt or in the great lakes areas, outside the urban centres. they consequently provide no information about upcoming elections in existing swing districts or potential swing districts.

democrats should enjoy their beer and take whatever justification they need to get drunk, but not get too giddy, as there is no good news in the data. if anything, the fact that electing mamdani is clearly a swing to the right in new york city should be a little bit alarming. cuomo was certainly the more left-wing candidate of the two. but, then again, new york city democrats have always been upper class "liberal republicans" and not really representative of democrats in the rest of the country.

keep an eye on nebraska. there's maybe a story there.

there's no story in the bos-wash except the long evasive excuse for democrats to get drunk.

i think what i'm looking for is porteus with chrome (or firefox) running.

that should let me launch the browser as an os, and then design separate images for each of the three chromebooks - one for a bedside news reader, one for uploading data to sites like bandcamp from in-studio and one for streaming video from youtube. i would potentially want to purchase a fourth device and use it strictly for online purchases and a fifth to use as a zoom device, if i can't find an acceptable videophone.

i wanted to get the court stuff done over the weekend, but i couldn't do it until i fixed the computer. i need to do that this morning, hopefully by noon, and then get back to redesigning the space.

(edit: actually, no. porteus is now requiring a paid subscription. but this is out there, i just need to find it.)

the chromebook is usable for now, after logging in with a stub account. i'll keep looking for a user agent spoofer, which is why i logged in, but i can log in to the device with multiple accounts for services for now, and just use the stub device for search, until that either breaks or google reallows older chrome browsers access to javascript in search....or until i got blocked by blogger, gmail, youtube, etc and have to figure something else out entirely.

this is no longer a mobile device like i planned it to be. i am using the mp4 player for that purpose and that is ok.

i want to continue using one of these expired chromebooks to stream youtube, one of them as a studio terminal (to connect to bandcamp, etc) and of them as an email/news reader. the major design flaw with the entire concept of a chromebook is that they force you to make your email password short enough to be able to type in with your fingers and to remember, which is unacceptable. you want your passwords to be 100 characters, or longer if they let you, and to store them on thumb keys or external drives. the chromebook won't let you do that - it forces you to type it in, and that's just not workable. then, you need to do something like what i'm doing, which is log in with a stub account with a short password (like you would use on your windows account) and then login into google to use it with a separate account. but, then, what's the point?

for that reason, it is going to make more sense to turn all of these chromebooks into non-chromebooks, which is frustrating, 

the best way to use these devices is as terminals, which means to log in as a guest and then log into the google accounts from the guest mode. you don't need local storage on a streaming device, or a device used to buy or upload things, or even on a news and email and facebook reader. you should keep your local storage in air gapped windows or linux pcs, and just use an assortment of cheap streaming devices for online interactions, each with unique online accounts that don't speak to each other. due to the fact that they're cheap, you might have to replace these devices every ten years instead of every twenty or thirty years like you do with pcs, but you really shouldn't, they should last longer than pcs.

i bought cheap/expired chromebooks because i realized that buying expensive laptops was stupid, after watching a few overheat and explode. there is no way to engineer a device to run hot in plastic and expect it not to break; laptops are what the masses wanted, but they are a stupid concept, thermodynamically. you can't make these things last. they're going to break. it's hopeless. i don't have the money to spend $2000 on a laptop every five years, so i bought a brand new expired $99 laptop expecting it to break. if i have to replace it every 3-5 years anyways, i'd rather spend $99 dollars than $999 dollars; the thermodynamic reality of laptops is that your $999 laptop has no greater a shelf-life than the $99 expired chromebook.

but then i realized that these ssd chromebooks with cheap processors actually solved the thermodynamic problems with windows (or apple) laptops. these are cheap to buy because they are cheap to make; they're cheap terminal devices that came out of the "one laptop one child" initiative intended to get silicon into the hands of starving africans, who would probably prefer a sandwich, but whatever. they don't have hard drives. there's nothing spinning. the chips don't run hot. the monitors are led screens. and the chrome os does nothing in the background. this dell 3120 i'm typing on needs a few new keys, granted, but the device itself should last forever. there's nothing in it to break and there's nothing driving it to overheat. a slightly more sturdy build construction, and a chromebook should last 300 years, not 3 years. 

oops.

so i bought some more of these and wanted to buy even more. this was the solution, not the problem. i wanted to put linux on them but i didn't have to so i didn't.

google won't let you do that anymore. google is trying to force you to buy more hardware.  you shouldn't have to replace these slave terminal devices that let google servers do all the work every five or three or two years. these are increasingly devices with little to no moving parts that should actually work for decades, but google increasingly won't let that happen.

there's two answers to this.

the first is to acknowledge that google is increasingly becoming the monopoly that the united states successfully prevented microsoft from becoming, partly by funding google as a competitor to microsoft. google was able to succeed largely due to the antitrust suits against microsoft. i think people don't understand that. those antitrust suits also stopped apple from dying. apple was dead in the 90s. who saved apple? you want to think it was steve jobs, but it was bill gates. gates brought apple back from the dead with cash injections, partly on the condition they bring jobs back, in order for gates to have his old competitor back, and that worked for microsoft. apple is not a monopoly and is really largely a joke; the ability of apple to corner the naive rich person market just brought the price of pcs down, when helped sell more copies of windows to consumers and businesses. however, google is now becoming what the ftc aggressively prevented windows from becoming, by stopping microsoft from monopolizing explorer and search.

the ftc should let google keep search and let google keep chrome, but force it to sell it's hardware and operating system businesses. the problem is not that they have all of these server apps, that's good; the problem is that they're making laptops and phones to access the servers, too. tell google to just be google and focus on server-side applications. force somebody else to build the terminals. it can be hp or compaq or dell or ibm (it won't be ibm), that's fine. it could be a different company altogether.

don't separate the browser from the search; that won't help, that will hinder. what will help is to separate the terminal/slave device from the server/mainframe device. this is a very old way to look at very new technology, but it is the truth of what google, nvidia and others are doing right now, they're bringing back the 60s and 70s model of dumb terminal machines connecting to smart super computers, and the truth is that that makes sense for the internet, while not making sense for home pcs, which you really don't and never did want on the internet.

i want to buy a terminal that connects to multiple mainframes - google, microsoft, nvidia, apple, etc. the terminals should be cheap because they have minimal functionality, and almost never need to be replaced because they do almost nothing and require almost no parts. anti-trust function should focus on that endpoint.

i knew what i was getting when i bought expired chromebooks, but google shouldn't be able to tell me i can't upgrade the firmware on the terminal, or turn off javascript from the server. the ftc should step in and break that.

for now, it works, that's fine, but i'm going to need to convert all three of these devices, and i want to convert them into devices that run in guest mode. that's the next issue. are there linux distros that have guest modes like chromebooks, and run in guest mode like a chromebook? if there's not, there should be. go build me that, and make it for free. that's what i want to flash these devices with.

as it is, i'm going to have to barricade myself inside again until i'm sure he's gone, one way or another.

if i can generate any kind of proof he's here, the next step is to try to get a peace bond to force him to stay away from me.

islam is a brutal cult of brainwashing, and it's insular and exclusivist. it isolates and separates it's victims from the outside world in order to take advantage of them. i saw this coming but the space was what i want. there is no future in hiding from religionism. i'm not looking for conflict, i'm looking for escape, but i need to hold my ground.

if i have to move again, i've got some new furniture in here i can take with me.

i hope that the addicts are removed tomorrow. i'll have to react to that as it occurs.

it also seems as though the phony loser piece of garbage sean hansel has found his way back upstairs. he's apparently continuing to pretend he had some artistic contribution to and take credit for my art projects, despite having been eliminated from the 4 songs i let him sing on as a guest vocalist because his lyrics are juvenile and stupid. as before, the people that let him in are junkies, addicts and other types of useless eaters.

i've been told they're getting evicted tomorrow. i haven't seen any notices from the sheriff on the door. i'm actually going to call the sheriff in the morning to get a better idea of what's going on. if the sheriff doesn't confirm an eviction is happening, the next call i'm going to have to make is to police. i'm extremely agitated by the fact that this moron keeps following me around, and i'd frankly like to put a hole in his skull. or a couple. i wouldn't be too careful about it.

if anybody tries to force their way in here, they're not going to like how i react.

i hate apps.

apps are stupid. the concept is stupid.

i just want to login via the browser.

all of my passwords are 100 digits and intended to copy and paste. it tooks some time before i could log into one, and:

(1) the first account actually loads javscript

(2) subsequent accounts do not

(3) all of the user agent switchers for subsequent accounts need newer versions of chrome

this is extremely depressing. 

i have no intention of purchasing another chromebook. if they're going to block search functionality, i'll have to turn it into a linux device.

it's very frustrating. at least i have a better understanding of what's been happening, but i'm upset about this.

for now, i see no other option besides running two chromebooks sat the same time - one logged in for services and the other logged out for search. but i can do that right now on this device, logged into the stub account, and i'll have to stick with that for now.

yeah. it's the browser version.

if i open the chrome developer tools and spoof it, it runs normally.

it follows that google is now actively trying to force you to by a new chromebook by blocking access to google search for browsers of a certain age, and they can go fuck themselves.

ok. i was a little freaked out. i get it now. i can run searches in a developer window if i need to. that's fine.

i've been having some laptop problems. 

if i don't sign into google on my chromebook, google operates like it normally should. however, as soon as i sign into the chromebook, the google ui completely breaks. at first, i thought it was somebody hacking my router again, but it wasn't acting that way more broadly. after a fair amount of testing, i'm concluding that the problem is not on my end, but rather that it is google that is doing this intentionally, apparently by blocking javascript from working. specifically, google is blocking java from working on search only; everything else works fine. the cookies from the google server are set to no javascript.

i've sent google some complaints. they're going to need to figure out what's going on and fix it. unfortunately, it might be because the chromebook is expired, and that might be how this works nowadays on expired chromebooks.

i think i'm going to be more likely to switch these devices to linux than buy a new chromebook, as that is why i bought them in the first place. in the mean time, i need quick access to gmail, particularly.

i'm going to try a few things. can i spoof from guest mode? what if i actually log into the device?

in the mean time, i basically can't search anything without logging off. so i'm going to need to log in on this chromebook and set up a second chromebook that is not logged in so i can search on it.

it's clear that an election right now would be pretty drastic. we already had an election this year.

but this is not what canadians voted for, and this budget is so frighteningly terrible, so corrupt, so dangerous, that the damage caused by anther election is justified in order to block it.

i would support a 30% tax on sports players salaries, but the tax for yachts was probably largely performative, as there aren't that many of them in canada. canada is not a prime destination for yachts.

the tax on capital gains is something i strongly supported, and it is difficult to understand the logic in removing the tax on unused property, other than that the government is (somewhat predictably) aligning with property owners that want to leave property empty to reduce availability and raise rents. if the tax on vacant property was not funding enforcement mechanisms, which i doubt, it should have been increased so it does. the tax on carbon emissions isn't working anyways, and should be replaced with a general and broad hike on corporate taxes, but i am concerned that carney is bringing back nonsense about carbon capture and storage, and planning to waste taxpayer funds on a technology that doesn't work, rather than passing a law telling industry to do it to the extent that they can, or go to jail if they can't.

i don't really support carbon taxes. what i actually support is laws throwing fossil fuel executives in jail for polluting. industrial pollution shouldn't be punishable by a fine, it should be a crime punishable by jail time.

investment in r & d and in infrastructure (including housing) are things i support, and i'd be happy to support a 100 billion dollar deficit that is intending to overhaul truly public infrastructure to reduce emissions and modernize more generally. that is overdue. however, a quick perusal of the proposals (i haven't looked at it in depth) suggest that the funding priorities are rather in the form of corporate subsidies and handouts of taxpayer dollars to massive conglomerates. while the claim may be to influence company direction on it's face, the truth appears to be that the purpose is to increase their company's stock prices. if the canadian government wants to control the direction of these industries, it should nationalize them so that it captures their revenue stream, but it doesn't intend to do that, and we will probably hear little to nothing about much of any of this in the next five years, as the money disappears into ceo bank accounts, flees the country and/or ends up in trust funds for their kids. it's just a giant kick-back scheme to defraud the country and plunge it further into debt.

this consequently looks less to me like it's an infrastructure budget and more to me like it's the worst corruption we've seen in canada in decades, and if the imf has to step in, the unfortunate truth is that, perhaps, it should. the canadian state has wanted to change it's demographic structure to be a third world country for decades. well, welcome to africa, canada.

whatever you think of mark carney broadly, it is not ambiguous that his class solidarity lies with the bourgeoisie and the funding decisions you're seeing in the budget reflect that.

this "liberal" budget is going to destroy the country's credit rating by bringing back structural deficits, slashing the tax base of the federal work force (and it's subsequent multipliers, in carney's own riding) and irresponsibly spending billions on silly fantasies instead of investing intelligently in things we need and in economies with futures that work.

this should be called the "imf restructuring" budget, because that's what canada is going to get in five years if this passes.

the ndp should force an election. the conservatives will be bad, but they won't be this stupid.

apparently, the media, desperate for a win, is deciding that andrew cuomo is now a republican and new york is a swing state.

you should see how excited they get when democrats win in dc. or detroit. or seattle.

my video intercom came in in the mail today, so the only thing i'm waiting on is a package of nitrile gloves. unfortunately, as expected, the cable is only about 3 m long. i am going to need to run the cable through the garage and through two doors, which should be 5 m max. i'll have to see, but i think i'll need to buy another cable. that's ok. i can use this one to test it.

i'm also deciding that because i'm going to be putting a lot of wall shelving in here (the bedroom is a little small, too small for bookshelves, but it has that big closet/laundry area off the bathroom, which i consider preferable in concept; it means that multiple shelves on the walls are a better idea) and because i have a garage area that i intend to use to work in, it makes more sense to just order the wood i need and order a cheap circular saw to cut it with. i'm going to buy the same amount of wood, whether i cut it here or at the store. i can't bicycle with these wood planks, so i'm going to need to either walk it or cart it but some of the wood is going to be upwards of ten feet, so that even carting it from the closest store (a home hardware) becomes awkward. home hardware is also known for being overpriced. so i'm probably better off getting it cheaper online and mailed to me, and paying the $60 difference on a new saw. when i was a kid, i had a basement bedroom that had a kind of built in shelf (it was actually that the wall was about a foot from the brick, and the space lower to the ground was filled with insulation covered over by drywall, while the space higher up was not, it was just drywall over the outer layer) that i used to store paperbacks on. i'm going to build something similar to that in here, but it will be with three ten foot shelves held on to the wall with those adhesive pegs. that should be helpful to me as i work through the j's journal section of the multimedia presentation, which is the first thing to do when i get things set up properly.

it would be a shame to leave this space. it's huge. and it's cheap. i'm trying to get the furnace to work correctly and get a fan installed and get a new door on the side and i think i should be good to go after that. the landlord is absent-minded and distant but seems to be better than the last few, it's just that you have to bug him to do stuff. that's fine.

so, there's going to be another bunch of purchases when i next sit down to do it and it could actually be quite a bit, but everything else is in now except the gloves. today, i have the follow-up hearing for my harassment suit against the landlords in the last basement i was in and i will be filing something in the court of appeal tomorrow, regardless of how that goes, although i need to know what happens before i finalize what i'm filing.

nobody give a fuck about the size of the deficit. that doesn't matter.

what matters is that there aren't cuts to essential services, and what is concerning is that there will be. there's also rumours that the budget might have tax cuts, in the face of an increasingly structural deficit, created by subsequent governments cutting taxes to bribe voters. we need a tax hike right now, not tax cuts.

i've been holding out for years that somebody would get the chance to shoot him in the face. alas.

this man should have been arrested and convicted of war crimes, but the world is a fucked place.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dick-cheney-obituary-9.6965786

the nigerian government is not hamas and should not be treated like hamas. that would be an affront to decency. they need support, not condemnation.

boko haram is worse than hamas by a good margin. they should be treated worse than hamas.

these ultimatums should go directly to the terrorists. the nigerian government should not be bullied or pushed around, but boko haram should be bombed into a crater.

mark carney is marketing his budget as a big, beautiful bold bill. in fact, there's a pattern of him mimicking republican slogans and talking points, including "drill, baby, drill". there's no ambiguity about the hard right nature of the swing he's trying to engineer in the liberal party.

he's actually trying to remarket the liberals as the canadian version of the republicans. there's some historical logic to this, more broadly, but this is the worst possible time to do that.

this is not what canada voted for, and we have grounds to call for an immediate election. i didn't vote in the last election, because i saw this coming. he did not fool me. he did fool millions of canadians, who deserve a sober second opportunity.

the problem is that the ndp, canada's perpetually useless sanctioned opposition, decided to intentionally take two years to pick a leader. they won't be ready any time soon.

the greens are actually a better choice, and a more appropriate choice, right now. that party had better be ready to go.

the democrats lost control of congress. that means they don't get to pass their legislation; that is democracy. throwing a hissy fit and shutting down government because they lost the election is undemocratic and unsupportable on it's face. it doesn't matter why, and they shouldn't be given an opportunity to explain themselves; attacks on the democratic functioning of the legislative branch can never be justified and are never supportable.

rather than reach out to low income voters, which have historically formed the base of the party, and where my own class solidarity exists with, the democrats are pretending that they aren't responsible for the consequences of their juvenile behaviour, by blaming it on the ruling party. the media is following behind them in lockstep.

this won't work. rather, it's giving the republicans an opportunity to step in and fund the program, and continue to swing low income voters away from the democratic party, making it less and less likely that democrats are going to win elections in the near future. these low income voters may be criticized for voting against their own interests, but that criticism rings hollow when it's the democrats that are cutting funding and the republicans that are stepping in to save the programs.

if the democrats want to pass laws in congress, they have to win an election first. it doesn't matter if they disagree very strongly, or if they have religious opinions, or if they think the laws are "immoral". democracy is paramount, not morality. they lost, and they'll have to eat it.

but losers tend to act like losers and it just makes them bigger losers in the end when they do.

i agree with the court's decision. mandatory minimums are always unconstitutional and should never be allowed to exist in law because they're always overly broad.

the pictures themselves are harmless; they're just pictures. the law also attempts to eliminate exemptions for artistic expression, rather than allow for them. simple possession of pictures or art, even if some people consider those pictures "pornographic" or "obscene", should not be criminalized in a free society. the conservative party is expressing and reflecting an irrational moral panic that the court correctly put an end to.

the crime is in trafficking and exploiting of children, not in possession. courts need to be able to correctly ascertain the difference between these behaviours, and not be restricted by moralistic sentencing laws.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wab-kinew-court-child-pornography-9.6965133

trump is apparently concerned that snap isn't eligible for emergency funding. this follows trump's use of emergency powers to enforce tariffs on everybody.

if trump actually gets those benefits out, the democrats are going to be fucked for the next 20 years.

well, if you want rare earth metals, control of nigeria is a good start.

i'm not clear where trump is going with this. the nigerian security forces could use some us help, but they have also have a history of doing america's dirty work. the chinese have their own interests here, but they don't walk in with soldiers. i guess this is the reality in today's world - the chinese want to buy things, and the americans want to steal them. it's two different phases of capitalist development, with america increasingly collapsing back into mercantilism.

there are bad actors in nigeria, certainly. the government itself is relatively docile. they're not going to react like saddam hussein. they probably won't even fight at all.

but, given that truth, why not just take it? it's free.

the next step is a proxy war, but i guess that's inevitable, isn't it?

i wouldn't concern yourself with nonsense about protecting christians, although there are certainly bad guys there to kill, and i wouldn't shed a tear over it. but, i'd like to hear more about it before i make a decision about it. on it's face, the nigerian government does not seem as though it should be dismantled, but, rather, the docile nature of the government might make the resources too easy to avoid stealing, and then you need to ask if it's better them than us, if it's going to get stolen, anyways.

there's a lot of wars in africa all of the time and it's been that way for decades. there's a reason for it. it's not likely to change.

you know what chuck schumer is for halloween, right?

chuckie.

he doesn't even have to dress up, or do an impression or anything, he just has to read his own speeches ironically.

chuck and his grandkids are doing fine during the shutdown:

after all, unlike food stamp recipients, chuckie still gets paid when he's off work, hanging out with his grandkids.

so, your grandkids should starve because your son married a shit for brains?

that's amerikkka.

but, i mean, it was the democrats that shut down congress anyways, not trump. and she doesn't sound like she found for chuck e. cheesemer. these are the kinds of voters democrats need to be reaching out to if they want to win seats. it doesn't seem like they're reaching out to this one.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/maga-mom-snap-going-viral-155120624.html

as it is, if mr. carney wants a sacrifice, he should climb up on his self-erected cross and sacrifice himself.

his budget full of sacrifice, sacrifices he makes on behalf of others, is going to fail, it is going to trigger an election, and he will be forced to resign.

good riddance.

we do not need submarines. we do not need fighter jets. we need healthcare, we need education and we need freedom of speech.

if we must have subs, despite not needing them, we should build them ourselves, at whatever time and cost is necessary. those funds could be used in our economy to create jobs here, rather than exported from it to create jobs elsewhere. if it will take a while, that's fine. it is always better to do things yourself than pay others to do them for you.

in the second world war, which, unlike this war, was a war with no exit strategy, that we had to fight, the british leveraged canada as a builder. in fact, britain has often leveraged canada as a builder, going as far back as the napoleonic wars. canada's access to raw resources and relative isolation make it an ideal place to build. it would be a shame if that korean sub was sunk on it's way out of port.

canadians would agree to build before they agreed to be conscripted. i would fight in solidarity with a new conscription crisis, before i saw the value in fighting the most pointless war europe has seen since 1918.

"strong" leadership would be focusing on generating taxes via the multiplier effect and funding local industries with government subsidies in order to do it, not on pushing down austerity to buy expensive offensive weaponry we don't need to fulfill the demands of foreign dictators, and then telling us that we have make sacrifices to do it. nothing could be weaker than that.

no.

i am not going to sacrifice a fucking thing for this asshole's vision of a competitive society based on violence and hierarchy. i'm going to fight to throw the piece of shit out of office, and i'm going to do what i fucking want, when i fucking want. he can shove his sacrifices up his conservative ass.

go fuck yourself, mark carney.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-polievre-budget-sacrifice-analysis-9.6962155

canada really ought to be building more ships, more broadly.

it's somewhat absurd that we aren't. we have the longest coastline in the world and are major producers of wood, steel and aluminum.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/navy-commander-says-hes-not-looking-to-have-new-sub-fleet-built-in-canada/

so, in detroit's mayoral election, you can vote for the minister, or the minister's daughter.

and, from what i can see, you're either going to get a minister, or a minister's daughter.

the minister's daughter (she is running on this, this is her language) is a dangerous trope in american culture, and is often not quite what they seem. i fear detroit might be walking into somewhat of a trap.

but, the other option is the minister, and nobody wants to vote for a minister, for good reason. i certainly wouldn't vote for a minister.

detroit has experienced several years of gentrification. there have certainly been winners, and, as a canadian regularly transiting through detroit to concerts or other events, i'll admit i appreciated the increased lighting and infrastructure. however, i also frequently ran into the homeless population of detroit, who expected things of me that i couldn't give them, as a tourist. it's clear that the gentrification has left a lot of people behind and that is probably a factor in why detroit is now choosing between a minister and a minister's daughter.

it doesn't appear to be a close race.

if detroit is voting for wealth redistribution, i'd suggest it's required, and i hope they get some, although i might expect otherwise.

what a stupid waste of money.

not one person in canada should be forced into unemployment to purchase some stupid boats to fight wars of aggression with.

submarines have absolutely no defensive capacity whatsoever. they are strictly tools of aggression.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-submarines-carney-south-korea-9.6959659

municipalities will need to return to their previous approach, which was hiring police to stand on the side of the road with speed guns, and then pull people over to ticket them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/speed-cameras-removed-in-two-weeks-9.6960359

the ndp should vote "present" on the budget and let the election happen.

it's hard to see how polievre could be any worse than carney, given carney mimics polievre at every opportunity. they should run ads calling him a copycat.

a conservative minority could force the liberals to change course away from austerity and war.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-ndp-budget-election-vote-9.6960615

one of the items left here by the previous tenant was a three stage activated carbon hepa filter, which she seemed to use for her cat. the air quality has not been too bad, actually, but an overwhelming stench of pot or gasoline (it wasn't clear) took over about 6:00 am in the morning and was still going by 9:00 am. the heroin addicts upstairs are getting evicted this week, so i'm going to be patient about second hand smoke until they're gone.

this plug-in device, which pulls air from the room, filters it, and puts it back, has been running for about 7 hours, and the air is noticeably cleaner to breathe, even if the smell is actually still lingering. it's hard to get rid of the stench of mariijuana when gross people smoke inside for long periods.

it needs a new filter, but i'll hang on to this.

rumour has it that the announced $550 billion dollars of investment into the united states from japan will include a complete sale of the hawaiian island of o'ahu, with options to continue purchasing islands throughout the pacific ocean.

you want to go to work to do some stupid job every day in order to pay your mortgage, so that the bankers can tax you to pay for their kids?

jurisdiction for income and sales taxes are with the state government, not city council. the mayor has no authority to raise income taxes.

only jurisdiction for property taxes is with the city council.

it follows that the city can only hike property taxes, and who pays for that? the answer is middle class workers that own property.

the policies are directed at alleviating cost of living issues for renters downtown. can you afford to rent in new york? then you're not that poor, but you might be leveraging family wealth to pay it. you're not working minimum wage, or even a unionized worker; you couldn't afford to live there, if you were. should government be taxing one family member to pay for another? it will, under these polices. that's not any sort of real reform. that's not redistributive, it's more like the rich outsourcing the municipal government to act as nannies for their overgrown trust fund kids. perhaps they can create a Ministry for Upper Class Twit Management.

rather, it follows that, despite the populist rhetoric, the only implementable actual redistribution of wealth is from unionized workers that own property to the children of the middle class, who are renting downtown to work for free, then complaining they can't afford it.

these kids could stay at home until they save up enough to move out, but that is (rightfully, in truth) seen as a societal step backwards into conservative family values systems and economic feudalism. this is a legitinate, real problem. however, the solution is for the interns to unionize and demand higher wages, not to tax the property of unionized workers, and then redistribute the wealth from the gains won by the working class to pad luxurious lifestyles for the children of the elite.

socialism for the rich is the idea underlying the concept of america, but it's rooted in slavery and capitalism for the poor, which pays for it through manual labour. mamdani is nothing new, but is merely a sneaky way to enforce the status quo, by taking advantage of geo-political grievances embedded in religious and racial identity politics to enforce bourgeois economics and continue the neo-liberal project by stealth.

don't say the leftists didn't warn you.

there it is.

cuomo is the more left-wing candidate, and is actively appealing to lower class and unionized middle class voters, but he's an asshole, and he will probably suffer from low voter turnout, and the high barriers to voting that poor people face in the united states.

take it from a real socialist - zohran mamdani is not a socialist. rather, his proposals are typical middle class bourgeois attempts to leverage the state to create socialism for the bankers, at the expense of the unionized proletariat, who will see the moderate wealth they won via decades of labour action redistributed upwards to the wealthy children of the bourgeoisie, who will continue to evade paying taxes. the publicly run grocery stores will be a way for unionized workers to subsidize the functionally unemployed children of the elite for doing labour for free, a subsidy that should be paid by their employers. the correct way to force employers to pay for things is through sit down strikes, but the temp workers they hire to work for them won't unionize because they see it as a threat to their career aspirations. tax payer funded buses are a good idea in principle, but not without addressing the homeless problem, first. free subways are a more useful idea than free buses, but the buses are not used by the bourgeoisie. this creates a segregated two-tier transportation system, with for profit subways and taxpayer funded buses, and the condition of the systems will reflect those funding choices, allowing the middle class to avoid interacting with the working class. i could go on.

as a leftist, i understand that these "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor" proposals are not just non-solutions, they are the core of the collapse of late capitalism. the unionized working class will be forced to pay for this wealth redistribution upwards from the proletariat working class to the bourgeois middle class. all leftists should oppose these policies. these are the class allegiances that mamdani maintains, due to his origins.

however, i don't think that mamdani is an anti-semite. rather, he may increasingly see leveraging growing anti-semitism as a means to grasp a hold on power, in the face of the growing reality that anti-semitism is becoming a populist issue amongst the bourgeois middle classes. we have seen this before, both in america and in europe, and we know how it ends.

leftists should oppose mamdani due to his not just petite bourgeois but in fact haute bourgeois economic proposals. they should also realize he is a potential front for something much darker that is brewing beneath him, without being the cause or the driver of it.

what he wants is to prevent downward class mobility in the children of the upper class, and he wants to do that by redistributing wealth from the working class upwards (by trickling the wealth up) rather than by redistributing from the bourgeois class to the working class. it might work, but only because people are voting for other things they are projecting on to him, and which he has no jurisdiction to influence. if the ballot question was correctly placed to new yorkers, they would reject this, but the real left is moribund and the right is retarded, creating deep ignorance on both sides.

winners: middle class, bourgeois bankers

losers: the proletariat working class

the hostages have been released and gaza has been destroyed. whether you agree with this or not, and whether you feel it's justified or not, claims that netanyahu is trying to cling to power are becoming the more dominant concern, now. my position has been that it doesn't matter if netanyahu is clinging to power, because gaza needed to be destroyed in retribution. but now it matters because they have been destroyed. that's done, now.

retaliatory attacks are no longer sufficient reason to avoid calling an election.

the war against hamas should continue, but israel needs to call an election, now. the outcome might be that netanyahu, who is an old man that should retire, is replaced by somebody that his opponents think is worse. that would be the reflection of the israeli popular will. however, i think you might be surprised at the outcome, which i suspect will return the status quo, perhaps with a rearranged knesset underneath it.

justifications for the war have not ended, but justifications for prolonging democracy have ended, and netanyahu needs to face the verdict of his own people, now.

this is going to cost billions and provide nothing of value, while discarding of peoples' rights.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-expands-facial-recognition-at-borders-to-track-non-citizens/

in fact, there are leprechauns in the east indies, which underwent an evolutionary process called insular dwarfism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

there's lots of reasons to make fun of donald trump, but his dance moves are actually the one awesome thing about him. it's like elaine from seinfeld. while she was largely somebody you wouldn't want to hang out with, which was her quirk on the show, her dancing was the singular legitimately cool thing about her. it takes a lot of discarded fucks to have so few left as to repeatedly dance like that, and it's the one bit of street cred he actually has.

you think that broadcasting the dancing is going to mock him, but it's the one thing about him that normal people actually like. it might be the reason he won.

so, this one goes out to donald trump. 

let's keep the critique to his retarded economic policies, his tendency to let his arrogance blind his logic and his devastating embrace of conservative christian values for political gain.

i promise you that donald remembers this one.

this repost is a large update and organizes an end to this process.

i am probably coming to the end of the adventures in food bank eating, and will just be catching up on all of the fruit and salad i skipped over the last 6 months, starting in mid november.

- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.

- june 17th: hot and sour 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 hot and sour soup poutine with hot and sour soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd hot and sour soup poutine with hot and sour 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: hot and sour 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: hot and sour 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)  tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and a sidekick noodles instant meal. no av, as it's not ripe yet.

- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).

- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.

- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine.  two avs.

- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.

- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.

- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.

- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.

- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.

- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.

- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.

- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).

- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.

- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 10th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa. 

- sept 11th: green beans that were intended for the 10th (eaten on the 12th), with mushroom soup and bacon. first skipped pasta. later, first cycle 4 guac with red pepper (eaten on 13th).

- sept 12th: canned corn that was intended for the 11th (eaten on the 13th) with bacon. 2nd skipped pasta. first tomato sandwich from cycle 4 (eaten on 13th) with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles (eaten on 13th). 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.

- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. first skipped. (eaten early on 15th) 

- sept 14th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.  second skipped. (eaten early on the 16th)

- sept 15th: first cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 16th). third skipped pasta.

- sept 16th: second cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 17th). fourth skipped pasta.

- sept 17th: first cycle 3 nachos (eaten early on the 19th). fifth skipped pasta.

- sept 18th: second cycle 3 nachos (eaten late on the 19th). sixth skipped pasta.

- sept 19th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 4 & poutine with canned potatoes (eaten early on 21st). seventh skipped pasta. 

- sept 20th: second cycle 4 guac & canned cream corn with bacon meal, eaten on 21st and 22nd. eighth skipped pasta.

- sept 21st: two for 1 bk whoppers (no lettuce, extra pickles) with added monterrey jack (melted), franks and caesar, with four of those cheesy jalapeno things and two apple turnovers. eaten late on the 23rd. ninth skipped pasta.

- sept 22nd: first cycle 4 nachos (eaten during day on 24th). tenth skipped pasta.

- sept 23rd: second cycle 4 nachos (eaten early on 25th). eleventh skipped pasta.

- sept 24th: first tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten late on 25th). twelfth skipped pasta.

- sept 25th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten early on 26th). thirteenth skipped pasta.

- sept 26: pasta with minor subs (35). third cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. third skipped.

- sept 27th: pasta with minor subs (36). fourth cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fourth skipped.

- sept 28th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten early on 29th. soy saved to be eaten with two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 30th.

- sept 29th: pasta with minor subs (37). first cycle 10 pasta. eaten early on the 1st. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fifth skipped. two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 2nd.

- sept 30th: pasta with minor subs (38). second cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. sixth skipped. eaten late on the 2nd. three pieces of toast with cheese, eaten late on the 3rd.

- oct 1st: -------

- oct 2nd: --------------

- oct 3rd: 7-11 pizza with taquito and two glasses of orange juice. eaten early on 4th.

- oct 4th: pizza crusts fried with bacon, margarine, cheese + caesar, brocolli, avocado. eaten early on 5th

- oct 5th: extra large pizza eaten on 5th,

- oct 6th: pizza crusts fried with bacon, margarine, cheese + caesar, carrot. eaten on 6th

- oct 7th: second cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten on oct 7th.

- oct 8th: two nutrigrain bars, one half a container of cookies, 1st cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten oct 9th/10th.

- oct 9th:  rest of cookies + small pizza pizza, including crusts. 

- oct 10th: two small crispers bags, one nutrigrain, one granola bar, big bag of "veggie straws" (which are cheeseless cheezies).

- oct 11th: big bag of cheeseless cheezies, six fruit rollups, one small container of apple sauce, two chicken sadwiches from food basics roasted chicken

- oct 12th: two chicken sandwiches from food basics roast chicken

- oct 13th: second cycle 3 caesar salad, with packaged lettuce subbed for kale and with two broken fried eggs and cucumber added. served with buttered sub bun. 

- oct 14th: first tomato sandwich from cycle 6 with chicken sidekick noodles. two apples, eaten later.

- oct 15th: first cycle 4 caesar salad, with packaged lettuce subbed for kale and cucumber and apple added. served with buttered sub bun. one apple, eaten later.

- oct 16th: second cycle 4 bacon & eggs. no salsa. two apples, later.

=================================================cycle 4 eaten through, except for four exceptions.

- oct 17th: first cycle 5 cereal, with two plain instant oatmeals, each with an apple and a touch of chocolate soy. also, two pop tarts to test the new toaster. 

- oct 18th: first cycle 5 guac, with added cucumber and with white rice, but as third component. first component was 75% of a pineapple (because it needed to be eaten) with a cup of apple sauce. second component was canned cream of corn with bacon, dill, cheese, caesar, frank's, nutritional yeast & hemp seeds.

- oct 19th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered bun. cycle 5 salsa. 

- oct 20th: second cycle 6 tomato sandwich, with chinese noodles.

- oct 21st: first cycle 7 tomato sandwich, with chinese noodles.

- oct 22nd & 23rd: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered bun. cycle 6 salsa. this took me two tries.

- oct 24th & 25th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with buttered bun. cycle 7 salsa. this took me two tries.

- oct 26th: 6 pop tarts, one bag of goldfish chips and a can of mildly expired ravioli.

- oct 27th: first cycle 5 bacon & eggs. no salsa. served with last buttered bun. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- oct 28th & 29th: second cycle 5 guac, with white rice, canned corn, cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- oct 30th & 31st: second cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.  

- nov 1st & 2nd: first cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- nov 3rd & 4th: second cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. no orange.

- nov 5th & 6th: one piece of white toast with peanut butter, six hawaiian rolls with peanut butter, three hawaiian rolls with jam and four mini apple sauces, eaten over the course of multiple installments..

- nov 7th & 8th: first cycle 7 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. three pieces of brown bread with jam. no orange.

- nov 9th: tuna sandwich monterrey melt (as before) with uncle ben gumbo with cheese, caesar and frank's. four pieces of brown bread with jam.

- nov 10th: second cycle 5 bacon & eggs, no salsa.

- nov 11th & 12th: second cycle 7 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. no orange.

- nov 13th & 14th: first cycle 6 guac, with white rice, canned corn. no orange.

- nov 15th & 16th: second cycle 6 guac, with white rice, canned corn. two oranges.

- nov 17th & 18th: first cycle 7 guac, with white rice, canned peas. two oranges.

- nov 19th & 20th: second cycle 7 guac, with canned mixed vegetables and instant rice with bacon. two oranges. eaten in three meals over two days, with an extra orange and an extra avocado and a large bag of dill pickle potato chips.

- nov 21st & 22nd: hot and sour soup poutine &  hot and sour soup.

- nov 23rd: hot and sour soup poutine & hot and sour soup.

- nov 24th: pizza

- nov 25th: second cycle 5 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- nov 26th/27th: first cycle 5 nachos. 2x juice.

- nov 28th/29th: second cycle 5 nachos. 2x juice.

===================================cycle 5 eaten through, except for four exceptions

- nov 30th: first cycle 6 nachos.

- dec 1st : second cycle 6 nachos.

- dec 2nd: first cycle 6 bacon & eggs. with salsa. 

- dec 3rd: second cycle 6 bacon & eggs. with salsa.

- dec 4th: first cycle 6 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 5th: second cycle 6 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

==============================cycle 6 eaten through, except for four exceptions

- dec 6th: the salsas for the cycle 7 bacon and eggs, together, with cheese and yeast.

- dec 7th: first cycle 7 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 8th: second cycle 7 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 9th: first cycle 8 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa (to eat red pepper & broc)

- dec 10th: second cyle 8 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa (to eat red pepper & broc)

- dec 11th/12th: first cycle 7 nachos. 2x juice. plus subway, bmt with bacon.

- dec 13th/14th: second cycle 7 nachos. 2x juice.

- dec 15th: second cycle 7 tomato sandwich, with uncle ben gumbo with dill and garlic, monterrey jack cheese, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds, caesar and frank's.

- dec 16th: first cycle 7 cereal, plus two instant oatmeals with an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 17th: second cycle 7 cereal, plus two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

===================cycle 7 eaten through, except for four exceptions.

- dec 18th: first cycle 8 cereal, plus two instant oatmeals with an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 19th: second cycle 8 cereal, plus two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 20th: salsa for cycle 8 eggs, together, with cheese and yeast.

- dec 21st: first cycle 8 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 22nd: second cycle 8 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 23rd/24th: first cycle 8 nachos. 2x juice.

- dec 25th/26th: second cycle 8 nachos. 2x juice.

- dec 27th: first cycle 8 tomato sandwich with uncle ben gumbo with dill and garlic, monterrey jack cheese, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds, caesar and frank's.

- dec 28th: second cycle 8 tomato sandwich with sweet and sour chicken.

- dec 29th: first cycle 8 guac

- dec 30th: second cycle 8 guac

=========================cycle 8 eaten through, except for four exceptions

- dec 31st: first cycle 9 bacon and eggs (no salsa) and sweet and sour chicken from first cycle 9 tomato sandwich.

- jan 1st: second cycle four caesar salad, with added grilled chicken breast. (no tomatoes at store)

- jan 2nd: first cycle 5 caesar salad, with added grilled chicken breast.

- jan 3rd: second cycle 5 caesar salad, with added grilled chicken breast 

- jan 4th: second cycle 9 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- jan 5th: first cycle 6 caesar salad, with added grilled chicken breast. (remaining avs eaten through)

- jan 6th: homemade broccoli soup

- jan 7th: homemade broccoli soup 

- there were no tomatoes when i went to the store on the 31st

- $3490 transferred to rdsp on jan 31st

- expecting $11000 + 3490*3 = 21470 n bonds and grants into the account on feb 1st

- rdsp is being transferred to self-directed account, but need to verify documents at branch

- have case conference on jan 8th

- need to finish documents by jan 8, to file in afternoon

- go to branch on jan 9th, probably

- received cohb confirmation in mail, $401/month

- there is enough kale for one more caesar salad and enough chicken for 8 more. i should buy more ingredients on way home from national bank.

- check ltb processes

- hearing on 15/16

- appointment on 21st

- jan 8th: first cycle 10 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- jan 9th: second cycle 10 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- jan 10th: first cycle 11 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- jan 11th: second cycle 11 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- first cycle 9 tomato sandwich (for remaining mayo)

- second cycle 9 tomato sandwich with beans 

- first cycle 10 tomato sandwich with beans

- second cycle 10 tomato sandwich with

- use gst & trillium cash to buy next round of groceries or wait until 15th for cdb, too.

- need items for pasta, mini pizzas, cookies

- $800 more coming at end of month.

items to eat through soon to clear out fridge:

- i have some lingering pasta ingredients that are now in the fridge, but i'll have to buy the other ingredients as well. (remaining bison meat in freezer, sauce, )

- peanut butter cookies with caramel sauce

- roast beef & gravy sandwiches (last frozen meat)

- i have quite a bit of pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese and want to make some small pizzas on whole wheat pita bread or small pre-made crusts, in the oven. there's more than 5 cans of tomato sauce and i should get 2-3 selfie pizzas per go. ingredients needed: bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, remaining chicken, avocado, garlic, spices.

- eat through caesar salads from cycle 4---->cycle 8, putting kale stalks aside. eat with canned soups. add chicken (chicken caesar salads), made with grill. this is 9 caesar salads, a and might be as much as 20 days worth. this will get me through to mid january. january groceries via december 22nd payment date. big caesar salad purchase after dec 20th.

- eat through garden salads from cycle 2---->cycle 8. eat with canned soups. maybe add meat. this is 14 meals, as much as 30 days.

- fruit & ice cream from cycle 2---->cycle 8. 14 days.

- then, kick into cycle 9, skipping over pasta for cycles 9 and the first part of cycle 10, and going back to schedule in cycle 11.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (39). third cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (40). fourth cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (41). first cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (42). second cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (43). third cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (44). fourth cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. subbed for salami.

- probably no more food bank runs are going to be necessary, but i'll see.

- get back to schedule first

- the fact is that i like the idea of getting random food and figuring out how to prepare it

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- mar : pasta with minor subs (45). first cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. thirteenth skipped. 

- mar : pasta with minor subs (46). second cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

- mar : second cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- mar : pasta with minor subs (47). third cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

- mar : pasta with minor subs (48). fourth cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

if donald trump gets assassinated during a third term, is that a third term abortion?

in the west, there is an ignorant belief that palestinians are arabs, but there has been no arab power here for centuries, and it was shortlived when it did exist.

the two powers in the area for the last 1000 years have been the egyptians and turks, and egypt was often ruled by turkish dynasties. arabs like to pretend otherwise, but israel, lebanon and syria are outside of the arab sphere of influence.

it only makes sense to let egyptians or turks patrol gaza. gulf arabs shoud not be allowed to do this. this is way too far away from them.

israel would be right to oppose turks in the west bank, but turks in gaza might provide the stability the egyptians can't. a turkish port would be good for the israeli economy. and, if it doesn't work, they can divide turks and egyptiians by setting them against each other.

a potential turkish staging ground should not cause alarm in israel. turkey would require american approval.

it's been clear for a while now that the french have some level of shady backroom dealing with iran through lebanon. i would hope it's not nuclear.

the french would only do this to hide something.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/unifil-shoots-down-idf-surveillance-drone-over-southern-lebanon-sparking-public-tiff/

the remaining items in my order arrived this afternoon and i was able to put three shelves up, which was the last thing to do, for now. the four packages that came in were the mini keyboard, the adhesive pegs, the bookshelf pins and some j-cloths.

the last things left are the doorbell and the wood shelf for under the cabinet. next, i need to finish some bulk purchases that i'll probably do via uber and then take a run to the bulk barn this week to fill up the spice shelf.

i'm going to take some pictures and start writing a post up.

the premiers should not be running ads like this in the united states, but i'm less concerned about the division of powers and more concerned about retaliation. it's clearly foreign interference, and the americans are correct to make an international incident out of it, but i don't want to even imagine what they might to do in response, as i don't want to give them ideas.

the provinces should led the feds deal with this.

of course this devolves into a s. 92 debate. that's as canadian as living in igloos. glad to see we're still a sovereign country, after all.

no, i don't want to talk about devolution, either, but we're probably going to, and we should be happy about it, and take pride in it. the true north.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/carney-u-s-talks-provinces-anti-tariff-ads

if i were the pmo, i would not return any further calls from donald trump, but rather direct that intergovernmental communication occur via the appropriate bureaucrats and dignitaries over the appropriate channels.

if i were the prime minister, i would make it clear that i would not be interested in any sort of further communication with donald trump for any reason at all.

i think that canada should respond to trump's reaction to the sports events ads by telling him that we're not going to sign a deal with him at all. 

canada should refuse further discussions on reciprocity agreements and instead wait for the next president to take office before resuming trade negotiations, and we should tell that to the united states in blunt terms.

that would be 2028/9. 

we should wait it out.

i suspect that the president is upset that his local sports team did not advance in the competition the ads were broadcast during. apparently, the canadian team located in the city of toronto, which i believe is the only canadian team in this competition, advanced instead. it's some kind of cricket that is very popular in the united states and that i know very little about. 

if landlords are allowed to unilaterally alter the terms of a lease, then it isn't a lease. this is functionally a proposal to abandon the entire concept of a rental contract altogether, and just let landlords do whatever they want, on a whim. apparently, the government believes this will alleviate the housing crisis, by freeing up additional stock, by evicting the people that live there.

that's right - the ontario government's solution to the lack of affordable housing is to evict more people, therefore creating more housing. statistically speaking, that's what would happen, allowing them to campaign on creating more housing spaces.

i wouldn't rent an apartment from somebody without a lease agreement, and landlords may actually find that they have difficulty finding tenants, under the proposed amendments.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/proposal-rent-control-removal-ontario-9.6952992

if we're going to have a conservative government whether we like it or not, let the conservatives govern. i certainly have no support for the sitting government and would like to see it defeated. i would have no support for the budget being proposed, which cuts services to pay for guns to fight wars overseas, and would vote against it so long as it continues to push austerity to pay for death, which appears to be non-negotiable. 

i have absolutely no confidence in mark carney or the liberals whatsoever.

let's have another election.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-house-leader-budget-votes-9.6953599

trump doesn't want argentina to cry for him, clearly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-argentina-farmers-trade-9.6950426

the pseudo-left in canada has really pulled off a neat trick in conflating canada with the united states, and in the process making us a 51st state.

historical reality is that the long, devastating british civil war that existed from 1776 to 1945 was unquestionably the single most important global conflict of it's era, and it is itself an extension of the franco-british conflict that started well before the norman invasion of england in 1066. the differences between the united states and canada are not just deep and profound, but have been one of the major drivers of history for centuries and are rooted in an ongoing cultural conflict that has been ongoing for over a thousand years.

it's just easy and it's just lazy, so they keep doing it, but they're going to be eradicated as a result of it.

the foreign born subset of the petite bourgeoisie in canada is a more conservative and more aggressively competitive subset of the petite bourgeoisie than the domestically born nouveau riche, as the aristocratic class uses advanced data and technological screening methods in their immigration policy to isolate potential migrants as conservative and competitive with the explicit intend to expand the petite bourgeoisie, as that broadens their tax base. liberal and conservative governments pick new immigrants with the intent of them becoming new members of the petite bourgeoisie, which is a marxist term that is largely equivalent to the capitalist term "entrepreneur", because they want to tax them as bourgeois, and not as proletariat. 

the disconnect is that the canadian pseudo-left relies almost entirely on american analyses that use american economic data. however, the united states has very rarely adopted similar policies. immigration policy in the the united states is largely a legacy of slavery and is primarily intended to increase the size of the proletariat in order to drive down wages, not to increase the size of the petite bourgeoisie to increase the tax base. canadian immigration policy is rooted not in hispanic/arabic slavery but in british colonialism, which sought to populate new regions with free british citizens that could generate their own wealth, with the purposes of taxing them.

if the canadian pseudo-left wants to reconnect with the canadian proletariat, it needs to start by using canadian economic data that is relevant to the canadian proletariat, and stop relying on american data and stop trying to apply distinctly american social theories that are rooted in the legacy of slavery and are not relevant in canada.

canadian voters don't care about this one way or another, they care about who they think will help them survive in an increasingly difficult economic reality, and they can correctly realize that out of control immigration is harming their economic status. there's no contradiction in building a bigger tent that focuses on the economic concerns of the proletarian majority and listening to the mostly unrelated concerns of special interest minority groups unless you want there to be one to advance your own political career.

but this framing of left and right is backwards. macpherson sounds more like marx than avi lewis does, here. marx would not let special interest groups that represent petite bourgeoisie economic concerns and are focused on non-economic issues overpower the economic rights of the proletariat class. avi lewis sounds more like a red tory type conservative, who is protecting the interests of the immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie against the populist demands of proletariat workers.

it's not really the contemporary pseudo-left's fault, as they are inheriting framing left to them by the orwellian movements that developed out of the "new left" in the 1960s, and which sought to redefine the left in orwellian language. however, the complete irrelevance of the contemporary pseudo-left in the lives of proletariat voters, who have subsequently turned to conservatives or liberals that do no represent their economic interests, is giving the ndp the choice to determine whether it wants to abandon it's historical position as a sanctioned proletariat opposition, or whether it wants to become the mouthpiece of an immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie, which is what it has increasingly become since the death of jack layton.

the so-called racialized groups being spoken of are not struggling or oppressed minorities in canada and in most cases have never been, as they only began entering the country after changes to immigration in the 1960s, and have little to no history in canada as substantive entities in the pre-modern era. over the last ten to fifteen years, the ndp has attempted to position itself as the party of educated immigrants, who delusionally see themselves as marginalized groups, but are in truth privileged groups with high incomes and in many cases have special rights that the rest of the population does not. this premise that the proletariat is increasingly made up of racialized groups is actually racist, as it's based on racial assumptions that are rooted in american culture and not upheld by canadian economic data; the ndp's attempt to reach out to what it assumes are racialized groups but are actually privileged groups, because it is a racist party, has led it to become a mouthpiece of this subset of the bourgeoisie that was not born in canada. it then continues to delude itself that it's representing oppressed racialized minorities instead of privileged bourgeois immigrant groups when challenged on this point, largely because it's beholden to the funding it receives from wealthy immigrants. the result is that it's lost party status, as it is simultaneously abandoned by the proletariat and the groups it is trying to reach out to, which are predictably voting in favour of their own class interests, which are bourgeois and not proletariat. it might get wiped out soon altogether, leaving the proletariat as disenfranchised, and destabilizing the base of canadian society.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ndp-leadership-rivals-at-odds-over-purity-test-framing

the government has regularly cut taxes after every election cycle for the last 30 years. the result is that it is so underfunded that it's unable to support it's most vulnerable populations, and is instead resorting to scapegoating them in backwards reagan-era propaganda about senior welfare queens.

the government should raise taxes on the "middle class" to ensure it has enough revenue to fund it's spending obligations as an oecd country.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-urged-to-cut-old-age-security-spending-in-upcoming-budget

unless he's announcing reparation to the indigenous population, the pope should shut the fuck up about canada.

the pmo should call the pope to tell him to fuck off and go back to worrying about mumbling at walls.

i would support israeli annexation of the west bank.

the only viable path towards enforceable palestinian rights law is as full citizens in an israeli state. any theoretical palestinian state, as unlikely as one ever is, would be another backwards theocracy that oppresses it's own citizens, and where people have no civil and legal rights to deviate from violently enforced religious norms. it would be another brutal dictatorship in the region, and gaza under hamas is the inescapable model for it.

refusing to allow israeli annexation of the west bank continues to indefinitely and endlessly render the palestinian people as stateless and rightless until they simply cease to exist at all, which is the inevitable outcome of the status quo, and leaves them with no democratic influence into the events unfolding around them.

if you are opposing annexation out of concerns about what israel calls a "demographic problem", you at least have a position rooted in logic, but it's fundamentally incompatible with the values of secular democracy and a position i would strongly oppose. if you are opposing annexation because you worry about the possibility of palestinian extremism destabilizing the region, which is the position held by local governments, you are in truth probably right. but if you think that opposing annexation of the west bank by israel advances the rights of the stateless individuals living there, most of whom are hebrew in ancestry, you are an absolute idiot.

19th century european ethnic nationalism is a foolish model to colonially enforce on 21st century populations on the periphery of european civilization. in the modern world, states have diverse populations that speak multiple languages.

mr trump will not have his friends ridiculed by the common soldiery.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/israel-version-saturday-night-live-224244449.html

if you've ever had a golden retriever, you understand the psychological trauma that throwing a basketball is putting them through, even if they react like perfect stoics. it is little known that the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, who was the offspring of an earlier emperor, and the horse that he married. after all, horses are just big, stupid dogs; when you mate a horse with a human, you backcross and implement dwarfism, creating golden retrievers. it's genetically obvious.

i've had a number of these creatures around. there was a goldie, a minnie and the unfortunately named lou, who didn't understand she was a dog. you know the type. well, she didn't have a dog name. what did anybody expect?

golden retrievers are hardwired to the innermost depths of their souls to catch and retrieve. they have to do it. it's an impulsive mental health issue, and when they start retrieving shoes, or food, or toddlers, it becomes an obsession that affects their day to day lives, and justifies seeking and requiring help.

when you throw a basketball at a golden retriever, what is going through it's mind is "i get to catch! i love to catch!", and so the dog jumps up to catch the ball, to satisfy this primal urge that it has to release. of course, it fails due to the physical reality that the ball cannot fit in the dog's mouth, which it lacks the mathematical education in geometry to calculate beforehand. this is a crushing level of failure.

as mentioned, the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, and all goldens since then have been deep stoics. you will never know how crushed and devastated your golden is, unless in immense pain, and it will still kiss you. emotions are for weakling dogs.

please, people - throw your goldens things it can catch. stop torturing it like this. it's viciously cruel.

i'm waiting for paul calandra to ban people from parking in grocery store parking lots.

in fact, this is the 9th or 10th example of this in the last few months and there have been fatalities. ontario has a serious problem with elderly drivers that shouldn't be behind the wheel that needs to be addressed by evidence-based policies and not knee-jerk moralism.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/lasalle-woman-charged-after-car-smashes-into-grocery-store/