the situation in new brunswick has no relevance to the situation in british columbia because new brunswick is under treaty and british columbia is not. that is, the indigenous groups in new brunswick signed away ownership of the land a long time ago, while the indigenous groups in british columbia never did. the government in british columbia continues to deny the basic fact that the land is not under any sort of treaty, and was simply stolen outside of any legal process, which is outside of any concept of british or canadian law.

canada has a valid treaty in new brunswick, but is illegally occupying british columbia. canada has no right to be in bc at all. i repeat: the canadian presence in bc is an illegal occupation. straight up.

further, european concepts of "property rights" are not "fundamental" in canada, but in fact do not exist at all. it is extremely concerning to hear a member of the government make such misinformed and overwhelmingly ignorant comments about "property rights" in canada and i would call for that person's immediate resignation and self-deportation to the united states. get out of this country. you're not welcome here with your yankee property rights. canada is a country that does not have any enforceable legal concept of property rights, whatsoever, and that is a very, very good thing. canada's historical rejection of the idea of property rights is one of the primary reasons that we are a more just society than the united states, with it's horrible use of private property at the foundation of it's deplorable constitutional framework. we fought a revolution against property rights - that was the point of our rejection of america in the revolutionary war, it was a war against property rights. that is our history, and i am proud of that history. i am proud that canada fought a war to reject property rights and subsequently built a society on their negation, a society that is better than the one built on property rights next door to it. the concept of property does not exist anywhere in canada's constitutional framework, which is something i am proud of as a canadian, and i want to ensure it stays that way. it is foundationally, fundamentally, starkly different than the constitutional or legal framework in the united states.

in canada, all land (with the exception of a small amount of allodial property owned by indigenous groups) is the exclusive property of the crown, which since patriation refers to the federal government. there is no private property in canada. at all. deal with it.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11872287/aboriginal-title-cant-declared-private-land-supreme-court-of-canada/

i am reposting this, as i'm adding the bit about weight. the food posts will eventually be isolated into the food blog and shifted to an access point in the kitchen. it may be most logical to use the chromebook i'm typing on right now for that purpose and redesign the lenovo for a different function.

i have not got back to schedule yet but i'm getting closer. i'm almost caught up with the garden salads and have almost eaten through the pile of canned soup and spaghetti i got from the food bank. there will be some odds and ends after that, and a sold month of fruit and ice cream, and then i'm back in schedule, likely by the end of the summer.

2025

- 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 sandwiches 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 (bacon, olives, pineapple, double cheese)

- 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 cycle 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.

2026

- 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/7th: broccoli soup (1/6)

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

- jan 9th: second cycle 10 bacon and eggs (no salsa) with sugary fruit rollup things.

- jan 10th: second cycle 9 tomato sandwich with added pickles and with strawberry jello (with one lime, one orange and full containers of blueberry, blackberry, raspberry - a jello fruit bowl purchased intentionally, and made of on sale berries and surplus citrus)

- jan 11th: smoked meat and bacon on sourdough with caesar, mustard, pickles, monterrey and cheddar cheese, pickles, mustard and hot sauce. with two extra slices of toast with margarine, some pickles and a large bag of jalapeno doritos, plain, later. 

jan 12th: even later, two pieces of sourdough with margarine, some more pickles, an avocado and an orange. still later, two pieces of sourdough with cheese.

- jan 13th: first cycle 9 tomato sandwich with added pickles (side eaten previously). mayo is done.

- jan 14th/15th: first cycle 10 tomato sandwich with added pickles and a side of beans with bacon, cheese, dill. beans eaten on 14th, sandwich on 15th.

- jan 16th/17th: second cycle 6 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast 

- jan 18th/19th: second cycle 10 tomato sandwich with green olives and a side of beans with bacon, cheese, dill. slice of toasted sourdough with margarine and cheese to start.

- jan 20th: first cycle 7 caesar salad, with added pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast  

- jan 21st: first cycle 11 bacon and eggs (no salsa) (last of quinoa bread)

- jan 22nd: second cycle 7 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast 

- jan 23rd-24th: first cycle 8 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast 

- jan 25th: second cycle 8 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast. out of kale, for now. still have 1.5 chicken breasts, potentially for use with pizza. move to mini pizzas to use up tomato sauce and other items in fridge (pineapple, green peppers). 

========================cycle 2--->8 eaten through except for three exceptions

- jan 26: greek pita mini pizzas (1/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast. two pitas early, two late. with four oranges, after supper, for electrolytes, because i'm sick. 

- jan 27th: remnants meal: the last piece of brown bread with the last bit of mozarella in the opened pack, and four pickles.

- jan 28-29: greek pita mini pizzas (2/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- jan 30-31: greek pita mini pizzas (3/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- feb 1st: first cycle 9 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast 

- feb 2nd: second cycle 9 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast 

- feb 3rd: first cycle 10 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives and grilled chicken breast. end of chicken breast.

- feb 4th-5th: second cycle 10 caesar salad, with added pickles, pickle juice, green olives. end of kale, again.

================================end of chicken breast

- feb 6-7: greek pita mini pizzas (4/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- feb 8-9: greek pita mini pizzas (5/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- feb 10-11: greek pita mini pizzas (6/9):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- feb 12-13: greek pita mini pizzas (7/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast.

- feb 14: second cycle 11 bacon and eggs (no salsa) with two pickles

- feb 15/16: quesadilla leftover meal. quesadilla ingredients: 3 remaining pitas, mozzarella cheese, fried ground bison with chili mix and cumin, bacon, garlic, avocado, red peppers, tomato, sour cream, chives, jalapenos, dill.

- feb 17: first cycle 12 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- feb 18-19: greek pita mini pizzas (8/8):  four greek pitas with one can of tomato paste, topped with bacon, green olive, pineapple, green peppers, avocado, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, dill, mozarella, franks, nutritional yeast. 

===========================end of canned pizza sauce, greek pitas

- feb 20-21-22 & 24 & 26: broccoli soup (2/6)

- feb 23: first cycle 9 guac with frozen peas, two pickles and remaining pineapple

- feb 24: above

- feb 25: second cycle 12 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- feb 26: above

- feb 27: second cycle 9 guac with frozen peas and two pickles

- feb 28 & mar 2 & 4 & 6 & 8: broccoli soup (3/6)

- mar 1: first cycle 13 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- mar 2: above

- mar 3: first cycle 10 guac with two pickles

- mar 4: above

- mar 5: second cycle 13 bacon and eggs (no salsa) with a pickle

- mar 6: above

- mar 7: second cycle 10 guac with two pickles

- mar 8: above. end of sourdough.

- mar 9: first cycle 11 guac with two pickles

- mar 10th: second cycle 11 guac with two pickles

- mar 11th: make broccoli soup. first bowl of broiled broccoli soup.

================ ---> end of food bank broth. continue through four more bowls. 

- mar 12th: first cycle 9 cereal, in two bowls - 1. vector with two apples, hemp, sf seeds, yeast, paprika, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- mar 13th: first cycle 2 garden salad with bacon, olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (spaghetti-os) with cheese, bacon and spices and two pieces of toast

- mar 14th: first cycle 9 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- mar 15th: first cycle 14 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- mar 16th: a package of peanut butter cookies with added chocolate and butterscotch chips and caramel sauce, and two packages of creme caramel made with soy milk, which seems like caramel jello.

- mar 17th: second broiled bowl of broccoli soup

- mar 18th: second cycle 9 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- mar 19th: second cycle 2 garden salad with bacon, olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (spaghetti-os) with cheese, bacon and spices and two pieces of toast

=======================================end of cycle 2, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- mar 20th: broiled bowl of broccoli soup

- mar 21st: second cycle 14 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- mar 22nd: second cycle 9 cereal, in two bowls - 1. vector with two apples, hemp, sf seeds, yeast, paprika, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- mar 23rd: first cycle 10 cereal, in two bowls - 1. vector with two apples, hemp, yeast, paprika, sf seeds, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- mar 24th: first cycle 3 garden salad with bacon, olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (chunky chicken noodle soup) with cheese, bacon and spices  with two slices of buttered toast

- mar 25th: first cycle 15 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- mar 26th-27th: first cycle 10 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- mar 28th-29th: 2nd cycle 10 nachos  with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- mar 30th: 2nd cycle 15 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- mar 31st: broiled bowl of broccoli soup

- apr 1st: broiled bowl of broccoli soup

- apr 2nd-3rd: 2nd cycle 3 garden salad with bacon, olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (vegetable soup) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

=======================================end of cycle 3, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- april 4th-5th: 1st cycle 4 garden salad with bacon, olives and jalapenos but no broc, with can of soup (broccoli cheese soup) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

- april 6th-7th: 1st cycle 11 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- april 8th-9th: 2nd cycle 11 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese

- april 10th-11th: 1st cycle 12 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese and no beets

- april 12th-13th: 2nd cycle 12 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese and no beets

- april 14th-15th: 1st cycle 13 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese and no beets

- april 16th-17th: 2nd cycle 13 nachos with olives, jalapenos and double cheese and no beets

- april 18th: 2nd cycle 10 cereal, in two bowls - 1. vector with two apples, hemp, sf seeds, yeast, paprika, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- april 19th:  1st cycle 11 cereal, in two bowls- 1. vector with two apples, hemp, sf seeds, yeast, paprika, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- april 20th  2nd cycle 11 cereal, in two bowls- 1. vector with two apples, hemp, sf seeds, yeast, paprika, wheat bran, flax seeds and choc soy, 2. all bran with paprika, yeast, hemp, flax seeds, wheat bran, sf seeds, normal soy with two slices of buttered toast

- april 21st: first cycle 9 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa 

- april 22nd: first cycle 11 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken.

- april 23rd: 1st cycle 16 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- april 24th-25th: 2nd cycle 4 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (spaghetti-os) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

=======================================end of cycle 4, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- april 26th-27th: 1st cycle 5 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (tomato) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

- april 28th-29th: 2nd cycle 5 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (mushroom) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

=======================================end of cycle 5, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- april 30th-1st: 1st cycle 6 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (mushroom) with cheese, bacon and spices with two slices of buttered toast

- may 2nd-3rd: 2nd cycle 11 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken.

- may 4th-5th: first cycle 12 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken.

- may 6th-7th: 2nd cycle 12 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken.

- may 8th-9th: 1st cycle 13 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos grilled chicken.

- may 10th-11th: 2nd cycle 13 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos grilled chicken.

=====================================================kale eaten through before it browns

- may 12th-13th: 2nd cycle 6 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (chicken noodle) with cheese, bacon, grilled chicken and spices with two slices of buttered toast

=======================================end of cycle 6, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- may 14th: 2nd cycle 16 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

- may 15th: 1st cycle 17 bacon and eggs (no salsa)

=========================================eggs eaten through until fall

- may 16th-17th: 1st cycle 7 garden salad with olives and jalapenos, with can of soup (chicken noodle) with cheese, bacon, grilled chicken and spices with two slices of buttered toast

- may 18th: 2nd cycle 9 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa 

- may 19th-20th: 1st cycle 14 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos grilled chicken.

- may 21st-22nd: two cans of mushroom soup with cheese, bacon and spices and four slices of buttered toast (cycle 7/8). weight at start: 73.45 kg.

- may 23rd-24th: 2nd cycle 7 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 72.45 kg.

=======================================end of cycle 7, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls

- may 25th-26th: 1st cycle 8 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 71.75 kg

- may 27th-28th-29th: 1st cycle 10 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. weight at start: 70.70 kg (156 lb)

- may 30th-31st-1st-2nd: 2nd cycle 14 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken. weight at start: 154.7

- june 3rd-4th: 2nd cycle 10 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa (last of the lentils). weight at start: 154.2 lb

- june 5th-6th-7th: 1st cycle 15 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken. weight at start: 153.8

- june 8th-9th: 2nd cycle 8 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 152.0

=======================================end of cycle 8, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls. 

- june 10th-11th: 1st cycle 9 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 151.8

- june 12th-13th-14th-15th: 2nd cycle 15 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken. weight at start: 150. 149.6

- june 16th-17th-18th-19th: 1st cycle 16 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken. last of the kale. weight at start: 149.0

- june 20th-21st-22nd: 2nd cycle 9 garden salad with  olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 148.2

=======================================end of cycle 9, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls.

- june 23rd-24th-25th: first cycle 12 guac with two pickles. weight at start: 146.0. (t=147.x)

- june 26th-27th-28th: 1st cycle 10 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 144.2 (t=146.x)

- june 29-30-1st: four slices of buttered toast with cheese, hot sauce and caesar dressing. weight at start: 145.2 (t=145.x)

- july 2-3-4: two cans of tomato soup with cheese, bacon and spices. cycle 8/9. weight at start:  144.2[t=144.x]  

- july 5-6-7: four slices of buttered toast with cheese, hot sauce and caesar dressing. weight at start:143.8 (t=143.x)

- july 8-9-10: two cans of mushroom soup with cheese, bacon and spices. cycle 9/10. weight at start: 143.0 (t=142.x) 

- july 11-12-13: four slices of buttered toast with cheese, hot sauce and caesar dressing. weight at start:  141.8 (t=141.x)

- july 14-15-16: two cans of vegetable soup with cheese, bacon and spices.  weight at start:  138.7 (t=140.x)

- july 17-18-19: four slices of buttered toast with cheese, hot sauce and caesar dressing. three pickles. weight at start: 139.8 (t=139.x)

- july 20-21-22: two cans of vegetable soup with cheese, bacon and spices.  weight at start: 138.8  (t=138.x)

- july 23-24-25-26-27-28: two cans of vegetable soup with cheese, bacon and spices and four slices of buttered toast with cheese, hot sauce and caesar dressing.  eaten in spurts. was not feeling well weight at start: 138.0 (t=137.x)

====================end of canned soup

- july 29th-30th: two containers of pringles. 150 g each. needed. still not feeling well. will fall back in at 136.x.

- july 29-30-31-1-2-3-4: powdered chicken noodle soup with remnant grilled frozen chicken, cheese, bacon. and two containers of pringles.  also, a fair amount of mt dew. weight at start: 137.0 (t=136.x)

august : second cycle 9 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start:  (t=135.x)

august 4-5-6: first cycle 10 garden salad wth olives and jalapenos. weight at start:  (t=134.x)

================================end of kale

august 7-8-9: hungarian salami and bacon melts x4 (eat through mustard, bacon) weight at start:  (t=133.x) 

august 10-11-12: hungarian salami and bacon melts x4 (eat through mustard, bacon) weight at start:  (t=132.x)

august 13-14-15: hungarian salami and bacon melts x4 (eat through mustard, bacon) weight at start:  (t=131.x)

august 16-17-18: hungarian salami and bacon melts x4 (eat through mustard, bacon)weight at start:  (t=130.x)

august 19-20-21: pasta (eat through bacon) weight at start:  (t=129.x)

august 22-23-24: pasta (eat through bacon) weight at start:  (t=128.x)

august 25-26-27: pasta (eat through bacon) weight at start:  (t=127.x)

august 28-29-30: pasta (eat through bacon) weight at start:  (t=126.x)

then:

- 6 fruit bowls (cycles 2, 3, 4) wait

- 6 salsa bowls (cycles 9, 10, 11, 2 each)

- kitchen should be done, hopefully

- sept 1-2-3: first cycle 2 fruit bowl.  weight at start:.

- sept 4-5-6: first cycle 9 salsa with can of chick peas. weight at start: .

- sept 7-8-9: second cycle 2 fruit bowl.  weight at start: .

- sept 10-11-12: 2nd cycle 9 salsa with can of chick peas.  weight at start: 

- sept 13-14-15: first cycle 3 fruit bowl.  weight at start:

- sept 16-17-18: 1st cycle 10 salsa with can of chick peas.  weight at start: 

- sept 19-20-21: second cycle 3 fruit bowl.  weight at start:

- sept 22-23-24: 2nd cycle 10 salsa with can of chick peas.  weight at start: 

- sept 25-26-27: first cycle 4 fruit / ice cream bowl.  weight at start: 

- sept 28-29-30: 1st cycle 11 salsa with can of chick peas.  weight at start: 

- oct 1-2-3: second cycle 4 fruit / ice cream bowl.  weight at start: 

- oct 4-5-6: 2nd cycle 10 salsa with can of chick peas.  weight at start: 

- still have packaged soup, canned tomatoes, to eat through

- but try to just work through the remaining fruit bowls and try to get back to cycle sequentially

==================

next run (october):

- hold steady at 120

- 6 fruit / ice cream bowls

- 2 salsa

- 4 tomato sandwich

- three guac

next run (september):

- reanalyze weight. too skinny? climb to 135, then hold

- 10 fruit / ice cream bowls

- 6 quinoa

- 2 tomato sandwc

next run (october)

- 12 pasta

- 6 garden salad

- 6 caesar

- have some broccoli soup at the end if it's cold or wait

- finish cycle 9, 10, 11 (except exception) while catching up on fruit/ice cream bowls for start of summer (alternate), to finally finish cycles 2-12

- then get back in cycle for cycle 13, minus already eaten through items.

- june 22nd-23rd-24th: 2nd cycle 16 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos, grilled chicken. weight at start: 146.

- rdsp is transferred to new account with bonds and grants

- finish appeal docs asap

- ltb?

- waiting for order from karen case.

- appointment on may 15th rescheduled to video?

- cat?

- clean, finish setting up apartment, catch up on email, get back to reading project from start

- laundry, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, garage mostly done.

- need to focus on hallways, listening room, studio

canada's decision to militarily align itself with germany as a countermeasure to the united states is immensely stupid and will lead to severe hardship in the short to medium term if it is not swiftly corrected and reversed.

iran has been there for 2500 years. trump has roughly two years left in office. if he's not going to remove them by force, and it's clear that he doesn't want to, they have no reason to do anything except wait for him to go away, and he doesn't get it.

the united states has seen it's ability to enforce it's will on iran decrease as it has refused to act, allowing other powers the ability to strengthen iran's defenses. iran still stands no chance, it's just harder now than it was. this fucking around looking for peace with terrorists has just increased the financial and human cost of eventual, inevitable and necessary regime change.

there is not going to be a deal with iran.

regime change remains inevitable. the united states should hurry up and get it over with.

the mock hanging is considered free expression in canadian law.

this issue is apparently too complicated for most people to understand. the very narrow category of street activity considered to be restricted in canada has explicitly to do with realistic threats to the peace that are directed at identifiable groups. it has nothing to do with "respect".

the only groups we have seen breaking these laws are palestinian and iranian aligned groups, but the police won't charge them because they're islamicist nazis.

canadians have no obligation whatsoever to be "respectful" during protest activity, and i reject that suggestion as an attack on free expression. however, public protests that realistically target minority groups with harm are a threat to public order that the canadian parliament has considered concerning enough to pass laws to restrict, but the police refuse to enforce those laws and instead continue to let violent muslim groups roam the streets unchecked.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11865072/mock-hanging-trump-netanyahu-montreal/

i'm also going to need to make some lentil soup tonight.

how is my weight loss plan going?

the answer is according to plan. i weighed myself over 74 kg after that last caesar salad on the 20th.

- may 19th-20th: 1st cycle 14 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos grilled chicken.

- may 21st-22nd: two cans of mushroom soup with cheese, bacon and spices and four slices of buttered toast. weight at start: 73.45

- may 23rd-24th: 2nd cycle 7 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 72.45.

=======================================end of cycle 7, except two fruit & ice cream mega bowls

- may 25th-26th: 1st cycle 8 garden salad with olives and jalapenos. weight at start: 71.75

- may 27th-28th: 1st cycle 10 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. weight at start: 70.70

next:

- may 29th-30th: 2nd cycle 14 caesar salad, with added pickles, green olives, jalapenos grilled chicken. weight at start: 69.

so, that's already 5 kg, which is 11 pounds, in about 10 days. it's the slowest and most methodical but also the surest way i know to lose weight: don't eat until you go down a kg, repeat and stick to it until you reach your goal.

i'm going to take a flip back to the coffee table book this evening, so i'll be updating a few things that will look old and that's what i'm doing. i just want to make sure i don't skip anything. specifically, i want to make sure that i don't miss putting anything in the right box. this listing of things will help me clean up and organize a lot of the clutter i have sitting out from months of buying things in boxes and other packaging, which i really haven't thrown out yet at all. i haven't decided what i want to do with any of it. i wouldn't throw out piles of paper bags, for example, as i might be able to find something to do with them.

i'm waiting for some pohb funds to come in tomorrow morning and then for a couch to come in by the end of the week. i will need to make a purchase at canadian tire of more caulking, cement and some other things to finish some issues outside the landlord isn't responding about regarding. he's kind of run out of time, now.

i've decided what i'm going to do is compile a box of packaging per room, so that each room has one box worth of boxes of packages, tucked away under a sink or a desk somewhere. so, i will need to sort through this mess and organize it in that way. the coffee table book will let me catalog that as i am doing it, which will help me organize it.

the place tends to look like condensed mass trying to escape into an alternate universe, but i know exactly where everything is because i neurotically catalog and organize everything, even if it tends to look like the absolute triumph of the second law of thermodynamics over existence.

i think i can otherwise get the shape of the room set up over the next few days. it's going to require a lot of temporary moving of things. it's a necessary process.

i'm starting to set up my listening room and the basic fact is that i want my couch back. no shit.

there's a couch in here, but it doesn't smell so good and i'm on the brink of dragging it out.

i still have the three leather couch cushions from my stolen couch. the best option would be to find a couch bottom for 60% or something. if you have a cushionless three seater leather couch in windsor to sell, contact me.

ebola will be worth panicking and running amok over if it goes airborne. and i mostly rejected covid restrictions as unscientific fear mongering. ebola is the real shit.

this is updated with bathroom videos.

i am strongly opposed to the use of any motorized vehicles on any bicycle infrastructure, and i will push any e-bicyclists i see on canadian bike paths to the ground and yell at them to get the fuck out of canada.

e-bikes and e-bicyclists are not welcome in this country. go back to where you came from.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/gordie-howe-bridge-e-bikes-by-law-windsor-9.7211137

yesterday was pretty brutal in terms of headaches. it's relatively clear that somebody is smoking around here somewhere, and i'm going to have to figure this out. that's two weekends in a row. i can't smell it, but it's knocking me out. i'm going to have to go out and and yell at somebody to go kill themselves.

so, i had to sleep a lot off yesterday.

i weighed myself at about 72.5 yesterday morning, which was the goal, so i made a salad around noon and knocked myself out a couple of times trying to eat through it. the package didn't get here until after 17:00. i had to sleep some more in the evening, but i was awake enough to get up around 1:00 this morning. i'm currently at 72.95, so i may have to wait until this evening before i can eat again.

the lights are now installed and the bathroom is done. i'm going to wait to order a few more small things like towels before i make the video, but the room is done and i will be moving on within a few days, i just need to shower.

i still have a lot of shelving to install in the kitchen and the kitchen doesn't have a wall separating it fro the rest of the apartment, so i'll need to address the front of the apartment at the same time. i'm hoping to move rapidly to set up that part of the apartment.

the clarity act that follows exists strictly within the fantasy reality of the canadian constitutional framework. it has no relevance in the realpolitik of international law, and will not be taken seriously by a real secessionist movement.

the reference case explicitly separates between a constitutional framework that is not reality but only exists in the ivory towers of the federal government, and actual reality on the ground in quebec. 

- can quebec secede unilaterally? that isn't a legal question, it's a political and a military question. can they or can they not?

- if they can, it means canada cannot stop them besides through a war of attrition, which is in contravention of international law and should be avoided. canada should seek to align the constitutional fantasy reality with the actual reality on the ground via negotiation.

- if they cannot secede unilaterally, canada can enforce it's constitution, which has rules for secession that make it virtually impossible, but this is a time wasting mechanism. if they could secede, they would do so unilaterally.

read the case yourself. it's well written.

this is completely incorrect. it is not what the reference case says at all.

what the reference case says is that quebec can unilaterally secede if it can force the reality through. the case reduces the issue to what kind of reality quebec can actually enforce on the ground. if quebec can force secession unilaterally, it is a legal process under international law and canada would be breaking international law by trying to prevent secession with the use of violence or force. it further follows that the clarity act is not consistent with international law and that canada would face immense scrutiny from democratic global bodies if it tried to prevent secession, much as ukraine has faced immense scrutiny for preventing secession with the use of extreme violence, forced conscription, etc. ukraine is one of the most unfree countries in the world; it's one of the most corrupt societies on the planet. canada should not be looking at ukraine as anything except a failed state to learn from and avoid making the same mistakes as. ukraine has done everything wrong for decades and is the worst example imaginable to follow.

canada would rightfully face crippling international sanctions if it sought to block a democracy movement in quebec or alberta. i would sanction and boycott my own government in an attempt to topple it, to allow for democracy to triumph. democracy is paramount; nationalism is barbaric and stupid. my solidarity is strictly and solely with the rights of self-determination of peoples, not with some stupid colonial country that shouldn't exist in the first place.

the case concludes by explaining that despite the fact that it is up to the secessionists to make secession a real fact on the ground in order to legitimize it, which means through generating support and through organizing militias and other defence forces, and the fact that canada would be breaking international law if it tried to prevent secession by force, canada may still seek to negotiate, as a face-saving mechanism. the case lays out a process by which secession can happen peacefully, if it looks like it's going to happen violently, anyways.

but the rights of self-determination are not determined by the federal government, and the federal government will rightfully find itself toppled over and burned down if it tries to decide that it is. no government can tell a people that they can or cannot secede and any that tries to should cease to exist through the use of force.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can-a-province-seperate-from-canada-9.7209415

the mirrors are all put up. i was going to try to paste together a couple of broken mirrors and go with it for the aesthetic, but it's not going to work after all due to the geometry of the broken mirrors not matching the window i'm covering over well. i just used some glue on mirrors over the cardboard, so it means i can take that piece of cardboard with me in the end. i will still rebuild those broken mirrors, but as a decoration in a different part of the house.

i am going to add a few more shelves to the makeup table space and deal with some holes in the wall by just taping cardboard over it and painting over it for now. somebody's going to have to eventually fix it, but i'm not getting much response from the landlord recently. the correct thing for me to do is to sue him, but that's not in my self interest at the moment. there currently aren't any smokers on the property and the rent is cheap. i want to maintain this space, not get into a fight. but it needs to get done. so, it makes more sense for me to just do it and send him the bill and then tell him "look, you're not doing it. i did it. just send me what it cost me to do it.". the way i'm going to do this - taping a piece of cardboard on the wall and painting over it - won't cost me anything substantive. that's a commonality; i'm just taping, painting or cardboarding over problems so that i can't see them, making a note that i did it and then moving on. each of these issues will need to be dealt with independently when he gets around to it, but i'm tired of waiting. i mostly don't give a fuck, i'm just tired of looking at it.

i have one more package coming tomorrow with the materials to build an ad hoc spotlight for the sink mirror out of a broken dresser, some small lights sold in bulk for cheap and an extension power cord and then that's it, besides lingering small bathroom usb devices. i'm probably going to get a water flosser in the next few days.

there's something else that i'm going to be addressing over the next couple of weeks, as well.

i'm used to my bmi being in the 20-21 range. i've seen it fall to 19ish and climb to 22ish, but it generally stays around 20-21. i knew i had gained some weight recently and i understand why - i made an attempt to eat more (and better) during the pandemic and increased the amount of exercise i was doing for a while but have seen that lapse recently with the housing issues (i will get back to that), and my diet was then expanded when i started supplementing with food bank items, which i'm just eating through the end of. i wouldn't normally have items like cream of mushroom soup in my diet (which i'm eating with toast, cheese and bacon as a side to my normal salad). for a while, the added calories were probably beneficial, because i cut my calories immediately after i got evicted to save money. i have been noticing it creep up so i weighed myself the other day. i was surprised to see my bmi over 24 (but below 25), which is at the highest level of healthy weight. i've weighed myself repeatedly over the last few days, and i'm bouncing between 23.5 and 24.5, which is too much for me. so, i need to lose on the order of 10-15 kg to get closer to what i'd consider a healthy weight.

the way i'm going to do this is by staggering meals downwards a kg per meal. i will need to weigh myself at a kg less than i was before i started the previous meal before i start the next meal. by keeping to this, i expect to lose 14 kg over the next two weeks and around 20 over the next three, and that should be enough. an example may be helpful.

- i measured myself at 73 kg and change (which is just under 24 bmi)  before my meal last night.

- my next meal will be a large garden salad. i will wait until it gets to 72 before i eat it.

- i will have the same meal after that, and will wait until it gets to 71 before i eat it.

- there will be some lentil soup next, and i will wait until it gets to 70

- a chicken caesar salad follows that, and i will wait until it gets to 69

.

.

.

.

.

. 

when it does get back to the 20-21sh range, i'll hold and keep an eye on it. but the issue is related to the food bank items, which are clearing out. i don't expect to need to be too focused on this once my diet goes back into schedule in the next few weeks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- a water filter in the shower (water softener)

- a new shower head

- mirrors in the shower

- shower shelving

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

- extra soap and shampoo

- brushes, combs, tweezers, etc

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

- a hair straightening iron

- extra wall shelves for these devices

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

- i finally installed the makeup shelf with the power extensions 

- a cushion for the seat

- lights in strategic parts of the room

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

it's a fucking spa. 

next step is a long and overdue shower.

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

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

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

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

ask is a verb. it is not a noun.

the relationship between the united states and china has no remote resemblance to the peloponnesian war.

when carney dropped the reference, he wasn't helping himself, as the context he was dropping it in was flawed beyond measure. carney then proceeded to repeatedly contradict and make a fool of himself and to this day it's not clear how carney intends to advance what is functionally a world designed around american hegemony without the participation of the united states. carney claims a rupture in the world order, but his policies and behaviour are suggestive of somebody who actually wants more american hegemony and not less of it. canada just wants a return to the preferential treatment it enjoyed since the 60s (or so) and is basically talking out of it's ass to try to get from a to b. however, carney had the basic point that the united states and canada are sibling nations going for him when he made the drop and there is at least some comparison between the athenians and canada and sparta and the united states, even if most liberal americans would cringe rather viciously at this. what the drop really has going for it is that the conflict that the americans fought with the british for control over the anglosphere did have stronger undertones, and it's a memory of that, if a bad one.

i don't think comparing the rise of china to the rise of athens is in any way remotely helpful and if the drop made carney look confused and lost, it is making xi look eager and rash and kind of daft. there is no thucydides trap across the pacific. but carney should take note that running your mouth off without thinking it through fully can have unintended consequences.

however, i have a more appropriate ancient war to drop, and i've dropped it before. the pacific is opening up much as the mediterranean did in the years after alexander. we have an established trading power and an upstart looking to take control. the punic wars are consequently a more accurate comparison for a conflict between china v america, while the peloponnesian war does retain symbolic relevance when discussing conflicts between english-speaking societies.

these people are a bunch of fucking losers and, frankly, they're lucky the israelis don't just shoot them out of the water. they have no grounds to complain about being rescued or fed. they should be executed on the spot. if i was making decisions in israel, i'd want to treat them as the terrorists they are and blow the dingy up with helicopter fire, but they can't do that because there are american citizens on board.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-9.7205666

somebody that's currently physically in vancouver is trying to hack one of my accounts. i have some idea who it is.

you'd better fuck off before i catch you.

if the cops won't help me, i'll make sure they can't help you.

it's been a constant for some time now that i consistently get these vicious splitting headaches on holidays, which is because these worthless fucking drug addict losers keep following me around and doing drugs near where i live. i'm sick and tired of these pieces of absolute garbage making me viciously sick in an utterly idiotic attempt to cure me of "depression", which i've never been diagnosed with, and which i don't accept is a real medical condition (psychedelic drugs don't cure you of anything, they just make you useless until it wears off, make you tired and sick, give you brutal headaches and make you want to puke until your body eliminates it. the "trip" you're experiencing, the hallucinogenic experience, is the result of your body going into shock as it eliminates a poison. there's a lot of disinformation about it having to do with neurotransmitters, but that's not correct. the trip is actually your body going into shock; that's what happens when you ingest poisons that your body needs to struggle to get rid of as an emergency - you start hallucinating. they're horrible drugs that are banned for a very good reason. they're an utterly awful, painful, wretched, boring, tedious, time wasting experience that you'd have to be literally retarded in order to remotely enjoy. they knock you out. they make you see colours. it's not fun. i haven't done psychedelic drugs since i was a little kid. the correct age range for these kinds of drugs is about 12-15 years old. if you don't grow out of these drugs well before you turn 20, if you don't realize they make you useless, and if you don't grow into utterly hating them as a complete waste of fucking time, you are unquestionably a legitimate, class A fucking retard, unambiguously. but i can't get rid of these complete fucking idiots that are convinced i'm supposed to enjoy being useless for days at a time and suffering through vicious headaches that knock me out for hours.)

so, i'm very frustrated right now. and very sick.

i haven't updated the np: list in a while and am not going to anymore.

this is my main blog. it's for politics, rants, daily status updates, etc. i'm going to be making a better attempt to split it up as i set up different devices for different purposes. i've already set up the kitchen/tv/youtube/stereo system. next up is the listening room, which contains the main stereo system.

- there is an email device connected to this blog and also to my main vlog accounts, including "jessica", "the koala central command" and "jessica's fake youtube account". this is likely to be split up and refocused a little. the vlogs will likely get their own device in the listening room. i don't want to connect my typing pc to the internet, so i'll either use the email device or get something dedicated for the journals, which are the first focus coming up.

- i have a chromebook ready to go that will be strictly intended for the studio, sit in it and will only connect to bandcamp, pahyip, youtube,  etc to upload music.

- there's a video device in the kitchen connected to this account:

https://www.youtube.com/@koalaoversightcommittee

no blog, yet.

it may get connected to the serious account and the diet account

this device is constantly freezing and, for now, i'm just rebooting it. i'm going to need to figure it out or replace it. it's annoying, but it takes a few seconds to restart in guest mode. everything's saved to the server.

- there's a raspberry pi in the listening room with an audio out that is connected to this youtube account:

https://www.youtube.com/user/dkdghfhjfdhfchlfa

this music review blog:

https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/

..and a number of multimedia devices, including a 5 tb external drive full of flacs and mp3s.

the purpose of this post is to point out that when i get the listening room set up with the pi and the rest of the system, i'm going to be shifting back to the music web. i've drawn attention to this music web a few times, and it's actually something that i have notes for going back to about 2001, although i'm also going to be starting fresh. i am strongly interested in rebuilding my cd collection (cds. not records. not mp3s.), but i have a few conditions to take note of:

- i want to start with artists that are dead and have no possibility of recreating new releases. this will minimize the need to backtrack.

- holding to a longstanding practice, i will be collecting new cds as they come up, but i will not be writing substantive reviews for any releases until they've been released for five years.

i have considered a variety of artists to start with, including a silver mt zion, pink floyd, coil, the beatles and genesis, but only coil is entirely dead, and it's too new. i want to collect old cds that i find used rather than buy new ones, for right now.

i've decided to actually start with miles davis, instead.

why davis?

because we're still in the jazz era. it's all jazz - blues, rock, prog, psychedelic, punk, experimental, techno. it all comes from jazz in the end. it's fun to hyper-specify and over market it, but somebody is going to have to sit down when capitalism finally collapses and try to figure this out, and at the end of the day, it's all jazz. that's the form. that's the style; the cliche is that it's the only american art form.

miles davis is the kevin bacon of modern music. still. anybody worth mentioning still connects to davis, even if punk (particularly) only has a few bottlenecks. the drummer from ministry actually joined king crimson for a while, for example. everything else connects relatively readily, if you start at the beginning of davis' career and just plow through, link by link. once the jazz world gets thoroughly explored, there are key links to rock music through john mclaughlin and chick corea. mclaughlin connects to the entire rock scene through page, clapton and others, and corea (through di meola) connects to the entire progressive rock world. the rieflin link isn't the only link to punk, which isn't dead yet, but it may be the one i use in the end. eno will get there first, at the very least through jah wobble, if not through devo. you get the point. in the end, peter christopherson and genesis p'orridge connect to pink floyd through hipgnosis, which connects to modern techno through coil, if nothing else comes up first (i'm sure i'll get there through krautrock first).

this is not going to be like the genesis discography i was doing, which was far more directed and focused. this is a web. so, i'm going to start with

- a list of official records by the artist, chronologically (that would start with the new sounds, 1951)

- only after i've sorted through all albums chronologically, will i move a list of other appearances by the artist, on other records  (that would start with charlie parker in 1945, with davis) and on non-album singles and eps. some eps will be listed as albums.

i will not sort through all of the albums by the artist at the same time but will traverse the liner notes of each record, only coming back to it at the end.

so, if i start with the new sounds (1951), i will first determine if i should get this album on cd or not by sampling it via mp3 or, more likely, over youtube. if i decide the record should be in the cd collection, i will find a way to get it. if i decide it shouldn't, i will leave it in the web as an mp3 release only. there are some artists that i will skip altogether, and who will not appear in the web at all, but will appear in liner  notes without a corresponding hyperlink to an artist page.

the web will start with a searchable launch page, and an index page for each artist. first will be davis. opening the artist page for miles davis will sequentially list each record as they come up, starting with the new sounds (i have about a dozen davis cds, mostly from the fusion period, which was very important for the development of psychedelic rock music, which is the kind of music i grew up with). opening the page for the new sounds will link to mp3s of the record on the 5 tb drive that can be streamed by launching a playlist, whether i bought it on cd or not, as well as a list of liner note credits, which are:

Miles Davis – trumpet

Jackie McLean – alto saxophone, tracks 1 & 2

Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone

Walter Bishop, Jr. – piano

Tommy Potter – double bass

Art Blakey – drums

Label - Prestige (PRLP 124)

Producer: Bob Weinstock

each of these credits will either launch to their own pages or have no link, but a note that says not featured in the music web. in fact, each of these should have their own pages. non-links will be rare and would indicate an artist i don't think is substantive or important and has few links. unimportant or unsubstantive artists with multiple links to substantive artists (ex: abba) will have their own pages, but only traverse through selected links. in truth, it will be rare for the web to ever halt.

after analyzing and reviewing this first davis record, i will not immediately move to the next davis record (i will need to wait until i exhaust the traversed options and get back to davis) but will instead open the jackie mclean page, where it will first list the first jackie mclean record, which i will again need to analyze to determine if it should be in the collection or only analyzed over mp3/flac. there will be a link to that page, nonetheless.

presenting....jackie mclean (1955) has the following credits:

Jackie McLean – alto saxophone

Donald Byrd – trumpet

Mal Waldron – piano

Doug Watkins – bass

Ronald Tucker – drums

i will not continue through jackie mclean's discography until i return to it, but will instead move to donald byrd's. donald byrd's first solo release was in 1955, which has the following credits:

Donald Byrd - trumpet

Bernard McKinney - euphonium

Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone

Barry Harris - piano

Alvin Jackson - bass

Frank Gant - drums

the next link would be to bernard mckinney, who i do not believe ever released a solo record. as such, the list would shift to appearances, instead. his 1955 appearance happens to be the first. if it was not, we would rewind to the earliest. as there is no earlier appearance, the next is a 1957 appearance on The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams. this would link directly to the album page, which has the following credits:

Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone

Bernard McKinney – euphonium

Hank Jones – piano

George Duvivier – bass

Elvin Jones – drums

the next link would be to pepper adams, whose first record was called baritones and french horns and has the following credits:

Baritones (recorded April 20, 1957), also released as Dakar under John Coltrane's name

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone

Cecil Payne – baritone saxophone - except track 4

Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone

Mal Waldron – piano

Doug Watkins – bass

Art Taylor – drums

so, now we've gone from davis to coltrane, and can jump to the 1957 record coltrane (the earliest coltrane i currently have on cd is the 1958 soultrane), 

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone

Johnnie Splawn – trumpet on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "While My Lady Sleeps", "Chronic Blues"

Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone on "Bakai", "Straight Street", "Chronic Blues"

Red Garland – piano on side one

Mal Waldron – piano on side two

Paul Chambers – bass

Albert "Tootie" Heath – drums

....and i would just keep gong until i get to a dead end.

- johnnie splawn is apparently only on this record. so, go to 

- sahib shihab - the jazz we heard last summer

- john jenkins - alto madness

- walde legge

- dizzy gillespie - afro

- quincy jones - jazz abroad 

.

.

quincy jones opens up in the 70s and 80s, for example through his work with michael jackson. michael jackson will have many links, including to paul mccartney and eddie van halen, which will take me into the rock world. etc. mccartney will go to lennon to bowie (eventually) to reznor (eventually) to the aphex twin (eventually). so, we've moved from davis to rdj already, and this is probably not the shortest path.

eventually, the links will dry up, and i will need to go back to quincy jones, and move to the next record, etc, which will take me down some other path.

now, i may not decide to traverse jackie mclean to start. i might choose sonny rollins, instead. i have some free will as to which path i want to traverse.

i hope the idea is clear, and i will be starting with davis as soon as i get the system set up.

i have a few more things coming in for the bathroom tomorrow, but both the bathroom and kitchen are essentially done, up to installing a few remaining items. those videos should be up by the end of the weekend.

there remains no discernible business case for another pipeline to bc (although that's not my concern. i am concerned about the environmental effects.) and there is essentially no possibility of a private company stepping in. i'm not worried about this.

carney is probably trying to create competition with an expansion to keystone, which i also oppose, and which is dangerous and stupid and would rightfully get him assassinated if the americans weren't a bunch of pansies nowadays.

because airports aren't infrastructure. apparently.

canada spent decades fighting off the vultures at the imf, only to sleepwalk into their parasitic control, in fear of empty threats by donald trump. we are the dumbest fucking country in the world.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11849987/carney-public-asset-sales-airports-infrastructure/

comments by outside politicians warning canada not to be naive in it's interactions with authoritarian regimes are themselves naive. canada was at one time many decades ago somewhat of a haven for liberalism, but it has been sliding into the worst kind of authoritarianism for many, many years and has in truth already arrived at that point several years ago. canadians should be on the streets protesting and striking against these kinds of laws, but the reality is that few people here attach much value to the freedom that we used to have, and the people of this country flatly deserve the outcome they get.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11851363/lawful-access-nordvpn-canada/

why don't venues just post basic show lists anymore?

sorting through an instagram or facebook feed to try to figure out what's happening in a specific place on a specific day is tedious and in truth almost impossible. they don't even have search buttons anymore. it's like they expect everybody to be constantly scrolling through their pages on their phones and read all of their posts within minutes of them being posted. maybe that works for losers that are stuck to their phone 24/7, but normal people would prefer to just look at a fucking calendar for ten minutes a week and avoid getting eaten by their phones. why is that hard to figure out?

these instagram feeds are completely out of order and entirely chaotic, forcing you to sort through weeks worth of posts to plan a weekend. it's so tedious and boring that it's not worth it.

a return to a simple calendar format where people can look up events by date and place rather than have no choice but to get bombarded by a newsfeed they don't want to read is much needed.

canada's courts often don't operate on actual law, they look for predetermined outcomes and then seek for arguments to uphold them. this is a prime example of that backwards operating process, and it has the potential to backfire.

a petition by alberta to separate does not fall under the traditional concept of the duty to consult, which is about land or resource use, but is rather strictly within the confines of how the colonial state operates. further, the law is clear that a duty to consult is not a duty to listen. it's consequently not entirely clear what the court even ordered. does alberta need to consult with indigenous groups before they secede or before they have a referendum? does this apply to any or all refrerenda? do they need to consult again if the referendum passes? in an attempt to quickly dispense of something it doesn't like in the easiest way possible, the court just handed indigenous groups a veto over potentially anything at all.

for example, i could see indigenous groups using this ruling to argue against patriation, which is fundamentally the same thing from the indigenous perspective. 

i don't see what role that indigenous groups should have in colonial governance, other than through democratic participation. their treaty rights should and must be transferred to whatever entity the colonial state puts in charge, but the colonial state needs to govern it's own affairs in it's own ways, it can't be forced to ask indigenous groups how to run itself.

this again traces back to poor selection criteria determined by the trudeau government. the court matters. if you pick poor justices, you run the serious risk of ending up as a failed state.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553

this is horrific.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-clean-energy-regulations-announcement-9.7198953

i'm so used to ordering something and having it land in vancouver, that i had to make sure it was actually right when i saw that this package landed in montreal. but, it makes sense, i guess - if ordering something from ikea over amazon is actually shipped from sweden, which nobody would really expect.

if one wants to argue that the inflation is due to policies made by the president, that doesn't actually matter. the responsibility still falls on congress. perhaps an argument could be made that republican members of congress enabled the president to enact those policies, voted for them or did not vote against them; insofar as that may be true, it would be an evasion of congressional responsibility, and the correct outcome is for those republican members to be held accountable by voters for enabling the president.

members of congress cannot be allowed to blame it on the president and the media should aggressively go after members of congress that try to shift the blame for their own negligence to the president.

if americans are frustrated by inflation, the correct thing for them to do is to take it out on their congressional representative and vote for members of congress that run on party platforms to pass bills in congress to address it.

it has essentially nothing to do with the president.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-american-financial-situation-9.7197691

i was hoping to be able to get over to detroit for some movement after party festivals this year, but the hold up around opening the bridge (and the fact that it would cost $30 to get back and forth on the bus now) means there's no affordable/feasible way across the bridge (i don't want to pay $120 on bridge tolls. that's a non-starter.) and i'll have to stay here in my room and complain about canada being boring instead.

hey, give the guy a break. his girlfriend just ran off with another closeted guy. or did i hear that wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/12/donald-trump-china-iran-redistricting-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates

the truth is that meritocracy is just another failed utopian ideology that has no basis in empirical reality. it does not exist now, and it has never existed. frankly, i'm not convinced of the merits of meritocracy, but it doesn't matter, because all utopian ideologies are impossible.

what i'm interested in is empirical reality, not abstract utopian theory. what empirical reality tells me is that we live in an idiocracy and not a meritocracy and this is all pointless nonsense. the school system is largely for the rich, and it largely prepares women to do what is historically women's work, anyways.

don't get upset. just have a cigar. you're gonna go far.

and just remember that you need to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their backs on you, you have the chance to put the knife in. 

that bro trust is key to "success" in backwards, idiocratic late capitalism.