my intestinal tract is imploding on me. have you ever looked down and realized that you just cleared all the way to your duodenum, as the excretion is so perfectly long and well formed that it seems like it just came out of a butcher shop, as some exquisite brand of gourmet sausage?

unfortunately, that never lasts.

what follows is always a faucet of liquid acid, leaving you in search of a spray fountain of baking soda. that would be an interesting product - just a toilet seat shaped container of bicarbonate that you would sit in during strategic and opportune moments, as a sense of relief. i'd call on tums to manufacture this.

i've been having nachos recently, you see.

so, i was thinking about this as my insides were seeping out of my ass - is eminent domain actually a cost effective solution to the housing crisis? hear me out.

we don't build subsidized housing any more because the government doesn't think it's cost effective. i don't think that's actually correct; i think if you do the math, you'll find that's not the case. however, the state insists on trying to to incentivize private builders into building new homes, which leaves what's left for low income tenants. the government then gives money directly to social assistance recipients, with the assumption that they can find below market housing, which they increasingly can't. this doesn't work precisely because social assistance recipients have precisely no market power.

if the state stepped in and just seized older buildings, giving existing tenants a period of six months to a year to move somewhere else and compensating them fairly for it, it would likely save a lot of money in construction of social housing, and spur private development to build by increasing demand for new apartments, condos or small houses.

it's actually a pretty good idea.

i want the government of canada to immediately seize this condo using eminent domain, and to convert it into subsidized housing.

eminent domain laws in canada require that property owners, in this case condo owners, be compensated for their investments at market prices.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/article/a-battle-for-who-belongs-downtown-toronto-condo-suing-charity-next-door-for-23-million/

trump has developed a pattern of accusing black people of mortgage fraud.

this is a kind of racism that is so anachronistic that you might not even recognize or realize it. i guess it's a reflection of his age. you don't hear about this type of racism much anymore.

i wonder if the national guard have also been targeting black people driving through specific neighbourhoods.

they should ban both tiktok and twitter in order to prevent them from accelerating declining literacy rates.

social media is stupid, in general, but twitter is mentally challenged and tiktok is outright fucking retarded.

as a result of the meeting today between canada and mexico, my sources tell me that canada has agreed to send trainers to aid the mexican national hockey team, and, in return, mexico will send mediators to help end the longrunning dispute between edwin and the rest of i mother earth.

somebody asked me if i spoke hindi today. of course not.

when i was a kid, i thought learning french was inefficient and stupid and a pointless waste of time. why do we need two words for everything? what a waste of perfectly good synapses.

it's easy for me to talk about english as a lingua france because i speak it, right? maybe it's not fair to everybody.

i think a good compromise would be for everybody to learn reconstructed proto-indo-european as the common lingua franca. that way, everybody has to learn the common lingua franca, and it's relevant to almost everybody.

well, here it is.

the last cardiacs album?

this is like a write your own fantasy cardiacs album, where a collection of hardcore cardiacs fans got to finish the demos left by the late tim smith, who almost unbelievably died of two successive cardiac arrests, after having spent a long period of time in a severely diminished state.

as it's a cardiacs album completed by cardiacs fans, it is in some ways an over the top parody of what cardiacs were, inverted into what tim left for completion.

take it for what it is.

but i suspect they had so much fun, they might do it some more.

call william d drake.

https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/lsd 

i'm from ottawa. paul calandra is an utter, complete moron.

they should be making stricter rules around seniors driving, not stricter rules on parking, but the minister is an idiot.

the driver was 70 years old. 

you should require bimonthly health exams to maintain your license after the age of 65.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-daycare-parking-rules-accessibility-issues-1.7636429

when coffee prices go back down, i'm going to keep buying espresso and use it in the single serve. i just have to make it correctly, which is to put boiling water in the machine 

that espressso-coffee worked so well that i didn't fall asleep until 9:00 am. that's two scoops of espresso in the black and decker single serve, with boiling coffee in the machine, and chocolate soy to mocha latte it up. yikes.

i also opened up the hole in the reusable filter a tad so that it flows faster, which makes sense for espresso.

i'll keep making normal coffee in the larger maker and keep the single serve just for espresso. 

that's what this thing is engineered to do, the engineers just didn't realize it. real coffee just makes a mess, but the espresso with boiling water works flawlessly and creates an extremely potent cup, but is probably better for 10 am than 10 pm.

democracy dies in darkness, indeed.

bezos lives in total darkness most of the time, because his eyes are completely blinded by his wife's massive tits. you just can't see anything in there.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/attiah-free-speech-1.7634895

conan is sitting in his lair, twiddling his fingers, as he continues to eliminate his rivals.

late night will once again be mine.

i don't want to post a charlie kirk clip.

listen to chomsky instead.

 

i indicated previously that i agree that colbert's just not that funny. i don't think kimmel's very funny either. and fallon is awful.

i like seth myers, mildly. 

they should fire them all and bring conan back, and run him on all four channels.

however, i'll say this - it's nice to see conservatives acting like conservatives and liberals acting like liberals. it's been too long.

so, they want to replace carbon taxes with taxes on exporting dirty gas.

this is the ndp, in canada. it's not the conservatives.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-cutting-administrative-waste-spending-1.7636337

how do i make my nachos? it's been a while, so i'll repost it.

this is nachos as a meal, not a snack.

start with doritos. i prefer the zesty cheese, and i like the dill pickle, but it's disappeared. i'm trying the guacamole tonight and it's not bad. pick the doritos you like, or use tostitos if you insist. you can either do this by using two snack sized bags (they don't have to be the same type) or one regular sized bag, which should be a little more than you need. spread the chips across a plate.

in a separate bowl - it should be pretty big - mix up

- 1 lime

- 1 beet

- 1/2 tomato

- 1/2 red pepper

- 1 avocado

- 2 cloves of garlic

- fresh dill

- 1 tbsp of cumin, oregano, cayenne powder and paprika, each

- some pepper

- a lot of frank's

mix that up good and then lay it over top of the chips.

add the following on top

- 2 slices of crumbled, fried bacon or other meat, like chicken. don't use bacon bits. 

- 1 tbsp of hemp seeds

- 1 tbsp of nutritional yeast (with b12)

- 200 g of grated marble cheese*

microwave for two minutes.

add caesar dressing (i prefer this to sour cream, but it's up to you) and more franks.

i eat it with the orange/grapefruit juice (75/25) mix.

* you could substitute for the cheese. the other night, i used 120 g of mozarella, 50 g of monterrey jack and 30 g of cheddar, because that's what i had to use. i prefer the marble for this application, but there's no right answer to the cheese. 200 g is about the right amount, though; you may want to use more, but don't use less.

i bought extra tomatoes and extra limes because they were cheap, but they aren't keeping in this fridge, so i decided to catch up on the nachos over cycle 2, 3 and eventually 4. total extra costs is $15 on doritos and $10 on cheese, which is not so bad.

i saw a lot of stuff this week and it's mostly been bad. the two i saw on saturday were good, but the landlords are taking their time in processing every last single application, and i want to have moved yesterday. the market is better in he sense of more options, but it's still saturated in the sense of too many applicants, and i'm getting the impression that landlords are holding on to the fleeting inflated prices that are crashing, in the face of 20% unemployment (11%, officially). i'm going to have to throw out applications in places that are overpriced, or too small, or ambiguous on the smoke, and see if i want to sign if i get accepted.

i saw something today that seemed ideal, but the manager's response when i told him i'm on odsp was bad enough that i'm considering filing at the hrto. why wouldn't i, if he tells me point blank i won't get accepted  because i'm on odsp? i'm waiting for him to send me an application. if he tells me via txt "i'm not sending you an application because we don't rent to disabled people", that hrto file is coming. this is a pretty big company with a lot of buildings, and they are pretty aggressive about non-smokers, which is what i want.

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

- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine

- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon

- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise

- june 20th: caesar salad without subs

- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets

- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs

- june 24th: caesar salad without subs

- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai

- june 28th: broccoli soup

- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)

- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 1st:    kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 2nd:  kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 3rd:  10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).

- july 4th:  a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.

- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 7th:  two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.

- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.

- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)

- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips

- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips

- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)

- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)

- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)

- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.

- july 16th:.  pasta with minor subs (5)

- july 17th:  pasta with minor subs (6)

- july 18th (on the 19th):  pasta with minor subs (7)

- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)

- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)

- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)

- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.

- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3

- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)

- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.

- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)

- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.

- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)

- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam. 

- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.

- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.

- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)

- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)

- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).

- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).

- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).

- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)

- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)

- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.

- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.

- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)

- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early. 

- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.

- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- sept 10th: 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 meal 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: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. third skipped. (eaten early on 18th)

- sept 18th: pasta with minor subs (36). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fourth skipped. eaten late on 18th.

- sept 19th: pasta with minor subs (37). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 20th: first cycle 3 nachos

- sept 21st: pasta with minor subs (38). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 22nd: second cycle 3 nachos

- sept 23rd: pasta with minor subs (39). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 24th: second cycle 4 guac with red pepper & poutine with canned potatoes.

- sept 25th: pasta with minor subs (40). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 26th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 with soup

- sept 27th: pasta with minor subs (41). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

i have never seen the legalization of drugs as some kind of justice issue, and the idea that it is is an insult to the concept of justice. it's not particularly hard; if you don't want to go to jail, don't do drugs. the best arguent in favour of legalization is that it would reduce wasted police resources, and the idea is that it would cost less money on enforcement, but i doubt that's actually the case.

i'm really not interested in helping drug addicts. society has no reason to give a fuck about addicts. what i'm concerned about is strengthening laws that ensure that normal people aren't subject to the habits of addicts, who have no right to enforce their poor decisions on the people around them.

what we need is better case law strengthening the rights of non-smokers. landlords should be able to directly fine tenants for smoking anything inside, anywhere, and the fines should be substantive - $1000/occurrence. that would shut it down. there should be zero tolerance in case law for any sort of inside smoking for any reason, and complaints by tenants should overpower decisions by landlords. the right to fresh air should be enforced as fundamental law.

we have an ongoing public health emergency in our multi-residential housing complexes. there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco or marijuana. tenants should not be expected to tolerate even the slightest whiff of smoke from anywhere.

smokers should be expected to smoke in their cars with the windows closed.

canada needs to have a very serious discussion about recriminalizing marijuana, and about enforcing it.

legalization has failed.

i have the best apartment in my price range in town, but it's uninhabitable due to the drug users on the premises. our government's failure to enforce basic drug laws, and put addicts in jail where they belong, is making it virtually impossible for normal, healthy people to find acceptable, affordable housing. it's a complete failure of law enforcement, and a complete failure of canada, as a society.

if you want to move to canada, there's almost no escape from the now ubiquitous drug culture.

it's not the greatest country in the world. it's an uninhabitable hell hole.

it should be a red flag.

the guy that makes $4000/month and applies for a $1000/month apartment is a drug addict loser and they are looking for cheap housing so they can do drugs inside without getting evicted.

if this person wasn't a drug addict, they wouldn't be interested in $1000/month housing, they'd be looking for something in the $2000+/month range.

landlords offering cheap rentals should tell the people making $3000-$4000/month to apply for something more expensive, and to follow the fucking rules in the more affluent buildings, when they move in there. don't move into low income housing so you can smoke drugs inside.

that higher income isn't an asset, it's evidence that the applicant is a piece of shit.

if you're only paying 30% of your income on rent, why haven't you bought a house yet?

because you spend 50% of your income on drugs. 

there's no other conceivable explanation. anybody with 70% leftover after rent should have enough to buy a house in six months, unless they waste it on drugs.

that's why the rentals are full of addicts, because the landlords screen them in by asking for people with disposable income. disposable income is just another term for "drug money".

ideal tenants should seek to spend 50-80% of their income on rent.

anybody that would want to move in somewhere that is less than half of their income is a loser and should be avoided.

if i was managing a property and seeking to rent a place for $1300, and somebody filled out an application for it with an income of $3000, i would tell them their income is too high to rent the apartment and that i'm looking for somebody that makes under $2000/month for $1300/rent.

the reason is that the only conceivable reason that somebody with an income over $2000 would be looking for such a cheap apartment is if they spend $1000/month on drugs, and i don't want drug addicts on my property.

by screening in tenants that make more than they need for a low income apartment, which today is under $1500, landlords are just screening in drug addicts.

a good manager should realize that, and refuse to rent to somebody at less than 50% of their income. the way that landlords currently do this is backwards - instead of saying rent should be less than 50% of income, landlords should be screening out people that want to pay less than 50% and only renting to people that want to pay more than 50% of their income in rent, in order to ensure they aren't renting to drunks, potheads and addicts.

a sober, responsible person will want to spend at least 50% of their income on rent, because what else would they spend it on, besides drugs?

what am i supposed to put on this bagel?

my electricity bill?

to the person that left the bagel in my box: come back and leave some humus. 

it was very inconsiderate of you to leave the bagel without the humus.

it's not entirely clear what trudeau saw in freeland, but carney was right to demote her. she had essentially no qualifications to be in the role she was in, or to act as any sort of envoy for ukraine.

i would describe her as a conservative. i won't miss her.

i don't have a wonky jew nose. it's a bumpy italian nose.

my dad's nose was a mess, but it's because he used to be a boxer in his youth, and it was broken something like ten times. you couldn't figure out anything about his nose by looking at it, other than that it was busted and smashed.

now, somebody has left a bagel in my box, which i'm interpreting as anti-semitic, and which is weird because i'm not a practicing jew. i have less than 3% jewish dna, according to the ancestry.com report.

the arabs that are stalking me, and who apparently thought i was arab at one point, have repeatedly called me a jew and repeatedly expressed frustration that i'm not reacting as expected because i'm a jew, rather than the arab they thought i was.

in fact, my ancestry is overwhelming viking in origin, both directly (swedish/finnish) and indirectly (scottish, irish, norman, russian, gothic). the 3% jewish dna was from philadelphia, which i have deduced is sephardic, and traveled from philly to n'awleans to frisco to vancouver, and then to ottawa, where i was born. my father's side had some north italian that was gothic/germanic in origin. the test did pick up 1% sicilian, which was probably mostly greek in deep origin. the 1% sicilian is the closest thing to any sort of arab ancestry, but it's probably not really there.

the semitic dna is unambiguously on my mom's side, and the ancestor was certainly jewish, as he got in trouble in jewish court for being mean to his wife. i don't know what the point of a court intervening in a domestic dispute is when your wife is jewish, but the documents exist, and it demonstrates the point pretty clearly, as do the noses on my mother and aunts, which are all quite substantive.

i'm not a dj, but some people wish i was one.

so this one goes out to tyler robinson.

israel cannot sign a ceasefire now, when the hostages are all dead. there's no deal to make. a contract, or  a deal, requires consideration.

hamas has nothing to give israel in return for a ceasefire, anymore.

therefore, now is the time for revenge; israel must wipe them off the face of the earth, as punishment.

the "prime minister" of qatar is actually a monarch, not an elected official. he is a member of the emir's family and is appointed and deposed at the emir's pleasure.

qatar is not a democracy, it is a brutal theocracy with no concept of any sort of human rights or political rights, no free speech or freedom of expression, no rights for women and what is essentially a continuing use of migrant slave labour. it is well known that qatar is a substantive financier and sponsor of religious extremism and terrorism across the middle east. it's one of the most backwards, brutally oppressive countries on earth.

there's been a lot of hot air about housing in canada.

i want to see shovels in the ground. this is long overdue.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-new-housing-agency-1.7632981

if the russians had intelligent, capable leadership, they would have moved immediately to secure the areas east of the dnieper many years ago and then stopped there, at least for now. it's not what they want, but it would be pragmatic and realistic, and i would have accepted it. the world would have learned to live with it.

they don't have intelligent or capable leadership, and they're chasing foolish pipe dreams. the escalation was the weapons deal announced by donald trump, but the russians are not being smart in their response. 

the smart thing to do upon learning of the weapons deal would have been to bomb out the bridges on the dnieper and then to try to get there as soon as they could.

this is a map of the indefensible european plain, which russia blames for the carnage it experienced in world war two, in the napoleonic wars and in other wars attempting to conquer it.

this is greater than the maximum extent of the russian empire, but it is less than the warsaw pact countries (excluding finland, which was in the russian empire at it's max extent but not in the warsaw pact), which actually gave russia a series of buffer states on the other side of the carpathians, and to the west of the vistula.

if it was not for nato expansion, russia would consider this to be the region it seeks to control in order to ensure it's defenses. the natural boundaries of the carpathians, together with the vistula, would give russia a defensible boundary. the world's a shitty place, and you have to acknowledge the logic, even if you don't like the tactics.

as it is, nato did expand, and the idea of russia moving into the baltics, into poland or into romania and bulgaria is currently outside of the realm of russan military capability. the russians are crazy to be sending drones into poland and romania, and that provocative action should be condemned.

however, it's important that people understand what they're doing. that map explains what they're doing, and it's been at the core of russsian defense policy for centuries. it's sort of well understood that the russians would not be likely to expend resources on protecting areas east of the urals, either.

you should leave the empties at your conservative mp's riding office.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-beer-store-empty-1.7630453

while i think that this is irrelevant, as the law is unconstitutional anyways, i would support removing this provision.

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/nunavik-mp-wants-to-change-criminal-code-on-hate-speech/

this is a case that could potentially have the law struck down as unconstitutional, and not be saved by an oakes test.

the woman is a horrible retard, but she poses no credible threat to anybody's safety. she should not be arrested, she should be allowed to speak freely, in order to discredit herself.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/vancouver-home-of-samidoun-founder-charlotte-kates-reportedly-raided-by-police/ar-AA1u9Ysi

if carney wants to walk back down this path, his laws will just get thrown out in the end, too. this is settled law. hate speech is free speech. violent speech is prosecuted if the threats are believable and imminent.

if somebody is causing enough of a disturbance, you can charge them with lots of things - assault, harassment, trespassing, uttering threats, etc. 

if somebody is just yelling at you, and you don't like it, that's too bad. if you want to live in canada, you'l need to learn to tolerate it. if you can't tolerate it, you should move to iran.

what is against the law is uttering threats.

the various rulings, including keegstra, have all clarified that any law restricting "hate speech" violates s. 2b of the canadian constitution, regarding free speech. keegstra was explicitly clear that what conservatives/progressives call "hate speech" is always protected by s. 2b.

however, in canada we have a section of the constitution that allows specific laws to infringe the constitution if they pass something called an oakes test.

1. There must be a pressing and substantial objective

2. The means must be proportional

    a. The means must be rationally connected to the objective

    b. There must be minimal impairment of rights

    c. There must be proportionality between the infringement and objective

if a law in canada is found to be unconstitutional, but it passes the oakes test, the unconstitutional law may be left in place.

the court has repeatedly found that any restriction of speech, include what conservatives/progressives call "hate speech", is always an infringement of s. 2b, but they will not strike the laws down on the specific case that the speech is determined to be violent. you can hate the jews as much as you want, and you can scream it through a megaphone in public, but you can't threaten the jews. that's when the court lets the police enforce the laws it has determined are unconstitutional.

that is why these cases require a warrant to be issued by the attorney general, which i think is not strong enough. police should never be allowed to arrest somebody for these charges, or any charges, unless they get a warrant from a judge. however, the law is written to prevent officers from making these decisions and get a warrant from the ministry precisely because the court has ruled it unconstitutional, and only saved it because the case at hand involved violence. if the police were to try to charge somebody with public incitement of hate, advocating genocide or any other hokey attempt at restricting speech that some people don't like, and the case did not involve credible threats of violence, which is also required to prove a threat in court, the court would strike the law down. by forcing officers to get permission to lay charges, the government is trying to save a law it knows has already been struck in principle, and is hanging by a thread, due to the specific case at hand being about violent threats.

ultimately, police should just charge people with uttering threats when it comes down to it, as that's what is actually criminalized, and not bother with the attempts to restrict speech that comes up in political discourse. the court will not convict you of just offending somebody, in the end, even if some asshole judge forces you to go through an appeal. you have to threaten somebody for these laws to result in conviction, and the threats have to be imminent. you'd be more likely to get a conviction if you just stuck to the laws against threats in the first place, and sidestepped the minefield of trying to call it hate speech.

ignorant right-wing activists, some of which call themselves "progressive", will frequently repeat the conservative slogan that "hate speech is not free speech". that is complete and total ignorance. the supreme court of canada has been abundantly clear in explicitly and literally stating that hate speech is in fact protected as free speech in canada, but the parliament continues to pass unconstitutional laws and then have them struck down when they get tested.

the number of extremely troubling incidents involving police thugs arresting people for posting words on the internet is extremely alarming, but the issues need to work through the court system.

this law against "advocating genocide" is a very weird law in canada. in canada, we don't have "hate crimes" in the sense of it being against the law to hate people. i am a strong proponent of hating people. i'd rather see the government outlaw loving people and send dirty fucking hippies to jail for love crimes than have them get on the ass of cynics and recluses that rightfully hate the society, because the society is sick and the culture sucks, and is getting worse with more immigration from backwards societies. if we have to choose between criminalizing hate and criminalizing love, i'd vote for criminalizing love. there's nothing more fucking annoying than a goddamned christian. but that's not what this is about.

in canada, a judge can increase the sentence of an existing crime, like uttering threats, if it's determined that the motivation was hate. if you get caught spraypainting a synagogue, you'd get charged with vandalism, and might have an additional sentence if the judge thinks your vandalism was hate-related.

"advocating genocide" is consequently not what you call a hate crime in canada, but is a literal restriction on speech, similar to the thrown out laws against spreading fake news in zundel, which is leading precedent. this law has not been tested, yet. it is clear that a law against "advocating genocide" would be dead on arrival at the supreme court, citing zundel. in fact, the law itself seems to be a reaction to zundel. i would advise any legal professional, including police, to assume that the law is unconstitutional, but just hasn't been thrown out yet.

the last news entry in the case is that the guy was released on bail while he underwent a psychiatric hearing. i would expect these charges will be dropped, due to no chance of conviction, and prosecution not being in the public interest.

if you were going to in theory charge somebody with this, it would be intended for politicians seeking power. to arrest some idiot for posting on the internet is not consistent with a free society, and the police should be roundly condemned for doing so.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/death-zios-nova-scotia-man-125059134.html

what was wrong with the name "ottawa river parkway"?

i think you'll find that people in ottawa still call it the parkway, always did and always will.

“China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip,” he wrote

the reason that china has leverage - i would consider the idea of it having control be an incorrect mischaracterization intended to fulfill ulterior motives that is typical of trump - over russia is that the west placed sanctions on moscow.

if there's a desire to eliminate china's leverage over russia and increase western integration and influence instead, which i would support and would consider to be smart policy, and which should also be applied to india, then the solution would be to reduce sanctions and lift tariffs, not increase sanctions and apply tariffs.

if russia could sell more of it's resources to europe, it wouldn't be so reliant on china; the fact that russia is prohibited from selling it's resources to the west is the cause of the problem, not a solution to it.

the western media has developed a tendency to present root causes of conflicts as solutions to them, which it has recently also done in presenting nato troops in ukraine as a solution to, rather than as the cause of the current conflict.

if the united states succeeds in completely blocking russia from selling it's resources to europe, russia will be left entirely reliant on china, and that's actually exactly what china would want.

it's not clear to me what the thinking is regarding tariffs on china. it would likely have no effect except to raise taxes for european capitals, and perhaps to accelerate china's movement towards selling to it's own market, and other markets in asia. european workers would be left worse off, but the european governments would probably mostly reinvest the tax money into social services. it would likely actually benefit the chinese economy, overall.

but, while i don't even understand the logic on placing tariffs or sanctions on china and don't expect it would really do anything at all, tariffs and sanctions on russia from europe are abysmally stupid policy, if you're trying to generate influence over moscow.

i would suspect that might actually be the point, if the new us policy position is just to profit off of selling weapons to europe and not really give a fuck about what happens next.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/as-canada-negotiates-trade-relationship-with-china-trump-wants-new-tariffs/

if you really do the math around what it actually takes to buy a house and the amount of money people are making, even on minimum wage, it's worth asking if the real problem canadians are facing in relation to housing isn't their addictions to drugs, tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, debt, fast food and gasoline.

if i had $3000/month, and i were to rent a reasonably priced $1300-$1500 apartment here in windsor, i'd be able to put $1000/month into a savings account and, with interest, have enough of a downpayment to buy a $250-$300K house in less than two years. that's barely minimum wage.

it's not clear to me why young people aren't able to do this, other than that they waste their money on poor lifestyle decisions, in large part perhaps inherited from their parents, and then complain that they can't afford housing as a result of these lifestyle choices.

the canadian government may consequently want to research a cost-benefit analysis around the question of it may be worth trying to get smoking rates, marijuana use, alcohol use, indebtedness, fast food consumption and gasoline use down as a part of it's housing strategy. people might find they can afford to buy a house after all, if they'd just make more intelligent choices with their money.

jokes aside, the most reasonable thing to say about charlie kirk is this: the only good fascist is a dead fascist.

conversely, this nolan quinn guy is doing tremendous reputational damage to the conservative party and the government of ontario, and by extension to ontario as a place of investment or migration, by acting like a fascist that doesn't believe in free speech.

do we not have free speech in ontario? of course we do.

i want to make it clear to doug ford that he has to act - he should be immediately removed from cabinet.

reputational damage?

please. the university of toronto should be proud that it employs people with enough good sense to call the piece of shit out for what he was. it's not reputational damage; those comments increase the school's standing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/university-of-toronto-professor-leave-charlie-kirk-tweet-1.7632736

they're claiming it's from golfing. right.

he's sure teeing off.

sure working on his putting.

i dunno, maybe he's thinking of arnold palmer, that's why it's about golfing.

my best guess is that trump is actually suffering from chronic jerk off syndrome, due to being a horny old man.

trump's hand is just experiencing male pattern skin loss. you normally don't notice it, because he uses a dry brush to pull skin from his arm over it.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/117177

speaking of kirk, mexico and canada need to sign an agreement to work together to develop transporter technology, to transit goods around the united states.

or, perhaps, we could develop a giant vacuum tube in the shape of a parabola that slingshots commodities over the karman line.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/what-to-expect-from-trade-talks-between-mexico-and-canada-next-week/

a teacher's strike would be against the law, via this legislation.

a picket line would be "intimidation", and the law would say that workers have the right to cross picket lines and cannot be intimidated into solidarity with the union.

that is how the law would be used, not to go after psychotic religionists that suffer from the mental illness of belief in god.

there's almost no chance they'd arrest muslims for blocking churches, as has recently been done repeatedly in montreal.

conversely, it's pretty likely that they'd arrest workers for picketing in front of public infrastructure.

this is backwards, fascist bullshit and should be vehemently opposed as undemocratic.

while a part of me would welcome rules that would prevent things like pro-muslim protesters blocking gay pride parades, i realize that they're more likely to be used against socialist activists than against pro-religionist groups. i can't ascertain why blocking a religious building should be seen differently than blocking any other building, and this consequently couldn't possibly be interpreted as constitutional, or worth saving if it isn't.

the state should not be concerning itself with regulating protest in any manner whatsoever.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-legislation-protecting-religious-cultural-buildings-1.7631867

i'm updating this again.

i've been in and out and saw a number of things over the last two days, and then get this - i come home last night around 21:00, and there's a key to my apartment in my mailbox, which worked. at 6:30, somebody started banging on my door.

i filed some police reports and got my locks changed.

i dunno how to process it. it looks like nothing was stolen. were they even giving me the key back? i don't know. i know that there's now exactly two keys to get in here, and i have both of them.

i have not had any symptoms of being drugged since august.

as i've been in and out, i've been splitting my meals up a bit, and eating smaller amounts when i'm in. so i'm updating this to now include a cream corn & bacon recipe, which is the same as the other side dishes:

- fresh dill & garlic

- cheddar, monterrey jack & mozarella cheese (five slices each)

- caesar dressing

- bacon with bacon grease and margarine from pan

- mix

- a can of cream corn

- nutritional yeast, hemp

- franks, pepper

- mix

it should be hot. if it isn't, nuke it.

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

- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine

- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon

- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise

- june 20th: caesar salad without subs

- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets

- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs

- june 24th: caesar salad without subs

- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai

- june 28th: broccoli soup

- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)

- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 1st:    kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 2nd:  kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 3rd:  10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).

- july 4th:  a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.

- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 7th:  two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.

- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.

- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)

- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips

- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips

- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)

- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)

- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)

- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.

- july 16th:.  pasta with minor subs (5)

- july 17th:  pasta with minor subs (6)

- july 18th (on the 19th):  pasta with minor subs (7)

- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)

- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)

- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)

- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.

- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3

- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)

- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.

- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)

- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.

- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)

- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam. 

- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.

- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.

- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)

- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)

- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).

- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).

- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).

- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)

- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)

- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.

- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.

- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)

- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early. 

- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.

- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- sept 10th: 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 meal 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: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. third skipped. (eaten early on 17th)

- sept 17th: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. eaten late on 17th.

- sept 18th: second cycle 4 guac with red pepper & poutine with canned potatoes.

- sept 19th: pasta with minor subs (36). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 20th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 with soup

- sept 21st: pasta with minor subs (37). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 22nd: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- sept 23rd: pasta with minor subs (37). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

if you're really paying attention, the liberal party doesn't see canada as a scandinavian style society, the way it used to. rather, the liberals are insistent on seeing the islamic autocracies in the middle east as social and economic models to follow, rather than as moral abominations to condemn.

canadians have not had this explained to us. we're just being replaced. in fact, trudeau did use the words "population replacement" on more than one occasion, and nobody really even noticed, let alone understood.

even if canada had the demographics and oil resources of a country like saudi arabia, that wouldn't make their social and economic systems as something that canadians would want to emulate, but the elite investor class doesn't care. to them, religion is a tool to order and control society with, and canada's lax productivity just demonstrates we need more domination from the top down. it's not about the ideology, itself. the idea is that canada would be more profitable to their investments if it had a more authoritarian society; although that would contradict most economic theory, the global data over the last 50 years questions the theory.

the basic reality is that most canadians aren't very concerned about maximizing profits for investors. they want to live free lives. they don't see themselves as slaves in a petro-theocracy and aren't going to react well to suggestions that they are, but that's the underlying suggestion, if you're really reading between, and sometimes on, the lines.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/lng-expansion-fast-track-1.7632980

you do know who killed the phony cap'n kirk, right?

ze jews.

it's always ze jews.

so just nail him to the nearest telephone pole, then. fine. whatever. it's not like anybody on the left is ever going to give a fuck, or anybody on the right is ever going to reconsider. the american right already has it's own hagiography. this won't really change much.

it might even be fitting to see a buddy phony kirk.

we're going to waste all of our uranium on fission.

of the five projects announced by carney, they aren't all backwards and regressive. 

mining projects are intended to maximize stock returns. are these companies going to refund taxpayers for the gifts they are receiving, or is this just a strict handout to stock portfolios? i'd guess the latter. i'm not particularly opposed to the mining, but this isn't a public works project, it's corporate welfare, and a government handout to the ultra rich. if these mining companies want to expand their operations, they should pay for it themselves. if government is going to lend them money, they should do so at 20+% interest rates, and then tax them through the mouth when they get the resources out. if the companies don't agree, we should nationalize them and do it ourselves. whatever you think of this, it only benefits a handful of people at the expense of major public funding. government funding for projects of this sort should be opposed, but there's no opposition.

the nuclear power plant is being marketed as an energy solution, but the project fails basic physics. the amount of carbon you burn during uranium extraction is astronomical. it's actually one of the dirtiest forms of energy production, when you take into account the entire fuel cycle. if there was some easy to access source of uranium, that might make sense, but this is, counter-intuitively, just a handout to the diesel industry. worse, these plants will probably never get built, anyways. this is another handout to stock portfolios, and will likely be a boondoggle. conservatives should pay special attention to this one.

a better idea would be to build more clean hydro, but the canadian government won't fund hydro because it doesn't create "added value". that's their language. what they mean to say is that investors don't profit from hydro generation, because it's basically free after you build the dam. you can't package and sell hydro. they've tried to do it with hydrogen, but nobody buys into it.

the lng project is hopelessly backwards. once again, industry should fund this. it's the definition of short-sighted capitalism for the state to show up and expend massive resources chasing a temporary european market. by the time they build the infrastructure, the issue in europe will have resolved itself one way or the other, including, potentially, via pipelines from qatar.

the port expansions are reasonable, and i don't oppose this.

overall, carney is behaving in a way that was predictable and should have been expected. it was well understood that he had substantive investments. he is consequently hijacking the canadian state to provide corporate welfare that will help the stock market, and throwing everybody else under the bus. two of the five projects will never get built. you should expect him to talk about the stock market and the economy as though they are the same thing. you should also pay attention to the subsidies he does direct to the manufacturing sector, and see if you can pull out a pattern for his portfolio.

i can predict his demise.

he will be accused of corruption, and might get charged for it.

i reorganized this a little and am updating it, and also posting a green beans casserole recipe, which is similar to the recipe for the baked beans, instant rice and chinese noodles, with the exception that it has garlic and mushroom soup. 

i have a big pile of canned food that i should be able to move with me. while i've purchased items like vegetables, juice, cheese, sauces, etc i am actually still eating through the food that i got at the food bank in july. i didn't go in august or september.

i will make sure to go again before i move and move the resulting bounty, whatever it is, but i'm not going to stockpile or hoard food bank food while i'm here. the gave me a giant amount of pasta, lentils and canned food. i will eat all of it (i did have to throw out a tomato, and a cucumber, unfortunately, and i do regret it), and i will wait until it's done before i go for more.

i was intending to eat the can of green beans with the salsa i had yesterday, as i ate all of the kidney beans, but i decided against it. kidney beans are good in a giant bowl of salsa. i didn't think green beans would be, so i put them aside. i was supposed to figure out what to do with them this morning, but i didn't get through my salsa until noon, and then i had the hearing at 13:00. i spent all afternoon sorting through ads.

so, i'm going to start with the green beans tonight, and i might actually leave it at that and have the pasta dated for the 12th, instead.

put this in the bowl in order:

- fresh dill & garlic

- cheddar cheese & monterrey jack

- caesar dressing

- bacon with bacon grease and margarine from pan

- mix

- a can of green beans and a can of mushroom soup, cooked together

- nutritional yeast, hemp

- franks, pepper

- mix

it should be hot. if it isn't, nuke it.

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

- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine

- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon

- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise

- june 20th: caesar salad without subs

- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets

- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs

- june 24th: caesar salad without subs

- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai

- june 28th: broccoli soup

- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)

- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 1st:    kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 2nd:  kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 3rd:  10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).

- july 4th:  a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.

- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 7th:  two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.

- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.

- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)

- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips

- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips

- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)

- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)

- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)

- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.

- july 16th:.  pasta with minor subs (5)

- july 17th:  pasta with minor subs (6)

- july 18th (on the 19th):  pasta with minor subs (7)

- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)

- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)

- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)

- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.

- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3

- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)

- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.

- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)

- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.

- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)

- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam. 

- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.

- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.

- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)

- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)

- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).

- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).

- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).

- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)

- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)

- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.

- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.

- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)

- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early. 

- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.

- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- sept 10th: 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) + first cycle 4 guac with canned corn (eaten on 12th).

- sept 12th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 14th: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 4 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.

- sept 15th: pasta with minor subs (35). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 16th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- sept 717th: pasta with minor subs (36). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

odsp is working the way it's supposed to. don't get upset about that.

but the market is completely psychotic and utterly broken. it's a market failure in front of us. the fact that odsp is the one thing that is working in the face of market failure is a reflection of it being shielded from the market, which has gone bonkers.

for now, the 45% increase in my odsp income since 2022 combined with the 45% decrease in rent (in windsor) since that time has actually opened up some pretty awesome apartments (for me) at the top of my price range, all while banking cash to use to pay for a house next year or the year after.

i'm going to see an 800 square foot 2-bedroom condo tomorrow night. that's actually bigger than the basement apartment i had when i first moved here, with the difference being that this place looks almost brand new and full of people that bought the condos and that other place was 100 years old and full of smokers on welfare.

on saturday morning, i'm going to see a basement that's probably almost as big, is laid out well, but doesn't have a stove and might not have a cable hookup.

i'm also going to see rotting basements in the same price range as i was previously paying, which would give me almost $1000/month to dump in a savings account. if i go with the latter option, it will be to save up to buy as fast as i can, and i might find myself actually getting close to the 40k odsp asset limit just via savings, pretty fast, at 12K/yr just savings, plus what comes up in lawsuits.

this is a reflection of the continued absurdity of the market. you still couldn't afford the rotting basement on literal welfare or osap, but the convergence around odsp is actually working out quite well, if you can get landlords to listen. it'd be nice to find a 600-700 square foot apartment in a normal apartment building for somewhere in between, but that doesn't exist.

if you can use the irrationality of capitalism to your benefit, you have to do it, and i set my life up so i could. on some level, i'm morally opposed to this, but i have to maximize my self-interest, regardless.

you can be exploited by the system, or exploit the system. there's no middle point. it's eat or be eaten, and you can get it or not get it, you can be the slave of the society, or you can enslave the society in return. i'm not naive about this. i don't watch tv, so they can't brainwash me, nyah nyah.

i wouldn't imagine i'd want to move out of an 800 square foot two bedroom condo in a nice part of town any time soon, so i could find myself with a nice down payment in a few years, after the court cases are done.

the place i moved into on may 10th, which has been a disaster, just provided me with a functional $4000-$4500 settlement, with a possibility for an extra $2000-2400 coming. i will need to sign a lease to get the extra $2400.

i have another $1200+ coming from the cdb. i'm asking for $10000+ on my hearing on nov 4th.

small houses in windsor are dipping under $200K, and they aren't selling. if i wait a few more months, they could start pushing to $150K.

with all of this cash flushing in, and prices crashing, i'm seriously considering buying a bungalow.

i'm not going to bother with the platitudes about gun violence, because i don't really align with that spectrum. i'm in canada; i've never seen a gun before, and i never want to see one. but anybody could have run up and stabbed the guy.

i'm more concerned with the state trying to martyr this guy. don't let the fuckers do that. he was an asshole.

do you know who else cared about "arab sovereignty"?

osama bin laden.

we're sleepwalking right back into world war two, where the russians are tasked with saving the world from a nazi-arab alliance that the british were unable to contain.

it seemed as though america had learned that it had to be aggressive with islamicists in order to prevent them from launching attacks. by reducing resources on fighting islamic extremism in order to engage in a stupid war in europe, trump is severely exposing the united states to further attacks by islamic extremists, and you can be sure they're coming.

ok, i don't care about charlie kirk getting killed. from what i can tell, he was an asshole, anyways. stop clogging my newsfeed. 

america should be focused on fighting terrorism, not blathering about "qatari sovereignty".

israel tracked the fuckers down and gave them what they deserved. america should be standing with them and applauding them for it.

there was a time not too long ago when america had leadership that wasn't as soft on terrorism as donald trump is turning out to be.

when is trump going to send federal troops to salt lake city?

are canadians so reliant on the state that they have to ask permission to die?

to an extent, the right is making a point - these are frequently not cases where somebody needs a doctor to administer the suicide, but situations where the expression of free will should be done autonomously. self-ownership means you have the right to kill yourself, and the right to ask others to do it for you if you can't, but the focus should be on doing it yourself.

i might concede that assisted suicide be restricted to scenarios where the individual is unable to do it themselves. if you really wanted to die, and you could, you wouldn't call a doctor and wait for it, you'd just do it. in some cases, the hesitation might be instructive.

https://nationalpost.com/news/maid-report-obese-woman-grieving-widower

what?

i'm a godless liberal. i don't know anything about this shit.

there's only one captain kirk, and it's captain james t kirk.

if they ever did shoot william shatner, i'm sure he'd make the most of it.

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i spent all day thinking they assassinated william shatner. i assumed it was a delayed over reaction to his bad acting.

it turns out they killed somebody named charlie kirk, not captain kirk.

i have never heard of this person before, and have no comment, other than to say i'm happy cap'n kirk is still kicking after all.

Qatar has been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate within its borders, which has been one of the justifications for the Qatar diplomatic crisis that started in 2017 and ended in 2021. In 2014, David S. Cohen, then United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, accused Qatari authorities of allowing financiers who were on international blacklists to live freely in the country: "There are U.S.- and UN-designated terrorist financiers in Qatar that have not been acted against under Qatari law."[1] Accusations come from a wide variety of sources including intelligence reports, government officials, and journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

by harboring hamas, as it has been for decades, qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism, and should be called out for it and treated as one.

nobody should be "negotiating" with the leadership of hamas. this is a designated terrorist organization. they should be hunted down, arrested and extradited to israel.

what are you "negotiating" with? there hasn't been a election in gaza in decades, and these people don't even live in the country.

this is a group with not a shred of any sort of democratic legitimacy. it's an organized crime syndicate. these are criminals and they should be treated like it.

qatar's response to israel's attack on hamas in qatar should be to arrest the hamas leadership and charge them with terrorism.

...in case qatar wasn't sure where they were?

israel has just shown you where they are. so, send them to jail.

i generally would not make israel a ballot issue. it doesn't affect me directly.

mark carney is making it a ballot issue, and inciting me to vote him out of office on it.

canadians clearly need to be re-evaluating their relationship with the liberal party.

i applaud israel for it's actions in aggressively prosecuting the war against terrorism and condemn qatar for providing safe haven to terrorists.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-evaluating-relationship-with-israel-1.7630349

the way to understand this is to realize that the liberal party has essentially reorganized itself as a free market corporation, rather than a political party. if you talk to people in the liberal party, they apparently reject the westminster-democracy rule that sitting mps can vote for their own leader. this is wrong and delusional, and i'd like to see a caucus revolt in the canadian liberal party that does result in a change of leader just to re-establish the actual rules, rather than these make believe rules the liberal party invented in a back room somewhere, but it demonstrates what carney is: he's the ceo of the liberal party first, and prime minister second. the way he became prime minister demonstrates that.

keeping that in mind, noam chomsky explains mark carney in the following clip:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-climate-change-environment-caucus-1.7625657