i'm not entirely sure why they haven't yet. we haven't seen a lunatic in power like this since jfk, and they did the right thing in taking him out, then.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
if our increasingly far right fascist government in canada moves to ban internet access for young people in any way, we need to start organizing street protests at once. the idea is unacceptable on it's face and should not even be being discussed. we should immediately move to shut the society down in response. this is an issue that would get me out on the street protesting.
i would suggest organizing the protests in a way that emulates the street protests in iran.
fear of technology - let's call it technophobia - is a growing, developing threat in our society that needs to be addressed with education and exposure. when people have a better understanding of technology, and are exposed to it more, they tend to have less fear or resentment of it.
banning children from technology is not a socialist position; socialists embrace technology as the solution to wage slavery, which is the characteristic of capitalism that makes it little different than feudalism or other historical forms of slavery. wage slave capitalism is just the current world's form of slavery. civilization needs slaves to function. only technology offers us an escape, where we can build a civilized society without the coercive wage work or other types of physical slavery that are required for the civilization to function.
banning children from technology could only be seen as an extremely right-wing political position, and those that advocate for it should be correctly considered to be far-right, technophobic extremists.
canadian politicians have been bitching about "competitiveness" for decades, and then they keep doing retarded things like banning kids from technology. you think that's going to make us more or less competitive? i mean, c'mon.
if you let these right-wing conservative politicians in the ndp make decisions for the country, we're going to end up looking like iran.
there's a country that bans internet access for young people: iran. is that what we want? it seems to be what the ndp wants.
you very well might have stupid, useless, worthless children. that might be true.
but, it's your own fucking fault, and the fact that you're considering banning them from using technology is a symptom of the poor parenting skills that led you to this situation, not a solution. maybe you should start giving them things instead of focusing on taking things away.
your stupid idiot kids are not jeff bezos' fault. they're you're fault.
take responsibility for your failures as a parent and stop blaming it on technology.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
getting your kids technologically connected at a young age will help them build the tools they need to survive in the modern world, off the amish farm, out of the kibbutz, away from the teepee, and preventing them from accessing the technology will merely retard their development in a changing world.
the times they are a changin'. eh?
you adapt, or you die.
don't hobble your childrens' development by blocking them from the real world. give them access to the tools they need to thrive and survive at a young age. help them adapt. don't condemn them to stagnation.
i might even go so far as to characterize banning your kids from technology as a form of child abuse. it is rigid, conservative parenting and an idea that has no place in a free society.
i have no remote moral or social opposition to "enriching tech bros". technology makes our lives better. i do not resist it, i embrace it.
if the premier of manitoba wants to be a primitivist, he can go live with the amish or sleep in a teepee. that's his choice. i don't care. that's not my problem.
but he has no right to enforce his beliefs or his values on other people, and he can go fuck himself for thinking he does.
he can take his bullshit law and cram it up his asshole.
manitobans should respond with open and rigid contempt by ignoring any law as outside of a basic social contract and entirely unconstitutional. they will not police their children's behaviour online - their children are free to do as they choose.
i was feeling better this week but i just crashed near the end of the week.
i'm told the crackheads "broke in" upstairs on thursday night, that they took a shit and that they basically then left. i'm pretty sure they smoked something up there first. it was explained to me as drug addicts on autopilot and that they just needed to take a shit and couldn't process what they were doing.
i am not convinced they broke in but i did crash on thursday night and that explains why. i've also been told that the upper unit got rented. if somebody moves in on may 1st, the situation had better clear up.
there's two working parts here - an owner and a manager. i'm virtually certain that the manager is a drug addict, and was doing drugs with the crackheads, although i have no clear evidence that he was selling it to them. i don't know about the owner. the owner seems clean, seems distant and seems reasonable. he doesn't seem to be involved. but that's just the point
i'm a reasonable man.
right. those are the ones running the finances. business is business. so it goes.
i'm being careful about this.
if somebody moves in on may 1st, it should be the end of it. if this continues, i have to get out of here.
i can tell you this son of a bitch would have a hard fucking time forcing his opinions and values on my kids. there would be no such ban on social media or ai in my house.
this guy is an overbearing asshole that thinks he has some right to tell people how to live. and a piece of shit. he can go fuck himself as far as i'm concerned.
i understand that peaceful coexistence with the terrorist occult state of iran is impossible. this is not in the set of possible outcomes, and pretending that it is is retarded. all that trump has done is let the chinese set up anti-air defenses, let hezbollah import more missiles, let iran plan more terrorist attacks and extend the war by however long it takes to undo that. by opting for a negotiation instead of a prosecution, he completely fucked the whole thing up.
but even if it were possible, it would be unacceptable.
i don't want to coexist with the terrorist death cult in iran. i don't want to share a planet with these people. they're intolerable. i want them to cease to exist.
you can't just show up out of nowhere, steal people's land and enforce your concepts of land ownership on them. that was always illegal under british colonial law. even the fucking romans knew that was wrong, and the romans had some broader problems with right and wrong. the romans would have decided it was illegal, the british would have decided it was illegal and canada has upheld an ancient precedent in confirming it's illegal. something i learned recently is that the british adaptation of roman law was actually formulated by francis bacon in the early 17th century.
the unilateral imposition of european fiefdom concepts of land ownership on british columbia was always illegal. even according to the 1763 proclamation, it was illegal; the proclamation claims the land for the british, so that other european powers cannot claim it for themselves, but it also says that the indigenous groups have to sell the land to the crown, and can only sell it to the crown. it is a land claim, but it doesn't extinguish indigenous title.
it is absolutely baffling that the government in bc, which is supposed to be a left-wing government, is having difficulty with this.
not only is it not new, it very well might be the oldest law in canada.
this really isn't difficult to understand.
british columbia is stolen land. there is no legal basis for canadian sovereignty over most of bc - the british just stole it from the indigenous groups. the closest thing to legal justification for canadian sovereignty over british columbia is the royal proclamation of 1763, where the british king unilaterally declared sovereignty over the west of north america, but this would be considered absurd if interpreted as modern law. that's it. there's nothing else to cite. it's that flimsy. in today's world, which is very far removed from the wild west of cowboys and indians, that theft has been recognized and understood as illegal. as such, the government has no legitimate legal basis for passing any laws in the region at all.
british columbia is technically an illegal occupation, under international law.
this is not new. it is not a result of the dripa. it did not develop over the last ten years. the indigenous groups have never accepted canadian sovereignty, and the courts recognized it decades before dripa. dripa developed out of a completely different process - it is international law. however, in some sense, dripa was also a codification of existing precedent.
nor does bc need to reinvent the wheel here. eby is apparently simply ignorant of the development of this legal process in his own jurisdiction, which wrote the rules for how this developed elsewhere. there is actually a workable framework for indigenous title allodial land rights called the nis'gaa agreement. this has already been negotiated, and it's up to eby's government to pull their head out of their ass, enforce the rule of law and follow the framework.
the days of the wild west are over.
send eby the memo. he seems to have missed it.
Friday, April 24, 2026
the idea of giving people hallucinogens to prevent them from killing themselves perfectly summarizes everything wrong with america.
why don't they just legalize assisted suicide instead? if you really believe in self-ownership, you should support suicide rights, as they are more fundamental - committing suicide doesn't harm anybody else, but drug use invariably does harm the people around you.
society would be better off letting them kill themselves than giving them drugs. it's less harm to society.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
it is abundantly clear that marijuana has no legitimate medical use whatsoever. the science is in and closed and the debate is not worth having - it has no clinical value of any sort. only the most ignorant retards would argue in favour of using dope as a medicine.
the question of whether it's dangerous or not is more subtle.
it is certainly extremely carcinogenic and overwhelmingly dangerous on that level, which should be important, but doesn't seem to click for many people, including legislators in canada. while true, this doesn't seem to matter, for some reason.
the ambiguity with dope is that it's always been difficult to figure out if potheads are stupid because they smoked themselves retarded or if they were already retarded in the first place. are they stupid because of the pot or were they attracted to the pot because they were stupid? nobody has a clear answer to this. the correlation of immense levels of stupidity with even moderate marijuana use is abundantly clear, but there is no rigorously demonstrated cause and effect. it's probably a poorly understood feedback cycle.
the problem is that our culture sucks. we make shit movies, listen to shit music, watch shit tv, vote for shit politicians, eat shit food, etc and all of it drives home this necessity to fit in and be cool. the tv says drugs are cool, and virtually everybody gets brainwashed by it. it's very difficult to escape the mind control. so, it's difficult to do controlled experiments.
it's certainly true that people are stupid while under the influence of marijuana, and that it can lead to impaired decision making of any and all sorts, including delayed reaction times.
these challenges may be manageable with some effort, but i don't see what the benefit of managing these challenges is. however you crunch it, you end up with a net drain of resources and no discernible benefits. should we not have something to show for the effort of managing the challenges? only the capitalists benefit, and that is not a good reason for legalization.
but when you look at it carefully, that's what the reality is. these arguments for legalization are all a lot of bullshit. legalizing marijuana benefits the producers that profit from selling it at the expense of an array of manageable social concerns. if you think that is worth it, you support it. if you don't think it's worth it, you don't.
i think that legalizing marijuana in canada was a generational mistake that we'll be paying for for decades.
my primary concern is rights for non-smokers. i really don't care about drug addicts. at all.
i support laws that strengthen the rights of non-smokers and continue to decrease the amount of interaction smokers are required to have with non-smokers. i could generalize: i support laws that strengthen the right to a substance-free existence for people that choose to live that way. nobody has the right to force their drug habits on other people.
i have no interest in legislation that legalizes drug consumption.
i want to request that whatever moves in here puts a focus on returning to a 24 hour business. it's probably the reason the business closed.
one of the most frustrating outcomes of the pandemic has been the shift to near universal closing times in the evening.
i want a return to normalcy. i'm tired of things being closed at 22:00.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
this is actually a fairly small plane. the media made it sound like he bought a 747.
he probably doesn't need 12 passengers, 5 would be more than enough, but what's the actual difference in cost, and is it really that substantive?
i'm not a fiscal conservative. i'd rather see money spent on useful things than useless things, but i have no opposition to government spending money on things that are being used. this doesn't strike me as wasteful.
i wouldn't consider the premise of the premier's office having access to round the clock air travel to be controversial if i thought it was necessary. the costs are minor, in context. however, it's not clear to me why the premier of ontario needs a private jet as anywhere he can go on a private jet, he can go on a public one.
ontario is very big and there are a lot of places that you can't get to in commercial aircraft or even by road, you need a small plane or a helicopter. it would make sense to me for ontario to have it's own small aircraft to ensure the premier can get across the province.
but the jet would probably have difficulty landing in a lot of these places anyways. it doesn't seem to have been well thought through.
the combination of fresh dill, frank's hot sauce and jalapeno brine is extremely good in lentil soup.
i have been buying jarred things recently. it's a little unusual. but it gave me the idea of using the brine to get the last bit of caesar out of the bottle for the soup, and the jalapeno-brine-caesar mix is ridiculously good, paired with the dill and the hot sauce. it's the perfect combination of sour, tangy and spicy.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
i finally got a start on cleaning up the front entrance today which, as mentioned previously, is big enough for several bicycles and a work area. the place is huge, but it's cheap for a reason. i'm a lot more awake/alert and feeling a lot better. i hope that this low productivity phase is ending.
tonight, i'm going to see if i can order or find some key items for the front area.
Monday, April 20, 2026
that was an awful weekend.
i waited until saturday to go out to start cleaning up but it never got started. i took a nap on friday evening and woke up to a vicious stench that almost instantly triggered me into a migraine and it still hasn't lifted yet. i've been sweating and passing out. i seem to have breathed something toxic in and have been trying but struggling to clear it out. i slept all weekend. i've barely eaten. i feel terrible.
i ate too much tylenol on sunday morning so i stopped sunday night and it just hit me over the head with a sledgehammer. i've been out cold for 13 hours.
it looks like i'm going to sleep most of the day.
i wanted to get some cleaning done this weekend, but all i did was sleep.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
in fact, what defines the drugs in donald trump's order is that they are likely to make people physically sick in the form of headaches, lethargy and other decreases in quality of life and they are all extremely dangerous for this kind of research because they are all habit forming and can all cause severe brain damage.
but, this is exactly what you would expect in a true idiocracy: lobotomies for public health as a "cure" for "depression".
Saturday, April 18, 2026
what happens when you give losers drugs is that they get high.
then they say they're "happy". because they're high.
the bigger losers they are, the more likely they are to get addicted to drugs. this helps nobody, but has the potential to create a myriad of social problems.
the drug industry doesn't care. it just wants profit.
people suffer from "depression" because they make bad decisions. it's not a legitimate clinical condition; "depression" is just capitalist psychobabble for being a pathetic loser.
they need to make better choices.
and getting addicted to drugs is about the worst choice they can make, as nothing will make them more pathetic or bigger losers than becoming worthless addicts.
when trump claimed the strait of hormuz was open, the irgc almost immediately clarified that it actually wasn't. it does not appear as though the strait was ever open at all.
what trump says at this point is completely worthless and the media should stop listening to him without independent verification.
apparently, the democrats are opposed to criticism of the pope. this aligns them strictly with the extreme far right, and is not acceptable from a moderate or left-wing perspective.
any and all opposition of the catholic church is of the utmost necessity from the position of even the most moderate left. there is no remote excuse for any support of a death cult like the catholic church, which is just about the most evil source of organized crime on the planet.
i think this nails it.
but gen x is also very similar to the parents of the boomer generation in many of the ways discussed here, who grew up during one or two major wars, and faced near death after being forced to fight in one or both of them. there's a reason for that: a lot of us were raised by our grandparents, not by our parents.
i was a latch key kid and the first person i saw in the evening was more often than not my maternal grandmother, who would show up to check on me when my mom disappeared on cocaine binges. my dad would pick me up twice a week due to a court order for him to and drop me off somewhere like at a soccer field or a karate club, then go watch the game in a bar and pick me up to drive me home a few hours later, until he was able to move me into his basement to evade paying child support.
but i actually spent a lot of time with nana that i didn't actually spend with either of my parents.
ok.
i'm being told the top floor is sealed up. that won't be good for the rats, because that's their entry point, but that's what they said. i'll see if i can verify that. i hope it's very short term, otherwise there's going to be a brutal infestation.
despite that, i can hear people upstairs, and can smell their drug use. it's beginning to feel similar to what happened in the last basement, where it was obvious there were people upstairs doing drugs, but the landlords repeatedly denied it.
the cops are retards and the courts are broken. it's a waste of time.
i'm tentatively planning to get out of here asap. i don't like these people. i'm not their friend and don't want to hang out with them and i don't understand why they keep following me around.
i think that these people are disgusting losers and i don't want to acknowledge that they even exist.
i have repeatedly warned them to stay away from me or to suffer the consequences for it and it's relatively clear that they aren't listening and that's going to be what happens.
Friday, April 17, 2026
baghdad is basically built on top of babylon (after it was renamed a few times in between by greeks and persians), which is very old, but the city has been destroyed and rebuilt a dozen times.
the most recent city was rebuilt after the year 1300.
this is a newer city than rome, constantinople, london, paris or even berlin.
you'll often hear people from the middle east say stupid things like that their culture is 7000 years old.
that's wrong - it's ignorant and it's false.
there were no arabs anywhere outside of the desert until about the year 700 and the society they built on the top of the roman-persian wars and the devastation of the plague was wiped out by the mongols and the turks.
the current civilization in the middle east is barely 100 years old. it cannot be traced back before the first word war.
the area has a history of repeated collapse because their religion is horrifically destructive. i don't know if it's cultural or genetic, but religion constantly destroys everything in the region, and the current period will be no different.
the reality is that no society or culture in the region has lasted more than 200 years since the fall of the sumerians. it's been constant war over god ever since, and they've been constantly targeted by outsiders and wiped out because they've constantly been arrogant shitheads to everybody else, which is no less true now than ever.
if the americans got up and left, they'd be killing each other again in five minutes.
the gcc has a few years of oil left and a dwindling customer base at that. it's already a desert, but it's becoming uninhabitable. if living in that region hasn't already been like living in hell for the last 1300 years, it's going to be a hell on earth soon enough.
if there was a god, it would wipe these people out. that they haven't been wiped out yet is proof that there is no god.
but it is fitting and appropriate that the gcc will suffer some of the most powerful effects of climate change, to the point that the region is uninhabitable. they are going to starve to death, and die of dehydration, and the world will not help them - the world should not help them.
when they're out of oil, the americans will pull out and let them kill each other, or bomb a few of them back into the sand they recently came from.
they have no future. their civilizational collapse and complete destruction is imminent - they've got 25 years, max, before they completely collapse. it will be a good day in the history of the world when they're gone.
the article describes indonesia as a democracy.
that's hilarious.
indonesia is one the most brutally repressive theocracies in the world, with no concept of human rights, and an economy built on literal child slavery.
it's a society that god would smite from the face of the earth with a nuclear blast, if god wasn't a foolish figment of our primitive imagination.
further, they're sitting on an important trade route.
there will be a war there at some point in the not distant future, and i will be on the side that seeks to destroy them.
these are the enemies of western civilization, of democracy and of human rights, and we are going to be at war with them in the near future, as the clash of civilizations plays out.
the united states is extremely likely to fight a war against indonesia in the next 50 years and will be almost certain to fight a war against the gcc in the next 20 years.
the americans really shouldn't give a fuck what the repressive muslim regimes in the world think. they're going away. they'll be gone, soon.
yeah, there's something i don't want to know about going on up there.
i made the right choice to keep the doors shut until tomorrow at the earliest, maybe monday or tuesday.
they cannot be on the property past tomorrow. i need to get a handle on the surroundings after that and make some choices.
i think it sounds like it's going to be the immigrant family on the main floor, which i believe found itself addicted to meth sold by the evicted tenant, that's going to take the brunt of this. i suspect they spent rent money on drugs. they don't know their legal rights. but that's the game - you get them hooked, then you get them in debt in order to turn them into slaves. that's how drug commerce works. it's chemical-induced dependence slavery, and one of the prime economic values is in the slaves it creates.
there's nothing i can do except wait.
canada is cool if you're a banker. i guess.
this is not what canada wants right now and will not help us adjust to the future. this is either a four year economic plan or a five year economic plan (i spent years asking conservatives if the economic action plan was a four or five year plan and they never answered me so i still don't know) to compete under american hegemony, in a time frame where we should be rapidly nationalizing and onshoring. canada should be using tools like the bank of canada to ensure our productive capacity is canadian owned, not encouraging investment by shady actors in europe or the middle east, which are likely to find themselves enmeshed in the growing world war.
increasing foreign investment is not cool and is not in canada's self-interest.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
right. so they're holding positions and waiting for trump to go fuck himself, but even that is not acceptable.
aoun has no decision making ability. hezbollah is not even a party to the agreement. a discussion between aoun and netanyahu has a 0% chance of getting to any workable outcome. it's a complete waste of time.
without international support to eliminate hezbollah through a un mission, there is no possible outcome besides israel acting unilaterally to annihilate them.
now, i want to remind everybody that it is a felony offence in the united states for government officials to carry out negotiations with designated terrorist groups, and that this law has not been being enforced.
anybody in the united states government who is caught negotiating with the irgc or with hezbollah must be arrested and brought to justice.
to update what's going on here...
i had mentioned i had broken out in some kind of creepy rash and i'd decide if i should go to a doctor or not once the crackheads were evicted. that was supposed to have happened on tuesday.
while the sheriff claims they were here, i don't think they were evicted, and i'm not currently convinced they're gone. i have yet to go up and look around. i'm going to wait another day or two to be sure they're gone, as they can still come back to get things tomorrow.
i have had suspicions for a while that the landlord is the dealer, not the tenants. my suspicions are growing. it appears as though the leased tenant was removed, but the bulk of the crackheads that were living there are still here.
my concern is theft and second hand smoke, and i think the stalkers were on the top floor.
regardless, the rash has entirely cleared up.
i believe i was having an allergic reaction and it might have triggered a minor staph infection, but i've cleared it all up. i also have some annoying ingrowns on my legs. i'm not experiencing further complications. it doesn't require medical attention.
i'm going to need to figure out what's going on over the next few days, but i'm starting to plan for another move out of here, which is frustrating. it's a potentially ideal space, once i can clean it up, but i'm not living in a crack house, and i may need to make another escape from these losers that won't leave me alone.
if i move again, i'm going to take my time in looking for something ideal. i have almost twice as much income to play with, and i'm not forced into deadlines by an order. i can potentially look for two or three or more months to find the right kind of space that i think is safe from infiltration by the stalkers and free of smokers and drug addicts.
i have yet to find any confirmation from netanyahu about accepting a ceasefire.
this appears to be a unilateral decision by donald trump, in an apparent cave to demands by murderous, bloodthirsty terrorists.
donald trump is extremely soft on terrorism. he thinks he can make deals with terrorists; he's retarded.
the superior court is constantly wrong, and i've pointed out before that it's because the judges were poorly selected. this is a very serious problem.
we've had non-lawyers picking judges for too long. the current prime minister is an economist. the guy before that was a drama teacher. the guy before that was also an economist. we haven't had a lawyer in charge for 20 years.
the current selection process is designed to give the prime minister flexibility to choose, which may have made sense when the prime minister was a lawyer, but is a severe problem in an era were the prime minister regularly has no legal credentials. it makes no sense to ask a drama teacher or an economist to hire a judge.
a superior court justice is an important job and should not be a first judicial appointment, but the rulings i'm getting are from people hired directly from the bar that have no previous judicial experience, and that lack of experience is apparent in their frequently wrong and poor rulings.
there should be a rule in place that a job application to be a superior court justice requires previous judicial experience, and that superior court judges cannot be selected directly from the bar, without previous experience.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
the state, at whatever level of government, should offer services, but those services cannot be forced on to addicts due to their constitutional right to security of the person and the reality is that they don't work. meth and opiate addicts have an almost 100% relapse rate after treatment. you can detox them and get them in housing and almost all of them are back on drugs in a few weeks. it's a revolving door. this is really just directing resources away from other people that need it, and that's noteworthy in a housing crisis.
forcing people to treatment should not only not be enforced but should be aggressively avoided. the resources should only be available on the basis of enthusiastic free will. otherwise, it's a drain on resources with essentially no likelihood of success.
if you establish the precedent that drug use in public is a public nuisance that harms the public rather than try to condemn them for a defect in character or try to order them into treatment against their will, you should be able to get them off the street, but that doesn't give them somewhere to go.
what they want is some backwoods space to get high in.
i say give them a small area around the dump, put a consumption site near it and regularly send firefighters, bylaw and police in to check up. they'll clear out of downtown voluntarily.
the harm principle remains extremely important in canadian criminal law.
drug users have successfully argued that drug use doesn't create any harm, and they haven't been effectively countered or challenged. the argument is false - drug use creates a myriad of harms.
addressing the issue in canadian law means addressing the harms that drug use creates, not dwelling on the defects of character, which has not been successful. canadian law tends not to concern itself much with moral considerations or normative values. you can basically do what you want in canada and get away with it, without consideration to moral degradation, just so long as you do not harm anybody.
the public nuisance angle addresses that by focusing on the harm that drug users create and not on normative value judgments. it should be effective but it's up to the crown to make the case.
otherwise, the police need to focus on the more obvious criminal behaviour like theft and vandalism, which creates clear harm, and can be addressed.
i'm in the middle of something here. i'm told they were evicted. i'm a little skeptical. i'm taking it issue by issue.
i agree that the existing court precedent is absurd on it's face, but it's based on the idea that drug use is a personal choice and doesn't affect anybody. if that were true, nobody would have any legitimate grounds to be upset by drug use - it would be something that people put in their own bodies at their own harm, and nobody else's concern.
that's been the argument drug addicts have used for decades, and it's been fairly successful. but it's not true. drug use has all kinds of collateral and incidental effects and produces all kinds of externalities.
- trespassing
- garbage
- rats
- theft
- air pollution
- discarded needles
- etc
while some of these are civil issues, drug users generally don't have much in terms of assets.
i think the solution is to address the false assumption - that drug use doesn't harm others - and focus on the things you can get them on. i promise you that you can find another reason to arrest somebody, other than the drugs, in almost any scenario cited.
i think they should be charged with public nuisance on a regular basis:
180 (1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who commits a common nuisance and by doing so
(a) endangers the lives, safety or health of the public, or
(b) causes physical injury to any person.
Definition
(2) For the purposes of this section, every one commits a common nuisance who does an unlawful act or fails to discharge a legal duty and thereby
(a) endangers the lives, safety, health, property or comfort of the public; or
(b) obstructs the public in the exercise or enjoyment of any right that is common to all the subjects of Her Majesty in Canada.
it would be up to the crown to prove the case and establish a precedent, but that should not be difficult. somebody smoking meth on public land is very clearly endangering the health of the public and obstructing their right to enjoy the public property.
i have made this argument before to the windsor police and have not been able to get them to act. perhaps somebody else should try.
the catholic church has tended to act in it's self-interest in supporting wars that are in it's benefit, whatever that means at the specific time. it might mean anything from ignoring hitler to hiring normans as mercenaries in italy to sending peasants to die in the middle east. it is a deeply machiavellian institution that is concerned strictly with maximizing it's own power and it's own wealth.
the current papacy, since napoleon, has been restricted from holding any real power. this isn't the institution's choice. if allowed to kill people again, the papacy would jump at the opportunity. it is of the utmost importance to global security that the papacy continue to be marginalized in a political sense.
the papacy has launched several crusades over the last thousand years (including crusades in europe to convert germans and slavs with violence and to wipe out heresies in southern france by punishment of death), has overseen the inquisition, has condoned slavery of non-christians (heathens and saracens), has launched pogroms and other attempts to commit genocide against the jewish population and has even overseen a military dictatorship at times, including wars of conquest against other italian city-states. it has also picked sides in virtually every european war that there ever was, including things like sanctioning the norman invasion of england in 1066.
it just might be the most absurdly ahistorical statement that i have ever seen.
this is good.
small businesses contribute to inflation and retard wage growth. they're horrible for the economy.
sometimes, small businesses are the only way to do things, and independence is particularly important in the creative sector. but, broadly speaking, the goal should be to scale as much production as possible and unionize as many workers as possible, and that means driving small businesses to bankruptcy is progress in the technological development of social productive capacity.
this is progress.
don't be misled by teachers' unions or media propaganda on the topic.
the purpose of introducing participation marks into high school is to inflate the marks of under-performing students and push them through, so they aren't repeating years, or bringing down averages. it's not intended to improve student outcomes. it's meant to manipulate results.
the purpose of participation marks is to inflate grades and reward people for effort instead of for aptitude. the logic is that you shouldn't fail if you try real hard.
i had huge problems with this when i went to university, as i found myself consistently graded down by 10% or sometimes 20% because i didn't think sitting through somebody reading me a textbook was a valuable use of my time when i could read it myself with a substantively higher retention rate. i also had an undiagnosed severe social anxiety issue that i didn't fully understood until i was much older that prevented me from leaving the house, and still does, for weeks at a time. i'd get 95% on the tests and assignments, and end up with a B+ in the course because my attendance was low, or sometimes even non-existent. that happened something like 10 or 15 times. it severely soured me on the education system.
i had straight As in high school because there weren't participation marks to grade me down like there were in university.
people don't tend to learn very well in classroom settings. that's science. most people learn better when they read in quiet rooms by themselves, but some people with learning disabilities do better when they touch things with their hands. absolutely nobody learns things optimally or even at all by listening to teachers; you forget 80%, 85% of what the teacher tells you five minutes later, because your biology doesn't allow you to retain it. holding to the classroom model is working against biology and against science. the classroom setting is literally the absolute worst way to teach people things and should be being aggressively abandoned in favour of more scientifically demonstrated learning models, which include online learning. those online learning models were developed with decades of science. they aren't just holding to some debunked conservative prussian model of learning out of backwardsness and stubborness.
eventually, i just started dropping courses with participation grades and avoiding teachers that included them. the ubiquity of participation marks in university was ultimately a large factor in my abandonment of the university as a career option; it wasn't the only factor, but it was a big factor.
i would argue for the opposite approach - there should be a drive to completely abolish participation grades from the post-secondary system. students should be evaluated entirely on their aptitude, and not on how hard they work. some students will fail; some wealthy students will fail. it's good for society to identify them, so they don't end up as prime ministers.
the education minister should be consulting scientists on what the best way that children learn is, and not asking teachers, who have their financial self-interest as their primary goal, and of whom many have no discernible science credentials. but the latter description - no discernible credentials - also describes paul calandra, who is a legitimate grade A fucking idiot. you would have extreme difficulties finding a bigger dumbass than calandra if you made a strenuous effort to search for one. he's going to fuck up anything at all he's assigned to and certainly shouldn't be in cabinet.
we're all trapped in capitalism, we're all slaves to capital in varying degrees, with absolutely no way out. the more money you have, the more you're enslaved to it. we can try to minimize the amount of capitalism we're forced to consume, but escaping capitalism is virtually impossible. the best hope to escape capitalism today is via automation and artificial intelligence, but it's a long ways away.
for that reason, having some level of education about all of that boring capitalist bullshit is definitely in an individual's self-interest, but only to ensure they can interact with it as little as possible. a truly free person would essentially never interact with capitalism at all, but true freedom is an abstraction and an ideal and something nobody can achieve.
the goal of a free individual should be to minimize the amount of time they waste on capitalism and maximize the amount of time they spent creating and enjoying art, reading, learning, debating, engaging in politics and whatnot.
so, when the issue is regime change in iran, that interests me. when the interest is the environment, that interests me. but when the issue shifts to finances and economics, i'd rather read about something else.
trump is continuing to tell media he's going to make a deal with iran any minute and that this is winding down, even though the reality is that it never started. fucking idiot.
so, i'm changing directions and altering my focus. this was a giant disappointment brought on by false expectations. i insist that regime change in iran would have already happened by now if the president wasn't working so hard to maintain the state in place, and what's happened just makes it more inevitable now than ever.
there is no alternative to regime change in iran.
but trump does not want regime change in iran, and in fact pretty clearly actively opposes regime change in iran. the situation is going to have to sit frozen, in place, for the next 2-3 years, until somebody else takes over and gets it done.
i'm not interested in what donald trump has planned for iran, which is some kind of business venture that allows him to profit off their depravity and oppression. whatever. boring.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
i have a thing for jesus renaissance paintings in my cover art, but it's a giant sacrilegious joke. it's intended as satire, and it's very heavy-handed. you could miss it if you're retarded, but you can't miss it if you're not.
that likely wasn't trump's intent, but i actually dig his meme, on that level.
i might use it for cover art if the right circumstance arises.
i mean, that's why people like podcasts, right?
they're for very lonely losers that can't find any friends; it gives them an opportunity to participate in a conversation, which they normally lack. their popularity is a consequence of growing cultural and social alienation.
put the device down.
go get a beer and meet some people, instead.
if i want to listen to losers that don't know what they're talking about babbling about nothing of substance, i'll go down to the bar and get a beer. i would prefer to pick more substantive media options when i have the choice to, at home.
of the functionally infinite options i have available to me, i'm never going to choose the format. i could listen to an awesome record, i could watch a documentary, i could read a book, etc. podcasts are the absolute lowest brow form of entertainment possible. there's no excuse to waste your time with stupid bullshit like that when you could spend your time learning something, or enjoying art, instead.
podcasts are so low brow that they're neck hair.
i've been asked by a few people what podcasts i listen to.
the answer is that i don't listen to podcasts because they're fucking boring. i would rather listen to music, and i'd rather watch the news, or watch lectures.
some loser talking about his opinions or feelings into a microphone is about the worst delivery format imaginable. borrrriiiiiing.
Monday, April 13, 2026
if this was a real war, that's what you would do - you would put the port under siege. you wouldn't keep feeding them as you try to defeat them. that's irrational.
trump actually campaigned on not doing this, and while i didn't endorse him or support him, i did agree with that part of his platform. if you're going to fight a war, you shouldn't do so half-assed and with one arm tied behind your back. war is war. you do it with your whole ass, or you don't fucking bother at all.
this has been america's problem for years: it starts wars, then restrains itself from fighting them.
trump has indicated that the blockade will allow food into iran and is intended to force iran to make a deal, indicating he's continuing to hold to the delusion that running a government is like running a business, and he can force iran into a business deal, and he can negotiate with a psychotic terrorist death cult.
that's not what i called for and not what i support.
the uprisings in iran have been about civil rights, which do not exist in iran, but they've also been about food shortages.
i was calling for a naval siege of iran. i called it a blockade, but i was suggesting a siege of the port of bandar abbas to ensure no food can get in, with the purpose of triggering an uprising. this would have to be done in conjunction with concrete support for opposition groups on the ground.
i don't expect that merely cutting off oil revenue is going to force iran to negotiate. they're not going to negotiate. they'd rather die because they neurotically think they'll go to heaven if you kill them. they're completely fucking insane.
that said, i don't exactly oppose an oil blockade, either. i just don't think it will work.
the haphazard use of carbon in asia is devastating to the environment and needs to stop. they use oil for cooking, for electricity and for practically everything. it's 2026. this is unacceptable, at this point. these countries in the indian cultural sphere, including most of southeast asia, need to upgrade their grids. if this "blockade" creates incentives for them to do that, it's a net positive. reducing carbon emissions should be the number one priority goal when it comes to any kind of carbon fuel policy, including this. it is countries in this area that are going to suffer the brunt of climate change and need to make the most extreme adjustments. they're long overdue, for their own sake.
and, as mentioned, increases in the price of carbon in the west should help to undo some of the effects of extremely damaging subsidies to the oil industry and help make better sources of energy more competitive, as they struggle to scale. it could be the final push that carbon transition needs to tip over. i will support any policy that increases the price of oil.
but iran is not going to sign a deal without regime change, and an oil "blockade" is not going to trigger that. a complete siege type blockade that prevents bandar abbas from engaging in all trade will, if enforced long enough, succeed in toppling the state, which should be the american (and canadian) government's stated purpose, not trying to negotiate. you can't negotiate with irrational actors.
the basic point is that if somebody uses language with the intent to be offensive or harmful, that is their decision, and if it works in offending somebody then that means that the person was successful in expressing themselves with their choice of language. that is entirely valid, and there's nothing wrong with that. it's healthy to seek to express yourself as clearly as possible.
there is something wrong with and something extremely unhealthy about censors, government agencies or self-appointed language police trying to prevent people from a full range of emotions, or from freely expressing themselves. that is reflective of a sick society and a sick culture that needs help learning how to express their emotions freely.
if somebody's angry or frustrated or just descriptive, they have a fundamental and basic right to express that and nobody has any right to try to stop them. if you take some offense and get angry or sad, that's your problem and not theirs, and you should react by venting, yourself.
i never stopped using words like retarded or nigger and when people told me to stop, i started using them more, and especially around the people that asked me to stop. they would generally give up.
the basic point is that it doesn't fucking matter if you're offended and, often times, that's actually the intent. i have a pretty big vocabulary. i get to decide what words are appropriate in how i express myself, not you. and you have a lot of fucking nerve thinking that your feelings are more important than my free will. you can go fuck yourself.
the word is best used to express a certain kind of extreme stupidity. stupidity exists in a hierarchy. something that is only a little bit stupid can be described using a term like dumb. then, there's something moronic, which is more stupid than something dumb. that which is utterly fucking completely retarded is at the very top of the stupid hierarchy.
it shouldn't be used haphazardly, admittedly. it should be reserved only to describe the most stupid of the stupid.
it really has nothing to do with having a genetic defect like autism or down's syndrome. people with genetic defects may act retarded sometimes, and sometimes they may not. generally, that description, to the extent that it may be accurate, would come without the contempt directed at somebody that does not have a genetic defect. you would generally not use the adjective retarded to describe somebody with a genetic defect, unless they are being retarded, which they might be.
but i'm not going to be prejudiced about my hierarchy of stupid or assume that somebody is a retard just because they have a genetic defect.
the term is used most appropriately and most accurately in english usage to describe behaviour that is at the top of the stupid hierarchy, by people that do not have genetic defects, and therefore should be expected not to behave that way, and can be fairly treated with derision and contempt for doing so.
the word's etymology is latin, likely french, and means slow, delay or late - initially, as in dim-witted, or unable to keep up. it was adopted for medical usage, but the use of the term in english long predates that. i could use the latin verb or translate it. there's no logic in yelling at me for using the latin, and thinking it's ok to translate it, but that seems to be the convention amongst the ingsoc newspeak language police.
people that have genetic defects shouldn't assume the word is targeted at them. it generally isn't, and the history connecting the use of the word to the specific context of genetic defect is rather recent. it's just a latin translation for "slow witted".
people that believe that language is something for individuals to decide on, and not something to be determined by centralized bodies, will rightfully push back on any entity trying to remove an adjective from the dictionary. to best express ourselves in the widest variety of contexts possible, we need as many adjectives as possible, and should always be expanding our individual vocabularies, never restricting them.
Sunday, April 12, 2026
eliminating oil subsidies would also be helpful in using government to forcibly mandate a return to recycling.
right now, government subsidies for oil make it extremely difficult for recyclers to compete. high oil prices, consumer carbon taxes and the abolition of oil subsidies would be a boon for the recycling industry.
the reality is that housing prices - i mean mortgages - never really come down much in canada because there's a purposeful government policy to keep them high. the government goes way out of it's way to stop prices from falling by buying up mortgages. that's the actual reason that we had interest rate hikes in the pandemic, as the fear was that old people dying would lead to their kids selling their house at below market prices.
for that reason, we can actually have falling rents and increasing property values at the same time, by cutting immigration and buying up canada housing bonds. and, frankly, that's fine with me.
when i talk about housing costs, i'm concerned about my class interests, which means i'm talking about rent. a sufficient supply of new housing is required to keep rents and mortgages down, but i really otherwise don't give the slightest fuck what the cost of buying a house is. from a renter's perspective, i want to minimize the amount of competition i have in the market, meaning i want to keep the population low, in general - i want low birth rates and low levels of immigration at the bottom of the market, so that the supply of housing outstrips demand for it. i am in direct class conflict with property owners on this point, who want to increase the number of renters to increase competition, increase demand and increase prices.
nonetheless, this is the reason why property values in canada, which are not the same thing as rents, are unlikely to crash:
and i don't really give a fuck about that. i just want low rent.
an extended period of extremely high oil prices is exactly what the renewable energy and circular material economies need to get kick started into carbon replacement, rather than merely as supplement.
i'm in strong support and favour of hiking the price of gas through the roof, and in bringing back consumer carbon taxes to give the shift that extra kick.
do you know what will bring down inflation in a renewable energy economy?
recycling. remember that?
when oil is very expensive, recycling will become a competitive source of new plastic, which is far better. it will create an economic, not just an environmental, case for a truly circular economy. further, you can actually convert plastic into fertilizer, we just don't.
we need to stop burning it, first. that's stupid. it's valuable.
listen.
if you're a status quo liberal or a "progressive democrat" or a christian republican, i understand why you're upset about this. you're not getting what you voted for, and this is probably not in your short term self-interest.
but i'm not one of you.
i didn't vote for this, either. i can't even vote in the united states at all. but, this is unfolding like a fever dream for an eco-anarchist, evangelical atheist, revolutionary socialist.
we've tried everything to get you fucking idiots to consume less oil and you won't fucking listen.
let's try hiking the prices. maybe that'll work.
and let's see how long the iranian regime lasts for when it's people begin suffering from bread and meat shortages. we know the regime will tell it's people to eat cake. good. it's in the people's self-interest to rise up and fight.
i didn't expect any of this, but i couldn't imagine or ask for something better than this. the americans just need to follow through on it, now. i certainly hope that they do.
the rest of the world should be reacting by rapidly shifting to renewables, including to electric vehicles.
however, i want to discourage bombing desalination facilities. iran does not rely on desalination, but the gulf states do. that's not a good idea.
meanwhile, there needs to be concrete support for opposition groups on the ground.
there are some situations where you want peace, and there are some situations where you need war.
a smart person should be able to comprehend that war in iran is necessary - perhaps not immediately or imminently, but soon and eventually. now is as good a time as any time. it will be less costly and less deadly if it's done sooner than later.
regime change in saudi arabia and egypt, as well as democratic renewal in turkey, are also on the near horizon. these things are necessary and must occur. they may occur peacefully, but iran cannot be dealt with peacefully.
you can align with appeasement if you insist, but history will not be kind to you.
this is necessary. if you didn't see that 6 weeks ago, you should surely see it now, or you're blind and can't be helped. they have to be defeated and vanquished.
iran's decision to try to control the strait of hormuz was actually incredibly stupid, for the reason that it invited a catastrophic blockade on itself. i immediately realized that and called for the americans to force them to eat their own shit. the americans seem to have been slow to process it, but they figured it out.
meanwhile, the media's been framing it as a stroke of genius and it's not. it's a noose around their own necks. it was a foolish mistake that amounts to them digging their own grave.
the western media has been focusing on how important the strait is for everybody else and has missed the obvious: iran relies on the strait both for imports and for exports, and they import almost all of their food.
an american blockade of the strait will lead to starving iranians very very fast. but they walked into it, it's their fault, and they can fix it by fucking off.
hungry people are also more likely to attack their government than well fed people.
the delicious irony is why i liked this approach and immediately jumped to it. i'm not sure why it took them so long to get to it, but better late than never.
this will work. but i can't predict exactly how. be patient.
iran walked right into this.
they can hardly complain that it isn't fair, when essential goods are prevented from getting to iran, or their own oil exports are prevented from getting to asia.
the world needs some patience, here. you're going to have to make some short term sacrifices while this gets resolved. the plan tehran was trying to implement is a non-starter.
what was winter like this year in southern ontario, according to the data?
it was cyclothymic. we've had a early and warm spring that is about to break out into full summer today, in the second week of april.
november was actually pretty warm. there were 0 subzero days here in november, and 22 days with above normal highs. there were some cold mornings, but it was pretty warm, overall.
december was colder than average, but it was also split in half. a cold front came in over the last few days of november, but then there was a warm front for the last two weeks. the last four days and the first 16 days of december were below average, for an almost three week cold snap, but then there were 13 days in a row above normal, then two more below it. overall, that's 13 days above normal, all in a row, and 18 days below normal.
january was also colder than average and also had 13 days above average, mostly consecutive, and 18 days below average. there were some very cold overnights, as a result of the solar activity breaking up the polar vortex.
but, february and march were actually warmer than average.
february had 15 days above average and 13 days below average. march had 19 days above average, including 7 above 20, which canadians consider to be summer, and only 12 below average.
so far, we've had 6 above average days, including 3 above 20, and 6 below average days in april, but the forecast has a solid 7 days of 20+ degree weather, so april is looking to come out as warmer than average as well.
you will note that the weather network's forecast was wrong, but they always seem to forecast that it's going to be cold. i don't think it's a serious forecast anymore, but is being manipulated for clicks and ratings.
but i'm not quite sure what the media is talking about when it complains about a cold spring that won't warm up. it's been above average here, which can sometimes be misleading, but we've also had several summer days here in february and march, which is not even spring, it's winter. it's legitimately been a warm spring in southern ontario, and it's tripping over into summer very early.
there's been some concern that iran didn't map where it put the mines, which is going to make it hard to find them. that's probably not true; they're probably just refusing to divulge the information. it might also be why they were shooting at people to stay out.
while this may have been a hard problem not too long ago, i don't imagine it would be so hard now. the americans have incredible satellite technology at their disposal. they should be able to write a simple program to find the mines in the satellite data. i don't know why they would send ships out, unless those ships were getting gps co-ordinates from the satellites.
it might be a novel problem.
it shouldn't be a hard one.
for supposed critics of capitalism, the fake left nowadays seems unusually interested in fashion over substance.
listen.
smart children understand that knowledge is more important than popularity. you cast your nets out and you get what you're fishing for. don't say nobody told you to think it through.
i don't think that leftist politics is getting anywhere by adhering to fashion trends.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
i would call on the crown in ottawa to publish a letter indicating that ms ghamari was within her rights and for the ottawa police to publicly apologize on behalf of their officer.
in fact, i would suggest to ms ghamari that if that officer contact her again, she should attempt to have them charged with harassment.
i fully agree that the mosques in iran should be bombed as a part of a regime change process. i have repeatedly called for the complete elimination of the entire class of clerics, the entire judiciary and all of the police, along with all of the ruling infrastructure. i don't believe i explicitly called for the bombing of mosques, but it would have been due to brevity, in not wanting to list all of the desired targets.
i would like to explicitly state that the mosques in iran should be bombed, in response to the takedown request.
i will not be deleting my post. i will not be intimidated. i will not abandon my rights.
if the police want to charge me, i will fight them in court and have the law amended or revoked, or the case law otherwise clarified.
i'm fucking sick of this bullshit.
commentary on foreign affairs, of any type, is not within the scope of the law being cited, which is restricted to direct foreseeable harm within canada.
the purpose of the law is to prevent attacks on minorities in canada. like, in real life - actual real attacks. it was used here to attack free speech by a minority about events in a foreign country.
this is the problem with these kinds of laws and why liberals are supposed to be opposed to them - they are rarely used the way they are supposed to be, and give too much power to authority with too high a likelihood of it being abused by the depraved and the ignorant.
canadians are constitutionally free to comment on foreign wars in any way that they choose.
she should file an oiprd report and have the officer disciplined for being a terrorist thug.
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