after much careful waiting of it out, i am concluding that the stalkers are in fact still here and that they do still have access to the unit, apparently via the apparent crackhead manager. however, they are approaching this in the worst manner possible - rather than listen to my complete and utter rejection of their "therapy", they are responding to my attempts to catch them via drug tests by minimizing or eliminating the drugging and then trying to avoid detection as much as possible. i have not been experiencing the painful physical results of their forcible drugging since i moved here, and more specifically since i got that blood rec written up, which is better, but they are continuing to implement their "dream therapy" in an attempt to "cure" me. i am blaming this on freud, but it might as well be a couple of losers following that idiot zizek or that charlatan retard jordan peterson, who seem to be about the same thing and the same place in the political spectrum, from what i can tell. i don't know who this is, but the police seem to understand what is going on and the courts are completely useless as a tool to arrive at anything approximating justice, which is what i actually learned studying law and why i didn't bother becoming a lawyer in the first place. i've been thrust in a position where i need to use the legal system to protect myself from somebody harming me, and i'm just having everything i learned about it's inadequacy reinforced and thrust back on me. the british legal system is built on the best legal foundations on the planet and is the best legal system ever created, so it can lull one into a sense of false confidence, but all capitalist law in any capitalist system is just systematized corruption and it's been getting worse in recent decades with the rise of the orwellian left, and not better.

i wake up flustered or angry from time to time and can just hear them for a second until they realize i'm awake. i have no response if i can generate no evidence. they seem to be trying to take advantage of that.

if you talk to somebody when they're sleeping, can it affect what they're dreaming about? sure. i don't doubt that, and that's separate from any psychobabble or pseudo-intellectualism about "mental health", which is not science but really just more orwell. you don't need to dust off some freudian nonsense to concede the point. if you have a shitty day, or a great day, or are cold or sleeping through a bad smell or whatever else, it will affect your dreams as well.

but science - actual real science, not "psychology" - has come to a very firm conclusion that dreams are completely and utterly meaningless. they are not manifestations of inner desires. they are not components of an individual's soul competing with each other. they are not remembering a past life, or transporting to an inner dimension. it has something more to do with your brain cleaning itself out. dreams are not some kind of woo anymore. we understand them pretty well at this point. sleeping is not for resting cells to build energy, but to allow your consciousness to suspend so your body can undergo a chemical cleaning process. what dreams actually are are junk memories that your physical body - and i'm not having any descartian dualism, here. your brain is a part of your body. - is clearing out of your brain. we don't quite understand why we have to remember things via dreams in order to forget them, but it's probably error correction. we're pretty fragile, but pretty robust. so these junk memories get combined together on their way to being deleted, which is a chemical process that involves breaking bonds. that is actually energy intensive in addition to being in a suspension of consciousness, which is why you need to be sleeping.

and if you don't dream enough, if you don't sleep enough, you get parkinson's or alzheimer's. your brain fills up with dead memories and stops working.

most people know that we don't remember most of what we dream about. the truth is it mostly has no meaning at all but to the extent that it does, it's what we're trying to forget. the dreams are not the memories that are important but the ones that are unimportant, the ones we're breaking the bonds of, to make room for new ones. they have no effect on how we choose to live, unless we decide they will.

i know that i'm being triggered into stressful dream scenarios because i keep waking up in the fetal position, with clenched hands, gasping, sweating, angry or upset. but i rarely remember what i was dreaming about, or forget a second after waking up. a frequent occurrence recently is trying to remember what i was dreaming about to understand why i'm upset only to increasingly forget the parts i remembered when i woke up; i may have a partial memory on immediate wake up, but even that lifts within minutes or seconds after waking up. but that just means my body is eliminating these memories effectively, which is why i was dreaming in the first place.

you can give somebody brutal nightmares or otherwise decrease their quality of life quite dramatically by talking to them while they're sleeping. but you can't change how they behave when they're awake. we dream to forget, not to remember. there is no utility but spite and hatred in making that process traumatic or difficult.

so i don't know what the next step is.

the only effect they are having on me is that i wake up grouchy, which is not pleasant, but has minimal ramifications. i'd like to put the pieces of shit in jail, but don't know how. they're going to follow me if i move.

i'm more concerned about trying to figure out what their long term goals are. if they are simply trying to "cure" me, they will eventually be forced to give up, and i can wait them out, but i'm running out of time. if they have something more nefarious in mind, i'm left to conclude that i have no option but to let it develop and react as i must, and it probably won't be pretty when i do. it's likely somebody will get severely hurt. but they're leaving me with no escape and no alternative.

i've been a little quiet. i've been spending a lot of time cleaning in here and setting up the parts of the space i was waiting out.

i'm still waiting for the landlord to react regarding a few things and it's creating a bottleneck but things are getting closer to being set up. i will get back to the write up i was doing relatively soon, but i'm more focused on doing it than writing it out.

there are some people out there that think anything short of defending yourself from an invasion is illegal. they're wrong.

my best guess is that they're trying to get the iranians to shoot at them, but the truth is that they already have been. claims that this action are in breach of "international law" are absurd - iran has been attacking american interests in the region for decades. arguments might be made about proportionality, but how could anybody argue the americans haven't shown restraint? they are refusing to replace the government. i'm opposed to what they're doing because it's far too restrained, and is being restrained naively, to attempt to arrive at an impossible outcome.

nonetheless.

if they are trying to get the iranians to shoot at them, to sink something, to justify making this a real war, it is legally unnecessary, but overdue, nonetheless. this should have been a short operation to tear down the aristocracy and get out, not a drawn out attempt to sign a treaty with an irrational cult. they don't need this justification, but if they want it, so be it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cargo-ship-strait-of-hormuz-attack-reports-9.7186056

arab americans are almost the perfect archetype of post-reagan american republicans - pro-market, anti-communist, social conservative, religious. and, no, they don't like jews. the only difference is that they're muslims instead of christians. 

that's why they scare the hell out of me. just when christianity was finally dying, stupid liberals went and imported millions of muslims, who have given the christian right a major shot in the arm and could very well save it from dying.

american leftists are clueless because they see everything through a filter of race, which nobody else in the world does. arabs and africans come to america and don't understand that they're supposed to be brown. democrats then get confused or pissed off when they don't act like descendants of slaves, like they're supposed to. they're "ungrateful" when they don't act like house niggers. i guess the democrats haven't really changed that much, have they?

but that's not my concern. it's not my problem, it's not my issue.

my concern is this influx of a new religious right, when we had just about done away with it, and having the foresight to identify it as a substantive political opponent, rather than fall into delusions around pretending it's going to be an ally. they're not allies, just because they're brown. they have brains and ideas, and they're an overwhelmingly conservative demographic that is going to help the right tremendously in the upcoming decades.

the fact that they don't like jews is a commonality, not a contradiction. it's worth remembering that hitler was aligned with the arabs, in an attempt to drive the jews out of the british mandate. hitler was a popular leader in the middle east. the nazis were not anti-muslim at all, but admired their militarism, in comparison to what they called the softness of christianity. this came out of an analysis on the decline of the first reich by a british historian that was influential on the nazis, named edward gibbon. it was thought in nazi circles that the roman empire (which they were trying to bring back) would not have fallen if it had converted to islam instead of held to christianity. these considerations are not very concerning to the likes of tucker carlson, but don't think that he doesn't realize that his own anti-semitism has deep roots in the arab-american community, or even in the so-called "pro-palestinian left". of course it does. he knows it. that's the fucking point.

an alliance between these groups makes sense, as they are both conservative fringe groups. as a secular atheist socialist that's tired of pretending i give a fuck about religious minorities, i'd be just as happy to leave them behind, let them find their tribe and move on.

i think this is dead wrong. 

"pro-palestinian leftists", in truth, tend to be religious social conservatives that have far more in common with tucker carlson than bernie sanders, in terms of their vision of america, and what they actually want for the country. arab-americans also tend to be exceedingly pro-market, as markets are an arab cultural institution. western history derives capitalism from medieval italian city states, which is true, but it doesn't address the cultural borrowing from the islamic theocracies that those italian city states were doing almost all of their business with, as they were forced to, in the process of importing stuff from india and china. the taxes these arab theocracies imposed, which led to inflation in europe, was a major stimulus for europeans to get into boats to sail around them, in the end. however, the reality of arab imperialism stuck between europe and the east was a reality for several centuries, and had a substantive influence on how capitalism developed in the section of europe that was focused almost entirely on doing business with arab imperial power. what i'm getting at is that capitalism, as we understand it, developed in italy out of arab beginnings, and you can see that by going to an arab market, which developed out of phoenician roots in modern lebanon. the romans and greeks were state-capitalist pseudo communists, in comparison. arabs tend to like capitalism and tend to be violently opposed to communism, which is why they made such good allies to the americans during the cold war.

arab-americans will find greater allies in the republican party, in the long run. they won't have to deal with the gays, or pretend women are equal. they believe in god, or at least pretend to; democrats will need to increasingly embrace non-belief as the atheist population grows, and young americans become increasingly impatient with religious politicians. in 2026, i won't vote for or support anybody that doesn't explicitly call themselves an atheist and campaign on it. 

for these reasons, arabs and hispanics are both going to find themselves increasingly more aligned with the right, as the democratic base loses interest in and patience with aligning with them, against their self-interests.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/tucker-carlson-israel-left-pro-palestinian

while it's very difficult and sad to deal with these situations, health care staff has no discernible legal right to restrain an individual seeking to kill themselves, which is their inalienable right, as an autonomous individual. it sounds like medical staff did the right thing in allowing the individual the right to make his autonomous life-ending decisions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-health-sciences-centre-crisis-response-centre-lawsuit-9.7182391

it's anybody's guess whether these kids are still alive, although it seems doubtful. but it's clear that they aren't anywhere near the place they disappeared from.

i normally point to animal predation in these cases and make the argument that human children are actually a prey item for a variety of top predators, including cougars, wolves and bears.

however, my understanding is that there is evidence that these kids were removed from the property by a waiting vehicle on the night of their disappearance and this is probably a trafficking case. they could e anywhere, but they aren't on the farm. and they could be in any state of existence.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jack-and-lilly-sullivan-missing-one-year-9.7182916

donald trump is not on the ballot in november, not directly or indirectly, and his ability to act as commander in chief, which is his job, is not reliant on his control of congress the way it is in a westminister system. 

in the united states, these are entirely separate branches of government that have no relevance to each other.

only members of congress are on the ballot this november, and it is not the case that americans will be voting for the president by proxy. americans will be voting for their representatives, based on their own performance. that is a well understood feature of the american system that is very different from the british system.

this narrative is false and needs to be discarded of.

the president of the united states is not an economic advisory position, and the president has no proper role to play in the economy. that role is held by congress. the presidency is a military and foreign policy role, which is primarily about commanding the military.

the confusion that the british press may have about this issue would be related to comparing the prime minister to the president, but that is a false comparison. the prime minister's role in britain is quite broad due to the fact that the king has taken on a dignitary role. in practice, the prime minister is both the leader of the house of representatives, there called the house of commons, and the functional commander in chief, because the king holds no real power. in the united states, the president is not the leader of the house of representatives and does not hold the responsibilities associated with it, but is strictly a military and diplomatic role.

economic legislation is not written by the president but by the congress and the congress will rightly be judged on it's economic performance.

the president will be correctly judged on his foreign policy performance, as that is his role and his job in the american system.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgepyv20vrpo

i had to rewrite that a little, because the statistics are written in such a way to emphasize smoking and de-emphasize obesity as causes of cancer. the reason for this is that smoking is seen as unacceptable nowadays, whereas there is still a lot of retarded political correctness around obesity.

so, the statistics will say "smoking" as what it is, but will split obesity into five or six categories. the result is something like this:

smoking - 20%

obesity - 13%

diet - 6%

low exercise - 4%

but what that really says is

obesity - 23%

smoking - 20% 

i don't want to split hairs. obesity and smoking are both major public health problems, and both major causes of cancer, heart disease and other health problems. i'm happy to adjust the language.

but obesity is in truth the larger problem, because it is getting worse, and smoking rates are coming down. there are still a lot of boomers that have to die in the next few decades, but those statistics are going to be dramatically different in a couple of years. obesity is going to shoot up to the top of that list very soon and be the leading cause of cancer by a good margin by 2040.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45619041

the leading causes of cancer in the united states are smoking, gasoline and obesity, and the dominant cause of obesity in the united states is overwhelming amounts of corn consumption.

you should try to almost completely cut all corn - gmo or not - out of your diet and replace it with things like soy and whole wheat. corn has almost no nutritional value.

the idea that glyphosphate causes cancer is a fringe conspiracy theory with no scientific evidence supporting it and mountains of research contradicting it. the whole point of using the genetically modified seed - which is what this is really about. opposition to gmos has hit a brick wall because the science is so overwhelmingly clear that they aren't dangerous, so the conspiracy theorists have shifted focus to the pesticides, hoping to grasp on to straws that in fact are not actually there - is that it reduces the reliance on pesticides like ddt that are known to cause severe problems. roundup was intentionally engineered as a solution to carcinogenic pesticides, and it is one. 

the amount of ignorance on the left around this issue was extremely embarrassing when the issue first developed. i remember helplessly watching good leftists fall for terribly researched right-wing conspiracy theories that had the intellectual weight of an alex jones expose. it was exasperating.

it's helpful to see these people land out in right field, with the conservative fringe, which is where they've always belonged.

americans are horribly unhealthy and the amount of corn they eat is a major cause, not the gmo seeds used to plant it or the pesticides used to grow it. americans need to drastically reduce the amount of corn in their diets and reducing subsidies for the corn industry would be a positive step in helping reduce the amount of corn in their diets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/trump-supreme-court-maha-glyphosate.html

i think that the united states should have high tariffs on eu-imported vehicles, especially on german vehicles.

i think canada should have tariffs on german vehicles, too.

it would be better for the americans to orchestrate coups in europe than to withdraw troops from the continent.

this is the biggest mistake the united states has made in centuries. it is a bigger mistake than vietnam, a bigger mistake than iraq.

keeping germany under the control of america's jackboot by stomping it down at the neck is imperative for maintaining global security, and allowing germany to rearm will lead us directly into a third catastrophic world war.

the german chancellor is right: iran is making a fool of the united states, who has proven itself easily led around by it's nose. the americans have beaten the iranians very badly in the war, but that advantage has been squandered by an incompetent push for diplomacy, which is an act of weakness, rather than a strong drive to finish the job from a position of dominance. only inherently weak actors seek diplomacy over the use of force.

what the germans will learn from this is that if they insult the yankees then they'll fuck off and go home. are the japanese paying attention?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-troops-germany-withdraw-nato-trump-9.7185198

i'd like to better understand this as well. i don't want to come down too harsh because i have called for a sovereign wealth fund in canada and would strongly support one. specifically, i'm strongly concerned about the tactic carney announced a few days previous about trying to fund these projects with foreign investment, which is an idea that only makes sense under american hegemony (aka us-backed globalization), which carney has claimed is ending, which i don't think is a correct analysis, but which i don't think is the right approach, nonetheless.

canada should seek to avoid doing things like selling airport or oil infrastructure to foreign investors, which mostly means arab investors. when a country doesn't own it's own wealth, it loses it's sovereignty. this idea was doublethinked and politically correctified over during the first part of the post cold war era of american hegemony / globalization. there was nothing scary about letting foreigners buy up your resources and take control of your wealth. that's racist.

but as american hegemony has unfolded, the dangers of this kind of thinking have made themselves apparent. deindustrialization and the offshoring of wealth has created tremendous problems in developed economies. the next step is dealing with the social and political ramifications of having your economies controlled not just by foreign states, but by repressive and authoritarian and theocratic foreign states.

if i had to choose, i would rather join the united states than be taken over by saudi arabia. the latter is no solution to the problems posed by the former.

so, yes, canada should be trying to keep control and ownership of it's own resources in canada. the era of american hegemony is probably not over, but the era of globalization that required the projection of american dominance has taken a hit and may not recover. the americans no longer seem to be interested in protecting free markets within the structure of an american empire via overwhelming american force, but seem to be shifting towards using that military hegemony to advance their own interests, at the expense of their client states, which they now see as competitors. without the protection of american military dominance, the idea of selling our resources to anybody at all - even european countries that seem friendly today but have horrible recent histories - seems perilous, and the idea of selling them to the arabs or chinese appears flat out stupid.

i would not have proposed what carney is proposing. as mentioned, the details are thin. it's a very homo economicus approach. i am no advocate of free markets and i know what happens when you try to democratize via dividends. is there even going to be a guarantee that canadians are buying into it, or will it be open to the rest of the world? by making share ownership difficult to track, it may do the opposite of what's being suggested - it might backfire and result in difficult to understand, measure or regulate and increased foreign ownership of the resource economy. or maybe that's actually the point. 

the liberals are famous for campaigning on the left and governing on the right. today, they seem to be campaigning as economic nationalists and governing as globalists. we should not have expected anything different.

i would prefer to see these projects funded via the bank of canada and set up as crown corporations. i've been calling on this for over ten years but the liberal party seems to have some deep ideological opposition to it, and it's not likely to develop. there was a clause in trudeau's platform in 2015 about a green infrastructure bank as a part of the bank of canada that i strongly supported and that the liberal party hierarchy has violently prevented. it would upset certain large investors, who don't want to unravel the nixon shock.

most of what i'm calling for was supported by pierre trudeau and torn down by brian mulroney, then side-stepped during the chretien years, put off for later, and now forgotten about. some time after the martin purge, the liberals became violently opposed to their own legacy and deadset on destroying it. the liberals have run on these ideas because they know they get votes, but they won't implement them until something changes at the top of the party or a real left-wing alternative gets elected.

as it is, carney seems to be trying to be a nationalist and a globalist at the same time and is likely as tied into the doublethink as anybody. i expect that the globalism will overpower the nationalism, to the detriment of canadians.

i'm not interested in canada buying up resources elsewhere, although canadian companies certainly own large mining and mineral resources in africa and latin america. a canadian sovereign wealth fund as it exists in norway would look something like nationalizing canada's substantive foreign mineral holdings, which carney would not contemplate doing for ten seconds. that would be interfering in the private sector and deeply un homo economicus. it would be a heresy against the church of free market economics.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11825911/norway-singapore-canada-sovereign-wealth-fund/

this is a list of things i've purchased to fix things in the house and that now belong to the house. it's meant as a running total that will eventually be sent to the landlord.

i'm going to approach this with the perspective that the landlord has discretion to refund me. i moved in here with the understanding that i would need to do some work, and i will do that work for free to better the space. that's fine - i wanted a big space for cheap and i got it, and i'll do the work required to fix it. that was the deal. however, as i'm not going to take these things with me when i eventually leave, as they are now a part of the house and will be inherited by the next tenant, the landlord should volunteer to refund me for the materials.

 

item	total cost	amount used	did it work?	purchased from	brand, link	receipt	should i request costs?
crack sealer caulking	20x$3 + taxes ~ $70	17 so far	to a point	canadian tire	alex dap, link	i can't find them but they're around.	the windows and walls had a lot of cracks. this approach has kept out bugs and kept in heat. it's imperfect in terms of thermal insulation, but it helps a lot with the bugs, particularly ants and roaches. i'm also using paper towel and packing tape to create a kind of cheap blocking layer that helps dissuade rodents, although they could eat through. they don't like to chew through caulk or tape and avoid it, although they can. i created a weak barrier on purpose to figure out where they're coming in and they just didn't come in. fine. this would be a tenant cost of <$10 if it was one or two containers, but the fact that i've needed 17 contaners and counting makes it a landlord cost, imo; sealing drafts is tenant when it's minimal, but should really be landlord when it's dramatic, and the amount of sealing needed in this space has been dramatic. the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen are basically done. i will likely need to buy another 5+ containers to finish up in the living room and hallways and need to take a different approach altogether in the laudry and front entrance.
pink interior insulation	2x$25 + taxes ~ $60	almost 1 of 2	yes, so far	home hardware	owens corning, pink-panther r12, link		there's a large hole in the backyard leading directly into the laundry creating access for rodents and creating drafts. insulation should always be a landlord cost. certainly.
12 rat traps	$22.50 + taxes ~ $25	all	not very well	amazon	lulucatch, link		this is a landlord responsibility, and my position is that whether the landlord should pay for tenants buying traps should be dependent on if it works. landlords shouldn't pay for tenants to aimlessly and ineffectvely hunt rats, but if a tenant does something that is effective, they should be compensated for costs. i did catch a few rats with these traps, and they did alter their movement, so they made a difference, but they mostly went around them. that was good enough for me in the short run. i haven't seen any rats in a few weeks. there was apparently some baiting done outside, and it has worked in the very short run for now, so this has been dealt with, at least for now.
downspout extender	~$20	all	tbd	amazon	binazon, link		the water is falling right on the foundation and leaking into the basement. this is absolutely a landlord responsibility to fix.
water proof rubber sealant	~$20	all	tbd	amazon	flex seal, link		the holes in the sunroom, both on the side and in the front, and under the spout, are the result of poor work that was done. this sealant was purchased to address damage created by water leaking in from the downspout, coming off the roof. if there's any left, i'll use it to weatherize the hole on the side from the inside. the hole shoud also be bricked over from the outside. this is landlord, but i'd do it myself and not think about it, if there wasn't so much to do. let's see if it works.
wood pieces for patching the floor	~$12	tbd	tbd	amazon	link		parts of the basement ceiling are unfinished and have exposed plywood to upstairs. there are several holes in the plywood. some of them are the result of the kids stomping on the floor and some were created by rodents. they are access points for rodents, which have used the basement to store food they found upstairs and left droppings. right now, this space is completely cleaned out and i want to keep it that way. i have purchased very cheap, very thin wood that is intended for kids to use for woodworking to just glue underneath the board. i think it's important to avoid nails or screws and that crazy glue is the better approach. i have crazy glue around for general use. this wood will eventually need to be replaced altogether. for now, this is a very cheap but functional hack that should just block the access points into my unit from upstairs. this is certainly a landlord responsibility in the long run but there's no use in fixing the floors when there's kids - big kids - stomping on it. my concern is eliminating rodent access and this will work for me for now, but it's not a longterm solution.
leak plugging tape	~$17	tbd	tbd	amazon	link		the window frame around the bedroom window has had difficulty keeping rain out during downpours. i tried to use the dap but it was not completely effective and gave out completely during the tornado last month. i applied the dap over what looks like an old application of great stuff, which was no longer working, if it ever did. this is again the result of poor previous work. so that doesn't seem to be the right approach. i believe the water is actually coming in from the upstairs window, which is open because it has an air conditoner in it. i will take a look outside soon to see if i can clean the area up and identify places the water is pooling. i was going to use some of the tape to weatherize the inside of the hole on the side, but i may re-evaluate, after noticing it was kicked in. due to the most recent vandalism, the exposed drywall may need to be completely redone before the outside is bricked over. this is landlord, but it's also the kind of thing i'd just do myself and not think twice about it, if it weren't for the fact that there's so much of it to do. let's see if it works.
weather proofing tape	~$23	tbd	tbd	amazon	link		this is to address drafts inside the unit and keep heating costs down. i will run it around parts of the windows, around the doors and around the hole in the laundry, over the insulation. so, there will be insulation *and* tape over that hole. this is certainly landlord, but i'd just do it myself, if it weren't for the amount necessary to do. let's see if it works.

i also have a list of items to do that i cannot do myself and are going to require some contracting:

front entrance area:

1) the incorrectly closed hole on the side of the front entrance, under the stairs, needs to be bricked over, and the drywall may also need to be redone

2) the poorly boarded up front window needs to either be replaced or boarded up better. there is some water damage as a result of it not being closed up well.

3) the door at the top of the stairs should have a frame on it

4) electrical work: light fixture at top of stairs, converting junction box to outlet under the stairs

side entrance: 

- installing a door to minimize the drafts and increase safety

kitchen:

- patching a small hole left by the heavy stove hood, which fell out of the ceiling because it was screwed directly into the plaster rather than into any wood

bathroom:

- chuck punched a hole in the wall to fix the plumbing which was never patched. i taped over it and that kept the rats out. the plumbing leak left substantive water damage. the rats came back to that area and left a gross mess that needs to be cleaned up. some drywall/plaster work is necessary in here from the basement side and some is going to need to get into the floor to clean it out, either from down or upstairs.

backyard:

- the hole in the back needs to be properly sealed up with cement or concrete

and i still need a 9 volt for the fire alarm. i'll need to buy one and add it to the list if one doesn't come in soon.

when are the brotards going to learn that only gay men think macho is hot, or otherwise just get out of the fucking closet and admit it, already?

have you not learned anything from your many years on this earth?

do you think that fucking child over there is going to teach you something?

no. you're pathetic.

grow up.

there's nothing more pathetic than an aging person trying to hold on to their youth. it's ok to get older. that's called maturity. rejecting aging is called immaturity.

that doesn't mean you need to fall into bad stereotypes. 

but an intelligent and mature person should not be able to relate to cultural ideas being marketed to 20 year-olds and those that try to are either being pretentious poseurs or are legitimate immature retards. growing up a little means your tastes in music and other forms of art should mature to reflect things that older people can relate to.

at this point, i'm far more interested in music that is explicitly about aging than i am in pretending that i'm 15 years old. i'm not. and i don't want to be.

valid, talented, worthwhile, substantive artists should age with their listeners.

what economic theory are they citing to support their proposal that increasing interest rates will cut inflation due to energy costs?

that makes no sense.

at all.

i would expect increasing interest rates to increase inflation, in context.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11821934/bank-of-canada-interest-rate-april-2026/

the removal of american troops from germany, if it happens, would signal the actual end of american hegemony, and the first act of retreat - actually - of the american empire.

i do not think the united states is in decline at all, but withdrawal from germany would be an act that would imply clear decline.

trump appears to legitimately think that the american occupation of germany is to protect them from russia.

the stupidity is baffling.

i hope that the british and the french are quietly lobbying in opposition of this move as they are the ones most likely to suffer from german rearmament.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/trump-us-reducing-troops-germany-00899352

see, i never thought kimmel was funny. he's not as cringe as fallon but he's not funny. at all.

is "expectant widow" even a joke? i dunno. i think she has some expectorant for your window.

the comment is actually in poor enough taste to justify a smack upside the head, and it has to be pretty fucking bad if it makes me, of all people, cringe. he should apologize for being a shithead.

i frequently go to that freshco.

i've bicycled through there and seen groups of people looking ominously. i'm from the wrong side of the tracks. i've learned how to avoid. but that area has given me the creeps more than once.

the homeless drug users are a problem but they aren't the same kind of problem as the culture of violence in the low income housed population, who mostly don't do drugs, and can afford the ones they do. it's a difference of scale. the focus is getting them off the street, but that often just makes them worse.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/windsor-teenager-dead-after-stabbing-first-degree-murder-charge-laid/

as mentioned, i was feeling better at the start of the week, but i lost the weekend, again. i bought some items on amazon to clean up the front with, but i need to wait for the landlord to do some work in there first. i shifted focus to the laundry and the bathroom instead and the laundry is pretty much finished. the bathroom is next, but i again need to wait for the landlord to get in to clean some things up. these issues are going to slow me down and act as bottlenecks but so be it. in the mean time, i can keep cleaning and ordering small things as they come up.

so, that was today, and yesterday, and saturday as well.

ai is slowing the internet back down to 90s speeds. i was loading pages faster on a 56K modem.

this is pathetic.

why is trump repeatedly meeting with charles the turd, rather than with the prime minister?

this is more than weird.

it's really unacceptable. the king has no political role to play in the united kingdom. this shouldn't be happening at all.

he's a moron.

a correct timeline for hudson bay opening up year round is c. 2100. 

this won't be built in the next 50 years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-kinew-megaprojects-analysis-9.7177015

i've repeatedly called for the assassination of donald trump and think that that would be the correct outcome in the american legal system. i've called for the intelligence agencies to remove him, as a national security threat.

i might applaud if some random person took him out, but that's not what i've been calling for. i've been calling for the intelligence agencies to do it.

i certainly would not do that myself. i'm not a martyr for any cause. i don't believe in the "greater good", and i don't care about the children. i'm driven by self-interest and maximizing my individual goals and i'm driven so much by self-interest that i don't care about societal goal posts like family or status. i have no interest in measuring myself against others. i completely reject any and all form of competition and i'm completely opposed to market economics. 

i'm not even an american citizen. i'm not going to put my own country ahead of myself, let alone somebody else's country ahead of myself. that would be retarded.

if they ever tried to conscript me, i'd make a show out of killing the officer that tried to conscript me. i'd be safer in jail. great.

so, it would not be in my self-interest to commit suicide for the greater good in that context or in any other context and i would not be considering doing that.

it's not my job.

assassinating a president like donald trump, who is a clear threat to the national interest, is the job of the security agencies. i would again call on them to do their jobs, but i have no interest in putting myself at risk to do their jobs for them. that would be irrational; it would be idiotic.

i think the cia/nsa should be assassinating donald trump, as he is a clear threat to the security of the united states.

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.

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.

some percentage of children are going to end up as worthless, hopeless retards. that's how it is.

at the end of the day, some percentage of children will survive to reproduce and some percentage will die. that's inevitable. that's evolution. your genes might fail. so it goes.

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.

i don't want to see children raised in some backwards dystopic primitivist amish hellhole and i'll fight to stop it to the extent that i can. that's not the kind of society i'm going to live in.

banning your kids from technology is not good parenting. it's abusive and it will harm them.

some kids will use the technology to write symphonies and novels. some of them will waste their lives playing video games.

but that's a reflection of the person and not of the technology.

stop blaming technology for the defects of human behaviour. it makes you sound like a conservative retard.

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-social-media-age-restrictions-9.7177470

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.

mariah carey may have a place in the pop music hall of fame, but she is not a rock and roll musician, by any remote stretch of the term, and does not belong in the rock and roll hall of fame. her rejection is correct and they should stop nominating her.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16209391-critics-its-put-mariah-carey-rock-roll-hall

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-dripa-crisis-point-9.7175559

this is barbaric.

but then we wonder why the americans keep negotiating with terrorists. the answer is because they don't see iran as a hellhole in need of destruction, but as an ideal worth attaining.

these are extremely sick people.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/nx-s1-5798990/doj-firing-squads-executions-trump-capital-punishment

this is where we reach for the export taxes.

but they should already be in place, and would be if carney wasn't such a fucking wimp.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/american-offer-canadian-aluminum-steel-companies-tariff-relief-9.7176321

i strongly oppose continuing to negotiate with iran. shit or get off the pot - replace the government or go home.

the united states is one of the few remaining advanced societies that has essentially no access to assisted suicide. a quarter of the way through the 21st, this is an unacceptable restriction on the self-ownership rights of americans and something that needs to drastically change.

if i don't get my acid i'll kill myself!

can i buy you the bullets?

i mean, really. good fucking riddance.

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-psychedelic-medication-order

his kid died of a ritalin overdose and they're blaming the red bull.

stop pretending adhd is anything other than bad parenting and ban ritalin. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/youth-energy-drinks-quebec-9.7168715

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 was able to get some more cleaning done yesterday, and ordered some things to set up the workshop with in the evening that should be here over the next few days. i mostly slept today. it shouldn't be much longer in there.

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.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/the-lumberjack-restaurant-closes-after-46-years/

canada would like reciprocity with the united states, but it does not want to communicate further with donald trump.

mark carney should not call donald trump back regarding renegotiating nafta. 

canada should wait him out.

i would support this in canada, if it is extended to marijuana, cloves and whatever else.

smoking is retarded.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11811972/uk-smoking-vaping-youth-ban-canada/

trump may be trying to sell his art of the deal but he's demonstrating the art of self destruction.

i certainly hope we never have to deal with donald trump on drugs.

he's bad enough as it is.

i would like to congratulate the new premier of quebec, premier doonesbury.

i hope that quebeckers are able to follow the direction of her government without too much difficulty.

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.

https://bombardier.com/en/aircraft/challenger-650

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.

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.

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.

no president should ever be permitted to read any religious text from the oval office for any reason.

every american should be embarrassed by this.

all hail the king of the retards!

all hail idiocy!

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".

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.

there is absolutely no evidence that "depression" is caused by brain chemicals. it's complete capitalist nonsense.

"depression" is an undefined medical state that has no objective basis in empirical reality. it's absolute bullshit.

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.

the drug industry will tell you all kinds of lies to create slaves to their addictive poisons in order to maximize profit.

there is no science backing up these claims.

the idea that these drugs are some kind of medicine is absolutely retarded, and the people that do these drugs are pathetic losers that belong in jail.

what kind of a dumbass consults a loser podcast host for medical direction?

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-executive-order-psychedelic-drugs-joe-rogan

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.

the only people in canada that support the iranian regime are:

- white useful idiots

- jews that hate likud

- arabs in solidarity with terrorist groups.

there is virtually no support for the irgc in the iranian diaspora.

the useful idiots should question who they are standing with.

france has no role to play in lebanon and most leave immediately.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260418-iran-threatens-to-close-strait-of-hormuz-again-if-us-blockade-continues

you cannot due polling in iran because the society is not free. but, you can do it in canada, and this is what it says.

https://nationalpost.com/news/overwhelming-support-among-iranian-canadians-for-regime-change-new-community-survey-finds

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.

the dealer left a cat here.

i don't want a cat. but i don't want to let it starve either. hopefully i can call somebody to come get it.

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.

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 societies with the brightest futures are the ones in temperate climates, like russia.

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.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/embassy-cables-detail-how-iran-war-is-hurting-the-us-abroad-00877205

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-invest-in-canada-summit-carney-9.7166810

i'm hearing complaints from local indigenous groups that the gordie howe bridge is an example of cultural appropriation and should be renamed the hello gordie bridge instead.

i was joking. this is satire.

i mean, i'm half serious.

but don't take me fucking seriously.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/hegseth-compares-trump-hating-reporters-to-enemies-of-jesus/

the united states president was just played for a fool by a terrorist group and walked right into it.

we should all be embarrassed and ashamed by this.

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.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5787392/iran-middle-east-updates

there's not going to be a deal between the united states and iran without regime change first, and hopefully the attack on hezbollah resumes within days if not hours. 

he's correct.

but, trump is being driven by greed and false promises for short term profit.

he thinks he's manipulating everybody else, but he's so overwhelmed by his own selfishness, that he's incredibly easy to manipulate, himself.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5835518-graham-hesitates-lebanon-israel-peace/

trump doesn't give a shit about the lives of israelis being attacked by psychotic terrorist lunatics, he's been manipulated by those same fucking raghead shitfaces into the false promise of a business deal, which will never happen.

somebody needs to assassinate the piece of shit.

the only thing that a ceasefire in lebanon is going to accomplish is to allow hezbollah to regroup.

netanyahu is making immense progress in getting rid of these scumbags. this is the worst possible time to stop, and the worst possible outcome.

trump is a fucking idiot.

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.

what we just learned is that the iranians have absolutely no respect for donald trump's intelligence and that, frankly, they're right not to.

he's a fucking moron.

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 would call on israel to continue the campaign against hezbollah.

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.

BREAKING NEWS

donald trump has resigned from the presidency and is no longer the president.

wow? did you hear that?

so, from this point on, both congress and the cabinet need to move forward with the acceptance of donald trump's resignation from the presidency, as per 12:53.

in fact, i'm going to make announcements on behalf of donald trump.

according to me, donald trump has immediately resigned from the presidency, effective immediately.

apparently donald trump thinks he's in charge of israel, in addition to thinking iran is negotiating in good faith.

reeeeeetaaaaard.

if i was netanyahu, i would start making announcements on behalf of the united states, like that the united states is going to join the kyoto accord, or the icc.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-convenes-urgent-security-cabinet-call-amid-lebanon-ceasefire-announcement/

trump is a retard.

peace is impossible without the destruction of hezbollah.

there will not be peace in lebanon until hezbollah is eradicated.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-conflict/article/trump-says-israel-and-lebanon-have-agreed-to-a-10-day-ceasefire/