despite what i said about insanity or not criminally responsible defences, and how a science-based system of law would enforce greater sentences and not lesser sentences on people found to be not criminally responsible (it shouldn't be a defence to a charge, it should be a sentencing criteria that increases the severity of sentences), i actually would reject the argument if i was the judge.

the kids were aged 3, 5 and 8 months.

that's not post-partum anything. those are toddlers. it's a lot of bullshit.

i would flat out find her guilty of three counts of first degree murder and sentence her to three consecutive life sentences, with no chance of parole.

fuck alberta.

there's some refineries in new brunswick and there's oil in newfoundland. that's a better source for eastern canada.

we need refinery capacity for national security and we should have built it eons ago. but canadians should be trying to shift off oil. the better idea is building more hydro plants.

in the long run, newfoundland is a more practical, economical and environmental source for the minimal oil canada will continue to require, post-transition, than alberta. let the western shitheads starve in their debt.

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/ontario-quebec-rely-on-u-s-gas-could-they-realistically-get-it-from-alberta

this is similar to the argument i was making.

the whole point of electing mark carney is that he's not supposed to make these fundamental economic mistakes. you expected trudeau to listen to his advisors. he doesn't know any better. but you expect carney to step in and say "hey, what a second, this is dumb. a second year economics major would know better than this. this is a mistake, we're not doing this."

does carney really have much decision making influence or authority in the pmo, or is the civil service really directing policy, and doing so foolishly?

https://financialpost.com/news/canada-retaliatory-tariffs-bite-back

this recent current case is a good demonstration of why it is that the way the courts approach intent is currently backwards. we have an ancient system of law that is fundamentally about obeying the king's orders interacting with modern science, and the system is sputtering, and then trying to assert it's authority to prevent itself from changing rather than adjusting to what the science says.

currently, the way this works is that the woman will be declared not guilty - or not criminally responsible - if the defense can demonstrate that she wasn't capable of forming intent. but who cares? how does that have any relevance in determining how dangerous this woman clearly is to the people around her?

a modern system of science-based law would flip the logic over and instead order her to be permanently incarcerated with no chance of parole if it can be demonstrated that she lacks the capacity to form intent, because there would be no way to mitigate the threat she poses to the community around her.

it's not that the question of intent isn't of continuing value in law. it is. but this ancient medieval system of dominance and submission, that is difficult for modern people to even understand at all, doesn't interact well with what the science says. the science is relatively clear that this woman is very likely to repeat offend and that she's never going to be fully capable of rehabilitating. the system of law was devised in an era where these analyses and determinations were not of any consideration and the only real issue before the judge was whether you obeyed the king's orders.

the system is reformable. it doesn't need to be redesigned from scratch, and it has good foundations. however, cases like this demonstrate the need for the system to update itself to make the law more reactive to the science and less reactive to medieval concepts of social control through implied violence and the assertion of physical dominance. 

submission to the king is not a real-world concern here, but it's still what the law is in truth actually about.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lindsay-clancy-trial-jury-stuck-9.7332273

i finally bought some 28 ounce glass bowls last week, and they came in yesterday. these should be good for cereal, minimum meals and other smaller applications, but i'm about to give up on finding large glass bowls at an affordable price and use stainless steel for the salads that make up a big part of my diet, instead. they may leech nickel and chromium, but those are actually both micronutrients required for human health in unknown quantities. that's not a bad thing.

i'm consequently largely finished swapping out the ceramic and plastic for glass, steel, iron and silicon.

- i have three 750 ml glass cups that were manufactured as vases that i use for juice

- i have six 550 ml glass cups in use for water and soy milk

- i have two very large glass beer mugs in use for coffee

- there are four additional stemless wine glasses for a total of 15 glass cups

- i have swapped my plastic brita jug out for a glass water jug

- i have three small glass containers for sauces. i need some more for fruit. i don't mind storing some fruits and vegetables in old margarine containers, mostly because i don't save most, i eat the whole thing all at once. exceptions are tomatoes and red peppers for the half pasta plates (and for nachos and salsa with eggs) and pineapple for pasta. i would especially want the pineapple and tomato not in plastic nowadays.

- i have bought some canola/olive oil to replace the margarine, and some canola humus with olive chunks

- i have four 12" glass plates in use that replace the ceramic ones

- i have replaced six smaller ceramic bowl with six 28 ounce glass bowls

- i need to buy a couple more 3 quart or 4.5 quart stainless steel bowls for salads. i have one of each, and an 8 inch bowl, that i bought for utility, but it's looking like they're going to replace the 70 oz ceramic bowls i've been using for the last few years to make large salads in. i am not sure if 3 quarts or 4.5 quarts is better.

- i swapped all the plastic spatulas out with silicon and steel.

- i swapped the plastic cutting board out with a titanium one

- i have swapped my pans for eggs and bacon out with cast iron skillets

i am keeping the small ceramic plates for cutting, i still have plastic measuring cups, i have a lot of plastic tupperware that i'm reexamining and the onion soup bowls are ceramic and will stay that way.

otherwise, that's it. the ceramic and plastic is out. it's all glass and iron and silicon and steel.

i will keep the ceramic plates for holding glass or metal bowls (like a bowl of soup or salad, on the ceramic plate) to prevent spilling or control temperature and the ceramic bowls for things like chips and candy. i don't buy candy; i occasionally buy potato chips.

i shouldn't jump to the conclusion that i had a vitamin e deficiency, at least not relative to current clinical standards. i haven't been tested. i understand that it isn't very likely, at least relative to current clinical standards. 

but the e has made a positive difference in a number of ways. i won't list them, but i'm noticing big differences after only a few pills. frustrating blemishes on my face that i was starting to worry were skin cancer are peeling off. i thought the glow was from estrogen, but i'm starting to think it's from vitamin e. that persistent annoying diarrhea, which i was tying to the stalkers drugging me, has cleared up.

the a came in the other day. i've taken 1.5 and am not noticing it yet. i would expect less obvious changes. the b is replacing the yeast, remember, and not a hike in much except b5 and b7, which weren't in the yeast. and i didn't take the yeast that frequently. i am feeling a little more awake, but i'm not sure yet.

i think a better analysis is that the rdi for vitamin e is currently too low.

i think that elliot might have underestimated how important their appearance was to their casting decisions, in their previous gender role. which must have been frustrating, certainly, but was nonetheless real.

it's not the elliot didn't transition convincingly. i don't think that's it.

is anybody making a movie about rivers cuomo?

note that i didn't say a young gilbert gottfried.

elliot page is wondering why nobody is calling with job offers.

maybe it's due to the eerie similarity to gilbert gottfried.

maybe they just aren't applying for the right jobs.

this was actually recorded in new jersey.

i really actually don't think this needs to be nearly as big a deal for canada as some would imagine

there's no doubt that we buy things from the americans, but we could replace them almost entirely with a combination of brazil and mexico, who together have roughly the same population. neither are substantively further away. the things we can't get from latin america, we could get from japan or europe, and both have substantive populations to sell into.

there's likewise no ambiguity that we need a market to sell things to, but the fear that the americans are going to stop buying is overblown. the selling point about the us is gdp, but it's gdp per capita in a grossly unequal society, and if canada stops buying us goods, the us gdp will actually cave in because they rely on us for their own sales. if we start buying our fruit from brazil and mexico instead - and pay attention at the store. we already have started. - the subsequent decrease in american gdp will undo their own propaganda as the us being this giant market. it's really not. it's 4% and it's overridden with extreme poverty.

i'm not convinced that brazil is a worse market than the us. as the us is also attacking them, we have a unique opportunity with the brazilians, as they can replace the us for us as a supplier of food (mostly), and we can replace the us for them as a supplier of finished goods. it's a great way to apply the theory of comparative advantage. we should be all over each other.

but i know that the budget juice i buy is sourcing from brazil nowadays. the mangos and grapefruits are from brazil. almost nothing is actually coming in from the us. this is happening because the transnational capital of walmart and loblaws opens up those supply chains. and the truth is the us is actually getting cut out.

we should be putting a specific focus on latin america.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/how-bad-would-it-be-for-canada-if-the-us-left-cusma-what-a-report-suggests/

these are the koppen climate zones here:

the snot green is humid subtropical, while the two shades of blue above it (detroit-windsor sits between the two shades of blue) are humid continental. the lower shade of blue is defined by hotter summers.

but as the subtropical zone moves north it swallows up st louis, detroit and chicago. it's only the smallest, most southernmost part of canada, but it's a place to enjoy the warmth.

i will reiterate my call to windsorites that don't like the weather: get lost. go to winnipeg, go to toronto, go to ottawa. leave this city for those that like the climate.

In recent history, Windsor has had about 22 days each year when the temperature gets up to at least 30 C. 

But if climate change continues unchecked, these very hot days will be more frequent, according to projections in a new report from the University of Waterloo's Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation. Windsor could see 30 C days 79 times a year by the 2050s. 

by my count, we've had 36 such days above 30 C so far in 2026. and we had a slow start to summer.

as mentioned, it rarely gets below 27 degrees from mid may to mid oct. that's no longer a barren frozen north. that's not even temperate anymore, that's subtropical. we're increasingly seeing hot days linger into november or december and starting as early as late february. the winters here now run cold but short from c. dec 20th to feb 20th and we get long bouts of spring in january and february. the cold comes in short, intense bursts.

a city where the temperature is above 20 degrees consistently from mar 1 to dec 1st, which is where we're going, is no longer one that people seek to escape due to the cold, but one that people seek to travel to to enjoy the warmth. windsor and the region should see that future and prepare for it. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-city-heat-report-1.6427236

the idea of windsor-leamington as a tourist destination makes some sense. we're surrounded by water. the weather here s beautiful for 6 months of the year, and growing. if that gets to 8 months, 10 months, it might be a high yield investment projection.

come to windsor to enjoy the humidity and play in the lakes. we've got trails for bicycling, fresh fruit off the trees and plenty of places to grab a beer.

note, however, that a ten degree boost in hudson's bay means -15 instead of -25. it doesn't make the land more useful. it doesn't open the northwest passage. it may make driving in the winter more annoying.

southwest ontario is becoming a rainforest and may end up as a subtropical tourist destination. but the bulk of southern canada, including the prairies, is going to get hit by this, while the north will see little benefit. optimistic predictions are not well-informed.

the areas we grow in today in canada are going to turn into the badlands of montana and wyoming and we can't just move north because we ruined the land with tar sand development.

we've already seen substantive warming here. i'd be surprised if detroit-windsor hasn't already hit 3 degrees celsius.

https://climateinstitute.ca/news/canada-must-prepare-for-hotter-future-and-act-now/

there's two parts of canada that really aren't much like being in canada, in terms of climate.

- the very southern part of ontario, not including toronto but including windsor, london, kitchener, hamilton, niagara.

- the okanagan valley

these two very small regions do not have weather that is very canadian at all. windsor is further south than minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, most of michigan, a bunch of states moving west to washington and oregon and and the entire northeastern us, including almost all of new york. even toronto is a tad further north of boston.

this doesn't seem weird anymore. rather, i'd be surprised, today, if the opposite happened - if i needed a jacket in september.

but this would be considered baffling a few decades ago.

in windsor, in 2026, sept 1 is not the end of summer, it's mid-summer. sept 21st is not the end of summer. 

oct 15th is the end of summer, here, nowadays, and you would expect high humidity and heat here and to be out in shorts and tank tops until mid october at the earliest. we've had summer linger into november here recently on several occasions - meaning consistent 20+ highs.

for the americans, 35 C is 95 F. 45 C is 113 F. 

this is a canadian suburb of detroit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

or the gord archipelago.

if you'd prefer.

the reality is that the jails in the united states, a country that has long enforced these kinds of draconian rules that conservatives like ford want to enforce here, are full of retards that never get properly diagnosed or tested and will never rehabilitate because they can't. we do the opposite and call it humane and hopeful, but it isn't humane and hopeful, and the outcome is not much better. the last thing canada should want is to get in the habit of throwing retards in jail, like the americans do. but the evidence is also clear that not giving them the support they need frequently leads to terrible outcomes. the middle point is returning to the institutionalization model that was abandoned due to neo-liberalism.

there is little question that this crazy law will be struck down. this is not consistent with canadian law.

the courts have repeatedly blocked things like mandatory minimums and cash bail and it is clearly frustrating conservatives, who are no doubt asking "what can we do to keep people in jail?", and what they aren't learning is that the science is clear: jail doesn't work.

there is a subset of criminals that legitimately don't understand what they're doing due to fas, complications of shs exposure, drug abuse as adults or other causes of mental retardation. the system has not dealt with this well; it's dealt with it backwards. it argues that an inability to form mens rea makes guilt impossible. but nobody is of greater threat to the community than a severely mentally damaged person with a history of lashing out. there needs to be a way to get the mentally damaged into hospitals, rather than jails, and keep them there, against their will. these people will never be rehabilitated and that's not the point of incarcerating them. they need to be humanely warehoused out of the general public.

if this was done effectively, it would lock up most repeat offenders. but this is a hole in the criminal law that isn't going to be patched with draconian laws that order people to behave and beat them with dominance if they refuse. they're retarded. they don't understand. it needs to be addressed with science.

what's left is mostly "crime of passion" where intent can be established and the courts mostly already refuse bail for this and property crimes which are mostly the result of poverty and need to be addressed with greater social spending.

the courts won't let the government break the system like this, at least for now.

the other option, of course, is to stack the benches with ignorant judges, and the harper, ford and trudeau governments certainly tried, but perhaps ran out of time. we're going to need to get the conservatives out of ontario very seen if we don't want to threaten long term damage to the tribunal system, but that's separate from this.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontarios-new-cash-bail-rules-on-hold-judge-rules/

this is a shitty way to bring up a valid criticism about the direction of canada's military, which i've brought up myself.

there was a big attempt to eliminate sexual abuse in the army under the trudeau pmo. this was driven by the pmo's backwards ideology, and not by the direction of the military. in fact, there was a major purge of army people for resisting it.

conservative feminist ideology argues for the state to act as a leviathan so that women can walk around naked downtown at 4:00 am without fear of being assaulted. i exaggerate only slightly. it's less that i disagree in principle and more that i'm concerned about the unintended consequences of getting to that end point. but the military is an exception.

a state that acts as a leviathan to protect soldiers from sexual assault will be useless on the battlefield. soldiers that cannot defend themselves are useless to that state and should not be soldiers. yes, enemy forces will use rape as a tactic, and it's required to understand and react to that expectation.

canada needs to put less of an emphasis on protecting vunerable soldiers from harm and more of an emphasis on developing soldiers that can protect themselves when required. that is not necessarily gender-based, but it will require telling some women that they don't make the team and will have to accept it. that's the point of an army.

the military is not a social assistance program, but canada has treated it like one for too long, and the last pmo took disturbing steps into parody in the way it expanded that that should be reevaluated and reversed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pentagon-hegseth-canada-cadets-controversy-9.7327986

i spent $450 on groceries, $220 on cleaning and bathroom supplies and $150 on supplements, and i'm now entirely stocked up on everything imaginable until the spring, when i'll need to do that again. grocery bills will be for perishables - fruits and vegetables, breads and eggs and cheese. that's how i keep my monthly bills down - i buy pantry items in bulk ahead of time. it requires a little bit of expenditure up front to appreciate the savings in the long run.

let me do this again.

- the b and c are being cut in 4 and taken every six hours instead of all at once. they are here and i've been doing this for a few days, now.

- 100 iu of e at 0:00 on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, with sunday left optional.

- i am going to buy a kelp tablet i can cut in 4 and take 1/4 of the tablet every day at 6:00. this will give me a little more than 150 mcg of iodine/day, which is the rdi. i have sent an email to jamieson to ask if these kelp tablets contain epa/dha as well. they are marketed as "kelp, which contains iodine" and not as iodine.

- 1000 iu of d at 12:00

- the a is being cut in 1/2 and 1/2 is being taken at 18:00 daily. this is 2500 iu daily. this is between the rdis for women and men, and probably right for me. i ordered this yesterday and it should be here this week.

- i am going to take 2 tums after each full meal as a calcium supplement for now on (800 mg elemental calcium)

- i'm deciding not to take pills for vitamin k. i eat a salad-based diet and i take a lot of estrogen. so, i want my blood a little thin and might be concerned about overdoing it on vitamin k creating clotting risks. this is the one vitamin i want to keep a little low. i have seen no symptoms of a difficulty coagulating. 

- i'm going to take a tbsp of flax dissolved in a glass of water daily at 15:00 for omega-3s. i should meet the rdi of them, at 1.7 g of ala, if i do that.

- i'm going to note that i drink at least 250 ml of soy and 4 mini cups of coffee a day and usually closer to twice that

- i have devised a daily minimum meal made up of:

a bowl with:

- 3 tbsp of raw, unroasted, unsalted, hulled sunflower seeds (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of hulled hemp seeds (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of hulled chia seeds (bought, added)

- 3 tbsp of wheat bran (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of soy lecithin <------not yet

- 30 g of all bran (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of paprika (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of ground cumin (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of dried oregano (longstanding)

- 2 cloves of garlic (longstanding)

- 1 beet (longstanding)

- 1 avocado (longstanding)

- 50 g broccoli (longstanding)

- dried dill, caesar, hot sauce, nutritional yeast for flavour (yeast does have some b vitamins still) (longstanding)

with

- one banana (longstanding, bought)

- one orange (longstanding, bought)

- two pieces of untoasted quinoa-flax bread with unclear spread (longstanding)

- one tum (longstanding)

that has

- in total, 12+ g of omega-3s

- 23+ g of omega-6s

- 55+ g of mostly complete protein, which is about right on the rdi for my weight, maybe a little more. i would prefer to barely meet the rdi or just miss it for protein. excess protein is hard on your body and stored inefficiently as fat. high protein diets are stupid.

- minimal saturated fat for absorption (some in the dressing, avocado, soy lecithin)

- some carbs. whatever. carbs aren't worth measuring.

- it's all stored the same way. your body uses less energy to process carbs and more energy to process protein but it does the same thing with excess amounts of them, which is store it as fat. what i'm more interested in is the fact that flax, hemp, chia, soy, quinoa and in fact also sunflower are all complete proteins and have all 9 essential amino acids, although the sunflower seeds are low in lysine (and high in vitamin e, selenium, omega-6s). i'm not aiming for a protein salad, but this would be pretty effective if i was.

- 180%+ rdi for magnesium

- 160%+ rdi for phosphorus

- 110%+ of the rdi for potassium

- 120%+ rdi for calcium

- 210%+ of rdi for manganese

- 30+ mg of iron (elemental) (300% of a 10 mg amount but i have absorption issues and need it)

- 195%+ of rdi for copper

- 125%+ of rdi for zinc

- 125%+ rdi for selenium

- 110%+ rdi for molybdenum (not including the high amount in soy milk that isn't bioavailable)

- 175%+ of the rdi for choline (960 mg) & an additional 100% in the form of betaine (550 mg).

- some sulfur in the garlic

- some inositol and salicylic acid in the orange

- extra food-based vitamins (carotenoids, b vitamins, a little c, some d, a fair amount of e and some k)

- around 950-1000 mg of sodium. ish. which is a decent minimum meal amount.

this will be taken at 3:00 am or 9:00 am on days where i didn't eat a full meal the previous day and will be intended to ensure i'm meeting daily rdis while i continue to lose weight. this may mean i go longer between meals. but this isn't a meal, and is not intended as one. it is not high in calories but is very high in nutrients.

the bread is still pretty fortified and the flax-quinoa bread has a fair amount of ala. the soy has lost a lot of vitamins but is still worthwhile. the all bran in canada has been stripped to almost nothing, like the yeast, but it's still a good source of betaine. i'd like to get some better caesar dressing as i eat a lot of it.

i did not initially measure iodine because i assumed the salt in the bread, caesar and hot sauce was iodized. in fact, the salt in the bread and the soy or not iodized and i have not yet heard from frank's, or contacted great value or all bran. i feel this is a failure by health canada, which should be mandating iodine in soy milk, bread, cereal and sauces like frank's and casear. what is a good source of daily iodine, then?

don't tell me to just eat salt. health canada stupidly tells you to eat a teaspoon of table salt a day. that's 6 g of salt. the mayo institute says to keep it under 1.5g. you'd need to eat around 4g of table salt a day to meet the iodine rdi. that's a disgusting amount of salt that is going to make you fat and give you heart problems. in fact, in 2026, table salt is not a feasible source of iodine for healthy people to use because the fortification level is way too low. it should by increased by roughly 5x so that you only need less than 1g of table salt, which is still more than you should eat, to meet the rdi. further, there should be a recognition by health canada that fewer canadians consume table salt today than in the past. i do not use table salt for any purpose at all (i don't even buy it) and i am no longer an obscure minority. there should consequently be further iodine fortification mandated in soy milk, bread, pasta and other processed foods, under the realization that iodine is scarce in the diets of healthy people, today.

when i was doing my initial diet design, i wanted to include seaweed, but it never happened and it still looks to be infeasible. 

i don't drink cow's milk because it's utterly disgusting and i don't eat seafood because it's not worth the risk for mercury and other contaminants.

that leaves eggs and cheese as the only substantive sources and i'd have to eat an unrealistic amount of cheese, daily, to meet the rdi.

i'm left with the reality that i am going to have to take an iodine pill due to insufficiently mandated iodine fortifications in the utterly backwards failed state we call canada. this should be included in bread and soy and i shouldn't need to worry about it. i'm consequently not including iodine levels in the minimum meal because it's in the supplements list.

not measured:

- chloride (i should get enough in the city water in windsor)

- chromium

- boron

- fluoride (windsor's water is back to being fluoridated, that should be fine)

- nickel

- carbs (who cares?)

- glucose (this should be low)

- calories (calories are irrelevant to human health)

the rhetoric from the united states president is idiotic. he is placing the office of the presidency in disrepute. he should show far more respect for the office than he does.

the united states may have the ability to react to steep export taxes, but that shouldn't be a reason to avod enacting them. high export taxes is a less aggressive response than cutting exports. historians will tell you that denying empires from accessing resources has resulted in invasions and conquests. empires will fight wars to secure access to resources. but, i know of no example of an empire launching a war to cut taxes or reduce the price of imports. the americans should be reminded of that when they complain.

there is a good argument to make that the united states owes canada quite a lot of money in backpayments due to the discount on oil we've been giving it for the last 40 years.

nonetheless, i can acknowledge that there's reason to be incremental about this. i'm not an incrementalist, i'm a radical revolutionary leftist. i don't want to see small changes, i want to burn the system down. i do not naturally lean towards incrementalist policies. so, i wouldn't think in that kind of conservative way. i can make a moderate exception here, with caveats.

step one should be to ensure the americans are paying market prices for oil, aluminum, potash, uranium, electricity and other items crossing the border. let the export taxes be the next round. let this round be the imposition of market rates, as a consequence of abandoning the trade deal.

alberta is likely to complain, and the argument they use is atrocious. they will claim they don't have control over "their own" resources. what does that mean?

when alberta entered confederation in 1905, it did so under different conditions than the eastern provinces, in 1867. there is a section of the 1867 constitution act that determines jurisdiction over resources in the maritimes, ontario and quebec. but, control over resources in the prairies actually belonged to the indigenous groups, under the numbered treaties that were signed between 1871-1899. when alberta joined confederation in 1905, it had no control over resources at all, and the 1867 constitution was not applicable to them. rather, the numbered treaties were the legal documents that determined who had control over what, and most of the control fell to the indigenous populations, not to the colonial power. at the time, the indigenous population was drastically larger than the colonial population, which was mostly actually american settlers moving north back to the british empire. by the turn of the century (1900), the colonial government had largely given up on trying to convert the indigenous groups into farmers (which they fiercely resisted) and the canadian government subsequently put a lot of effort into getting people from northern europe - scandinavians, finns, scots, poles, balts, ukrainians, russians - to settle in the prairies and develop the land.

the situation from 1905-1930 was that the federal government took control of the resources, but only in it's position as the steward of the indigenous groups. that is, ottawa adopted a kind of fiduciary responsibility to oversee development on behalf of the indigenous groups. but these treaties rarely transferred outright ownership, and control was still legally in the hands of the indigenous groups.

this was altered by a manouvre undertaken by the british crown in 1930 to "extinguish" the treaties and place alberta under the 1867 constitution act. a subsequent large amendment to the constitution took place in 1930, which resulted in control of the resources being transferred from the indigenous groups to the prairie provinces and the federal government taking a step back. indigenous groups were not consulted and were ignored when they protested.

so, what does it mean for alberta to bitch and complain about not controlling it's resources? it illegally stole that control from the indigenous groups, when the federal government failed in it's fiduciary responsibility to administer them on their behalf. in fact, this historical wrong should be corrected and control of these natural resources should be transferred back to the crown. the 1930 transfer acts should be repealed.

the elder trudeau, to his credit, tried to correct this historical wrong, but alberta had a hissy fit and told the "eastern bastards" to "freeze in the dark". alberta, still populated mostly by americans at the time, decided it would rather sell to the us than to ontario and tried to block pipelines moving east to eliminate reliance on imported oil. the end result is that they gave the americans a whopping discount when they could have sold it at a higher price to ontario, out of spite and due to hatred for the rest of canada. the idiot mulroney included that discount in the fta, and it's still there in the reworked nafta.

so, complaints from alberta about losing control over their resources should fall on deaf ears as they were illegitimately granted control of them in the first place. ottawa should make decisions about the resources that are in the national interest, and uphold it's fiduciary responsibility to the indigenous peoples by consulting them in good faith.

canada should also ensure it is doing things like building refineries, so that it is less vulnerable to american retaliation. this was an important part of the nep that should have been followed through on but was foolishly cancelled by the foolish people that led us down this path and got us into this mess.

one way for small businesses on both sides of the border to evade the tariffs is to reduce prices to $1 and require a tip of a suggested size before shipping. the tariff will be $0.50.

public funding for "quantum computers" in the midst of a climate crisis is not an intelligent way to utilize public resources.

capitalism is built on the fallacy of infinite growth and a corollary of that fallacy, embraced by the liberal capitalists, is infinite progress, or infinite increases in technological efficiency to be more precise. the processor industry presents this as moore's law. but our understanding of modern physics is that our universe has very hard limits and boundaries that prevent infinite increases in technological efficiency and that moore's law will reach a hard stopping point. all theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that qubit error-correction in an economically and environmentally feasible way is completely physically infeasible and outside of actually real boundaries set by actual science. 

quantum computers are not science, they're science fiction.

research into the real energy intensive stuff done at university labs has a legit purpose. this technology might emerge as a new kind of mainframe for governments and large corporate enterprises, with minimal to no applications for the general public.

but what xanadu is doing is blatant nonsense. this is not cutting edge research, it's a scam to make money on the stock market, and canada should be embarrassed that it's government fell for it and bought into it.

but if you're paying close attention, that is the answer to the apparent contradictions presented by mark carney as an actual human being. much of what we're hearing from mark carney cannot be coherently deconstructed because it is little more than disingenuous bullshit, and the only constituency he really represents is investors looking to capitalize on short term stock options. 

xanadu will make some scummy people a lot of money from inflated trading and then it will collapse without bringing anything to the market. but that's not an error that needs to be corrected, that's the plan.

when i was a kid, my sister became friends with a girl that lived down the street, and my father got to know her father fairly well, through going to pta meetings around the fisher park area, in central ottawa. the school was st pius X. we lived just south of fisher and baseline.

this guy had a phd in chemistry, but he was an unemployed drunk because he made millions on the bre-x scam. he should have been working on fusion, but he gave up on it. he thought it was impossible. it's more feasible than quantum error correction at scale.

he used to get shit faced in my basement fairly regularly and i learned a fair amount from him about what the kind of person i didn't want to become was like. to quote jello biafra when i should be quoting greg graffin, it was a lesson in what not to become.

but that's what xanadu is and how xanadu will end and is what carney actually is. so, cash in and out while you can. whatever.

but don't expect this to go anywhere.

the state of error correction in quantum computing in 2026 is that they are making progress because they've yet to hit that physical limit. hey, you should do the experiment. but at the end of the day we're just stupid monkeys that basically can't learn and continue to repeat the same mistakes.

that $200 million dollars would be better spent on climate resilience policies at the current point in time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quantum-computing-xanadu-federal-support-9.7325434

i just want to remind mr carney that, while capitalist analyses of venezuela as being wealthy and safe in the 80s are outside of the realm of facts (venezuela was one of the most dangerous and corrupt places in the world in the bad old days of unrestrained capitalism, with a murder rate that makes dc look like ottawa), it took a turn near the end of chavez towards a very bad economic policy that included pricing itself out of the market to sell oil to the united states, destroying it's substantive agriculture sector and embracing the disastrous policy of "socialism in one country", which you'd probably rather refer to via it's nazi name of autarky. this trio of bad decisions worked to undo the positive components of bolivarianism, including it's focus on grassroots democracy and it's legitimate progress in redistributing wealth from the country's obscenely rich to it's desperately poor. the middle class might have tolerated the wealth redistribution, otherwise, but it couldn't deal with the social changes. chavez' successor could not break the impasse and probably didn't legitimately want to. and he sleeps in a cell in new york, now, as outrageously illegal as that is.

canada might want to make an effort not to repeat those mistakes.

it's going to cost a lot to redevelop the oil industry in venezuela and it's not going to pose a threat to canada for a while still. but trump got what he wanted, which was a massive pile of oil. and we may even find he leaves us alone for a bit.

it's not clear why he thinks stealing something is better than buying it. i don't imagine he intends to sell it. i don't expect his successor will have the same views.

if mr carney would like to retaliate to the lake ontario renaming, i have a suggested new map of north america:

in terms of quebec politics, i would prefer the pq to the caq and not support the quebec liberals. 

the liberals need to do something about that upstart conservative party if they want to get back into power. but the caq is also eating into the pq vote. the return of spectrum politics to quebec and the breaking of the nationalist-federalist spectrum is healthy for quebec society, but it hasn't resulted in a traditional spectrum. the quebec liberals are still very right-wing, and i'd rather vote for the pq.

high tariffs on imported palm oil and palm oil products to protect the health of canadians and the domestic rape seed industry would be an appropriate use of tariffs that i would politically support.

i have carefully sorted through everything and the margarine appears to be the only food item that's been infected with the palm oil virus to this point. 

i'm blaming arabs and i'm not wrong but i should extrapolate. this garbage is mostly grown in the east indies, but is native to africa. the movement of the palm genome is one of the agricultural effects of arabic colonialism, and the item is a staple in arabic diets, but it's not from arabia, it's from africa. you'll note that the east indies is a muslim region, today, although it was historically hindu, buddhist and animist (like essentially all of africa). so, the historic market for palm oil is arabs and people consuming arabic culture diets. palm and coconut oil are hugely responsible for the high obesity levels in arabic societies, which are the only societies in the world with higher obesity rates than the united states.

however, palm fat has in recent years also become popular as a replacement for trans fat, which is rightfully banned almost everywhere today, and in the process has become very cheap as a result of the economies of scale in fast food. the result is that it's finding it's way into other supply chains as a replacement for other products. 

in the case of margarine, palm oil has almost completely replaced sunflower oil industry-wide and this has had a negative effect on taste and texture. there are other changes in the product and i will admit that i may be over-attributing the shift to the palm oil, but the increases in saturated fat, decreases in vitamin e and more butter-like taste and appearance in the walmart margarine, and similar changes industry wide (including in the irresistible food basic house brand and the lactantia/olivina brand i use to buy before i noticed the decrease in vitamin e on the label in one and then the other, and just said "fuck it" and started buying the cheaper walmart brand) have made margarine a food product that i no longer feel is acceptable as a standard part of my diet. it's the change in taste and texture to a more buttery taste and less olive-y taste that's the last straw for me.

as stated, i'll be moving to a 100% canola-olive oil mix for cooking and to flavour pastas and salads, which is a return to the excellent mix of polyunsaturated fats and the lower amounts of saturated fats that were once standard industry wide in margarine in canada, and to pre-made palm-free and additive-free hummus as a replacement for margarine in sandwiches, toast and other applications where i would have previously spread margarine on bread or toast.

i would encourage health canada to take steps to slow or eliminate the use of palm oil in food before it results in increased obesity rates.

i was able to find a palm-free canola-based hummus with chunks of olives in it, which i'm going to give a try. i also have some palm-free canola-olive cooking oil on order. i'll use the rest of this gross walmart olive oil margarine, which is no longer what it used to be and should change it's description from olive oil margarine to something like "canola-based artificial butter", up on sandwiches and substitute the humus in for the minimal meal for now, and eventually swap the margarine out and the hummus in for anything to do with bread and leave the oil for anything to do with cooking, including cooking bacon and eggs, as well as for flavouring in salads and pastas. 

i have everything on order for the minimum meal except the soy lecithin. most of the items are shelf stable and can be purchased in bulk infrequently.

right. so, the canola replaces the olive oil.

i'd like something with canola and olive oil and without palm oil but it doesn't appear likely.

that said, the hummus in canada tends to have canola oil as the third ingredient (after chick peas and tahini and ahead of lemon and salt) so it's probably ok for omega-3s, even if it doesn't say it on the label. i wish it would.

can i even find olive oil hummus? there's logic in that.

i can't find any margarine without palm oil anywhere and i think i'm consequently going to have to completely remove it altogether. i use it primarily as a cooking oil and have been buying olive oil margarine very intentionally for that reason, and i can easily replace it in that aspect with a palm-free canola/olive mix with or without sunflower, but i also use it on bread for tomato sandwiches, eggs benedict and just for toast and that might be harder to replace.

ironically, one of the few things i can find that's made without palm oil and seems to be healthy overall is hummus and it's starting to look like i'm going to be using humus instead of margarine on toasts and sandwiches. i'd like to find something higher in omega-3s though.

this must be intended for the arab market:

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Becel-Margarine-Unsalted-Sticks/6000198276444

it's inedible poison. if you eat that regularly, it'll make you immensely obese and give you a heart attack before you're 50. it should be banned by health canada.

tariffs on seafood made reasonable amount of sense.

tariffs on manufacturing inputs like glass bottles is stupid and is going to be a job killer.

it's looking more and more like canada signed up to become the 51st state and carney is doing what he's told.

https://globalnews.ca/news/12039115/canada-tweaks-list-counter-tariffs/

the six nations confederacy in new york, who gave lake ontario the name we use for it centuries before any stupid christians showed up here, should be utterly outraged. i would encourage them to take legal steps to reject the declaration, and for americans to stand with the six nations confederacy and not with the 13 states confederacy.

trump doesn't understand what he just did. this isn't an attack on canada, it's an attack on the iroquois language and the haudenosaunee people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-lake-ontario-america-9.7322947

i would encourage various political bodies in the united states to consider removing colonial place names and replacing them with their original indigenous ones, as the proper response to trump's attempt to rename things.

i wouldn't normally support tax incentives and subsidies as a government policy because i'm not normally very concerned about helping businesses. won't somebody think about the corporations?

but this isn't normal.

normally, i want to tax profits to build a tax base to fund services for people. right now, for the short run, we're going to need to tax (rich) people to build a tax base to prop up industry. i don't like it, but it's real.

if i were to adjust what i'm seeing, i would do this:

1. eliminate all counter-tariffs on any kind of capital inputs or capital investments in the sectors targeted by the american tariffs and more generally, too. that is a stupid economic policy that will act as a corporate tax hike and hurt canadian companies by making them less competitive - in canada, in the us and globally. if those companies cannot compete and have to fail or downsize, the companies making the inputs will fail and have to downsize, too.

2. replace the counter-tariffs on capital inputs and capital investments with:

a) tax incentives to buy canadian capital inputs and capital investments

b) subsidies to the companies producing those capital inputs and investments

c) tariffs on finished products in those sectors that are imported to canada from the united states 

3. not be obsessed with the idea that the outcome is dollar-for-dollar. it might not be. that's not important and shouldn't be the goal.

4. increase the income tax rate at the highest level to pay for it.

carney's whole schtick, which i'm not behind, was supposed to be about fixing declining canadian productivity and making the canadian economy more competitive.

if you're concerned about productivity and competitiveness, i can't imagine a worse policy than giant corporate tax hikes on capital inputs that are intentionally targeted at the exact same canadian sectors that have been hit with an import tax in their largest market. if the tariffs are a shot to the head, the counter-tariffs are a nail in the coffin.

this might be good politics, but it's catastrophically bad economic policy. it's very head-scratching. it's so bad, as policy, that it's enough to make you wonder if it's theatre. if trump were to write canadian policy that is intended to intensify the effects of his own tariffs with the intent to shut these sectors down in canada for good, this is the policy he would write.

thankfully, the effects are very limited and a lot of these very popular but economically stupid counter-measures will have little practical effect in reality.

i've taken a look at the counter-tariffs and counter-measures and i'm going to shrug them off as irrelevant, while providing the following critical reaction to them. i don't think this is the best approach as it's inviting further retaliation and not worth it; canada does not benefit enough from this response to justify the threat of further retaliation. somebody might say trump would do it anyways. but i'm actually increasingly leaning towards the idea of collusion and a co-ordinated attack by the trump-carney coalition, which may be working together in reality, while creating the smoke and mirror distraction of a phony trade war. i'm not there yet, but it's looking like it. if this escalates into higher and higher consumption taxes, i'm going to conclude it's theatre, and a charade.

i think it's useful that the analysis be real and honest.

trump got the revenue source he wanted at what is in truth minimal pain to canada. we should have realized this is really about the us taxing it's own citizens and taken a different approach.

there are a few consumer goods in the list, like video games or clothes. does canada have a video game industry? how many clothes are manufactured in canada or the us at a less than premium price? these are consumption taxes, they aren't tariffs. let's be real about that. there's no domestic industry to protect.

likewise, as most of the items in the list are things companies buy in order to build or grow something rather than finished products, this is going to act more as a corporate tax than a consumption tax or a tariff. see, and this is why i'm starting to wonder about this.

canada just effectively created a 25-50% corporate tax hike targeted at a handful of sectors in the canadian economy. this might look like it's in order to protect canadian suppliers but, even if it does lead canadian businesses to buy more canadian inputs, it's still going to lead to price hikes in the price of these canadian goods. this is going to make a swath of canadian finished goods as well as canadian food processed with harvesters (wheat, canola, etc but also potentially peaches, cherries, strawberries, etc) more expensive and therefore less competitive. so, if they're going to enforce the tax on the capital investment, they should put the tariff on the finished good, right? tax the harvester, but tariff the canola; tax the wood, but tariff the table. but the point seems to be that they don't want to do that. the result is that canadian finished goods made with these inputs are going to increase in price and become less competitive, and no tariffs exist to mitigate it. if the companies making the goods fail, the companies making the inputs will fail, too.

a good rule of thumb - a rule of thumb because tariffs are complicated - is that you only ever put tariffs on finished goods, and never ever tariff inputs. i don't have a citation, but i feel like that's textbook, and that canada is making a fundamental mistake in poorly applying the economic theory of tariffs. these tariffs were clearly chosen to blindly match the ones put down on us in an emotional knee jerk reaction that either wasn't thought through or is intended to cause longterm harm to our economy. there's a reason economists don't like tariffs.

it's an open question if the revenue collected by the corporate tax hike will be enough to fund the retraining programs, but that's probably what they're thinking. 

i will reiterate that it would be better to provide tax incentives to buy canadian capital investments and perhaps to tariff the final products, if we must. but tariffing inputs is bad. it's scary bad. it's confusingly bad. and i'm concerned about what that suggests.

so, the result of these tariffs will be the following:

- a functional 25-50% corporate tax hike on firms operating in canada in the sectors impacted

- little to no effect on the protection of canadian industry

- high inflation on canadian finished goods in those sectors 

- no subsequent tariff on the american finished goods the canadian finished goods will compete with

- less competitive canadian companies in those sectors 

- those companies selling less, failing, shedding employees

- canadian suppliers losing buyers and needing to sell

- failing canadian suppliers.

oops.

tariffs are hard.

this guy was supposed to get it and not do this. he's not living up to expectations.

the weight loss is proceeding. 

i had a full plate of pasta this morning and maxed out around 143. so, even when i get a big meal, i'm barely topping up over 140. i'm going to want to see that come down to 139ish, max. i'll eat next at 134, probably on friday.

a lot of the items in the list will need to come in on friday in the next grocery run.

the trick with choline is to realize you don't need 550 mg of choline a day if you get more betaine instead, but i've managed to get there, anyways, by adding soy lecithin.

the key thing is realizing that your body stores choline, both in the liver and in cell membranes. they've done studies on people not eating for days or weeks and their choline levels stay constant because your body gets it by killing it's own cells off. humans need choline and you should try to stay on it, but not by eating a lot of meat, which is high in saturated fats and carcinogens. but you're not going to run out of it. your body will reclaim it via weight loss if it needs to.

choline can be converted to betaine, which is then used to convert homocysteine, which is dangerous to your heart, to cysteine, which is a useful amino acid. or, if you get a lot of betaine in your diet, your body can use that directly and use the choline it has for neurotransmitters and lipid transport, instead. betaine is not stored but it's not cleared, either. your body will metabolize virtually all of the betaine you give it, to no clear limit. so, it's a good idea to take a whole lot of betaine, which is mostly found in plant sources like beets, spinach, kale and wheat bran, and to not go crazy on the choline by eating piles of meat. rather, as your body stores choline, you can get a bunch of it later and not worry so much about it day-to-day, so long as you actually keep up on it.

eggs are good for you. eat eggs. i just don't want eggs in my minimal meal plan. eggs are a meal.

i also think i'm actually underestimating the amount of choline in the soy-based salad dressing i use and the soy milk i drink.

but the soy lecithin gives me what i want in a predictable form that i can add to salads and meals more broadly and is going to be added to my diet more generally, so this is my update.

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i've updated the previous post and i'm going to repost it:

- the b and c are being cut in 4 and taken every six hours instead of all at once.

- the a is being cut in 1/2 and 1/2 is being taken at 18:00 daily. this is 2500 iu daily. this is between the rdis for women and men, and probably right for me.

- 1000 iu d at 12:00

- 100 iu e at 0:00 every second day

- the k hasn't come in but is being taken at 6:00

- i am going to take 2 tums after each full meal as a calcium supplement for now on (800 mg elemental calcium)

- i'm going to take a tbsp of flax dissolved in a glass of water daily at 15:00 for omega-3s. i should meet the rdi of them, at 1.7 g of ala, if i do that.

- i'm going to note that i drink at least 250 ml of soy and 4 mini cups of coffee a day and usually closer to twice that

- i have devised a daily minimum meal made up of:

a bowl with:

- 3 tbsp of raw, unroasted, unsalted, hulled sunflower seeds

- 3 tbsp of hulled hemp seeds

- 3 tbsp of hulled chia seeds

- 3 tbsp of wheat bran

- 3 tbsp of soy lecithin

- 30 g of all bran

- 1 tbsp of paprika

- 1 tbsp of ground cumin

- 1 tbsp of dried oregano

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 1 beet

- 1 avocado

- 50 g broccoli

- dried dill, caesar, hot sauce, nutritional yeast for flavour (yeast does have some b vitamins still)

with

- one banana

- one orange

- two pieces of untoasted quinoa-flax bread with unclear spread

- one tum

that has

- in total, 12+ g of omega-3s

- 23+ g of omega-6s

- 55+ g of mostly complete protein, which is about right on the rdi for my weight, maybe a little more. i would prefer to barely meet the rdi or just miss it for protein. excess protein is hard on your body and stored inefficiently as fat. high protein diets are stupid.

- minimal saturated fat for absorption (some in the dressing, avocado, soy lecithin)

- some carbs. whatever. carbs aren't worth measuring.

- it's all stored the same way. your body uses less energy to process carbs and more energy to process protein but it does the same thing with excess amounts of them, which is store it as fat. what i'm more interested in is the fact that flax, hemp, chia, soy, quinoa and in fact also sunflower are all complete proteins and have all 9 essential amino acids, although the sunflower seeds are low in lysine (and high in vitamin e, selenium, omega-6s). i'm not aiming for a protein salad, but this would be pretty effective if i was.

- 180%+ rdi for magnesium

- 160%+ rdi for phosphorus

- 110%+ of the rdi for potassium

- 120%+ rdi for calcium

- 210%+ of rdi for manganese

- 30+ mg of iron (elemental) (300% of a 10 mg amount but i have absorption issues and need it)

- 195%+ of rdi for copper

- 125%+ of rdi for zinc

- 125%+ rdi for selenium

- 110%+ rdi for molybdenum (not including the high amount in soy milk that isn't bioavailable)

- 175%+ of the rdi for choline (960 mg) & an additional 100% in the form of betaine (550 mg).

- some sulfur in the garlic

- some inositol and salicylic acid in the orange

- extra food-based vitamins (carotenoids, b vitamins, a little c, some d, a fair amount of e and some k)

- around 950-1000 mg of sodium. ish. which is a decent minimum meal amount.

this will be taken at 3:00 am or 9:00 am on days where i didn't eat a full meal the previous day and will be intended to ensure i'm meeting daily rdis while i continue to lose weight. this may mean i go longer between meals. but this isn't a meal, and is not intended as one. it is not high in calories but is very high in nutrients.

the bread is still pretty fortified and the flax-quinoa bread has a fair amount of ala. the soy has lost a lot of vitamins but is still worthwhile. the all bran in canada has been stripped to almost nothing, like the yeast, but it's still a good source of betaine. i'd like to get some better caesar dressing as i eat a lot of it.

not measured:

- chloride (i should get enough in the city water in windsor)

- iodine (i don't know if the sodium in the bread, hot sauce, all bran and caesar, the four sources in this mini meal, is iodized. it probably is and is probably sufficient. i'm going to email each of them. i should measure this.)

- chromium

- boron

- fluoride (windsor's water is back to being fluoridated, that should be fine)

- nickel

- carbs (who cares?)

- glucose (this should be low)

- calories (calories are irrelevant to human health)

i might need to add some fried eggs to boost the choline. that would get me some iodine, too. that would be my spread. and i'd add an avocado to the salad bowl of seeds and perhaps add an orange.

my options are minimal for choline.

my b vitamins came in yesterday, and i spent some time yesterday afternoon building a vitamin list to make sure i'm getting everything that had a few additions to it.

- the b and c are being cut in 4 and taken every six hours instead of all at once.

- the a is being cut in 1/2 and 1/2 is being taken at 18:00 daily. this is 2500 iu daily. this is between the rdis for women and men, and probably right for me.

- 1000 iu d at 12:00

- 100 iu e at 0:00 every second day

- the k hasn't come in but is being taken at 6:00

- i am going to take 2 tums after each full meal as a calcium supplement for now on (800 mg elemental calcium)

- i'm going to take a tbsp of flax dissolved in a glass of water daily at 15:00 for omega-3s. i should meet the rdi of them, at 1.7 g of ala, if i do that.

- i'm going to note that i drink at least 250 ml of soy and 4 mini cups of coffee a day and usually closer to twice that

- i have devised a daily minimum meal made up of:

a bowl with:

- 3 tbsp of raw, unroasted, unsalted, hulled sunflower seeds

- 3 tbsp of hulled hemp seeds

- 3 tbsp of hulled chia seeds

- 3 tbsp of wheat bran

- 3 tbsp of soy lecithin

- 30 g of all bran

- 1 tbsp of paprika

- 1 tbsp of ground cumin

- 1 tbsp of dried oregano

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 1 beet

- 1 avocado

- 50 g broccoli

- dried dill, caesar, hot sauce, nutritional yeast for flavour (yeast does have some b vitamins still)

with

- one banana

- one orange

- two pieces of untoasted quinoa-flax bread with unclear spread

- one tum

that has

- in total, 12+ g of omega-3s

- 23+ g of omega-6s

- 55+ g of mostly complete protein, which is about right on the rdi for my weight, maybe a little more. i would prefer to barely meet the rdi or just miss it for protein. excess protein is hard on your body and stored inefficiently as fat. high protein diets are stupid.

- minimal saturated fat for absorption (some in the dressing, avocado, soy lecithin)

- some carbs. whatever. carbs aren't worth measuring.

- it's all stored the same way. your body uses less energy to process carbs and more energy to process protein but it does the same thing with excess amounts of them, which is store it as fat. what i'm more interested in is the fact that flax, hemp, chia, soy, quinoa and in fact also sunflower are all complete proteins and have all 9 essential amino acids, although the sunflower seeds are low in lysine (and high in vitamin e, selenium, omega-6s). i'm not aiming for a protein salad, but this would be pretty effective if i was.

- 180%+ rdi for magnesium

- 160%+ rdi for phosphorus

- 110%+ of the rdi for potassium

- 120%+ rdi for calcium

- 210%+ of rdi for manganese

- 30+ mg of iron (elemental) (260% of a 10 mg amount but i have absorption issues and need it)

- 195%+ of rdi for copper

- 125%+ of rdi for zinc

- 125%+ rdi for selenium

- 110%+ rdi for molybdenum (not including the high amount in soy milk that isn't bioavailable)

- 175%+ of the rdi for choline (960 mg) & an additional 100% in the form of betaine (550 mg).

- some sulfur in the garlic

- some inositol and salicylic acid in the orange

- extra food-based vitamins (carotenoids, b vitamins, a little c, some d, a fair amount of e and some k)

- around 950-1000 mg of sodium. ish. which is a decent minimum meal amount.

this will be taken at 3:00 am or 9:00 am on days where i didn't eat a full meal the previous day and will be intended to ensure i'm meeting daily rdis while i continue to lose weight. this may mean i go longer between meals. but this isn't a meal, and is not intended as one. it is not high in calories but is very high in nutrients.

the bread is still pretty fortified and the flax-quinoa bread has a fair amount of ala. the soy has lost a lot of vitamins but is still worthwhile. the all bran in canada has been stripped to almost nothing, like the yeast, but it's still a good source of betaine. i'd like to get some better caesar dressing as i eat a lot of it.

not measured:

- chloride (i should get enough in the city water in windsor)

- iodine (i don't know if the sodium in the bread, hot sauce, all bran and caesar, the four sources in this mini meal, is iodized. it probably is and is probably sufficient. i'm going to email each of them. i should measure this.)

- chromium

- boron

- fluoride (windsor's water is back to being fluoridated, that should be fine)

- nickel

- carbs (who cares?)

- glucose (this should be low)

- calories (calories are irrelevant to human health)

in 2026, chantal hebert looks disturbingly like buzz osbourne.

i just thought everyone would like to know.

americans have spent too many decades getting high discounts on canadian exports, and are clearly taking us for granted.

we should not take away the exports. we should take away the discounts. we should make them pay fair market prices.

"Selfishly, we need aluminum in this country. We don't have it. We get it all from Canada — for the most part — and we need it badly," 

right.

so, there is a high demand for aluminum in the us and a low supply. 

what would that mean in a market society (which i don't support, except right now, very sarcastically), which nafta has done more to break than enforce?

let's do what a capitalist supplier would do and increase the price of aluminum by slapping an export tax of...i dunno.....50%? on it.

i don't know whether i'm going to support carney's response or not. i think i should let him finish and react as best i can. i think that seeing a response will help me understand if i'm going to decide this is theatre or real.

i will reiterate that it is entirely plausible that trump wanted the charade and there is an agreed upon predetermined outcome that will be very bad for canada and very bad for a lot of american workers.

i may support a non-confidence vote if the response is frightening. it seems less likely the more i hear him talk. more likely is that i am going to end up critiquing a response abstractly, and stepping away from it, as it doesn't affect me directly.

but, regardless, i think doug ford deserves the bulk of the blame for this and should be the one to take the fall politically. this is mostly his fault, and he's continuing to talk about blocking energy instead of taxing it.

the economic consequences to canada in terms of lost revenue would be extremely substantive should canada block oil or electricity. that would be massively stupid, but ford is a retard. can somebody do the math on the difference in revenue between blocking american alcohol in ontario and taxing it at 100%? ontario has likely walked away from millions of dollars in revenue, while biting at the elephant's heels like an annoying chihuahua in a show of intended defiance, for sport. that is stupid! conversely, we could take advantage of this by hiking prices and profiting from it, which would be a smart response. we could do this with export taxes.

i think that western canada should be seeking to abolish what is called the western select discount. alberta oil should be more expensive than texas oil, after this.

ontario, like mexico, is actually an indigenous word that predates the colonial era. 

the names of the great lakes were not chosen by white people (except superior).

the province of ontario was named after the iroquois word for the lake.

if trump succeeds in forcing the car industry on this continent into a crisis, it may never really recover, given that it may find itself unable to compete with electric vehicles and other imports. the last time this happened, during bush II, chrysler got bought by an italian company and the united states and canada both briefly owned a portion of the other big detroit companies. 

the obama administration missed an opportunity to direct these companies to decarbonize. a second opportunity may be coming.

if the auto industry blows up again, it should not be bailed out unless it agrees to shift direction. if it refuses, the companies should be allowed to fail, so they can be replaced.

destruction is not inherently negative. sometimes, what exists must be destroyed in order to rebuild.

i'm tired of the self-serving anti-american rhetoric from the abject idiot doug ford, who is more responsible for the collapse of this trade agreement than anybody else in canada. his bitching and moaning may help his political career, as a distraction from all the job losses and mismanagement, but it is not helping ontario and not helping canada.

shut the fuck up, doug ford. you're half retarded and you're harming the economy and the culture with your ignorant ass-talking.

maybe we should just elect ace ventura if what we want is a torontonian that talks out of his ass. he's funnier than mike myers.

even the taste has gone to shit. it used to have a nice, italian, olive-y taste. now, all the heart-clogging whey and palm oil has ruined the olive taste and made it taste bland, like butter. butter has no taste; the taste of butter, like it's texture, is boring and gross.

when i buy margarine, i am buying margarine, not butter. i don't want my margarine to taste or look like butter, i want it to taste and look like margarine. it's not a substitute for butter. butter is disgusting and something i don't want in my diet - i am not seeking to replace butter, i am seeking to abolish butter.

now, i am looking for a margarine substitute to replace the margarine they ruined and i want it to look, taste, melt, smell and fry like margarine.

something else i've noticed is that the margarine has been changed so that it's all soft and gross, like disgusting saturated butter left out on the counter, a of a sudden. they seem to be putting milk in it now, and it seems like it's the milk that is making the texture soft and gross. margarine is supposed to be firm, not gross and goopy. soft butter is an utterly disgusting product that should not be consumed at all by anybody; it's almost sheer poison, in terms of fat and salt. the whole point of buying margarine is that you don't like processed milk products and don't like butter and don't want goopy gross shit on your toast, you want something firm.

so, that's cut. yuck. they've destroyed a good product by adding disgusting palm and disgusting milk. i'm not buying that again.

i'll have to do some shopping to find a firmer plant based spread that isn't soft and goopy and gross, has 0% saturated fat and is high in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats.

the canola-olive oil mix together (without gross palm oil) is ideal due to the high smoke point, the omega 3s from canola and the omega 9s from olive oil. if i can find something that's fortified, and maybe has a dash of sunflower oil and a bit of extra ala, that would be a good replacement for what i used to buy, which has been ruined by the replacement of sunflower oil with palm oil. 

they must sell a canola-olive mix for cooking oil, right?

and then i can look at some kind of hemp or flax butter for bread and salads.

the other reason i bought olive oil & canola margarine is that the burn point is so high. you add a bunch of palm oil to that, and you bog it down with saturated fat, and ruin the high smoke point.

...and i'm thinking about adding chia seeds broadly given that hemp is such a pain in the ass to buy nowadays. maybe legalization of marijuana is making hemp harder instead of easier to produce? i dunno.

yeah. 

i'm completely boycotting anything with any derivative of the palm tree in it from this point moving forward. i will not buy your product if it contains any sort of palm product. and i don't want coconut products, which are just as horrible, in my food either.

if you want me to buy your product, you'll need to remove the palm oil and replace it with

- canola and/or walnut

- olive and/or avocado

- hemp

- flax

- sunflower (minimally)

- soy

 i may start putting ground flax in my salads (on top of the hemp) for the extra ala.

palm oil should be labelled as unfit for human consumption and completely banned for any use as a food product in all advanced societies, including canada,

i also noticed the soy i used to buy, which was bought in canada by a competitor and shut down, is still available for sale in the states. this soy was nutritionally superior to the product it was purchased by (nature's own), which i've consequently decided to boycott. i've switched to natura, which is a smaller company that is sometimes hard to find. i cannot order the low protein version i'd rather order and nobody stocks the strawberry.

can i order this soy product from the states?

i'm going to sit down with this again soon.

a part of finishing setting up the kitchen will be shifting the diet blog, serious blog and access to this blog to a kitchen youtube streaming device that's a bit more capable. i haven't decided what i'm doing yet.

i want to take a look at each meal more carefully and rebuild it for nutrients and healthy fats and purge it of processed elements like palm oil and excess protein. i'll do that as a part of finalizing the kitchen build.

i'm also looking at completely removing margarine and just buying olive oil for cooking. they're not just cutting fortified nutrients and slowly reducing the olive oil, they're also adding all this needless palm oil, which is just gross. palm oil shouldn't be seen as edible at all. the result of dumping all of this palm oil in the margarine and other food is that the omega 6 ratios are jumping up. i'm guessing they're doing this to appeal to stupid arabs, who are the most obese and unhealthy people in the world (they're grosser than americans). the reason i picked the margarine i picked was due to the high fortification, the high omega 3 and the olive oil, and that's all been cut out and replaced with disgusting, nearly poisonous palm oil.

i have never bought butter before in my entire life and never will.

i might consider putting limes and kiwis in my garden salads as an example of the kind of shift i'm looking at.

if i shift my diet to just getting 100% of the following from food and worry about supplements for the rest, it's going to cut some of my meals down by 40-50% in terms of calories.

- a  from cheese, eggs, carrot, peppers

- b5 from avocadoes

- b9 from yeast, beets (still)

- b12 from yeast, soy

- choline from eggs, kale, bacon

- inositol from citrus fruits

- c from most things i eat

- e from red peppers, kiwis, avocados, kale

- iron from spices

- calcium from soy, cheese

the base ingredients of my salads and salsa are:

- tomato

- red pepper

- beet

- carrot

- avocado

- lime, orange or both

- broccoli

with paprika (As), hemp seeds (omega-3s), nutritional yeast (b9, still), dill, cumin (iron), oregano (iron) and sunflower seeds (e) added.

i eat them with fortified bread, pasta, etc.

my caesars are made with kale for e and other things. i drink my coffee with fortified soy and drink a lot of it with meals.

i put a lot of effort into this and it's still probably good as a base but i'm no longer looking towards things like yogurt and cheese to fill in gaps with fortifications. i'll be removing that excess protein and replacing it with vitamin pills.

a vitamin e deficiency actually makes sense on a number of levels. i haven't ever been tested for e.

i was tested as low for iron, d and b12 and adjusted and they all came up. i was tested for a and b9 after i adjusted and they were both high. the b9 was extremely high. i expected to be high in c and i was. i was tested indirectly for k and my ptt was normal. k is mostly for blood clotting, so you can tell if you're low on k by checking for clotting. this was free and the k test was expensive. i've been tested for every mineral imaginable and couldn't find anything, although that was in 2021, when my diet was better and i was exercising more because i wasn't being stalked and drugged by pathetic, disgusting, perverted losers.

iirc, i was going to do the e test later and then didn't after the other tests came in high. i decided i was ok. i was going to test for other b vitamins too and never did. that was in 2021, too.

at this point, i'm been off my diet so long that i wouldn't be surprised i i did have multiple deficiencies, including in iron. i would want to wait before i tested anything. i was making sure i kept my b vitamins up with the yeast, until they frustratingly cut it. those imported b complex pills should be here this week. they cleared customs and went to toronto, which is the wrong way but whatever.

i took a second dose and it created a pleasant feeling of awakeness and clarity. i've been experiencing chronic blurriness for a long time, an inability to feel fully awake and this unpleasant constant boring shitty half-stoned feeling with this awful tiredness. i've been sleeping far too much. maybe it was because i cut the menoprim and the e, and it just took a few years for me to run out, and then i never caught it.

i'll be taking a 100 iu e pill thrice a week - monday, wednesday and friday at 00:00. sunday is skipped, but i may double up from time to time, as i did this week to start.

i may ultimately adjust my diet to reduce calories (and especially to reduce protein) and just focus on vitamin pills to get nutrients instead of eating. if i'm relying on the pills, there's certain things (mostly processed) that i won't need in my diet anymore at all. this is the less preferable option but health canada has left me with no choice by cutting the fortifications on almost everything i was relying on to get sufficient levels of vitamins while keeping my fat and protein intake down. the solution i'm left with is to cut large amounts of the food out altogether, as useless calories.

my diet moving forward is likely to be about 90% fruits, vegetables, spices and eggs and almost no processed foods like yogurt or milk products at all.

if this is what they think, it's not going to work.

there is not a single senate seat likely to swing to the democrats. conversely, there's several likely to swing to the republicans and trump is replacing dissenters in his own party with loyalists.

american voters are primarily concerned about immigration right now. that's the primary ballot question. they don't care about canada. worse, many of the house seats are not in play due to gerrymandering. the united states does not have an independent redistricting process like canada, it's a politicized process.

these tariffs are not on necessities, it's mostly on luxury items. they might cause some inflation, but not much and certainly not enough to make a dent. it wouldn't matter if they did.

the most likely outcome right now is that the republicans will gain seats in the senate, and trump will have an easier time controlling it.

america is not going to save itself.

https://www.thestar.com/news/analysis/mark-carney-is-putting-canada-on-the-ballot-for-the-us-midterms/article_6991f285-a2c1-4f2a-8ae2-cf4f544c1e61.html

the media's take on el nino continues to be extremely annoying. it's a hidden rejection of climate science masquerading as real science that is mostly pseudo science.

in fact, the direction of legitimate, actual scientific research and study into the enso over the last 20 years or so has been to conclude that it's effects have been overstated and it has far less of an effect on the overall global climate than previously thought. what they're calling the super el nino is an effect of climate change converging with the solar maximum, and not a cause or driver of climate at all.

the weather where i am, at the southern tip of the great lakes basin, and the point where the midwest meets the atlantic coast, and not far from the mississippi drainage region, has in recent years seen it's weather largely defined by an unusually warm atlantic ocean, which has had the effect of blocking weather patterns moving from west to east and pushing them up further north. they keep calling for rain here and the rain keeps moving north and missing us. this is because the atlantic coast's influence is becoming stronger, as the boswash region sinks into the ocean and we get physically closer to the coastline.

if the atlantic stays warm, there should be few to minimal effects of el nino here this year at all, and the direction of the developing scientific consensus - which is that el nino is an effect and not a cause - will continue to strengthen itself.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/anomaly/

i think they have a public responsibility to release the text.

this "we don't negotiate in public" bullshit needs to stop. you'd better fucking start negotiating in public, because negotiating in secret is fascist and undemocratic.

the liberal party is famous for it's shady backroom deals, and it's made a virtue out of a valid criticism of how it operates.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/conservatives-details-canada-us-trade-deal-9.7317541

i think canada should have one of these, targeted at the us.

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

why do you think milk is good for you, as an adult?

the fat? the protein?

milk is intended for infants. it's kind of psychotic that we would drink the milk of a different species, as an adult. it's kind of gross, even, and a good percentage of humans actually get sick when they try.

no.

the only reason that cow's milk is good for you at all is that it's fortified.

unfortified cow's milk is a high fat, high protein junk food.