it seems like trudeau tends to agree most with the last person he spoke with.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pence-vp-trudeau-nafta-trade-ratification-1.5155777

i mean, if it's supposed to be a consolation prize, i don't want it.

if they win, can we trade the trophy to get the stanley cup back?

canada has an nba franchise?

whatever.

so, i don't know yet.

i think i have a good idea of where i'd want to go if i go, but i'm not sure if i'm going anywhere, yet. it's going to depend a lot on how the weather shapes up over the next few days.

right now, i'm going to take a nap and then i'll get up and eat and start planning the day.

i identify as gen x because i don't want to be thought of as a millennial, and that isn't an empty statement. if you think people in the 35-55 age demographic have much at all in common with people in the 15-35 age demographic, you're simply wrong. for example, i am not a digital native; my only access to a computer until i was about 15 or so was in the computer lab at school. not only did i not have a cell phone in high school, but almost nobody had one until *after* i'd graduated university. i did not grow up listening to electronic music or hip-hop, but rather grew up listening to rock music from the 70s-90s. all of my cultural references and perspectives exist from the period before the technological revolution took over, and i had to adjust to it just like everybody else that is older than me did. so, i am very, very, very different than a millennial, and you're just going to get bad data if you try and lump me in with them.

am i more like a boomer then? no. as a cultural stereotype, they're fucking awful, selfish people. i mean, they're not all assholes, but being gen x in a lot of ways is defined by a reaction against the nihilistic, hedonistic, corporatist commercialism that defined the boomer generation.

i'd actually make the opposite argument - i'd argue that millenials are more like boomers than gen xers are, and that if you want to do this right, you need to skip generations, because we're all reacting against each other. i actually feel a stronger level of affinity with the parents of the baby boomers than i do with either the baby boomers or the millennials; this is less about young v. old and more about being squeezed between the depravity of the past and the depravity of the future.

if you ask a boomer they'll tell you the same thing, about how they had to rebel against their parents, and then get outgrown by their teenaged kids, who were yelling at them to grow the fuck up by the time they turned 15. and, you will no doubt hear the same thing from millennials, who find themselves frustrated by their children's cynicism and realism - which is something i'm looking forward to.

so, don't walk down this path of trying to separate the culture, or the voters, into young v. old. that's always been wrong; you need to skip generations, because the kids will always reject their parents in favour of their grandparents.

i thought freedom gas was what happened when you have too mean freedom fries.

they'll need to do a lot more than this to ketchup to the russians.

it's a flatly stupid idea that makes no economic sense under any sort of trade theory and is defined solely by american hubris and arrogance, and that's all there is to it.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/department-of-energy-refers-to-natural-gas-as-freedom-gas.html

i will be posting reviews for the last two weeks shortly, but i need to figure out if i'm doing anything this weekend or not yet, first.

this is the right approach, although i will tell you what the right answer is: they need to accept a need for greater water management, one way or the other.

so, maybe you abandon a few areas to the river, but that's a first step and not a last one - you still need to accept that there is going to be more water in the river more often, and find a way to engineer an answer to it.

in windsor, we need to install a modern sewer system and the council is just dragging it's heels on the reality of it. ottawa is going to need better infrastructure to control the river, and it knows how to do it, it has a complex series of locks as it is, it just needs to do the proper surveying of the region in order to figure out where to build what.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/jim-watson-doug-ford-letter-2017-209-floods-1.5154457