what have i been doing the last several weeks? i stopped posting updates about redesigning the apartment on nov 14th.

- on nov 3rd, i received the video intercom in the mail, which was one of the last things from the october purchases

- on nov 6th, i got an email from the cra indicating my disability tax credit was accepted and i can apply for the cdb.

- there was supposed to be an eviction to remove the crackheads on nov 7th, but it got stayed. that's what i've been told, anyways. i'm a little skeptical that that is true and am following up on it today.

- on nov 7th, i filed an appeal with the court of appeal.

- i spent the weekend of nov 7th-10th finishing with the kitchen and updating the kitchen chapter, cleaning, typing and trying to understand google's decision to break search on expired chromebooks, eventually deciding to buy two new chromebooks over kijiji that have not yet expired.

- on nov 10th, i bought two tables on kijiji for $25 each.

- i last updated the kitchen and laundry chapters (1 and 2) and the two appendices (notes and budgeting) early on the morning of nov 11th, but these are still left open for further edits and are not done. 

- i was in the process of combining previous posts into an introductory narrative but stopped early on the morning of the 12th to focus on more court writing before the end of the week. 

- it was at about this time that i realized the stalkers were upstairs with the crackheads and have been noticing the overhang of drug use upstairs get worse since that time. i've been struggling with my health ever since, as they are intentionally drugging me in order to knock me out to try to perform pseudoscientific "dream therapy" on me when i'm sleeping. they are not driven by the scientific method and do not react to evidence, but are rather driven by "theory" and "philosophy" and freudian or lacanian circular logic and pseudo-science. they already know the result of their experiment before carrying it out, so evidence gathered during the course of the experiment has no value and will not effect how they analyze their results. to the philosopher, all knowledge is theory, and the experiment is merely a performative show trial to demonstrate the truth of the theory, whether the theory is actually true or not; if it isn't, you ignore or doctor the experiment so the result aligns with the false theory. these people don't believe in truth; their epistemology is utterly relativistic, empty nihilism.

- it turns out that the owner, who lives in toronto, has put this despicably gross bearded furry in charge of the property, who looks like the result of a dog impregnating an ape and is without question the most disgusting loser i've ever seen. this guy looks like he has enough bacteria on his face to relaunch the bubonic plague. he has the only key to the apartment; therefore, he seems to have let the stalkers in. it makes sense, as he looks like he fell out of a phone booth directly connected to the dark ages, and would have the kind of backwards, retarded, conservative/religious viewpoints that are in line with those of the idiot stalkers. if i ever see this disgusting, gross loser again, or he goes anywhere near me, i'm going to pepper spray him and call the police.

- on nov 12th, my nitrile gloves (the last remaining item in transit) arrived.

- i then spent the rest of the week on legal writing. i wanted to get to the courthouse on the 14th but got hit with a migraine and had to put the issue off until monday. the 14e.1 was essentially done on the 14th, but i wasn't yet done with the application record.

-  i mostly spent the weekend shopping online, as setting up the apartment is my primary concern and not this annoying and lingering competitive legal bullshit, before starting to work on the application record on the morning of the 17th.

- on nov 14th, i bought two chromebooks for $155 (total). these don't expire until 2029. i now have five chromebooks, three expired - a lenovo x131e, two dell 3120s and two hp g8 ees. google is getting aggressive in taking these out of service, so i'm going to have to convert the first three to linux, while keeping the last two as chromebooks. the plan from the start with these devices was to transition them to linux, but the reality is that the chrome os is the best linux distro for the kiosk mode i want, although i'm looking at fyde for the x131e, which i believe should retain all of it's functionality. i'm going to lose sound on the dells, so i need to use them in ways that don't need sound. this is disappointing because these devices have relatively good sound, for what they are.

- later on nov 14th, i bought $45 worth of dried dill and had it delivered to use up the $10 credit i got from instacart

- still on nov 14th, i purchased a circular saw to use to cut the wood i was buying for shelving, for $70, which was about half-price. this was delivered on the 15th.

- still on nov 14th, there was a $200 walmart grocery order for mostly non-perishables. this was delivered on the 15th.

- on the 15th, i bought two usb to rj-45 connectors for wired internet on the new chromebooks. this was delivered on the 16th. this was $23.

- on the 15th, there was another $200 walmart grocery order, this time mostly produce. this was delivered on the 16th. two items arrived on the 18th. one item, two boxes of kleenexes, is still in transit.

- also on the 15th, i bought some wood at home hardware that had to ship to the store for pickup. the cost was $145.

- $10 more worth of adhesive pegs were also purchased at this time, but amazon has not put the order through yet. as of dec 2nd, it's scheduled for delivery on the 3rd.

- together, this was most of the food i needed to get through the rest of cycles 5-8, but not including the caesar salad, the garden salad, the fruit salad or the fruit and ice cream bowls and almost completely filled out the pantry, with just a few small items remaining.

- i intended to get to the courthouse on the 14th or 17th but did not get there until the 20th due to some delays in writing and then a migraine attack that lingered until the 20th. i got a fee waiver signed for an appeal to the court of appeal in toronto and asked some questions about filing a 14e.1 in ontario, which the court staff didn't immediately understand. however, i sent some emails out and am awaiting a response. 

- i tentatively served the 14e.1 on the 17th and then realized that the process is backwards under rule 38.

- i have also been working on a large application record for the 14e.1 since the 17th and was slowed down a lot by the migraines over the week and weekend. i was hoping to finish this by the afternoon of the 24th, but i had to stop to sleep. i am still working on this, as of dec 3rd.

- the 17th-20th was consequently spent struggling with migraines and trying to finish the documents. nothing really got done.

- on the way back from the courthouse on the 20th, i stopped at food basics for $60 worth of mostly produce.

- i spent the weekend of the 21st-24th in the laundry room cleaning.

- i listened to some music when i was cleaning.

- i needed to take a shower so i had to clean out the bathroom, but i had to clean out the laundry room in order to clean out the bathroom. then, i wanted to do normal cleaning in the kitchen. i didn't finish cleaning the laundry room, but i got very close.

- i bought an extension cord for the laundry area for $15.81 on the 22nd, which was delivered on the 23rd. that's it so far, but i am going to need to get a second extension for that extension because the extension was only 3 ft (it was advertised as 3 m). it's easier just to get a 5 m extension. i will also need some insulation, some lights and a chair and i think that's it, besides the dresser.

- it took me all weekend to clean the laundry; i was expecting to be done by saturday and spend sunday working on the application record so i could be done by the 24th and get in the shower in the morning. i did spend some time on the 24th working on it, but fell asleep before i could finish it.

- on the 24th, i went to sign up for the cohb, which is a housing subsidy that will send me another $400-600 a month. 

- i need to apply for an rdsp very soon, by monday at the latest.

- i was able to finally get my appeal filed on the 24th, and need to schedule a stay motion, next, and then try to get the 14e.1 and application record filed right after that.

- i stopped at food basics to get some cheese on the way back ($50).

- i went to home hardware to get the wood order and got a lift back, which was appreciated. so, i can now cut the shelves.

- later, i went to the mall and bought some caulking at canadian tire, some tape and tupperware at dollarama, some yeast at food basics, some wheat bran at bulk barn, some hemp seeds at freshco and a pizza on the way back. i'll have to add this up in the budget document. 

- on the 25th, i set up an appointment with a social worker to get a second reference letter for a vaginoplasty to finish the srs. i was not initially going to follow through with this, but i don't feel like i have any other choice, given that these disgusting faggots won't stop harassing me. that should schedule me in for surgery some time next year. after i get the operation, they won't be able to harass me any further.

- on the 25th, i was charged $10 for a month of amazon prime. i will use it this month.

- near the end of the day on the 25th, i got a callback and set the srs appointment for dec 5th. so, i'd better be able to shower before then.

- i needed to catch up on some sleep on the evening of the 25th from the walking on the 24th. it wasn't that much, but i guess i'm a little out of shape.

- i woke up in the evening and mostly spent the night brushing my hair. i sat down on the morning of the 26th to start writing and just completely passed out and slept all day. i may have been triggering into another migraine, but that didn't happen,  just slept.

- i was able to re-serve the stay motion this afternoon and should get a confirmation by the end of the week. that will be on the 8th.

- i am noticing a dusty, dirty smell from upstairs that appears to be smoke and is probably what knocked me out and might be what's been making me sick. i don't know.

- i'm also noticing an overwhelming smell of onion that is masking the smell of the drugs, and i don't know if it's on purpose or not.

- i lost both the 27th and 28th

- i needed to finish updating this, and did, but then i got behind on it again.

- there was a leak in my bathroom on wednesday night and i had to cut the water off, preventing me from washing or cleaning overnight. i instead spent the night online planning out further purchases for the weekend.

- the leak was fixed by noon but i passed out almost immediately afterwards

- the heat was off all night. i made a note of this in an attempt to understand what was happening and properly document it. i believe the crackheads are intentionally cutting the heat because they don't want to overheat when they're fucked up on drugs, but i have little concern about the well being of drug addicts. the world would be better off if they all died up there, anyways; these are garbage, shithead people. i made some progress on the application record but did not finish it. 

- i (largely against my will) slept all day on the 28th and finished the purchases in the evening when i woke up. in total, i bought three small lamps, four more extension cords (two wall plugs, a 5 ft extension for the one i bought last weekend and an extension cord for the incoming makeup table with usb cables), a three pack of usb wall plugs, a 30" makeup table with a bench and a mirror, a small usb-powered magnifying mirror and two strings of paste-on led lights (12 bulbs per string). i was hoping to get some chairs and mirrors over facebook or kijiji but did not get a response and that will need to wait, apparently. total cost is going to be around $350. everything arrived on the 29th, 30th or the 1st.      

- i got something to eat after i made the purchases, then passed out again, and i was not up again until after midnight. 

- i spent the overnight on saturday morning (29th) cleaning in the bathroom and kitchen, planning out what was left to do in all three spaces and continuing remnant shopping, including pantry item shopping and kijiji/facebook shopping for mirrors and chairs. however, my difficulties staying awake continued into the weekend.

- i have ordered insulation for the laundry room, as there is a nasty draft in the space and i can't really finish up in there until that's addressed.

- i made two further pantry purchases at walmart for $160 on the evening of the 29th, which arrived on the 30th and the 1st.  a small amount is coming for the 3rd or 4th. some toothpaste was also purchased on amazon. i also bought a large mirror over kijiji that came by car on the 1st.

- there are rodents in the ceiling. i haven't seen any in the apartment, but i've seen evidence of them in the laundry room, only. my focus is on blocking them from getting downstairs, as i think they are more interested in upstairs and are just hiding in the floors. the main floor tenants are easier targets and i suspect the owner will be more likely to deal with the issue if it's upstairs, so my focus is just on blocking them from getting in. i suspect the insulation will help dramatically. they keep coming back to a hole in the ceiling in the bathroom that i taped over and have been bugging the owner to install a fan in. i don't think there's another way in. they are repeatedly trying to get in but can't. if i do catch them in here, they can expect to get bludgeoned with a broom and thrown outside.

- i spent the overnight of the 30th & into the morning of the 1st cleaning in the bathroom and then continued to struggle with the sleepiness into the day of the 1st. the remainder of the amazon purchases for the 28th arrived on the 1st, along with the kijiji mirror and one of the boxes from walmart. 

- i fell asleep on the evening of the 1st and woke up on the 2nd at about 2:15 eastern time.

- very early on the 2nd, at the last minute for cybermonday, i further purchased the following, mostly for the charging table in the bathroom: a new shaving head for a usb razor left here (i will just throw the existing head out), a usb electric tweezer, a usb eyebrow plucker, 5 64 gb usb keys and some shelves and soap holders for in the shower. in total, this was a further $160. ish. the bathroom is mostly done now, except for the bathroom mirror and some pending decision about the light. 

- i made some eggs around sunrise and i slept again in the morning.

- on the afternoon of the second, i confirmed the cdb was processed and set an appointment to talk about the rdsp, but this was between lengthy naps.

- i woke up in the evening and had some salsa, and ultimately spent most of the night in the bathroom washing my face. i made a second bowl of salsa in the morning and crashed extremely hard.

- some further items came in on the morning and afternoon of the third, but i was struggling very hard to stay awake essentially all day, from 7:00 am until 21:00 at night and lost the whole day to sleeing. i think my iron crashed as a result of being drugged. 

- the heat was also off when i woke up and has been off all night.

- i made some eggs around 22:00.

- something was trying to get in here this morning at about 3:00 am but i don't know if it was a person or a rodent.

it's now 4 am on the fourth and i need to finish the application record for the supreme court (eventually) next. i want to do some quick cleaning in the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room today as well, and i might get a walmart package today. i am very far behind, due to all of this unwanted sleeping, which i'm tying to these retards drugging me.

remaining items in transit are

- $23 worth of kleenex, which might be lost, but which fedex is saying is delayed. it was a black friday deal. they might just be backordered. this was on sale and is a pantry item.

- two bottles of vitamin c with a package of soap.

- cybermonday purchases

remaining grocery/pantry items to purchase:

- just some shoppers' items, now, hopefully on my next day out. then, that's it; i can go back to normal shopping.

when i finish the court documents, i will post some more pictures and update the budget documents.

- i think the laundry is done, once i get the insulation in there.  

- i may still need to make some purchases for the bathroom, mostly on kijiji

- i think the kitchen is done, except for the shelves that are coming

- the bedroom would be next

the issue of what to do about drug addicts is showing back up in society in a somewhat unusual way, with the political right all of a sudden being extremely vocal about saving the poor, wretched junkies. awww. the poor, sad junkies. wook at them dying on the stweet. i guess the christians bitched and complained loudly enough, and dealt with enough brain damaged conservative kids that were brainwashed and mentally limited by christianty that they turned into psychotic nihilist prostitutes, that the politicians on the right realized they could win votes by pandering to people about it. trump is about to try to invade venezuela to steal the oil, but his excuse is that he's trying to protect good white christian kids from dying of drug overdoses. i've stated repeatedly that i don't have a lot of sympathy for drug dealers, and i'd be just as happy to see them blown up at sea if you could prove that the boats being bombed were actually running drugs, but that doesn't address the pull factors. 

probably the most effective way to actually address drug addiction in middle america is to shut the fucking churches down, as they're overwhelmingly responsible for the brainwashing leading to drug addiction in the first place.

what's surprising about this is not that the right is returning to this paternalistic position about drugs but that it adopted this liberal position on drug users, after thatcher, for so long. that was what was weird, these conservatives sounding like hardcore liberals, and wanting to bring back the poor laws.

these words don't mean much anymore, but what should each of these categories of people and voters actually think about these worthless, garbage, useless eater drug addicts that are clogging up the arteries of north america and making it difficult to navigate through streets, hospital hallways and funeral homes?

libertarians: libertarians believe in self-ownership. it's your body, your stroke, your brain damage. that's up to you. libertarians don't believe the state should be regulating drug sales or drug use. if they are consistent, they also don't believe the state should be responsible for the consequences of drug use on the individual. go sleep in the gutter, fool. life is about choices, and you fucked up and have to deal with it, but it was always up to you to make those choices, and the state has no role to play in protecting you from yourself, or in protecting others from you.

conservatives: it actually should be the conservatives trying to help the junkies from harming themselves; that is a conservative position, as a good god-fearing conservative should be trying to help the wretched, lost souls back to jesus. that's what being a conservative is supposed to be about, saving the lost and healing the blind. legitimate, ideological conservatives should support what is called "harm reduction" with the intent of healing the sick and saving the lost and they may support extremely strong penalties for drug dealers, who are seen as evil doers that are damaging the community.

liberals: liberals are supposed to be very similar to libertarians, but they're also supposed to be guided by a smug feeling of self-righteousness and moral superiority that is not generally present in libertarians. they may consequently tend to lean towards criminalizing some drug use, because it's not in the common good. however, to the extent that the liberal position is similar to the libertarian position, it differs in that liberal moral superiority, which is largely calvinist in origin. to the ideological liberal, the addicts on the street are not just fools that made bad choices, but the wretched and the fallen and the possessed, that have been thrown out of the elect and should be scorned and ridiculed and made an example out of, as those singled out by god to suffer for their sins and left to die in their own filth.

socialists and anarchists: socialism has no fucking patience for worthless junkies. in socialism, all drug use should be criminalized as anti-social, as it reduces the potential of the proletariat to participate "according to their ability" and renders them worthless wards of the state that need to be supported by the labour of others. both drug users and drug dealers should be sentenced to death and executed, and the margin of error should be on making sure you don't miss any. drug use is essentially a virus that should be eradicated by quarantining the afflicted to death, and there will necessarily be collateral damage. anarchists are a little less extreme than socialists, but don't fundamentally have different views, we just don't want to be quite as vicious about it, and may not support capital punishment, ideologically. that said, socialists and anarchists will also acknowledge that the root causes of addiction lay in capitalism, and seek to address the issue at it's root causes, while ultimately conceding that people make choices and need to be held responsible for them, at gunpoint.

nihilists: drugs are fun, and people should get welfare checks for drug use, because fuck you, anyways. being a utility monster is just normal self-interest; the only thing that matters is maximizing self-interest. the society should pool it's resources to ensure that addicts have access to safe drugs because drugs are fun and labour sucks. capitalist existence is meaningless, anyways, so what difference does it make? somebody is making a profit, and the best thing to do is find out who it is and look for a cut. everybody needs to look out for themselves. and fuck socialism!

as mentioned, i would personally largely support capital punishment for drug dealers. while i don't support aggressively treating the addicts for the reason that it just doesn't fucking work, i think that the resources should be accessible to addicts should they make that choice on their own. little to no public resources should be wasted on saving junkies, as society has a more deserving base of impoverished people that resources should be directed towards, instead. i also think that drug related crimes (theft, mostly, but also sexual assault and violence more broadly) should be seen as a special category with longer and less lenient sentences. that is, if you rob a store for meth money, you should go to jail for a longer sentence than if you rob a store for some other reason.

"With Somalia, which is barely a country, you know, they have no, they have no anything. They just run around killing each other. There's no structure," Trump said.

that's an essentially correct claim. however, it's usually presented as a reason to help people get out, not a reason to box them in. the fact that it is true that somalia is struggling with the consequences of arabic colonialism and islamic imperialism isn't a very good reason to restrict migration from the region.

there are some africans upstairs that might be somalian. i didn't ask; it's a good guess. their kids are developmentally delayed, and they might be retarded. the kids are friendly, but they're eight to ten and act like three or four year olds, and they might destroy the place in the process. they don't go to school, but that's not their fault. i think the women got instantly hooked on crack but i'm not sure of that. they might have all grown up in a refugee camp. it's hard to point fingers at them. i'd rather try to help them.

it is reasonable to point out that immigration standards for migrants from that part of the world have at times been lax, due partly or largely to the difficulty in assessing people with such deep needs. they almost always come as refugees, and they're almost always a lost cause. you hope their kids thrive, but they often don't.

i would support more stringent entry requirements for east african migrants to canada, but blocking people off because they worn in a specific place is stupid and rounding them up is tyrannical.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c208x9v68w3o

i'm behind schedule. i got drugged again this weekend by these fucking retards, who have explained that they believe god told them to drug me. 

great. some legit fucking idiots. and they won't go the fuck away.

you have to be a special kind of fucking imbecile to still believe in god in 2025. we don't have insane asylums anymore, but legitimate belief in god at this late a date in history ought to be grounds for permanent incarceration; they should lock the true believers up and throwaway the key. we need to drop the bullshit around this and just be honest about it. the expression of sincere, true belief in god should be a life sentence, with no chance of parole. there should be no tolerance for religious belief in polite or civilized society, in the 21st century. it's no longer something that should be accepted as "diversity", it's something that needs to be diagnosed and aggressively eradicated. let them pray in their rubber rooms where they can't hurt anybody. they'd probably like it better in the compound, anyways.

i was nonetheless able to buy a lot of things over the last week, mostly for the bathroom and laundry room. the bathroom is finally usable, although i will need to finish cleaning before i get in the shower, probably on thursday. i have been struggling to stay awake to finish my update post, but it's now next in the list.

i can also confirm that my cdb went through, and i have a $1200 deposit coming on dec 18th. the cohb should follow shortly after that. i currently have my rent moving via direct deposit, meaning i get $408 left over from odsp. that would make my income, after rent, as follows:

- $408 (odsp) (last day of month) + 

- $75 (trillium)  (10th) + 

- $25 (gst) (5th, as $100/quaterly)+

- $200 (cdb)  (third thursday) +

- $400 (i think) (cohb), but it might be $600 (?)

============

$1100 or $1300

that is $1100/month (or $1300/month) after rent. so, i'm now officially better off than i was before i got evicted, thanks to the eviction making me eligible for specific programs, and a few programs kicking in to deal with inflation. my new apartment is also better, or will be when it's done.

if i can get by on $500/food (food is like 2x-5x what it was ten years ago), that leaves me with $600-$800/month for spending, recording, concerts and savings. most of it will go to savings.

speaking of which, i have an appointment on friday to set up an rdsp, which will open with $10,000 in it. i want my hisa to have $5000 in it, so i will avoid putting anything in the rdsp until that comes up..

i need to finish the application record before i update my documents, but i need to finish my update document, first. and, as has been the case the last several days, i'm extremely tired and having difficulty staying awake. i think my iron crashed, and i may be experiencing some intestinal bleeding. these fuckers need to go somewhere to die.

russia is not our enemy and we need to stop pretending that it is.

the enemies of the west are, in order:

- religious extremists

- arab imperialists, supremacists and nazis

- aggressive and expansionist chinese capitalists

the russians should be an ally to the west in fighting all three of these enemies, and it's just a matter of time before we get to that outcome, as there is too much historical process embedded into it to prevent it. it makes no sense for the west to fight the russians, and to have to align with groups that are fundamentally opposed to our self-interest in order to do so. there is no future in this. it's just foot-dragging.

we can have to drag it out all the way to yalta, but it's pointless and nonsensical to do so.

at some point, the french - it's mostly the french - are going to have to understand that the partition of ukraine is a consequence of militarizing eastern europe, and that you can't just point guns at someone indefinitely with no response. this is what happens when you aggressively dump weapons onto russia's borders.

this is mostly joe biden's fault.

but the europeans need to alter their policy to demilitarize, so they are not aggressively posing a threat to russia. they played with fire and they got burnt and they have to learn and adjust and adapt.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/ukraine-russia-us-diplomacy-war-pokrovsk-9.6999758

under pressure from the bloc quebecois, the liberals have woken up and are changing this law. you should let christopher make his point and listen. he's right.

you don't even have to read anything.

this is a small victory for free speech, but it's hopefully a positive signal and gesture towards larger changes.

that said, you'd think you'd send the ninja turtles after the drug cartels, not this apparently retarded turtle that can't even ride a bicycle. i suppose the problem would be that at least two of them are obvious coke addicts.

i'm full of shit, anyways. i've never heard of this tortoise. does he have anything to do with the ninja turtles? has he done anything with john mcentire?

can we get a franklin zaps a war criminal, and maybe give him some greying puffs, and a bit of a gut?

who am i kidding?

trump will pardon this fucking turkey in the end, too.

happy yankee doodle holiday to you, mr. hegseth. you'd never wear a hat, it would ruin your hair. and i don't suspect you like macaroni.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/that-time-benjamin-franklin-tried-and-failed-to-electrocute-a-turkey/

Back in 1773, Benjamin Franklin wrote that he had successfully electrocuted a 10-pound turkey, a lamb and several chickens.

i actually didn't know that. 

you learn something every day.

i don't have a lot of sympathy for drug traffickers and am happy to blow them up if it's serious, but what venezuela traffics is cocaine, and trump actually just pardoned a cocaine boss in honduras. remember iran-contra? it's a pretext; it's bullshit.

and this is over the top.

there was another franklin, an american franklin, who developed a branch of science that mr hegseth may need to get acquainted with, if he gets what is coming to him, which is by no means clear.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/franklin-the-turtle-pete-hesgeth-9.6998672

the united states does not have a functioning concept of ministerial responsibility.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/01/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-caribbean-boats-venezuela-immigration-us-politics-latest-news-updates

i spent last weekend cleaning the laundry and this weekend cleaning the bathroom. i should be able to shower for the first time in over two months in the next 24-48 hours.

i never finished my summary post from last weekend, so it's going to get reposted. there will be some pictures dated to this morning but the makeup space on't be updated for a while.

this is what i'm doing for now in order to adjust to the difficulty in finding an affordable, workable smart mirror on the market that has usable mirror features like zooming or exposure, rather than just being a big phone or tv on your bathroom wall, which is utterly boring.

- i have purchased a relatively cheap makeup table with a built in vanilla mirror - no lights, no buttons, nothing. it's just a mirror. the table is 30", but the mirror is only about 20" of that, as there is shelving on it. the table comes with a stool, as well.

- the table is also a charging station, with two usb plugs and two grounded wall plugs.

- i have purchased an extension cord to plug into the charging station which has 6 usb ports and 6 grounded plugs. this will allow me to use the makeup table as a general charging table for other bathroom usb devices, like razors, lights, small mirrors or toothbrushes.  

- i have bought a couple of strings of usb lights to connect to the vanilla mirror, turning it into a vanity mirror with replaceable bulbs

- i am still considering making a four bulb lamp out of a light fixture and installing it over the makeup mirror or over the bathroom mirror, with the latter being more likely. for now, the string of bulbs is $15. does it last two years or two months? is it bright enough? let's see. 

- i have also purchased a small usb-powered mirror with multiple zoom screens (2x, 3x, 10x).

the other option was to purchase a charging desk for $50-80, with a chair for $30 and a standalone mirror with screw-in bulbs, which you'd need to pay $165 minimum (plus shipping) and probably more like $300 for. they really make you pay up front for the screw in bulbs. you still need the extension cord and the magnification mirror, because the lighted mirrors don't do that natively, yet. overall, that would cost you at least $300, if you're lucky, and potentially twice that.

the total cost of the vanilla mirror with the stick on bulbs was under $250, including taxes. the trade-offs are that the mirror is certainly smaller, but i'm not sure i need a giant mirror, and that you can't replace one bulb at a time, but that might not matter. the idea of spending $300 or more for a makeup table with an essentially disposable lighted mirror was a non-starter.

if this doesn't work for me, there are a number of ways to  convert the vanilla mirror into a vanity mirror with screw in bulbs, including buying a handful of small light fixtures and gluing them in, or converting a hanging light fixture or two into a lamp by splicing a ground cable into it. i decided to try with the glue-on lights first to see if it's good enough for now.

ultimately, i wasn't able to find a screw in or threaded bulb lighted mirror under $300 that would ship to canada; my only options were disposable mirrors. i have no choice but to make my own. it's not clear yet if that means building my own light fixture or sticking with the glue-ons for now. if the cheapest screw-in lighted mirror is over $500, it makes more sense to buy a mirror for $30 and build my own light fixture, which is essentially what i did. i got a desk with a charging port, some shelves and a stool with it for a reasonable price.

i have not yet purchased a mirror for the sink, or decided how to approach it, but i do have a backup set of stick on usb bulbs. i'm hoping i can get a couple of cheap wall mirrors here in windsor on facebook or kijiji and i'll have to figure it out from there.

i'd like to board up the window, but i'll need to get a fan in there first, and i'll also need to get the wall fixed, as there was a leak the other night fro upstairs that demoed a large amount of it.

it's a transliteration. there's no correct spelling.

it really does sound like badassshan, if you listen to somebody talk about it.

The official English name of the autonomous region is the Badassshan Mountainous Autonomous Region.[5][6] The name Badassshan (from Russian: Бадахшан; Tajik: Бадахшон) is derived from the Sasanian title bēdaxš or badaxš.[7] "Gorno-Badassshan" literally means "mountainous Badassshan" and is the Russian name of the autonomous region, Gorno-Badassshanskaya avtonomnaya oblastʹ (literally Gorno-Badassshan autonomous oblast). The Russian abbreviation "GBAO" is also commonly used in English-language publications by national and international bodies such as the government of Tajikistan and the United Nations.[8]

if i was a central asian country, i wouldn't want to get into a fight with badassshan.

no, i don't care about propping up corrupt dictators in ukraine. sorry.

if i was in ukraine, i'd be fighting the conscription police.

trump wants to trade ukraine for venezuela. on it's face, it's a smart move, especially if it gets the united states out of eastern europe, where it can gain nothing and lose everything.

however, the united states already has almost total control of the oil. it's not worth the fight.

worse, trump has no authority to bomb venezuela on a whim and congress needs to bite and claw to stop it, including by impeaching him.

his family doctor gave him a rec to see an uroligist, but the nurse heard it wrong and wrote down a rec for a neurologist. so, he shows up, and pulls it out, and then this happens.

attention to detail is important, folks.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/closing-arguments-wrap-up-in-case-of-former-neurologist-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-patients/

i strongly support this and think it's immensely forward thinking and what the future looks like in the rest of north america. quebec is a step ahead of the rest of the continent on this issue.

the food restrictions might seem overkill, and some media is suggesting it'a ban on kosher or halal. it isn't. the legislation says that public institutions, specifically, cannot offer exclusively religious meals. they can still offer religious meals, but not exclusively religious meals.

there is a singular example where this seems irrational, namely the jewish hospital in montreal. however, there's a deeper question here: why do we have a jewish hospital in the first place? montreal has a significant jewish minority, but it's not enough for a segregated hospital. that's what the jewish hospital actually is. the jews may have said "fine, if it's going to get your noses in a schnitzel, we'll have have our own hospital, and maybe we'll let you see our jewish doctors if you ask nice, in classical hebrew.", but they wouldn't have done that if they didn't have to. so, now the jews have a kick-ass hospital in montreal that's across the street from the secular/catholic hospital. and i don't think they check your dna on arrival, or refuse you service, you just have to eat funny tasting jello if you get your appendix out there instead of across the street. 

ideally, you don't want a publicly funded  jewish hospital at all, but that should be tolerated so long as the market (to abuse the language) justifies it, given the history. given that the jewish hospital is across the street from the normal hospital, that they don't deny access and that it's basically a branch of the normal hospital, you can always go across the street if you really want your free lunch to have experienced immense pain before it died, as you experience immense pain in recovery. why should the lunch get it better than you?

besides that, and the food thing is clearly the least of my concerns, canada has to do this. there are too many religious groups that aren't integrating, because we told them they didn't have to. that was a mistake. our public institutions and secular society are potentially at risk if the issue isn't addressed in a broad scope. the quebecois more recently fought a long fight against the catholic church for freedom of thought and are more sensitive to this than the rest of the continent, as the fight is still real to them, it's not a relic of colonial history. they can't be allowed to save themselves, while the rest of us collapse into ignorance and backwardsness. we should let them lead the way and follow their lead.

quebec is ahead of us, but this needs to become a dominant issue on the left, as soon as the left pulls it's head out of it's ass and stops trying to pretend it's the new right.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/politics/article/five-things-to-know-about-quebec-governments-new-secularism-bill/

chinese gas consumption probably spiked in 2023 and, unlike other economies, the chinese appear to be on a path towards sustainability, which is allowing them to become the global leaders and leave the americans behind. only the americans are continuing their reliance on dirty oil, meaning america is our only serious market.

canada's policy of trying to end american economic dependency by selling oil to china instead of america is bafflingly, idioticly stupid. you expect that dumbassery from alberta, but not from the liberals.

it demonstrates a lack of actionable alternatives to the united states, but that's geography. it's reality. 

trump is an asshole, but he'll be gone soon. we can wait this out.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/chinas-shrinking-oil-footprint-how-electric-vehicle-adoption-shaping-chinas-oil

all evidence is that trump simply doesn't pay any attention to comedy central. it's fake tv, or a kids network, or something. he only seems to watch the major networks - cbs, nbc, abc and fox.

maybe he can't count high enough to get to comedy central.

people might want to actually take advantage of that.

this is the most ironic/weird part of banning trans athletes.

most of the athletes take steroids. trans women take testosterone blockers.

the trans girls are the only ones not on testosterone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e033nvx44o

mark carney is building a bridge back to the 20th century.

there are a number of ways to analyze this.

i want to point out that this is a mistake, from the perspectives of the people advocating for it. this is yesterday's policy, by a politician distinguishing himself as a proponent of yesterday, a true Yesterday's Man.

the market is obviously intended to be china. there is not another market accessible from this port that would justify this level of investment.

however, due to a persistent american failure to lead since clinton stepped down, china is actually leading the ev revolution. it is true that one may analyze american consumption markets and decide they'll be buying oil for a while. that same analysis does not apply to china, and only yesterday's man would convince himself that it makes sense to spend billions or trillions building an export market for oil to an economy that is moving past it.

substantive environmental considerations aside, the simple reality is that the economics of the proposal are from yesterday's red papers, they are not current. this is a waste of money that will destroy a swath of bc scenery and potentially create landslide risks and come with no discernible end point. it will probably get cancelled, as chinese oil consumption crashes instead of rises.

this is a pipeline to nowhere.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/carney-signs-major-energy-agreement-with-alberta-laying-out-conditions-for-new-oil-pipeline/

i spent the weekend cleaning my laundry area and turning it into a closet, which required a lot of effort. the rugs, floors and walls were utterly filthy, and it made me a little bit sick breathing in the filth to clean it. i pulled up enough dust and dirt off of the floor to fill up a 250 gram bag of doritos, which i used for garbage. that's a huge amount of just dirt, indicating the place hadn't been cleaned in a long time. the intent was to (1) clean and organize the laundry room, (2) clean the bathroom and (3) then clean the kitchen, with the ultimate purpose of the process being a normal monthly cleaning of the kitchen, which is now set up, excet that piece of wood. however, i didn't even finish setting up the laundry (i finished cleaning it), and still have a dresser to somehow get across the apartment and move in. the place is more cramped now than it will be when it's done, and i changed my mind about some furniture in a way that's going to be frustrating to switch back, but it will get done. i had to put it aside for a few more days, but i at least got some laundry done and can keep doing laundry this week.

there will be some pictures appended to the laundry room post (chapter two) as an update and dated to nov 23rd:

https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog-post.html 

i meant to sit down and do a number of things on monday morning before going out to do some errands, but as soon as i sat down, i fell asleep. i was able to get to an appointment with subsidized housing at 15:00 to officially apply for the cohb, i stopped to get some groceries on the way back, i went to pick up the wood i ordered from home hardware and got a lift back, i took a walk down to the mall to get some items and then i bought a pizza on the way back, before falling asleep again. today never got started, as i was groggy and half awake due to not sleeping on monday, but i'm awake now. 

i had to extend my amazon prime trial by a month as i couldn't get everything ordered on time. it's only $10, so long as i'm able to cancel it for the end of december, and i think i should be.

i'm going to do a summary write up in the next post. where was i? what have i been doing?

the rentier capitalists are already cannibalizing themselves. this person's definition of increasing the supply of housing means evicting more people to recycle more existing supply. that's not a joke.

the condo market in toronto is actually already crashing. rents have become too high for people to afford, and building costs are too high to generate profit at rents that are already too high, so the system cannot generate supply, and in fact cannot find people to rent the spaces that already exist. it's a complete market failure. the investors are actually the biggest losers in this system, that has let unregulated markets generate collapse. if this is being pitched as a win for investors, they'll be sorely mistaken as they find out they've priced themselves out of their own market.

government needs to directly build more supply to fix this, but this government won't do that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-bill-60-housing-9.6990632

who does the ndp think it's aligning with in standing in solidarity with hamas?

macron? meloni? is that the new left, in the ndp's mind?

some of the less corrupt ones that are just naive or stupid might have some half-truths to make about human rights, but it doesn't even matter. how many times do the dumbasses need to get slaughtered by stalin before they figure out?

they'll be the first to go, in the end,

but it's not going anywhere. this is a movement that, in the words of john lennon, is not making it with anyone anyhow. 

the ndp is over. move on.

in a situation where the left needs a voice to respond to the liberals, the ndp are instead swinging out to the right of the conservative party, leaving the left entirely disenfranchised at the exact time that it needs to consolidate. we've got major budget cuts to fight and we need to mobilize, but all the party cares about is standing in solidarity with islamic fascism.

left-leaning canadians need to look past the ndp and start organizing without them and without their extreme right pro-fascist sympathies. otherwise, the liberals are going to slash and burn everything, while the ndp are focused on fighting the jews.

to state the obvious, most workers in canada are pro-israel, or at least anti-hamas. the hamas take over of the ndp is violently alienating the party's base.

ndp members on the hamas payroll will make absurd arguments like "the proletariat is changing", but those arguments have no basis in fact. what is changing is the ndp, into a party of foreign-funded useful idiots.

the new ndp is the conscience of tehran.

the ndp are so radical/extreme right wing nowadays that you can't tell the difference between heather macpherson and marjorie taylor greene anymore.

do you want to vote for a party that is a functional front from islamic fascism?

i don't.

and, this is why they are getting wiped out. they're not learning, they're doubling down, and they're doing it because it's where the money is. well, they've already followed the money into non-party status and they're about to follow it into total irrelevance, as what is left of the canadian labour movement walks away from the idiots for good.

today's ndp occupy the same place on the political spectrum that the social credit party use to reside in. it's not even pretending to be any kind of left, it's an open embrace of conservative religious values and right-wing islamic fascism, paired with goofy economic ideas that neither make sense in a left nor right wing context.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/idf-soldiers-canada-entry-9.6980946

fwiw, i would label trump a liberal and mamdani a conservative. i think that's pretty clear.

if i were trump, i'd react to mamdani mostly by making fun of new yorkers for it. new york should truly be embarrassed for electing a loser like this guy, and i'd be merciless in ridiculing them for it.

the first thing i would do is announce a $10 million dollar grant to the new york city health department for education and outreach regarding the negative public health impacts of poor sanitation practices in relation to male facial hair hygiene. clearly, new yorkers need a bit of a public health tutorial on the topic.

what i heard was that marjorie taylor green resigned to spend more time with her nose.

what i actually think was going on there is that her district was shifting, and she was trying to adjust to demographics on the ground. as i've pointed out previously, some of these positions, which the modern spectrum assigns to a fake left, are actually conservative positions. the anti-israel and pro-muslim position, for example, is a typical conservative position. that the united states has this right-wing secular jewish lobby is weird; generally, conservatives align with muslims against secularists, and jews align with secularists because they're overwhelmingly atheist, they don't align with secular liberal jews against conservative religious muslims and then somehow call that "right-wing".

but now that she has all this free time, she can always marry a pile of vegetables.

i was recently selected for the cohb; that's an extra $600/month. that adds up to the following extra income beginning to come in over the next few months:

cdb - $200/month + back payments

rdsp - $10,000 + matching contributions on deposits

cohb - $600/month

if i put a substantive amount of the cdb in the rdsp, the government will match 3x as much for the first 10000 and 2x as much for the next 15000.

i can't touch it until i'm 59. however, i can use it to buy stocks or bonds if i want. i am not convinced i will actually do that.

i'm even steven, remember. i went through a few bad years, so i should have a few good years coming up.

there's about 20-25% tariffs in transiting goods through the provinces, and interprovincial trade is around $170 billion. slashing that would be throwing around 35-45 billion dollars away in lost revenue.

for reference, the massive job losses coming to the civil service are expected to "save" the government $60 billion, and probably cost the economy twice that in multiplier effects, and this was being projected as a way to "save the country from fiscal ruin", when it is in truth simply going to ravage large swaths of the local economy in the pm's own riding, which he just won and could now very well lose asap.

the next day, they cut another $40 billion in revenue with no economically coherent way to regenerate it, besides nonsense about tax cuts being stimulus (no empirical study anywhere at any time has ever upheld the ideologically driven market religion belief that cutting taxes stimulates the economy. this is thoroughly debunked as completely faith-driven nonsense with not the slightest shred of evidence to support.)? why?

could it be because they want more spending cuts?

this is an idea they campaigned on, so it's no surprise, but i don't think it's a good idea.

it might be less of a not good idea if they cut the food and booze out, but how less not good is not clear. i will admit that my biggest criticisms were related to food and booze. lumber also sounds like an item that provinces should have tariffs on.

swapping cars for canola tax free might seem like a good enough idea for consumers on it's face, but most canadians would certainly benefit more from the taxation at the tariff level than they would from eliminating those taxes, which all evidence suggests is going to be followed by a cut in services. canadians are better off being taxed for services than they are getting tax cuts and then being told to be pay for the services getting cut. the reason for this is that only a small fraction of canadians (~10% in previous years, but certainly less now due to all the cuts in revenue recently) actually pay enough taxes to cover the cost of healthcare, education, childcare, roads, etc. the vast majority of canadians pay less in that they get back and rely on heavy contributions by the wealthy and by the corporate elite to balance the difference. however, they don't realize that and don't understand their taxes very well. the amount of anger that your average canadian wage slave demonstrates for their payroll deductions would appear to be inversely proportional to the level that they understand where their taxes go, which i'm going to call dumbass workers' law.

for example, i've had people go after me pretty viciously for the money taken off their check to pay my odsp, but that money is paid with property taxes, not payroll deductions, and i was able to point out that one of these guys actually rents. i don't get a cent taken off your check. the money taken off your check currently goes to healthcare and education, but the government increasingly wants to reduce your income to pay for planes and tanks to kill russians with, instead.

this was a silent source of revenue, and my understanding is that it was substantive, as well. cutting this source of revenue immediately after passing the last budget should worry people, as it's going to lead to huge decreases in revenue that a right-wing government can use as an excuse to cut services with. it suggests there might be some kind of cunning plan being implemented.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-interprovincial-trade-barrier-dropped-9.6984871

this is a picture of the cast of mary poppins in 2005ish.

the one in the middle is mary poppins.

she's about 20 years older than the rest of them.

did ryan wedding ever clear a drug test at the olympics?

my understanding is that the drug use at the olympics is rampant, and the olympic villages tend to look something like woodstock by the end of the event.

well, this is frightening.

i don't think it's very close. the video doesn't accurately reflect hitchens' trostkyist perspectives on the russia file. at all.

when there have been wars in ukraine in the last several decades, there's always been an alternative to the europeans and russians on the ground. ukraine has a peculiarly central position in the development of anarchism, which is probably due to the fact that it was a wasteland, free of direct control. ukrainians always had the idiosyncratic need to balance between the freedom of the steppe, and it's inherent tyranny, and the slave-reality of working people in settled eastern europe, with the security that slavery brings. anarchism could likely not have arisen anywhere else. ukrainian wars have always been multisided, with a dozen different flags pushing a dozen different ideologies.

what is weird about the current mess is that there is no alternative, as there always has been, you have to pick between one broken system and the other. it's an alternativeless thatcherian nightmare in a real sense; you can hear her banshee wails and tortured cries, screaming from the night sky no alternative!. i would expect hitchens to take a much more subtle position than this when faced with that truth.

the situation in sudan is extremely complex, but the basic point is that the area has resources and the colonial arab monarchies to their northeast (which are at about the same level of social development as 15th or 16th century europe, before any of the revolutions, even the glorious revolution that ended britain's single brief streak with totalitarian religionism) seek to exploit the region for minerals and for slaves and are making a bloody mess of it while they do so, as has been the status quo there through centuries of arab imperialism and colonialism in the region. 

you could send us forces in to protect them, but they'd be more likely to get caught up in it.

if, however, there were merchants on the ground that controlled access to their own resources, and could protect those assets from theft by arabs and turks and chinese alike, the next question is how to prevent them from conquering somalia. that might be challenging to build but it's the right approach.

the true believer is always the greater threat to freedom than the self-interested cynic is.

i'm going to guess that nicki minaj has probably had a lot of bad experiences with arab men, who tend not to be very well behaved or to have very much respect for people's rights. she's not the most educated voice, but she is probably speaking more from experience than imagination.

for some reason, the american media wants to pretend as though christians aren't getting killed by islamic terrorists in africa. it's classic right-wing denialism and it's becoming standard in the fake left to just pretend hamas and al qaeda and al shabaab and boko horom and the rsf and the taliban and etc just don't exist.

islam is about peace. riiiiiiiiiight.

how fucking stupid do they think we are? i mean, we fell for christianity once and spent a thousand years fighting it off, so you'd think we'd easily learn not to fall for islam, but we have to come to a simple, stark truth, which is that fake left men like the hierarchical components in religionism. they like the idea of telling their bitch what to do. they don't care about the gays. men have to have beards? they can deal with that. etc. if a couple of people get killed or raped, what's the big deal? it's not so bad. just get used to it.

it's these fake leftists that pose us a deeper threat, as a society, than any right wing extremists, and we're seeing it on full display in the media's willful ignorance of the spread of arabic colonialism and islamic imperialism in africa, in central asia, in india and also in southeast asia.

african civil conflicts tend to be multisided and complex, but the basic premise that islamic terrorists in nigeria are slaughtering christian men and raping the women, which is how society works at the barely-not-monkey level, is entirely correct. that is real. you can try explain it or foolishly attempt to put it in "context", but claims that the accusation lacks factual support or empirical basis is just pathetically repeating jihadist propaganda, and reduces the american media landscape to a level of useful idiocy that is something out of saudi arabia, which is increasingly also true, due to the increasing importance of arab blood money in funding and directing american media.

what?

sometimes you need to lift that mirror up. it's how you do it.

trump was recently criticized for calling a journalist named catherine a pig, but what you don't realize is that he was actually referring to karoline leavitt, and he got his prompters backwards.

you know the donald is a closeted gay.

exhibit a: eating pizza with a fork. it's a dead giveaway.

but, just listen to him talk for five minutes.

i think the most exciting thing you're going to find in that email dump is evidence of trump having sex with epstein, himself.

i got evicted in april of this year, signed a lease in may and moved again on oct 1st. my new landlord is weird and distant, but the place doesn't smell like drugs (i haven't finished cleaning it yet) and i'm probably ok here for a while. the local property manager might be a problem as he seems to be a right-wing loser, and i'm more focused on him than the landlord. the landlord seems to be reasonable but he also doesn't seem to care much and so i'm trying to find a balance, and i'm going to have to do the research. i'm going to need to call the ltb today about upstairs, for example.

the middle property is dealt with and i walked away ok if this new place works out, which is looking more tentative by the day.

my dtc got approved, and i applied for the cdb and learned about the perks of registered disability savings; i could get a free $15,000, i just need to apply for it.

so the fact that the issue with the property owners that bought my house in 2023 and aggressively evicted me is going to the supreme court, after a consolidation stint in the court of appeal, is scaring me less. i could use the disability money, if i have to. but i'm extremely confident that the supreme court will come down on the right side of this.

the ontario superior court is corrupt. i was able to figure out that one of the women that bought the place is in doug ford's inner orbit, and is one of his daughter's best friends. she used be a talking head on ctv in toronto. i don't know why any of this happened, but that is the best explanation i can come up with as to the nature of the blatant and open corruption i'm experiencing. the ford family is no stranger to corruption.

while this is only an issue on appeal in a cursory way - i did appeal to the judicial council and did bring up concerning events but have not brought the relationship with the ford family into focus, and don't know what came first, the corruption or the purchase of the small house in windsor through the upper crust elite sotheby's auction house, which normally deals with multimillion dollar mansions on the waterfront in this area - it won't follow the case to ottawa, even if it does follow it to toronto. i need to get out of this court to get a correct ruling.

speaking of epstein.

it seems like it was something like that, that they tried to traffic me, and i shook them off, but i haven't been able to get rid of these right-wing muslim losers that were overseeing it, and they're continuing to follow me around and drug me.

canada's court system suffers from a longstanding issue with a poorly educated judiciary that lacks the breadth of knowledge to deal with a lot of the issues dropped on it and has recently, due to decisions made by justin trudeau, taken a sharp turn to the right. however, it's not normally known for open corruption. this is unusual and it should get stamped out through escalation. 

i am going to post a link to a several thousand page document here soon that is intending to prep the case for the supreme court. it doesn't have the details because i can't prove them but this would be easier if they'd just write me a check and fuck off

the ndp are retards.

i'm never going to vote for this party ever again. 

they're utterly doomed.

if you oppose this, you'll need to vote against it.

that would be the general trend - people voting against palestine, in canada. but the fake left political establishment is taking advantage of the fact that most canadians don't give a fuck, and the fact that the palestinian lobby is well organized and flush in blood money. mainstream fake left groups can get away with this because it isn't a ballot issue.

frankly, for me, it is increasingly becoming a ballot issue, and there is increasingly no possibility i would vote for a party that recognizes palestine, as such a position is deeply immoral and in deep contradiction to the rights of the indigenous jewish people to self-govern themselves, in addition to providing material support for fundamentalist semitic religion.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/palestinian-flag-raising-toronto

these kids appear to have been trafficked, probably by the parents.

it's anybody's guess as to whether they're still alive, but the idea that there was no criminal act is not upheld by the evidence, as far as i can see.

the police in canada are more corrupt than they are useless. if somebody bought the kids, they probably bought the cops, too. that's increasingly real life in canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lilly-jack-sullivan-missing-children-court-documents-car-vehicle-9.6943179

somehow, the liberals have managed to snatch imminent demographic irrelevancy away from the clutches of the right, and watched the conservatives build a natural governing coalition in the process.

what's left of the liberal voting coalition is going to be dead in five years - it's all fat, old, white men.

the liberals have suddenly become a party of gross, smelly, contemptible, revolting old men with disgusting religionist policies and that i would rather pepper spray than have a beer with.

it's a noticeable shift.

every time the liberals send somebody out to meet the cameras nowadays, it's the grossest loser i've ever seen.

they've become a party of middle-aged, balding, ugly, fat and mostly white men.

no.

the ruling is that the indigenous group always owned the land, and europeans just walked in and stole it. an analogy might be helpful.

suppose somebody steals your car, and sells it for a profit. the person that bought the stolen car has somewhat of a problem, in that they purchased stolen goods; they may not have known the goods were stolen, but they are now in unlawful possession of something that was stolen and have to return it if they learn the facts. now, there are two owners of the car - the rightful owner, who had the car stolen, and the person who bought the stolen car. in canadian law, the property must be seized and returned to the rightful owner that had their property stolen and it doesn't matter that you purchased the stolen property, you still have to return it, and can even go to jail if you know the property was stolen and choose to keep it, or evade enforcement around returning it.

i want to reiterate it that: in context, holding to fee simple on stolen property and choosing to evade enforcement is actually a crime that could lead to jail time. 

the government never owned the land, so the purchase of it from the crown was invalid. the land was stolen and needs to be returned. the people that purchased the land in fee simple bought land that was stolen, and it's just like buying a stolen car. some maybe didn't know, but most did and, frankly, they ought to be prosecuted for it.

once the property is returned to the party it was stolen from, the question as to compensation for the illegal sale becomes a civil issue, but the buyer really isn't guaranteed to recover those funds. that's what happens when you buy stolen goods from shady sources.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/is-your-house-just-going-to-be-declared-aboriginal-land-now

my understanding is that what they call "obamacare coverage" is what the health insurance industry elsewhere else calls "free consultation".

it's not a health care policy.

it's not even close.

did the democrats shut down congress for a month because insurance companies lobbied them to?

i can't prove that.

but, yes. probably. 

almost certainly.

i didn't write this article. i'm just posting it.

if i had made this obvious argument three weeks ago, you would have called me a conspiracy theorist, despite the obvious truth of it. it's there, though. you need to read between the lines a little.

that doesn't mean that trump or the republicans are the better choice, it means the democrats really aren't very much better, in truth, and that a lot of people allow themselves to delude themselves otherwise.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/insurers-pharma-drugs-obamacare-trump-lobbying-00652761

if the congress is going to waste it's time on gossip and tabloid-level discourse, maybe it's better if it stays shut down.

this is correct. the liberal party has, in line with increasing muslim immigration, taken increasingly pro-muslim foreign policy positions, and isn't interested in addressing the severe human rights consequence of islamic imperialism and arab colonialism in central and eastern africa or in the south-east asian region. we've become a bad global actor, and a borderline rogue state, and can be genuinely and honestly accused of increasingly providing material support for islamic terrorism. if canadians don't care about sudan, they should stop to wonder for a minute if these policies might eventually be used as a pretext for american military action, because the reality is that they would be justified in taking action to stop us from funding these terrorist networks.

the rsf is described as a "paramilitary group". it's a state-funded terrorist group and the uae is a state-sponsor of terrorism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-uae-canada-carney-9.6976682

a hydro dam in iqaluit is a project of national importance?

the purpose of these projects is to increase stock prices, and that will probably work. almost none of this will get built.

the most important projects we could build that would benefit a majority of canadians would have to do with:

- planting trees

- increasing building efficiencies

- increasing inner city air quality using projects like green roofing

- healthcare investments

- education investments

- housing investments

- electric transportation infrastructure

there's not a trace of any of that in the government's priorities. it's all mining and fossil fuels.

instead of building projects to increase the quality of life for canadians, carney is concerned solely in building export economies designed to generate profit at the expense of quality of life and, more importantly, to benefit foreign investors, and that should have been obvious to voters, but wasn't.

we need an immediate election. the conservatives might win, but that would send the liberals the memo from canadians and be a better outcome than letting the liberals govern like conservatives.

to be clear: we need more hydro power development, and i would support more money for more hydro more generally, but the population of baffin island, which is more than twice the size of britain, is less than 15,000. that's the population of a city block in toronto. even if climate change accelerates off the rails, that area will still have six month long polar nights with weeks of -50 weather, and these rivers being considered to be dammed will freeze over solid for months of the year for decades or centuries to come. it's nonsense.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/second-round-major-projects-nation-building-9.6976532

my father, however, would have argued that gretzky was overrated, and that mario lemiuex was a better hockey player, but it's probably because he was french canadian.

i know a fair amount about wayne gretzky, and it's not exactly because i'm canadian. my father has a hockey nut. i didn't share his interest, as a kid, and he found that hard to understand, but he knew i liked to read. he bought me a fair number of sports related books, including books by ken dryden and an autobiography of gretzky, up to the mid 90s, as written by a ghost writer. 

so, i read gretzky's autobiography when i was a kid. i was about ten. that's how i know he didn't go to high school.

he didn't go to high school because he was a child hockey prodigy and he didn't make the time to finish grade school while playing professional hockey, as a child. nowadays, he wouldn't be allowed to do that. further, he states in his book, via his ghost writer, that he regrets not finishing grade school, as it left him unable to do basic tasks for himself, like count how much money he has. his agent ripped him off pretty badly.

gretzky commands a lot of respect on the canadian political right, but the truth is that what is known about his public life experiences suggest he wouldn't be very good at tabling a budget.

it's not even clear if he can count to 92.

i was initially considering buying a makeup table for the bathroom, and i still might, but i first need to look at getting a mirror over the sink, with some lights. i'm going to have to screw it over a window, so it's a little awkward. i was going to buy a $40 light fixture with four 100 watt replaceable bulbs, then turn it into a plug-in lamp by connecting it to a lamp cord i can plug into the wall, which would cost an extra $25. then, i'd need to buy a $50ish mirror.

it turns out that there's currently a lot of mirrors on the market that essentially do this for you in one step, but they're in an extremely disappointing state, at the moment. first, if i'm going to buy a mirror with built in lights, i need to be able to screw the bulbs in and out and that is instantly going to tripe or quadruple the price. it makes essentially no sense to spend $100 on a disposable mirror with lights, but the alternative is spending $300 on the same thing in order to get screw in lights. second, while essentially all of these mirrors have an operating system installed in them that allows for touch functions in the mirror, the only thing these programmable mirrors can do is turn the lights up and down, which is trivial and useless. a programmable smart mirror should allow the user to zoom in and out like they can on their phone, and to alter the brightness of the reflected image in real time, like you would in a basic photo editing software. i have yet to find anything like that; what i've found are $1000 mirrors that show you the weather in the form of a windows vista gadget and are probably connected directly to cia data centres as intelligence gathering tools (what a perfect surveillance tool, eh?), or that let you stream netflix in the background, like we needed another kind of fucking tv. instead, you have to buy smaller mirrors with built in magnifying levels (2x, 3x, 10x, 20x) on different screens, and no zoom functionality. if you want to zoom in to 5.5x and then out to 3x and then into 10x, on the fly in real time, you're at best needing to find an app for your phone or ipad instead of a smart mirror, but the truth is that such a thing doesn't seem to exist at all.

a smart mirror should be a smart mirror! the future ought to be in smart mirrors with stub versions of android installed in the mirror that allow it to act as a smarter mirror with usable smart mirror functionality, but we're not there yet.

so, i don't know what i'm going to do, yet.

wayne gretzky didn't just drop out of high school, he didn't even go to high school at all. he has about a functional grade 9 education.

he's not somebody you should look to for intellect or wisdom or guidance, unless you're open and he has the puck, and in the latter scenario, you don't need to think about it much; you don't need to call him, he'll find you.

in fact, if you're open and he has the puck, then you'd better keep an eye out, as he has a tendency to bounce pucks in off people's asses and you might just get knocked out if you're not paying attention. but, i mean, that'll still count, right?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11526768/wayne-gretzky-addresses-backlash-trump-canada/

it turns out that the weather today sucks anyways. the sun never came out so the ground never dried up and there's a constant 40 km/hr win moving in from the south. it might be an ok day for a walk, but that wasn't the plan.

some groceries came in this morning and my saw came in this afternoon. the temperature is unusually mild for mid november - almost 20 degrees - but this has become a normal occurrence in windsor/detroit over the last 10 years. we expect a handful of 16+ days in late november and early december, nowadays, and winter, if it happens at all, is usually over by mid january, or early february. a cold day in windsor nowadays is plus 3 or 4 degrees celsius. 

i wouldn't have gone anywhere in the damp windy weather anyways. the wind is not really going to clear out until mid week, so this might be better rain jacket weather this week than it is summer weather this weekend.

my wood will be here next weekend and the temperature will recover again by then. it might feel nicer next weekend, despite not being as warm.

i need to plan the rest of the groceries out, finish writing the document i was typing up for the apartment setup and then finish the last bit of legal writing (hopefully), before i can get those shelves into the kitchen and get to work converting the laundry into a walk-in closet.

the purpose of tariffs is not supposed to be raise revenue. as a tax, this is highly regressive.

the purpose of tariffs, like other pigovian taxes, is suppose to be to change consumer behaviour.

if trump hands out rebates for inflation, it just makes the tariffs a pigovian tax designed to reward those who buy more american products and less foreign products. like a carbon tax.

that's not why he's doing it, he's reacting to public concerns about inflation, but it would make the tariffs more effective as policy (in theory) and something he should have done in the first place if he wanted this to actually work.

our own government might want to consider tariff rebates, as well, that would go out to everybody and reward those that buy canadian items without tariffs, while penalizing those that don't.

i am really tired of the economic nationalism i'm seeing in stores lately and am beginning to go out of my way to find items not made in canada. 

i fucking hate this stupid country.

there was a foolish attempt in the last part of the previous century to try to prove that homosexuality was genetic, despite the science being abundantly clear that behaviour in mammals is never genetic. simple organisms, like reptiles and insects, have little ability to undo their instinctual reactivity, but the development of mammal intelligence rendered instinct largely irrelevant. all mammals, from lions to mice, are born helpless and empty and without any residual genetic instincts and need to be taught everything by their parents or community. an earlier era of biology would have argued that predators like tigers and lions are, like crocodiles, born with an instinct to hunt, but we have known for decades now that that is completely wrong and that lions need to be taught to hunt and will starve if they are not taught to hunt by their parents. the tabula rasa model is the correct model in all mammals and a small subset of birds.

for that reason, citing the gay penguin as biological proof of homosexuality was stupid. birds are still largely instinctual, whereas mammals have essentially no instinctual basis in their behaviour at all. if somebody drops a kid in the forest, they might figure it out, but it will be by self-learning and not by instinct. humans don't have a caveman instinct underneath their civilized exterior. that idea is a debunked myth.

what genes actually do is code for proteins; hormones are proteins. genes make mistakes, and those mistakes have consequences that are usually negative, but they don't directly control or affect choices. the result is that mammals have free will, and that that free will is genetic, in the tabula rasa we're born with, up to the caveat that we don't decide how to manufacture proteins, that is autonomous and determined by our genetics.

it follows that the idea that being gay is genetic is actually incredibly stupid. this is obviously wrong, as the mechanism of using genes to explain sexual behaviour is incoherent. that makes absolutely no sense.

the result of looking for a gay gene - and they looked. hard. - is that they couldn't find one. all of the effort put into finding a gay gene resulted in the demonstrably clear outcome that there is no gay gene and homosexual behaviour is neither biological nor genetic but, rather, a clear individual choice that some people do or don't make. people can choose to be gay, they can choose to be straight, they can choose to be bi, or they can choose to be celibate, which is the actual choice that i've actually made for myself, in my own life.

however, what researchers did find in their attempt to find a biological basis for homosexuality, which they proved wrong, was that there are certain genes that code for testosterone and estrogen development and that errors in transcription in these genes can lead to individuals unable to produce normal amounts of sex hormones. it follows that while homosexuality has no biological basis, it is true that some biological men are born with low testosterone or high estrogen, and that this result can affect their behaviour, in leading to identify with women, or become attracted to men. this generates a biological basis for gender identity that does not exist for homosexuality.

there has recently been a movement amongst conservatives to deny all of this, and flip the evidence over to align with the outcome they want, which conservatives often do, and which is that both gender and sexuality are fixed by god, via the mechanism of genes. the way that these conservatives accept homosexuals is by deciding it's genetic, and therefore determined by god. this might allow them to handle homosexuals as non-deviants (despite their religious rules very explicitly declaring otherwise), but it has no basis in biology or in sociology or even in the mainstream of the pseudo-science we call psychology. it is, in fact, a classic example of conservative anti-intellectualism and right-wing idiocy. but, it follows that if gender and orientation are both fixed, then transgendered people are just confused; the problem is that that's wrong in it's core assumption, and every branch of science states it's wrong.

rather, the sociologists and psychologists are very clear that orientation is not fixed but fluid, and people can and do experience multiple sexual orientations in their lifetime, and are not born with a sexual orientation but rather make choices in what behaviour to engage in throughout their lives, and are free to change their mind as they see fit.

conversely, the biologists are increasingly clear that genetics is at the core of hormonal expression, and that people don't have any real choice in how their hormones are expressed in their genes, or how much of what hormone their body makes endogenously, which has a clear biological effect on their gender identity, although they do have a choice in how they want to react to that.

personally, i discovered i had low testosterone in my late teens when i began feeling experiences of gender dysphoria, and realize this biological fact is almost certainly a consequence of a genetic mutation. this low testosterone resulted in low amounts of body hair and minimal muscle mass, amongst other things. i might have decided to take testosterone injections to address that, but i didn't, and i have the free will to decide how i want to react to my own biology, because i own my own body. that is my choice, not the choice of society, and the law must uphold my right to make choices about my body, whether the society likes it or not.

i've been focusing on some things inside this week. the legal writing is almost done. there's been a few more purchases - 2 tables for the in-unit garage for $50, two more chromebooks for kids that expire in 2029 (i now have three expired chromebooks (one in 2018 and two in 2021) and two that don't expire until 2029) for $75 each, 16 more oversized wall pegs for shelving for $11, a circular saw for $70, two large containers of dill for $45, some more groceries this morning for $200 (that will max me out on virtually everything except produce until the end of december), some replacement usb to ethernet cables for these chromebooks (that no longer have rj-45s) for about $20 and $120 worth of wood, including two large shelves for books and one for under the sink that i can cut in half. next up is materials to build a bright light for in the bathroom.

i wanted to go out to buy some produce this morning, but it seems as though the despicably disgusting perverted gay retard that's been stalking me, and won't accept that i'm not a homosexual and not remotely attracted to or interested in gay men and have never had a gay friend or spent more than five minutes in total aggregate ever talking to all gay men i've ever met in my life, is upstairs. as such, i'm going to have to lock myself inside until i'm sure he's gone, and past experiences suggest to me that this might take several months or even longer.

right now, i'm looking at maybe going outside again some time in the spring. the drug addicts upstairs haven't been evicted yet and i'm starting to draw uncomfortable conclusions about it. the world is a sick place full of dishonest, worthless losers. i'll know they're gone when the heat turns on, as they always turn the heat off when they come in, but i'm concluding they're again getting in with the aid of management, and it won't mean anything if they leave for a few days. i'm going to have to order that produce.

as mentioned, i don't know what this worthless, disgusting, faggot piece of shit wants, but they insist on following me around, drugging my food and talking to me when i'm sleeping in an utterly idiotic attempt to brainwash me into being gay, which i'm not interested in and is not going to work (i would never make the free choice to engage in any kind of homosexual behaviour, which is what being gay is, a harmless personal choice that affects nobody except the gays themselves, and how the law should interpret homosexual decision-making) and apparently expects to move into the apartment and become my boyfriend, despite the fact that i've yelled at him over and over again to go kill himself and explained to him repeatedly that i'm not gay and am in fact not very socially liberal and barely tolerant of faggotry at all. i basically don't care about the fags so long as i don't have to have anything to do with them. the moment that the gays try to interfere with my life, or bother me at all, i essentially believe i'm entitled to stab them in the face and feed them to the rats, because i don't really accept the idea of gay rights in any meaningful sense. if this despicable queer ever identifies himself and tries to talk to me, as i expect he intends to do, i am going to immediately murder him, and i'm telling the world that because i want the outcome to be predictable and expected. i am a transgendered female and consider myself to be heterosexual woman. i don't respect men that choose to be gay, against all biological evidence that insists that homosexuality does not exist, and i don't want to tolerate them. i certainly don't want to be their friends, to have sex with them or to enter into any kind of relationship with them, and the only outcome of this process is consequently necessarily tragic. in what might be a stupid attempt by abject retards to try to prove that trans people don't exist, these faggot idiots are trying to brainwash me into being gay using freudian pseudoscience, because they can't accept what the actual truth is, which is that the science is clear that trans people do exist as a complex result of social conditioning and hormonal genetics, and that gay people don't exist at all, but that engaging in homosexual behaviour is a personal choice and a lifestyle decision that some heterosexual men decide to make. i've done everything i can to prevent the inevitable outcome that i'm going to have no choice but to kill this person, i want it to be described as a hate crime when it happens (as that is the correct analysis), despite also being self-defence, and i am essentially waiting for the moment in which i have the opportunity to kill them. there's no other possible outcome at this point.

right now, my focus is on securing the entry points, making sure they can't get in and locking the place down to keep them out.