canada really ought to be building more ships, more broadly.

it's somewhat absurd that we aren't. we have the longest coastline in the world and are major producers of wood, steel and aluminum.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/navy-commander-says-hes-not-looking-to-have-new-sub-fleet-built-in-canada/

so, in detroit's mayoral election, you can vote for the minister, or the minister's daughter.

and, from what i can see, you're either going to get a minister, or a minister's daughter.

the minister's daughter (she is running on this, this is her language) is a dangerous trope in american culture, and is often not quite what they seem. i fear detroit might be walking into somewhat of a trap.

but, the other option is the minister, and nobody wants to vote for a minister, for good reason. i certainly wouldn't vote for a minister.

detroit has experienced several years of gentrification. there have certainly been winners, and, as a canadian regularly transiting through detroit to concerts or other events, i'll admit i appreciated the increased lighting and infrastructure. however, i also frequently ran into the homeless population of detroit, who expected things of me that i couldn't give them, as a tourist. it's clear that the gentrification has left a lot of people behind and that is probably a factor in why detroit is now choosing between a minister and a minister's daughter.

it doesn't appear to be a close race.

if detroit is voting for wealth redistribution, i'd suggest it's required, and i hope they get some, although i might expect otherwise.

what a stupid waste of money.

not one person in canada should be forced into unemployment to purchase some stupid boats to fight wars of aggression with.

submarines have absolutely no defensive capacity whatsoever. they are strictly tools of aggression.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-submarines-carney-south-korea-9.6959659

municipalities will need to return to their previous approach, which was hiring police to stand on the side of the road with speed guns, and then pull people over to ticket them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/speed-cameras-removed-in-two-weeks-9.6960359

the ndp should vote "present" on the budget and let the election happen.

it's hard to see how polievre could be any worse than carney, given carney mimics polievre at every opportunity. they should run ads calling him a copycat.

a conservative minority could force the liberals to change course away from austerity and war.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-ndp-budget-election-vote-9.6960615

one of the items left here by the previous tenant was a three stage activated carbon hepa filter, which she seemed to use for her cat. the air quality has not been too bad, actually, but an overwhelming stench of pot or gasoline (it wasn't clear) took over about 6:00 am in the morning and was still going by 9:00 am. the heroin addicts upstairs are getting evicted this week, so i'm going to be patient about second hand smoke until they're gone.

this plug-in device, which pulls air from the room, filters it, and puts it back, has been running for about 7 hours, and the air is noticeably cleaner to breathe, even if the smell is actually still lingering. it's hard to get rid of the stench of mariijuana when gross people smoke inside for long periods.

it needs a new filter, but i'll hang on to this.

rumour has it that the announced $550 billion dollars of investment into the united states from japan will include a complete sale of the hawaiian island of o'ahu, with options to continue purchasing islands throughout the pacific ocean.

you want to go to work to do some stupid job every day in order to pay your mortgage, so that the bankers can tax you to pay for their kids?

jurisdiction for income and sales taxes are with the state government, not city council. the mayor has no authority to raise income taxes.

only jurisdiction for property taxes is with the city council.

it follows that the city can only hike property taxes, and who pays for that? the answer is middle class workers that own property.

the policies are directed at alleviating cost of living issues for renters downtown. can you afford to rent in new york? then you're not that poor, but you might be leveraging family wealth to pay it. you're not working minimum wage, or even a unionized worker; you couldn't afford to live there, if you were. should government be taxing one family member to pay for another? it will, under these polices. that's not any sort of real reform. that's not redistributive, it's more like the rich outsourcing the municipal government to act as nannies for their overgrown trust fund kids. perhaps they can create a Ministry for Upper Class Twit Management.

rather, it follows that, despite the populist rhetoric, the only implementable actual redistribution of wealth is from unionized workers that own property to the children of the middle class, who are renting downtown to work for free, then complaining they can't afford it.

these kids could stay at home until they save up enough to move out, but that is (rightfully, in truth) seen as a societal step backwards into conservative family values systems and economic feudalism. this is a legitinate, real problem. however, the solution is for the interns to unionize and demand higher wages, not to tax the property of unionized workers, and then redistribute the wealth from the gains won by the working class to pad luxurious lifestyles for the children of the elite.

socialism for the rich is the idea underlying the concept of america, but it's rooted in slavery and capitalism for the poor, which pays for it through manual labour. mamdani is nothing new, but is merely a sneaky way to enforce the status quo, by taking advantage of geo-political grievances embedded in religious and racial identity politics to enforce bourgeois economics and continue the neo-liberal project by stealth.

don't say the leftists didn't warn you.

there it is.

cuomo is the more left-wing candidate, and is actively appealing to lower class and unionized middle class voters, but he's an asshole, and he will probably suffer from low voter turnout, and the high barriers to voting that poor people face in the united states.

take it from a real socialist - zohran mamdani is not a socialist. rather, his proposals are typical middle class bourgeois attempts to leverage the state to create socialism for the bankers, at the expense of the unionized proletariat, who will see the moderate wealth they won via decades of labour action redistributed upwards to the wealthy children of the bourgeoisie, who will continue to evade paying taxes. the publicly run grocery stores will be a way for unionized workers to subsidize the functionally unemployed children of the elite for doing labour for free, a subsidy that should be paid by their employers. the correct way to force employers to pay for things is through sit down strikes, but the temp workers they hire to work for them won't unionize because they see it as a threat to their career aspirations. tax payer funded buses are a good idea in principle, but not without addressing the homeless problem, first. free subways are a more useful idea than free buses, but the buses are not used by the bourgeoisie. this creates a segregated two-tier transportation system, with for profit subways and taxpayer funded buses, and the condition of the systems will reflect those funding choices, allowing the middle class to avoid interacting with the working class. i could go on.

as a leftist, i understand that these "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor" proposals are not just non-solutions, they are the core of the collapse of late capitalism. the unionized working class will be forced to pay for this wealth redistribution upwards from the proletariat working class to the bourgeois middle class. all leftists should oppose these policies. these are the class allegiances that mamdani maintains, due to his origins.

however, i don't think that mamdani is an anti-semite. rather, he may increasingly see leveraging growing anti-semitism as a means to grasp a hold on power, in the face of the growing reality that anti-semitism is becoming a populist issue amongst the bourgeois middle classes. we have seen this before, both in america and in europe, and we know how it ends.

leftists should oppose mamdani due to his not just petite bourgeois but in fact haute bourgeois economic proposals. they should also realize he is a potential front for something much darker that is brewing beneath him, without being the cause or the driver of it.

what he wants is to prevent downward class mobility in the children of the upper class, and he wants to do that by redistributing wealth from the working class upwards (by trickling the wealth up) rather than by redistributing from the bourgeois class to the working class. it might work, but only because people are voting for other things they are projecting on to him, and which he has no jurisdiction to influence. if the ballot question was correctly placed to new yorkers, they would reject this, but the real left is moribund and the right is retarded, creating deep ignorance on both sides.

winners: middle class, bourgeois bankers

losers: the proletariat working class

the hostages have been released and gaza has been destroyed. whether you agree with this or not, and whether you feel it's justified or not, claims that netanyahu is trying to cling to power are becoming the more dominant concern, now. my position has been that it doesn't matter if netanyahu is clinging to power, because gaza needed to be destroyed in retribution. but now it matters because they have been destroyed. that's done, now.

retaliatory attacks are no longer sufficient reason to avoid calling an election.

the war against hamas should continue, but israel needs to call an election, now. the outcome might be that netanyahu, who is an old man that should retire, is replaced by somebody that his opponents think is worse. that would be the reflection of the israeli popular will. however, i think you might be surprised at the outcome, which i suspect will return the status quo, perhaps with a rearranged knesset underneath it.

justifications for the war have not ended, but justifications for prolonging democracy have ended, and netanyahu needs to face the verdict of his own people, now.

this is going to cost billions and provide nothing of value, while discarding of peoples' rights.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-expands-facial-recognition-at-borders-to-track-non-citizens/

in fact, there are leprechauns in the east indies, which underwent an evolutionary process called insular dwarfism.

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

there's lots of reasons to make fun of donald trump, but his dance moves are actually the one awesome thing about him. it's like elaine from seinfeld. while she was largely somebody you wouldn't want to hang out with, which was her quirk on the show, her dancing was the singular legitimately cool thing about her. it takes a lot of discarded fucks to have so few left as to repeatedly dance like that, and it's the one bit of street cred he actually has.

you think that broadcasting the dancing is going to mock him, but it's the one thing about him that normal people actually like. it might be the reason he won.

so, this one goes out to donald trump. 

let's keep the critique to his retarded economic policies, his tendency to let his arrogance blind his logic and his devastating embrace of conservative christian values for political gain.

i promise you that donald remembers this one.

this repost is a large update and organizes an end to this process.

i am probably coming to the end of the adventures in food bank eating, and will just be catching up on all of the fruit and salad i skipped over the last 6 months, starting in mid november.

- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.

- june 17th: hot and sour soup bacon poutine

- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon

- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise

- june 20th: caesar salad without subs

- june 21st: 2nd hot and sour soup poutine with hot and sour soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd hot and sour soup poutine with hot and sour soup with beets

- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs

- june 24th: caesar salad without subs

- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai

- june 28th: broccoli soup

- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)

- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 1st:    kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 2nd:  kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 3rd:  10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).

- july 4th:  a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.

- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 7th:  two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.

- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.

- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)

- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips

- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips

- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)

- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)

- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)

- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.

- july 16th:.  pasta with minor subs (5)

- july 17th:  pasta with minor subs (6)

- july 18th (on the 19th):  pasta with minor subs (7)

- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)

- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)

- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)

- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.

- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3

- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)

- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.

- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)

- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.

- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)

- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam. 

- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.

- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.

- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).

- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)

- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)

- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).

- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).

- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).

- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)

- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)

- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 15th: hot and sour soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.

- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.

- aug 17th: hot and sour soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.

- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)

- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.

- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early. 

- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.

- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.

- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).

- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.

- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine.  two avs.

- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.

- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.

- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.

- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.

- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.

- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.

- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.

- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).

- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.

- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. 

- sept 10th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa. 

- sept 11th: green beans that were intended for the 10th (eaten on the 12th), with mushroom soup and bacon. first skipped pasta. later, first cycle 4 guac with red pepper (eaten on 13th).

- sept 12th: canned corn that was intended for the 11th (eaten on the 13th) with bacon. 2nd skipped pasta. first tomato sandwich from cycle 4 (eaten on 13th) with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles (eaten on 13th). 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.

- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. first skipped. (eaten early on 15th) 

- sept 14th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.  second skipped. (eaten early on the 16th)

- sept 15th: first cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 16th). third skipped pasta.

- sept 16th: second cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 17th). fourth skipped pasta.

- sept 17th: first cycle 3 nachos (eaten early on the 19th). fifth skipped pasta.

- sept 18th: second cycle 3 nachos (eaten late on the 19th). sixth skipped pasta.

- sept 19th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 4 & poutine with canned potatoes (eaten early on 21st). seventh skipped pasta. 

- sept 20th: second cycle 4 guac & canned cream corn with bacon meal, eaten on 21st and 22nd. eighth skipped pasta.

- sept 21st: two for 1 bk whoppers (no lettuce, extra pickles) with added monterrey jack (melted), franks and caesar, with four of those cheesy jalapeno things and two apple turnovers. eaten late on the 23rd. ninth skipped pasta.

- sept 22nd: first cycle 4 nachos (eaten during day on 24th). tenth skipped pasta.

- sept 23rd: second cycle 4 nachos (eaten early on 25th). eleventh skipped pasta.

- sept 24th: first tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten late on 25th). twelfth skipped pasta.

- sept 25th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten early on 26th). thirteenth skipped pasta.

- sept 26: pasta with minor subs (35). third cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. third skipped.

- sept 27th: pasta with minor subs (36). fourth cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fourth skipped.

- sept 28th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten early on 29th. soy saved to be eaten with two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 30th.

- sept 29th: pasta with minor subs (37). first cycle 10 pasta. eaten early on the 1st. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fifth skipped. two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 2nd.

- sept 30th: pasta with minor subs (38). second cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. sixth skipped. eaten late on the 2nd. three pieces of toast with cheese, eaten late on the 3rd.

- oct 1st: -------

- oct 2nd: --------------

- oct 3rd: 7-11 pizza with taquito and two glasses of orange juice. eaten early on 4th.

- oct 4th: pizza crusts fried with bacon, margarine, cheese + caesar, brocolli, avocado. eaten early on 5th

- oct 5th: extra large pizza eaten on 5th,

- oct 6th: pizza crusts fried with bacon, margarine, cheese + caesar, carrot. eaten on 6th

- oct 7th: second cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten on oct 7th.

- oct 8th: two nutrigrain bars, one half a container of cookies, 1st cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten oct 9th/10th.

- oct 9th:  rest of cookies + small pizza pizza, including crusts. 

- oct 10th: two small crispers bags, one nutrigrain, one granola bar, big bag of "veggie straws" (which are cheeseless cheezies).

- oct 11th: big bag of cheeseless cheezies, six fruit rollups, one small container of apple sauce, two chicken sadwiches from food basics roasted chicken

- oct 12th: two chicken sandwiches from food basics roast chicken

- oct 13th: second cycle 3 caesar salad, with packaged lettuce subbed for kale and with two broken fried eggs and cucumber added. served with buttered sub bun. 

- oct 14th: first tomato sandwich from cycle 6 with chicken sidekick noodles. two apples, eaten later.

- oct 15th: first cycle 4 caesar salad, with packaged lettuce subbed for kale and cucumber and apple added. served with buttered sub bun. one apple, eaten later.

- oct 16th: second cycle 4 bacon & eggs. no salsa. two apples, later.

=================================================cycle 4 eaten through, except for four exceptions.

- oct 17th: first cycle 5 cereal, with two plain instant oatmeals, each with an apple and a touch of chocolate soy. also, two pop tarts to test the new toaster. 

- oct 18th: first cycle 5 guac, with added cucumber and with white rice, but as third component. first component was 75% of a pineapple (because it needed to be eaten) with a cup of apple sauce. second component was canned cream of corn with bacon, dill, cheese, caesar, frank's, nutritional yeast & hemp seeds.

- oct 19th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered bun. cycle 5 salsa. 

- oct 20th: second cycle 6 tomato sandwich, with chinese noodles.

- oct 21st: first cycle 7 tomato sandwich, with chinese noodles.

- oct 22nd & 23rd: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered bun. cycle 6 salsa. this took me two tries.

- oct 24th & 25th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins, and cucumber and apple. served with buttered bun. cycle 7 salsa. this took me two tries.

- oct 26th: 6 pop tarts, one bag of goldfish chips and a can of mildly expired ravioli.

- oct 27th: first cycle 5 bacon & eggs. no salsa. served with last buttered bun. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- oct 28th & 29th: second cycle 5 guac, with white rice, canned corn, cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- oct 30th & 31st: second cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.  

- nov 1st & 2nd: first cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and cucumber and apple. served with one buttered hawaiian roll. two pieces of white toast with peanut butter, later.

- nov 3rd & 4th: second cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. no orange.

- nov 5th & 6th: one piece of white toast with peanut butter, six hawaiian rolls with peanut butter, three hawaiian rolls with jam and four mini apple sauces, eaten over the course of multiple installments..

- nov 7th & 8th: first cycle 7 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. three pieces of brown bread with jam. no orange.

- nov 9th: tuna sandwich monterrey melt (as before) with uncle ben gumbo with cheese, caesar and frank's. four pieces of brown bread with jam.

- nov 10th: second cycle 5 bacon & eggs, no salsa.

- nov 11th & 12th: second cycle 7 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa with apple. no orange.

- nov 13th & 14th: first cycle 6 guac, with white rice, canned corn. no orange.

- nov 15th & 16th: second cycle 6 guac, with white rice, canned corn. two oranges.

- nov 17th & 18th: first cycle 7 guac, with white rice, canned peas. two oranges.

- nov 19th & 20th: second cycle 7 guac, with canned mixed vegetables and instant rice with bacon. two oranges. eaten in three meals over two days, with an extra orange and an extra avocado and a large bag of dill pickle potato chips.

- nov 21st & 22nd: hot and sour soup poutine &  hot and sour soup.

- nov 23rd: hot and sour soup poutine & hot and sour soup.

- nov 24th: pizza

- nov 25th: second cycle 5 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- nov 26th/27th: first cycle 5 nachos. 2x juice.

- nov 28th/29th: second cycle 5 nachos. 2x juice.

===================================cycle 5 eaten through, except for four exceptions

- nov 30th: first cycle 6 nachos.

- dec 1st : second cycle 6 nachos.

- dec 2nd: first cycle 6 bacon & eggs. with salsa. 

- dec 3rd: second cycle 6 bacon & eggs. with salsa.

- dec 4th: first cycle 6 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 5th: second cycle 6 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

==============================cycle 6 eaten through, except for four exceptions

- dec 6th: the salsas for the cycle 7 bacon and eggs, together, with cheese and yeast.

- dec 7th: first cycle 7 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 8th: second cycle 7 bacon & eggs. no salsa.

- dec 9th: first cycle 8 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa (to eat red pepper & broc)

- dec 10th: second cyle 8 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa (to eat red pepper & broc)

- dec 11th/12th: first cycle 7 nachos. 2x juice.

- dec 13th/14th: second cycle 7 nachos. 2x juice.

- dec 15th: second cycle 7 tomato sandwich

- dec 16th: first cycle 7 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

- dec 17th: second cycle 7 cereal, including a bowl with two instant oatmeals and an apple with a touch of chocolate soy.

===================cycle 7 eaten through, except for four exceptions.

- : first cycle 8 bacon & eggs. with salsa.

- : second cycle 8 bacon & eggs. with salsa.

- dec th: first cycle 8 nachos

- dec th: second cycle 8 nachos

- first cycle 8 cereal

- second cycle 8 cereal

- first cycle 8 guac

- second cycle 8 guac

- first cycle 8 tomato sandwich.

dec 18th: appointment

dec 18th: $1200 cdb check

after dec 20th: caesar grocery run

- eat through caesar salads from cycle 4---->cycle 8, putting kale stalks aside. eat with canned soups. add chicken (chicken caesar salads), made with grill. this is 9 caesar salads, a and might be as much as 20 days worth. this will get me through to mid january. january groceries via december 22nd payment date. big caesar salad purchase after dec 20th.

- eat through garden salads from cycle 2---->cycle 8. eat with canned soups. maybe add meat. this is 14 meals, as much as 30 days.

- fruit & ice cream from cycle 2---->cycle 8. 14 days.

- then, kick into cycle 9, skipping over pasta for cycles 9 and the first part of cycle 10, and going back to schedule in cycle 11.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (39). third cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (40). fourth cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (41). first cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (42). second cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami. 

- feb : pasta with minor subs (43). third cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti.  subbed for salami.

- feb : pasta with minor subs (44). fourth cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. subbed for salami.

- probably no more food bank runs are going to be necessary, but i'll see.

- get back to schedule first

- the fact is that i like the idea of getting random food and figuring out how to prepare it

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- mar : pasta with minor subs (45). first cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. thirteenth skipped. 

- mar : pasta with minor subs (46). second cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

- mar : second cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.

- mar : pasta with minor subs (47). third cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

- mar : pasta with minor subs (48). fourth cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.

if donald trump gets assassinated during a third term, is that a third term abortion?

in the west, there is an ignorant belief that palestinians are arabs, but there has been no arab power here for centuries, and it was shortlived when it did exist.

the two powers in the area for the last 1000 years have been the egyptians and turks, and egypt was often ruled by turkish dynasties. arabs like to pretend otherwise, but israel, lebanon and syria are outside of the arab sphere of influence.

it only makes sense to let egyptians or turks patrol gaza. gulf arabs shoud not be allowed to do this. this is way too far away from them.

israel would be right to oppose turks in the west bank, but turks in gaza might provide the stability the egyptians can't. a turkish port would be good for the israeli economy. and, if it doesn't work, they can divide turks and egyptiians by setting them against each other.

a potential turkish staging ground should not cause alarm in israel. turkey would require american approval.

it's been clear for a while now that the french have some level of shady backroom dealing with iran through lebanon. i would hope it's not nuclear.

the french would only do this to hide something.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/unifil-shoots-down-idf-surveillance-drone-over-southern-lebanon-sparking-public-tiff/

the remaining items in my order arrived this afternoon and i was able to put three shelves up, which was the last thing to do, for now. the four packages that came in were the mini keyboard, the adhesive pegs, the bookshelf pins and some j-cloths.

the last things left are the doorbell and the wood shelf for under the cabinet. next, i need to finish some bulk purchases that i'll probably do via uber and then take a run to the bulk barn this week to fill up the spice shelf.

i'm going to take some pictures and start writing a post up.

the premiers should not be running ads like this in the united states, but i'm less concerned about the division of powers and more concerned about retaliation. it's clearly foreign interference, and the americans are correct to make an international incident out of it, but i don't want to even imagine what they might to do in response, as i don't want to give them ideas.

the provinces should led the feds deal with this.

of course this devolves into a s. 92 debate. that's as canadian as living in igloos. glad to see we're still a sovereign country, after all.

no, i don't want to talk about devolution, either, but we're probably going to, and we should be happy about it, and take pride in it. the true north.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/carney-u-s-talks-provinces-anti-tariff-ads

if i were the pmo, i would not return any further calls from donald trump, but rather direct that intergovernmental communication occur via the appropriate bureaucrats and dignitaries over the appropriate channels.

if i were the prime minister, i would make it clear that i would not be interested in any sort of further communication with donald trump for any reason at all.

i think that canada should respond to trump's reaction to the sports events ads by telling him that we're not going to sign a deal with him at all. 

canada should refuse further discussions on reciprocity agreements and instead wait for the next president to take office before resuming trade negotiations, and we should tell that to the united states in blunt terms.

that would be 2028/9. 

we should wait it out.

i suspect that the president is upset that his local sports team did not advance in the competition the ads were broadcast during. apparently, the canadian team located in the city of toronto, which i believe is the only canadian team in this competition, advanced instead. it's some kind of cricket that is very popular in the united states and that i know very little about. 

if landlords are allowed to unilaterally alter the terms of a lease, then it isn't a lease. this is functionally a proposal to abandon the entire concept of a rental contract altogether, and just let landlords do whatever they want, on a whim. apparently, the government believes this will alleviate the housing crisis, by freeing up additional stock, by evicting the people that live there.

that's right - the ontario government's solution to the lack of affordable housing is to evict more people, therefore creating more housing. statistically speaking, that's what would happen, allowing them to campaign on creating more housing spaces.

i wouldn't rent an apartment from somebody without a lease agreement, and landlords may actually find that they have difficulty finding tenants, under the proposed amendments.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/proposal-rent-control-removal-ontario-9.6952992

if we're going to have a conservative government whether we like it or not, let the conservatives govern. i certainly have no support for the sitting government and would like to see it defeated. i would have no support for the budget being proposed, which cuts services to pay for guns to fight wars overseas, and would vote against it so long as it continues to push austerity to pay for death, which appears to be non-negotiable. 

i have absolutely no confidence in mark carney or the liberals whatsoever.

let's have another election.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-house-leader-budget-votes-9.6953599

trump doesn't want argentina to cry for him, clearly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-argentina-farmers-trade-9.6950426

the pseudo-left in canada has really pulled off a neat trick in conflating canada with the united states, and in the process making us a 51st state.

historical reality is that the long, devastating british civil war that existed from 1776 to 1945 was unquestionably the single most important global conflict of it's era, and it is itself an extension of the franco-british conflict that started well before the norman invasion of england in 1066. the differences between the united states and canada are not just deep and profound, but have been one of the major drivers of history for centuries and are rooted in an ongoing cultural conflict that has been ongoing for over a thousand years.

it's just easy and it's just lazy, so they keep doing it, but they're going to be eradicated as a result of it.

the foreign born subset of the petite bourgeoisie in canada is a more conservative and more aggressively competitive subset of the petite bourgeoisie than the domestically born nouveau riche, as the aristocratic class uses advanced data and technological screening methods in their immigration policy to isolate potential migrants as conservative and competitive with the explicit intend to expand the petite bourgeoisie, as that broadens their tax base. liberal and conservative governments pick new immigrants with the intent of them becoming new members of the petite bourgeoisie, which is a marxist term that is largely equivalent to the capitalist term "entrepreneur", because they want to tax them as bourgeois, and not as proletariat. 

the disconnect is that the canadian pseudo-left relies almost entirely on american analyses that use american economic data. however, the united states has very rarely adopted similar policies. immigration policy in the the united states is largely a legacy of slavery and is primarily intended to increase the size of the proletariat in order to drive down wages, not to increase the size of the petite bourgeoisie to increase the tax base. canadian immigration policy is rooted not in hispanic/arabic slavery but in british colonialism, which sought to populate new regions with free british citizens that could generate their own wealth, with the purposes of taxing them.

if the canadian pseudo-left wants to reconnect with the canadian proletariat, it needs to start by using canadian economic data that is relevant to the canadian proletariat, and stop relying on american data and stop trying to apply distinctly american social theories that are rooted in the legacy of slavery and are not relevant in canada.

canadian voters don't care about this one way or another, they care about who they think will help them survive in an increasingly difficult economic reality, and they can correctly realize that out of control immigration is harming their economic status. there's no contradiction in building a bigger tent that focuses on the economic concerns of the proletarian majority and listening to the mostly unrelated concerns of special interest minority groups unless you want there to be one to advance your own political career.

but this framing of left and right is backwards. macpherson sounds more like marx than avi lewis does, here. marx would not let special interest groups that represent petite bourgeoisie economic concerns and are focused on non-economic issues overpower the economic rights of the proletariat class. avi lewis sounds more like a red tory type conservative, who is protecting the interests of the immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie against the populist demands of proletariat workers.

it's not really the contemporary pseudo-left's fault, as they are inheriting framing left to them by the orwellian movements that developed out of the "new left" in the 1960s, and which sought to redefine the left in orwellian language. however, the complete irrelevance of the contemporary pseudo-left in the lives of proletariat voters, who have subsequently turned to conservatives or liberals that do no represent their economic interests, is giving the ndp the choice to determine whether it wants to abandon it's historical position as a sanctioned proletariat opposition, or whether it wants to become the mouthpiece of an immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie, which is what it has increasingly become since the death of jack layton.

the so-called racialized groups being spoken of are not struggling or oppressed minorities in canada and in most cases have never been, as they only began entering the country after changes to immigration in the 1960s, and have little to no history in canada as substantive entities in the pre-modern era. over the last ten to fifteen years, the ndp has attempted to position itself as the party of educated immigrants, who delusionally see themselves as marginalized groups, but are in truth privileged groups with high incomes and in many cases have special rights that the rest of the population does not. this premise that the proletariat is increasingly made up of racialized groups is actually racist, as it's based on racial assumptions that are rooted in american culture and not upheld by canadian economic data; the ndp's attempt to reach out to what it assumes are racialized groups but are actually privileged groups, because it is a racist party, has led it to become a mouthpiece of this subset of the bourgeoisie that was not born in canada. it then continues to delude itself that it's representing oppressed racialized minorities instead of privileged bourgeois immigrant groups when challenged on this point, largely because it's beholden to the funding it receives from wealthy immigrants. the result is that it's lost party status, as it is simultaneously abandoned by the proletariat and the groups it is trying to reach out to, which are predictably voting in favour of their own class interests, which are bourgeois and not proletariat. it might get wiped out soon altogether, leaving the proletariat as disenfranchised, and destabilizing the base of canadian society.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ndp-leadership-rivals-at-odds-over-purity-test-framing

the government has regularly cut taxes after every election cycle for the last 30 years. the result is that it is so underfunded that it's unable to support it's most vulnerable populations, and is instead resorting to scapegoating them in backwards reagan-era propaganda about senior welfare queens.

the government should raise taxes on the "middle class" to ensure it has enough revenue to fund it's spending obligations as an oecd country.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-urged-to-cut-old-age-security-spending-in-upcoming-budget

unless he's announcing reparation to the indigenous population, the pope should shut the fuck up about canada.

the pmo should call the pope to tell him to fuck off and go back to worrying about mumbling at walls.

i would support israeli annexation of the west bank.

the only viable path towards enforceable palestinian rights law is as full citizens in an israeli state. any theoretical palestinian state, as unlikely as one ever is, would be another backwards theocracy that oppresses it's own citizens, and where people have no civil and legal rights to deviate from violently enforced religious norms. it would be another brutal dictatorship in the region, and gaza under hamas is the inescapable model for it.

refusing to allow israeli annexation of the west bank continues to indefinitely and endlessly render the palestinian people as stateless and rightless until they simply cease to exist at all, which is the inevitable outcome of the status quo, and leaves them with no democratic influence into the events unfolding around them.

if you are opposing annexation out of concerns about what israel calls a "demographic problem", you at least have a position rooted in logic, but it's fundamentally incompatible with the values of secular democracy and a position i would strongly oppose. if you are opposing annexation because you worry about the possibility of palestinian extremism destabilizing the region, which is the position held by local governments, you are in truth probably right. but if you think that opposing annexation of the west bank by israel advances the rights of the stateless individuals living there, most of whom are hebrew in ancestry, you are an absolute idiot.

19th century european ethnic nationalism is a foolish model to colonially enforce on 21st century populations on the periphery of european civilization. in the modern world, states have diverse populations that speak multiple languages.

mr trump will not have his friends ridiculed by the common soldiery.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/israel-version-saturday-night-live-224244449.html

if you've ever had a golden retriever, you understand the psychological trauma that throwing a basketball is putting them through, even if they react like perfect stoics. it is little known that the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, who was the offspring of an earlier emperor, and the horse that he married. after all, horses are just big, stupid dogs; when you mate a horse with a human, you backcross and implement dwarfism, creating golden retrievers. it's genetically obvious.

i've had a number of these creatures around. there was a goldie, a minnie and the unfortunately named lou, who didn't understand she was a dog. you know the type. well, she didn't have a dog name. what did anybody expect?

golden retrievers are hardwired to the innermost depths of their souls to catch and retrieve. they have to do it. it's an impulsive mental health issue, and when they start retrieving shoes, or food, or toddlers, it becomes an obsession that affects their day to day lives, and justifies seeking and requiring help.

when you throw a basketball at a golden retriever, what is going through it's mind is "i get to catch! i love to catch!", and so the dog jumps up to catch the ball, to satisfy this primal urge that it has to release. of course, it fails due to the physical reality that the ball cannot fit in the dog's mouth, which it lacks the mathematical education in geometry to calculate beforehand. this is a crushing level of failure.

as mentioned, the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, and all goldens since then have been deep stoics. you will never know how crushed and devastated your golden is, unless in immense pain, and it will still kiss you. emotions are for weakling dogs.

please, people - throw your goldens things it can catch. stop torturing it like this. it's viciously cruel.

i'm waiting for paul calandra to ban people from parking in grocery store parking lots.

in fact, this is the 9th or 10th example of this in the last few months and there have been fatalities. ontario has a serious problem with elderly drivers that shouldn't be behind the wheel that needs to be addressed by evidence-based policies and not knee-jerk moralism.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/lasalle-woman-charged-after-car-smashes-into-grocery-store/

reagan, huh?

my understanding is that reagan was ideologically in line with thatcherism and it's elevation of liberal concepts of free trade over the traditionally mercantilist views of british conservatism, but that he would often use tariffs against economies where there was overwhelming government intervention. that said, reagan's massive defense spending as a form of economic stimulus, and the eye-boggling amount of debt he created via defense spending, was also extremely keynesian. reagan was more like the last tax and spend liberal in american history than the first thatcherite neo-liberal.

i don't regard ronald reagan as much more than a dumb cowboy that destroyed america, but i likewise don't think reagan would have much respect for donald trump, or that they have much in common, policy-wise.

trump is more like the love child of bill clinton and richard nixon mating.

i should get some pictures of the kitchen up by the end of the weekend.

unfortunately, i need to spend the next few hours writing court documents.

the temporary icj order against israel, as has been the case with other related orders by this body, suffers from definitional problems and factual inaccuracies. 

is israel occupying gaza? is that true?

is israel blocking the supply of aid? is that true?

there's some kernel of truth in these claims. they're half-truths, or quarter-truths, or pi-truths.

how seriously you want to take this order is going to depend on how seriously you want to interpret the premises. certainly, if gaza is an occupying power, it should be letting food in. however, if israel is merely at war against hamas, and not occupying gaza, a blockade is a legitimate strategy.

i have continually blamed most of this stuff on the egyptians, who aren't and never have lived up to their responsibilities.

a couple of years ago, the price of oil skyrocketed due to a war and other issues, and the idiots at the bank of canada thought increasing interest rates would reduce the effects of foreign conflicts on commodity prices, which created a brutal housing crisis. now, our government has foolishly hiked tariffs to respond to an economic attack by donald trump, and the inflation rate is predictably up. are the retards at the bank of canada going to raise rates again?

inflation has nothing to do with interest rates or with unemployment. the philips curve is thoroughly debunked and dead and buried, but the government won't adjust. it continues to use an inflation model that was proven wrong almost 50 years ago.

i would actually benefit from both inflation and higher interest rates, so long as i don't have to move soon, and i'm happy to watch these things move together and laugh at the eggheads when they complain that the philips curve isn't working. the tariffs are gone now, but sellers may never reverse prices back to the place they were before the tariffs were implemented, which should have in itself been a reason not to do it.

the bank of canada needs serious systemic reform. it's been waiting decades for something to replace the philips curve, and nothing has; nothing will. the connection is false. there's no causal relationship to uncover because there's no correlation in the first place.

if the bank hikes rates again and cites inflation from the retaliatory tariffs, tiff macklem should be tarred and feathered and forced to spend a day in the economics 101 class at the school he graduated from in a clown costume.

i would support a strengthened points system, and a return to the immigration rules we had from 1975-2005ish.

the reason canadians supported reasonable immigration levels in the past was that we had high entrance requirements. stephen harper started breaking down those entrance requirements to bring in more conservative voters from religious societies, and justin trudeau bizarrely accelerated harper's policy. we now have an irresponsible immigration policy with low entrance requirements, including letting people bring their grandparents with them, which is insane.

canadians have not changed their views.

the government has abandoned responsible immigration policy, and canadians are rejecting that shift in policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-too-many-immigrants-9.6945905

i wasn't able to find any sign of roaches behind the fridge, but i lysolled it to death and dumped a little bleach in the condenser tray. let's see how the fuckers like that.

it's time to stock up on pantry items for the winter as well, and i just spend $600 on a gigantic walmart order, bu i won't have to buy this stuff again until the spring, and in some cases i haven't bought it since last year. that should mostly be there in the morning but some of it will need to be shipped.

so, i'm getting there.

i think my kitchen table won't get here until tomorrow.

it was the squirrel's birthday, clearly.

the squirrel could have just as easily eaten through a garbage bin, right? compost needs to be disposed of carefully. so, we might have some user error.

leave it in the freezer until the morning of the pickup date if you can. but, that's how you should store your garbage, anyways.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/squirrel-eats-into-windsor-green-bin-9.6945893

it would make no sense for the russians to just stop, without any guarantees of nato withdrawals, and without securing any kind of geographic boundary.

it would suit the united states for that to happen. sure. but the russians would be retarded to take that offer.

it seems as though mr. schreiner forgot to call shotgun.

the speaker's reasoning is sophomoric.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11486776/green-party-leader-moved-to-ontario-legislature-back-bench/

i had a rough weekend, and didn't get much done. i'm feeling more stable, but very gross and disgusting and filthy. i got a lot of cleaning done overnight, including a good clean of the rest of the stove and some placement of items around the kitchen. my table should get there today, which should help me put almost everything away.

i am noticing a couple of roaches down here around the fridge. i am going to have to pull it back out and see what's under there.

i hindsight, i think the gross freaks likely managed to get something in my food before i left the previous apartment. i remember a few moments where i felt like i was on something while i was moving, and that build up of dry skin might not have been natural. the weekend after i found the key, i isolated some soy milk, and then didn't drink it. i wonder if they drugged something else, but i don't know what. i guess the hot sauce is the most logical guess.

i wanted to do a large walmart purchase this morning for cleaning and bathroom supplies, but the website isn't working and i'm going to fall asleep instead.

i'm more than a little bit depressed about the situation, but i'm making progress on the kitchen. this is the fourth place these sick losers have followed me to. they appear to have no lives of their own to live. am i going to have to deal with this until they die?

kushner claims he's not interested in history - he tells people trying to explain the history to him to fuck off.

there's a word for that. it's ignorance.

that being said, ignorance may perhaps be bliss, but not in this context. this is actually a marxist argument; it's plato's allegory of the cave. you don't know you're enslaved if you don't know what freedom is; if you don't know the history, you're not shackled to it. maybe there actually are some problems in the world that you can solve by wiping the blackboard clean and starting over, and maybe there is some truth in the idea that that's going to have to be done here at some point, but what that tactic is missing is overwhelming force. when does a year zero happen? it happens after annihilation, and we've seen that in...history. yes, the historical precedents for abandoning history (this is necessary if you don't want to fail miserably.) are after brutal attacks of the plague, catastrophic wars, devastating natural disasters and what not. if you want to abandon history and start fresh with a tabula rasa in israel, you probably either need to drop a nuke on jerusalem, or you need to let netanyahu finish the job first. hamas is not going to ignore the recent history, and israel is not going to abandon it's historical pretexts, but if you pound gaza into the ground enough, and kill enough of the opposition, they'll have no choice but to start over again. 

right now, there's a contradiction in asserting a new beginning, without enforcing an end to the old paradigm, and it won't work so long as that contradiction exists. unfortunately, the point of intervening is to prevent the level of destruction required to get to an endpoint. 

this seems to be doomed.

but there's a kernel of what is perhaps helpful thinking in it. starting new is a good idea, it's just that you have to let the process finish, first.

destruction is not always negative. sometimes, destruction is required to rebuild. - blixa bargeld (paraphrased)

for most white people in canada, the most important holiday of the year is halloween.

i think that's correct, as it's the last genuie remaining vestige of indigenous european culture, in many respects. decolonizing europe from christian brainwashing and reclaiming indigenous european cultural values will in many ways begin with reasserting the centrality of halloween on the calendar.

i am now 100% certain that they're in the building, and followed me. i don't know how or when they drugged me. 

there is only one person with a key to the door.

for that reason, i'm choosing to deal with this by blasting it out with prescribed hormones, this time. next time, if there is one, i'll need to go the lab and get tested.

i should get to the lab in the next few weeks, one way or another, as i need a "clean" drug test to file my package with police, and i haven't been able to get one yet.

these morons seem to think that i'm gay. it's a reflection of their lack of intelligence, their extreme stupidity.

competition is a fiercely anti-individualistic process, as it's rooted in the idea of comparing yourself to others. true individualism is not interested in positioning yourself relative to your peers, but in recognizing that your peers are also individuals. the premise of competition undermines individuality.

likewise, market economies are overwhelmingly collectivist, as they are rooted in aggregate demand, which is an expression of collectivist will. a necessary precondition for arriving at individualism is abolishing collectivist market thinking.

conservatives are generally very stupid people, and they tend to have a hard time comprehending this.

a system of distributive justice based on actual data in canada would have asian and muslim communities donating their wealth to white people, not the other way around.

i really don't have an interest in this debate, because it's a question of how competitive you want society to be.

i oppose all forms of competition. i don't think the government should be awarding contracts based on "merit", i think it should be awarding contracts based on need. all forms of competition breed violence and fascism. if the claim is that merit-based decision making is liberal, i would suggest the opposite - that competition is always illiberal and that liberal governments should be focusing on cooperative behaviour and on distributive justice, based on the principle to each according to their needs.

that said, the question of contracting based on need rather than merit doesn't come up with the answer of affirmative action, if it excludes members of what are seen as the dominant group that are actually, in fact, at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. if the intent is to balance opportunities, ignoring a growing underclass of impoverished white people in canada is missing the mark. rather, a system intended to balance opportunities should be based on actual data, and focus on class rather than race.

it follows that neither side of this debate takes positions i want to support, but i strongly oppose the language in this article. there is nothing liberal about fostering competition amongst peers; that kind of thinking is regressive and backwards and should be condemned as anti-social and illogical.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/poilievre-push-end-government-dei

these are the kinds of programs the liberals are cutting in order to offset irresponsible tax cuts and buy more weapons to fight the russians with.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/gender-based-violence-funding-federal-budget-1.7652253

as far as i can tell, the only difference between stephen harper and mark carney is that carney is a nazi-islamist sympathizer and harper isn't and, if that's the ballot question, i'd actually rather vote for stephen harper, as a leftist.

hamas is pretty stupid. bickering about trivialities aside, they killed a couple of idf soldiers this morning, and israel can't and won't ignore that. their nihilistic faith that their god will bring them victory in jihad can have no end but their own slaughter. trying to negotiate with them is foolish.

bacon saves everything. always.

it's those damned u-boats from argentina.

drug carrying subs, huh?

is that a dmt? can you get one with bacon?

and mushrooms?

and a robitussin-based special sauce?

subway's new dmt sandwich, which includes bacon and mushrooms, as well as subway's new special sauce, based on robitussin, will have you ripping your own face off in no time!

apparently this unelected mob of protesters wants donald trump removed from power because he's a threat to democracy.

these people have lost their understanding of irony. they've become stupid republicans.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/no-kings-protests-9.6944035

it's clear they drugged me, and i think i've heard them in the building, although i'm only 70% about that last one. it's hard to be clear what exactly you're hearing in the first 30 seconds after you wake up. i need to be methodical about this. i think i heard them; i'm not sure.

i had cereal last night, which contained a number of food items i had stored in my kitchen for weeks or months, as i have not been eating a lot of cereal lately. it is possible that i ate food that was drugged before i moved.

i had my locks changed immediately on moving in here, so the only other key is with a property manager. i did that intentionally to minimize potential access points. there are no random keys floating around out there. i have several, and he has one. that's it.

i have not yet found any suspicious signs of entry.

if i'm eating through old food that has been spiked, that's frustrating, but i'll have to deal with it. i don't know how you spike cereal, though.

i need to be careful and i will be. i've learned through the several moves that the stalker is a dangerous criminal and that this is a criminal issue. it's not a civil issue, or at least not on it's face, and i need to treat it strictly as a criminal matter, until i'm able to catch and prosecute them.

the struggle against superstition, belief, faith, mythology, ignorance and religion has been at the core of the project for civilization since the dawn of history. i am facing the same challenges that millions have before me, for thousands of years.

the fact that it seemed like we had defeated religion in the west after the triumph of secularism in the french revolution make this extra frustrating. i have had the luxury to live my life in freedom, without the retarding effects of religion.

the fact remains, nonetheless: the triumph of secularism over religion is incomplete, and this struggle remains. i have no choice but to continue to fight it with as much vigour and resolve as my ancestors before me did.

secularists need to be more aggressive about the scientific reality that islam is a dangerous mental illness that viciously oppresses and tortures peoples and needs to be violently eradicated. there is no future in the world for such a sick and distorted perspective of reality. it's not harmless idiocy that should be ignored as dumb people mumbling at things, it's a dangerous cult that threatens to severely limit people's freedoms, and already is.

i'm tired of the idiocy. these people are retards. they have no concept of individual choice, they don't believe in free will.

but i need to continue to generate evidence to file the relevant police reports and send these disgusting people to jail. i have no choice. they won't leave me alone.

these horrible fucked up mentally ill losers have followed me again.

i don't know what to do. i want to kill myself. this torture doesn't end. they won't stop. they think that torturing me is some kind of "therapy" and they want there to be some kind of "miracle".

belief in god is the most fucked up mental illness in human history. these horrible cults, mostly jewish in origin, have caused untold human suffering for millions of people. we need a global project to violently eradicate all religion from the earth, to end the suffering and oppression it creates.

i have to fight them and i have to bring them to justice. i have to make this worth something. my suffering cannot be in vain. i'm going to make this oppression count for something. they're never going to do this to anybody else.

it's the local mosque. once again, it's the muslims in the building. that's how they're organizing their torture and their sick belief system.

you've got millions of kids sent to school after eating pop tarts for breakfast, and rfk wants to know why they all have adhd, which doesn't exist.

you should check these kids for diabetes first before you worry about their mental acuity.

it's been cold in here since i moved in because the furnace has been blowing cold air. it turns out it must have been something to do with the thermostat upstairs because the furnace finally kicked in with force this evening, kicking the temperature up to over 30 degrees. i expect that to be temporary as the heat rises and balances out through the house, but i do not need to worry about the furniture. the furniture works.

i also tried my new wide slotted toaster out with some pop tarts i got from the food bank. no, i would never buy or eat pop tarts, normally, but hey. when i was a kid, my mom would have yelled at me, although she was mostly concerned about not wasting money on junk food that could be spent on drugs and the idea of telling me to eat an apple instead was just convenient for her. so, i have no history of consuming garbage marketed as food, and it's certainly been in my benefit. but i had an apple, too.

what's the point of voting for the liberals in this country, when they just propose fascist bullshit, over and over again?

this bill won't get out of committee, but the fact that they're proposing it should set off red flags to any actual liberals intending to vote for them. this bill should be devastating to their poll numbers.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/10/16/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-measures-combat-crime

speaking of the homeless problem in new york, it would appear to me that mamdani needs somebody to help him find a shower and a shave, and get a chance to clean himself up a little, which might maybe help him find some kind of job.

andrew cuomo is really not a very nice guy. he personifies a certain stereotype of new yorkers that a lot of people from that city might not want to see themselves in.

he's the superior candidate. there's no question. but, he's an asshole - unlikable and insufferable, even. you would not want to have a beer with this guy. he's likely permanently harmed his own ambitions with his inherent new yorkiness.

hey, can't you see i'm running for office, here? get out of my fucking way.

american missiles in ukraine is logically equivalent to russian missiles in cuba, which you probably have no understanding of. it was something that happened in the middle of the last century. it was the closest we've ever been to world war three.

but, there's a deeper historical parallel, because the russians were at the time responding to the americans placing missiles in turkey.

jfk was a psychotic, mentally ill, drug addict retard and lbj did the right thing in assassinating him. let's hope history doesn't have to repeat as farce.

i would really rather see john bolton indicted at the hague, but they can't because the united states is not a party to the convention.

this is the wrong way to bring this vicious war criminal to justice, but it's hard to have any sympathy for the piece of shit, too.

reverse onus bail conditions are illiberal and fascist and should be opposed by all. they are fundamentally inconsistent with the values of a free and democratic society and a first step in a societal collapse from democracy into theocracy and totalitarianism.

i'd sign up for this.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/canada-ireland-basic-income-9.6938453

the temperature has been up and down around the 20 degree mark the last week. it's been late summer or early fall weather - in ontario, that's assigned to early or mid september. but it's mid october.

it looks set to finally crash to fall temperatures next week, around october 20th. but, we should expect it to rebound for a week or two of summer temperatures in november, still.

the end result is that it looks like we're going to get our crash this october after all, but in two steps, and delayed by about two weeks. the crash is usually before october 10th. this year. it's scheduled for about october 20th.

sending the marines in to forcibly disarm hamas is probably the most efficient approach possible. i would hope this is done with cooperation from egypt.

one of the things about living here is that it means i don't have to worry about shifting electrical rates, so i can go back to just sleeping when i'm tired. my schedule should re-randomize as a result of that, and i should find i'm more refreshed and less tired.

the first thing i'm working on is the kitchen, which means a lot of cleaning and a couple of new appliances and pieces of furniture. the previous tenant in this basement appears to have abandoned the place and left most of her stuff here, including a large amount of dishes and cutlery that are now mine, a kettle (which is something i wanted to pick up), a vegetable slicer and a coffee warmer / induction plate. i've added the kettle and induction plate to my standard coffee maker, my single cup coffee maker (which i'm using for potent espresso), my toaster and my blender. since i came in on saturday night, i have managed to clean the cupboards, the counters, the inside of the fridge and the floor behind the fridge, but it's a pretty big space and is going to require a lot more work.

on sunday night, i bought some plastic shelves to fit into a specific hole under the counter, as well as a fan, a shoe rack and two thermometers, one of which is an alarm clock and is still in transit.

i spent last night toying with how i was going to extend the shelves and decided to go with a large wood table i found on the curb a few days ago.

tonight, i purchased a large 33"x18" bar fridge (it was 50% off) that i intend to actually use as a produce fridge. my diet is 90% vegetables, which means my fridge is often moist. i'd like to put the things that evaporate in their own space, so things like bread don't get wet. that will clear up more space in the main fridge for soy milk, water and juice, as well as the bread and items in bags or containers, like margarine, which i could start buying in bulk, as there will be more space.

i also purchased a $30 dollar indoor bbq that's big enough for two burgers or one big piece of chicken. it's a one person bbq. i eat very little meat, but i've been meaning to get something like this for a while, as a kind of kitchen necessity, because there's that one time every few years that you have chicken in the freezer and need to eat it somehow. i bought it because i'm doing this now, and it was cheap.

my toaster has also been broken for almost ten years. i mean, it works, but you have to put it on minimum and flip the toast, to toast both sides. this is a different kind of ghetto blaster, i suppose. so, i bought a $15 wide slotted bagel toaster.

i still need a few small shelving units. there were items left here, but i'm not sure any of them will fit or make sense in this context, while i think some will fit in a different context. i'm looking for three or four small shelving units, which could be book shelves. i'll set what makes sense.

it's a pretty big kitchen, and this will max it out. once i'm done cleaning and arranging in the kitchen, i'll take some pictures and move on to the laundry/closet area, which is next.

that makes perfect sense. russian imports pose no threat to american lumber producers, and do not compete with them in any discernible manner.

our leaders right now seem to be uniquely stupid and naive. they put tariffs on us to stop us from competing with them, and the reaction is that we don't understand, apparently.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11477871/bc-softwood-lumber-tariffs-us-higher-russia/

however, if you wanted to bomb somewhere and have it make sense, the place to bomb is afghanistan.

the reality is that the drugs causing problems at the bottom of american (and canadian) society don't need to be imported from anywhere, because they're made out of chemicals in a lab.

the premise of "drug trafficking" is a 20th century concept. it's not how drugs are manufactured or distributed anymore, and there is no better idea in terms of going after drug traffickers. the drug trafficking that still exists would be mostly for cocaine, and to a lesser extent for marijuana. 

you'd be an utter moron to try to traffic fentanyl or meth over a border when you can just make it in a lab instead.

drug wars are not inherently bad. i don't agree with so-called leftists who argue that; real socialists hate drugs. it's the libertarian right free market capitalists (rand paul) that have these ideological problems with fighting drug traffickers, not socialists or communists. drug dealers would face expulsion or execution in any sort of real socialist society. in china or even in cuba, they'll sentence you to death for selling certain drugs, and i agree with that, in principle, while not supporting capital punishment. they ought to be sentenced to death, they ought to be shot in the face from the side while forced to look at themselves in the mirror, but i wouldn't support actually killing them, i'd just support locking them in a cell for perpetuity, until their bones start decomposing into calcium. dealing drugs is amongst the worse crimes against humanity possible.

i say let the neighbours string the local drug dealers up on the nearest fucking tree; i say stop protecting them, and let them face the wrath of the families they destroyed. the police spend more time protecting drug dealers from vigilante justice than they do arresting them. it's a symptom of a sick, consumer capitalist society, where selling anything at all, no matter how antisocial, is seen as just participating in the system, just trying to get by.

but drug wars, like tariffs, are hard. it's not an easy problem, and donald trump is not somebody i'd have confidence in to figure this out.

while i would actually support bombing drug traffickers and treating them as terrorists in general, that isn't how drugs are distributed in 2025 (it was in 1985), and venezuela, particularly, only really exports cocaine, which is certainly not what the masses of homeless drug addicts are participating in property crimes in order to pay for or overdosing on. cocaine is the drug your rich aunt and uncle are addicted to, and the reason you're not getting an inheritance, but it's not causing property crime or overdoses in the downtown cores. homeless people cannot afford cocaine, and can't even afford crack anymore, which is why they do meth, which is more intense and far cheaper.

if you want to have a real war on drugs, i'd actually be in support of it, but bombing alleged venezuelan cocaine traffickers isn't helpful, and will just drive up the prices for the mexican cartels.

meh. let them leave, nationalize the factories and sell them to chinese ev manufacturers.

the dirty carbon burning jeep is a loser of a product. it has no future.

canada should not be spending a dime to prop up dying anachronisms like jeep, in an attempt to turn ack the clocks to an era that mostly sucked to begin with. we need to move forward.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/politicians-react-stellantis-move-brampton-plant-9.6939122

the phoenicians/carthaginians, the ancestors of today's lebanese, were not arabs. they were basically jews; they spoke hebrew. but, unlike the jews, they followed pagan semitic religion, which is telling. the jews showed up with the persians, right after the collapse of the phoencian trading areas, and started practicing monotheism, like the persians did. judaism is much closer to zoroastrianism than any indigenous semitic religion, but the phoenicians worshiped tanit and the other semitic deities.

the thing is tough that the phoenicians, as we understand them, were really greeks. we can understand this better now due to dna testing in the region, which has clarified that the sea peoples were greeks. some time around 1500 bce, these greek raiders set up in cyprus and systematically destroyed the mediterranean coast. what emerged from the wreckage was a semitic civilization that was radically transformed by greek seafaring, and which led to the colonization of northern africa and southern spain by ancient hebrew speaking lebanese people.

the persians needed them to fight the greeks. this is actually recorded in the hebrew bible as cyrus being extremely pro-jewish, but cyrus was not merely pro-jewish, and the mythical part of it is an exaggeration of a larger policy. in fact, cyrus was philphoenician. he wanted to rebuild those cities on the coast that the assyrians destroyed, to rebuild those trade networks. the resettlement of the jews in jerusalem, as colonized irano-semites, was a part of that philphoenicianism.

you can start to narrate history from roughly that point. anything before cyrus in the bible has no real historical credibility, but everything after cyrus is relatively easy to corroborate.

the inescapable conclusion that follows is that the ancient caananites were neither arabs nor jews in any meaningful sense, but hebrew-speaking pagans worshiping semitic and hellenic gods. that only changes after the return from babylon, and it's hard to make sense of how there could have been a monotheistic religion in the area before the persians.

how am i feeling?

a lot better, but it's fairly dry down here, and that's had some effect on me. i need a long shower. i don't think they've drugged me in a while and i'm not sure yet if they've followed me.

i bought a few things yesterday to start the process of redesigning this basement off - a plastic drawer system to fit into a hole under the counter, a shoe rack, a fan, a mercury thermometer to replace the one i broke and a digital "weather station" with alarm clock and calendar that i actually suspect i'll find extremely helpful. i still have my radio/alarm clock from about 1991. i remember listening to smells like teen spirit on it when it came out. i haven't used it in 20 years, and it's well in need of an upgrade. i just don't use alarm clocks. i'm very good at waking myself up on time, without one.

i'm looking at putting a mini fridge and a long table in to extend the counter, with a smaller table underneath it to put a stereo system on.

there's somebody coming tomorrow to look at whether he can install a fan in the bathroom or not and that's going to help dramatically, but i need to do the kitchen first, the walk-in closet second and the bathroom third. i don't know if i need a plumber or not yet. the kitchen plumbing appears to be fine.

really, it's starting to look like trump and his advisors are coming down with a case of what edward said called orientalism, which is a mythical projection of the middle east as a mystical source of wisdom rooted in the writings of nietzsche, in biblical narratives and in the ubiquity of free masonry in the ruling classes 100 years ago, when the facts are that the region has been culturally backwards and struggling to catch up ever since the fall of sumeria 5000 years ago.

just for reference.

at 3000 bce, the area we now call israel was recovering from something called the bronze age collapse. there was a group of recent migrants to the region called philistines, who we know today were greek settlers related to the infamous sea-peoples, living roughly in the area we now call gaza. many hundreds of years later, the romans would rename the area after these greek settlers as a punishment for a jewish revolt against the romans. the indigenous canaanites, who spoke hebrew and not arabic, mostly lived in modern day lebanon. there was a population in the southern part of the levant that corresponded to what was later called judaea that appears to have been related to old mesopotamian settlers from the fertile crescent. the 'ur' in jerusalem is a place name connected to very old pre-semitic sumerian language groups, which were probably ethnically caucasian (related to modern day georgians and armenians) and not semitic at all. the assyrians had not yet moved south to conquer the area, and the movement of a heavily colonized iranic-semitic group into the region under cyrus had not yet occurred. what we call israel today was really created under the direction of the persians, who had a broadly phil-phoenecian policy, due to the phoenecians' naval supremacy, and the fact that the persians were a horse-mounted warrior group from the european steppes around ukraine, that were not good at ship building. the persians needed the phoenecian/canaanite/hebrew groups to import items like tin, which was used to make swords, via naval routes.

there were a people that the western sources called arabs living in the desert outside of the southern levant, but they appear to have spoken hebrew, and not arabic. they were not the same people that invaded the region in the 7th century, from yemen, and brought south semitic arabic languages into it. in fact, the hebrew-speaking arabs just outside of israel, in cities like petra, appeared to worship greek deities like zeus, and seem to have been heavily influenced by the philistines.

the conflict in the region at the time was a lingering ethnic conflict between the greek-speaking sea peoples and the indigenous egyptians and hebrews, as well as conflict between the trade-focused and vaguely democratic hebrew-speaking phoenician groups on the coast of the mediterrranean, who were very greek in behaviour, and the brutally authoritarian and viciously militaristic societies that developed out of the collapsing agricultural base in the fertile crescent, most importantly the assyrians. the assyrians sought to force tribute on the hebrew-speaking groups, who had a tentative level of autonomy from a longstanding egyptian hegemony, which asserted itself after the egyptians had driven the hittites (an indo-european group living in modern day turkey) out of the region, before the onset of the bronze age collapse. we can prove that the assyrians did eventually succeed in moving south and destroying the societies in the hebrew speaking areas and taking a large amount of slaves back to babylon, an area which included lebanon, syria, "palestine", jordan and israel, but they were mostly interested in the phoenician trading ports in lebanon, and there is no historical support for any of the stories around saul, david or solomon in the old testament, and they probably never existed at all, but were invented as a myth during what the hebrews call their captivity.

as such, the idea that the current conflict in israel is 3000 years old has no basis in fact or history. there were hebrews/phoenecians/canaanites, egyptians and assyrians in the region at the time, and the persians were coming in soon, but there were no arabs, by the modern association of the term with a group of south semitic speakers from yemen, in the area at the time. when these groups from yemen did eventually move into the area, the western sources distinguish them from the hebrew speaking arabs and call them saracens, instead. it took a long time for these ethnic and cultural identities to fuse in the western sources, until well after the crusades had begun. more academic (as it was defined at the time) western sources like the papacy use specific language to differentiate between the existing hebrew-speaking arabic groups and the invading muslim saracens from yemen. the assyrians sought economic control of the region, and to destroy it for refusing tribute, in acts of simple barbarism, while the egyptians maintained loose hegemonic control, and saw it as a buffer between themselves and the warlike groups in mesopotamia.

after the persians came the greeks and romans, and then the arabs in the 7th century, who were themselves overrun by turks and mongols in the 12th and 13th centuries. there was migration of south semitic speakers from yemen into the region during the islamic conquest, but the region was heavily depopulated not by the expulsions of the jews but by the brutally destructive heraclean wars between rome and persia and by devastating epidemics of the bubonic plague, coming out of the heraclean wars. it was the plague that wiped the then roman society out in the region. the archaeologists have found a destruction horizon after heracleus, and connected it to an increase in pastoralism and herd grazing. before the arabs moved into jerusalem, it had actually been abandoned by roman civilization and overrun by sheep and goat herders, as had happened earlier in britain, in germany and in the trans-danubian basin.

if you want to be very generous, you could tie the current conflict to the monophysite heresy in egypt during late antiquity, but that is a dramatic stretch.

a better number to use would have been 1000 years rather than 3000 years, as you can make a coherent case that the basis of the british palestinian mandate began during the crusades. you couldn't cogently extend that back further.  but i don't think trump was expecting a rigorous analysis of the number he pulled out of his ass.