while it's predictable that the kids that grew up in the 00s, the oughties, have a more nuanced perspective about it and are re-evaluating it, i align with the gen x consensus that the 00s fucking sucked in terms of popular music. you had to look to some pretty obscure corners of the music world to find something exciting going on.

this record is one of the few counter-examples and one of the few albums i keep coming back to for that reason. it's one of the rare classic records released so far this century.

it's certainly a hysterical over-reaction to the situation in the united states in 2006, which is why it's fun. we are closer to this point now than we were then, but it's still a great distance away.

a society where these concerns are not hysterical but are very real is the middle east and levant and i would, today, mostly recommend this record to syrian or iraqi refugees fleeing isis, hts and al qaeda (including the current syrian regime), hezbollah or hamas. it is mostly arab refugees of islamic fundamentalism that would be best able to relate to this record as something very real, in 2025.

this wasn't the most popular punk record released c. 2005, but it was one of the best.

https://thethermals.bandcamp.com/album/the-body-the-blood-the-machine

the ndp needs to make fighting these kinds of cuts the centre of their political movement, but they won't be incentivized to do so until it involves fighting the jews in some way. who has time to fight for the civil service when there's jews to fight, instead?

it is these kinds of absent priorities that pushed the unions away from the ndp, which had stopped caring about unions because they were too white, and even because they were too jewish. what does unionization have to do with immigration?

but the public service walked into a trap in doing this, as the liberals have begun to govern on the hard right again (as they always do) and the conservatives offer no way out. these are not blue collar union jobs; these are educated workers. they're not going to be swayed by social conservatism, or scared into thinking the socialists are out to eat their children. 

it's not clear if the socialists or the jews are more likely to eat your children, at this point.

so, what do they do when they correctly walk away from the ndp for shifting it's priorities away from labour politics and then get stabbed in the back by the bourgeois capitalists for it? the ndp isn't running on this.

the answer is the ndp has to be running on this. this is canadian labour politics, and something the ndp can legislate on. the ndp cannot legislate on gaza, whatever you think of it.

and if the ndp will not run on fighting these cuts then the unions need to reorganize and leave the ndp behind, to follow in the footsteps of the social credit party to oblivion.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/news/cuts-natural-resources-canada-wildfire-flood

i would hope that anti-terrorist authorities in the united states are keeping a close eye on canada as a transit point for money laundering. this change in the law effectively allows canadians to legally send money to an al qaeda affiliate, and functionally legalizes al qaeda in canada.

this is not an isolated change, it's a part of a general embrace of islamic fascism by the canadian government.

i may find myself supporting regime change in canada on the basis that we're supporting islamic fascism, and have become a state sponsor of terrorism. if canada insists on walking down this path, i may find myself eagerly inviting american tanks in to overthrow the state.

this is utterly disgraceful.

it's a sad day to be a canadian.

what an embarrassment.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-drops-terror-sanctions-on-syria-and-its-interim-government/

i have officially been a non-smoker for ten years, as of this month.

i have a lot more money, and i'm in better health, but have found it a lot harder to find housing.

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 searching for online purchases, 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 the kitchen, bathroom and laundry and continuing to search for online purchases, including purchasing pantry items and searching kijiji and facebook 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. i continued to struggle staying awake on these days.

- 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 staying awake throughout the day on 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 meant to finish purchasing items for the makeup table on the 1st but i instead crashed hard on the evening of the 1st and then 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 makeup 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 $160ish. the bathroom is mostly done now, except for the bathroom mirror, the fan and some pending decisions about the light and window over the sink. i'm going to need to get some clear answers about this next week.

- i made some eggs early in the morning and then fell asleep against my will again.

- on the afternoon of the second, i briefly woke up to confirm the cdb was processed and set an appointment to talk about the rdsp on the 5th.

- i then crashed hard again and i wasn't able to wake up again until close to midnight. i 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 then crashed extremely hard, again.

- the shower shelving came in on the morning of the third and the remaining pegs for the bedroom shelving came in in the afternoon. 

-  i was struggling very hard to stay awake all day, from 7:00 am until 21:00 at night and lost the whole day to sleeping, again. i think my iron crashed as a result of being drugged by these useless fucking retards that won' leave me alone and it's the reason i can't stay awake. 

- the heat was also off when i woke up and stayed off all night, which is against the law in canada.

- 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.

- as of 4 am on the fourth, i needed to finish the application record for the supreme court (eventually) next. i wanted to do some cleaning in the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room, first. i am extremely behind schedule at this point, due to all of this unwanted sleeping, which i'm tying to these retards drugging me.

- unfortunately, i had to deal with an annoying and pointless fire inspection on the 4th which forced me to waste most of the day. the remaining walmart package with the vitamin c and soap came in. i was also still barely able to stay awake all day and, after sleeping in the afternoon, wasn't able to wake up until almost 21:00 again.

- the property manager confirmed himself as the singularly most disgusting perverted loser and gross freak that i've ever seen in my life and somebody i want to have minimal contact with as he's fucking gross.

- i tried to clean myself up over night and get in the shower for about 5:00 am, but i was much filthier than i thought and i'm going to need to approach this in two or three or four installments, instead. i put this off for too long, over two months, and as a result had layers and layers of caked on dead skin. i wanted to start this yesterday, but the stupid, useless fire inspection forced me to lose a day, and it threw me off. 

- it was truly disgusting. i had piles and piles of dirt to clean out of this filthy basement (it will be great when it's done, but it was utterly disgusting when i moved in) and didn't want to get in the shower until it was done. i was wearing clothes that are so ripped they're garbage, but i wanted to finish the cleaning first before i dealt with anything, and it just got absurd.

- the bathroom itself was so filthy it was unusable, but it's fine now, except for the fan.

- i will need that dealt with soon and will have to tell the owner i'll do it myself and send him the bill if he doesn't want to do it.

- unfortunately, i ran out of hot water and i wasn't able to stay in the shower long enough to finish washing my hair or cleaning myself. i have made some adjustments so that that shouldn't happen again.

- my hair has taken a hit from the last year of poor hygiene due to repeated moves. it was already in need of some attention as a natural consequence of having shaved it in early 2023 and not cutting or trimming it since. in the long run, removing all of the dead hair the hard way was a necessary process one way or the other (the hair was dead.), it just looks a little thinner than i wish it did, for now. 

-  unfortunately, i had to cancel a number of appointments for today as a result of the fire inspection making me lose a day and consequently being unpresentable to attend them. i look terrible and feel disgusting and gross; i can't be seen like this, it's embarrassing. it was too cold to go outside today, anyways.

- three out of four amazon packages came in today - the electric tweezers, the usb eyebrow shaver, the unused head for the electric razor left here and the 5 64 gb usb keys.

- i have to finish the court documents over the weekend, before i do anything else, at this point.

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. i'm requesting a refund from walmart because it never showed up.

- further shower shelving.

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. it's available for pickup.  

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

- i think the kitchen is done, except for the shelves, which i have in the unit and can cut an install.

- the bedroom would be next, and i'll need to clean in here, first.

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 (?)

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$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.