i think mark carney's language and direction likely reflects his background out of government. how many educators have you heard run their mouths off about efficiencies in government from the top of their ivory towers, only to come down to government, step foot in the real world and realize they had no idea what they were talking about? i think that's really what's going on here. you saw this with elon musk recently, who assumed cutting "government waste" would be easy enough for a toddler (or somebody with the mentality of one) to do with no effort, and walked away a discredited disgrace. mark carney is going to learn that there's not so much "red tape" and "inefficiency" to cut after all, with the exception of the salaries of mps, and of backroom deals handing out government contracts to staffing agencies. the single most effective thing that government could do to reduce waste would be stop hiring third party staffing agencies, but they won't do that, and, in fact, a large component of their buy canada policy is going to be increase that. the right option is to stop cutting taxes to win elections, and the right solution at the end of this is going to be to reverse recent tax cuts, which should not have been done. the upside is that carney seems to be a fast learner. let's hope he learns and adjusts quickly to reality, and leaves the elite speak of "cutting red tape" behind in the ivory tower he's abandoned for the real world.

i've been clear that israel should accelerate annexation in an attempt to get it over with, as it is inevitable. there are two paths: we can drag this on while pretending there's some alternative, or we can get on with it and get it over with. i choose the latter.

a few notes about that plan forwards:

1) that may, in some cases, involve using eminent domain to seize palestinian occupied lands and, in those cases, the current owners should be compensated

2) palestinians living in an israeli state need to be able to vote and have equal rights in a single state.

3) while there has been some arab admixture, and more african admixture due to centuries of the arab slave trade, the palestinian population is fundamentally hebrew in ancestry. the israeli state should make a distinct attempt to have the self-identifying and deeply colonized palestinian population better understand the roots of it's own origins, with a goal to convert large amounts of them back to judaism. the process of deislamifying the hebrew/palestinian population and converting them back to judaism should be properly called decolonizing the region.

egypt is the country that should actually be responsible for the wellbeing of gazans, not israel. however, they have rejected that responsibility for decades.

today, when the gazans are purportedly starving and need to escape, what does egypt do?

it sends tanks to the border to shoot palestinians trying to flee into egypt.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/20/egypt-military-build-up-sinai-israel-us

this article is actually hilarious.

it's when propaganda tries to rationalize the inherently irrational.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp5z1vvj5o

what canada, the uk and australia have just done is demonstrate their irrelevance to the region, and to global diplomacy, more broadly.

no serious government would be talking about palestinian statehood in 2025; it's an unserious position, and it renders the government making it an unserious actor.

we have just made ridiculous fools of ourselves.

it is not even a question of it might backfire. it's not feasible.

there is no possibility - a 0% probability - of a palestinian state ever existing. it exists only in the realm of imagination, and mostly in the imagination of anti-semitic westerners.

the only thing that will ever exist is a terrorist movement, and that terrorist movement needs to be stomped out with violence, like all other terrorist movements.

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/09/21/how-the-uns-push-for-a-2-state-solution-to-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-could-backfire/

by recognizing a collection of terrorist groups as a state, we have set a deplorable precedent. why not recognize the terrorists in syria, in isis, in nigeria, in somalia, in sudan and in afghanistan, the taliban, while we're at it?

the canadian government had indicated that the palestinians would need to carry out a series of steps before canada would recognize it. the palestinians failed to carry out these steps, and the government recognized them anyways.

i do not recognize any terrorist state of palestine, and i condemn my government for doing so.

i would expect that the corporation will pass the cost on to their employees, and i'd advise doing so in the form of interest bearing loans that can be paid off after a certain amount of labour has been accrued, thereby requiring applicants to go into debt in order to enter the country, and to pay their debt off when they get there, like a student loan program.

i'd like to see canada adopt a similar program, and to adjust the temporary foreign worker program so that it requires applicants to pay a smaller fee, and then pay that fee off via their wages. at every level, working in canada should be seen as a privilege that you should be taxed for, and not as some kind of right.

i actually support the high price tags for h1b-visas in the united states. that's a good idea.

if these these visas are valuable, they should have a price. coming to the united states to work is a privelege you should have to pay for.

as an aside, the guy was a grown ass man. did people call him "charlie", like he was a little girl?

it was donald trump that killed charlie kirk.

trump seemed to have a lot of interest in the jfk shooting, which everybody knows was ordered by lyndon johnson.

i've been trying to figure out why they went after kimmel with such bluntness, and why people listened, and it appears to be because he got too close to suggesting it was an inside job. i don't think kimmel said that, or meant to say that, or accidentally implied that. he just got too close to it.

it's not clear to me why trump would be so interested in this guy. i legitimately had never heard of him. he doesn't seem to have been much more than a popular internet troll, with a collection of terrible opinions.

my best guess is that this was a psy-op of some kind, and that's why we're seeing what we're seeing. trump wanted a maga martyr for future generatons, like jfk. this is the guy they picked.

you're not supposed to say that. at all, ever, no matter what, and if you try to with any kind of an audience, you're going to get a knock on your door.

birth defects are necessary and healthy, from a population genetics perspective.

if we got rid of all of the birth defects, we'd stagnate, we'd stop evolving. you don't want that.

if you want to be an autism advocate, there's two ways to do this:

1) the most humane choice in many cases is abortion.

2) in cases where the autistic child is not so retarded as to be able to live a life, they need lifelong support, and state resources to provide it to them.

it may be possible in the near future to determine if a gestating child is autistic via a dna test. it would not be conclusive today, but you could catch a lot of it. that research should be funded.

autism is a genetic disorder in the child's genome, as determined by defective sperm and/or ova.

it is not caused by environmental factors during development, and there is no way to cure or prevent it once the sperm fertilizes the egg.

the genetic mutations that cause autism don't happen during development in the womb, they are already present at conception. rather, the existence of the mutations before development starts guide the development of the foetus to a defective outcome. that is the correct language - autism is a birth defect.

birth defects are not all bad. some birth defects are beneficial; that is how evolution works. autism is not likely to be an evolutionarily beneficial birth defect.

while some evidence may exist that tylenol use generates epigenetic expression in developing foetuses, although i'm skeptical of this, this could not be the cause of the autism, as the autism is in the child's genome and already exists at that stage in development. this is the mistake that the christian right and other pseudoscientific doofuses can't get their heads around. how could their god make autistic children? they must have some disease that can be cured, in order to allow god's creation to exist as intended.

this shouldn't need to be debunked in 2025.

if you insist on maintaining the mental illness of faith in god deep into the 21st century, you're going to have to face the fact that god made the kid autistic.

i haven't seen any research suggesting that tylenol use may create the defective sperms or ova that produce defective embryos that lead to the birth defect that is autistic children. it's possible. i doubt it.

there is very good research tying this birth defect to air pollution, specifically from car exhaust and from smoking cigarettes and marijuana.