i have a better idea: ban flyers, or make them five times as expensive to deliver.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
i don't think that moving to community mailboxes is going to result in saving money in the long run. if i have a piece of mail that i want to get somewhere, and i know it's going to a box at the end of the street that might get checked once a week, i'm going to fed ex it instead. for canada post to be the only delivery option that doesn't get your package to the door is just going to make it uncompetitive.
mark carney simply isn't qualified to do parliamentary work, and he probably was doing very little work in parliament, and would continue to do very little work while in parliament. he has no legal education and no experience as a politician. this work was being done by other people around him, and he likely had minimal influence into it.
what mark carney is qualified to do is a part of the political system that has no basis in democracy, but is required for it to function, so long as we live in capitalism, which is fundamentally incompatible with democracy, and that is to talk to autocratic leaders in the business world and sign backroom deals in smoke filled rooms. this behaviour is not democratic, but it is capitalist, and is the foundation of our political/economic system.
as such, i actually think that carney would have been better used as a foreign minister or as a diplomat than as a prime minister. if the choices are that he can sit in the house of commons and watch his staffers do the work for him or go out and talk to people and try to generate investment, he should do the latter.
i don't like any of this, but it's real life.
what they should do is buy the produce that the farmers can't sell at market prices and then donate it to low-income americans, use it in lunch programs at school, etc.
they could potentially get better vegetables for their low income kids than ketchup.
i think i mentioned something like that in terms of policy in canada, but we haven't seen it yet. i guess we had to wait for the americans to do it first, so we could copy them after.
this is anecdotal, but there's every reason to believe it's honest:
marijuana use amongst retired seniors has skyrocketed in canada over the last ten years. well, i mean, what else do you have to do? you'd might as well just get baked and watch cartoons.
- strokes
- heart attacks
- lung disease
- cancer
- reduced cognitive functions
that's real life, and it's going to be an epidemic here, which is fine if you want them to just fucking die and go away already.
all of the old people are smoking drugs nowadays, which is going to lead to severely reduced life expectancy. they're all going to die of cancer.
this is only bad news if you're a banker. for the rest of the country, the fact that decreased population growth will open up job opportunities, reduce housing costs, ease up social services and potentially even result in deflation is the best thing we've heard since 2006.
i would be happy to sell the three northern territories to the americans if they really want the expensive burden of defending them, but we don't really have the right to do that and the indigenous groups, who certainly could not defend themselves at all, want to be canadian. i don't want to tell them otherwise.
but i want them to be self-reliant and to be able to defend themselves, and that should be the government policy, not aggressive expansion and further colonization via unending population growth.
in order for canada to maintain a society in which government can efficiently provide services based on taxation (the scandinavian model), it's population should not exceed 35 million and should be concentrated in tightly connected urban regions, not spread out over a large distance that requires expensive defense spending. the current population of canada is about 42 million, and we are suffering from the results of overpopulation as a result of it.
the government's policy should be population decline over the next ten years via essentially zero immigration, to reduce the population back to the 30-35 million range. once there, we should be seeking to maintain the population through encouragement of small families.
it is only through restricting population growth that canada can maintain the social services that canadians consider a part of their social and national identity, in contrast to the market capitalism than runs rampant in the united states.
neither side of the arab-israel bitchfest (i'm not calling it a conflict anymore, i'm hereby officially referring to it strictly as bitching) wants a divided jerusalem. the west keeps insisting on this idea. nobody wants this outcome.
in fact, there's a story in the bible about that.
the mythological israeli king solomon is dealing with a conflict over custody of a child. this appears to be a myth that is part of a genre of semitic stories, that have to do with an attempt by the authorities to end child sacrifice (another is the one where a schizophrenic named abraham thinks god told him to kill his child, and then goes into a mental breakdown over it, the moral of which is to stop sacrificing your kids to god), which the romans, greeks and persians all documented as a serious problem in the region, in the late bronze and early iron ages, something that has been upheld by archaeology, and is probably at the root of what later became blood libel, and which we still see in western news in the digital age, in terms of a constant attempt to make jews look like they eat and torture children. anyways, the story goes that they can't figure out who should have custody, so it is suggested that the child be cut in half and split equally amongst the two sides. one side shrugs it off and says whatever, and the other says "no, don't cut my child in half, you psychotic jew. give it to the other person.". solomon, who all evidence suggests never actually existed, decides the real parent is the one that won't cut the child in half, but would give it to the other instead.
while i don't think there's much wisdom in this story, it's worth thinking about.
a divided jerusalem is not a solution to the bitchfest, it's the cause of the bitchfest. the bitchfest will not end until the city is united.
this is the google ai response, which couldn't be more clear:
when the google ai bot is that clear, what more evidence do you need?
just don't take escalators. i know you might be tired, or drunk, or crippled, or old, but it doesn't matter, just tough it out. try as hard as you can. there's no down side, always take the stairs.
just.
don't.
take.
escalators.
i'd like to make a health announcement tying escalators to obesity, and request the fda put warning signs at the front of all escalators indicating that escalator use is strongly correlated with obesity.
i know that the health experts want to wait for more clear conclusions, but i can't wait.
just don't take escalators. ever. always take the stairs. there's no down side. just don't do it.
production decisions should be made by centralized state bodies to ensure that resources are used in the most efficient ways possible, not left up to entrepreneurs in the free market, who might decide to waste resources on manufacturing stickers to pay economic rent. an efficiently run society would neither manufacture stickers nor pay rent at all.
there's nothing that gets under my skin more than pretentious losers that call themselves "entrepreneurs". it is a term that is only used by worthless, intolerable, insufferable people.
is this helpful economic activity? selling colour books and stickers? why don't you call them what they are, which is buskers.
i would have more respect for the busker than the entrepreneur, and would choose the term busker over the term entrepreneur if given the choice. the busker is an artist, they are real and they have an air of blood and sweat and toil. the entrepreneur does no work of their own but pays others to work for them via bank loans on collateral from their inheritance, and uses the surplus value to buy fancy shoes made by six year olds at gun point.
the busker asks for little, and deserves respect for it; the entrepreneur demands respect, and deserves only contempt in return.
but, from the state's perspective, this is juvenile. just build them the goddamned house. don't make them give you a fucking sticker for it. it's a waste of time and a waste of resources, all so they can show they are a part of the elect. as a society, we need to grow up and move on past the childishness of entrepreneurialism.
canada should be placing trade sanctions on indonesia for it's enforcement of sharia law and it's brutal oppression of minority groups.
further, agreements signed with indonesia have minimal value in terms of enforcement, because it doesn't have a functioning judiciary.
worse, the indonesians are not an acceptable military partner.
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