this isn't greaser slang, it's self-deprecation.

so, scat is apparently 60s greaser lingo for "fuck off".

i'm still not sure how that makes sense. it's better than calling it a pile of shit, but it just puts words into the lady's mouths for them, because you will be told to fuck off, repeatedly, if you buy this car.

are there enough aging boomer fonzis at this point to justify a vehicle line?

or is this exhibit a of why north american car manufacturing is in an existential crisis?

introducing the brand new dodge scat:

it's every bit as shit as you remember it!

The Windsor Assembly Plant recently launched production of the new SIXPACK-powered, two-door 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack. 

everybody has known for years that dodge vehicles are shit, but i never thought they'd market them that way.

what the fuck is a scat pack? because it reads literally as a pile of shit, which is the perfect description of a dodge, which dodge would presumably want to avoid.

that third shift at the assembly plant keeps businesses open late in this area. when they shut the third shift, they closed the 24 hour grocery store, the 24 hour drug store and a handful of all night diners, which pissed me off because i sometimes like to go shopping at 3 am, if i'm coming home late from somewhere, or if i'm just taking advantage of the weather to get some exercise. hopefully, those stores will bring back their old hours, now.

we only tend to get about a weekend of winter all year in windsor nowadays. if we got it early this year, that's probably it. 

i'd expect a warm january and spring by early february.

i've been very loud about how disgusted i've been by nato's position in syria for decades, as it aggressively funded conservative, religious terrorist organizations to overthrow a secular democracy because it happened to have russian backing. the position that nato took in syria exposes every lie about western democracy that there is in the most brutal manner possible.

my solidarity is with the secularists, the apostates, the socialists and the democrats on the ground, which represent an overwhelming majority in syria, and which backed assad as a lesser evil. the reason assad did not fall is that he was popular and represented syrian popular opinion, which was and remains in opposition to religious tyranny, theocracy and autocracy. syria, unlike lebanon, is an arab state, but it's history is older, and syria was deeply tied into the persian, greek and roman worlds. it's people are mostly white, there is a large christian minority and the culture is moderate and secular and believes in democracy. syria is not a religious society and the syrian people do not want to live under theocracy or to be oppressed by islamic fascism. in fact, syria would be a more likely candidate as a european union member state, in the long run, than as a member of the arab league.

however, a false dichotomy in nato military doctrine going back to jimmy carter that is fundamentally about supporting islamic fascists as a bulwark against communism led to the collapse of the middle east's only arab democracy (i don't consider lebanon to be arab), and the region's most moderate state, in order to advance the goals of bloodthirsty autocrats in riyadh and try to steal a deepwater port from the russians.

it bother me that liberal media buys into this so fully. assad was not an ideal figure head, but he was a popular leader and he was effectively preventing the country's collapse into backwardsness. it is very sad that he failed to prevent the saudis from destroying the country, but you can't fault him for trying. in the end, the russians gave up - assad and syria got traded for something, but it's not yet clear what that was.

my solidarity remains with the secularists on the ground as they seek to overthrow the fascist nato-backed government and return syria to democracy.

it would make sense to shop at dollarama if you lack somewhere to store your food, and are just going meal to meal. that is a lot of people, admittedly - couch surfers. people camping out, the actual homeless or people living in their cars. anybody with a kitchen should go to walmart and look for items in bulk.

dollarama's business model is based on shrinkflating everything and then tricking you into thinking it's cheaper, when you're actually paying more for less.

so, you'll walk in and buy a can of soup at dollarama that is 10% less than retail and think you got a deal, without realizing it's 25% smaller. they do this for everything they can package, and it is rare that you're saving money; you're usually actually overpaying.

but you can't tell that if you lack grade school numeracy and cannot do basic math in your head, which is the sad truth for many canadians.

what it shows is that consumers aren't very good at math. that's why the company is seeing record profits.

when it comes to groceries, dollarama is actually usually a brutal ripoff, and what it sells has low to zero nutritional value.

the cheapest grocery store in canada for almost everything is walmart, but i also buy specific items at freshco, superstore and food basics. giant tiger is worth shopping at. if you can buy in bulk at wholesale or get into costco for free, you should. you want to avoid dollarama, shopper's drug mart and zehr's, usually, although they sometimes have sales. bulk barn is also often a brutal rip-off.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/consumers-are-suffering-why-more-canadians-are-shopping-at-dollarama/