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it's certainly not any better than last night (when i didn't get cold until around 3:00), so i need to get out of here for the night...

*sigh.* unfortunately, it seems as though i'm going to have to sit in the shower all night to prevent myself from shivering. i have ...

i think everybody was surprised about how easily ottawa got off with this. i guess that, for whatever reason, it didn't really make it...

"fat shaming" is actually one of the best examples i know of that demonstrates just how badly this new fake left has lost it's...

an interesting, and perhaps understudied, development that's unfolding in front of us is a growing divide between those of us who are ph...

i mean, i wish i could  just turn the heat up to about 27-28 or so and then let it sit there. that way, if we get a cooler dip, the heater c...

we should return to more pleasant temperatures tomorrow and the next day. for now, i'm going to just have to run the hot water and the...

at least when you're hot, you can just wear less clothes. when you're cold, there's no solution, generally.

see, this is outrageous, and i hope he gets a huge payout, in the end. but, it's exactly why i won't get tested. this is what th...

if you're going to turn the a/c on - if you have to. - you should have it to set to at least 30 degrees, so it doesn't kick in unti...

i'm going to eat because at least the stove is running in the other room... i'm starting to shiver again. ugh.

it's only 24 degrees outside. that's barely hot enough to turn the heat off, and he has the a/c on. fuck. what does a person do,...

when somebody pays you over $700 worth of rent per month, they should have the right to never, ever be cold, as a result of it.

if that means turning the stove on for the next three months and sending the landlord the bill for it and then taking him to court for his n...

i'm not going to to turn myself into a drug addict to escape the air conditioning. i'm going to get the heat in here up to reasona...

so, a few minutes after my last post, i started shivering again. as before, the temperature outside had recently plummeted from pleasant 30+...

for right now, i'm too distracted and agitated to do much of anything, so now i don't expect to do anything tonight. maybe i shoul...

yeah, this is... now i'm coming down off the nicotine, and i know i can do this, but this isn't good. it's distracting. ugh. i...

"i thought you wanted to be a rock star?" all i've ever articulated is absolute contempt for rock stars and the lives they l...

the biggest venue i've been in in detroit is actually probably orchestra hall, to see some symphonies. the biggest concert i've been...

yeah. option 4. this was clearly a mob hit of some sort, and they're just playing with the incompetent cops in the region. https://w...

so, as punishment for their crimes, what parliament should do is expropriate every dime of their property, throw the bourgeois residents on ...

so, just exempt yourself, then. why march around in circles and chant? just do it. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/i-exempt-my...

so, i got more ranting done today than cleaning, but i got myself  cleaned (or at least a start on it. that sunburn back in june took weeks ...

listen. we defeated tipper gore back in the 80s on censorship, and we'll beat these idiots out there pushing the same bullshit, now, t...

plexiglass. seriously. that's what they're saying. https://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2020/07/concerts-events-ontario-stage-3-...

where are we? what happened?

there's one, maybe two, venues in town that might have a show worth going to see once every few months. and, if you put plexiglass in ...

stage 3 is essentially useless to me, fwiw.

to put it another way, judging somebody based on their religious views isn't being prejudiced, because it's based on experience. w...

to be clear. discriminating against somebody based on their appearance, ethnicity, country of origin, gender identity, gender expression, ...

my interest is in holding up that mirror and emancipating workers from the deeply undemocratic political system of religious control, not in...

i mean, i know the argument is usually made the other way around - we talk about politics being a kind of religion, rather than religion bei...

well. what is  the difference between a religion and a political party? legally speaking, i don't see one - except that religions ar...

i don't see anything particularly egregious about looking somebody in the eye and saying "i don't like you or want you to work ...

and, you can judge me if you want, i don't give a fuck.

"but, forcing religious people to change their clothes to fit the dress code is discrimination!" actually, it's giving them ...

am i a hypocrite for supporting bans on religious icons, imagery and symbols in or near state-funded institutions? it's a facile pos...

that is the principle i will stand up for and fight for and why i will resist mandatory vaccination, even if i don't fear it.

liberalism, as a concept, ought  to mean that my body is my own, and only i have the right to decide what to put on it, and what i put in it...

this new breed of morally aware liberal is, to me, just the most recent manifestation of exactly that kind of values-oriented conservatism t...

remember: my primary political opponent, my dominant #1 enemy, the thing i fight against the hardest is always   any  sort of conservative v...

i know it's not their fault. it's the state that forced you into compliance on this, not them. still..

i could have a lingering resentment towards seniors for the rest of my life.

if antibody testing becomes available at some point, and covered by the provincial insurance monopoly, i'm sure i'll get tested for ...

no, i need to be clear. there is a 0% possibility that i will wear a mask in public, and a 0% possibility that i will a receive a vaccinat...

so, i'm going to be cleaning today, mostly. and, i need  to catch up tonight.

ok. so, the last several weeks have not been productive, as i've been experimenting with how to adjust to maintaining pot in the house...

let's be clear that we understand what the cancer argument for recreational drugs actually is. nobody is claiming that these mushro...

some google ad spam got me again on the faul mccartney story, and here's an interesting twist to that whole rumour. if paul was really...

deaths in the united states due to coronavirus should increase dramatically this week.

actually, considering that we appear to be heading backwards in time after 2000, after nixon is indeed johnson. i understand and agree tha...

well, i think dr jefferson needs to propose a mechanism before such an unravelling of virology can be taken seriously. is he proposing a glo...

this is actually the same legal question i was up against a few years ago; the police think they can hold people on hybrid offences, and the...

first, she talks down lamar alexander, and then she slams betsy devos. there is probably a dedicated anti-devos vote.

well, she could be an effective "attack dog", clearly.

no, listen. biden is doing unusually well with white voters and, if that holds, he doesn't need to worry about eking out wisconsin by ...

hrmmn.

did they search the area where the girls were for carpentier's body? well, it was apparently a significant distance away. so, how did ...

oh, and hey republicans. here's your easy trick to sink biden: he's yesterday's man. and, it's a perfect pivot from maga, ...

well? if you present to me the hypothesis that structural sexism and structural racism both exist in the united states, with solutions to ...

so, yes. the fact that there are no qualified black female candidates is a consequence of the systemic racism and sexism that the country ...

i've stated previously that harris is toxic. but, you'd might as well be voting for a scatter plot. you don't have the slighte...

well, i'd  vote for patty murray over mike pence pretty fast, that's for sure. i wouldn't even stop to think about that one. ...

ok. if this is what joe is thinking, he needs to pick a senator. frankly, if this is what he wants, then the most obvious choice is hill...

in canada, this was pretty much the peak of action over the cold war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series

and our natural opponent is, of course, not the americans. rather, it's the russians. who are actually more like us, overall.

how we approach baseball here really is a really big difference between canada and latin america, though. in cuba, for example, they see ...

if they're going to cancel baseball, then they should surely cancel tfws, too. otherwise, they're just contradicting themselves.

well? according the the canadian government, it's reasonable to allow desperately poor tfws that live in bunk beds over, but not re...

canadians  like hockey. baseball, basketball, football? that's yankee bullshit... and, it's true that this view is widely held i...

see, this isn't being driven by health policy. the amount of virus the team could bring in is insignificant, compared to what is already...

it's interesting to compare the outcomes in california v the outcomes in new york, now that a sufficient amount of time has passed to me...

we all know  the liberals are corrupt. it's just that there's degrees of it, you know? so, you denounce this, because you must. ...

ok. so, i admit the corruption in this we thing is blatant. they're actually restructuring, apparently offshore. like, it's beyond...

i pulled that 20% number out myself, and it does seem to be representative of a kind of inflection point, where community spread perhaps pla...

ok, i know these faces and the truth is that the researchers have got this all wrong. 0 is when a cat has yet to consider the premise t...

i was once a teenager, and if i was in that situation, i might have decided to move out for a few months, in order to avoid my lifestyle fro...

so, my argument the whole time has been that extra precautions need to be taken to protect those that are vulnerable, even as restrictions m...

so, i guess i needed another day to veg. i want to flip this over, today.

what do i think about the polls that have biden way ahead just right now? this is actually surprising to me, but biden seems to be doing u...

if they do these tests and they come back with low immunity levels, one wonders if it is a testament to the high level of isolation that peo...

when you watch something like this, and realize how foolish the previous generation was in terms of understanding human behaviour, it is not...

i want to be clear about what i've been saying, in summary, as we get out of this inflection point regarding the sun, because people fin...

yeah. that's about on target. https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/sask-posts-highest-ever-daily-increase-in-covid-19-cases

ok, so i've got my workstation set back up. one more, and then i want to get to work for the night.

while i recognize the right to a fair and open trial, i think the idea that this is upending the justice system is misguided. rather, i'...

i could criticize the randomness of the study, but the results seem to be consistent with the general picture - there's far more spread ...

when we were at a clearer place in the cycle, it was easier to be more assertive. but, we're turning around an inflection point, so attr...

i posted all of this stuff years ago - it's in here somewhere if you want to look for it - but the way i understood what i read is that ...

except that it's so gorgeous out this week. i got some sleep this morning, and i think i needed that. i'm going to slow it down ...

ok, so my little veg-out period is done, now. i'm going to do some cleaning in here, including laundry, and then we're shifting to...

it's his job to paint a horror picture about the existing reality. the truth whatever it may be, presidential candidates essentially alw...

so, we're through the second lecture series, now. i'm going to watch a talk on public policy around climate change, and then the thi...