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phones are really very weird, invasive things when you drop the advertising blitz and think about it for a minute. why the fuck would anyb...

i don't know why this is so baffling to people. the reason i cannot be contacted by phone is that i don't want you to contact me b...

and, then they went and changed the forecast on me - it's actually going to be kind of cold in windsor this weekend. like, not even 30. ...

i started to feel the nic pulls last night and realized that when i say i let it sneak up on me... i'm used to smoking a pack or two...

in america, the banks handed out piles of bad loans to people that couldn't pay their mortgages (and in scenarios where any due diligenc...

i've been pushing for increases in the low income housing supply for years and there hasn't been a lot of response; property owners ...

canada's often praised for not undoing policies that would have prevented the housing bubble. this is all very true. but, what's b...

it's still a trickle, but i'm starting to see a lot of for sale signs in the neighbourhood, suggesting the pandemic is starting to ...

man, i'd trade morneau for carney in a minute. but, you'd have to throw in a shit load of draft picks if you expect the universe to ...

so, we're coming to the end of the tobacco - i've got a few smokes left, and i'm going to need to make a choice in the next few ...

so, i've now done a final final final update for those published posts, which required adding many posts to the travel blog and fixing a...

all your kids are gonna die. (not really)

remember. there's always a counterforce.

i mean, we'll see what happens. that's a struggle in nature playing out in the atlantic ocean in our lifetime - the cooling effect...

i find that when this topic is discussed it tends to treat the melting glaciers as an infinite input. if the concern around the shifts in ...

i almost tricked myself into posting an argument about the child ifr using total case statistics, which would be misleading at best. but, ...

kamala harris will be the black sarah palin - picked to rev up a portion of the base that required little incentive to vote, and in truth re...

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/nuclear-war-global-warming_n_828496?ri18n=true

it's true, though. nuclear winter is one solution to climate change. i just think we can do a little better than that, even if it...

i keep getting trapped in adding categories to the travel blog, which is preventing me from crossreferencing 2014. there is going to be a ...

the rate of community transmission is lower in canada because it's had less time to spread. at some point, we've lost the plot wit...

again: this kind of thing doesn't really irk me that much. this is the reality of governing in a capitalist system; every government doe...

russia is always the guinea pigs. "We see this as part of competitive behaviour by some western pharma companies that want to dominat...

i have pointed out in the past that the broad crux of ecological science is traversing in a direction that is convergent with the holistic t...

is the geographical thing complete bs? i think you need to be a little more subtle. in 1976, the democrats were probably going to do wel...

this paper attempts to argue that the edicts of ashoka were actually based on the delphic maxims, which have apparently been found in the re...

this is the world that ashoka saw himself as existing in:

it's interesting to note that, in the edicts, ashoka seems to position himself in a greek world, rather than an indian world. he doesn...

it turns out that the earliest known buddhist writings were actually literally written in greek & aramaic - the same languages used to w...

i'm not familiar with this source, but if you want something that's not me, this discusses an academic source that has traced greek ...

interesting google search hit. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/influence-mystery-religions-christianity

would i have at least gotten along with early christians? if they gave me enough wine, maybe. it'd liven the debate, at least. the t...

and, yes - early christianity itself was another example of greek discourse in opposition to authoritarian rule, it just happens to be the o...

while growing up in canada means you've been raised in the west and are a westerner regardless of what you look like, it's important...

i understand that there are cultures on this planet that are highly hierarchical, and in which authority is paramount. these cultures are as...

this article is very poorly written, in it's survey of the science around the topic. that said, it would appear that this doctor is prom...

there's an underlying assumption in the discussion around food security in the north that the problem is infrastructure related, and jus...

so, it took me a few days longer than i'd have liked it to get groceries done; i picked up a few things late on thursday, a few more on ...

guinea pigs. what have we done to them? it was the other night, walking home with groceries, maskless, that i was thinking about the virus...

i support them in principle, but this is maybe not the best idea just right now.  if you don't want to wear a mask, then don't. i...

time's just about up, justin.

well, he's got the ndp in place to blame, when the bankers grill him on it. but, people are losing or have lost patience. if he's ...

i want to be clear.... my skepticism about the virus, and criticism towards public health measures, isn't rooted in a political persua...

you're going to tell me a cricket has a brain. a cricket has an eye, but it doesn't really have a brain. the nervous system is act...

i've been over this a few times before; i understand that i'm an omnivore, that this is necessary , but if you look at the animals t...

i think i've seen enough to produce a ranked ballot. however, i'm not going to analyze this further. it gets a little blurry after 4...

while dmitri & glen may have broader disagreements about the benefits of capitalism (and i think these are likely even minimal, as glen ...

but, if you're reading this, do also realize this truth: i am the elusive educated swing voter; statistically, i don't exist, but ...

the reality is that they're both unelectable and they're both unfit for office. i'm not going to pretend otherwise, or trick m...

so, i understand that biden people might read this blog and conclude i must be a trump supporter, but it's just the fallacy of the exclu...

call me post-partisan. even if i'd really rather send a pox on both your houses. and, i might get it.

and, no, i don't care if you don't like how i behave, because i'm not on your side, anyways - even if i endorse you, in the end....

i need to make this point very clear. i do it every election, because you people always want to take sides, and create friends and enemies, ...

"but, he's a decent guy." he's really not, he's a total creep.

is gretchen whitmer a reasonable choice? let's hope this isn't creepy joe at play, here. listen - this is a potential problem that...

remember... when life's a waste, just run away. i think i've got my point across - this wasn't a minority view in the punk s...

i'm not sure if dexter holland ever finished his phd in microbiology or not.

this was much later, but it's also still, to my knowledge, the highest selling indie record of all time. so, any records that sold more ...

so, it stopped broadcasting yesterday afternoon and started broadcasting again this morning. the missed posts are as follows: aug 6, 202...