trump doesn't want argentina to cry for him, clearly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-argentina-farmers-trade-9.6950426

the pseudo-left in canada has really pulled off a neat trick in conflating canada with the united states, and in the process making us a 51st state.

historical reality is that the long, devastating british civil war that existed from 1776 to 1945 was unquestionably the single most important global conflict of it's era, and it is itself an extension of the franco-british conflict that started well before the norman invasion of england in 1066. the differences between the united states and canada are not just deep and profound, but have been one of the major drivers of history for centuries and are rooted in an ongoing cultural conflict that has been ongoing for over a thousand years.

it's just easy and it's just lazy, so they keep doing it, but they're going to be eradicated as a result of it.

the foreign born subset of the petite bourgeoisie in canada is a more conservative and more aggressively competitive subset of the petite bourgeoisie than the domestically born nouveau riche, as the aristocratic class uses advanced data and technological screening methods in their immigration policy to isolate potential migrants as conservative and competitive with the explicit intend to expand the petite bourgeoisie, as that broadens their tax base. liberal and conservative governments pick new immigrants with the intent of them becoming new members of the petite bourgeoisie, which is a marxist term that is largely equivalent to the capitalist term "entrepreneur", because they want to tax them as bourgeois, and not as proletariat. 

the disconnect is that the canadian pseudo-left relies almost entirely on american analyses that use american economic data. however, the united states has very rarely adopted similar policies. immigration policy in the the united states is largely a legacy of slavery and is primarily intended to increase the size of the proletariat in order to drive down wages, not to increase the size of the petite bourgeoisie to increase the tax base. canadian immigration policy is rooted not in hispanic/arabic slavery but in british colonialism, which sought to populate new regions with free british citizens that could generate their own wealth, with the purposes of taxing them.

if the canadian pseudo-left wants to reconnect with the canadian proletariat, it needs to start by using canadian economic data that is relevant to the canadian proletariat, and stop relying on american data and stop trying to apply distinctly american social theories that are rooted in the legacy of slavery and are not relevant in canada.

canadian voters don't care about this one way or another, they care about who they think will help them survive in an increasingly difficult economic reality, and they can correctly realize that out of control immigration is harming their economic status. there's no contradiction in building a bigger tent that focuses on the economic concerns of the proletarian majority and listening to the mostly unrelated concerns of special interest minority groups unless you want there to be one to advance your own political career.

but this framing of left and right is backwards. macpherson sounds more like marx than avi lewis does, here. marx would not let special interest groups that represent petite bourgeoisie economic concerns and are focused on non-economic issues overpower the economic rights of the proletariat class. avi lewis sounds more like a red tory type conservative, who is protecting the interests of the immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie against the populist demands of proletariat workers.

it's not really the contemporary pseudo-left's fault, as they are inheriting framing left to them by the orwellian movements that developed out of the "new left" in the 1960s, and which sought to redefine the left in orwellian language. however, the complete irrelevance of the contemporary pseudo-left in the lives of proletariat voters, who have subsequently turned to conservatives or liberals that do no represent their economic interests, is giving the ndp the choice to determine whether it wants to abandon it's historical position as a sanctioned proletariat opposition, or whether it wants to become the mouthpiece of an immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie, which is what it has increasingly become since the death of jack layton.

the so-called racialized groups being spoken of are not struggling or oppressed minorities in canada and in most cases have never been, as they only began entering the country after changes to immigration in the 1960s, and have little to no history in canada as substantive entities in the pre-modern era. over the last ten to fifteen years, the ndp has attempted to position itself as the party of educated immigrants, who delusionally see themselves as marginalized groups, but are in truth privileged groups with high incomes and in many cases have special rights that the rest of the population does not. this premise that the proletariat is increasingly made up of racialized groups is actually racist, as it's based on racial assumptions that are rooted in american culture and not upheld by canadian economic data; the ndp's attempt to reach out to what it assumes are racialized groups but are actually privileged groups, because it is a racist party, has led it to become a mouthpiece of this subset of the bourgeoisie that was not born in canada. it then continues to delude itself that it's representing oppressed racialized minorities instead of privileged bourgeois immigrant groups when challenged on this point, largely because it's beholden to the funding it receives from wealthy immigrants. the result is that it's lost party status, as it is simultaneously abandoned by the proletariat and the groups it is trying to reach out to, which are predictably voting in favour of their own class interests, which are bourgeois and not proletariat. it might get wiped out soon altogether, leaving the proletariat as disenfranchised, and destabilizing the base of canadian society.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ndp-leadership-rivals-at-odds-over-purity-test-framing

the government has regularly cut taxes after every election cycle for the last 30 years. the result is that it is so underfunded that it's unable to support it's most vulnerable populations, and is instead resorting to scapegoating them in backwards reagan-era propaganda about senior welfare queens.

the government should raise taxes on the "middle class" to ensure it has enough revenue to fund it's spending obligations as an oecd country.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-urged-to-cut-old-age-security-spending-in-upcoming-budget

unless he's announcing reparation to the indigenous population, the pope should shut the fuck up about canada.

the pmo should call the pope to tell him to fuck off and go back to worrying about mumbling at walls.

i would support israeli annexation of the west bank.

the only viable path towards enforceable palestinian rights law is as full citizens in an israeli state. any theoretical palestinian state, as unlikely as one ever is, would be another backwards theocracy that oppresses it's own citizens, and where people have no civil and legal rights to deviate from violently enforced religious norms. it would be another brutal dictatorship in the region, and gaza under hamas is the inescapable model for it.

refusing to allow israeli annexation of the west bank continues to indefinitely and endlessly render the palestinian people as stateless and rightless until they simply cease to exist at all, which is the inevitable outcome of the status quo, and leaves them with no democratic influence into the events unfolding around them.

if you are opposing annexation out of concerns about what israel calls a "demographic problem", you at least have a position rooted in logic, but it's fundamentally incompatible with the values of secular democracy and a position i would strongly oppose. if you are opposing annexation because you worry about the possibility of palestinian extremism destabilizing the region, which is the position held by local governments, you are in truth probably right. but if you think that opposing annexation of the west bank by israel advances the rights of the stateless individuals living there, most of whom are hebrew in ancestry, you are an absolute idiot.

19th century european ethnic nationalism is a foolish model to colonially enforce on 21st century populations on the periphery of european civilization. in the modern world, states have diverse populations that speak multiple languages.

mr trump will not have his friends ridiculed by the common soldiery.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/israel-version-saturday-night-live-224244449.html

if you've ever had a golden retriever, you understand the psychological trauma that throwing a basketball is putting them through, even if they react like perfect stoics. it is little known that the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, who was the offspring of an earlier emperor, and the horse that he married. after all, horses are just big, stupid dogs; when you mate a horse with a human, you backcross and implement dwarfism, creating golden retrievers. it's genetically obvious.

i've had a number of these creatures around. there was a goldie, a minnie and the unfortunately named lou, who didn't understand she was a dog. you know the type. well, she didn't have a dog name. what did anybody expect?

golden retrievers are hardwired to the innermost depths of their souls to catch and retrieve. they have to do it. it's an impulsive mental health issue, and when they start retrieving shoes, or food, or toddlers, it becomes an obsession that affects their day to day lives, and justifies seeking and requiring help.

when you throw a basketball at a golden retriever, what is going through it's mind is "i get to catch! i love to catch!", and so the dog jumps up to catch the ball, to satisfy this primal urge that it has to release. of course, it fails due to the physical reality that the ball cannot fit in the dog's mouth, which it lacks the mathematical education in geometry to calculate beforehand. this is a crushing level of failure.

as mentioned, the first golden retriever was marcus aurelius, and all goldens since then have been deep stoics. you will never know how crushed and devastated your golden is, unless in immense pain, and it will still kiss you. emotions are for weakling dogs.

please, people - throw your goldens things it can catch. stop torturing it like this. it's viciously cruel.

i'm waiting for paul calandra to ban people from parking in grocery store parking lots.

in fact, this is the 9th or 10th example of this in the last few months and there have been fatalities. ontario has a serious problem with elderly drivers that shouldn't be behind the wheel that needs to be addressed by evidence-based policies and not knee-jerk moralism.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/lasalle-woman-charged-after-car-smashes-into-grocery-store/

reagan, huh?

my understanding is that reagan was ideologically in line with thatcherism and it's elevation of liberal concepts of free trade over the traditionally mercantilist views of british conservatism, but that he would often use tariffs against economies where there was overwhelming government intervention. that said, reagan's massive defense spending as a form of economic stimulus, and the eye-boggling amount of debt he created via defense spending, was also extremely keynesian. reagan was more like the last tax and spend liberal in american history than the first thatcherite neo-liberal.

i don't regard ronald reagan as much more than a dumb cowboy that destroyed america, but i likewise don't think reagan would have much respect for donald trump, or that they have much in common, policy-wise.

trump is more like the love child of bill clinton and richard nixon mating.

i should get some pictures of the kitchen up by the end of the weekend.

unfortunately, i need to spend the next few hours writing court documents.

the temporary icj order against israel, as has been the case with other related orders by this body, suffers from definitional problems and factual inaccuracies. 

is israel occupying gaza? is that true?

is israel blocking the supply of aid? is that true?

there's some kernel of truth in these claims. they're half-truths, or quarter-truths, or pi-truths.

how seriously you want to take this order is going to depend on how seriously you want to interpret the premises. certainly, if gaza is an occupying power, it should be letting food in. however, if israel is merely at war against hamas, and not occupying gaza, a blockade is a legitimate strategy.

i have continually blamed most of this stuff on the egyptians, who aren't and never have lived up to their responsibilities.

a couple of years ago, the price of oil skyrocketed due to a war and other issues, and the idiots at the bank of canada thought increasing interest rates would reduce the effects of foreign conflicts on commodity prices, which created a brutal housing crisis. now, our government has foolishly hiked tariffs to respond to an economic attack by donald trump, and the inflation rate is predictably up. are the retards at the bank of canada going to raise rates again?

inflation has nothing to do with interest rates or with unemployment. the philips curve is thoroughly debunked and dead and buried, but the government won't adjust. it continues to use an inflation model that was proven wrong almost 50 years ago.

i would actually benefit from both inflation and higher interest rates, so long as i don't have to move soon, and i'm happy to watch these things move together and laugh at the eggheads when they complain that the philips curve isn't working. the tariffs are gone now, but sellers may never reverse prices back to the place they were before the tariffs were implemented, which should have in itself been a reason not to do it.

the bank of canada needs serious systemic reform. it's been waiting decades for something to replace the philips curve, and nothing has; nothing will. the connection is false. there's no causal relationship to uncover because there's no correlation in the first place.

if the bank hikes rates again and cites inflation from the retaliatory tariffs, tiff macklem should be tarred and feathered and forced to spend a day in the economics 101 class at the school he graduated from in a clown costume.

i would support a strengthened points system, and a return to the immigration rules we had from 1975-2005ish.

the reason canadians supported reasonable immigration levels in the past was that we had high entrance requirements. stephen harper started breaking down those entrance requirements to bring in more conservative voters from religious societies, and justin trudeau bizarrely accelerated harper's policy. we now have an irresponsible immigration policy with low entrance requirements, including letting people bring their grandparents with them, which is insane.

canadians have not changed their views.

the government has abandoned responsible immigration policy, and canadians are rejecting that shift in policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-too-many-immigrants-9.6945905

i wasn't able to find any sign of roaches behind the fridge, but i lysolled it to death and dumped a little bleach in the condenser tray. let's see how the fuckers like that.

it's time to stock up on pantry items for the winter as well, and i just spent $600 on a gigantic walmart order, but i won't have to buy this stuff again until the spring, and in some cases i haven't bought it since last year. that should mostly be there in the morning but some of it will need to be shipped.

so, i'm getting there.

i think my kitchen table won't get here until tomorrow.

it was the squirrel's birthday, clearly.

the squirrel could have just as easily eaten through a garbage bin, right? compost needs to be disposed of carefully. so, we might have some user error.

leave it in the freezer until the morning of the pickup date if you can. but, that's how you should store your garbage, anyways.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/squirrel-eats-into-windsor-green-bin-9.6945893

it would make no sense for the russians to just stop, without any guarantees of nato withdrawals, and without securing any kind of geographic boundary.

it would suit the united states for that to happen. sure. but the russians would be retarded to take that offer.

it seems as though mr. schreiner forgot to call shotgun.

the speaker's reasoning is sophomoric.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11486776/green-party-leader-moved-to-ontario-legislature-back-bench/

i had a rough weekend, and didn't get much done. i'm feeling more stable, but very gross and disgusting and filthy. i got a lot of cleaning done overnight, including a good clean of the rest of the stove and some placement of items around the kitchen. my table should get there today, which should help me put almost everything away.

i am noticing a couple of roaches down here around the fridge. i am going to have to pull it back out and see what's under there.

i hindsight, i think the gross freaks likely managed to get something in my food before i left the previous apartment. i remember a few moments where i felt like i was on something while i was moving, and that build up of dry skin might not have been natural. the weekend after i found the key, i isolated some soy milk, and then didn't drink it. i wonder if they drugged something else, but i don't know what. i guess the hot sauce is the most logical guess.

i wanted to do a large walmart purchase this morning for cleaning and bathroom supplies, but the website isn't working and i'm going to fall asleep instead.

i'm more than a little bit depressed about the situation, but i'm making progress on the kitchen. this is the fourth place these sick losers have followed me to. they appear to have no lives of their own to live. am i going to have to deal with this until they die?

kushner claims he's not interested in history - he tells people trying to explain the history to him to fuck off.

there's a word for that. it's ignorance.

that being said, ignorance may perhaps be bliss, but not in this context. this is actually a marxist argument; it's plato's allegory of the cave. you don't know you're enslaved if you don't know what freedom is; if you don't know the history, you're not shackled to it. maybe there actually are some problems in the world that you can solve by wiping the blackboard clean and starting over, and maybe there is some truth in the idea that that's going to have to be done here at some point, but what that tactic is missing is overwhelming force. when does a year zero happen? it happens after annihilation, and we've seen that in...history. yes, the historical precedents for abandoning history (this is necessary if you don't want to fail miserably.) are after brutal attacks of the plague, catastrophic wars, devastating natural disasters and what not. if you want to abandon history and start fresh with a tabula rasa in israel, you probably either need to drop a nuke on jerusalem, or you need to let netanyahu finish the job first. hamas is not going to ignore the recent history, and israel is not going to abandon it's historical pretexts, but if you pound gaza into the ground enough, and kill enough of the opposition, they'll have no choice but to start over again. 

right now, there's a contradiction in asserting a new beginning, without enforcing an end to the old paradigm, and it won't work so long as that contradiction exists. unfortunately, the point of intervening is to prevent the level of destruction required to get to an endpoint. 

this seems to be doomed.

but there's a kernel of what is perhaps helpful thinking in it. starting new is a good idea, it's just that you have to let the process finish, first.

destruction is not always negative. sometimes, destruction is required to rebuild. - blixa bargeld (paraphrased)

for most white people in canada, the most important holiday of the year is halloween.

i think that's correct, as it's the last genuie remaining vestige of indigenous european culture, in many respects. decolonizing europe from christian brainwashing and reclaiming indigenous european cultural values will in many ways begin with reasserting the centrality of halloween on the calendar.

i am now 100% certain that they're in the building, and followed me. i don't know how or when they drugged me. 

there is only one person with a key to the door.

for that reason, i'm choosing to deal with this by blasting it out with prescribed hormones, this time. next time, if there is one, i'll need to go the lab and get tested.

i should get to the lab in the next few weeks, one way or another, as i need a "clean" drug test to file my package with police, and i haven't been able to get one yet.

these morons seem to think that i'm gay. it's a reflection of their lack of intelligence, their extreme stupidity.

competition is a fiercely anti-individualistic process, as it's rooted in the idea of comparing yourself to others. true individualism is not interested in positioning yourself relative to your peers, but in recognizing that your peers are also individuals. the premise of competition undermines individuality.

likewise, market economies are overwhelmingly collectivist, as they are rooted in aggregate demand, which is an expression of collectivist will. a necessary precondition for arriving at individualism is abolishing collectivist market thinking.

conservatives are generally very stupid people, and they tend to have a hard time comprehending this.

a system of distributive justice based on actual data in canada would have asian and muslim communities donating their wealth to white people, not the other way around.

i really don't have an interest in this debate, because it's a question of how competitive you want society to be.

i oppose all forms of competition. i don't think the government should be awarding contracts based on "merit", i think it should be awarding contracts based on need. all forms of competition breed violence and fascism. if the claim is that merit-based decision making is liberal, i would suggest the opposite - that competition is always illiberal and that liberal governments should be focusing on cooperative behaviour and on distributive justice, based on the principle to each according to their needs.

that said, the question of contracting based on need rather than merit doesn't come up with the answer of affirmative action, if it excludes members of what are seen as the dominant group that are actually, in fact, at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. if the intent is to balance opportunities, ignoring a growing underclass of impoverished white people in canada is missing the mark. rather, a system intended to balance opportunities should be based on actual data, and focus on class rather than race.

it follows that neither side of this debate takes positions i want to support, but i strongly oppose the language in this article. there is nothing liberal about fostering competition amongst peers; that kind of thinking is regressive and backwards and should be condemned as anti-social and illogical.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/poilievre-push-end-government-dei

these are the kinds of programs the liberals are cutting in order to offset irresponsible tax cuts and buy more weapons to fight the russians with.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/gender-based-violence-funding-federal-budget-1.7652253

as far as i can tell, the only difference between stephen harper and mark carney is that carney is a nazi-islamist sympathizer and harper isn't and, if that's the ballot question, i'd actually rather vote for stephen harper, as a leftist.

hamas is pretty stupid. bickering about trivialities aside, they killed a couple of idf soldiers this morning, and israel can't and won't ignore that. their nihilistic faith that their god will bring them victory in jihad can have no end but their own slaughter. trying to negotiate with them is foolish.

bacon saves everything. always.

it's those damned u-boats from argentina.

drug carrying subs, huh?

is that a dmt? can you get one with bacon?

and mushrooms?

and a robitussin-based special sauce?

subway's new dmt sandwich, which includes bacon and mushrooms, as well as subway's new special sauce, based on robitussin, will have you ripping your own face off in no time!

apparently this unelected mob of protesters wants donald trump removed from power because he's a threat to democracy.

these people have lost their understanding of irony. they've become stupid republicans.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/no-kings-protests-9.6944035

it's clear they drugged me, and i think i've heard them in the building, although i'm only 70% about that last one. it's hard to be clear what exactly you're hearing in the first 30 seconds after you wake up. i need to be methodical about this. i think i heard them; i'm not sure.

i had cereal last night, which contained a number of food items i had stored in my kitchen for weeks or months, as i have not been eating a lot of cereal lately. it is possible that i ate food that was drugged before i moved.

i had my locks changed immediately on moving in here, so the only other key is with a property manager. i did that intentionally to minimize potential access points. there are no random keys floating around out there. i have several, and he has one. that's it.

i have not yet found any suspicious signs of entry.

if i'm eating through old food that has been spiked, that's frustrating, but i'll have to deal with it. i don't know how you spike cereal, though.

i need to be careful and i will be. i've learned through the several moves that the stalker is a dangerous criminal and that this is a criminal issue. it's not a civil issue, or at least not on it's face, and i need to treat it strictly as a criminal matter, until i'm able to catch and prosecute them.

the struggle against superstition, belief, faith, mythology, ignorance and religion has been at the core of the project for civilization since the dawn of history. i am facing the same challenges that millions have before me, for thousands of years.

the fact that it seemed like we had defeated religion in the west after the triumph of secularism in the french revolution make this extra frustrating. i have had the luxury to live my life in freedom, without the retarding effects of religion.

the fact remains, nonetheless: the triumph of secularism over religion is incomplete, and this struggle remains. i have no choice but to continue to fight it with as much vigour and resolve as my ancestors before me did.

secularists need to be more aggressive about the scientific reality that islam is a dangerous mental illness that viciously oppresses and tortures peoples and needs to be violently eradicated. there is no future in the world for such a sick and distorted perspective of reality. it's not harmless idiocy that should be ignored as dumb people mumbling at things, it's a dangerous cult that threatens to severely limit people's freedoms, and already is.

i'm tired of the idiocy. these people are retards. they have no concept of individual choice, they don't believe in free will.

but i need to continue to generate evidence to file the relevant police reports and send these disgusting people to jail. i have no choice. they won't leave me alone.

these horrible fucked up mentally ill losers have followed me again.

i don't know what to do. i want to kill myself. this torture doesn't end. they won't stop. they think that torturing me is some kind of "therapy" and they want there to be some kind of "miracle".

belief in god is the most fucked up mental illness in human history. these horrible cults, mostly jewish in origin, have caused untold human suffering for millions of people. we need a global project to violently eradicate all religion from the earth, to end the suffering and oppression it creates.

i have to fight them and i have to bring them to justice. i have to make this worth something. my suffering cannot be in vain. i'm going to make this oppression count for something. they're never going to do this to anybody else.

it's the local mosque. once again, it's the muslims in the building. that's how they're organizing their torture and their sick belief system.

you've got millions of kids sent to school after eating pop tarts for breakfast, and rfk wants to know why they all have adhd, which doesn't exist.

you should check these kids for diabetes first before you worry about their mental acuity.

it's been cold in here since i moved in because the furnace has been blowing cold air. it turns out it must have been something to do with the thermostat upstairs because the furnace finally kicked in with force this evening, kicking the temperature up to over 30 degrees. i expect that to be temporary as the heat rises and balances out through the house, but i do not need to worry about the furnace. the furnace works.

i also tried my new wide slotted toaster out with some pop tarts i got from the food bank. no, i would never buy or eat pop tarts, normally, but hey. when i was a kid, my mom would have yelled at me, although she was mostly concerned about not wasting money on junk food that could be spent on drugs and the idea of telling me to eat an apple instead was just convenient for her. so, i have no history of consuming garbage marketed as food, and it's certainly been in my benefit. but i had an apple, too.

what's the point of voting for the liberals in this country, when they just propose fascist bullshit, over and over again?

this bill won't get out of committee, but the fact that they're proposing it should set off red flags to any actual liberals intending to vote for them. this bill should be devastating to their poll numbers.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/10/16/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-measures-combat-crime

speaking of the homeless problem in new york, it would appear to me that mamdani needs somebody to help him find a shower and a shave, and get a chance to clean himself up a little, which might maybe help him find some kind of job.

andrew cuomo is really not a very nice guy. he personifies a certain stereotype of new yorkers that a lot of people from that city might not want to see themselves in.

he's the superior candidate. there's no question. but, he's an asshole - unlikable and insufferable, even. you would not want to have a beer with this guy. he's likely permanently harmed his own ambitions with his inherent new yorkiness.

hey, can't you see i'm running for office, here? get out of my fucking way.

american missiles in ukraine is logically equivalent to russian missiles in cuba, which you probably have no understanding of. it was something that happened in the middle of the last century. it was the closest we've ever been to world war three.

but, there's a deeper historical parallel, because the russians were at the time responding to the americans placing missiles in turkey.

jfk was a psychotic, mentally ill, drug addict retard and lbj did the right thing in assassinating him. let's hope history doesn't have to repeat as farce.

i would really rather see john bolton indicted at the hague, but they can't because the united states is not a party to the convention.

this is the wrong way to bring this vicious war criminal to justice, but it's hard to have any sympathy for the piece of shit, too.

reverse onus bail conditions are illiberal and fascist and should be opposed by all. they are fundamentally inconsistent with the values of a free and democratic society and a first step in a societal collapse from democracy into theocracy and totalitarianism.

i'd sign up for this.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/canada-ireland-basic-income-9.6938453

the temperature has been up and down around the 20 degree mark the last week. it's been late summer or early fall weather - in ontario, that's assigned to early or mid september. but it's mid october.

it looks set to finally crash to fall temperatures next week, around october 20th. but, we should expect it to rebound for a week or two of summer temperatures in november, still.

the end result is that it looks like we're going to get our crash this october after all, but in two steps, and delayed by about two weeks. the crash is usually before october 10th. this year. it's scheduled for about october 20th.

sending the marines in to forcibly disarm hamas is probably the most efficient approach possible. i would hope this is done with cooperation from egypt.

one of the things about living here is that it means i don't have to worry about shifting electrical rates, so i can go back to just sleeping when i'm tired. my schedule should re-randomize as a result of that, and i should find i'm more refreshed and less tired.

the first thing i'm working on is the kitchen, which means a lot of cleaning and a couple of new appliances and pieces of furniture. the previous tenant in this basement appears to have abandoned the place and left most of her stuff here, including a large amount of dishes and cutlery that are now mine, a kettle (which is something i wanted to pick up), a vegetable slicer and a coffee warmer / induction plate. i've added the kettle and induction plate to my standard coffee maker, my single cup coffee maker (which i'm using for potent espresso), my toaster and my blender. since i came in on saturday night, i have managed to clean the cupboards, the counters, the inside of the fridge and the floor behind the fridge, but it's a pretty big space and is going to require a lot more work.

on sunday night, i bought some plastic shelves to fit into a specific hole under the counter, as well as a fan, a shoe rack and two thermometers, one of which is an alarm clock and is still in transit.

i spent last night toying with how i was going to extend the shelves and decided to go with a large wood table i found on the curb a few days ago.

tonight, i purchased a large 33"x18" bar fridge (it was 50% off) that i intend to actually use as a produce fridge. my diet is 90% vegetables, which means my fridge is often moist. i'd like to put the things that evaporate in their own space, so things like bread don't get wet. that will clear up more space in the main fridge for soy milk, water and juice, as well as the bread and items in bags or containers, like margarine, which i could start buying in bulk, as there will be more space.

i also purchased a $30 dollar indoor bbq that's big enough for two burgers or one big piece of chicken. it's a one person bbq. i eat very little meat, but i've been meaning to get something like this for a while, as a kind of kitchen necessity, because there's that one time every few years that you have chicken in the freezer and need to eat it somehow. i bought it because i'm doing this now, and it was cheap.

my toaster has also been broken for almost ten years. i mean, it works, but you have to put it on minimum and flip the toast, to toast both sides. this is a different kind of ghetto blaster, i suppose. so, i bought a $15 wide slotted bagel toaster.

i still need a few small shelving units. there were items left here, but i'm not sure any of them will fit or make sense in this context, while i think some will fit in a different context. i'm looking for three or four small shelving units, which could be book shelves. i'll set what makes sense.

it's a pretty big kitchen, and this will max it out. once i'm done cleaning and arranging in the kitchen, i'll take some pictures and move on to the laundry/closet area, which is next.

that makes perfect sense. russian imports pose no threat to american lumber producers, and do not compete with them in any discernible manner.

our leaders right now seem to be uniquely stupid and naive. they put tariffs on us to stop us from competing with them, and the reaction is that we don't understand, apparently.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11477871/bc-softwood-lumber-tariffs-us-higher-russia/

however, if you wanted to bomb somewhere and have it make sense, the place to bomb is afghanistan.

the reality is that the drugs causing problems at the bottom of american (and canadian) society don't need to be imported from anywhere, because they're made out of chemicals in a lab.

the premise of "drug trafficking" is a 20th century concept. it's not how drugs are manufactured or distributed anymore, and there is no better idea in terms of going after drug traffickers. the drug trafficking that still exists would be mostly for cocaine, and to a lesser extent for marijuana. 

you'd be an utter moron to try to traffic fentanyl or meth over a border when you can just make it in a lab instead.

drug wars are not inherently bad. i don't agree with so-called leftists who argue that; real socialists hate drugs. it's the libertarian right free market capitalists (rand paul) that have these ideological problems with fighting drug traffickers, not socialists or communists. drug dealers would face expulsion or execution in any sort of real socialist society. in china or even in cuba, they'll sentence you to death for selling certain drugs, and i agree with that, in principle, while not supporting capital punishment. they ought to be sentenced to death, they ought to be shot in the face from the side while forced to look at themselves in the mirror, but i wouldn't support actually killing them, i'd just support locking them in a cell for perpetuity, until their bones start decomposing into calcium. dealing drugs is amongst the worse crimes against humanity possible.

i say let the neighbours string the local drug dealers up on the nearest fucking tree; i say stop protecting them, and let them face the wrath of the families they destroyed. the police spend more time protecting drug dealers from vigilante justice than they do arresting them. it's a symptom of a sick, consumer capitalist society, where selling anything at all, no matter how antisocial, is seen as just participating in the system, just trying to get by.

but drug wars, like tariffs, are hard. it's not an easy problem, and donald trump is not somebody i'd have confidence in to figure this out.

while i would actually support bombing drug traffickers and treating them as terrorists in general, that isn't how drugs are distributed in 2025 (it was in 1985), and venezuela, particularly, only really exports cocaine, which is certainly not what the masses of homeless drug addicts are participating in property crimes in order to pay for or overdosing on. cocaine is the drug your rich aunt and uncle are addicted to, and the reason you're not getting an inheritance, but it's not causing property crime or overdoses in the downtown cores. homeless people cannot afford cocaine, and can't even afford crack anymore, which is why they do meth, which is more intense and far cheaper.

if you want to have a real war on drugs, i'd actually be in support of it, but bombing alleged venezuelan cocaine traffickers isn't helpful, and will just drive up the prices for the mexican cartels.

meh. let them leave, nationalize the factories and sell them to chinese ev manufacturers.

the dirty carbon burning jeep is a loser of a product. it has no future.

canada should not be spending a dime to prop up dying anachronisms like jeep, in an attempt to turn ack the clocks to an era that mostly sucked to begin with. we need to move forward.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/politicians-react-stellantis-move-brampton-plant-9.6939122

the phoenicians/carthaginians, the ancestors of today's lebanese, were not arabs. they were basically jews; they spoke hebrew. but, unlike the jews, they followed pagan semitic religion, which is telling. the jews showed up with the persians, right after the collapse of the phoencian trading areas, and started practicing monotheism, like the persians did. judaism is much closer to zoroastrianism than any indigenous semitic religion, but the phoenicians worshiped tanit and the other semitic deities.

the thing is tough that the phoenicians, as we understand them, were really greeks. we can understand this better now due to dna testing in the region, which has clarified that the sea peoples were greeks. some time around 1500 bce, these greek raiders set up in cyprus and systematically destroyed the mediterranean coast. what emerged from the wreckage was a semitic civilization that was radically transformed by greek seafaring, and which led to the colonization of northern africa and southern spain by ancient hebrew speaking lebanese people.

the persians needed them to fight the greeks. this is actually recorded in the hebrew bible as cyrus being extremely pro-jewish, but cyrus was not merely pro-jewish, and the mythical part of it is an exaggeration of a larger policy. in fact, cyrus was philphoenician. he wanted to rebuild those cities on the coast that the assyrians destroyed, to rebuild those trade networks. the resettlement of the jews in jerusalem, as colonized irano-semites, was a part of that philphoenicianism.

you can start to narrate history from roughly that point. anything before cyrus in the bible has no real historical credibility, but everything after cyrus is relatively easy to corroborate.

the inescapable conclusion that follows is that the ancient caananites were neither arabs nor jews in any meaningful sense, but hebrew-speaking pagans worshiping semitic and hellenic gods. that only changes after the return from babylon, and it's hard to make sense of how there could have been a monotheistic religion in the area before the persians.

how am i feeling?

a lot better, but it's fairly dry down here, and that's had some effect on me. i need a long shower. i don't think they've drugged me in a while and i'm not sure yet if they've followed me.

i bought a few things yesterday to start the process of redesigning this basement off - a plastic drawer system to fit into a hole under the counter, a shoe rack, a fan, a mercury thermometer to replace the one i broke and a digital "weather station" with alarm clock and calendar that i actually suspect i'll find extremely helpful. i still have my radio/alarm clock from about 1991. i remember listening to smells like teen spirit on it when it came out. i haven't used it in 20 years, and it's well in need of an upgrade. i just don't use alarm clocks. i'm very good at waking myself up on time, without one.

i'm looking at putting a mini fridge and a long table in to extend the counter, with a smaller table underneath it to put a stereo system on.

there's somebody coming tomorrow to look at whether he can install a fan in the bathroom or not and that's going to help dramatically, but i need to do the kitchen first, the walk-in closet second and the bathroom third. i don't know if i need a plumber or not yet. the kitchen plumbing appears to be fine.

really, it's starting to look like trump and his advisors are coming down with a case of what edward said called orientalism, which is a mythical projection of the middle east as a mystical source of wisdom rooted in the writings of nietzsche, in biblical narratives and in the ubiquity of free masonry in the ruling classes 100 years ago, when the facts are that the region has been culturally backwards and struggling to catch up ever since the fall of sumeria 5000 years ago.

just for reference.

3000 years ago, the area we now call israel was recovering from something called the bronze age collapse. there was a group of recent migrants to the region called philistines, who we know today were greek settlers related to the infamous sea-peoples, living roughly in the area we now call gaza. many hundreds of years later, the romans would rename the area after these greek settlers as a punishment for a jewish revolt against the romans. the indigenous canaanites, who spoke hebrew and not arabic, mostly lived in modern day lebanon. there was a population in the southern part of the levant that corresponded to what was later called judaea that appears to have been related to old mesopotamian settlers from the fertile crescent. the 'ur' in jerusalem is a place name connected to very old pre-semitic sumerian language groups, which were probably ethnically caucasian (related to modern day georgians and armenians) and not semitic at all. the assyrians had not yet moved south to conquer the area, and the movement of a heavily colonized iranic-semitic group into the region under cyrus had not yet occurred. what we call israel today was really created under the direction of the persians, who had a broadly phil-phoenecian policy, due to the phoenecians' naval supremacy, and the fact that the persians were a horse-mounted warrior group from the european steppes around ukraine, that were not good at ship building. the persians needed the phoenecian/canaanite/hebrew groups to import items like tin, which was used to make swords, via naval routes.

there were a people that the western sources called arabs living in the desert outside of the southern levant, but they appear to have spoken hebrew, and not arabic. they were not the same people that invaded the region in the 7th century, from yemen, and brought south semitic arabic languages into it. in fact, the hebrew-speaking arabs just outside of israel, in cities like petra, appeared to worship greek deities like zeus, and seem to have been heavily influenced by the philistines.

the conflict in the region at the time was a lingering ethnic conflict between the greek-speaking sea peoples and the indigenous egyptians and hebrews, as well as conflict between the trade-focused and vaguely democratic hebrew-speaking phoenician groups on the coast of the mediterrranean, who were very greek in behaviour, and the brutally authoritarian and viciously militaristic societies that developed out of the collapsing agricultural base in the fertile crescent, most importantly the assyrians. the assyrians sought to force tribute on the hebrew-speaking groups, who had a tentative level of autonomy from a longstanding egyptian hegemony, which asserted itself after the egyptians had driven the hittites (an indo-european group living in modern day turkey) out of the region, before the onset of the bronze age collapse. we can prove that the assyrians did eventually succeed in moving south and destroying the societies in the hebrew speaking areas and taking a large amount of slaves back to babylon, an area which included lebanon, syria, "palestine", jordan and israel, but they were mostly interested in the phoenician trading ports in lebanon, and there is no historical support for any of the stories around saul, david or solomon in the old testament, and they probably never existed at all, but were invented as a myth during what the hebrews call their captivity.

as such, the idea that the current conflict in israel is 3000 years old has no basis in fact or history. there were hebrews/phoenecians/canaanites, egyptians and assyrians in the region at the time, and the persians were coming in soon, but there were no arabs, by the modern association of the term with a group of south semitic speakers from yemen, in the area at the time. when these groups from yemen did eventually move into the area, the western sources distinguish them from the hebrew speaking arabs and call them saracens, instead. it took a long time for these ethnic and cultural identities to fuse in the western sources, until well after the crusades had begun. more academic (as it was defined at the time) western sources like the papacy use specific language to differentiate between the existing hebrew-speaking arabic groups and the invading muslim saracens from yemen. the assyrians sought economic control of the region, and to destroy it for refusing tribute, in acts of simple barbarism, while the egyptians maintained loose hegemonic control, and saw it as a buffer between themselves and the warlike groups in mesopotamia.

after the persians came the greeks and romans, and then the arabs in the 7th century, who were themselves overrun by turks and mongols in the 12th and 13th centuries. there was migration of south semitic speakers from yemen into the region during the islamic conquest, but the region was heavily depopulated not by the expulsions of the jews but by the brutally destructive heraclean wars between rome and persia and by devastating epidemics of the bubonic plague, coming out of the heraclean wars. it was the plague that wiped the then roman and actually christian society out in the region. the archaeologists have found a destruction horizon after heracleus, and connected it to an increase in pastoralism and herd grazing. before the arabs moved into jerusalem, it had actually been abandoned by roman civilization and overrun by sheep and goat herders, as had happened earlier in britain, in germany and in the trans-danubian basin.

if you want to be very generous, you could tie the current conflict to the monophysite heresy in egypt during late antiquity, but that is a dramatic stretch.

a better number to use would have been 1000 years rather than 3000 years, as you can make a coherent case that the basis of the british palestinian mandate began during the crusades. you couldn't cogently extend that back further.  but i don't think trump was expecting a rigorous analysis of the number he pulled out of his ass.

i don't want to downplay the release of the hostages too much. these are 20 lives that were saved. in broad calculations of the general game being played, those lives are really not very important or valuable, and are not my primary consideration, or the primary consideration of the decision makers on the ground. to the individuals themselves, and their families, nothing could be more important or valuable.

i'm just annoyed by the motive of christian dogooding, playing into the naivete and the ignorance.

the outcome is extremely predictable.

the "stabilization force" will walk in and try to exist parallel to hamas and hamas, with iranian backing, will start bombing them. the result is a predictable civil war in gaza with hamas backed by iran and the international force as a weak government with no clear direction, as the turks and arabs fight with each other.

trump didn't write the plan, so i don't want to pretend this is his fault, but it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the conflict as being about muslims and jews. frankly, if it was that simple, it would be over by now. the underlying problem is that islam was a colonizing empire that left an array of warring indigenous groups and invading populations in constant conflict with each other, when it collapsed. they don't get along with each other on anything, and palestine is just one of a myriad of conflicts. 

in a real sense, the israeli bombing has been stopping an inevitable muslim civil war in the broader region, as well as a war between iran and saudi arabia. if the americans are demanding israel step back and not do this, and the muslims to take initiative, it will just expose and trip and exacerbate those fault lines allow that civil war to finally happen.

it is the egyptians that will need to get aggressive with hamas, but it will generate a response when they do, and it will then escalate and spiral out of control. 

israel can't let it get too out of hand, and they may have to step back in very soon. but, in the short term, we may see continued bombing of gaza by arabs instead of by jews.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/13/very-skeptical-of-where-this-is-all-headed-expert-on-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal/

let me warn everybody: if you buy this house to evict me, i will take everything with me when i go. you will be deeply disappointed with what you end up with, which won't be what you thought you were getting.

it's a huge space for a low-income rental, which is what i wanted and got (~600 square feet in the apartment, up to 700 including the laundry and closer to 900 including the in-unit garage. the upstairs units don't manage space well because they've been converted into apartments, but this is the entire basement of what used to be a moderately sized house). it's been partially recently redone; the hot water and furnace are fairly recent. there's new inside doors, new flooring in the bedroom. somebody tried to give a fuck and gave up, which left me with a lot to work with, and i'm going to finish the job.

i'm sorting through what kind of furniture i need to make sense of this new space, which is relatively large but also extremely rough and therefore very cheap, and i'm realizing i can do some unusual things with it, for it's price range.

this is a $1000/month basement in the bottom of a house with a busy drug dealer living on the top floor. i have no reason to call him in at this point, and won't so long as i'm not smelling weed, but he couldn't be more fucking obvious. he's got somebody banging on his door every 20 minutes.

for reference, the apartment i just abandoned was $1200/month, on the third floor and somewhat smaller in total footage, but also more finished and came with three other apartments in the building full of potheads that were polluting my air space. the basement i got evicted from in the spring was less than $800/month and discernibly smaller than either. the basement i got evicted from in 2018 was less than $700 when i left (i signed at $650) and about the same size as this one, overall, but far more finished.

i've thought through how i want to do this and have decided that the new space is going to consist of the following rooms or areas:

1) a small but usable bedroom, partly because much of the storage that you expect in a bedroom exists elsewhere in the apartment, but big enough for a stereo system, a study/writing desk and a bedside computer pc typing system

2) a large enough bathroom for substantive shelving, full wall mirrors and a makeup table

3) a walk-in closet off of the bathroom (not the bedroom) with built-in laundry and a dedicated sewing area

4) an eat-in kitchen with expanded counter and shelving space

5) a side entrance with a space for coat and shoe storage

6) a voip phone and zoom (via voip videophone) area off of the kitchen

7) about 150 square feet of studio space

8) a small couch area with a stereo for listening

9) space for an exercise bike off the front entrance

10) a device charging area behind the front door

11) a 150 square foot work and storage area as a functional in-unit garage or actual basement in parallel to the apartment, with functional 2-level storage built in.

12) sufficient wall space for cd and book storage

it's cheap because of the drug dealer and the various problems a drug dealer creates to property values, but i've been told they're getting evicted. the front door, for example, is pretty brutal. i haven't seen the effects of the drugs yet, but i'm sure i will. i have recently seen somebody passed out beside their shopping cart around the corner, because they couldn't make it over the bridge, and i jumped to probably correct conclusions. he just fell over; he might have been technically dead.

it's going to take a few weeks, maybe a few months, to set the apartment up. right now, i'm not sure the furnace works, and i'm waiting for the owner to do some minimal but necessary cosmetic work.  

i hope i don't get evicted to raise the rent, again; i'm unfortunately realizing the necessity of planning around it, and want to focus on buying if i have to move again. some small houses in windsor are starting to list under $180K.

i really don't think it's a good idea for trump to meet emaciated holocaust victims being released by hamas, who need a discrete process and medical attention, not somebody brandishing them as trump property with a hot iron on their non-existent ass.

i couldn't imagine something so self-centred and morally depraved. this man is a disgrace to humanity.

it is abundantly clear that hamas will not step down, and is instead carrying out extrajudicial killings of it's democratic opponents. there was no likelihood of a different outcome. it needs to be annihilated with force and burned to death with fire.

peace is stupid when your opponent is a barbarian.

in the long run, and medium run in 2025, there is no discernible upside in supporting clearly doomed american auto manufacturing of big, dirty vehicles supported by taxpayer subsidies and cultural brainwashing via bombardment of advertisements on tv, which is itself dying. those products cannot continue to exist and should not receive government subsidies. they will need to be replaced by more efficient, cheaper, cleaner products that have higher market demand for them.

it's actually a red herring because the chinese evs are small cars and the american-canadian auto industry ony creates pickup trucks and suvs, because they're more profitable. the chinese evs pose no discernible threat to any american made product.

what they do pose a threat to, and will be competing with, is german, korean and japanese made smaller cars, which are dominating the market because they're what people want. the chinese evs could be damaging to volkswagon or honda, but they pose no real threat to ford or gm.

the best idea is to convince the chinese to make the cars in ontario.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/12/china-agrees-to-drop-canola-tariffs-if-canada-drops-its-ev-tariffs-first/

the lines outside of the official food banks in windsor were short, but the line outside of the goodfellows on friday felt like the fall of capitalism.

after thatcher, western society made a purposeful decision to privatize food distribution to religious organizations. this wasn't due to government mismanagement, and isn't some kind of mistake. thatcherite and randian ideology argues that it is not the role of government to distribute services to the population, and that citizens should not be taxed to distribute resources justly. rather, they argue it is up to the church to do this, and that the church should be funded by donations, rather than taxes. this is seen by conservatives as a decrease in government coercion, and increase in voluntarism, but it wouldn't feel that way to anybody reliant on the services, who are now forced to deal with religious institutions that have views they don't adhere to or agree with, rather than governments bound by bills of rights and guarantees for universal access and secularist value systems. this is fundamentally rooted in the theoretical economic mistake that markets are efficient and government are not, which was popular in ivory towers 50 years ago, but which has been proven 100% exactly wrong by thorough empirical data, which demonstrates very clearly that markets are infinitely more wasteful than governments, and that virtually every market will be expected to fail almost immediately, without deep and consistent government intervention.

increasing the cdb is one approach, although i'll point out that people don't seem to realize that it's tied to inflation. if you're going to tie it to inflation, it makes sense to come in low. the cdb will increase on a yearly basis and the increases will compound over time. if they had come in with a higher number, that might have been harder to maintain.

it is a better idea to allow governments to centralize resources, which is even easier to do now than ever due to advances in technology leading to increases in speed and efficiency in warehousing and database management. a province wide distribution system that accepts inputs from producers and suppliers would be far easier for the government to manage than it is for a free market of volunteers and religionists to hack together.

like so many of the problems facing us, the solution begins in undoing the free market ideology that western capitalism has adopted since the 1970s as ideologically backwards and empirically wrong and re-embracing centralization and government supply management, which the technology has dumped on our laps as feasible, logical and cost effective to implement. until we have this shift of mindset, we will continue to decay in the dystopia of late capitalist free market economics.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/12/ctv-national-news-high-demand-putting-strain-on-food-banks-this-thanksgiving/

i made a food bank run on wednesday and friday which might be the last run, finished moving on friday, gave back my keys, got my check, and then did some grocery shopping for the next week or two. i will need to eat through specific food bank items first before i get back into my food schedule, which should be in a few more weeks. i will have a lot of fruit and salad to eat through first, and that's ok.

i am exhausted. i slept a lot on tuesday, thursday, friday and saturday, and i'm going to sleep a lot more tomorrow. i bought a chicken for thanksgiving, which i think is a stupid holiday, because i did this the last time i moved into a new basement, in 2018.

the drug dealer upstairs gets a lot of business. he's constantly leaving the door open to let his clients in. my observation is that his business model is that he has scouts working to bring in new clients. it's a sick business in a sick world. they are apparently getting evicted. i guess i'll need to wait it out.

for now, my focus is on eating, sleeping and cleaning both in here and myself. my hair is a mess.

has anybody ever noticed that barron trump looks startlingly like jared kushner?

john bolton is clearly guilty of wantonly impersonating the walrus, and they should throw the book at him for it.

he would have been genuinely charged with war crimes in iraq, unlike the people they go after on a regular basis, if the united states were a party to the convention. he should legitimately be rotting in the hague.

if trump goes after him, that's justice, albeit the wrong way.

so, you two are going to get along, right?

hamas: well, actually..

israel: we don't expect that..

eh! i said that you two are going to get along. 

(while loading gun)

capeche?

there is an opportunity in front of us, being taken by netanyahu, to put an end to this perpetual catastrophe by wiping out the losers once and for all.

by forcing israel to foolishly show mercy on it's enemies, trump is instead guaranteeing an extension of the conflict and suffering, until we get back to this point again, and somebody else has the kutzpah to finish the job, and put them out of their misery.

this is why christianity destroys empires.

this is why christianity is stupid.

the stupidity of christianity already destroyed one global hegemon in the west.

i guess we're going to go 2/2 on that, eh?

there are mind few viruses more lethal than this one.

everybody has to humour don coyote, at least for a few minutes, but this so-called settlement, the myth of the judgement of solomon aside, just does not make any sense. hippies and christians are always stupid, even when they're business nazis selling you peace as a marketing scam. more so.

hamas must cease to exist, and everybody realizes that, but it just ends the mess in front of us.

in the medium term, there is no possibility that the palestinians are going to enjoy their shit sandwich. they need to be slaughtered, starved, deported and/or converted for this conflict to end, because they will not accept the outcome that they can't change.

it is utterly fucking beautiful out.

i had a shitty summer; stuck living with disgusting male pothead losers (again) and fighting off some religious idiot's decision to put drugs in my food, while needing to save money to move again. i'm moving, which sucks, but at least it was a nice weekend.

i've been walking around outside and, in every direction, the vegetation has taken advantage of it. it's october 6th, and there's not a bit of red or yellow or orange anywhere, in any direction. every tree everywhere is as full as possible and deep, luscious green. it's starting to look and feel more like a rainforest here in that respect, although we've had very little rain since june.

the new house doesn't seem to have potheads. there are what appears to be some heroin addicts upstairs, but they don't seem to smoke it. fine. whatever. i'd rather live with heroin addicts that don't smoke anything than with potheads that are constantly emitting dangerous air pollution. the heroin addicts aren't bothering anybody; the potheads are bothering people around them that don't want to get lung cancer.

if you live in windsor, plant some trees or plants around. it'll help to clean the air of some of this horrible marijuana pollution.

i don't care much about eurovision. bad music. truly. and competition has no place in art; this is not artistry, it's athletics. as a punk rock guitarist, this irritates me. it's like having a scale-playing competition, instead of just enjoying the tunes.

however, i have to say that it's ok to criticize the israeli team for sucking. it's ok to jeer them. it's even ok to throw bagels at them, so long as you throw hummus after, too.

while it's fine to tell them they suck, banning the israelis outright sends no valid political message. it just makes you look like dumb nazis, which everybody already knows that you are.

i hear that when greta thunberg was in jail in israel for breaking israeli law, they were so mean to her that they wouldn't even let her brush her hair.

does this look like a state to you, or like a bunch of barbarians and half-evolved apes living in chaos and lawlessness?

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryx4x1rjegutm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=internal

the science says pretty clearly that jail doesn't work.

this is worth dwelling on because it is a juxtaposition of the new and old conservative values, crashing against each other. you used to expect conservatives to be cold, heartless accountants that acted like sociopaths because they were suffering from some childhood trauma leading to an arrested emotional development that prevented them from being able to experience empathy. nowadays, conservatives appear to have no brains at all, don't think before they speak, routinely carry out no fiscal analysis of their policies at all and operate solely on the level of exaggerated emotion. they've converted themselves from uncaring, overcalculated, asshole jerks to hysterical, psychotic, impulsive bitches.

while there is some direction in the code, our bail conditions were developed by judges, not by politicians. our independent court system can accept some direction, but the judges would be correct to essentially ignore this bill as an extreme overreach of the house of commons. politicians should not be telling judges how to sentence criminals.

the reason that judges tend to avoid onerous bail conditions for most criminal acts is that the reasons for sentencing people don't work. decades of research make it clear that judicial deterrence is a joke, stopping repeat offenders is a crap shoot and viciously punishing people for the sake of it is barbaric. the one valid reason to put somebody in jail is for the protection of the community, but that is difficult to establish after trial, let alone before it, and people are and must remain innocent until they are proven guilty.

there is one condition on the list - sexual assault - that should generate very strict bail conditions, but it already does. crimes like kidnapping and trafficking seem terrible, but they are usually done by organized crime, and when the police catch the thug that did it, they caught the fall guy. it would usually be more helpful to send hired thugs to school or to rehab than to jail.

the list of crimes that should generate severe bail restrictions are crimes of passion, usually involving an ex-lover, and being a higher up in an organized crime ring. it's not the runners on the ground that you need to lock up, it's the fat tonies in the smoke filled cellars and garages.

increasing bail conditions is mostly a waste of money, and it opens the state to liability in scenarios where people are wrongly accused. the old conservatives would have cared about that. the new conservatives just want you to please think of the children.

and, is he going to set up a fund for conservative voters to donate to to pay for incarceration costs, or is he just going to cut your healthcare to pay for the health care of inmates?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/conservatives-call-on-carney-to-immediately-scrap-liberal-bail-and-vote-on-motion-to-pass-the-jail-not-bail-act/

it's looking like the 9th is ticking back up over that 20 degree threshold in the long range, and then it recovers for another week or two, pushing into late october. this is windsor, in the southernmost part of the country and province, but it is still a canary - it happens here first. so, the key date is the 8th, where the yearly crash is forecast to take temperatures down to 18, but then bounce back up over 20 either by the 9th or 10th. watch the 8th. can we get to 20 on the 8th? if we do, it looks like we're getting to late october without dipping under 20. if we don't, we're only going to miss it by a hair. this expected early october crash is supposed to take late summer low to mid 20s temperatures down ten degrees into the low to mid teens, not peak summer high 20s weather down ten degrees into 20 degree late summer weather.

climate change isn't about the extremes, it's about the averages. the heat waves and hurricanes make headlines, but it's the increasing norms that are the shift in climate.

i'm curious how long we can go before we finally get to that first below 15 degree day, which is fall, finally.

i signed my lease on tuesday, got my new keys on wednesday, moved the furniture in on thursday and moved a lot of the smaller items in last night. i seek to be out by monday morning, and i'm going to do it the slow and safe way, which is by bicycle. i could cart stuff over, and i will need to cart some things, but i want to cart as little as possible. i want to get through the distance from a to b as quickly as possible, and allowing observers the least amount of detail in observing what i'm doing. this is the 5th location i've lived in since i moved to windsor in 2013, and 4 of the 5 have been downtown, but this is the first time i have to move through the creepy part of the city.

i'm actually going to be further from the creepy area than i am now. it's not a or b that i'm worried about, it's the transit in between. i can go in the back way, but it doesn't really help.

i also learned when i got the keys that the space includes a 150 square foot private storage and work space, which makes it bigger than the first basement in total square footage and the biggest place of the 5. it's very rough, though, so i don't want to think of it like that. however, it's going to let me not just store my bicycles there but also split the work bench out of my studio, which has become a large part of it. this work space will be where i fix bicycles, work on guitars, solder and do other types of physical work. it has a two level storage space built in for shelving, as well. it's really quite a large area.

if i buy a house in the next year or two, i'll move this into the basement.

so, that opens up space in the unit, as well. i can take my work bench right out of the studio and i can put shelves instead of bicycles in the hall.

i was a little queasy when i started moving things in, and was having second thoughts, but i'm feeling better about it now. the place needs some work, but it'll get done.

how many of the hostages do you think are even still alive?

i can tell you what hamas will say, because they've been saying it for two years: they will release the hostages when israel recognizes a palestinian state, and not before hand.

i will repeat: you cannot negotiate with hamas, and trump is a buffoon for trying to. yet, he seems to have swallowed his own propaganda, and decided hamas will do what he tells them to, despite hamas apparently having actually rejected the plan.

that is because this is trump. he doesn't really care about the middle east, he cares about self-promotion. somebody probably told him it's intractable, and once the meaning of the word was explained to him, he decided he was going to do it. so, this is about marketing trump as the prince of peace, not about actually achieving meaningful peace; it doesn't matter what hamas says or does, it just matters how trump markets himself. is he quoting beatitudes yet?

meanwhile, the israelis are stuck dealing with the idiot's whims, until he gets distracted by a teenage girl walking by.

i'm a strong advocate of the idea of historical process.

the reclamation of israel by it's indigenous jewish population has been a long process, and there is no way to reverse or prevent it. it will run it's course. 

the stupid thing to do is to try to interfere with this process. the smart thing to do is to get out of the way.

netanyahu keeps signing off on everything that trump puts in front of him because he knows hamas will never live up to any agreement it signs. then, the americans go after netanyahu for being dishonest, but the truth is that netanyahu is humouring the americans.

i can predict the future without a crystal ball: within a week to ten days of signing, hamas will break the agreement.

that is why the premise of a negotiated peace in israel is utterly retarded on it's face. the words from hamas, and their signatures, are not worth anybody's time; there is complete certainty that hamas will break the agreement within two weeks, at the absolute max. so what's the point? the point is that the delusional president doesn't want to look at the data, he wants to imagine things that aren't real. what can israel do, but humour him?

when hamas breaks the deal, and israel resumes the bombing, you cannot blame israel. the problem is that trump is wasting everybody's time seeking a peaceful way out of a conflict that has to run it's course. when you have your enemy cornered, with a boot on their neck, and a gun on their forehead, you don't show mercy and relent; that is stupid, and that is weak. that is slave morality, slave logic. it's typical christian idiocy to forgive people you need to destroy, and just a prolongation of something that has to end violently. we can either burn the place down now and get on with it, or we can pretend there's some way to save the furniture, drag it out, and burn it down ten years from now. the result is the same, in the end.

i don't see the value in wasting time pretending that hamas can avoid total slaughter. they need to be completely killed off, to the last one of them, and the sooner it's over with, the faster we can move on. pretending otherwise is delusional and stupid.

it's relatively clear that there's no business case for expanded pipelines out of alberta. if there was, the private sector would be building them, and it isn't happening. so, why is the government in alberta so insistent on this? the reason is that the government's base thinks it will create jobs, and therefore wealth. albertans don't want the pipeline, exactly; they want more high-paying jobs. so, the government is forced to constantly push this idea, which is a non-starter, because the people want the labour.

it might be helpful for alberta to - quietly if necessary - find more realistic ways to generate these kinds of job opportunities.

do these people not have some kind of due diligence, a fiduciary responsibility, to take better care of this retarded swedish woman than this?

these boats have a fraction of the food of a single truck. it's a poorly put together, stupid stunt.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-flotilla-intercepted-greta-thunberg-1.7648834

i couldn't imagine owning a computer that bans me from installing software, based on decisions made by the manufacturer. that's absurd. you don't own the computer at all, then.

i don't understand why people buy products from this terrible company.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/apple-removes-iceblock-app-criticism-trump-administration-rcna235333

don coyote: i like the monarchy. i like being in the castles. why don't we have a monarchy? america should have a monarchy.

advisors: well, we used to.

don coyote: really? what happened?

it's hard to believe that the democrats could be so stupid as to intentionally dissolve congress and give donald trump dictatorial executive power, but here we are.

you still have the courts. kind of.

i guess the real truth is that the christians are still trying to colonize us, isn't it?

they don't give up easily, them christians.

i could understand christian nationalism if it were somewhere in the middle east, but not in europe or america. it's an entirely incoherent concept.

i don't really understand this idea of "white christians".

christianity is a religion made by and for brown people in the middle east, and white people spent thousands of years resisting christianity, and then passively ignored it when the state stopped trying to enforce it violently, due to fear of being overthrown. white people still worship odin on christmas.

can somebody explain "white christian nationalism" to me, because it's a contradiction in terms. white nationalists should be pagan, by definition, and should think christians are stupid blathering slaves and idiots. the christians were the brown people that tried to colonize us, and failed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/charlie-kirk-windsor-vigil-event-memorial-canada-detroit-1.7648357

do they really think that's what windsor looks like in the winter?

did they wake up in the 20th century?

https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/building-windsors-future/city-hall-square-ice-rink-project

this mall is so far out of anybody's way, that they'd need to spend twice as much on gas as they'd save to get there.

they should open one of these downtown, or in tecumseh mall.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/loblaw-no-name-stores-shutting-down-1.7648258

it's starting to look like we might get that ten degree crash with a rain storm next week, but it's going to be a crash from 29 to 19, instead of from 23 to 13. what is that, then? that's not a crash into fall, if it's still summer, it's a crash from midsummer to late summer, which we used to get in september or sometimes late august. so, when does the crash to fall happen? november? december?

it's not actually supposed to be winter yet until december 21st, and winter is supposed to end at the end of march. here in canada, that's crazy talk. where i'm from, in ottawa, winter starts in early to mid november. it snowed on halloween sometimes, when i was a kid; you'd go trick or treating in tobaggans and snow pants. except that it isn't anymore, and we might actually get to have normal weather like everybody else soon.

an ai actor can do awesome impersonations. get tilly to do shatner, or pacino, or de niro, or julie andrews or taylor swift. or shrek.

an ai actor can't do new roles; it can't learn, it can't improvise.

it's not the wave of the future, it's an algorithm for cultural stagnation and decline, but that won't happen.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ai-actress-backlash-1.7647478

applications that fail to provide a labour market impact assessment should always be permanently rejected, as it suggests intentional abuse of the system. there should not be tolerance for this, and employers should not be given the opportunity to "correct the paperwork", as this is not paperwork. employers that abuse the system in this way should be permanently banned from using it further.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/facing-no-income-for-6-months-these-construction-workers-might-have-to-abandon-their-canadian-dreams-1.7646294

some little kids may have missed this one, too.

hendrix didn't write this, and there are other versions of it, but it's mostly known as a hendrix tune. i actually wasn't sure if dylan wrote it, and he didn't (although he performed it later, maybe to invert all along the watchtower, which he did write)

empirical studies are crystal clear that sending troops to patrol streets will not reduce violent crime, but may reduce property crime and theft.

in fact, portland has one of the worst property crime rates in the country, probably due to the drug problem in the region. that's actually true.

but, there's better ways to deal with the complications of drug addiction than a policed state.

well, ok.

for the young and the profoundly ignorant.

somebody's going to tell me that was carol kaye.

they won't tell us until mccartney is dead, and they shouldn't.

so, don't waste your time fucking with me. it all evens out for me.

i don't actually believe in karma, but i believe in paul mccartney.

and, in the end  [bloop. bada bloop.]

the love you take

is equal to the love

you make

i am again moving into a basement. this will be my third basement in windsor. my basement stays have been lengthy - 08-2013-12-2017, 10-2018-04-2025 - while my two apartment stays have both been less than a year.

this basement is about $200 more than the previous basement (when i left). it's smaller than the first one, but bigger than the second one.

however, i didn't have my rent increased for five+ years in the previous space. how much would i be paying if i paid the rent increases?

750*1.025^7 = ~$900. it would be a little less than that, probably around $850.

however, i'm getting an extra $200/month from the cdb, which balances that out.

in the previous basement, i had around $400-600 left for groceries and disposable income together, after paying bills. it fluctuated, but generally went up. now, i'm going to have $700/month to start, and that's going to go up.

so, this has taken a while to sort itself out, but in comparison to the previous basement i was in from 2018-2025, i'm going to end up with a bigger space and with more money in my pocket per month, and also with more in the bank to start with. my material conditions have consequently evened out.

this is due to the reality that i'm even steven. things always work out for me

now, i just need compensation for the wrongful eviction, and i'm working on it.

i don't want to mislead you or mischaracterize this. this has sucked. i've had years of my life stolen. however, i ended up better off, in the end.

what's next after this?

i have a hearing with my previous landlords on nov 4th, about me suing them. i need to update the new evidence, serve it and file it. i'm asking for upwards of $20,000 in damages for smoking and illegal entry. the new evidence includes drug tests and also the key i found in my mailbox, here. i don't know if they'll let me file it or not, but it demonstrates the point - somebody has been getting in my apartment, and somebody has been drugging me.

my appeals of their eviction order are now scheduled to go forward in the spring. i'm asking for a reversal of the costs orders and damages relating to the wrongful eviction, including the costs of staying in a hotel. that's going to be another $5,000-$10,000.

they got their house. fine. but the court should order them to pay me for it.

what am i going to do with all of this money? i have an asset limit of $40,000 on odsp, and need to be careful i'm not shooting myself in the foot, but a $20,000 downpayment would be enough to buy a $150,000-200,000 house, which exist in windsor, and which will reduce my rent/mortgage payments to well under $1000, which is the cost of the new lease. these are small bungalows or two story houses, mostly downtown. i don't need a big fancy house; i'm concerned about minimizing labour, not about maximizing wealth. this is a minimization problem for me, not a maximization problem. i have to live in capitalism, but i don't want to participate in it. further, i'll get that back when i turn 65, and no longer have an asset limit.

the reality is that nobody wants these houses, at this point. they're too expensive to rent. the bourgeois don't want them, and the students and poor can't afford them. that's the underside of capitalism i moved here to take advantage of, and which trudeau's immigration policies had taken away from me, by opening up a market for things nobody else wants.

that could work itself out by the summer, if all goes according to plan.

if i have this money and i move in the summer, it will be my last move. i'm not interested in climbing ladders. i don't care about the neighbours. this will ensure that nobody can take the house away from me again, and ensure nobody can move disgusting losers that do drugs into it. it's the end of this process. 

i'll have to determine in the end if i can afford to stay there past the age of 65 on government retirement pensions, or if it is more logical to sell the house and move into a house for retirees, which have reduced rents.

so, that's the plan.