yardy_sardley

What a hugely important message. At a time when our sovereignty is being challenged by American imperialism, we are not going to survive by slashing one of our most important public institutions for short-term gain. I'm not even sure what there would be to gain, anyway.

Yeah, if Canadians had the character to withhold their vacation dollars over the unacceptable behaviour of the US government, they would have stopped going there 20 years ago. The only difference is that now you risk being summarily thrown in a gulag even if you don't look stereotypically middle-eastern.

As an Oilers fan I'm feeling pretty anxious, the team is severely banged up, and trying to score on Kuemper this year has been an exercise in futility. McDrai will have to be at full power to pull this one off. I'm gonna say Oilers in 7, but I would also not be surprised if the Kings go on a run this year.

I might just be seeing things, but do those flight suits have flared bottoms?

Bezos has gone too far, he must be stopped.

Classic conservative governing — opting for reactionary, authoritarian solutions to problems they themselves created through deleting all of the existing preventative solutions that were 10x more effective.

Also, in the CBC article about it, there's this line: "a patient won't be able to refuse medications that the commission has decided they will take to treat their addiction." How the hell does that jive with the right to decide over all medical decisions that Smith recently amended into Alberta's constitution? I find it pretty strange that they keep writing legislation restricting who this right applies to.

Did they decide to collect data at church this morning? Or is this the fallout from the "stop the steal" thing?

Says the guy who literally gave those ultra-conservative ghouls their power when he included them in the UCP. He's the one who started this shitstorm, and now he wants to pretend he didn't call to have park paved? Frig off, cheeseburger man.

It's not that people are incapable of picking up on nuance, it's got more to do with it being reeaaally hard to convey tone through text. Like it would be hard to fully grasp all the finer points of a psychological movie if instead of watching the movie, all you had was a text version of the dialogue.

Personally I'm a fan of using an '/s' marker, but inside of a spoiler tag.

The word 'nodule' still makes me gag

In a functioning society, we wouldn't have to rely on the "philanthropy" of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.

To interject with a somewhat pedantic point, nothing is truly apolitical. But there is something to be said about sensing the proper time and place to start a political argument.

Except the marketing in this case is actually more accurate. Using 'kilo-' to refer to 1024 of something is a straight up misnomer. The Ancient hackers really cursed us with an ambiguous convention for counting bytes.