Zoomers are the worst

No where else in Canada do they have this weird structure. Only in Vancouver do you get extra bureaucracy.

People who think Carney is no different than PP are as stupid as the people in the US who thought there was no difference between Trump and Harris.

We’re actually not. The “business as usual” model is something like 2-3 degrees right now. Not ideal, but it’s nowhere near where scientists thought it was 2 decades again (like 8 degrees). Catastrophizing helps no one.

This is exactly what happened in Alberta btw. Enviro groups slammed Notley for “not doing enough” and outright encouraged people not to vote for the Alberta NDP. Then the UCP was elected and they are worse. Sabotaging good for not being perfect is something you can’t do in politics.

It’s really not clear what DFO wants here. Do they just want Marineland to release them into the ocean and say “good luck, no longer our problem”? If they go bankrupt (CCAA), what do they imagine will happen?

Safe seat members face strong incentives to endorse interest group laundry lists regardless of the politics, which then defines the national party brand in a way that is hard for frontline members to overcome in an era of nationalized politics. www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...

my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk

I’m sure Bluesky will be very normal about his very mundane (and not at all new) observation.

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

Alberta Teachers’ Association members have voted 89.5 per cent to reject the latest contract offer. Turnout for the vote was 94 per cent. 51,000 teachers will go on strike across the province on Oct. 6. Here’s ATA president Jason Schilling announcing the vote result in Edmonton #AbEd #AbLeg

Oilers 50/50 raffle has paid $81M to company owned by hockey group over 4 years, documents reveal www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local... Quite the scoop from @brettmckay.bsky.social

I’m a liberal individualist and one thing I have observed about the communitarian critics of my worldview is that they seem to think the fact of human sociality alone implies we ought to abandon individualism of any kind. That is wrong and they never do the work beyond it. A thread.

This is the perfect response to everyone who think “human society was historically communitarian”. Yes, and it sucked big time. It’s a society in stasis, in an uneasy status quo enforced by ostracism for stepping out of line of the community.

There's always this assumption that individualism and community are different poles in a zero sum conflict and that's just not what we see empirically. Societies with higher rates of individualism tend to have higher altruism, stronger fairness norms, etc. etc

Really do think this dismissive attitude is just dumb. It does actually matter if the demographic most likely to kill people, which is men ~16-40, are feeling alienated. Yes, even if you think it’s their fault, yes even if other groups are suffering as much or more. They’re the ones who pick up guns

Not totally clear what this means since it's not backed up by anything concrete, but generally in Canada government isn't supposed to set priorities for police.

"Do you trust (X) to do the right thing to help the economy?" Mark Carney: Trust: 58% Distrust: 35% Pierre Poilievre: Distrust: 47% Trust: 44% Research Co. / Sept 12, 2025 / n=1003 / Online

This is going to make people on this site mad.

What a fucking clown. Yeah, Canadians hate fascism.

Yeah, I have been a bit confused about the narrative here. I had sort of understood Kirk to be one of the many people who are sold as "youth whisperers" to rich boomers, without actually having a strong popularity with the youths.

There's also a second dividing line on COVID that's worth noting - the people who have been willing to learn from it, and those who have only used it to dig in thier heels. I keep watch for the learners, they're the ones worth paying attention to on other things.

But -- and this is where I think Silver has a point -- Covid broke a lot of people temporarily. The public health folks saying the George Floyd protests were totes cool were also way outside their lane. I agree that Silver has overreacted to a lot, but this overstep was also real.

@aupe.org when will you be releasing the results of the vote?

Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

No shit, Sherlock. Of course Zelensky "doesn't like him". Putin's troops are looting, raping, murdering and kidnapping Ukrainian children, while on a mission to erase the country's culture.

So Trump is making an online portal where ppl with vigilante & vigilante-adjacent expertise sign up & get deputized as regime-approved brownshirts. Instead of venting on 4chan or Stormfront they can now sign up & be brutalizing regime enemies w/promise of legal immunity. Am I missing something?

Yup. The sorts of countries where the president’s name and photo appear in public places are not the sorts of countries where the president leaves office

There will be no investigation by the NHL on salary cap tempering even though he could have done this at the end of the last season and miss less of the upcoming one because Gary only likes it when Florida teams cheat.

"Electoral pushback and public dissatisfaction is not enough. As with so many other professions, from airline pilots to senior military officers, a hard and fast rule is the only workable solution." www.liberalcurrents.com/age-limits-f...

"Just talk to voters like normal people" is advice that enrages people still paying those grad school loans

"The patriarchy needs to be lectured." I'll be long gone while Democrats are trying to figure out how to stop Barron Trump from getting a third term

All of these, and also, they signal to the listener that the speaker is demonstrating moral superiority by using terms that come from an intellectual background. If you want to win votes, helps not to sound like a college professor. (Says the former prof.)

"We can’t sweep it under the rug any longer: too many of our high officeholders, including a disproportionate number of Democrats, are simply too old." My thoughts on the endlessly excruciating gerontocracy problem, and the many disturbing examples we've seen in recent years, @liberalcurrents.com:

So when the US government is literally got the military in cities and masked thugs, the Second Amendment people are sure quiet. Turns out when push comes to shove, the Second Amendment people sided with the tyrannical government.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

This fucking sentence

This was not an unknown problem when the act is passed, but enriching favoured industries always came first for the Trudeau government.

40 yrs ago today, Bryan Adams gets his first #1 album with “Reckless” — featuring “Summer of ‘69”. Originally titled “The Best Days Of My Life”, it helped Adams in his quest for a song about summer. “While we were doing the demo, I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of ’69’ and it stuck.”

I can’t believe he just called out SoftBank like that.

there's also the switch from 'the words mean what they say' to 'the words absolutely do not mean what they say, you were a rube for ever believing so'. sometimes from the same people!

i have a rule that if a concept seems to consistently require endless amounts of new "lore" to understand before being criticized, it is bad

During university I would have a laptop with 1 x 13 or 14" screen. Now, anything less than my 2 x 24" desktop screens seems unusable for anything serious.

I just watched a recent video essay about this. youtu.be/sJjODY-PyJY?...

Maybe also just avoid flying in US airspace.

See the bigger problem is that more liberally billionaires are largely in tech, and they either largely went insane over AI turning people into paper clips or ended up in an EA cult that convinced them only donating malaria nets “matters”.

Look at how far Macleans has fallen. It use to be Canada’s premier newsmagazine. Now it’s a rag.