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They’re staying very very quiet about how the guy appears to have hit one of the other MEAL Team 6 members with a ricochet. Watch the video, guy clearly got hit in the leg by a bullet

It’s not really talked about but the US has an active base in Iceland. They do training there, have folks stationed there. The locals know, NATO knows. Strategically it is better positioned than Greenland because Iceland is both North, South, East, and North of Greenland.

Bread does that to people My dating profile opened with: Corporate Goth Woke Capitalist Bread Slut Had far, far too many conversations about bread.

Very convenient to not recognize the legitimacy of another country’s leader if doing so would make what you did even more illegal.

Base on all the other evidence provided to date I frankly did not realize that an indictment in the Southern District of New York made one unfit to be President

Think blue helmets need to be deployed like… now. Right now. The United States “Department of War” does not act in a peace-keeping capacity.

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world. But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.

You know how I know the Epst*** files are 100% true? Because one of the largest websites in the world is allowing anyone who wants to produce SA and CSAM material on demand of anyone they want And no one has lifted a single finger. They asked the AI to apologize and it did so case closed

They put protein in EGGO waffles which seems mighty cursed imo

A play about a tweet by the same people who made a play that “no one would watch” about a book “no one would read” which was an extension of an RFP “no one would care about” Toronto is fascinating

When I was young my mom gave me a $20 and told me to go buy 5 timbits The cashier said they came by the dozen so I said, “ok 5 dozen” Got a lot of timbits.

Weird Monday today isn’t it

When Boomers do deep research about how the city could POSSIBLY do something without consulting them for a decade.

The high cost of babies is literally why my wife and I are skipping that stage and adopting older children Even porting half of the childcare budget into a therapy budget is massive for funding any support they’ll need

The City of Toronto municipal election is October 26, 2026 Which means that as of May it becomes a very bad idea to take any files to Council And a bunch of niche personalities who hate Toronto will attempt to dominate the discourse for 6 months

A stack of: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage ... with Notes by the Translator by Ada Lovelace

What a quote

Jarod K. Anderson weighs in

Every year I watch the Times Square broadcast Every year I hope someone says live on TV their next year goal is to deliver value to stakeholders I usually expect to be disappointed A girl this year said, “to be more productive and wake up early” I’ll take it

Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, FL have one of the most ridden transit systems in the United States. On balance do you think average riders on this system are lower or higher income?

The only “you’re not from here” that happens is if you pronounce the second T It’s T to silent t bud, pronounced chrwanna, Get out of here with that toe-RON-toe business

I have to question what universities are doing Every student/new professional I talk to mentions how amazing the courses taught by professionals/contract lecturers were And how truly awful the ones taught by profs are How is this at all acceptable?

“but why don’t you want to join the states?” There are many, many reasons one of which is avoiding whatever hellscape this is:

*Steeples fingers and bows head* There are good reasons for daycares to not let random adult men with video cameras into the facilities to see children

I somehow won the lottery with b-tier RAM.

Small / heritage office conversion essentially only works for boutique hotels where a significantly lower NLA/GCA ratio is acceptable But hotels are one of the worst things imaginable to take through zoning and licensing

It’s a shame that despite being the single largest line item in the City of Toronto budget the Toronto Police Headquarters can’t afford to clear their snow within the by-law mandated time limit

It’s really quite something that you can go to the fire department to get a letter justifying basically any Luddite-tier concern. “You can’t have e-bikes in the garage due to fire risk, it’s a safety thing” Vs all the internal combustion cars, modded Teslas, and project motorcycles?

Theres two types of people: “No one has ever done this before, I must be brilliant” “No one has ever done this before, I wonder why that might be”

Multiple women have now told that they’d be much more inclined to watch hockey if it was actually like that

Odd to not include minutes under distance - how most Canadians measure both long and short distances if it requires going somewhere

I’m so glad we have Prime Minister Mark Carney and not an orange wacky waving inflatable flailing arm tube man as our leader. And to all a good night.

In case you didn’t know, City Hall is packed on Xmas Eve. What a vibe

For a long, long time Gordon Lightfoot would play the late Christmas Eve service at Rosedale United Church (Canada’s gayest and heathenest national church network) We lost him two years ago He’d often cover Bob Dylan’s Ring Them Bells. Think of him every time I hear it

Noticed Buddy the Elf faced zero issues after making a very long and treacherous journey to enter the country and reside in New York. Got multiple jobs without much issue. Citizenship wasn’t even questioned once.

Remember to turn off motion smoothing and maximum brightness on your parent’s TV and THEN setup the parental control password

Why is the onus always on the children to “put up with” unacceptable behaviour in order to maintain relationships that they view as toxic And not on parents to behave appropriately and maintain their relationships with their children?

I ran to Farm Boy to get some things and this lady was asking a staff member, “Do you carry caviar?” and he was like “uh yea I think we have cowboy caviar” “yea whatever, that works” She is in for a fun surprise!

Are people who are like “you can’t bike in Toronto, we have winter” just like… generally unprepared for winter? Oh no you have to wear a toque and gloves - exactly what you would wear to walk from the car to Costco.

Cities subsidize the suburbs on Christmas Eve too Santa experiences previously unheard of efficiencies by delivering to high density apartment buildings This makes up for the delivery lag to far-flung suburban homes on cul-de-sacs This is how his operation has scaled despite population growth

A gentle reminder that the protagonist and hero in Its A Wonderful Life, George Bailey, is a real estate developer. The villain, Mr. Potter, is a NIMBY slumlord who doesn’t want any new developments because they threaten his monopoly. Weird, I bet that never happens IRL…

CBS: we can’t air the news clip that will make the big bad mad Global News, a Corus Entertainment company: hold my beer that is a real beer and not watery piss

Breaking the biggest story in America right now 🤝 Global News

There are certain characters pitching modular non-market housing as the panacea that we should re-orient the entire industry towards They will shift topics the MILLISECOND they stop getting speaking gigs on modular Don’t believe me? Look up what panels they were on a year ago

“Some men were Baptist, some were Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man”

The only reason LLMs are being seen as helpful is because we massively overindexed on higher word count = more value Many, many jobs are paid to write 1,000 page reports where all the value is in the Exec Sum McKinsey slide titles are 99% of value paid for. Respect people’s time; write short.

This thing where all new high density housing units are expected to be “family-friendly” at the behest of any other unit type will bite us Staff insisting that studio units not exist in new projects will impact the availability of housing for single-person households Must we always over-rotate?