So I think he’s back in form now.

Far Cry 7

Suspect this is so.

So about why there hasn’t been a statement by Canada about the US capturing Maduro yet, and this is complicated. Canada doesn’t recognize Maduro as president. “Canada formally recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela yesterday.” www.canada.ca/en/global-af...

This’ll be fun.

I think Canadians have mostly put O’Leary on the same list as Gretzky. MAGA-endorsers who didn’t have our back during the annexation musings.

I actually do want to play it and have no interest in jailbreaking a PS5. (Seriously, ever since the Steam Deck and ROG Ally X, I can play whatever classic games I want handheld and on a big screen, and I don’t pirate recent games.)

Team USA is basically the Florida Panthers. The captain is someone soft-spoken and widely-respected, and could win a Lady Byng (Sasha Barkov, Auston Matthews), but the team’s personality is set by alternate/assistant captain Matthew Tkachuk.

The smile is important

Good shot from Matthews on the power play goal…

The politics of boots aside, I will pay a premium for high-quality goods made in the First World. I treasure my old pair of Sorels made in Kitchener at the Kaufman factory. I just ordered a pair of Kamik Tundras that are Canadian-made.

I’ll take it.

Well, that’s the guy whom a bunch of would-be intellectuals on the American right seem to like, these days. Pretty depressing.

So yeah, I think this is good. Personalities like Nardwuar should get the equivalent of knighthoods, eventually. I think it’s a shame that a personality like Don Cherry wasn’t similarly honoured in his time. (And once he was forced to retire, it was no longer proper.) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Leafs once had a player who was as sketchy as Tom Wilson. His name was Darcy Tucker. And a quick Google shows that Tom Wilson grew up a Leafs fan who idolized Darcy Tucker, because of course he did.

💯

I hear this but personally and geopolitically 2025 kinda take the prize. That said, the Jays are AL Champions, so we got that.

It’s a very grim scene, the body is still on the road now (half past noon), covered by an orange tarp. I expect it’s because they’re doing whatever forensics are needed. Got to imagine if they catch the drivers, charges are going to be filed.

💯 this, that was the moment of Game 1 for me. I was super relieved when I saw it, because he was a .100 hitter in the playoffs before that.

Having an analogue childhood is important. Tech execs know that, they strictly limit their children’s screen time.

Why aren’t there buoys and ropes? My childhood summer camp would do that (for obvious reasons) on Gull Lake, and they were a private business. Seems obvious to do that for public swimming areas at beaches.

First game minus Matthews/Marner/Nylander since 2016 and the team plays with some bite.

These are fun because he reads the unvoiced lines as Rean.

History and constitutions tell interesting tales. The United States is not a “Christian nation” in its constitutional document. Canada actually probably is, although that might be on the way out. “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law …”

Canada’s not sending its best. ;)

This seems weird.

This could have been our year!

I miss the cheap Indian buffets of my youth. (Now Indian food is high class and expensive, darn it all.)

Obsessions of heads of state have real consequences — see Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Anglo-German naval race. (Still think the Kaiser is the best historical analogue for the current president.) Imagine if Germany had maintained the Reinsurance Treaty and also stayed friendly with Britain!

Mildly worried about SCOTUS on this one. We’ll see.

As @yuanyiz.bsky.social said on the other platform, “(t)he Danish Army was busy dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, a blunder I trust they will never repeat.”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An American perspective on the Quebec campaign of late 1775. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

Pretty sure this is one of the outdoor locations for EA‘s NHL game.

I did generally enjoy Coke floats when I’ve had them in old diners, so this really shouldn’t surprise me.

Public golf courses, and public parks/greenspace in general, are a good thing. Public greenspaces also should be closed to the public from midnight to 5AM each night, helping them remain public greenspace and not commandeered for other uses.

So the issue pointed out in this piece, that Google is seen as authoritative from its search engine days while its AI aggregation makes errors — this is something that will fix itself. We will start to be skeptical about why Google gives us. (Which is bad for Google, but you guys did this.)

Look if I’m sent an episode of a show I paid for, I’m posting the episode!

So this afternoon is between the captains of Team Canada and Team USA in the Four Nations (and possibly the Olympics), and what are we consumed with? Leafs coaching drama.

It had to be done. But more has to be done. Savard was well paid as a player and all coaches and assistants who are fired get fully paid for their contracts, so don’t worry TOO much, but he’s apparently a great guy and one never likes to see people lose their jobs.

Fell down a rabbit hole of artists covering other artists’ hits, and it’s a lot of fun. youtu.be/9LiI6poe3QE

I will enjoy this. Played through the prologue with the fan patch a year and change ago, then decided to wait. So once I’ve played the story demo (prologue), I’ll no longer have played ahead in fan translation.

Convinced people are now trolling him with wrong jerseys.

AI’s a good facilitator, it’s a shitty replacement; execs should make it clear that they’re using it to help, not replace. (Unless they’re using it to replace, in which case they’ll get the backlash.)

I guess they did want to win one for Joe Bowen?

I knew Rob Reiner had done some good material, but I did not know that all of “This is Spinal Tap”, “The Princess Bride”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “Misery”, and “A Few Good Men” were done by the same person in less than a decade. (Along with a few more films.) That is an insane run.

I view it more as personal preference at this point. I have a normie Twitter account for keeping up with a few people I want. I have a games-oriented account for that stuff. And I post here because I prefer the crowd here (of those who aren’t blocking me preemptively). No great moral choice.

About 45/47 and the Reiner deaths — that sort of public statement is why I keep an account on Truth Social that follows precisely one account, in order to check whether what’s being forwarded actually reflects reality.

Not justifying any of the stuff Stateside but if I lived downtown I’d probably get and carry a US passport card. (ie it causes damage to the passport book to be carried everywhere, and ICE plainly doesn’t recognize the enhanced driver’s licences, so…) (I do have both a passport card and book.)

They were neat, but it’s a limited market…