I really hope there’s a corresponding plaque somewhere in Nova Scotia Labrador.

Arcane isn’t even the correct name of the studio, the piece vacillates between the misspelling and the studio’s actual name, Arkane.

There are legitimate reasons that a premier might occasionally charter a private flight, but Doug Ford does not deserve the benefit of anyone’s doubt.

I love it when the government lies to me.

Sheinbaum took office in October of 2024, ~19 months ago. I think the change is being measured over the time since her government instituted the policy changes.

Baaaaa

https://www.rebuildourhealthcare.ca/hands-off-our-hospitals/

Naked moletaburrasaurus.

To me, it’s more regulating the behaviour of people than regulating the developers of intentionally addictive and intentionally poorly-moderated systems.

The big hegemonic tech platforms, as they currently exist, are not just harmful to adolescents, they’re harmful to society as a whole.

I also don’t enjoy the prospect of how a ban like this might be implemented in terms of age and identity verification, since I expect it’s going look like “hand the data brokers even more of your personal data, they pinky-swear they’ll only use it to comply with the law”.

We’ll try literally anything but regulating big tech.

For sure, they did. Most of the big stuff was started, if not completed, by Conservative administrations.

But Chrétien and Martin continued the process. Air Canada, Petro-Can, and CN Rail were all initiated by Mulroney but completed by Liberal PMs.

My point is, I don’t see the LPC as reliable defenders of public services and I think it’s dangerous to view them as an ally in that context.

Then pharmacare. Then dental care. Then all the rest of healthcare that our strangled system has left to the private market. Then the telecoms. Then public transit.

Since when does the LPC need the Cons to privatize public services?

Mouth.

And the poor too!

Wait, what was that about empathy-less people?

There are many, but the only way most of us ever see them is when we’re employed as “the help”.

Definitely Canadian, I thought it might be NZD, but the shape of the clear window on the $20 matches ours.

My problem is that poor governance from the lesser of two evils almost inevitably results in a swing towards the greater of two evils.

It just delays the worst, doesn’t avert it.

We had other options, as uninspiring as they may have been. Now we’re locked into a FPTP two-party death spiral, and both parties bear the responsibility for it; the cons for being unrepentant monsters, and the libs for pandering to the right and to capital at the expense of the best interests of the majority of the electorate when they could and should be choosing policy directions that don’t perpetuate ballooning inequality and the decay of the social safety net.

Carney in particular watched (and to some extent, presided over) decades of just this kind of decline in the UK, he absolutely knows what his policy directives are going to do to this country.

Buckwheat pillow. Nice and firm, cool, and malleable.

I punch out a divot for my head so it has kind of a neck roll when I sleep on my back, or if I’m reading on my side, I punch a divot for my ear so it’s not squished against my head.

Had it for like 15 years, I miss it whenever we visit my in-laws in another city.