Kichae

"Canadians didn't travel back in time to prevent their past selves from going to Florida" is... an interesting boast, to say the least.

There were plenty of positives. I just was ill suited to appreciate them because of the core experience of the day being so totally inverted. :-/

It's mostly each province having different regulations, standards, definitions, or licensing bodies around things that are provincially governed.

Most of it is businesses not being willing to jump through thr hoops in all provinces, or those hoops making the end product overly expensive if sold in a national format.

The thing is, they don't get the job done. And one of their jobs is to win over the hearts and minds of the electorate, and they can't even make small inroads on that when people are frustrated and ready for change.

The party has presented no clear vision for voters to latch on to, and I say this as someone who volunteers for them.

In terms of the history of the game, the CPC changed their name to the PCPC when the Premier of Manitoba, who lead the provincial Progressive party, took over party leadership and insisted that 'Progressive' be added to the name. The guy thought he'd get his voters to vote conservative, but they just abandoned him in the process and voted Liberal.

It never represented policy position. It was just one guy trying to bring some brand recognition along with him, and failing. As with most conservative language usage, it was all about confusing the issue and conning voters into supporting them.

The con they got suckered into is American Exceptionalism, and it's not Trumppy that suckered them. He's a victim of the same brainrot.

These guys are reveling in it, and I have no sympathy for those that choose "we're just better than everyone else" as part of their core identity.

The AI slop is what finally got me to install and stick with Linux. And man, do I miss windows. But/ like, Windows 7. Not whatever the fuck Microsoft is doing to Windows 11.

No, it has been. There hss just been disagreement on who is considered "the people".

My fiancee was supposed to be going into town to meet up with friends today. They do a lunch and work thing every couple of months or so, and I love when that happens because it means I get the house to myself, at least while my step-son is at school.

But my step-son woke up with the sniffles and a sore throat this morning. Normally, he will race to the digital thermometer to check his temperature when he's feeling even the slightest bit off, but today he just sat and had his breakfast. He seemed fine, he was resigned to going to school. I tried to cheer him up with some jokes, and it seemed to work.

Then his mom came downstairs, and he turned it up to 11. She pointed out the thermometer, he raced to it, and ta-da, he has a mild fever. He gleefully raced up to his room to play, while she announced to me that her plans were also cancelled because one of her friends is sick, too.

I really needed the predictability of everyone being out and knowing when they would be back. Work has been chaos this week, kiddo's off school tomorrow for a PD day, and my fiancee has planned a big to-do about the start of March Break.

This was my day of quiet predictability.

Oy.

I'd love it if people could get good internet without throwing up all that space junk. Elon's been dropping satellites on peoples heads lately, his orbital toasters are leaking so much radiation that they're ruining radio astronomy, and the satellite mesh has gotten dense enough that it's seriously imposing earthbound visual astronomy.

So that people can have Netflicks and porn.

Public, terrestrial internet infrastructure, or bust.

Trump would think that having standards for behaviour is a blanket ban on Americans, wouldn't he? He doesn't think highly of his people.

they have to follow all the similar communities

See, this compulsion needs to be killed off. Because no, they absolutely do not have to.