I wouldn’t want to eat deep-freeze-dried meat anyway.

You can’t remove the right to strike. That’s dictatorship-level behaviour. Fuck the NSW govt. Solidarity from Canada.

I just wish I could have had a better health story. Tumor as a baby, shunt breaking at 32, and numerous mental health crises in between.

Subs are cheaper

I’m waiting to see if the budget actually passes. If not, NDP is heading into an election without an official leader (although I think Don Davies has done serviceably well as interim leader, I don’t imagine he wants the gig full time).

Ha, and I actually used to know the difference between typeface and font, but my memory of graphic design classes has waned a bit since 2005 when I took that program in college, so I had to look it up and refresh myself, full disclosure. More to the point - I think we can both agree that USA is democratically backsliding. Part of that is a lack of education being trusted by many. If we can’t even remember what terms like First and Second World were supposed to mean, it just feeds into the misinformation maelstrom that produces far-right types calling anything exhibiting human decency “communist”, “woke”, or other inaccurate terms meant to belittle them.

I am here for this. So many Canadians in the entertainment industry relocate to Cali. Hell, it was even what drew the NHL into southern expansion. If Gretzky had never been traded to Los Angeles, I am betting that the NHL would be confined to Canada and the northern US (places that actually get snow, goddammit!) to this day.

Edit: I know that mountainous regions in even tropical countries get snow, but the culture of hockey/winter sports in general doesn’t exist in warm-weather locales for a pretty obvious reason - people don’t experience cold winter weather there.

Well, skibidi 6 7 to you, then.

If we are going to have a conversation about an important topic, we have to use up to date terminology to do so. Third world ain’t it. The USA was the fricking anchorpiece of the First World. Calling it third world is just lazy and stupid. I won’t stand for it.

Just a point of order:

The terms First, Second and Third World were cold war references to the power blocs (Allies, Soviets, unaligned).

If you mean to say backsliding in terms of development, say that.

Third world is an inaccurate description for ‘undeveloped’ countries.

Not even Kuzco?

In Soviet Russia, CAPITAL own you!!

It’s ok. I am a Canadian. I sympathize

A tea-drinker in Yankeeland? Traitor! :P

Well, I’m going to put forward a startup to some investors to create fertilizer from human waste, then. Companies like Synagro already do this shit.

I’m not suggesting we look into above-ground sewer systems. It just seems laughable to me, a person who has lived in a city centered on mines that can go 3 km into the earth (into that ‘impossible to build’ Canadian Shield), that we cannot spare some of that mining expertise to safely bury our power infrastructure and still leave adequate space in ready access tunnels to service it when required. We get the same kinds of severe weather that Quebec does. It’s stupid that we don’t plan ahead because it might cost more up front.

Yes, but I mean… We still build sewer systems in Canadian cities on the Canadian Shield. I think it is fair to have the conversation as to why we cannot follow through with power transmission infrastructure as well. We all witnessed the effects of the 1998 ice storm. The fact that 27 years after that, things like this are still occurring is shameful.

This outage is effecting Montreal - one of our major population centers. I think if anything qualifies for Carney’s planned infrastructure investments, this ought to.

Captain Holt, is that you?

Yeah, mirrors seem like a huge problem. Why not go with photovoltaics - a decades-old, proven technology, and just beam energy to a ground-based storage facility to be used later?

I know some amount will be lost in conversion and transmission, but you could still have underground facilities in cities providing extended daylight for good reasons, like to help people with seasonal affective disorder, or to grow crops out of season.

Bye bye bye!