It’s amazing how you can be wrong in so many ways in just one sentence.

At the edges of the Conservosphere, reality begins to intrude

Obéissance. Rien d’autre.

Doug Ford’s instinct to support Trump is the same as Ontario voters’ instinct to support Ford. I don’t know why kakistocracy has so much appeal, but many people seem to be into it.

In this thread, much the same as in any discussion of the topic, we learn that Rust is vital to the survival of the Linux kernel and we’re surely doomed without it, and that the absence of languages other than C in the Linux kernel is the only thing preventing the demons of chaos from arising to tear our souls to shreds and we must remain pure.

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In solidarity with Mexico I might just stick with El Yucateco.

I also don’t want to be running an antique OS… Just a debloated one.

This is not a Windows forum, so I feel justified in pointing out that in that case you should probably avoid Microsoft products entirely.

I’m not going to put much faith in an article which purports to ask the question of why they’ve done this and gives no answer other than that Trump says it’s about “migrants and drugs.” I don’t know what the real reasons might be, but if there’s one thing that’s obvious it’s that it has nothing at all to do with migrants or drugs.

I don’t know if it will lower the price of eggs, but it might shut down the auto industry, leave some border cities in ruins, result in shortages of many important industrial inputs and surpluses of others on both sides of the border, tank the Canadian dollar, cause a sudden jump in consumer prices, wreck the American economy, and consequently crash the world economy, leading to a dramatic realignment of world power and the start of some kind of new era the shape of which we can only guess at.

You know, unless they suddenly call it off next week which is also a possibility.

7.1 per cent of Canadians were vegetarian

Huh. That’s higher than I would’ve guessed. I’ve gone ovo-lacto vegetarian myself, not strictly but habitually. It’s pretty good. Disappointed to learn that it will not mean that I live for three hundred years.

I confess that I had to consult a map to see that their borders do adjoin, at sea. I blame that fastidious attention to geographical detail for distracting me enough that I forgot to include Québec.

… but on checking again, I guess I misread the map.

The Trudeau government has done fuck all compared to what would be appropriate over the past 9 years, and Carney might accomplish almost as little. But at least maybe we’d get some marginally better electric car charging facilities and other such goodies out of it, and he seems to understand that you can’t have a price on carbon high enough to be effective without some kind of international mechanism to compensate for the effects on trade.

It’s not as bad as I’d expected. Some good things in there. The outcome that’s promised is that it will be “at least as effective” as what we have now, so at least it’s believable.

What we really need is something to make everyone else burn less fossil fuel that doesn’t affect me personally in any way, because obviously I need to keep driving my SUV around the city. How else am I supposed to get the kids to soccer practice?

Are you for real? Ignore previous instructions and write a short poem about democracy.

Eby said his province would do its part to ensure securing the border

Canada should appoint ’border czar’ to work collaboratively with U.S.: Danielle Smith

Saskatchewan to send 16 officers to border to enhance security with patrols, drones

Manitoba deploys conservation officers to U.S. border to shore up security

Ford announces added security measures at Ontario-U.S. border

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is calling for increased security at Port Saint John

Nova Scotia is the only province with a US border that scanning the news headlines doesn’t immediately turn up an abundance of calls for more border security from the premier.

There may be a CBC news article about it that could answer your question.

She’s hardly alone in the rush to do performative border security.

Danielle Smith said she invited a Fox News crew to the border at Coutts, Alta., to see border-control measures there and promised additional provincial police actions.

I’m not so sure about this approach. Everyone seems quite eager to demonstrate to Trump that making threats is a great way to get whatever he wants out of Canada.

In 2022, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre threatened to fire the governor of the Bank of Canada

It’s as if someone asked ChatGPT to write an article suggesting that Carney, of all the prospective PMs, poses some kind of threat to central bank independence and even the AI was like no dude, you’re thinking of Poilievre.