Oooof, my bad! Thanks!

If I were on Carney’s comms team, I’d be giggling, high fiving and writing up attack lines for Carney to crucify him on this. The EU and UK are moving towards essentially having tarrifs for countries without industrial carbon pricing.

With the US being a dumpster fire, making it harder to trade with our actual allies is about as boneheaded a move as you can imagine.

I guess, from his perspective it’s worth it so he can say “ax the tax.”

Edit: Whoops, meant costs on countries without a carbon tax. Thanks Mongostein!

I’ve had decent luck wandering through thrift shops but even then, they’re still close to or slightly more expensive than new.

This seems… Odd. One of the big tax promises in Nevada and I think Arizona was no taxes on the tips. Either that’s not included here or no one making tip wages makes less than 157k a year?

Thanks!

Oh is that actually the case this time around? I remember the 2017 cuts by revenue mostly affected the top whatever but the poor still had a tax cut, it’s just the amount of money saved was, by definition, significantly less than it was for the top earners.

The politicians don’t believe it, they just have to say it. The people voting for it see themselves as also getting a tax cut, which they want.

Absolutely! Martin McDonagh is quickly becoming one of my favourite writer/directors.

For a free service, it’s kind of impressive how much good stuff there is.

Ohhh, good call!

I’m going to ignore the big Oscar Winner sort of stuff (12 years a slave etc) or super famous comedies (Napoleon Dynamite) and focus on some smaller stuff.

Rhymes for Young Ghouls - Feels like an Indigenous Guy Ritchie sort of movie. Heavy subject matter though (revenge on a residential school administrator) but quite good. Canadian made, Indigenous director.

Blood Quantum - Solid B movie, Indigenous community vs Zombie Apocalypse.

20th century women - Hard to describe but it’s about a single mom raising her son in 1979. Great writing.

Banshees of Inisherin - A man tells another he’d no longer like to be friends. Things escalate incredibly from there. Darkly funny, one of my favourites of the year.

Snowpiercer - Really dark sci fi action, incredibly unsubtle class allegory.

Tangerine - Sean Baker’s (who wrote n directed Anora) first movie. It’s a day in the life of a transgender prostitute trying to find her cheating pimp/bf. It’s heartfelt, wrenching and beautiful in its seedy way. Really good.

Goon - Think Slapshot but in modern times and funnier. “Two rules, stay away from my fuckin’ percocets and do you have any fuckin’ percocets?” “CHOOSE 69, IT’S HILARIOUS!” (I say this every time I’m playing sports and someone has the number 69, which is about 1/3 of the games. Even in adult leagues.)

(I assume if you’re into horror you’ve seen the Babadook and It Follows but if not, damn you are in for a treat!)

I’m not sure if they are made in Canada (I just sent an email asking) but the Legion does sell Canadian flags. As the money goes to supporting veterans, I’d feel pretty good about buying one regardless. But I’ll confirm where the flags are made when I hear back.

https://www.poppystore.ca/canada-2

Edit: Got an email back confirming these are made in Canada! So double awesome, support veterans, support a Canadian flag manufacturer. What’s not to love?

Thank you! That looks wonderful!!! (I will watch out for the focaccia share though.) Much appreciated!

Thanks for the heads up! I wonder if I can ask for “what did you give people.last year” or somesuch. Though, and I know this is a bad thing to say on reddit, LLMs have made me much more comfortable trying new ingredients/recipes.

I’ve heard such good things, it’s top of my list. I might try and start a watching group on here or something. Think like a book club with an episode a week or something.

Great suggestion, thanks!

I’d never heard of either of those and they sound great, thanks for sharing!

Oh dang, I do love me some Ayoade! (If anyone hasn’t seen it, Garth Merenghi’s Dark Place is one of the first things he wrote and is fantastic, trailer .

My first thought

But hey, if my country needs me…

I’ll start the ball rolling:

The instant classics, Schitt’s Creek and Kim’s Convenience are there. Both are heartwarming, joyful family comedies. Blackberry is a great little movie about the Blackberry phone with Glenn Howerton (Dennis from it’s always sunny in Philadelphia) and Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman, basically that nerdy looking dude you’ll recognize instantly.)

Ones I haven’t seen but have heard really good things about (and are thus on my list):

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Reservation Dogs, Penny Dreadful, Britannia, Masters of Sex, Pen15

Haven’t heard much but Natasha Lyonne is usually awesome, so Poker Face is on my list.