Try and find a non-American credit card that actually works. It’s fucked.

GardaWorld = Police Planet

Fuck those guys eh

There are many reasons to buy local, especially for canadians.

When it comes to food, you benefit from better practices, for instance. In B.C., even if you aren’t buying organic, most of our producers are using some form of integrated pest management, and are smaller family farms, so you’re getting a cleaner product.

Also, more obviously, we have decent safety standards, and while we also have a big farm worker exploitation problem to solve, there’s some momentum in improving that.

Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.

Eh? Scientific method can be summarized as ‘stating your beliefs then trying to disprove them’.

As always, with any questions about Political Economy:

Follow The Money

Namespro is privately owned, based in Richmond, IIRC. Only good experiences for me: support consistently responds quickly and helpfully, the interface is still web 1.0 and not polluted by upsells or dark patterns. They have been reliable for me for over 20yrs.

Me too, plus I don’t tailgate!

Recently bought a composting toilet, the Thinktank, which is not only the only canadian made (in Victoria BC) waterless toilet but one of the best designs and quality.

Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

Country Grocer

That’s great!

Also: fuck Loblaws and other oligarchs harming our food sovereignty.

Fuck Sobey’s with an artichoke.

They bought Thrifty Foods here on the west coast and the purchasing became less local, staffing policies got shittier, pricing got worse, and it generally just fell into boycott territory for me.

The locally based grocery chain that remains here is pretty good so we still have that, but choice vanished, thanks capitalism.

Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don’t know how it works ‘over there’, one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.

Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.

I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it’s been too long, which is great.

It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it’s very easy, apple got this one thing right.

It’s not the rage at all. A minority of misinformed people in Alberta and an even smaller percentage in BC and Saskatchewan are back on their hoser soapboxes.

The people against it are very against it. But whatever, it’s not going to happen without violence, as most of the lands don’t belong to the provinces, it’s mostly treaty or crown, and it triggers some very high feelings.

I have hired and fired before. If someone came to me with a resume that slim, would they even get the interview… nah.

He’s never made anything, his expertise is misleading rhetoric, so I guess if he were ever to get an actually productive job making things it would be advertising where he can VERB the NOUN all day.

You can seize the means of Production and lose society to those who own the means of Reproduction (of society): communication. Media, culture, education, history, and Law are just as fundamental to society as ownership, and as a shaper of motives, has more inertia, therefore momentum.

American oligarchs have a long lever into Canada through ownership and influence of our media, both legacy and online. We are going backwards without fixing that.

Windsor is a union town but the vote split was brutal.

No worries, queen Liz was always the leader in our riding, she is very personable and genuine and the constituency support is non-partisan, so she kept her seat with a good margin.

The thread is looking for Canadian software. By which to say non-USA software. So WTF are you doing?!