To be fair, there are so many moneyed Albertans in that part of BC that it feels pretty toxic there sometimes.

They are practically like ex-pats, importing a bunch of entitlement and impositions, not to mention the driving style.

Also, the far right has more international solidarity than the communists even.

The “GST discount”. Heavily in use in rural areas.

I do not welcome our teutonic overlords.

Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.

My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.

I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.

I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.

This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.

Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.

Oh yes, we just need one solution to our political problems, that’s all, just one solution.

edit: /s

I’m watching For All Mankind and enjoy the portrayal of this process.

This is one of the prominent definitions of ideology: thinking in a way that allows you to participate in your own oppression.

Some of them, for sure! I learned from covid that about 10% of the population is contrarian, and though that overlaps somewhat with conservatism, it’s also prevalent among self-described “antiauthoritarians” who are into alternative health and politics (they think). This pans out with the similar percentage of antimaskers in 1917 and during the smallpox inoculations.

Mostly because it’s a neo-monarchist kleptocracy. Wealth and Power are distributed according to inherent, not achieved, merit. Know Your Place, peon.

People who play team politics and pin their identity to certain keystone interests have to bring up their team preferences.

Sure, the Liberals have a misguided and hamfisted approach to gun law. Beliefs that guns are not relevant as a collective risk and opportunity, and that property rights reign over collective safety, are suppressing facts for identity politics.

In Canada we have a lot of long guns. I strongly support responsible hunting weapons. I don’t get choked up about the government mishandling regulation of assault and handguns, just annoyed. You can see this divide in a lot of rod and gun clubs (maybe more so in my local “god and run” club because it’s progressive rural).

I am going to treat your question as if it’s genuine and not trolling, though it is provocative to anyone paying attention to settler state history.

The Dominion of Canada hasn’t decolonized. There are treaties in some places, there are moves towards reconciliation and extending full rights, but the relationship with indigenous people is often still very colonial.

Even the genocide hasn’t fully ended.

Socreds: Bill Vanderzalm was the populist leader and Premier in the '80s. Trump would have liked him. He ran a tulip and gardening supply empire, and lived at his paid attraction, Fantasy Gardens. You can’t make this up.

He was renowned for his populist stupidity, to the point where there was a best-selling (in Canada) collection of his quips called Quotations from Chairman Zalm, and yes it is a little red book.

The application of democracy sometimes gives me trouble. Democracy requires that you set up a lot of committees and commissions.

It’s like you never get a second chance to create a first impression.

We can somehow figure out what it is that people really want or like without them telling us.

By strengthening the strong, we can help the weak.

Crispy Clark: like Poillievre, never had a real job other than spouting off. Extremist Christian, but to maintain power she had to hide just what kind of depraved beliefs she followed, like Stephen Harper.

Canada has always had a problem with extreme populism. And it’s not over.

British Columbia’s provincial conservative party is very right wing for Canada, and at times openly racist and colonial. They are kind of a new party assembled from the right wing fringe, and they have been recently shedding elected members because of the toxicity.

So on top of this, some audio recordings were recently released, putting things in an even worse light, including a suggestion of resigning to trigger a byelection in exchange for financial reward, and one of the more obnoxious separatist members talking about embezzling from party fundraising.

So, win at any cost and damn the rules, and the usual authoritarian Grift.

Heavy tax breaks and assistance for co-housing and co-ops, especially at missing-middle size, and opening up careful mixed-zoning, is where municipalities can make a huge impact. Upper-income parochialism will blind most councils though.

Bring back federal funding for co-op housing!

My favourite interview of the week, she is hilarious.

She did it out of spite because people said she couldn’t. Nearly every answer is honest self-deprecation. One serious point she makes is that due to currents and other conditions she can’t be too proud, because every ocean swim is different.

edit: speling corection

Huh, more misinformation from CanIFishHere.

Or is it disinfo? Starting to look that way.

cf.

If you want unity, maybe drop the trollish style?