Yes, good point, are oligarchs really Canadian?

It seems like they are more loyal to each other than the regions that their accommodations are in.

Let’s buy local, not loblaws or McCain or Pattison or Thompson, etc., if possible.

Hyperbole, I think.

Canada’s OG punk scene, from The Scenics through DOA and the only recently disbanded NoMeansNo, is often underrated in its importance.

Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into

1. ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or

2. ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

In BC, Rustad makes Smith look smart and diplomatic. Yet the last election had these mouth breathers losing by a handful of votes.

Foreign influence, social media, lies damn lies, and the failure to implement media literacy in schools in the 1990s led us to this. Well, add the flapping tatters of colonial settler ideology as a base layer, I guess.

Carpenter Media = foreign influence organization.

Why the Fuck are Canadians ignoring this shit?

Note how much of this oligarch’s stew is made of opinion shaping ventures.

Ooo, cooling mat! Well then, no wonder it’s still running. One of the easiest laptops to fix, too, so you could just repurpose it.

Also, when you buy an Air, consider whether you are going to be gaming or not. If not, a M2 with 16 GB of RAM can be a lot cheaper than new, and my 16GB M1 is still awesome even for some intensive use.

To add: my favourite mac of all time was probably my 15” 2012 with a matte hd screen and upgraded SSD drive (which only took 10 fucking minutes, le sigh). All the ports!

Keep that thing off the internet if you can. Security is kind threadbare on that abandoned macOS.

Fantastic form factor for non internet tasks though. The 2011 model is worse for thermal management and the fans work harder so may need replacement, listen for rattles or silence from one side. Keep it ventilated on all sides including bottom.

Debian should run very nicely on that if you want modern software features and low-worry internet security.

Thinktank, the compact and skookum waterless toilet from Victoria.

Hennessy Hammocks are top notch camping hammocks.

If you use sodastream there’s a Quebec supplier of replacement canisters available from Home Hardware.

Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don’t want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.

The black bar really adds no decency, it’s performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.

Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.

Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.

Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.

My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.

Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere

Fadear Creek Road, about 45 kilometres northeast of Kamloops.

Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% – splitting hairs.

I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.

I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.

In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you’re in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.

Holy fuck dude, really?

Nope wrong. It’s in living memory and the genocidal practices in those schools are still being remediated and suffered under.

It has ongoing financial, cultural, and health effects. The schools closed but the effects persist. IT’S NOT OVER FFS