With the 20% Bezos takes off of every sale going into union job wages.

Interesting. I wonder what the buusness model is here. Not from profit perpsective but rather the inner workings of it.

https://canadashops.ca/toys/bath-toys

There seems to be a lot more than CP stuff.

Shoulda said nothing. I highly doubt anything material and good comes from this message. Saying nothing would’ve avoided the rest.

What the absolute fuck, etc. Could have and SHOULD have said nothing.

In case you don’t know what Lindsay Graham was, especially in Canadian context, David Doel did a good recap.

Zachary Taylor, director of Western University’s local government program, said it’s “kind of astonishing” that the councillor has raised so much at this early stage. He said it’s an indication that Bradford has become the “consensus candidate” among more right-leaning donors hoping to block Chow, a veteran progressive, from a second term.

In addition to raising money, Bradford has been busy assembling a campaign team that includes well-known operatives form Conservative and Liberal circles.

Mike Van Soelen, a partner at the Oyster Group public affairs firm, and former Liberal strategist Genevieve Tomney are co-chairs, while his campaign is being managed by John Sinclair, former deputy chief of staff to Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre. Sinclair was also chief of staff for Scarborough-Rouge Park councillor Jennifer McKelvie as well as executive director of the Ontario PC caucus under Premier Doug Ford.

Laryssa Waler, Ford’s former executive director of communications, is Bradford’s communications director, while Isha Chaudhuri, former communications adviser to Ontario PC Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce, is press secretary.

This bud is failing the Gaza litmus test among other red (blue) flags.

Donate to Chow if you can. I just did.

Things look too close for comfort:

This lift-and-shift VMs to the cloud frenzy reminds me of TD circa 2018.

Folks who’ve used Linkwarden and archivebox, which do you prefer? Is one a superset of the other?

This, make a partition thats a few gigs smaller than the drive, add the partitions to the storage pool instead of the raw drives.

Don’t think about drives in terms of reliability. Consider them a consumable in your storage system. The storage system should insulate you from the exact drives. Run a ZFS mirror or RAIDz2. Swap drives when they fail. The exact brand and model shouldn’t matter.

I mean… consider what’s gonna happen as the water shortages and crop failures in the US start. I doubt they’re gonna lay flat and suffer / die. I think they’ll come for our resources and it’s probably gonna be a matter of whether through negotiation or aggression. What puts us in one or the other timeline would be whether we present the risk of significant pain to them.

As always the social infrastructure (community, user base) is much more important for the success and use value of a piece of software than the exact technology used to make it (lang, framework, helper tools).

Tom Pitfield, who served on Carney’s 2025 campaign team and then became a principal secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, has been named to the upper house.

So a patronage appointment. Great. Brilliant.

I mean, I’m not gonna argue against that. That’s obvious to most here. But it’s also obvious we aren’t stopping oil. I’m helping the NDP as much as I can. At the same time Ford finished retooling the Oakville plant to make all-you-can-guzzle F-250 Super Duty. And the last time I checked the most sold vehicle in Canada was Ford F-150. I ride a bike and use transit. But we’re not stopping using oil today. We currently have no mechanism to stop it. The capital system won’t allow it. Taking political power could allow us to change direction, not stop. And that’s not on the horizon for at least a couple of years if not 4-6. People aren’t in enough of a crisis to demand change. The Iran war opened an opportunity but that didn’t come to a head. At this point I’m pretty sure we’re entering firmly into a damage control phase with AMOC disruption and all that. This is not an argument, just feels.

Re: ceramic - that makes sense.

The picture of sand dragging at the insides of a metal pipe buried in the ground make me a bit uneasy.

I see. So what’s the use case for this pipeline other than political capital?

I thought we have some in SW Ontario and Quebec. Or do you mean they’re not Canadian-owned?

If this resolves our dependence on US pipeline to get Canadian oil to Canadian refineries, might be a good idea.

It’s funny that we’re looking to this SCOTUS for better judgement on this than our legislators.