And tyre.

Because inflation is the devaluing of money due to the amount of money in circulation, not just “prices go up”. When prices increase due to a lack of competition, that’s something different.

I mean, satire is about highlighting truth through absurdity or irony. It’s really not satirical if it isn’t telling truth.

I mean, there’s a real difference between separating the art from the artist and separating the commodity from the producer. One is about enjoying or appreciating a work, while the other is about buying or funding it.

Capitalism looks to forcefully equate the two, and that’s really a more important discussion, but it’s not the same thing.

My parente had a 92 GTP. It was half the car of the later models, and I still miss it. There was just something about those Grand Prixes.

Not the government, not UCP voters, but Albertans.

Sorry, I lived too many years in Alberta to distinguish between how Alberta treats the rest of Canada, and how Albertans treat the rest of Canada. Y’all got a cultural problem out there, and I was subjected to it for the better part of a decade.

The thing is, they haven’t chosen not to decide, they’ve chosen to hide behind the rhetoric of not choosing. Substack chose the Nazis, fairly explicitly. And I’m sure Sequoia wouldn’t be neutral if the female COO had been making anti-Israel posts.

No. You don’t get to just decide you have the right to use someone else’s work just because you coudn’t find them to ask, any more than you get to decide that you can use their car. Them not actively selling their works isn’t the equivalent of leaving the car derilict on public property.

Yes. Believe it or not, the coke and pepsi being made in Canada makes people feel significantly less pressure to boycott them. Believe it or not, this makes sense when you think about how most people make decisions and the factors involved in those decisions.

Being smug about it doesn’t change it.

Start work earlier

Weirdly enough, the American compulsion to try and annex us has deep roots, too. I’d guess equally deep.

'Tis a bit of a thorn in one’s side, aye.

The only real work is my work. The only person who deserves a living wage is meeeeee!

You can’t argue with results! Nova Scotia is notoriously rich and prosperous, after all!

Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.

Because the Israeli government has very effectively weaponized the holocaust against critics, and politicians are very sensitive to that kind of thing.

Exactly. Nintendo is not our friend, but it’s also playing by the rules it has available to it. It’s the rulemaker’s fault if the rules are shite.

As a publically traded company in the current system, Nintendo is not in the business of making video games, it’s in the business of making shareholder value. Video games are just a tool for doing that, exactly how a PC is a tool for writing documents or developing software. At the end of the day, companies have more than one tool at their disposal, and are going to use all of them to compete.

It’s on us to take away the tools we don’t think they should have access to, not on them to voluntarily not use the ones that are in play.

They should just be posting shit on their websites. We still have web browsers. We don’t need to be able to reply.

It’s the slow but inevitable achievement of end-state of a system designed to re-frame and re-centralize power in the hands of the elite following the liberalization of political power.

This is its purpose. It always has been.

The NDP membership may be a coalition of different degrees of “left”, but the elected representatives are politicians, many of whom will do what they believe is best for their careers.

The NDP is just a political party. The membership, the politicians, and the execuitives are all separate parts with separate goals that often do not align. A significant paart of the last two groups only care about winning elections.