I just happen to have watched this earlier so I’ll indulge you this time.

Scheer is letting PP stay at the official opposition leader’s well-staffed Stornoway mansion instead of taxpayers funding his family moving out, just to fund them moving in again when he likely wins in a by-election. Even the commenter in the video says that part doesn’t matter and it’s a non-issue. He also goes on to say it’s a shame the PM’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive hasn’t been renovated in a long time, experts are saying it’s “unlivable” but Trudeau and possibly Carney are afraid of political blowback for spending money on fixing it up.

I’m sure in addition to what’s been publicly stated as happening right now being indefensible even to the most in-denial people out there (at least out of those who want to be able to believably claim they care at all about human rights), it helps that in the UK at least, cases have been moving forward against war criminals with dual citizenship. (Identified “veterans” of the genocidal campaign have been charged elsewhere as well but I haven’t heard how those cases are progressing yet.)

Actually, from recent reports I’ve seen, it seems it’s Smith trying to save her own butt because much of her party wants this and is at risk of splitting up if they don’t get their way.

She’s said a referendum would be an “outlet” to let them feel heard, but she’s obviously playing with fire. (Fwiw, Smith says she isn’t for secession herself, but take that as you will.) If she was responsible and cared at all about her province and country, she’d be trying to put that fire out (aiming for a unity moment), rather than fanning the flames.

Oh, I didn’t realize you were using colloquial English there.

Actually, “lay” is the past tense of “lie,” AND “lay” is a separate verb from “lie.” Most people will incorrectly (for formal English anyway) confuse the two verbs, using transitive “lay” when they mean to be using the intransitive “lie.” (E.g. “She lays down” is not a valid conjugation in formal English, and should be “She lies down.” If she’s putting something else down though, “She lays it down.”

Here are the respective conjugation charts for both verbs, if you want:

• https://www.wordreference.com/conj/enverbs.aspx?v=lie
• https://www.wordreference.com/conj/enverbs.aspx?v=lay

In some regional or cultural dialects though, maybe it’s all “lay?” I grew up with (and taught) more formal English but I do try to respect established differences in standard Englishes (as long as I’m aware of them). :)

*It’d be “lies” for present tense, but “lay” is correct for past.

No it isn’t. For the benefit of anyone not intentionally being cold and maybe just having some trouble putting themselves in others’ shoes, I’ll go on.

I’m not from the US, but I completely understand the extreme hurt, alienation, and disillusionment described here. I’ve felt it myself too, from here in Canada. The sense that an entire country might as well have just rejected you personally, with the rise of all those “anti-woke” campaigns and–despite what it should have meant for them-- seeing white women and other people of colour willingly vote in increased numbers (within their respective demographics) for patriarchal white nationalists (along with the poor and middle class once again voting for the least favourable party toward their interests).

That kind of added alienation (because there is always some background alienation to start with, especially for black women) within a land that should feel like your own home, and from people you thought should theoretically have your back? It makes you feel unsafe. It makes you feel like a scapegoat on top of that, when you start hearing talk from DNC people about how they have to stop caring about equality so much. The question arises of whether anyone-- as a matter of principle-- truly cares about justice for you, when you always cared about it for them.

I don’t know how long it will take, but for a lot of people, all the hope that was crushed will have to be replenished.

I have seen the aftermath from when someone rolled her foot in platform heels. (I was nearby, but didn’t see her foot go perpendicular to her leg like I heard about afterwards.) It was many years ago and I don’t think of it often, but I don’t recall ever buying any kind of platform shoe ever again after that.

Horribly vague headline, but excellent piece as far as I could read for now (not feeling well today and my head’s starting to hurt). I look forward to reading the rest of the details on those recommendations. I hope the party listens to this kid!

I thought so too at first, but then got to this part and learned it’s not the first time:

Luigi Mangione is getting the Roxie Hart treatment.

The accused murderer will be the subject of a new musical set to premiere next month in San Francisco, titled Luigi: The Musical.

Also appearing as characters in the musical will be two of Mangione’s fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.

The play is already sold out for its entire run.

The premiere comes 99 years after Hart - a fictional character based on accused murderer Beulah Annan - made her Broadway debut in Chicago.

Annan, like Hart, was ultimately acquitted of murder.

The term sodomy on its own usually means anal sex, but in this particular case, the verb form “sodomize” is indeed referring to

Before the election, I was able to see this multiple poll breakdown that was kind of surprising. If you were under 35 and male, you were more likely to have voted CPC. Every other group (esp. women under 35 and everyone over 65) was more likely to vote LPC. This tells me Poilievre’s social media campaign, which you may recall was highly “manosphere”-coded was effective with the target group. The good news then is that (while not making the same mistake as the CPC and forgetting other demographics exist), we can reach these people with a smart approach online.

I think Rational National has a good point in that video I linked that maybe these folks who were taken in by the Conservatives were under the impression because the Liberals were in charge as long as they can remember, everything is solely their fault. They’re likely missing the overall historical context that we can’t afford to keep the tax burden on poor people (especially as wages stagnate) instead of the rich (whose incomes have been exploding up until Trump’s market crashes) as we’ve been doing increasingly for decades upon decades.

They don’t want Gemini, so they stated probably the best way to avoid having Gemini. It’s a privacy-minded comment. Despite being Google’s own phone, Pixels may be the only phones you can unlock to flash with a different ROM (GrapheneOS) and then be able to lock again after for security.

True. We’ve only kicked the can down the road at best with this election, so this has been on my mind as more important than ever right now. But even if we get a good form of proportional representation, we can’t get complacent. We still have to win a war of ideas.

Prominent supporters of the CPC here in Canada want to implement a (faster!) DOGE-like process. It’s also very concerning that Labour in the UK (rough equivalent to our LPC) is slashing survival-necessary benefits for disabled young people, and their ascending Reform Company-that-runs-as-a-party is championing a Trump-style agenda. Australia’s Liberal party (rough equivalent to CPC) wanted to do the same, but luckily there’s been a backlash.

For now, Australia looks likely to follow what we did and re-elect their Labour party (LPC equivalent) as government. Soon, people in the US won’t be able to avoid the reality of a massive wave of layoffs starting at docks and the transportation sector and fanning its way out across supply chains (unless they can somehow miraculously head this off or their manufacturing sector proves more resilient). Maybe global opinion will change then.

Wth is wrong with a fade (low or otherwise)? I’m afraid to know what kind of meme is so horrible when it just sounds like a basic haircut.

That’s not what their base believes. There is a whole other fantasy reality in their channels about how Carney has planned all along to cut a secret deal with Trump after the election. Other justification narratives probably exist as well, because they have to keep people believing that obviously, everyone knows we couldn’t possibly do anything other than completely fold into Trump’s plans. They spew propagandistic garbage like this and teach people to distrust legit media that understands context and checks facts rather than running with conspiracy theories based on flimsy evidence.

Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains is not a winning strategy for anyone left of centre. Dividing people only helps the right, no matter who is doing it. I don’t even think ordinary folks who’ve been conned into believing (Maple) MAGA-esque propaganda should automatically be bashed in every case-- just persons in positions of significant power. The priority should always be to seek opportunities to genuinely win folks over.

Also, while it’s true there may have been too much immigration in a short time, that’s not a primary reason for housing costs rising. Asset prices are going up because homes are treated as an investment. At least according to graphs in this Breach video, there’s been no correlation between immigration and housing costs.

Economist Gary Stevenson has outlined many times as well how homes increasing in value for an extended period of time can actually be seen as a precursor to a shrinking middle class, though middle class people often don’t see increasing pricing as a feature of wealthier buyers out-competing them.

“Unalived” might be a euphemism that’s only necessary on certain social media to avoid censorship nowadays, but people were using the term “disappearing” (especially as a transitive verb) during Chile’s Pinochet regime, if not earlier.

I probably wouldn’t have tried durian or nattou if I didn’t know what they were, but maybe I’ll notice some exception some day. (I might have still tried haggis since I don’t recall it having any smell to it, but I wouldn’t feel better not knowing what it was.)

I don’t know if it has that effect normally or you mean it would be laced, but they probably wouldn’t eat a strong-smelling food in the first place. (Speaking for myself though, I sure would try as long as I know what it is.)