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like, they could at LEAST send a confirmation for receiving your message.

just be grateful you have a job because I couldn’t imagine any company hiring someone in IT with your perspectives. I actually yelled at (more like dressed down) the person interviewing me for the type of questions they were asking me, and then explain why they were bad questions. Not only was I hired but I was offered a much higher salary than originally discussed. My perspectives and knowledge are highly valued.

Hoekstra seems like he probably frequents the male prostitutes at the RNC convention. Thanks for reminding me to check everything I buy to make sure to be as nasty as possible to you fucking traitors.

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OK? Go learn?

Depends what you enjoy I guess. I liked Schitts Creek, 22/minutes, there have been other older classics.

Not really Canada related.

Some excerpts to cover what the title is referring to, please see the article for the original text in case my excerpt selection introduced any unintended biases: Decades of gold mining at Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has left a toxic legacy: 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored in underground chambers. As a multi-billion government remediation effort to clean up the mine site and secure the underground arsenic ramps up, the Canadian government is promising to deal with the mine’s disastrous consequences for local Indigenous communities. In March, the minister for Crown-Indigenous relations appointed a ministerial special representative, Murray Rankin, to investigate how historic mining affected the treaty rights of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. The story begins when prospectors discovered a rich gold ore body at Giant Mine in the 1930s. While mining started at the nearby Con Mine in the late 1930s, Giant’s development was interrupted by the Second World War. Only with new investment and the lifting of wartime labour restrictions in 1948 did Giant Mine start production. Mining at Giant was a challenge. Much of the gold was locked within arsenopyrite formations, and to get at it, workers needed to crush, then roast the gold ore at very high temperatures. This burned off the arsenic in the ore before using cyanide treatment to extract gold. One byproduct of this process was thousands of tonnes per day of arsenic trioxide, sent up a smokestack into the local environment. Throughout the 1960s, public health officials continually downplayed concerns about arsenic exposure in Yellowknife, whether via drinking water or on local vegetables. By the 1970s, however, latent public health concerns over arsenic exposure in Yellowknife became a major national media story. It began with a CBC Radio As it Happens episode in 1975 that unearthed an unreleased government report documenting widespread, chronic arsenic exposure in the city. Facing accusations of a cover-up, the federal government dismissed health concerns even as it set up a local study group to investigate them.

Since nobody else is bothering to explain it, there’s a very good reason the avian flu vaccine is not used regularly in almost any country. The vaccine makes the chicken likely to survive the flu, but it does nothing to prevent infection. So instead of AF outbreaks being detected and the unfortunate birds culled, you would have entire farms incubating thousands of chickens full of AF virus, creating perfect conditions to mutate and potentially spawn a new strain which may wind up being resistant to the existing vaccine. Meanwhile, those infected chickens will be spreading AF to every wild bird for miles around. It’s not a useful tool for prevention, it’s our last ditch protection if AF gets completely out of control on a global scale.

Feucht is the German word for wet/moist. So … swamp-ass

Thank you, that was worth reading.

Thats a short term consequence and unfortunate for those people. But look at the long term consequence - America continues to lose credibility in the eyes of the world. Dumpster Donnie, while a hero to the party faithful, is increasingly despised and the American economy is paying the price as not just Canadians but other world citizens are avoiding US good and tourism. He thinks he’s “winning” so bigly. He’s only delaying his ouster.

Canada’s own George W Bush, everyone.

There is only one thing more repulsive than the Ls and that’s the Cs.

Thanks to Trudeau for shelving voting reform.

The vast majority of far right recruitment seems to be focused on young men without healthy outlets for masculinity. Fight Club (1999) was built on the same principle. We often decry the outcome, but I think efforts should be more focused on avoiding the conditions that lead to this in the first place. Anti-immigration sentiment is an outcome of income inequality. Healthy masculine outlets like scouting and sports seem to be reducing. Community outlets took a dive through COVID. Increasing sense of community can divert some of that energy to positive outlets.

Market forces are not capitalism, they’re a component that is utilized under certain conditions in capitalism, and not only in capitalism. Most markets trend towards oligopoloes and monopolies. It’s now easy to see how. Competition literally leads to consolidation. The market share of failed competitors, often their equipment and other assets, and even often their former employees become part of the winning competitors’ operations. Rinse and repeat till you end up with very few, very big players.

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