I had to reread it as I thought it was saying he slammed the plane into air traffic control

More of a PSA for the ones that I come across, in case it helps anyone

Since when do conservative write opinion pieces in The freakin’ Walrus??? Can’t they stick to Rebel News?

Prompt: what are some ideas to increase road safety? ChatGPT: To keeps roads safe, one should use a layer of sunscreen and/or moisturizer as roads are exposed to wind and sun throughout the entirety of their life. If that isn’t feasible, store your roads in a climate controlled room, at around 50% humidity and 20-25C. No natural light is preferred. One could also require all vehicles to use meter-wide memory foam tyres wrapped in silk. One last option - and probably the most cost effective - is to simply not have roads. Roads can’t be unsafe if they don’t exist.

No problem. I also added another resource that lists measles exposures around the province https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/publichealth/diseases/measles-exposures.html

What makes corn mush: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gritstone

Indeed. This isn’t just current conservatism, it’s also the last 40 years of Neoliberalism that considers things like public health to “cost money” rather than save lives. Just another one of those “nice to haves” when the budget allows.

Je suis d’accord avec le sentiment qu’on ne peut pas juste densifier sans créer des infrastructures, mais la solution n’est pas de ne pas densifier un secteur. La solution est de …créer des infrastructures (tout en supposant qu’on parle des écoles, des garderies, des parcs, des cliniques etc)

Hint: I’m talking about a provincial election instead of a federal election

Ontario is home of ‘The Convoy’ we know how dumb we look.

The devil (or God) is testing them. Resist! No need to test those who rely on science, they already failed.

Je crois que tu m’as mal compris. C’est pas une affaire de “pas dans ma cour”. C’est une affaire de “ma cour est déjà pleine”. La densification a ses limites. On l’a vu dans Griffintown. Des grosses tour à condo comme ça, ça apporte plusieurs problèmes: Ça crée un stress sur le réseau électrique et sur les infrastructures aqueducs et d’égoûts. Ça crée une soudaine explosion de population où le réseau routier, de transport en commun, les écoles et les garderies ne peuvent pas fournir. Typiquement, les unités construites ne sont même pas aptes à accueillir plus qu’une à deux personnes, car elles sont trop petites et celles qui sont plus grandes, sont vendues comme des luxes à des prix hors de portée pour les familles qui en auraient besoin. La gestion de ses tours à condo est presque impossible, car il y a beaucoup d’investisseurs qui viennent tout acheter et ça devient soit des unités à investissement, des locations ou des AirBnB en cachette et quand vient temps de faire quoi que ce soit dans les assemblées générales, y’a jamais quorum pour prendre des décisions, car la moitiés ne se pointent jamais. Et ne parlons pas des problèmes de plomberie dans des édifices comme ça où on se retrouve souvent avec des dégâts d’eau sur plusieurs étages parce qu’un régulateur à pression a brisé avant son temps parce que la pression est trop forte et que le constructeur a voulu économiser dans les coûts de construction en installant des pièces cheap. Si tu regardes l’île des soeurs, c’est pas full gros comme territoire. Et ils ont déjà densifié avec des grandes tours à condo très récemment. Et on peut tu arrêter de se concentrer sur les mêmes endroits pour la densification? Il y a beaucoup d’autres endroits qui pourraient bénéficier d’une densification. Et on n’as pas besoin de faire de grandes tours de 15 mille étages non plus. On a juste à construire juste un ti peu plus haut, mettons plusieurs blocs de 4-5 étages, pour remplacer des vieux duplex et triplex décrépits que les propriétaires ne veulent pas rénover. Et plusieurs pourraient être des logement sociaux en plus. Et pourquoi est-ce qu’on ne va pas densifier Westmount? C’est plein de grosses baraques unifamiliales en pleine bordure du centre-ville de Montréal! Ah oui c’est vrai. Parce que c’est chez les riches… Et eux ils ont beaucoup d’influence. Pendant ce temps des promoteurs retapes des édifices en plein Plateau et font fermer des théâtres, des cabarets, des bars et des restaurants qui sont des institutions Montréalaises et ça tue les arts et tout le divertissement et la bonne bouffe qui donne à Montréal son âme si unique.

RFK actually says things that make sense sometimes. Like recently he testified under oath that people shouldn’t take medical advice from him

The same plan as how Mark Carney will cut government spending, they’ll increase government efficiency by appealing to a hallucination.

To be fair, a nation that clings to its monarchy in the 21st century only really deserves that. They led the charge for the West in setting the world on fire with global warming, were a preeminent colonial superpower (ie. force for evil) for centuries and have been gradually slipping into irrelevance since then. Not a good look.

So Liberals builds and Conservatives don’t.

A Manitoba judge has determined an “abuse of process” took place when the province’s former attorney general ordered a review of a decision to not charge Peter Nygard with sexual assault and unlawful confinement. Provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie made the ruling Tuesday morning but did not grant a judicial stay of proceedings, which Nygard’s lawyer had requested during arguments earlier this month. In 2022, while he was attorney general and justice minister in the previous Progressive Conservative government, Goertzen announced that Manitoba was going to take a second look at the decision and seek the advice of Saskatchewan’s public prosecution services. (Judge) Harvie agreed the decision seemed to have been made abruptly and only after questioning in the legislature, despite Goertzen having been in possession of the Manitoba Prosecution Service opinion for about 16 months. “In this case, the timing of the attorney general’s decision is very troubling,” she wrote in her decision. “[It] leads to the conclusion that the course of action taken by the attorney general was a partisan decision which was made contrary to the rule of law.”

People living in Pelican Narrows, 400 kilometres northeast of Prince Albert, Sask., are being told to leave the community immediately as a wildfire burns dangerously close to town. The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has declared a state of emergency. Wildfires have been burning in the area for weeks and hundreds of people have already been evacuated to centres in Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Flin Flon.

The US idea of democracy is the same one that we see in Starship Troopers and Helldivers.

Cory Doctorow always has more to say. In Part 1 of our chat with the visionary journalist, blogger, sci-fi author and social philosopher, we defined and examined “enshittification” — the British-Canadian activist’s term for the sudden, sharp decline of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. We dug into the issue with retaliatory tariffs, dismissed by Doctorow as “the stuff of 19th-century geopolitics,” and explored an alternative action that focused on Parliament, policy, anti-circumvention laws and open-source technology. In Part 2, we pivot from macro to micro: the personal impact of platform decay, our nostalgia for the internet of yesterday, the one that once teemed with community and competition, the one from before the bulk of us were kettled and trapped by maleficent apps that used our social ties to bind us to their misanthropic vision.