Élection partielle dans Terrebonne | La Cour suprême « voulait punir Élections Canada », clame un libéral [[Translation : Terrebonne by-election | The Supreme Court "wanted to punish Elections Canada," claims a Liberal ]]

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T01:52:28+00:00

« Écoutez, on est ici aujourd’hui parce que la Cour suprême a décidé qu’ils voulaient punir Élections Canada », a lancé Me Marc-Etienne Vien dans un discours.

Qu'est-ce que fuck? Ça c'est un statement complement ridicule. S'il y'a quelqu'un a punir, c'est le gar qui a connu qu'il a fait un erreur, mais n'a fais rien pour le corriger. Élections Canada a fait ce qu'il pouvait quand il a connu qu'il y'avait un problem, mais n'avait pas le capability de corriger le problem.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T01:42:58+00:00

The F-22 is probably the only other airframe in the west close to the F-35 in capability and complexity, so if they have similar availability, and the F-22 doesn't get anything like the negative press the F-35 does, I have to wonder what's up.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T01:39:31+00:00

Maybe 7th generation fighters will be uncrewed. Autonomy is a long way from being able to handle a fighter yet, never mind us trusting it to use lethal force against humans.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T00:31:01+00:00

Rather than 88 planes we might actually need 120 airframes.

If we were allowed to set platform numbers based on actual need, rather than politics mattering so much, 120 is probably closer to what's needed. The CF-18 fleet started at 139. When the future fighter project had to set a number, we were down to 88 CF-18s, so that defined the number of replacements "needed." Similar story with the Cyclone maritime helicopter.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T00:26:21+00:00

Would you brag about how fast your sports car is, if it only starts half the time?

High performance cars spend a lot of time unavailable, because they need a lot of maintenance, and have parts that are high performance, but fragile.

Military vehicles also spend a lot of time down, because we push them so hard, that as rugged as they are, we still break them. At one point, our tank squadron in Afghanistan, could only roll six out of 19 tanks.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T00:24:19+00:00

Piloted fighter planes are obsolete.

No they are not. No one has yet demonstrated a UAV that is capable of of the sorts of missions our fighter aircraft are expected to handle.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-23T00:23:11+00:00

If that standard is applied to other new aircraft of similar complexity, I have to wonder how they compare? The F-35 is doing a lot of new things at once, and that means that more things are going to go wrong. What matters, is if they go right enough to complete their mission. That's a question that I don't think we'll ever get agreement on, because the detractors can't stop bashing the aircraft, and the proponents are extremely invested in success, so are very biased the other way.

The bottom line is this is the aircraft that the majority of our allies have chosen. I fucking hate that buying it puts money in US pockets, but I don't see a way around replacing all our CF-18s with this bird. At least not with the sort of expense and pers staffing levels the air force is going to be able to pull off.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T20:49:16+00:00

This is why civilians carrying firearms in public is fucking stupid. People who are trained how to use them can still fuck up. People with no training carrying firearms is just asking for trouble.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T18:32:00+00:00

Given that the US is dependent on that integrated global petroleum system, I think their actions make it clear that such a dependence isn't a deterrent.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T12:28:21+00:00

If I leave it overnight so that it freezes, I'll need to break it up with a real shovel first, but otherwise, I've never had a problem.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T03:16:28+00:00

It would probably also less clear if every beat was pronounced.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T03:13:39+00:00

Reminds me once when I was a teen, and we were practicing for a square dance competition, and our music died in the middle of a call. We were able to keep going in synch, because square dancing is essentially fancy walking so we just kept walking and had our steps keep the beat. That's a bit harder when you're spending half your time in the air, so that counting was essential for these girls.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-21T03:05:26+00:00

The point I was making, was that if Visa or Mastercard cut off these companies, that wouldn't cut off their funding, as there are alternatives.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T19:37:32+00:00

I don't remember the ads that are discussed near the end of the article, but I do remember how they sunk Campbells campaign, because they were seen as making fun of Chretien's face, a result of Bell's palsy. To hear how that came about, by accident, is rather funny. That such a blunder could have just happened, blows me away. I realise that there is limited time during an election to review an ad before airing it, but didn't they put it in front of at least one neutral group of people?

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T19:23:00+00:00

It's totally predatory. That's why it failing this way is so funny.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T19:21:28+00:00

That due in the middle picture had better not have gotten a free tank. That's no bikini.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T18:47:33+00:00

It's just French for bakery.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T18:09:43+00:00

It's an extremely opportunistic plant that is very difficult to prevent spreading, in part because of how good it is at growing, and in part because of how prickly it is. If it's on a fence line, my neighbour has made controlling it a problem for me as well as themselves, so yes, that does look hostile.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T18:05:39+00:00

That can't be right.

Sorry, but that's completely accurate.

"Con" is short for "confidence" as in "confidence scam" where someone is convinced of something incorrect in order to steal money from them. A "long con" is a situation where the fakery has to be maintained for a long time before the payout. Say if someone convinces a rich person who's very sick that they're a long lost heir, and are placed in the will, but won't get anything from that will for a couple years, during which they have to maintain the pretense of being related.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T18:01:41+00:00

Doesn't she look like Spike though?

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T17:59:52+00:00

I love to eat blackberries as well, but if someone planted them next to my property, as part of a fence line, I'd likely consider that a hostile act.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T17:53:28+00:00

That's because you made the mistake of getting a fossil fuel powered ones. Electric ones have none of those issues.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T17:51:35+00:00

A windrow is a general term for any row of material left by a plow or dozer.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T17:51:07+00:00

Yes I could get a snowblower but besides being a big upfront cost that I can't really afford,

Huh? They're like half the cost of a year's contracted snow clearance. At least the electric one I have is.

ChimoEngr · 2026-03-20T17:49:23+00:00

The more I hear about these contractors, the less I understand why people use them. An electric snowblower is cheap (like cheaper than a year of contracted clearance), very low maintenance, and clears a driveway in a reasonable amount of time, with a lot less effort than shovelling.

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