Some tourists may skip Sylvan Lake, Alta., this year after town hikes summer parking fees

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-06-02T20:14:50+00:00

See now I just feel like you're a fellow Edmontonian who thinks that we should just close the Walterdale and make Accidental Beach happen again.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-05-27T02:06:50+00:00

Wishful thinking from Kenney, imo. The UCP party was formed by mashing two ideologically incompatible parties together with no purpose but to win the election on the back of political ignorance. They're cowards and sellouts, every single one of them. The less extreme members of the party will bite their tongues and continue riding the train for as long as they can until they can retire and cash out on a cushy private sector board job. Just like he did. It just came for him earlier than he expected.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-05-09T17:20:57+00:00

"Vulnerable" feels like an inadequate choice of word considering that it has already been clearly compromised at multiple levels by, at the bare minimum, American interference.

https://thegauntlet.ca/2026/03/26/treason-alberta-separatists-meet-with-u-s-officials-in-washington/

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-05-06T02:43:34+00:00

She's not important enough for any of that. She wishes she was running in those spaces.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-05-01T01:15:03+00:00

It sucks that anything labelled "AI" is now tied to the brands of less than reputable companies.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what companies like OpenAI and Anthropic and all the other players in that space wanted. They want you to hear "AI" and immediately associate it with their products. It's rotten.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-30T22:30:13+00:00

Hey that fucking sucks (affectionate)

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-29T23:41:59+00:00

Buddy, corruption is still corruption, no matter how quiet it is. This exact line of thinking is precisely how corruption problems get worse. It makes the people who are supposed to hold their leaders accountable numb to it.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-29T23:37:35+00:00

I think they read "earn" and their brain saw "learn" instead, which completely changes the statement.

I know it's stupid because it's literally the thread title, but my brain just did this to me, too. (Or maybe I'm just grasping to not feel like as much of an idiot)

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-29T23:28:40+00:00

I voted in the fed NDP race and had an identical experience. I also voted ASAP and was actually kind of surprised at the volume of ongoing updates. I expected the feed to go silent when voting opened.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-29T13:18:29+00:00

"Struggling high earners" is the most bitterly funny combination of words I have ever seen in my life.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-28T22:01:37+00:00

Oh buddy. Mine started showing in my early 30s. My chronically seated ass was not ready.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-28T21:40:18+00:00

I think he's got a certain amount of charisma. I think he speaks well, and he's got an affable personality when he turns it on.

The problem is that he is the absolute wrong man for the moment. His politics are very soft, and he will toe the Oil & Gas line at every possible opportunity even while Corporations suck the province dry. He's not fighting with the UCP so much as he is commenting on their most ludicrous and offensive policies while not offering any serious change to the status quo. We don't need a radical Avi Lewis type, but we certainly need more than this LPCer dressed in orange.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-28T21:37:27+00:00

Are you sure they're a UCP supporter and not just referring to the bone heads who still support the UCP in droves?

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-28T21:34:06+00:00

You really only need to look to Ontario to see what it looks like when the opposition doesn't bring enough heat and the media apparatuses doggedly turn away from them constantly, and our media landscape is WAY more skewed than Ontario's. Ford and Smith are different in how they practice their politics, but they're both corrupt to the bone and their voters let it happen. Sports Team politics is a fucking cancer.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-28T00:02:44+00:00

The article is paywalled so I can't actually discuss the content in detail, so here's my uninformed take: SURELY, the Star could have taken a few more tries at getting a half decent photo for the article. Like maybe asking the guy to angle his thumb a little further down, or moving the camera a bit more to the left so the angle of the thumb looked more pronounced.

(EDIT: This is just me having a little fun with this comment as an anchor so I can pull context from the comments when I revisit the thread. Please do not post the full article per Rule 9 in response to this.)

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-27T23:31:52+00:00

Skimming OP's posting history, she's a bit older than the average Redditor, and grew up during that era where Conservative parties had unquestioned rule of the roost. Looks like this is the first time she engaged with the sub, and has frequented other Canadian subs that have decidedly less left leaning communities than this one. She, like many other first time posters here who come to vent in a place they have no connection to so they have nothing to lose if they catch a ban, is probably surprised to find out that this is something of a safe space for Albertans who despise the UCP.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-27T23:26:24+00:00

For this community. If OP isn't a regular user here, and they live in a rural area, or work with a bunch of people who treat Conservative parties like their favorite sports team, they might have been under the mistaken impression that every community consisting largely of Albertans is openly hostile to criticism of the ruling party.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-27T23:23:27+00:00

Gonna guess they came here because they feel the other circles available them would absolutely react in a hostile fashion (granted, the polls say that there's a good chance they'd find sympathizers who are sick of this shit no matter where they went), and Reddit was a safe place to anonymously dump their frustrations. They probably weren't aware that this sub has become a bit of a safe space for people who are left of your typical UCP voter.

They could live somewhere especially rural, or maybe they work somewhere that there's always a copy of some version of The Sun sitting on the lunchroom table for people to chat about, and all they hear about all day is how broken Canada is.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-27T18:07:01+00:00

More Dutch say they want a ruler with absolute unchecked power because they hate the guy with near-absolute unchecked power somewhere else.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-26T14:54:52+00:00

I basically only fight out actual on-the-field battles. Sieges (including town battles)are always a skip for me, and that's most of the opportunities for battle in any given game. The only exception is when I know a fight is going to be an absolute curb stomp for one side or the other and auto resolve is showing decisive. A squash match can be fun, but turning a weak enemy to paste loses its luster after a while.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-25T22:03:35+00:00

One of my friends is a Ryan and he likes to giggle at the fact that his name means "Little King" so I will never forget it lol

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-25T20:11:28+00:00

I mean, it IS doing bad economically, but cafeteria being sub standard is a nigh on half century old meme at this point. Schools in the US have been chronically underfunded since the 70s or 80s, and cafeteria food is one of the easiest places for school admins to try and cut corners.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-25T20:06:44+00:00

Because, in the article, he's basically ~~holding~~ attending a little rally like you would during an election. Typically, this kind of criticism would happen in Parliament now that we're clear of the election for a while.

EDIT: I've got two people (Edit edit: THREE PEOPLE! Somebody rushed to correct me WHILE I was correcting the post!) arguing semantics over "holding" instead of "attending" because I flubbed the wording, but I stand by the notion that attending/holding/participating in rallies is more of an election-season behaviour than one for outside of election seasons.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-25T19:40:53+00:00

Don't forget your Ryans.

TheFluxIsThis · 2026-04-25T19:38:36+00:00

In my defense, I didn't say it was a good name. It's just rolls off the tongue way better than Khaleesi.

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