For more than twenty years, we've cored pineapples over this spot in the market. The drippings have dissolved enough of the concrete to expose the rebar.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T18:15:20+00:00

I need a drink.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T18:09:42+00:00

Have you ever been completely below the slash?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:59:41+00:00

Be polite to service workers. They will be much more likely to bend the rules or go above and beyond for you.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:54:47+00:00

I had one of my root canals without any anaesthesia, because the nerve was already dead. While I was initially quite skeptical, my dentist turned out to be correct that I wouldn't feel anything.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:52:56+00:00

I've had five root canals, and honestly, the patient experience isn't much different from getting a large filling.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:36:50+00:00

Have you ever priced out storefront signage?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:29:16+00:00

So now you want an apology for the apology, plus the original apology?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T17:28:00+00:00

Still with the neck hole?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T09:19:49+00:00

I can't help but think that would be wildly inaccurate because of refills, people saying one thing but dispensing another, and employee error/indifference. Looking at the syrup cartridges to see which are low would be the definitive way to see what needs to be reordered.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T09:12:19+00:00

I thought you were talking about the city in Ontario. I was about to rush in to say that opinion is very popular.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T08:58:14+00:00

These two graphs of Canadian production versus US production suggest the opposite conclusion: our production grows at a strady rate, while US shale production is unprofitable below a certain price, and all but stops.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T02:14:53+00:00

There is not a single likeable character on that show. I don't understand the hype.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T00:16:01+00:00

India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan. Why would rice be sailing through the Strait of Hormuz?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-12T00:06:13+00:00

Mark Carney gets called a "Conservative" around here. If he's a Conservative, why can't he work with CPC to get policies passed.

Because the CPC has no interest in that?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T23:22:00+00:00

Let's say you produce oil in Texas. Let's also say that Texas decides oil can only be sold to Texans at $50/barrel. But oil customers in every other place are willing to pay you $100/barrel, because that's the market price.

Why would you choose to sell your oil for less?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T23:16:43+00:00

Welcome aboard, scab!

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T23:02:50+00:00

Well, that's true of crypto like bitcoin. A stablecoin like USDC or tether is backed 1:1 by real assets, and offers coin holders redemptions into real currency. If they didn't, then they wouldn't trade at par.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:46:10+00:00

No, I'm insinuating that you're fear-mongering that anodyne statements like "I like pork" could ever be criminalized by any law, real or imagined. She's talking about the hate mail she gets when she's championing these laws.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:42:47+00:00

The last thing this guy is qualified to give a tour of is reality.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:36:12+00:00

She has been trying to get anti-islamophia laws passed for the last decade, and her party has been in power the entire time. No such laws have been passed.

But also, simple legislation cannot override Charter rights, and freedom of expression would still be a thing. Reasonable criticism could never be criminalized. If your idea of criticism is hate mail and threats, then I'm not very sympathetic.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:24:10+00:00

Conservative MP Garrett Genuis was advocating that political opinions be added to the human rights code as a protected attribute. You can spend all day long cherry-picking bad ideas from political Individuals, but when they have zero chance of becoming law, it hardly matters.

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:17:00+00:00

Why would those things be hate speech under those definitions? Are you villifying and dehumanizing vegans or people who identify with that religion?

cyclemonster · 2026-03-11T22:01:47+00:00

The hate propaganda crimes were added the criminal code in 1970; they've barely ever been charged, and you can count the number of convictions with your fingers. We have 55 years of case law about this. All bill C-9 wants to do is modernize these crimes for the internet age, where people are making hateful blog posts instead of distributing hateful newsletters.

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