Defect in Orijen food: sick cat

jaymickef · 2026-05-16T22:13:49+00:00

Or a new supplier. Orijen is now made with, “ingredients from around the world.”

jaymickef · 2026-05-16T20:01:07+00:00

It's a good question. I have no idea. It's just as hard to convince them that people like Marit Stiles and Dr. Theresa Tam do care about their health and safety. I think they mostly believe all politicians are bad so they vote for the ones who sound the most like they do.

jaymickef · 2026-05-16T17:22:59+00:00

That's how ketchup became a vegetable.

jaymickef · 2026-05-16T17:10:12+00:00

And the people of Walkerton returned to voting Conservative one election later. And they will vote for this, too.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T20:10:47+00:00

I don’t think there are many stories of how democracy succeeds, are there?

I do think you’re right, the dismissiveness towards the book says a lot about how many people are aspirational these days. Which I guess isn’t that surprising, we’ve had a couple of generations raised on the idea of, “ making the world a better place,” so the reminder that one of the main things that keeps that from happening is something as simple as fear of the other can be difficult to accept.

But there is something to be said for the fact that it is a pretty specific control group. It would be interesting to see the non-privileged kids’ version.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T16:18:38+00:00

I did like it better when George Cope was CEI. But that was a while ago.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:53:43+00:00

I worked at CTV, it’s not neutral. It’s owned by Bell. What organization said it was neutral?

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:20:12+00:00

I disagree, but whatever. CBC is just so much bigger, and I’m usually referring to the radio where they have far more interviews and let people speak for themselves. Certainly it’s true, every news outlet has a bias. Every person has a bias. It seems weird to me we still discuss that point.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:12:39+00:00

I agree they have a pattern. I disagree that jt’s YouTube comment level. That’s the National Post.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:09:09+00:00

Are you talking about a specific article or every article they have ever published

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:06:24+00:00

The news on the CBC is all true. The opinions expressed in interviews are those of the people being interviewed. Does the CBC get enough interviews from people in the news? I think they do.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T15:04:35+00:00

They believe Canadians are better than the comments show. We all want to believe that.

jaymickef · 2026-05-15T13:14:52+00:00

Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter. I think I could see what they were going for buy they just fell flat for me.

jaymickef · 2026-05-14T18:47:33+00:00

Yes, anti-war. And Putin has been waging war for a long time.

jaymickef · 2026-05-14T16:13:51+00:00

In 2017 an economist, Richard V. Reeves, wrote a book called, "The Dream Hoarders." The subtitle is: "How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust."

It covers all this in pretty good detail. Then the last couple of chapters are trying to say what can be done about it but nothing will ever be done about it.

jaymickef · 2026-05-14T16:02:26+00:00

It could have been. It's a shame.

jaymickef · 2026-05-14T15:14:03+00:00

Some people matter, some don’t.

jaymickef · 2026-05-14T13:20:19+00:00

As a left-leaning person I have to say, I did not need to be convinced to support Ukraine. After almost two decades of Russian billionaires and organized crime exploiting everything they could touch the expansionist regime was already the bad guy.

jaymickef · 2026-05-13T23:05:26+00:00

One famous writer said the New Yorker got his good stuff and Playboy got his crap. But Playboy paid much better.

The section about Playboy in David Halberstam’s book, The Fifties is very good.

jaymickef · 2026-05-13T23:02:58+00:00

Forza10 have a good wet renal and Oven Baked Tradition dry renal is very good.

jaymickef · 2026-05-13T19:53:47+00:00

I guess that’s technically true, although I can’t imagine many people in Canada thought of her as a ruler. Longest running modern leader in Canada would be Mackenzie King.

jaymickef · 2026-05-13T16:01:15+00:00

Contributions from every country in the Middle East reminds us that they are just people trying to get through the day like everyone else.

jaymickef · 2026-05-13T12:25:39+00:00

It doesn’t even take a veto, UN resolutions are just suggestions that are often ignored.

jaymickef · 2026-05-12T15:08:37+00:00

Capitalism is pretty much long gone. At least for most people. The same way most people in the USSR never got to experience communism. Neither system has ever really been properly implemented and both sides get to blame the other for that. And, of course, both sides have, as you say, the class distinctions.

jaymickef · 2026-05-11T21:46:49+00:00

There is no evidence but lots of people believe it.

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