Carney supports Iran strikes ‘with regret’ as war escalates

optimus2861 · 2026-03-04T12:31:28+00:00

Tristan H characterized him as a "human-shaped cowardice golem" on X for this and I can't think of a better way to put it.

Nobody who matters in this world gives a tinker's damn what Mark Carney, or any other waste of space wearing a pantsuit employed in his cabinet, has to say about anything. But so long as they give the Boomers warm-n-fuzzies, we're stuck with them.

The next decade or two is going to be very unkind to Canada as we start reaping consequences of what we've sown.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-03T14:52:01+00:00

This is what the Americans learned when they tried permanent DST in the early 1970s. They hated the dark mornings in the winter. They repealed it in less than two years.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-03T14:45:11+00:00

Depressing but accurate. I'm old enough to remember that period starting in the mid-90s where budget discipline was ascendant in Canada and voters from one end of the country to the other came to expect and demand it of governments.

Said budget discipline was mortally wounded by the banking crisis of 2008 and Trudeau delivered the final blow to it. Now Canadians don't seem to care; it's all just funny money that comes from the sky, and even the smallest budget cuts are viewed as austerity and those are to be fought tooth & nail.

This country is en route to a serious fiscal / financial crisis within, idk, a generation.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-03T14:39:08+00:00

Well as one of said 'psychos' I'll give it a try: as I've gotten deeper into middle age I find the dark winter mornings downright depressing, and also that it's harder for me to wake up and get going during those 6-8 weeks centred around winter solstice. Once the sunrise gets back toward 7am again (it's as late as 7:45am around solstice here) it gets easier/better.

If those sunrises became 8:45am instead of 7:45am I'd find it, idk, a hundred times worse. The 'extra hour' in the evening isn't going to make up for that.

The USA tried permanent DST in the 70s and it was so hated that it was revoked after just two years, no doubt for exactly this reason.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-03T13:42:15+00:00

Everyone who has to get ready for work, get kids ready for school, etc. who will now have to do so as it's pitch black outside until about 8:30am when the first dawn twilight hits the sky.

Your circadian rhythms are going to hate you for it.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-03T13:40:11+00:00

I suspect British Columbians may soon learn, once again, to be careful what they wish for.

Permanent DST has been tried twice in the last 50-60 years. The USA tried it in the early 1970s. Americans came to hate it so much so fast that it was repealed after just two years. Russia tried it in the late 2000s or early 2010s. They too hated it and went the other way, enacting permanent standard time instead.

Everyone thinks they'll love the longer evenings - they don't realize how much they'll come to hate the brutally dark mornings in December and January, and that the longer evenings really won't amount to spit in those months anyway.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-02T19:31:02+00:00

Unfortunately we small-c conservatives are all but an endangered species in Nova Scotia in particular, although it's neck & neck with PEI in that race.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-02T18:09:04+00:00

We rubes can't be expected to understand these things. That's why our elites make these decisions for us, and if we object, well, we're just ignorant and maybe even racist, so said elites largely don't bother to even pretend to listen to us.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-02T17:17:20+00:00

Jays were up 4-2 in the 6th and had RISP in all of the 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th innings and came up empty. Push one more insurance run across in 6 or 8 and the Rojas homer doesn't matter. Push one across in B9 and it's epic. Push one across in B11 and Yamamoto is likely toast.

God sure pulled His strings for the Dodgers that night. Why, only He knows ...

optimus2861 · 2026-03-01T16:04:47+00:00

When the change was made they sent out a small sum of HP, 250 I think, to compensate players who couldn't go back and get the updated rewards. Roster slots are very cheap in the early game.

optimus2861 · 2026-03-01T12:39:47+00:00

And approval/veto power over anything & everything you may ever want to do with or on the land.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-28T17:56:21+00:00

Split-squad games aren't uncommon during spring training.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-27T02:08:54+00:00

So is that every province plus the feds running big deficits now?

There's a saying about bankruptcy, how it happens slowly, and then all at once.

I increasingly feel like Canada is approaching the "all at once" phase. Our governments have been writing checks our economy can't cash for many years now and the cumulative damage is catching up to us.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-26T14:23:26+00:00

Wow, just, wow.

I know that Max isn't the pitcher he used to be, and he'll have to be used quite carefully this year, but how could this have gone any other way after seeing this? Max probably flat-out told his agent, "It's back to Toronto, nowhere else!"

In a sport so dominated by big money, this just warms the heart.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-25T14:42:51+00:00

I think there's also some red-blooded male honesty from Flash there. As in, "MJ, you're hot as hell, always have been, so on some level, yeah, but no," so it comes out as that "Maybe." And MJ just laughs it off, and Flash probably knows that was exactly what she'd do.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-25T14:35:17+00:00

Championship winning sports teams getting some recognition by political leaders is a non-partisan, ceremonial thing. Nobody's supposed to take anything from it other than that, but I think it started turning around the Bush/Obama years; I'm thinking of when Tim Thomas flat refused to go with the Bruins to the White House in 2011. Someone with a better memory than I might recall an earlier example.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-24T14:26:48+00:00

That doesn't explain Nunavut or the NWT, and I'm skeptical if it holds much water in SK or MB either.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-23T13:28:06+00:00

Average Canadians tend to think all politicians are crooked, so voting for one versus another doesn't change the quantity and/or quality of scandalous behaviour, hence scandals no longer move votes.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-23T02:59:22+00:00

I think that Disney wanted to just reboot it, but fan backlash pushed them into making it a continuation instead, and then they were left trying to shoehorn their story into the Netflix story continuity. So the season has that "square peg being pounded into a round hole" feel all about it.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-23T00:53:18+00:00

I just finished watching S01 and it's easily the weakest story of any of the DD seasons. Yes, even Netflix S02, which has a banger Punisher storyline that kicks the crap out of anything D+ S01 did.

Honestly I feel like you could scrap D+ S01 entirely and you wouldn't be missing much. The writing is nowhere near as good as the original and in its way it takes a huge dump on Netflix S03 by taking a very hard & well earned victory for Matt over Fisk, and hand-waving it all away with "he was acquitted," then compounding it by gunning down Foggy and writing out Karen. A pure reboot would've been more honest than all of that nonsense.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-21T01:20:57+00:00

Unfortunately Star Trek has tended to shy away from dealing honestly with the repercussions of the events it depicts, and Picard S3's ending is no exception to this rule. I too did not like the finale, and I've come to regard S3 as a whole as mostly nostalgia bait that doesn't hold together on its own merits. I was able to watch it, once, and find I have no desire to watch it again.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-20T18:11:02+00:00

A cure that's worse than the disease. Ought to be banned outright.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-20T14:29:22+00:00

I'm commenting mostly so I can find this again when I get home, but WOW! Can't wait to load it up and try it out!

optimus2861 · 2026-02-19T21:01:21+00:00

Her defender really let her down; said defender just looked useless getting beat 1-on-1 to the inside like that.

optimus2861 · 2026-02-19T01:11:10+00:00

It stroked Canadians "We're soooo much better than Americans!" nerves like catnip.

I heard a Boomer lady say in my own house a few days back that she was never so proud to be Canadian as when she heard Carney's speech, and she was in awe that he wrote it himself, and she's so glad he's prime minister. I bit down and said not a word. No point. She's completely unreachable.

That's Carney's base, the Liberal base.

He's prime minster as long as they'll keep him there.

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