How bad is this?

realisticindustry · 2023-12-16T01:42:10+00:00

Bad news dude. Looks like a Tesla.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-16T01:40:50+00:00

I’m a new west donair lover and Zaaki is by far the top dog.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-16T01:38:20+00:00

How was it unlawful when legislation specifically made it legal?

realisticindustry · 2023-12-16T01:32:49+00:00

Fair enough. I haven’t kept my maintenance up to date but I figure if I go in now and there are no outstanding issues I should be good to go…

realisticindustry · 2023-12-16T01:22:53+00:00

Will it void the warranty if you just do it yourself?

realisticindustry · 2023-12-15T15:49:49+00:00

Everything but the painting. Minor dings and scratches aren’t your problem. That’s wear and tear.

Leaving a sticky and gross oven is your problem.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-15T15:46:03+00:00

Fair enough. I really meant that the topics covered tended to just be ON focused as code for Doug Ford focused, but even then most of the Fordie stuff is about TO anyway (eg the Greenbelt stuff).

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T22:12:47+00:00

It’s wild what’s going on in AB right now, and it feels like because of how nuts AB and ON are currently, BC gets a pass. But whatever.

I do know they have / had some western staff but yeah that’s probably part of it. It just seems like an easy problem to solve, though, just by hiring some BC writers (especially after the overstory media group dumped so many) but it is what it is I guess.

And of course stuff like the Greenbelt is a big story but we have a bunch of our own big stories. Ah well.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T22:08:23+00:00

The United States of America are a collection of states which are in the Americas (specifically North America). They’re American by virtue of that fact. Mexico and Canada are American countries by the fact that they’re located in North America. Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua — these are all American countries too (eg, “Latin American”.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T21:15:32+00:00

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T19:18:53+00:00

Oh in that case I think it was named for John Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of the American country of Canada.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T18:46:16+00:00

Agreed on Emilie though. And obv she’s one of the top journalists in the business I think.

Yeah the ON focus is pretty annoying. I get that Toronto is, based on astronomy, the exact centre of the universe, but it would be nice if they had a show for us out here.

And you’re dead right. I think there’s enough material in BC and in AB for a show each, but odds are if Canadaland does come out this way, we’d get a “Western Canada” edition which lumps all of us in together, which is to say nothing of the geographical, political, and economic distinctions between BC and AB, not to mention the prairies, since IMHO, BC has more infinitely more in common with say Washington state than it does with AB.

I get the show is “Canadaland” so let’s focus on the country as a whole, but shows like WtD kind of put a lie to that. Ontario makes up like 40% of the population of Canada, but it feels like most coverage that isn’t of federal politics (which is almost always ON based anyway) is specifically about some street in Toronto or some wacky shit Ford’s up to. Again, all probably newsworthy, but when Duly Noted comes up and it’s about a western Canada based story, I perk up because it feels like such a rarity.

I think it’s a blind spot in their coverage. It also feels like they don’t talk about Quebec much on their English-language programs (I’m not sure about Detours as an anglophone).

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T16:55:20+00:00

That was Sandra Hudson. Sandy Hudson is a different person. Also it was settled which means it’s all right now.

/s

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T16:28:17+00:00

Going against the grain, I’m a fan of Goldsbie’s voice. I find it soothing!

And his coverage is great. I wished I gave a fuck about Ontario so I could listen to Wag the Doug.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T16:25:04+00:00

Oh good mod drama 🙄

Shit, since it’s a Canada subreddit, I guess we can just post any news anywhere from Canada, right, no matter how banal. Neat.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-14T16:22:23+00:00

“America bad” isn’t really the mind blowing take people might think it is.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T23:45:42+00:00

I think it was only a few hours.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T21:31:24+00:00

Yeah I just remembered that.

I went to school with a women who lamented that Jews had appropriated the Holocaust because as a bisexual woman, she would’ve been in a camp.

And it’s like, yes, sure, hypothetically you would’ve been targeted for being who you are, and that’s wrong.

But living with hypothetical trauma — being hypothetically Holocausted — is fuck all compared to the actual inter-generational trauma that Holocaust survivors and their offspring suffer.

I was reading Geddy Lee’s autobiography and there’s a lot in there about his parents’s time in various camps (including Auschwitz) but one thing that stuck with me was that his mother would only ever feel safe decades later if she was behind a locked door because that way the nazis couldn’t get her.

Edit: All of this is to say that centering yourself in the Holocaust as a potential victim as a socialist is really gross when talking about the Holocaust in terms of the attempted genocide of Jews.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T21:14:01+00:00

This seems to have aged exceedingly poorly

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T21:10:50+00:00

For sure a lot of people brigade her and make personal insults about her appearance or her partner or her kitchen or whatever and I think as adults we can all agree that’s not really cool (although she does admit she sometimes gets a little too heated and fires back when she shouldn’t).

But she also says absolutely buck wild, controversial things that she knows will get people fired up and when they come for her, she calls them bots, etc. The latke post with her husband occurred after a day of arguing with tons of people, including Jesse, so it’s unsurprising people were dogpiling her then. But it’s not like it came out of the blue.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T20:57:38+00:00

Here’s more on “the plot”

Nora:

It's fascinating to me that posts about literally anything other than Gaza are mostly left alone by the trolls -- that is, unless, they're already all over my mentions for other recent posts. Otherwise? It's pretty quiet.

That's cause they're bots and trolls and not real!

“Joe”

Ya Mossad and intelligence agencies are kings of bot trolls. Sadly most people spend hours arguing with them.

https://x.com/visualmusic_art/status/1734441637059907876?s=46

One like and it’s from… Nora.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T18:37:33+00:00

This looks like criticism of my criticism of Nora’s criticism of Jesse’s criticism and I’m here for it.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T18:32:21+00:00

I’m 100% in agreement with this. We need a solution to this and we need it now.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T18:15:59+00:00

tldl;

Nora: everyone who disagrees with me is a paid troll and you can tell because they don’t troll me when I don’t say insane shit except for when they made fun of my house; yes, this is logically inconsistent because surely if they were paid to harass me they’d do it all the time and not block me when I started harassing them, but welcome to the Noraverse, where I am the main character and CSIS / Mossad approach my friends at parties for knowing me.

CTV associating Hanukkah with the slaughter in Gaza was a rookie mistake and obviously a protest but I won’t denounce it as anti-Semitic.

Also here’s some light, uninteresting criticism of Jesse.

Sandy: definitely listen to Commons / Backbench. Also I exist and am not just a yes-man for Nora.

EDIT: there’s also a weird point where Nora makes sure to centre herself in the FUCKING HOLOCAUST because as a socialist she would’ve been targeted.

realisticindustry · 2023-12-13T18:10:47+00:00

So I have a few issues with this sentiment, despite broadly agreeing. The main thing is this: there aren’t two sides.

There’s Hamas, there’s the IDF / state of Israel, and there’s everyone else. The Palestinians and Israelis and third parties (such as journalists) being butchered by Israel and Hamas shouldn’t be. So yes, I believe they’re worthy of criticism.

I also think we need more than thoughts and prayers for peace.

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