“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’”

At this point, Trump apparently decided to pursue this tangent in earnest. “By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks?" he asked. "I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks.”

The forms app is useless. It’s basically for surveys. I can’t see how you’d use it for signups.

Justin Trudeau does it: it’s a hitjob by cons

This fuckhead does it: kill him.

New Brunswick falling behind even faster than Alberta. And then you have Ontario more than doubling Alberta’s decline rate, and not a “have-not” province either, even if they’re currently at a better rate.

Seems like someone has an axe to grind.

New Brunswick is 80% and this isn’t the story?

Any time someone wants to tell me that China is a respectable member of the international community, I point to this travesty of hostage diplomacy.

Downvote away, tankies.

Those G20 protesters could get out of hand and need gentle mowing.

Entrapment and kettling can only get a riot brigade so far.

I think this practice of adding the 4% credit card fee to the final bill when using a CC should also constitute drip pricing. It used to be against merchant agreements but that went away, so there needs to be another enforcement method.

To be fair, and far be it from me to defend insurance companies, but putting hundreds of lbs of extra weight on the roof of am old house that was probably barely on the edge of able to support the snow load may be where the issue lies.

I’ve stood on roofs where it can barely hold me up and feel it deflecting enough to make me nervous, even stepping on the places supported by rafters. A lot of these installers don’t give a fuck what the structure is that they’re using.

Ground mounts take up space but don’t have these issues.

Oh, I think we know what those thoughts are going to be.

The Liberals had all the chance in the world during Covid to regulate profiteering in basic needs and did precisely fuck-all. Weston makes hundreds of millions from ludicrous price gouging and grocers get “talked to”, but nothing resembling sanctioning. So forgive me if I don’t believe their bullshit yet again.

The only way to get what you’re worth is to change jobs. Then do it again in a couple more years.

Let Ukraine use slightly longer range weapons than anything they can prove has been fired by Russia. Every escalation by Russia is permission to use the next tier of missiles to wipe them out.

Can we get the names of these people so we can have their drivers licenses taken away?

I’m not buying it. We have billions of dollars at stake right now and are risking it for the maybe, possibly chance of producing domestic EVs someday. But our track record at things like emerging technology has been pretty poor, as seen by the Ottawa silicon-valley attempt and nanotech throw a lot of money down the drain accomplishing nothing.

Gee, the LPC can’t get any traction west of Thunder Bay, I wonder why…

And how much of that is built or sourced in Canada? Thats what we would be trying to protect when we do this. And to my knowledge, its negligible. What we’re doing is appeasing the US at the cost of agricultural exports, exactly as we did when we arrested the Huawei exec that they had conveniently let across the border in order to create strife.

Yah, and now we have China looking to restrict canola imports in retribution, something of actual value to the Canadian economy, unlike our non-existent EV industry. There will be massive costs to agriculture from this stupidity, and it’s all for image points, not anything useful.

For reference sake, agriculture contributed $42 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2023. I can’t find any numbers for EV because I suspect it doesn’t exist.

Manufacturing consent.

Wow, a government body composed of former and future employees of the regulated industry protects and shelters said industry.

This is my surprised face.

And then, hopefully, a trip to Nuremburg.