Scott Edgar

Screen shot of an ebay page. It says "3x Fin Carré Milk Chocolate With Salted Caramel Pieces and Salty Crunchy Cereal. US $35.99 ApproximatelyC $49.22"

Three bars of Lidl brand chocolate on ebay? $49 CAD

I wish Lidl would come to Canada.

The talk I'm writing is going to alienate audiences in ways that are completely new for me!

I think pantheism's god needs to learn more self-compassion and accept that it's okay not to be perfect.

I've spent a little time working on Leibniz reception, and it's wild to me that there are STILL interesting things of his that have never been published.

When you're young(-ish), you don't ever suspect that rash is shingles. And no one else does either. So you leave it to see if it will get better on its own, which is the worst thing you can do.

I'll never forget the walk-in clinic doc who told me I had an outbreak of HSV *on the back of my head*.

I think this is right, and I wonder how conscious a choice on his part it is.

Without exception, the dogs' taste in music runs in the vein of totally unchallenging. All ambient, no metal.

Michelle's husband was the guy who decided that no one needed to be punished for all the war crimes that happened on Bush's watch.

Me? I draw a very straight line from there to where we are today.

A member of my household somehow managed to change the temperature reading on the oven from fahrenheit to celsius. I thought I might never bake again.

What do I mean by "incoherent"? We're making deals to import green tech (yay!) from China (not an ally?), while also making deals to export planet-killing stuff (boo!) to Europe (our allies?). None of that makes any sense whatsoever. But that's just where we're at for the foreseeable future.

2. *But until that happens* Canada's FP is going to be pretty incoherent. Why? Because we can't afford to say no to decent deals with major powers, and we also can't afford piss off any major power too much.

Two things:

1. S- and M-sized powers should form alliances with enough power to start guaranteeing their own security and making it possible for their FPs to be coherent.

Under the post-war order, the US guaranteed Canada's security and made it possible for its FP to be mostly coherent.

But (and this is the part that got all the press) that deal is over and there's o going back.

So what now for small- and medium-sized powers?

The basic premise of Carney's speech was that any individual small- or medium-sized power doesn't have the ability, on its own, to guarantee its own security or to guarantee the coherence of its own foreign policy.

Yes. I think that was one claim among several, all of which fit together into a single line of reasoning.

Longer thread incoming. Apologies to all effected.

My thing is that lots of folks took Carney's speech to be about speaking truthfully about what the US has become. And it *kinda* was? But also, it was about how, in the absence of the post-war order, a smallish power can't be too choosy about who it's willing to piss off.

A core message of Carney's celebrated Davos speech was, "Look, Canada's foreign policy is going to be incoherent for the foreseeable future."

And not to put too fine a point on it, I wonder about the fact that some of the biggest developers in the urban core are non-white immigrants. Are the biggest developers in the exurbs in a white Nova Scotia old boys network? As I say, I wonder. I'd love to read reporting on it.

This is absolutely part of it (and IMO that's the culture war aspect of it).

But I also wonder if there are different networks of patronage at work here. Some rich developers are better connected to one party; other rich developers are better connected to another party.

This gets exactly at something I've wondered about for years now. There are giant, super-rich developers building high density housing in Halifax & Dartmouth! Why don't *they* have more influence over provincial politics?

Cities vs exurbs is one the most important fault lines in Canadian politics.

The Province of Nova Scotia doesn't think Halifax is doing enough to encourage new housing.

The Province could have responded by forcing Halifax to allow more density in its urban core.

Instead, the Province is forcing Halifax to allow more exurban sprawl.

Mary Berry would never.

He "elevator words." Is that what you're after?

I can tell last week was reading week from the number of refereeing requests I'm getting this week.

“Mr Beast related trades” at this point bring back Enron for fucks sake, at least those guys wore suits

To the cardinal singing outside my window, who really wants it to be spring:

I hear you, buddy. I really, really hear you.

Lol

A Penguin paperback edition of Farley Mowatt's LOST IN THE BARRENS.

They said it couldn't be done, but I found a YA novel with no teenage love triangle.

This sounds like a joke, but I mean it seriously: they're really complaining about the taxes they have to pay on their primary dwellings and cottages in Musquodoboit Harbour.