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"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

"OK I'm going insane."

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Wheat-per-bushel prices wholesale vary, but over the last 20 years, between a $3-10 per bushel range, so a third of that minimum wage worker's paycheck ($106) is going to buy ~15 bushels a week (405kg, 1.35 million calories, 17 times what Cratchet is buying).

www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-p...

Resolved: "Tradwife" has increasingly little to do with being a "traditional wife" and is a signifier to sell lonely conservative men their ultimate fantasy - a woman who shares their politics unquestioningly and submissively

This is Bruce in August.

His apology might frame last nights abuse of speakers as a one off, but his contempt for Albertans isn’t a one off, it’s a pattern.

And one that Smith tolerates and endorses.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

No state should be allowed to exist if it does not enfranchise women

This is a pretty basic moral question the world was supposed to have settled by now

personally I achieved illumination through long contemplation of what RFK and Olivia Nuzzi's sexting looked like.

People are using it on various Canadian subreddits too. Definitely becoming part of certain folks vocabulary. It’s used very similarly woke–hand wave away stuff they don’t like.

"performative men" = "metrosexual" and it's literally just high-school masculinity bullying transposed to newspapers, just like it always has been

Uh oh

Shanghai Metro Line 18 Danyang Road.

If you spend any material time in airport lounges you aren’t very good at traveling; the idea time to clear security is when they start boarding first class.

shut UP

bro shut UP

All of Joe Rogan's friends really hate Texas From the heat to the power grid, Texas isn't what they were promised.

Lol. Lmao.

Unearthed footage that Fox News refused to air during the election last year shows Trump nervously refusing to commit to releasing the Epstein files.

“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”

We don't live in a society, we live in an ecosystem.

About that record-high share of Americans saying immigration is good for the country: The surge is primarily driven by *Republicans* changing their tune. Rs have become much more positive on immigration than they had been before Trump took office.

Arizona’s Water Is Vanishing Before AI Gets a Crack at It Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water from reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

good piece www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In the least derogatory tone possible: Quebec

I know many people that folks on here would consider "offline" or idk "normal people," that aren't even just using AI for work, but using it to TEXT people. Like their friends and family.

The city should prioritize density near business districts so that there is a large customer base in the immediate area that can walk, and prioritize alternative transport options over car access for people who are outside of walking distance. More customers who are not as impacted by construction.

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

Dear James: A Riddle About Reading Even when I love a book, I want it to end. Why?

In this week’s “Dear James,” a reader writes in with a question: Why, even when reading a thoroughly enjoyable book, do they want it to end?

the reason the term “tyranny of the majority” is useful is because tyranny of a minority is just the regular definition of tyranny

European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

The NYT just dropped a bombshell: a foreign spa company with one location and no cash landed a 95-year sweetheart deal—based on misleading claims and a secretive, preferential process.

This gov't was elected to protect Ontario. Do the right thing. Cancel the deal.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

Not-so-fun fact. Assuming no change in nominal home prices, it will take over *27* years of wage growth for Kitchener-Waterloo to return to the housing affordability levels of 2005.

10 yr yield is 7 bps higher than it was when Trump yanked reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday because he purpotedly was "watching the bonds"

By Evan Dyer CBC. This is highly problematic.