kootenay kari

when do we get a ranking of municipalities based on functionality and good governance?

there's some evidence (disputed etc) that the people who invented horse riding used them to hunt horses for food.

Thanks Bill!

I don't read that as it being concerned about the character's wellbeing, I read that as a critique of the writing.

mmm flan

I wanna see one on an actual frozen lake but this "ice rink built in other sports' stadium" stuff is bad

England is also about the size of New York but with 3x the people and, by virtue of being an island, no big river systems that carry water in from elsewhere (except a bit of Wales)

they're all good dogs bront

nah land bridge is still on. what is in dispute is "ice free corridor" for migration down middle of north america. other option is boats along the coast.

i am probably not the majority opinion but i would like to read more of your "astrology explains politics" thoughts

pray the water damage away

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

write an article calling Shaq a hidden gem

Ohio should use this as a sales pitch

Yep. My text-based alternative should Bluesky become unpleasant is probably Discord.

this is what happens when twitter is down

in the middle of blowing a 15 point lead

scrooge mcduck is an outlier adn should not have been counted

nanaimo bars

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as someone who lives in the Interior I kinda suspected this, with Vancouver area being strong for the Liberals in the polls and that being incorrectly applied to rural areas of the province

my polling place this election is the curling rink

there's a town in alberta called beaverlodge

I'm really enjoying this about Mark Carney, who is obviously an expert in economics.

the beatings will continue until the trade deficits improve

my no fear shirt said "you'll never steal second with your foot on first" on the back

I cancelled plans to go see the Sweet 16/Elite 8 in Spokane. I missed seeing Paige Bueckers drop 40 points but I don't regret the choice.

they are busy insider trading