saskatchewan potato utility (redux)

I am familiar with the origin of the word! I don't like it! I have a *personal* revulsion to how it sounds and appears, and I have a *technical* objection about its utility. If other people use it, fine. *I* don't like it, *I* think its utility is more limited than more commonly used words.

I said I don't like the term and I don't think its less ambiguous or more impactful than collaborator, but people who use it don't need to justify themselves to me.

If you're going to try to (rightfully) associate a pejorative term with a person, you're causing a lot more work for yourself to also have to make sure people know what the word is and that it's negative. Just use the words that have already put in the work to have negative connotations.

Absolutely despise the term "quisling." Traitor and collaborator are perfectly good words that are universally understood and don't sound vaguely like they could be misogynist slang for a woman perceived as cheap and trashy.

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro discuss Canada electing ‘solid allies’ to Trump at Florida event On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said, 'I come in peace.'

Danielle Smith was recorded having a friendly discussion with Ben Shapiro, who has previously said that "we can annex [Canada] and then just call it an outlying territory or something like Puerto Rico, but of the North."

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...

As an exceptionally poor dresser myself, I say it without malice.

You can always tell when you get to the right gate for a flight to Regina because of the dire sartorial circumstances

Imagine coming out at the end of the Fort MacMurray fire (or whatever horrible fire is next) and Trump comes and throws some paper towels at you and calls it a day.

At the very least it's useful that they're now being explicit that the plan has never been to turn Canada into the "cherished" 51st state, but a territory whose people are not granted the full rights of citizenship.

It's not a Canadian-owned company anymore and even if it were, we're not obliged to pretend bad things are good just because they're Canadian.

You've got to hand it to Tim Hortons. They know how to make a truly disgusting breakfast sandwich.

Might have landed if I wasn't currently experiencing the psychic hell that is Pearson

Pearson is an airport

Mark Carney should promise a national inquiry into why Pearson sucks so fucking bad

Not American don't care about America

I think we should step aside and allow the wild hogs to have their time

Times headline that says "I'm 37, I might be single forever, and I'm happy with that."

BRAVE: This relatively young woman has accepted her gruesome fate!

Are you familiar with the concept of jokes?

Imagine the fire department shows up to put out your house fire but instead you watch them burn to death in a lithium battery fire in their own truck

People always want to talk about how a single sour patch kid would kill a pilgrim but that's ancient history. I do believe that a single box of Kraft Dinner would kill King Charles right fucking now.

My Heart Will Go On on the dance mix is a recession indicator

Turns out It's Her Time was always about Claudia Sheinbaum

Seems like a natural arc for you tbh

I am firmly against child labour and all its ills. However,

Unfortunately for the anti-child labour crowd, it's extremely funny to see a child dressed as a coal miner and smoking a pipe

"Some people call me Maurice." No they don't, Steve Miller. That isn't true.

Far and away the best singer to emerge from American Idol.

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I feel so bad for TV writers trying to write about White Lotus this season amd having to pretend that a single exciting thing has happened