AnotherDirtyAnglo @ AnotherDirtyAnglo @lemmy.ca

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My idiot mother and her unmedicated bipolar boyfriend were two of them... Because they were searching for "maximum freedom" and "a government that will protect our rights".

Yeah, how quickly people forgot that the fatter, stupider Ford brother cancelled transit city with a one page memo on city letterhead -- costing the city nearly $100 MILLION in wasted work and cancellation fees.

Fiscal responsibility my ass.

Wow, this sounds just like a Conservative rant about how dirty and evil and bad cities are, written to be consumed by folks from the burbs who haven't been downtown for 25+ years.

What? NatPo is owned by an American hedge fund? Quelle surprise.

I'm willing to bet they got paid several million dollars to write it.

It's a fine line. My mother believes Q-adjacent anti-vax bullshit that her manic bipolar boyfriend spoonfeeds her. She's otherwise a competent, independent adult. She knows who the Prime Minister is (and that he's satan incarnate) and pays her bills on time. She believes insane bullshit, but she's not dangerous to herself or others.

She's not forcing anyone to send her money, she's saying crazy things that somehow resonate with people who are to some degree mentally ill but not dangerous, like my mother. People do stupid shit all the time, and if we criminalized that, we'd have to turn all of Alberta into a prison.

As for the threats, she's not a genuine threat, and arresting / locking her up would turn her into a martyr to her followers, which could cause bigger issues. The people who tried to arrest police in Peterborough got what was coming to them, and they were made an example of. Cult leaders don't want their followers getting locked up where they can snap out of it.

Yukon too.

And before anyone says heat pumps don't work in cold climates... They do. Modern heat pumps work perfectly well down to below -20c -- they're slightly less efficient...

My experience in replacing my electric central furnace and HVAC unit... ... has cut my annual electricity costs by nearly 55%. ... works fine in both summer and winter, the house has never been more comfortable. ... was substantially more expensive than the old style, but because my power costs are low, I may not fully recover the cost. ... only requires I rinse the outside unit off with water two or three times a year, and replace the furnace filters. ... has a heater unit in case we get way, way down to beyond -30c, but that seems profoundly unlikely anymore.

Yes... Let's re-open this bucket of bullshit. When they left for Ottawa, they had a written declaration and were planning on overthrowing the democratically elected government with some ridiculously ignorant idea for dissolving parliament and placing themselves in control.

This is too stupid to not be plain old grift.

Is it me, or is PP just sucking Trump's dick every time he opens his mouth?

I'm no fan of Trudeau's since he shitcanned electoral reform after bathing in the applause of citizens from across the country for months after saying that election would be the last one under FPTP.

Having said that... PP could show us how smart he is by whipping out his big balls and telling us EXACTLY what he'd do to change things, complete with a costed budget. But he hasn't. And he won't. Because he's full of shit.

How do I know he's full of shit? Because Thug Ford ran the same sort of campaign (Buck a beer folks!!) and just look at how he's fucking with the entire province - specifically health care and education, to the benefit of his friends in private industry.

Tax the fuck out of rental income, and increase the property taxes for investor-owned or foreign-owned homes to commercial rates, then hit them again with a pre-tax that increases at a rate 2x of inflation. We'll stomp that shit out in under a decade.

It's only inevitable if you do nothing. Call up your local political candidate and ask how you can help them win the next election.

Yeah, it sucks, but there was little I could do to change her trajectory. Her boyfriend is a far-far right oil-patch moron and former cop. I see the shit he posts on Xitter, and he's fellating the same scammers and shitheads.

I miss the person she used to be, not who she is now.

There are no dedicated tracks for passengers trains outside major cities. If you travel between Quebec City and Windsor on Via Rail, you're almost exclusively on freight tracks. Between Montreal and Kingston is like being shaken left and right non-stop for nearly two hours. Impossible to read a book / tablet / phone, type on a laptop -- eating and drinking is difficult.

Meanwhile, the TGV/ICE trains move at over 300km/h, and the speed & motion are imperceptable, even on curves.

Yup, my Mom's FB feed is basically her verbally fellating grifters and psychopaths, and yelling about anyone that has a clue.

I heard this term somewhere recently... Broflakes.

It fits.

but I bet the train is still more comfortable

It's not. In business class, you're immediately behind the engine -- you get to hear it blast the horn multiple times at every crossing.

And no matter which class you're in, the freight trains have beat the piss out of almost every set of tracks, so that when you're at speed, it just about knocks your fillings out -- nevermind the idea of actually getting any work done on paper or laptop because of the constant motion.

Your best bet is to get high/drunk before you get on the train and sleep through it.

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My mother has been fooled by all of the extreme-far-right bullshit. She's against immigration (she's an immigrant), she's against vaccination for "a variety of reasons", but mostly because she thinks 99.99% of people survive COVID because her (vaccinated) 90-year-old mother did (even though it killed a dozen people in the same care home during an outbreak). She thinks the transition to 'green power' means we won't have electricity after the sun goes down. She thinks the global elite will crash the economy to redistribute wealth to themselves.

She wasn't always like this. She was a smart and savvy business owner.

This is what Russia want Canadians to be like.

If a car can be stolen with a battery-powered toy of off-the-shelf electronic parts assembled into a cute box, maybe automakers need to modernize their security.