I'm sorry, the entire idea of "vote splitting" just encourages people to move their vote from the candidate that aligns most with their values to the candidate who's already got the most backing. You're essentially robbing support from the smaller parties and consolidating it with the big ones, further exacerbating the problem by creating an environment where it's one person or the other. This is how the Americans ended up with a two-party system and how they stubbornly will do anything as a means to do nothing about their problem.
Vote with who aligns with your opinions most, regardless of if it's "strategic" or not. For me, it happens to be the Liberals I'm voting for because I'm tired of how weak the NDP and Green leadership is, but beforehand I voted for the NDP candidate here in heavily Conservative Alberta even when the Liberal would have been "more viable" with my vote.
It is up to the federal parties to win you over with their vote, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND and "strategic voting" only creates a system where your candidates will start feeling entitled to your vote regardless of if they listen to what you want as a voter simply because you "have no other option this side of the aisle" and that "the other guy is worse".
Amarjeet is such a fucking incredible guy. Look up dude's story, it is insane. Man has gone through so much and still fights the good fight after all these years.
My mother would take the bus to work and back and remembers him being a bus driver with ETS. Great guy with great character.
I substitute the lemon juice with malt vinegar as stated. Found malt vinegar works better than lemon juice personally since when I first started making hummus, I used that instead since I didn't have lemon juice off hand and just grabbed something acidic, and lemon juice didn't provide as bold a flavour.
I also use jarred garlic instead and play it by eye since I really like garlic and the jarred stuff is more convenient for me.
Lastly for the spices I ditch the black pepper in favour of paprika, and use 3/4 teaspoons of salt rather than 1/2.
One of the things I remember most from my childhood is my father screaming in pain due to tooth decay he couldn't get treatment for because of how expensive a trip to the dentist was. Man would try using whiskey as an antiseptic which did fuck all and ended up costing us more for his alcohol as a family when that became his drink of choice afterwards over beer.
The NDP is in dire need of new leadership. I genuinely think Jagmeet is a great guy, but he really should be making a publicity campaign of the NDP's accomplishments here, and him not doing so to the degree he should be is just the latest in a line of leadership decisions he's made that have disappointed me. I want to vote NDP in the upcoming election, but even putting aside the movement to back the Liberals to keep Polievre out of office, I'll be voting Liberal unless they have a change in leadership and leadership strategy.
Gonna go so far as to say the same with the Greens while I'm at it cause the entire kerfuffle they've had with Annamie Paul basically fracturing the party, and seeing Elizabeth May as their leader again isn't doing any favours considering how hard she and other party leadership pushed for Paul over Dimitri Lascaris, who I feel would have been a much better party leader.
Real Canadian Superstore prices for my hummus since this started:
Swapping from Peru-made lemon juice for my hummus to malt vinegar - cost down from $2.79 to $1.50
No Name Chickpeas to Unico equivalent - $1.50 to $2
Using canola oil and not olive oil as suggested by nearly every recipe - no name olive oil costs $12 for 750 mL whereas canola oil costs $8.29 for 3 L getting you more for less with hardly a change in the recipe
Tahini - found a good recipe from Diabetes Canada that completely removes this ingredient, saving me a solid $10 for a jar
To finish things off, while both Canadian, swapping from sandwich bread to sliced French bread for dipping - $1.97 to $1.25
Cost of hummus ingredients goes from $28.26 to $13.04 with the added bonus that one of those ingredients lasts three times as long.
People need to learn substitutions in their recipes, that alone saved a tonne. I pay more for Canola oil personally cause I get Canola Harvest and not the no name brand since they're unionized, but even with that in mind you're paying less than olive oil for like, double the amount.
Never been huge on Hudson's Bay, but honestly this can be owed to improper regulation of online shopping. The fact that the government hasn't done more to protect Canadian businesses from online competitors, namely Amazon, is absurd, especially with the ridiculously wasteful practices Amazon has made an industry standard.
It's already a pain for malls and shopping outlets to find replacements for old Sears and Target/Zellers locations. This being added to the mix is going to deal a huge blow to malls where Hudson's Bay is seen as an anchor, and an equally large blow is going to be dealt to the social shopping experience.
Being from Edmonton, Kingsway Mall already comes to mind. When Sears closed, the space eventually became occupied by a Walmart, and it's worrisome to think of another heavily American retailer swooping in on where Hudson's Bay is currently, or it being the case that they demolish the entire section of the mall similar to what they did at Mill Woods Town Centre with the old Target/Zellers space.
Opera House? I remember years ago reading or hearing of this story where guy wanted in the U.S. went on a stage of some sort on the border, and would just swap sides each time authorities of either country were about to apprehend him.
Probs just an urban legend, but would this have been the place?
Piefed is great honestly, though it does have it's bugs. The developer has been very hard at work fixing bugs however, and I've been finding the bugs I come across to be easy to report and work around. They host their code on Codeberg, which is a big reason as to why I made the swap, and their repo and issue tracker can be found on the site here: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
Also feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt, as I've been using it less in recent months. Nothing against it, just life being busy and all.
Taking a look at Swisscows right now. My only concern with them is that I know they filter out sites with adult content, and I do have worries on how that's applied to results with explicit song lyrics or album covers.
I gave this a shot since I do like and trust Mojeek, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to bring in any results when I use the search "site:bandcamp.com attribution non-commercial share alike" (not in quotes).
Honestly Misskey forks for all their flaws can absolutely take this opportunity to properly advertise themselves as viable alternatives. As someone who uses a Misskey fork, I love the UI in comparison to Mastodon, and the communities in Misskey forks are a lot less techie and a lot more laid back and goofy most of the time from my personal experience.
Awesome! There's one closeby that's locally owned, doubt the owner would mind. Only question is if it would damage the cinderblock at all with chipping or whatever.
Cause simply wearing a hijab is so much worse than...
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...lighting someone on fire?