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Genuinely wasn't expecting to see a flame war about historiography on here. Folks, read some theory. Will is not being unreasonable about this.

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The American tourism industry is going to get absolutely smoked

submitted 8 hours ago • 142 comments

One of the problems with US driving culture is that infrastructure decisions have made the most natural corrective to poor driving -- temporary or permanent revocation of driving privileges -- practically a death sentence, and so authorities are very hesitant to use it

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Folks, this is too many letters to work in the song.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

i’ve kinda become a little elitist about this, because it’s an example of a thing you see a lot where stupid people take a pretty nuanced/detailed critique of the conventional Sunday school version of history, & flatten it until they have something way more wrong than the default narrative

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

it's easy to observe this in the increasingly homogenous "rural" culture and identity becoming unmoored from region or geography. regions that were once totally distinct, applachia, the lowland south, the great plains, the interior west, now all have a shared faux-redneck culture

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I don't think I really knew much about trans people until I met some folks through the punk scene as a teenager and all of them seemed to have to flee their homes as teenagers for their own safety. Like I could just go to high school and they had to drop out and get jobs and pay rent.

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Sometimes there’s too much going on in the world and you need to look at a large ridiculous bird for a minute. shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Top notch work by the debate commission. Didn’t even know Rebel is registered to influence the campaign. But also, what the fuck did you think they were about? What an embarrassment. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

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Amazing example of AI slop over on Facebook. Someone posts asking who a character is in a Simpsons Jigsaw puzzle and the AI seems to be convinced that Jigsaw is a character from the Simpsons.

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My follow up story today: An effort by Canadian entrepreneurs to cut public spending is distancing itself from DOGE, Elon Musk’s federal employee slashing agency. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

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Unbelievable. The @nytimes.com reports that Therme was misrepresenting basic aspects of its business - they copied the name of another company and claimed to own its properties. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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If we had any idea this was going on and the Leaders Debate Commission was this ignorant about Ezra, Rebel, and ForCanada, we would have called them ourselves just to present the facts.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

blanches Homestar Runner is 25 years old?

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

NPR thinks protests aren’t really worth covering and the only newsworthy aspect is the crowd size, you say?

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History is being made this week! #Vancouver will host Canada’s first-ever professional women’s #soccer match at BC Place on Wednesday as Vancouver Rise FC kick-off their inaugural Northern Super League season v Calgary Wild FC. @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social @nsl.ca @calgarywildfc.bsky.social

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Anglosphere planners go to great lengths to prevent shadows. This is absurd to me, a moderately observant human who occasionally goes outside and sees that people like being in the shade.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 7 days ago • 251 comments

Glad to see people pissed but let's not be historical revisionists! In the Harper years, I went to protests in Ottawa with scientists who were fighting against the muzzling of their research and loss of funding due to his policies. The real difference now is broader societal conservatism.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

This is absolutely bizarre Carney fan-fiction. No one should be taking Blundell seriously.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of doing his job the mayor is increasingly just shilling for fake internet money. I'm quite serious that he should resign so that someone interested in being the mayor can be mayor

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

It’s never someone in the age group that would be affected advocating for this. Our society treats young people as a resource to be exploited in so many ways.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Wtf are we even doing man. Mainstream media is cooked.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

the “Ross Perot was right” shirt… I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone as washed as Shawn Fain

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

I am so curious about the Maloney + Hardwick voters. These are people who must be just totally untouched by online discourse.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

submitted 11 days ago • 258 comments

BEHOLD WHAT NIMBYISM HAS WROUGHT Classism runs deep in Vancouver's planning systems. This blatantly uneven access to amenities should shock the conscience. The city has been built like this for 100 years. And the tool is exclusionary zoning.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Watching YIMBYs become Sean Orr’s strongest soldiers because they have low tolerance for bullshit is a fascinating development.

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a reminder the guy currently pissing away the election called me (and my cohort from coast to coast) "incompetent, greedy, money-hungry" while telling us his government will not fund infrastructure, and will take away our tools to fund it ourselves. www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/t...

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

This is going to hurt Alberta badly. Oilsands facilities are largely not going to be profitable at these prices, and government finances depend on royalties.

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