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infernal machines posted:This is awful and unsurprising, and I'm guessing the police aren't involved because they're assuming the children were buried while the school was in operation 50 years ago and they already can't be assed to follow up on disappearances and murders of indigenous people that happened in this century. I guess the cops are assuming the kids died of natural causes, given whose care and keeping they were in. Three children per year of operation. I can't express the rage in me right now. There should be SWAT teams kicking down diocese doors and seizing records as we speak. Instead, crickets. gently caress everything.
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May 28, 2021 22:49
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Randalor posted:Just a reminder that the Manitoba government just wants to sacrifice everyone on the altar of Mammon and Moloch. I think I dropped a few IQ points just reading that. "What do you call a person who graduates last in their medical class..."
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May 29, 2021 06:42
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Alctel posted:I think it's been mentioned before but the BC Health Gateway is loving excellent Same. otoh it's amazing to have all that info readily available, otoh it's creepy as hell. Not sure I want to know all the drugs I've been on over the years, nevermind the government.  I installed the BC Services phone app in a desperate attempt to access my CCRA records (you can log in using it instead of the usual CCRA passkeys and whatnot). It could be that the CCRA website is allergic to my browser and the various ad blockers I run, but whatever it was the BC Services app worked and I can get in now. The wonders of government programming never cease. edit: ChickenDoodle posted:Now if the BC Services card worked on my iPhone and not only on my iPad that’d be amazing. But apparently it’s not been working for iOS phone users for months. How odd. I'm glad my wife and I didn't know that when we installed and ran it on her iPhone this afternoon. Won't receive the final clearance email until tomorrow so there's still time for it to blow up, I guess. Hexigrammus fucked around with this message at 02:58 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 02:53
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Another Bill posted:3) Put 'from Toronto' in your user name. I cannot stress this one enough, it drives people loving crazy to be burned/condescended to by a progressive FROM TORONTO. I love this. Pure essence of SomethingAwful.com
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Jun 2, 2021 14:29
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Another Bill posted:If memory serves, the number estimated out of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings was between 4,000-6,000. With 150ish residential schools operating in the country over the years I think that might be an underestimate. I assume that report makes a stab at estimating the children who disappeared into the bush or drowned trying to escape places like Kuper Island leaving no graves. Not curious enough to actually read it though, I'm grumpy enough this morning already. DariusLikewise posted:As far as I know there’s no “new” bodies found here but rather people are trying to recognize the fact that 20 years ago the city sold the old residential school land to some rear end in a top hat that paved over everything with a RV park and conveniently everyone forgot about the part of deal where they said they would look for bodies before turning up the land and the plague marking the school was removed. jfc. Meanwhile, in Victoria commercial re-development of St. Ann's Academy was blocked when they discovered dead nuns buried in the basement. They already knew about the ones buried in the orchard so that was going to be preserved, then the ones in the basement were discovered and whoopsie, nuns are sacred, no development profits for you. (Government Ministry of Ed offices would be o.k. with the nuns though, so that's cool.) EngineerJoe posted:I really can't imagine corporations adequately maintaining thousands of sfh's. This feels like something that will either take down the corporations or we will end up with slums filled with dilapidated houses. ¿por qué no los dos?
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Jun 14, 2021 19:13
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Arcsquad12 posted:In a speech to his caucus on the last sitting day of the House of Commons on Wednesday, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole spoke about his opposition to the push to 'cancel' Canada Day over of the discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at former residential schools. Too much historical research has poisoned my enthusiasm for Canada Day. I haven't celebrated it for several years. My indigenous cousin otoh is all for it - he'll be downtown on the public walk selling bbq salmon to the crowds.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:39
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:Horgan always knows the exact wrong thing to say I agree though that this has to stop NOW! ffs people, wait until the forest fire hazard drops.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:03
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20+ hours out from my Moderna second shot. Not too bad, a restless night with a fever high enough the cat didn't want to cuddle with me for long. Highly recommend if you sleep on your side to get the jab in the arm you won't be trying to sleep on. I did not do this, of course.
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Jul 6, 2021 15:18
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Mr. Apollo posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-skilled-trades-enforcement-doug-ford-college-1.6109825 I guess there's no chance we can put these neoliberal shitstains on trial for murder if say, a crane was to collapse during a period of no enforcement? Nah, being rich means never having to say you're responsible. Excuse me while I get twitchy thinking about untrained, unlicensed crane operators.
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Jul 22, 2021 07:27
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Capital Letdown posted:As I said, sorry for the long post, and feel free to ask questions. I'm in this poo poo every day. Thanks! Wish I could buy you a coffee.
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Jul 23, 2021 07:23
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Willatron posted:The outdoor cat ban thing is applicable to suburban or urban communities, but in rural municipalities it's not as black and white. My parents live in a rural area and literally cannot go without a good outdoor mouser cat. The one year they didn't have a cat (in between one dying of old age and finding a new one) they had a mouse infestation in their crawl space under the house. The alternative is using expensive and potentially dangerous traps and poisons, which is silly when one good outdoor cat will keep their house rodent free. Careful, there's already a bias against us rurals itt. I've got an infestation of Rattus norvegicus in one of my sheds that's eluding my two cats, two ferals, the dog, and now covered traps. Build a better mousetrap and nature just builds a better mouse. DariusLikewise posted:The Federal election starts next week probably Wait, it hasn't started already?? Channel surfing on the truck radio in weekend holiday traffic - attack ad from a group I didn't catch. Most of the ad was making GBS threads on Kenney, his attack on health care workers during a pandemic and his general incompetent handling of the pandemic. Almost as an afterthought at the end, something along the lines of: "Vote O'Toole if you want the same for the rest of Canada". Very amusing.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:23
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Orthanc6 posted:Yeah, as unlikely as it is, if a ferry starts to sink being in the car storage is the worst place to be. Extra bad if you are inside your car and the ship lists, cars slide together and then your doors are pinned shut. It's a sensible precaution. The design compromises made to make a roll-on roll-off ferry functional have sunk ferries around the world. It will never not be funny to me that one of these was the 1980s sinking of the Channel ferry "Herald of Free Enterprise" killing 193 people. Such a perfect allegory for unfettered Thatcherism.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:17
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infernal machines posted:Like what? Catch fire again? Lytton isn't much of a town, I'm sure we can do better in an encore. Arcsquad12 posted:And now there's an outbreak in Central Okanagan and they're blaming young people. Central Vancouver Island roads and shops are packed. I'm going back to staying home and doing once a week trips to Costco and Home Depot. And maybe the weed shop. Fortunately my needs are simple. gently caress everything.
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Aug 6, 2021 22:32
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MA-Horus posted:https://twitter.com/imgrund/status/1424417329279029252?s=20 I'd really like to see the breakdown of how much of that under 20 bar are children who don't have a vaccine yet, and what proportion of the over 20 are immunocompromised. Watching the children's hospitals in Florida being crammed to overflowing is filling me with rage at the rest though.
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Aug 8, 2021 22:09
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Randalor posted:"World's on fire and BC's an unlivable hellscape? Time to burn more fossil fuels!"-Alberta, every day for the past decade. Really not sure why this is news, to be honest. Just started a book on Alberta's energy industry written in 2007. Interesting opening lines: Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) posted:
Disturbing amount of chatter about how nuclear winter might actually be helpful and buy us some time. If it's spun it as a job creation exercise maybe Alberta will not only volunteer as a test bed but also subsidize it?
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Aug 10, 2021 18:17
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Vintersorg posted:Nice whistle there Conservatives. Why does this keep happening?  I wish I'd kept a tally of little oopsies like this that popped up during the Harper years - using Nazi slogans from the 1930s and so on.  The people who just ripped off Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to produce a juvenile attack ad shouldn't be bitching about plagiarism. Besides, the "you" in Jagmeet's ad is italicized so clearly different. Arivia posted:Sure? It sucks no matter who is doing it, but I’m not nearly as familiar with BC politics so I forget what rationale Horgan gave for his election call. He was tired of a minority government with the Greens holding the balance. Didn't matter since he and Weaver seemed to have very effectively hogtied the Greens the moment the agreement was signed. Sucked, but I still voted NDP. This riding went with the incumbent B.C. Liberal candidate, a young Para-Olympic athlete whose only skillset seems to be getting herself elected by the oldest population in Canada and making a wheelchair go very fast around the track. Which is still more than other Liberal candidates have to offer. Local representation is a bit lacking, notably on disability issues. Green candidates in this riding tend to be the type wearing suits and driving a Tesla with a rack on business cards for their consulting firm on the dash . It's disappointing that there are no magic crystals hanging from the rear view mirror. (Do Teslas even have rear view mirrors? I dunno these things, gently caress Elon.) Arivia posted:I hope the liberals loving get destroyed over this. A naked power grab election in the middle of the pandemic? No one loving wants this and it’s literally going to kill people. Get hosed JT. I would too, as long as it wouldn't lead to putting the Conservatives back in power. They've gone through their competent evil period, now we're in to the incompetent, buffoon evil period. Lib minority with strong NDP/Bloc holding the balance of power. I'd like a pony too while I'm at it. Nitr0 posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/comox-valley-regional-district-phase-out-gas-stations-1.6139542 I think that's already happening anyway due to the huge liability associated with old underground tanks. More gas stations on this end of the island have been decommissioned than new ones opened and there's still a lot of life left in the existing stations. And just  at the idea of hydrogen fuel as long as we're producing it from natural gas and coal-generated Alberta power. At that point it does become wacky island brain thinking.The east coast of the island is all teed up to burn down again like it did in 1840 so there might be an issue rebuilding the charred remains. I have to admit this is not high on my worry priority list. btw, battery tech is fine for commuter vehicles, even living on the island. In a world where 10 year old 200k vehicles need to be scrapped because everything is junk coming off the assembly line I'm not sure there's much to be concerned about with a 10-20 year battery life. Hopefully that won't become 5-8 years through the miracle of modern capitalism. I also don't think we should be trying to consume our way out of a problem created by excessive consumption, but that's just me.
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Aug 15, 2021 19:25
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Arivia posted:Whatever though, I already submitted my vote by mail application. Pretty easy, you can do it online on the Elections Canada website, you'll need to photograph and upload some ID (name + address, so one card like a driver's license or two pieces like a health card and a bank statement or other mail with your address on it.) Thanks, I was wondering if they were doing mail-in federally. We voted by mail in the last provincial election and it ruled. We were so early with our ballot request that nominations were still open so we were ticking next to parties instead of names. Solenna posted:I hope BC gets some rain soon The important part (where I live) is getting a fine drizzle this morning. It's like a normal summer day in the Central Coast and it's glorious. I regret to report the rest of the province is still hosed. I'm wondering if we'll join the western US and end up with two seasons: fire and mud. Not sure how I feel about mandatory vaccines for the civil service. I had a hazardous job so Health Canada handed me a laundry list of required vaccines and I said "gently caress yeah" and rolled up my sleeve. I think the brainworms might be getting me and I'm a little sympathetic to those who are concerned about a vaccine that hasn't completed the full approval process. Otoh it will purge some complete idiots from the civil service. I wonder which party anti-vaxxers are most likely to support? I'm sure this didn't enter into the Liberals calculus. What a weird virus this is, targetting by political affiliation. Just if the Greens take an anti-vax position. It will definitely demonstrate their ability and commitment to make tough decisions based on science.  Ah well, it will make it easier to check the "Generic Orange Person" box on the mail-in ballot.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:33
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Vintersorg posted:Erin O'Tool seriously looks like the dictionary description of a loving tool. It's so cliche but gently caress - look at that photo. What the gently caress is that. Dude looks like he's in his 60's and those clothes look like poo poo on him. Probably would with anyone. Who the gently caress tucks in a tshirt. Uh, that's my work uniform. Bit of a niche thing though: 1) Working around machinery like a rotating power take-off shaft on farm equipment. Everything gets tucked in, even my boots don't have laces. 2) I'm working way the hell and gone from other people, idgaf about how my clothes look, they're probably covered in dirt and grease anyway. I'm careful to change before I go into town. With the beard I look like a homeless person and I'm worried someone will give me some change to buy food. otoh, maybe I shouldn't worry - they get a warm fuzzy feeling, I get free coffee. And yes, I admit to being a tool-using tool.
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Aug 17, 2021 16:12
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pokeyman posted:When did the thread that calls Greens "Tesla Tories" decide that their voters will flock to the NDP? I'd like to know what the second choice among Green party members would actually be. When I was working on local campaigns a lot of the rank and file Greens I ran into were ex-NDP who didn't seem to have read the party's platform or put any deep thought into what our real environmental problems are. The actual candidates I've looked at are closer to the stereotype. I suspect the Greens are like the old Reform Party - if you're in the ranks it's what you want it to be. Hell, I would have gone Green except I read their platform.
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Aug 17, 2021 17:38
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infernal machines posted:The D&D CanPol thread is serious business, folks. Don't even think of making irreverent posts ITT, you must treat this very important election with the respect and decorum it is due. Wait, this is D&D? poo poo, I think I'm lost. PT6A posted:I am going to draw a dick and balls on my ballot because I honestly don't give a gently caress any more and everyone sucks. Tempting, but... Kale posted:... remain absolutely petrified of some ignorant conservative culture warrior psychopath getting in and just declaring total all out war against anything remotely good, decent, intelligent and productive for society at large and just making a total loving mess out of things since that's basically what modern conservatism seems to be about. I admit I don't know much about Erin O'Toole other than he immediately looks like your cut and dry old white Conservative shithead politician to a T (and probably is), but if he's anything remotely like Andrew Scheer I don't want him anywhere near serious decision making powers over the course of the country. Same, that motivated me enough to register for a mail-in ballot. Hard to get excited about individual candidates when whipped votes, party discipline, and national leader campaigns work to homogenize everything and make the individuals in parliament irrelevant beyond the final tally. I'm sure though that if I'd continued working hard for the NDP and maneuvered my way in as a delegate to the national convention someone would have been interested in my opinions. As it is now, I receive little cards from my NDP MP with tick boxes next to questions like: "Do you agree with the other guy's plan to develop a new food source by grinding small children into paste or do you support Jagmeet's plan to give them all lollipops? Oh, and send us some money." Part of the problem is reading too many climate change papers. The IPCC report is a literature review on 10 year old data and it was out of date before the first leak. What's coming down the pipe is going to be very interesting and all of these people seem as prepared to deal with it as a Republican governor facing a pandemic. At least the wind shifted and we're not getting smoked out atm. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take a look at what Malm has to say about blowing up pipelines.
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Aug 17, 2021 22:34
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I'm going to start from the assumption you'd need to be bat-poo poo crazy to run as a Liberal in Calgary. Everything from there is just trying to stand out from the crowd.
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Aug 20, 2021 04:07
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Franks Happy Place posted:Not a prediction, it's still the less likely option, but... The tides are right. I hope. Unfortunately all I'm seeing are rotting fish carcasses, dog turds, and toxic algae. HackensackBackpack posted:There's also this. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA! If she gets more than a smattering of votes from dyslexics and lost Easterners it will be a very interesting election.
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Aug 20, 2021 07:22
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Gros Tarla posted:Very likely. This does nothing for the stereotype that Greens are not grounded in reality. Ah well, maybe the Green Socialists can rise from the ashes. ( as if that will ever be allowed to happen.)Arc Hammer posted:Lol Derek Sloan has apparently decided to run in Banff-Airdrie this year against Blake Richards. My understanding from Albertan friends is that Airdrie is the butt of endless jokes and the place you're threatened to be transferred to when you gently caress up. So, fits? I'm still stunned he's a Seventh Day Adventist. Granted, it was a long time ago I grew up in the church but the pacifist tradition was very strong on the West Coast. An SDA stridently defending 2nd Amendment gun murder rights is just  but I guess that's the magic of American evangelicalism.
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Aug 20, 2021 18:10
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DrBox posted:We have some PSAC represented people where I work and I've only ever heard it said like pee-sack. What is it supposed to be? "The Alliance". I mean, as a member of a another union I try not to offend my brothers and sisters but jfc pee-sack is right there. Just got an SMS survey from somebody or other for Elections Canada. Apparently I'm not as well informed about the voting process as I thought I was. (I know you can vote day of without being registered, but does that include being able to register at the same time? Am I over-thinking these questions?) I was delighted to tell them I'm voting by mail and don't expect final results until 3-4 days after the polls close. I am so looking forward to the media hyperventilating during that period.
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Aug 22, 2021 01:52
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Drunk Canuck posted:https://twitter.com/CBCOlivia/status/1429442216112664579 I'm sure that tweet is missing the hearty laugh everyone shared immediately after that statement. They did laugh, didn't they? Please, tell me they laughed... In other news, the hugely irrelevant Conservative candidate for Saanich-Gulf Islands is apologizing for helping spread the narrative that the George Floyd/BLM protests were just the barbarian tribe of Antifa taking the opportunity to loot and pillage. “I apologize for my insensitive remarks,” reads the statement from David Busch. “That’s not who I am as a person. " Dude, at this point in history yes, yes it is. ed: should include this choice quote as well: "He then went on to say that he had experienced discrimination firsthand, as he had been verbally assaulted by passersby who, seeing him dressed in a police uniform for a movie shoot, had assumed him to be a real officer." 
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Aug 22, 2021 18:58
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HackensackBackpack posted:Hahahahaha holy poo poo. How did this person get nominated by the NDP? My guess is she was the only one they had who hadn't gone on Facebook with a profanity-laced rant about Stephen Harper when she was 17.
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Aug 23, 2021 03:52
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:How do I, a person who won't be able to vote until the election following this one, help the NDP rend the cons asunder? I am a computer toucher by trade and not able to canvass because I work stupid hours. It's there something little I can do that would help? My experience is limited and getting a bit out of date now, but it wouldn't surprise me if they need help doing data entry - mainly transcribing canvassers' sheets into their database. Call the local office and ask for the office manager - they'll know who to get you in touch with. There's also lots of running around on Election Day where they need bodies to run errands, transport people, and scrutineer at the polls but to doing that during a pandemic.
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Sep 4, 2021 15:58
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The only people I know who don't screen their calls have dementia. Still, they can vote so it's worth the effort I guess.
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Sep 5, 2021 00:43
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Typo posted:I just realized the BQ really really loving wants to get rid of the monarchy LOL I'm really interested in the idea that indigenous treaties are between First Nations and the Crown. Remove the Crown and the agreement is null and void (as opposed to "just ignored by one side"). Really curious if the BQ has thought out their clever plan here.
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Sep 13, 2021 05:40
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Feldegast42 posted:It seems like this is building up to a situation where Trudeau sending in the troops is the only real option Does Canada's military not have the equipment and expertise to extract large pieces of heavy machinery from swamps? Semi tractors on pavement should be a piece of cake. There wouldn't even be anyone lobbing explosives during the operation.
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Feb 5, 2022 03:45
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Lead out in cuffs posted:It is worth noting that a number of the convoy assholes have self-identified as "the fringe minority". I have also seen banners and flags on their vehicles with literal fringes. There's a judge (Alberta? My CanLII game is weak) who's written some hilarious takedowns of his sovereign citizen cases. Whereas other justices just dismiss these people with "All of this is gibberish that does not merit legal analysis" this one writes comedy gold in his judgements. Wish I could remember the name. Maybe someone can chime in? Somebody fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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Feb 12, 2022 18:24
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HackensackBackpack posted:I heard someone found the place she worked for minimum wage but when they asked the manager about her, the manager said she was "gone, gone, gone, she's been gone so long, she's been gone, gone, gone so long." I saw what you did there. Masterful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zN4JD9Dng
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Feb 23, 2022 04:45
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Mr. Apollo posted:I've received 2 text messages this afternoon from the "PC Ontario Fund" asking if the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario can count on my support in this year's election. Conservative database management system seems to be shite or the locals don't know how to manage database or all of the above. Like Microsoft Security I don't mind loving with them and wasting their time. brucio posted:CPC probably making GBS threads themselves due to this mandatory inquiry. Only if they think being linked to neoNazis is a bad thing.
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Feb 23, 2022 23:57
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Indolent Bastard posted:57 seconds 1.5 blinks. Just like a completely normal human adult male person. 🤖 I left the sound off and just watched his face. It was.. unnerving. Hope it's just my imagination running wild.
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Dec 28, 2022 03:44
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Another Bill posted:
Sounds interesting and highly plausible. I shouldn't ask (I'm pissed off enough at the world atm) but any documentation?
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Sep 20, 2023 18:03
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Another Bill posted:Another Ontario cabinet minister, Monte McNaughton, just resigned his office. A lovely thought. And thanks for the links, I probably shouldn't read about Harper's political machinations before I've had morning coffee though.  
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Sep 22, 2023 15:51
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Mederlock posted:Who wants some more good news! We had Canada Post forward my mother in law's mail to us after she died. Removed the forwarding label and wrote "deceased" on the outside of the forwarded envelopes then dropped them back in the mail so the senders could delete her from their databases. We're now getting letters from those same businesses addressed directly to Mom at our address. Looks like our suspicion about Canada Post selling the new address was correct. Wouldn't piss me off so much if snail spam was compostable.
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Sep 23, 2023 02:32
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kaom posted:
It does, but I think the only time it came close to working was persuading an MLA who'd been sock-puppetting in the local newspaper (wtf is a "newspaper"?) to resign. "Some local rag" posted:
I don't think Reitsma won on his last attempt at the mayorship. I tend to ignore Parksville unless I'm driving through while the MAGA hatters are out protesting in favour of pipelines or viruses.
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Sep 26, 2023 21:25
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vyelkin posted:You should read this academic article on this subject, which is freely available: https://www.academia.edu/1908894/_T..._3_2012_329_368 Thanks for posting that. It led down some depressing rat holes, but such is history I guess.
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Sep 26, 2023 21:29
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