Sure but who said anything about picking wild flowers just to waste them? I propagate wild flowers in my back yard to help native pollinators. They also visit my vegetable garden! I love to see all the different bees and hoverflies!

Wait, why are vegans against picking flowers? Broccoli is a flower! It needs to be picked before eating!

Yes, that’s the plot of HG Wells’ The Time Machine. The rich evolve into beautiful but helpless and mindless little doll-people. The poor evolve into ugly, cunning, mechanically-inclined troglodyte people who hunt and feast on the doll-people.

The model for this stuff is Vladimir Solovyov’s show.

That’s not enough in politics, sadly.

Politics is war by other means. It’s every bit as complex and strategic, it’s just not as obvious.

The NDP has been lost in the wilderness as a party for a long time. They’ve spent far too much energy and credibility complaining about vote-splitting and electoral reform. They haven’t done the serious work to present themselves as a credible alternative to the Liberals, the way Jack Layton did.

That’s over 2 terabytes of adults! That’s a lot!

They can’t give him someone else’s seat. They can ask someone else to resign their seat and he can run in a byelection for that seat but the prime minister (Carney) can wait up to 6 months before calling the byelection, which itself can have a campaign period of up to 50 days.

So if Carney wants to, he can keep PP out of office until at least next year.

The other cool thing is that PP is no longer eligible to occupy Stornoway House, the residence of the leader of the official opposition, since PP no longer has a seat. This means he has to move out and he loses access to the $200k year budget for household staff. So he’ll have to get out there and look for housing like the rest of us plebs (though he can easily afford it).

The cartridge is likely bad. They get clogged up with lime scale over time and start to perform worse and worse. Either replace the cartridge or the whole faucet itself.

As of 4:54am today, PP’s losing by 3793 votes with 264 out of 266 polls reporting.

There are 105,889 registered voters in his district of Carleton with 83,756 valid votes counted and reported. That leaves only 22,133 potential votes remaining. However, many of those are likely no shows (turnout is never 100% in Canada).

Wow love this. Makes me want to play a Game Boy sequel to Kerbal Space Program!

Oh wow yeah. Like nails on a chalkboard!

Wow! I use 200g for 2 people and I thought I was using a lot!

Good take. That’s the only way I can get any wholesomeness out of the comic. Otherwise it just feels awkward and bad!

Honestly this every time I read ACX posts on Al risk/trajectories.

Shopping cart wheels here only freeze for one reason: crappy bearrings that get jammed up when people run through pools of spilled grape juice and maple syrup.

In my experience, green/metallic beetles are bad news for gardeners. They lay eggs on your plants and the larva destroy them!

Oh yeah. They proved that with their expert handling of the toilet paper shortages during COVID!

No, there are many circumstances in between.

My grandparents both lived in a retirement home for the last few years of their lives. My grandfather died suddenly but my grandmother did not.

My grandmother had a long, gradual decline with dementia. We visited her often and took her out of the retirement home for tea. Her accommodations there were very nice and our family would visit several times per week (grandma had 6 adult children). We would have lunch there and the food was very good. Her dementia meant she could not remember people visiting her but she was not unhappy. She was always happy to see us!

I’m so sorry your grandmother faced miserable circumstances. In Canada we now have legal MAID which I am a supporter of. No one should be forced to live in constant pain without a choice.

Economic crises drive political crises. The trend towards far-right authoritarianism is a global one. People under stress (of many different sorts) favour authoritarianism for some reason.

The pathogen-stress theory of authoritarianism is fairly well studied and has proven robust. There’s similar support for theories of economic stress and poverty driving support for authoritarianism. Population declines can be a major source of economic stress due to the way older generations need to be financially supported by younger workers.

Degrowth supports UBI. Isn’t that a form of passive income?

People eventually retire whether they want to or not. Their body breaks down and they can no longer work. These people need some kind of support or they’re going to die in miserable circumstances.