Yardy Sardley

A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Yup. I’ve never really felt compelled to steal anything at all in my life, but I found some silverware like this at a restaurant one time and I don’t think I had much of a choice.

    Once I felt that ideal shape in my hand, with the perfect amount of heft distributed exactly as it should be, I knew I could never go back to using regular flat silverware.

    The waiter caught me trying to clumsily hide the one set, and then he brought me a second one to take home as a gift. It was one of the nicest things, I’ll never forget it.


  • She seems to have only the best intentions, but I can’t help but feel a little creeped out. She’s using a psychological trick to leverage this man’s trauma in order to get him to behave in a certain way, and she’s doing it without his knowledge or consent. I think that’s dishonest at the very least, and I don’t think building the foundation of your relationship on calculated manipulation is going to lead to a good outcome.

    I’d even go as far as saying her emotional intelligence creates a power imbalance in the relationship, which she is deliberately exploiting.








  • Yeah, 132 avenue is really critical to the provincial road network. /s

    The scale of stupidity on display here is honestly humbling. He’s talking about a 2-lane residential collector road. It’s literally 5 blocks away from a freeway the city just spent a billion dollars expanding. Don’t know how to merge? No problem! There’s an 8-lane monstrosity with traffic lights 5 blocks in the other direction. As you can see, the road network in that area is already massively overbuilt. The concern over losing driving lanes/parking spots is ridiculous in general, but to try to apply it to this road is so preposterously disingenuous, it verges on parody.

    I would also like to add that the province of Alberta withheld over $100M in disaster relief from Jasper because the town wouldn’t commit to building single-family detached housing. Just to give you an idea of how far they’re willing to go to own the urban libs.






  • Classic conservative governing — opting for reactionary, authoritarian solutions to problems they themselves created through deleting all of the existing preventative solutions that were 10x more effective.

    Also, in the CBC article about it, there’s this line: “a patient won’t be able to refuse medications that the commission has decided they will take to treat their addiction.” How the hell does that jive with the right to decide over all medical decisions that Smith recently amended into Alberta’s constitution? I find it pretty strange that they keep writing legislation restricting who this right applies to.