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For some reason, my work has devolved into working with our Canadian business, almost exclusively. And it all involves IT projects, contracts, etc., so more the bewildering to me. But, at least it gave me a theme for today’s links – so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
- Canadanians worry about Chinese EVs.
- You have to give them some slack, the Syrupeans are confronting the Big Issues.
- This is why when I hear “muh free healthcare!”, I tend not to listen.
- Man, I tried to find a story tying Switzerland and Canada together. I was shut out.
Music – you are own your own.
Comments are all yours and open.
Canada has some good things too…
Those were not the bags of milk I was expecting in a Canadian post.
You’ll notice she’s out in summer kitchen – probably in Florida.
I don’t think Neph was noticing anything but the bikini atoll.
The tattoo ruins it.
In this case, I agree. No one needs a twat tat.
What if it says slippery when wet?
She’s too young be a Bon Jovi groupie.
People think that health care in Canada is One Size Fits All, but it’s actually MAID to order.
That joke’s a real killer, Shpip.
SDF-7 with the assist.
Isn’t always the cure is worse than the disease.
I would have thought the range and battery efficiency would be the issues for any EV in Canada — but they’re probably only really worrying about the markets in the cities… screw their rural population.
Someday… somehow…. I will learn to close my stupid tags properly.
Ok, I will grant you those two good things about Canada.
Oh my…though the pubic tattoo is uh…concerning.
Possibly concerning, but I’d need to take a closer look to be sure.
I can’t make out what it says though.
Hopefully not:
“Over 1e+09 served.”
or
“You must be this tall to ride this ride.”
or
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
or
“Overflow capacity in the rear.”
I 💘 JUSTIN
“respect” lol…cannot make that up
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/14/article-1320609-0B9D672F000005DC-493_468x914.jpg
Nothing says “respect” like a tattoo above your privates. “Hey, my bush is down here! Well it was, anyway.”
Maybe she’s a Dire Straights fan, and it’s the name of her favorite song: Tunnel of Love.
Even Trudeau admitted – too late – that his government brought in too many people too quickly and is now belatedly trying to address the crisis by somewhat reducing immigration targets.
Eric Adams offered to ship a couple million Venezuelans to northern Canada, but Trudeau was having Nunavut.
It is always upsetting to middle aged men when their niagara shipments get delayed.
Man oh Manitoba, you’re are gonna be in trouble.
Yukon say that again!
And still there are people who think that China isn’t a house of cards ready to topple over at any moment.
They’ve been a house of cards since the 90s, yet they still haven’t toppled over.
In July 2021, Kennedy Stewart, then Vancouver’s mayor, proposed renaming Trutch Street, saying Joseph Trutch “was a racist and chief architect of policies causing immense and long-standing harm to First Nations people.”
Somehow I still live in a district named after a Confederate. A county named after a colonial governor. A state named after a monarch. A country named after a white guy. It’s difficult to get through the day.
At this point you just flog yourself all day long
They lost. Get over it.
You know what is an even more “significant act of decolonization”?
Giving all your stuff to your betters and moving far away.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s not get carried away here.
Things are so bad in Canada right now they’ve had no choice but to deplete the strategic maple syrup reserve in 2024 to a 16 year low.
Canada’s maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
Trudeau will probably be like Biden and refill it at much higher prices.
What a sap.
With prices going up, he’d better stop waffling and refill it soon.
Obviously a sticky situation.
Boy, you know that’s going to sap their national morale.
No way to sugarcoat it.
It’s going to pancake their economy.
Should we warn Richard in case they try to invade Vermont?
I expect he can face them down — he’s downright lionhearted.
We’ll trade them for oil.
That’s what they get for tapping that ash.
Sent too much to Ukraine?
Treacle down economics eh?
According to a City of Vancouver statement, the city is “taking the appropriate steps at the proper pace to execute this project in collaboration with our partners in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.”
This includes designing new street signs, planning and hosting pronunciation sessions for residents, developing a story about the colonial history of Trutch, and preparing notifications for local residents and businesses regarding steps they will need to take to change their address.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Keep in mind every one of those steps involves someone getting paid.
This
Only after the initial way over-bloated sum is filtered through NGOs to pay the right people.
“No.”
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1896651985341874497
Good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dc6Pre77AY
Probably won’t last, just a matter of increasing pressure on the little asshole to actually consider negotiating instead of fighting to the last Ukranian-who-isn’t-him with everyone else’s money (what he doesn’t siphon off)… but certainly works for me.
It will last until… some judge somewhere says we are required to hand them money because reasons?
For the life of me I can’t imagine the leader of a country so willing to just throw people’s lives away day after day when there’s a cease fire on the table. This is a special sort of insanity (or evil?) akin to TDS.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-hitting-brakes-on-flow-of-arms-to-ukraine-980a71d1?st=Jrx7WJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, damn… now I want the Department of Education HR folks to handle the next workforce reduction at my company…..
More seriously — this is fine by me. I believe I’m on record that I’d happily pay 3 years salary to every FedGov employee if we can be sure we eventually fire them, regardless of how much they’re working (for most — it will likely be as much as we got out of them in the PPP Admin… and for some, not having them there is a net benefit anyway). So go for it, folks.
Well — if we’re going to have Canadian links…
‘Chinese EVs’ – I have no words.
How did the Syrupeans (new word for me, I love it) wind up so far down the leftist lunacy road? WTF? Universal healthcare to me means eugenics, triaging people to the grave, plague and pestilence.
So their standard of living is circling the drain? I guess everything is going according to plan.
This isn’t far off from the rest of the Anglosphere. England proper has descended into near Nork territory. It is stunning. It is very depressing to me. We seem to be the only hope left. Maybe we can right the ship, we will see.
It’s been a laboratory for WEF ideology.
In Canada, a country where they achieve absolute zero temperature every year. A country where the nearest town is sometimes triple digits in America units away.
Canadia – Hint*
They are deliberately taking away your freedom of movement and they aren’t being very subtle about it.
I’m sure they stole the best tech.
Still not sure I would get into one.
I think I can set up a cinderblock pit cheaper if I need a barbecue.
Chinese EVs, are even worse than regular Chinesium.
I wouldn’t get in one
Stealing blueprints is one thing. Building quality machinery is another.
Yeah I was reading last night about ball-point pens for some reason and I think they said it was 2012 when China finally got a factory to turn out acceptable pens. They had been working on the machining for decades.
When you have built a culture of shortcuts, precision machining is exceedingly difficult.
I wonder what the reject rates are on the ball points they make?
Constitutional crisis!
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Sunday announced it won’t enforce the penalties or fines associated with the Biden-era “beneficial ownership information,” or BOI, reporting requirements for millions of domestic businesses.
Enacted via the Corporate Transparency Act in 2021 to fight illicit finance and shell company formation, BOI reporting requires small businesses to identify who directly or indirectly owns or controls the company to the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN.
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The rule was enacted to “make it harder for bad actors to hide or benefit from their ill-gotten gains through shell companies or other opaque ownership structures,” according to FinCEN.
In addition to not enforcing BOI penalties and fines, the Treasury said it would issue a proposed regulation to apply the rule to foreign reporting companies only.
President Donald Trump praised the news in a Truth Social post on Sunday night, describing the reporting rule as “outrageous and invasive” and “an absolute disaster” for small businesses.
Other experts say the Treasury’s decision could have ramifications for national security.
Trump is refusing to enforce will of Congress.
Unless the statute itself sets forth penalties and the reporting requirements for imposing the penalties, I don’t see how not enforcing the statute is refusing to enforce the will of Congress.
Unlike refusing to enforce immigration law.
At some point we need to stop listening to anything these people have to say. They can talk to the hand while we get on with overdue business.
make it harder for bad actors
What, it doesn’t even make it illegaler?
This is just like most gun laws – hey, I wasn’t doing this shit but you are imposing on me.
If it’s Canuckistani music, you want
Let’s beat that dead horse some more WSJ.
Just When We Need Them, the Media’s Credibility Hits Bottom
The Gallup Poll linked within the editorial is telling.
Trust in media has dropped precipitously in recent years, particularly among young adults and Republicans
These people learned the wrong lesson from “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
Say it more frequently and louder?
Sometimes you get the wolf, sometimes the wolf gets you?
Oh Daddy won’t ya take me back to Muhlenberg County?
President Trump signed executive orders to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands in the U.S., but wants to sidestep endangered species protections and other environmental regulations.
The big picture: Wildlife species reliant on undisturbed forests could face significant habitat loss, while expedited environmental reviews may reduce oversight on ecological impacts.
Driving the news: The executive orders that Trump signed on Saturday directs the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to expand timber production and calls for streamlining Endangered Species Act consultations to expedite forestry projects.
He’s going to clear cut Yellowstone and murder all the animals!
That should certainly drive the price of lumber down.
I’m gonna hold mine off the market and wait for the prices to go way up. Then I’m gonna clear cut, replant and wait another 50 years.
Ok, this one pisses me the fuck off.
Public land is being used as commercial timberland. It is publicly subsidized timber and distorts the hell out of the market. They aren’t really saving anything, they operate the land outright as commercial timberland. It is crooked as shit.
If for no other reason about 99% of public land should be given to the states to sell off to private ownership.
If we’re going with Syrupean bands… well, I like this song.
(h/t to Swiss for having me learn a new word today)
I think I saw a county fair once with a cover band for them with a Peter Falk impersonator as the lead.
Glass Eye of the Tiger.
LOL
There are too many Syrupean bands in my collection to choose just one.
The first executive order calls for considering new categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, potentially allowing more logging projects to bypass thorough environmental reviews.
It also seeks to reestablish exclusions for timber salvage and thinning, which could remove deadwood and other habitat structures critical for species like woodpeckers, insects and small mammals.
Won’t someone think of the spruce beetle?
And we wouldn’t want to make the forest less prone to massive wildfires.
But Randi Spivak of the Center for Biological Diversity told Axios that the order will worsen fire risks, drive species extinction, pollute waters and “destroy world-class recreation sites.”
toldclaimed without evidenceMy personal opinion on the matter is too long for just a comment. That is not entirely incorrect but I dont trust a watermelon no matter what they say.
Canadian music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZxt476ef4
@rhy, sorry I missed your answer. I was busy puking.
Too bad you can’t throw up on your Cunty Aunt.
Seriously, get well soon.
Oh, I wish. Srsly.
Sorry 🤮
Oh, but I found a bottle of Gatorade Zero in the pantry. THE ELIXIR OF LIFE!
Are you sure it’s not the Gatorade making you throw up?
I need a shower. Let’s see if I can do that without falling down.
No, I just started drinking it. I’m dehydrated and need potassium. I know things are bad when I start craving Gatorade.
Electrolytes huh – you better plant it.
That is not entirely incorrect but I dont trust a watermelon no matter what they say.
Kneejerk hysterical shrieking is not a compelling argument. These are the people who want to kill an entire “invasive” species of owl in the northwest to satisfy their zookeeper fantasies.
Ya’ll are making me think I’m living in a simulation.
I’m reading all about your Canadians and maple syrup strategic reserves. Meanwhile I’m watching this show with my wife about the great maple syrup heist in Quebec.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sticky
So far it is fairly entertaining.
Starship flight 8 at T-minus eight minutes and counting.
SpaceX has their 40 second hold on the Starship launch right now, in case you want to see how it goes.
It’s a go.
Nope, on hold again.
And it’s cancelled.
Well, Johnson just stabbed Trump (and the rest of us) in the back. He wants to just keep on keeping on with the fraud and abuse. They might take a look at what DOGE has turned up next year.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/johnson-backs-temporary-spending-bill-says-congress-should-codify-doge-proposed-cuts-later-5818678
This is my shocked face
-.-
He should have been removed long ago.
By whom? Face it, the GOP is as fractured as the Dems. Anyone who doesn’t think the Dems can win back the House in 2026 has forgotten history and is whistling through the graveyard. I’m drawing a blank on when it was, but at least once before in U.S. history, the House majority party ended up with a minority speaker because the majority party split.
Primary voters.
Veto.
Keep it up, dipshit. Next time Jan 6 will use actual rope.
Republicans make a Republican call. Whoodathunkit?
The American people are appalled and firmly behind what Musk is finding and recommending by an unreal margin so the R’s do what R’s do best: drop the fucking ball and lose the house in the mid-terms.
Brilliant.
It would be nice if we could figure out the real story here.
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility
She’s lying, but I bet INS is too.
If I was an exotic dancer, I wouldn’t want to try to enter Germany right now. They’re probably going to toss the first one they find in solitary and deport in case of tit for tat.
Rule 34 implies *someone* wants to see you as an exotic dancer.
Who that someone is, however, I have no idea.
We can’t have this.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/high-school-shop-class-revival-24d7a525?st=PdVCvd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And now I’m jumping back to my Japanese class after my break!
Wherein the “demand” was completely manufactured, and even if it weren’t, you’ve failed at the job of making college-ready kids.
American high schools began jettisoning shop class following the 1983 publication of “A Nation at Risk,” a federal report that urged high schools to raise academic standards.
Instead of high schools raising standards (and risk their funding by having underperformers drop out), colleges lowered theirs while high schools inflated grades and lied to every kid that they were college material. Now we have college “graduates” who are six figures in debt, armed with degrees that assure employers that said degree holders can do light office work.
For decades, shop programs were dogged by allegations that schools shunted students from low-income families into blue-collar careers, while well-off students headed to college.
Yes, assortive mating has been a thing for millenia.
The whole “self-esteem” industry really got rolling when I was a kid, especially as I was in “urban” schools. The slightest hint that a child might not in fact be capable of something was just unthinkable. Nobody wanted to say it, and nobody wanted to hear it.
Mammary Monday likes its women like it likes its shaving cream: thick, rich and slippery when wet.
https://archive.is/6hjDw
You need a Monday where the women are like how I prefer my coffee- cold, black, and half full of liquor.