Alberta voted in a government who ran on balancing the budget through the magic of oil prices. Only a couple short years later, all of our public services are in crisis mode and the budget is worse than ever before because the price of oil didn’t meet their projections. But hey, at least they got rid of that annoying photo radar thing, so you can let off some steam via road rage if the O&G market has got you feeling down. Bonus points if you run over any cyclists or trans kids.

Looking forward to 40 more years of backwards bullshit in this province.

Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there’s any drama going on.

Sometimes I’ll hit All/Scaled when I’m really desperate.

That’s the joy of hockey, even the best teams lose sometimes. Anything can happen, that’s what makes it so fun to watch. And that’s why they play best-of-seven in the NHL.

Canada definitely deserved to win, and I’m proud of how well they played against an unbelievably stacked US team. Once it got to overtime it was pretty much a coin toss.

You have to admit, even as a Canada supporter, Jack Hughes scoring that goal like 10 minutes after getting half a tooth knocked out is such an iconic moment for hockey.

Not to make excuses but Czechia did have 6 players on the ice.

Wow, someone should tell the City of Edmonton about this. Last year they eliminated physical parking machines in the city, and there is a QR code on basically every parking sign now. I wonder if anyone considered how vulnerable QR codes are to these imitation scams.

I assume they already have active countermeasures in place, but then again, online-only street parking seems rather ill-conceived to begin with.

2, so I can join forces with Marc Kennedy in going around the plane and telling everyone to fuck off. Then I’m gonna ask Ms. Freeland to help shove Danielle Smith into an overhead compartment.

I’m getting an “owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome” vibe

Maybe it’s a form of male birth control? I don’t imagine an array of IR lasers delicately roasting your nuts would benefit fertility.

Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.

I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.

Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.

So that’s the reason we don’t have an obvious #1 goalie this time around. Our national goalie factory is in Quebec and they’ve been slacking off over there.

If you’re not part of the solution…

In my cursory search of the web, it does not appear that gnome-software is available on mint, unless you fancy mucking around with PPAs and such. But there is good news!

Mint uses a desktop environment called Cinnamon, which is installable on arch-based systems and should be listed as an option in the CachyOS installer. And you can install the gnome-software package on top as well.

The whole project just seems kinda pointless to me as a fedizen. Canadian fediverse instances already exceed the vision of gander. The only principle differentiating this thing from the rest of corporate social media is the maple-flavoured nationalism.

I suppose it’s good that they dodged a couple of VC bullets, but, like, why do they need that much funding to spin up a fork of bluesky, y’know?

The joke being the word used to describe people who only speak one language is an abomination composed of both greek and latin. Definitely used as an insult, but it’s a clever one.

Although I seriously doubt OOP made that choice on purpose, so the secondary joke here is how they included a massive language blunder in the same comment as they were being a snob about languages.

“We had to make it harder for people to access preventative healthcare, it’s just too wasteful!”

We’re letting those preventable issues turn into real issues that put a constant strain on what precious little healthcare resources we do have, and it results in people dying in waiting rooms. I’m not sure how that’s less wasteful.

But hey, this a just another instance of conservatives doing and saying anything to wrest the healthcare system out of the public’s hands.

I rarely use planes, but I usually see them flying overhead multiple times a day.

Planes are a good answer. Commercial jets normally fly at about 900km/h.

Also satellites. Something in low earth orbit like the ISS or a starlink node would be going about 8km per second.

Poor monolinguals

I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke

I mean, you would think after the first day of getting a $250 ticket, the family would’ve done a little problem solving on their driveway situation.

Letting tickets pile up for over four years before checking to see if they stand up in court is a level of overconfidence that honestly makes it hard to have much sympathy.

Not enough action? The carbon tax had people foaming at the mouth for 5 straight years.

Meanwhile Carney’s climate policy is to ‘invest’ heavily in a technology that doesn’t work in order to offset the optics of doubling oil production.