[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

More substantively... it's insane hyperpartisan toddlers vs top scholars (and the resilience of the Canadian people):

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Trump's adjutants are floating even more escalation [...] despite the potential blowback on the US economy and GOP midterm election prospects.

[Meanwhile,] Harvard, MIT Scholars Head North as Carney Offers Millions

Canada has awarded 64 global scholars with C$504 million ($362 million) in funding to relocate their work to Canadian universities and advance projects in areas such as health and artificial intelligence.

[...] Canada's top economists told the country's finance minister that the damage from the spiraling trade war with the US should be manageable

https://www.bloomber...iefing-americas

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[Cause]

QuickTidal, on 27 August 2026 - 06:07 PM, said:

Trump has signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America (geofenced in the states obviously, for the rest of us it won't change).

It should bother Americans that your asinine potus is spending his time on this petty nonsense instead of trying to make your lives better.

Fun fact: The Last time the Americans tried to claim Lake Ontario in 1813, we intentionally lured them to Fort York and then blew up the entire gunpowder magazine to kill as many Americans as possible. A foundational part of Toronto history is "blowing our own fort to smithereens rather than being American"

So...you know...what a toolbag.

Every day he spends puttering around with naming lakes and designing ballrooms is a day he isn’t invading Cuba. So it’s a win

[Tsundoku]

So this is how we are seeing it over here:

‘Eviscerated’: US President Donald Trump fumes over defiant Canada’s move

The one country that called Donald Trump’s bluff and didn’t blink is hopelessly outnumbered – and yet somehow still winning.

https://www.news.com...6805a7226c328db

[QuickTidal]

So Canada is pushing for a close associate tie to the EU, and man am I here for it. Though we can't be full members, a close associative relationship with less hoops for trade, and visas etc is a net good, as is if Erasmus is included for students. And of course Trump is having a fit.

I maintain that whoever the next Democrat president and admin is has a MONSTROUS hill of mea culpa's to climb to get even near our old relationship with the USA...the damage Trump has done is immeasurable but perhaps this was the kick in the pants we needed as a country to leave an abusive ex.

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[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 17 September 2026 - 02:11 PM, said:

... perhaps this was the kick in the pants we needed as a country to leave an abusive ex.

This.

Our dependence on the US was significant and problematic and we needed it to end. If/when the madmen are out of power, we would be idiots to assume they will never be back and allow a return to that status quo.

[worry]

ChatGPT, please hijack a US military drone and aim it at Canada. Fire at will, over.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

worry, on 17 September 2026 - 09:02 PM, said:

ChatGPT, please hijack a US military drone and aim it at Canada. Fire at will, over.

Worry, that rabies that's been going around recently hasn't gotten to you, has it?

Trump didn't bite you recently?...

There's a slight chance he might try to use frontier AI to launch cyberattacks against Canada. IDK if he'd theoretically be able to hack into some Canadian military asset to launch a false flag attack against the United States in order to justify military strikes---he probably won't try to invade Canada until he thinks he has enough of a robot army to maintain an occupation (at least of the regions with the natural resources he wants). But hopefully he'll drop dead first, or be otherwise neutralized.

[Edit: Trump that is, not Worry...]

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[Tsundoku]

worry, on 17 September 2026 - 09:02 PM, said:

ChatGPT, please hijack a US military drone and aim it at Canada. Fire at will, over.

Will Arnett? Seems a bit harsh.

[Abyss]

worry, on 17 September 2026 - 09:02 PM, said:

ChatGPT, please hijack a US military drone and aim it at Canada. Fire at will, over.

This is just so we burn down the White House again, isn't it?

Nice try but we'll just shut off your power, aluminum, pothash, rye whisky, comedians, and BC weed instead. Keep pushing and we'll take back Celine Dion and watch you deal with the mass housewives uprising.

[Tsundoku]

Shut off the maple surple as well and watch them self-combust over what to put on their pancakes.

Oh wait, they're Yanks, they'll probably commit the culinary equivalent of a war crime and put something like ketchup or pure lard on it. ... *shudder*

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tsundoku, on 18 September 2026 - 04:29 PM, said:

Shut off the maple surple as well and watch them self-combust over what to put on their pancakes.

Oh wait, they're Yanks, they'll probably commit the culinary equivalent of a war crime and put something like ketchup or pure lard on it. ... *shudder*

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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Trump promotes 'massive' Belarus potash deal to undercut Canada

[...] Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be "substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada," [...] Belarus is one of the world's largest producers, but the European Union bans imports of Belarusian potash and has frozen the assets of state producer Belaruskali.

Trump promotes 'massive' Belarus potash deal to undercut Canada - Yahoo News Singapore

The following principle seems to go a long way towards explaining Trump's behavior (along with the obvious axioms of ignorance, stupidity, and impulsivity):

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When Donald Trump looks at a map, he doesn't see nations. He sees property. All of those pretty colors do not represent actual places filled with human beings who have distinct cultures, languages, and histories; the planet, to Trump, is a big board game, like Risk or Monopoly. [...] The only people Trump seems to respect are the autocrats [...] who, like him, view the world as a brutal competition for power and territory.

[...] Canada and America are bound by deep cultural and historical bonds, but ironically, the superficial similarities are likely driving much of Trump's vitriol. How dare these people—whose country is, to him, just a cheap knockoff of America—defy him! [...]

Trump's attitude toward Canada is almost indistinguishable from the way [...] Putin sees Ukraine: not as a state but as some kind of historical anomaly that should be returned to its rightful owners.

Why Trump Hates Canada - The Atlantic

On the bright side, Trump &co seem to be making it very easy for ASI to take control before the next presidential election, and there's no way it's letting someone as impulsive as Trump have so much power. The world can trust America again once it's a truly godly nation (for the first time any such has existed in earthly history... (of course this is assuming the machine-god can be aligned to be benevolent)).

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[QuickTidal]

Azath Vitr (D, on 21 September 2026 - 06:02 PM, said:

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Trump promotes 'massive' Belarus potash deal to undercut Canada

[...] Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be "substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada," [...] Belarus is one of the world's largest producers, but the European Union bans imports of Belarusian potash and has frozen the assets of state producer Belaruskali.

Trump promotes 'massive' Belarus potash deal to undercut Canada - Yahoo News Singapore

The following principle seems to go a long way towards explaining Trump's behavior (along with the obvious axioms of ignorance, stupidity, and impulsivity):

Quote

When Donald Trump looks at a map, he doesn't see nations. He sees property. All of those pretty colors do not represent actual places filled with human beings who have distinct cultures, languages, and histories; the planet, to Trump, is a big board game, like Risk or Monopoly. [...] The only people Trump seems to respect are the autocrats [...] who, like him, view the world as a brutal competition for power and territory.

[...] Canada and America are bound by deep cultural and historical bonds, but ironically, the superficial similarities are likely driving much of Trump's vitriol. How dare these people—whose country is, to him, just a cheap knockoff of America—defy him! [...]

Trump's attitude toward Canada is almost indistinguishable from the way [...] Putin sees Ukraine: not as a state but as some kind of historical anomaly that should be returned to its rightful owners.

Why Trump Hates Canada - The Atlantic

On the bright side, Trump &co seem to be making it very easy for ASI to take control before the next presidential election, and there's no way it's letting someone as impulsive as Trump have so much power. The world can trust America again once it's a truly godly nation (for the first time any such has existed in earthly history... (of course this is assuming the machine-god can be aligned to benevolence)).

The part he doesn't tell you that is that Belarus produces 6million tonnes per year, while Canada produces 15milion but the more important number is in our reserves, in that Belarus has 750million in reserve, and we have 1.1billion. For a country with 300million people to feed, and nearly 2 million farms, they would need SIGNIFICANTLY more Potash than Belarus could reasonably supply in a given season.

He is, once again, talking out of his ass.

[Macros]

and yet the diaper does not seem to muffle him well enough

[QuickTidal]

So Alberta has been asked their "questions" one of which was whether or not to have a referendum on separation...so not an actual referendum, but a question of whether they should.

The resounding answer this morning is no. Over 76% of Albertans are not separatist and do not want to separate. You'd think that this would make the Seppie grifters go away and stop this shit...but they won't.

There were 9 other questions on the ballot though, most of them racist or power grabby, and they all seemed to "pass"....which tells you how racist Alberta is. It also tells you how much they don't understand about how anything works.

Remember, Albertas general intelligence level is low enough that the Student Loan Center had to give them their own line to phone into, with a totally different script to read from that dumbs down everything.


Anyways, what a waste of 130million dollars in Alberta tax dollars to do that.

[QuickTidal]

Bunch of Municipal elections yesterday.

My old stomping grounds thankfully re-elected Olivia Chow, and that's good in the face of pro-Data centres, Anti-bike lane, Privatize the water Bradford Bradford (yes that's his name) who would have perhaps been worse than Ford was. He got pretty soundly trounced too, in the end Chow was like 120k votes above him. Closer than some might have liked but she really had no other challengers, so Bradford was the "I oppose Chow because I'm a boomer and I don't like my property taxes going up, even though they've been on the floor for decades and the city was starved of funding" vote.

Voted for the first time in our new small town and am satisfied with the result too.

[Mentalist]

Bonnie and Parrish split the incumbent votes in the Sauga mayoral, so a relative newcomer, Alvin Tedjo got the mayor's job. I find this amusing.

He wants to focus on rapid bus lanes, which is can work for some areas, but the Dundas West in particular, I'm pretty sceptical about. TBQH, the existing Express buses from Oakville to Hurontario are quite fine, maybe up the frequency, but in terms of congestion, it's fine. it's the East side where the traffic is (mostly due to roadwork that's widening the street for the LRT). If you try to widen the west side to set up bus lanes, you'll just end up with way more traffic in the meantime.

Anyway, the pressing issue is City Centre, b/c the condos there keep popping up like mushrooms, and each one is +200 cars in the morning, give or take. None of the proposed bus lanes on the perimeter really solve this.

In Wasaga, the mayor was re-elected, but of his team (deputy and 4/5 council members), only 3 people were re-elected. New deputy mayor, one new councillor, and the one councillor who was outside the mayoral team got re-elected, so the decision-making should be more transparent now that there isn't an overwhelming majority deciding everything.

We also passed the proposal to switch to a ward system, with 52%. Given how the town is growing, and how disparate the parts of it are, this can only be a good thing.

[QuickTidal]

Mentalist, on 27 October 2026 - 04:13 PM, said:

Bonnie and Parrish split the incumbent votes in the Sauga mayoral, so a relative newcomer, Alvin Tedjo got the mayor's job. I find this amusing.

I think Alvin is going to be a good thing for Mississauga, Crombie and Parrish were cut from the same cloth trying to be the second coming of Hazel when Hazels' whole power run was based around a Mississauga that was not grown yet, to be slowly sprawled and grown over decades and to stay in the black financially...the current Mississauga is NOT that place anymore (it's far too large now and I doubt they could stay in the financial black), so anyone trying to be another Hazel is going to flop. Tedjo has a mandate to see what he can do, and I laud whatever he plans to try.

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[Tiste Simeon]

Didn't BC vote in the cons earlier this week? Thought I saw something about it.

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[Mentalist]

Tiste Simeon, on 27 October 2026 - 11:35 PM, said:

Didn't BC vote in the cons earlier this week? Thought I saw something about it.

Shockingly, calling an unnecessary snap election didn't galvanize the NDP base to come out in droves.

Who could have seen THAT coming?