And yet he’s on course for a landslide election victory. I don’t understand people.

Conservatives in many countries have realized that since their political program serves the few at the expense of the many, it is inherently revolting to most people, so they can only win support by deceit and distraction.

40.8% of the 43.5% that bothered to vote in 2022. So about 17.7% of the voters.

overnight there’s now hundreds to thousands of people who want to drag you out of your home and lynch you in the street, all because you “committed” the “crime” of being born.

I didn’t follow this bit. Who are the hundreds of thousands of people calling for the great grandchildren of Nazi war criminals to be dragged out of their homes and lynched?

It’s not so much that they voted him in, as that they didn’t bother to vote him out. Turnout was 43.53% in the last election.

All institutions have a tendency to become complacent and self-serving over time. This kind of scrutiny and pressure from outside is necessary to interfere with that tendency.

As is often observed, liberals (of the political philosophy, not the party) are always far more ready to align themselves with fascists than with the left, despite their sometimes leftish words.

AI facial recognition systems cannot tell most people of colour apart. According to one study, the error rate is the highest for Black women, at 35 per cent.

For the most part the hype around “AI” is just annoying, but here it’s actually dangerous. I don’t expect most police officers would know or care that this is not a precise and accurate technology, if it gives them a quick and easy way to find and arrest suspects.

Is this the Liberals deciding, a bit late in the day, that the best way to take on the Conservatives is to imitate them?

The clause has never been used at the federal level. But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party currently enjoys a sizeable lead in opinion polls, has said he would use the notwithstanding clause to advance his preferred criminal justice policies — to, for example, impose sentencing standards the Supreme Court said violated Canadians’ right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment.

Ah, Conservatives. They never tire of doing the wrong thing in their quest to hurt the right people.

Are there any new cars that don’t phone home?

One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built.

Fast forward to today, and Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.

I wonder how much money has been wasted compared to just going letting the original projects go ahead as planned.

Trudeau reaffirmed that his government and the Liberal party “are proudly pro-choice, and always will be.”

That’s great, but it’s the Conservatives we’re worried about, and it looks like they’ll be in government soon.

People say that, but there will still be lasting catastrophic effects from this extinction event. We are most of the way through the time Earth can support life, and the impact of the extinction we have caused will last through much of the remaining time.

While bringing the dying planet closer to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies

People engaged in something immoral often use “There’s no law against it” as a defense. If you have to resort to that, it’s time to reconsider what you’re doing.

I once stopped in urgent need of a toilet at the dirtiest little gas station in the middle of nowhere, where the one guy on duty directed me out back to a foul, stunningly filthy toilet. After doing my business I arose and, turning to face the toilet, flushed. It was an old flush mechanism where the water just kind of fell in from all sides, causing a kind of trapped tsunami to eject a single drop of fresh poop water 7 feet up in the air and down straight into my mouth.

If my many decades of life have taught me anything, it’s to close my mouth when flushing or scrubbing the toilet.

It also helps you gauge the poop’s internal temperature using the back of your scrote, if you are endowed with fairly loose balls.

And to savour the undiluted aroma.