Octospider

Poilieve's campaign manager is an active lobbyist for Loblaws. Conservatives are way ahead in the polls.

Things are going to go from unaffordable to starving.

Do you remember when Sun Chips changed their chip bag material to a more environmentally friendly compostable material? People lost their minds. Why? Because the bag crinkled a lot. All of the boring late night talk shows made fun of Sun Chips bags. So, they switched it back to the old bags.

Moral of the story is that people don't care if something is better for the environment if it inconveniences them now. If everything was in cans people would cry because they can't close them or whatever. In fact, many items that were previously sold in cans are now plastic. Also, money... Cheaper to wrap water in plastic.

You can still buy Coca-cola in glass bottles if you look hard enough. But they are pricey.

I've found the term "independence" to be ambiguous when discussing Taiwan. Everyone knows Taiwan is effectively an independent state. But in practice, it is less clear where the government or people of Taiwan stand on the topic. For example, Taiwan has agreed to participate in the Olympics under an ambiguous name, Chinese Taipei. Which is purposively designed to appease notions of independence from China.

For me, it would encompass the idea of a formal declaration of the Taiwan state. Perhaps even renaming the country from RoC to Taiwan to further solidify that notion, which I think does not have popular support in Taiwan. In fact, the PRC has clearly stated that military action would occur if Taiwan "declared independence". So, instead of "declaring independence", I hear that Taiwan instead says "well, we don't have to declare independence, because we already are. So, we aren't going to declare it." Which to me sounds like: "We would officially and unambiguously declare independence, but we are afraid of what the PRC would do if we did. So, instead we are going to act like we don't have to do it because we already are independent.. even though we won't declare it". I don't know.. I'm probably just confused.

Some Millennials are now in their forties. "Now is the time?" Now it's too late. These generations have missed so many milestones. We don't need "progress in delivering policies" - whatever the hell that means. We need to afford a house, food, and other necessities for life. We want to start families of our own. At this point, we all know nothing will happen.

I've been burned before using crowdfunding. I'll believe it when I see it for sale, and then I'll get one

Your kid doesn't need a phone. If you want them to have a phone, then a flip phone that allows them to call you.

But, "nobody wants to work", "there's a labour shortage"...etc..etc..

It's almost like we can't survive when our capitalist overlords don't want to provide decent wages.

Every "Why?" question when it comes to the motives of business people and corporations in a capitalist system can be answered with:

Money. The pursuit of endless profit at the expense of everything else.

War is like really super profitable though. So, on one hand we could potentially save the planet.. but on the other hand we could get some short term profits. Tough call.

But, according to the government, "we have a labour shortage".

I doubt any of us could sit in a chair doing nothing for even 1 day without becoming restless without phones or other distractions. 4 billion years? Your brain would be mush. You'd have long forgotten your own name or even the concept of money.

If there's one thing I think of when I think RBC, it's "ethics". I do hope she gets a reasonable severance package. Perhaps a modest $10 million.