TotallyHuman

Some people are starting to shift their opinions on it, but jokes about men being raped (especially in prison) are weirdly accepted.

Yeah. And it's perfectly acceptable to legally require people in government jobs to be respectful -- a teacher who used racist language would also be fired, and rightly so.

Via is a crown corporation, though, so aren't the profits also socialized? Correct me if I don't understand how crown corporations work.

It puts an enormous amount of weight on two specific muscles. Those muscles are not meant to bear much weight for extended periods, so pain continually increases. There can be temporary damage to the muscles, but permanent damage can't really happen, so it's ideal for torturing people when you don't want any evidence.

Remember this moment the next time someone says that business people deserve wealth beyond the wildest dreams of avarice because they "took a risk".

Housing and food prices are complex market-driven issues that require a careful approach and messy compromises. Pharmacare can more or less be implemented with the stroke of a pen, if the political will is there. Going after easily solved problems over bigger but harder problems makes sense to me as a strategy, both in terms of politics and in terms of actually doing good.

Sending emails threatening to kill people is a crime, though she may or may not be prosecuted for it.

I was in the counter-protest in Edmonton and it was a chaotic mess. We need to get organized soon and we need competent people to organize things. I don't know where to find those people though.

It's not about bothering the politician. It's a political attack, designed to score political points. And the thing about political attacks, especially cheap ones, is that the person you attack can try to turn it around and make you look dumb. Trudeau calculated that calling his attackers out for their cheap shots would hurt him more than it would help, and he was probably right, since mocking aesthetic qualities is generally socially acceptable when the target is male. Anderson calculated that defending herself, and in so doing making her attackers look sexist and stupid, was the best move in her position, and I suspect she was right.

Rimworld is awesome. But I guess I was thinking in terms of "all crops" being one type of food source. In Rimworld, you can't get multi-year droughts that make growing anything almost impossible. In real life, you can.

New Brunswick tried to use it to mandate vaccination in schools, but the law didn't pass. In Saskatchewan, they briefly used it to override a court ruling that held that the government couldn't provide funding for non-Catholic students to attend Catholic schools, but the case was overturned on appeal so the notwithstanding clause became moot.

Interesting! I didn't know that, but it makes sense.