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The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde. It’s… Okay. Not that great to me, but I’m not a fan of villains chewing up the scenery.
It’s pithy and innocuous though, and not without its charms so I’ll definitely finish it.
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde. It’s… Okay. Not that great to me, but I’m not a fan of villains chewing up the scenery.
It’s pithy and innocuous though, and not without its charms so I’ll definitely finish it.
Yeah, my Loblaws boycott is about three months old, but I’ve been boycotting Walmart for 20+ years
Just finished Cordwainer Smith’s “Norstrilia”, which was kind of a charming but innocuous mess.
Now started Alfred Bester’s “The Demolished Man”, which is decidedly not good, though it’s old school fun
Oh, just what Loblaws needs right now, more good press
"The greatest overriding challenge Canada now faces is that for ten years incomes have stagnated.”
Yeah, try 40 years actually.
“The numbers are one thing, right, but … the government’s approach here is their briefing essentially says there’s nothing wrong. I get there’s posturing, but this is actually quite dangerous posturing on the side of the government.”
Absolutely hitting the nail on the head. This is something that isn’t being properly discussed anywhere in society; how many billions does a billionaire need before a billionaire has enough billions?
If enough is never enough, then that’s not sustainable, it’s not healthy for our civilization, and they’re absolutely suffering from a form of mental illness that requires social intervention. If a trillion is the number before they’ll actually be satisfied; then they need to adjust their goals.
Dare I say it: as long as there are camps full of homeless, as long as people working 60+ hours a week and can’t afford both food and a place to live, as long as 50% of the population is one missed paycheck from going broke- there should be no billionaires.
Our economy is dysfunctional and serving the interests of the rich above everyone else. We need an adjustment before the tipping point tips us from untenable into chaos, because these current trends are leading us all into ruin.
Before the bread price fixing scandal broke, if anyone had asked Galen if they were manipulating the price of bread, he would have shown this same level of deflection and never admitted in a million years what they were doing. If we asked now if there were any other price fixing scandals waiting to be discovered, they’d deny and deflect regardless of the truth.
Now he just wants us to trust him, and take him at his word? This billionaire has given everyone zero reasons to trust him, and many reasons to do the opposite.
In it 100%
They’re greedy AF
Very well said, and a vastly under-reported issue at the root of many of our civilization’s problems
Sad but true. When BoingBoing first started there were some nice long articles that would make it into the feed, proper journalism mixed in with the fluff.
Like for example, https://boingboing.net/profits_of_fear.html
Things just kept getting more “short form” until I stopped visiting entirely. Damn shame
Nice! I’ll be starting that series at the end of June. Last summer was a Wheel of Time summer (and autumn), this year: Malazan!
Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor, book 4 of the Bobiverse. Had Covid last week (for the 4th time now) and read books 1-3 in three days flat. Good series
When asked whether his government would require porn websites to verify the age of users, Poilievre gave a one-word answer: “Yes.”
He didn’t offer further explanation, and his office quickly followed up with a clarifying statement asserting that the Tories don’t believe in the imposition of a digital ID.
Sooooo a pop-up that says “Are you 18 or over? Yes / No”?
Or will he decide that Yes, digital IDs are something we believe in afterall?
Nice dream