wise_pancake

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My support has coalesced to the NDP this election, but frankly I’m not feeling motivated by the parties.

The Conservatives need a swift kick to the nuts though for refusing to campaign in Ontario except shitty tv ads.

No costed platform (again), no media interviews, and the only promise is “if just you give us another majority we’ll fix the problems that we let fester through 9 years of majority governance”

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Mine has been going to Mexico instead.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Why is this the same image twice?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Love this community, I’m learning about a ton of new Canadian things this month

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Are there any more details for this?

We will freeze income taxes for the 98.2% of Ontarians making under $220,000 a year.

Are we talking just increasing top bracket, more brackets, wealth tax?

Link to the PDF of their platform

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Montreal smoked meat slaps too.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago

Also predates social security. It's the long con for sure.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Side note: Is Hannity doing the Donald Trump toddler with toddler dance?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Why did you do this?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everything listed is exactly what I want for Canada – I would add that we're massively underinvested in turning Canadian research into technology products, and that is our biggest laggard behind the US. I'm a strong believer that the more we invest here the more opportunities that creates, and that creates more tax revenue and ability to fund more services.

I do agree with you though. I'm not looking for tax or major service cuts. I pay a higher marginal tax rate, but I don't really care that much as long as living in Canada is as good as it should be.

I would like to see our tax system revisited, especially for people earning more than $750k per year. With the current US climate and tensions this might be a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to make major reforms with minimal risk to our economy (agains the argument "the rich will all just leave").

The US is in a race to the bottom for corporate welfare and tax cuts, there's no point in competing because they're willing to throw their people into the meat grinder for it. We have stability, an educated population, and a massive wave of national pride that we can leverage to attract and grow companies/talent/careers here at home. The nets open for us to take some shots at real change.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

It baffles me that a "news" site with a storm trooper helmet is treated as a source in that tweet.

T the irony of storm troopers being empire drones representing "freedom" of any sort.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A Charlie Angus/Mark Carney coalition government would go so hard.

Carney brings strong economic policy, and Angus brings deep knowledge of Ontario/Canadian resource communities would be epic.

 

I always liked these threads on the reddit community, so wonder if we should try them out here

I don’t know if we have critical mass here for weekly threads, but maybe it could help keep this community bubbling up and gaining members.

 

Transcript:

I know Mr. Carney is going to try to plagiarize my policies right before the election, policies he has long opposed. But don't believe a word. In just a few months ago, did you hear about this, Mr. Carney moved his company headquarters to New York, Donald Trump's hometown. Shifting jobs and investment into the U.S., just like Trump wanted.

He opposed pipelines in Canada while his company bought them in the Middle East. He supported Trudeau's carbon tax in Canada while he profited off of investing in coal in the United States of America. He put his profit before our people. Carney cashed in. Canadians lost out. If he wins, Canada loses.

But Canadians will win, and we will do it with a new bring-it-home economic plan. We will bring home our jobs, investment, and companies, and break our dependence on the United States. We will unleash a fierce free enterprise economy to bring home control of our economic future from outside forces. We will stand on our own two feet, be masters of our own destiny, and be in charge of our own future.

(transcribed by AI, paragraphs added by me)

 

I was out of town the last couple of days and we got a huge snowstorm. When we got home the hot water wasn't working.

I checked the unit, looked up the error code, the issue was the pilot not lighting. The cause was 4' of snow covering the entire exhaust pipe.

I shut down the unit, cleared the snow, built a snow barrier and slope to avoid drifts coming back, then rebooted the unit and it all works!

My sister-in-law is over and she was saying "wow, you're really handy", which is seldom true, so I feel very good tonight.

Plus my wife got a fun picture of me chest deep in the snow shovelling. I'm angling to get it a place on the fridge.

 

Hey all,

I got back from a few days out of town and my hot water wasn't working.

The ventilation was blocked by over 4 feet of snow that drifted alongside my house completely blocking the exhaust vent.

Make sure to do a walkaround and check your laundry and exhaust vents!

 

Every night before bed my cat either waits at the bathroom for me or runs into the bathroom at full speed for before bed bathroom time. If I’m up too late he tries to get me to go to bed to keep his routine.

Today he wasn’t there so I just went without him.

After I came out he sat at the door staring at me meowing. My wife convinced me to give him fake bathroom time, so I went to the bathroom and sat down and pet him for a minute or two then left.

Except when I left he just sat at the door, clearly knowing it wasn’t real bathroom time. He’s being yelling and howling since and refuses to come to bed now that I’ve broken our ritual.

 

What are your suggestions for email providers, domain registrars, GitHub, etc. That can either be self hosted or is hosted outside the US?

 

Hey all, things are getting tough out there so I wanted to seek out what your tips are for getting a little more value out of cooking

My tips:

  • I throw all my vegetable trimmings into a freezer bag for stock later
  • Breaking down a whole chicken can be cheaper than buying specific cuts. This varies a lot depending on the sales.
  • Save the drippings in your pan after cooking meats. I put them in containers and label them, then use them for flavouring or roux
  • This one will sound weird, but I smell the potatoes at the store. After a while you'll be able to smell a difference in which ones will last longer.

In general I just try and find ways to use up all the bits of food that get discarded.

I'm still only a novice chef, so any of your tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

No tariffs now?

 

Just turned on CBC News Network Live and they were talking about how “by far” Melania’s hat is getting the most attention of the day.

I’m so tired of our media. Trump issued at least 26 executive orders, Elon did the nazi salute multiple times, Trump commented on tariffs… but we have to talk about this hat!

For what it’s worth, Wikipedia’s news section seems highly factual and not editorialized. It shouldn’t be this hard to get news though.

 

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964) on Tubi

This is what my brothers and I consider the weirdest Christmas movie of all time.

It's has some three stooges comedy, children working longing to work the factory, and a delightfully festive and unhinged plot, and is a scathing review of what the 1960's thought the future could be.

P.S. There's also a Rifftrax version which I have not seen.

P.P.S the movie is in the public domain!

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Maybe I misheard you guys, my universal translator matrix still needs to see more posts to adjust.

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