To say that yes, things have been escalating. And Russia has been doing the escalating.

Russia has been:

• Trying to blow up airplanes in Leipzig.
• Diverting Ukrainian drones into neighbouring countries, flying some of their own in also.
• Hiring idiots through Telegram to do tasks for Russian intelligence, ranging from taking pictures of sensitive locations all the way to parcel bombings (sometimes the idiots get blown up too, massive win for Russia because then they don’t have to pay).
• Multiple occasions having battleships point guns at boats, fighter jets buzzing, intruding on airspace in the Baltic countries, basically whatever provocations they can get away with “I’m not touching your nose!” style.

Plus since 2022 basically Russian propaganda has been telling Russians that they are in a war with NATO / the West.

Approx 36,000 calories of potatoes alone, nice.

They can keep Big Diomede Island and eastward.

Maybe - hear me out here - engaging in stories tends to make you more empathetic? Movies, books, games, they all give you stories about other people. If you’re shown how to imagine what it’s like to be another person, you will probably end up being a better person.

All of those places aside from Gorky are the colonizer’s version of the name. It’s hard to unlearn but important to keep in mind the general rule: call a place by what the locals want you to call it, not by what the empire labeled it on a map.

I get it though, sometimes it’s really hard. Squamish is a lot easier to type out than Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.

There are billboards for Bell’s AI around and they are absolutely dystopic. “What if every diagnosis came with a second opinion” oh great, we’re gonna get AI slop to contradict trained doctors.

Here’s a song by the diggers

How is everyone on the bridge not worried about shrapnel? Just Russia things I guess.

I’d imagine it’s mandatory for an importer to have an address in Canada at least for their Canadian office. That label is like, legally the vaguest possible thing to say.

It would be good to have percent of value added for each country a product has been in. Cotton from Zimbabwe 25%, weaving in China 50%, screen printing in Canada 25%, for example.

As opposed to what? “Dumped on the Canadian beach by landing craft?”

Every macronutrient has to have its day in the sun, I guess. Maybe all the seed-oil-saturated-fat-tallow-is-good nonsense is preparing the ground for a new diet where 70% of your calories come from fats?

There’s a lot of obsession over protein, but most people don’t need a lot. 50g per day is a common recommendation, and it’s very easy to get that much without focusing on “protein source” foods. If you’re an athlete and especially putting on muscle then you need lots more. I have seen vegan bodybuilders out there but I suspect a lot of them build most of their muscle on a meat-heavy diet and then went vegan later.

I suspect a lot of the high-protein discourse and anti-soy nonsense comes from animal agriculture lobby groups (and the seed oil bullshit). High protein milk?? Just a way to charge 2x for milk which is already high in protein. Greek yogurt? Look at the ingredients, it’s yogurt with added whey protein - just buy Balkan yogurt for half the price and add your own protein powder. Your mixed nuts are high in protein? Yeah no shit, and potatoes are gluten-free and water has no trans fats.

Fitness is my slow hobby. Nobody is gonna get swole in 30 days. Not even in 3 years. The results pile up though. It’s like gardening but for my body. I started with an arid wasteland and it’s slowly blooming.

Yes, Loblaws, Sobeys and gang are gouging everyone.

But climate change is a big factor in rising food prices too.

Remember olive oil going up in price? Crop failure due to bad weather.

Orange juice? Disease due to climate change.

Coffee prices rising right now? Take a guess.

It’s only beginning.

Would be fucking funny if Turkey closes the Bosphorus to Russian shipping now.

I really don’t see why we can’t infill Toronto and Ottawa. Make single-family home builds illegal, only triplexes or bigger. Kill off parking minimums. Expropriate demolition-by-neglect sites and abandoned commercial property. Same thing with Peterborough if we want that built up. Building a metropolis from scratch usually ends up awful anyway, see Brasilia as a notorious example (in James C Scott’s Seeing Like a State.

Even worse.

To be serious, the new Alto high speed rail line will go through Peterborough. Could be that it helps spur some development there.

Nobody wants to live in Kingston, come on.