I’m coming home to Canada—Canada just became the 1st nation on Earth to implement a national carbon fee & rebate policy (aka partial UBI)! Starting in 2019, it'll no longer be free to dump CO2 into the air anywhere in Canada, and that revenue will go directly to households in the form of a dividend check!
@Shadejackrabbit The more I think about it, the more I think having a majority government should be a rare event, when one party happens to be really in tune with the populace. Otherwise, you should have to work it out with multiple other points of view.
@thurloat 1) candy 2) annual societally-sanctioned indulgence of the Id 3) less earth-destroying consumerism than xmas 4) jack-o-lanterns allow far more creativity than xmas trees 5) no bullshit expectations to travel long distances in shitty weather 6) focus on family you chose rather than family you're born with 7) creative, humorous exploration of common fears, annoyances, and disappointments 8) candy
After the Bolsonaro victory tonight, I'm even more frustrated by the Liberals unwillingness to tackle electoral reform. It's crystal clear that FPTP + radicalizing technologies is leading us to a horrifying fascist future, and electoral reform is one of the few things that can help stop it.
If they get replaced by the conservatives next year, Canada will suffer and they'll have only themselves to blame.
You know how in Grease 2 there’s this apocalyptic feeling that all the dudes use to try and get women into their Cold War panic rooms? I feel like right now I don’t know why both the US and UK are not just undertaking an orgy of saturnalia in response to a world clearly gone mad
Ugh. I will be receiving this article for the foreseeable future, and while I love yelling at people for sending me dumb shit, I have things to do. In an effort to save time, I present
ONE DEGREE OF TRANSLATIONAL FREEDOM DOES NOT A BLOWJOB MAKE