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I'm a Canadian who just finished a business trip to the Midwestern US.

I was amazed at the number of signs for Republicans imploring voters to save America from communism by voting R.

I think it's beyond time that Democrats call them fascists, because Republicans fucking are, especially since the other common signs I saw talked about the radical groomer trams agenda.

This show is just so good.

Stupid and juvenile, yes, but it’s a love letter to fans in a way that only SNW comes close to being.

The village is antithetical to capitalism.

True.

I think the reason the federal Liberals even ran with Trudeau--instead of another technocrat like Ignatieff--is that the NDP under Layton scared them shitless. They were, for the first time in their history, looking down the tubes at irrelevancy. If the NDP got traction, they (the Liberals) would stop being the default ABC choice.

Especially the NDP inroads in Quebec. That was scary.

They'd already seen this happen in Alberta, and it was well under way in other provinces. They needed Trudeau or someone like him to shine them up, or they'd be gone by the next cycle.

I am not sure Layton would be as good as people suspect: there's a big "die a hero or live long enough to become the villian" about his possible legacy.

He was a pretty good politician, and had a lot of charisma, but he was also responsible for toppling the Martin government despite knowing it would give us Harper. I wasn't the biggest Martin fan, but we were really close to some real improvements under Martin, and instead of leveraging that, Layton rolled the dice and the result was a lost decade for progressivism.

If I had my choice of recent NDP leadership possibles, post-Layton, I'd have opted for Charlie Angus.

It's by design: https://newatlas.com/bicycles/two-chain-buffalo-bike

The idea is that if you lose one chain, you can keep riding till you get somewhere that you can get it fixed. In places where infrastructure is iffy, this could be a life-or-death feature.

Line this up with the recent article about how the (very modest) capital gains tax isn't returning as much as was expected.

I think we can ramp up taxes on the wealthy a little more.

Of course, some of them will cry and threaten to leave. Let them go, someone else will step in and do what they do for less money. Keep in mind, these people do not, by and large, add value--quite the reverse, they skim off the value everyone else adds through their labour.

When they cry about a brain drain, let them. Don't be afraid to throw in a "don't let the door hit you on the ass", too.

I miss Tom Mulcair. He really was very good, but apparently people thought he was "angry" or somesuch nonsense.

And now we have petulant Millhouse as our next potential PM. Tell me about "angry Tom", again?

You know why we're at this stage?

Because citizens are sick and tired of being abused by criminals, and they're doubly sick of being told they should feel compassion for the people who steal their stuff, break into their businesses, assault them and/or spoil every park and public space.

Sure, we shouldn't do this specifically. But we should do something (housing, healthcare and--this is the unpleasant one--humanely incarcerating people who are an immediate harm to others and themselves) because doing nothing is going to eventually get us an electorate who will vote for Duterte-style methods.

Voluntary treatment sounds terrible to people who's goal is to help addicts, but literally everyone else doesn't care. They just want to stop being victimized, and telling them that it doesn't really work as well, well, it doesn't matter.

What's extra depressing is I'm sure governments won't spend money on this, either, since the problems of drug crime don't really affect rich people, the taxes needed to pay for a solution--housing, healthcare or incarceration--aren't something they'll pay.

It’s crab-bucket public relations.

If you drag everyone down to your level, everyone looks bad, or at least you don’t look as bad by comparison and the voting public loses confidence in the system in general, which tends to benefit fascists.

It sadly doesn't quite work right on KDE. You can get close: you can show an application launcher, or a exposé-like window overview, or a pager, but you can't show all of them at once in a way that's easy to work with between like Gnome does.

Heck, even Gnome regressed Gnome 40, as you don't get the vertical desktop overview any more. At least there's shell extensions that let me get Gnome 3's behaviour back.

It's a real pity, because I like KDE, and definitely the KDE apps, more, but the Super-key overview is no hard to quit.

Aren't these things trackable? Don't phones have an IMEI and can't they be remote-bricked if stolen?

I mean, police don't care, but Apple could render these useless if they wanted to.