Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.

I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he’ll have time to go out and discover it now.

Bezos is a sniveling coward.

Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable

Yes, this chart shows how it’s not a good result for anyone on the left (though much better than a Conservative government):

Source: National Post

Well at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.

But think of the constant, total surveillance opportunity for Apple, and how this could help them win favor and contracts from the fascist US government!

Certainly there’s a lot of strategic voting going on. But you don’t see the Liberal (centrist) seat count increasing as the NDP goes down: the gains are all with the Conservatives. If it were a matter of progressives deciding to just consolidate with Liberals, you’d expect to see the Liberal seat count go up as the smaller parties went down. To me this suggests either that some people are flipping directly from left to right or that there is a general rightwards drift, with right-wing Liberals going over to Conservatives and left-wing strategic voters filling in some of the gap they leave for the Liberals. In either case it’s concerning that when the Conservatives fielded their most far-right leader so far, their share of the seats went up.

Yes, we narrowly avoided going down the Trump route this time, but I don’t find this picture particularly encouraging (NDP, Green and BQ are the three most progressive parties):

Source: National Post

It’s not straightforward to understand that, since this is a chart of seats not votes, and you can get weird effects with first-past-the-post and strategic voting, but it certainly looks like the electorate is moving rightwards at the expense of progressives.

It’s not just younger Gen X. I’m oldish Gen X and loads of us were programming computers for fun from the late 1970s on. By the early 1990s you couldn’t really avoid computers, and you couldn’t use them without at least a basic level of understanding. By that time many of us had been using them for a decade or more. It’s those who grew up without computers (before they became common) and those who grew up with iPhones that have a problem with tech.

Not sure whether you’re joking, but no, the subject of “loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying” is “They” from the beginning of the sentence. Surprisingly, the whole thing hangs together grammatically.

I think it’s that, and also that he’s serious about annexing Canada. Whether he can convince anyone else to be serious about it is another question, but we shouldn’t get complacent.

I need to remind you that only people from USA can vote in the USA elections and that not everyone you’ll find online is from USA. Have a good day.

I was addressing my fellow Canadians, because the Canadian election is today. Ironically, it seems you assumed I was an American talking about the USA.

I think of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, masters of aimlessness, crisis and noise, firing all those experienced people who have been quietly and competently managing government departments for years or decades. This only looks like progress to fools.

Trump’s making the White House as ugly as the people within it.

Vote, everyone!

Vote!

Edit: I’m addressing Canadians.

President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.”

Responding to the polls, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday: “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”

It’s not an election, and I hurt myself reading that deeply moronic quote. How is this man in charge of anything?

The situation on Terf Island is pretty grim, but it’s a little encouraging if the British people are not mostly transphobic. All the British people I know are extremely sympathetic to trans people. I hope this really isn’t too unusual.

I think it’s more likely to be about the USA’s strategic control of the Arctic as the ice melts and ships can operate more easily. Right now it’s bordered by Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and a little bit of the USA. Trump wants all of the Canadian and Greenland coastline to be the USA’s, so Russia and the USA can effectively control the Arctic Ocean and its shipping routes, and threaten Europe from the north. This is something that’s so simple even Trump would think of it when looking at a globe.

Other factors include resources, including fresh water, and Trump’s ego and inability to relate to others except through more or less lame attempts at dominance and bullying. Also that Trudeau out-handshook him a couple of times.