My guess is pressure-cooking, specifically with an instant pot (which is near BIFL).

If we do, this virus will make covid look like child’s play, apparently.

I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of cases that can be expedited without the need to drag them along.

The problem with our current justice system (at least in its current state) is that it HIGHLY favours criminals.

Rapists walking free, drunk drivers getting their fourth or fifth “warning”, people being arrested for crimes while breaching a previous court order, people murdering cyclists and getting off with a minor traffic ticket, etc.

With more judges, a more efficient process, and more Crown prosecutors, hopefully things will move along more quickly. That won’t happen unless our government gets their priorities straight.

Either way, victims should always come first; society second; criminals last.

What’s your calorie deficit per day? If it’s too much, you’ll constantly feel like you’re starving.

If you reduce your calories by only around 200 or so per day, the weight will come off in a controlled way, but without feeling like you’re not eating enough.

I lost around 30lbs earlier this year using a combination of calorie deficit and cycling. On long days riding, I’d often end up thousands of calories short, even while eating as much as I could. I never felt like I was hungry during those few months needed to reach my goal.

And the weight has stayed off.

I also used the advice found in Dr. Greger’s “How not to diet”, the audiobook version.

It has more about the courts not having enough judges or enough rooms to process every trial than the police.

Maybe we should get rid of court buildings and do everything virtually. If you’ve even been to a court, 90% of the time is basically wasted for everyone involved, simply due to how slow things are when you are in a physical building.

If we don’t modernize our justice system, we’ll never have enough judges or rooms to prosecute every criminal.

Maybe Dougie wants to explain why he’s able to find money to rip out existing bike lanes, or to build a FUCKING TUNNEL UNDER THE 401, but not have enough to make sure that our justice system moves as the speed of crime.

Kind of sucks that they have to do it indoors in November.

The one in Toronto is done outdoors while it’s still warm, and the atmosphere is way more festive than an indoor venue.

The majority of criminal cases in the province have ended with charges being withdrawn, stayed, dismissed or discharged before a decision at trial since 2020.

Meanwhile, 30% of my property taxes go to police services, and doesn’t matter in the end whether a criminal is caught or not.

Concerning, to say the least.

Consider this.

Trump is…a life-long conartist, a convicted felon, adulterer, rapist, womanizer, misogynist, racist, a twice impeached President, a guy who somehow had nearly a dozen close associates found to be guilty of crimes … Breathes

Someone who “gets along” with some of the most brutal dictators alive like they’re buddies, has been caught on tape describing sexually assaulting women, who has lied over 30,000 times in a span of 4 years, who has made threats against journalists, who has publicly mocked a disabled person, who has publicly shat on veterans, who criticised a POW for getting caught… Breathes

A guy who denied COVID, who promoted unproven treatments while condemning those who wanted to safeguard public health, who rambles incoherently about topics he has little to no grasp on, who thinks everything he does is “perfect” and "nobody has done a “better job”, is in obvious mental decline, has never admitted to being wrong or apologized for anything…

And so on!

Now, would you invite someone like that to dinner? Or have him work in your small business?

Probably not. Nobody would, not even if they were related to such a person.

Why then, would over half the voting public stake the future of their country on giving him a second term as President?

You don’t have to like Harris, or even agree with most of her policies, but she is not a trainwreak of a human being and would most certainly be a better person for the job. Any job.

As a Canadian, to know that a garbage heap of a person like Trump could be freely given excessive power by the voting public only tells me that it could happen in Canada, even if the alternative candidate was 1000x better in every way.

North America, and democracy as a whole, seems doomed. And with rich idiots, podcast morons, and domestic terrorists actively supporting a candidate like that, I worry about the future stability of our global community. And we aren’t even close to being prepared for what malicious use of AI could do during an election.

It takes far more effort and time to build a peaceful, balanced society. And less than four years to completely dismantle that progress.

Because when a new Government has to put them back in, this current Government’s supporters can say “see, they’re just wasting money!”.

Literally creating a problem for someone else.

Just let them take it out and see how much it impacts traffic and let the provincial government stew on those results at election time.

The problem is that we already know how it will impact traffic: it will get worse, a lot worse.

The real issue is what will he go after next? Sidewalks? Removing streetcar and bus priority lanes?

And when that fails? What comes after that?? Remove buildings? Stores?

This madness will only get worse, because the root cause of traffic congestion (people driving) isn’t being addressed, and won’t be with Ford calling the shots.

"Oops, we accidentally hit the sewage line, Mr. Premier!’

I doubt high speed rail is a viable solution between Vancouver and Calgary.

Yeah, that route would suck for anything land-based. Flights are around $100, and would get you there in 1/10 the time that driving would.

But you wouldn’t build high-speed rail lines for routes nobody would take. I don’t even think Via rail has a station in Calgary… Edmonton, yes, but Calgary is on its own!

The combined fentanyl and precursors seized at this facility could have amounted to over 95,500,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl…

Wow. How many doses does an actual pharmaceutical company produce?

I saw it last night. As a huge fan of the first one, I guess my hopes were high.

It looks, cinematically speaking, really good.

But as a musical? WTF? I had to force myself to watch it to completion. If it wasn’t a continuation of the first one, I wouldn’t have even bothered.

In fairness, I generally can’t stand musicals. And even if they featured my favourite movie characters, I’d still struggle to sit through them.

I think they could have a fantastic movie if they just continued with the same style as the first.

You would think, but a fair amount of people I talk to in the 40+ do not want to change and actually are opposed to change.

I’m in that group, and I have no problem seeing positive changes happen. What’s the point of being resistant to change, if it means living in a worse situation? To me, it makes no sense.

I want to see our communities become more human-centric, because the direction we are going would not be the future I want my kids and grandkids living in.

People seem to think this is how we have always lived, and it’s only really been 2 or 3 generations that have lived with so much excess.

Exactly! These things aren’t some long-standing traditions we need to cling onto. They are recent problems (that we created) that can be corrected if we act quickly. And we sure as shit can’t fix things with a government who wants to push Ontario in the opposite direction.

Research from Japan suggests high-speed rail can help ease the cost of housing and congestion on the roads, by making it easier to live further from urban centres.

Doug Ford is rolling his eyes. Don’t you guys know? Bike lanes are the reason we have so much congestion, unaffordable housing, and homelessness! /s

But in all seriousness, all the things that other countries have done with great success are all things we can implement in Canada: high-speed rails, REMOVING cars from cities, improving public transportation networks, expanding cycling infrastructures, and creating more room for public spaces, as examples.

We only need the political will to, since I’m sure most people would want to live in a better version of what they have now.

This is not personal emissions of billionaires, its including their businesses.

The Oxfam report says that private planes and “superyachts” are contributing factors, as well as investments in polluting industries like oil and mining.

Nowhere does it mention that their businesses are what’s contributing to their carbon footprint. They are explicitly talking about their lifestyle choices.

So, I’m not sure where you got that info from, but if they are including businesses that these billionaires run, I’d be interested in seeing that data.

Mind you, the majority of these billionaires are in software… a business that’s very easy to convert over to a carbon-neutral model, especially with their resources.

… the Bloc’s OAS plan as originally written is likely a non-starter because it sends more generous payouts to wealthy seniors.

Can someone explain why wealthy seniors need more money at a cost of many billions of dollars per year from taxpayers who are not wealthy, working, and struggling as it is?

The Liberals proposed increases in other areas of support that focus on seniors who might actually need the money, but that was rejected. Why does this “news” make it seem like the Liberals are the bad ones here?

This infuriates me.

I would actually love to do more to REDUCE my carbon footprint, but it’s prohibitively expensive to.

But billionaires (and millionaires) can literally greenify every aspect of their lives, even be carbon-neutral or carbon negative! But they choose not to.

I think taxing the rich just isn’t enough. We need to CAP the rich. There should be no billionaires.

At right-wing summit… organized by the right wing Heritage Foundation

So, a Nazi rally?