The Day the World Stops Shoppong examined this and found that it doesn’t take a whole lot of concerted action to tank the consumption economy.

Buy nothing says are good but less good if you return to regular habits and redouble your consumption after the boycott is over.

Whichever party can promise another season or two of Anne will secure the majority government.

I always thought the only reason they can choose to charge so much is because countries respected pharmaceutical patents. In a trade war the PM could just say that they won’t be enforcing any domestic generic drug copies.

Happening but not happened quite yet. It’s still a minefield at the grocery store to shop for things not partially or fully prepared in the US. For seemingly ubiquitous things like cream cheese or pickles, from recent outings.

I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.

I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.

As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.

It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!

I’m liking this dude’s content more and more over the last month.

NAAATO, assemble!

I like it.

The definition of what’s European is squishy and doesn’t necessarily conform to geography. It could be qualified by shard values or borders if EU members agree.

I am fine with environmentalists who care about clean earth, air and water that’ll at we can all enjoy make it harder for polluting companies to make more money that they hoard for themselves.

Inb4 corporate taxes and trickle down—it’s been 40 years and there’s no trickle. And there’s orders of magnitude between the tax rate and the cleanup or remediation costs that usually are left to the provinces to figure out… if at all.

I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.

The media needs to catch up with the notion that they can’t rely on Twitter to be an accurate pulse on the world sentiment. It’s not the same people at X. It’s not people at X in a lot of cases with the bots.

It likely went “berserk” because X’s algorithm and the bots are tuned to whip up keywords like “governor” and “Canada” used together.

Give that there’s been a few polls this week putting Carney as the election winner I’m a bit confused on the overall election likelihood still going to conservatives. Forgive the ignorance—I’ve just never paid this much attention to polls as I have in the last month or so.

I do see a lot of American replies saying “well I didn’t vote for this so it’s not my fault.”

Fault isn’t the issue for me. All Americans have a responsibility to course correct. The sooner it can be done in numbers the less risky it is for them to stand up and speak out.

I think the punchline of this meme is based in the reality I find myself in. The rest of the world is trying to figure out what life is going to be like when a former ally becomes ambivalent at best and an active adversary at worst. I really can’t be arsed to respond to every commenter who sucks the oxygen out of the room seeking absolution or exception to the anti-American sentiment.