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Having worked in the homes of very wealthy folk, I can confirm that "move fast and break things" was always missing the part where the rich bastard’s nanny/gardener/housekeeper/etc takes the blame for shit being broken and gets their pay docked, while the Baby Elon-Zuck-Altmans of the world get an ice cream and a snuggle. Same shit happens when they grow up to be Big Boys.

Yay for more generic meds to treat Type 2 Diabetes!

On the downside, doctors all over Canada are already being inundated by people with eating disorders who've been seeing ads for Ozempic/Wegovy/etc for a decade now, but couldn't justify the expense. To all my fellow 1990s "nothing feels as good as skinny tastes!" extreme dieting survivors - wishing you mental clarity and self care in these crazy days.

In the first 24 hours of generics coming online, Felix Health, a Canadian virtual care platform, had 14 times the number of people requesting a weight-loss visit with a doctor

Eating disorders and substance abuse are already very good buddies, and then there's the nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and constipation side effects both Ozempic users and extreme dieters are already so familiar with. So many diabetes researchers have given the heads-up about the self-image problems, drug dependency and mental side effects (like depression and suicidal ideation) prediabetes drug treatments seemed to exacerbate. But even in the early 2000s the topic was so dominated by lobbying and hyperbole their concerns couldn’t make a dent.

Today it’s a gazillion times worse. We've all seen posts about these drugs get smothered by all those culty ED buzzwords (like "food noise"), evangelical testimonials and thousands of updoots within hours. Then mainstream media reports What People Are Saying along with whatever the latest pharma-funded study says the new wonder drug can do, and it snowballs.

Lately I've noticed an uptick in online doctors Creating Content about how Ozempic MIGHT BE a great treatment for all your other addictions and bad thoughts too. Which makes the Ozempic user's story in the linked cbc article even more chilling imo:

[When she quit taking Ozempic] it was like a tap had been turned on in her head. Suddenly, all her thoughts the drug had suppressed about food and eating came flooding back. "It's relentless and it's constant," said the 50-year-old Powell River, B.C., resident.

Ditto dropping the Be Nice training. Making myself talk with my neighbours - and getting to know the well-intentioned from the assholes again - I aim for kind and realistic instead of Nice and Positive.

Met some decent peeps and now we share harvests and perennials, which is something I lost when my old Nice neighbours went full-throttle Covidiot.

Anyway, that was a lovely wee post. Thanks.

Skippy pretending to care about worker's rights. That'll be... fun. I imagine the Manning Centre's PR machine working overtime on another makeover right now. Brainstorming, "what do workers look like" and next time he steps out it'll be in overalls and a big straw hat, or an old school rail porter's uniform. It'll be up there with Harper's weird cowboy leather daddy moment.

It is depressing. Thinking about Carney's Davos speech where he referenced Havel's Power of the Powerless, taking the "workers of the world unite" sign out of the window. I didn't think he meant it literally.

Good link. Everyone involved with that project is an angel. So grateful they swim in the shit so I don't have to.

Until 2020, I still had the heart to pay attention to white supremacists and other accellerationists on the internet and off: keep track of the slimy shell game renaming they do, where they organized, all that crap. Now it just makes me nuts, so I check in monthly with antihate, mainly looking for any new flags, symbols, group names, locations and so on, so I can recognise them irl.

It's SO similar. Same klepto-maniacial imperialist twits were inventing laws/policies for your country and mine: "free land" if you can clear it, white christian men are people and everyone else are uncivilized things, etc.

We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to repudiate concepts used to justify European sovereignty over Indigenous peoples and lands, such as the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius, and to reform those laws, government policies, and litigation strategies that continue to rely on such concepts. - Call to Action 47 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Thanks for the link, OP. Very worth the read.

These moments of hostility are more than personal insults; they represent a fracturing of the Canadian sanctuary I once knew, signaling a shift from a culture of mutual support to tribalism that now threatens, at various levels, the very multicultural fabric of our nation. In this delicate moment for both Canada and the world, it is time to confront the rise of these harmful ideologies and make a better country for all who live here. [...]

This situation demands that we look beyond immigration laws and address the social sickness spreading within our communities, where everyone identifies as “Canadian” only to label the next person as the “alien.”

This reality is agonizing because when I first arrived in Canada, I felt I had reached the safest place in the world for social rights and harmony. Now, I feel that arguments are no longer arguments; they are one-dimensional screams. No one is looking for a calm, shared logic to solve our communal responsibilities. Instead, we are following egos and deceptive rhetoric that only seek an audience. This is the breeding ground for extremist ideological demagoguery.

There are 8.3 Billion people on the planet and there were 7.5 ten years ago. We have enough people. We have enough resources for everyone to live comfortably and be well in their communities. We have more than enough money and other valuable things to trade.

The main thing getting in our way isn't a low birth rate.

Anyone genuinely concerned with the depopulation of humans in 2026 is probably some flavour of breeder cult weirdo, and the only ones constantly banging on about it in politics, academia, the news, etc are imperialists, industrialists and racist patriarchs. IME.

Where hog bosses do favours for hog bosses? Pretty much.

I was thinking the same thing, but from a PR perspective, getting caught helps normalize the obscenity.

30 million gallons and it's a "mistake." Next time it'll be 25 million and hey, at least that's not as bad. After that it'll be 40 million and it's "sure that's a lot but not too much more than usual. Besides you took a shower this morning so Both Sides amirite? Now let me explain in little words how condensation works..."

there were no consequences for exceeding peak limits

imo, that's the lesson. I mean you're probably right, but our Lords and Masters are super performative about their resource extraction grabs.

I hope so too.

In other news:

The Ontario government is welcoming a multi-billion-dollar investment from Microsoft, as part of the company’s previously announced $19 billion commitment to Canada. Through this investment, Microsoft is expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across Ontario, significantly scaling up the province’s computing capability while reinforcing Ontario’s position as a leader in the tech and digital economy. [...]

This expansion in Ontario will further bolster the reliability of its data infrastructure to strengthen the province’s domestic data capacity as more businesses begin to adopt and scale AI technologies. Through the company’s Community-First approach, Microsoft will also prioritize alignment with regional economic priorities, including advancing Ontario’s investment readiness and competitiveness, fostering the conditions for job creation and apprenticeships and laying the foundation for advanced AI innovation. (Apr 7, '26)

A merit-based appointment, I'm sure. /s

She may be the one putting her name to the council's requests, but they should all be on the hook for this ongoing abuse. The idle rich amusing themselves and finding their purpose by harassing the help: born to be our supervisors, aren't they all?