Here’s the thing…yes, wearing a helmet is less safe than having bike infrastructure. No doubt about it.

But I don’t fucking HAVE safe bike infrastructure. Also, I am very involved in bike safety advocacy, so I’m not exactly just shirking all safety responsibility onto a silly hat and expecting things to be fine.

We can throw off the dualistic thinking for a second and acknowledge that, yes, helmets are a very imperfect solution that puts the onus of protection onto riders. Also, it’ll save your goddamn life.

If I didn’t wear a helmet, I never would have gotten married and my kiddo would never have been born. I’d have died on a sidewalk (or in an ambulance) on the side of a residential street on a multi-use path where a dumbass teenager was going 35mph the wrong way on an electric scooter at night.

Condolences to all the comrades trapped inside the borders with this madman. We’re all dealing with his shit too, but at least we can feel relatively safe in our own homes (for now).

Nationalize

Regardless of whether or not these particular comments are US intelligence, I am 100% convinced that Trump is going to try and make Alberta the Canadian Donbas.

They’ll do their little Wexit vote thing and they’ll lose, but there will be a massive amount of disinfo in all of the places you’d expect saying it was rigged, and they’ll just escalate from there. Who knows when the guns break out, but I feel like there are people down south who are planning on this leading to a military “liberation”

If you’d have told me even 4 months that there was a slight chance to beat PP, I’d have been ecstatic. I hope that his career (and the political feasibility of faschy candidates like him) implodes after tonight.

You’re right about this - as a US / Canadian dual citizen, getting a new citizenship is quite an ordeal and not everyone who applies is approved. The nursing experience you mentioned in a separate comment might be enough to qualify for a work permit and then permanent residence. I know that various provincial governments up here are quietly putting in immigration policies that severely cut immigration numbers, but focus heavily on recruiting healthcare workers.

Come to Canada, we want and need nurses!

When you’re in a drone fight but the other operator is a few bottles deep into the vodka

Maybe a bit out of scope for “gardening”, but get to know how to sustain the life in both your garden as well as your community with as many sustainable inputs as possible.

Make your own compost and save your own seeds.

Network with people in your area.

Learn about the CSA farms in your area and see if you can contribute your little garden space to their effort in a collective manner in exchange for a complimentary CSA share (aka you use your entire plot to grow a large amount of some random veggie or herb to contribute to their program in exchange for a full season of their subscription).

Contribute excess veggies to the food bank.

Also, I hate to be “that guy”, but being a Canadian/American who pays attention to news headlines in both countries, I’ve gotta say that a shockingly substantial amount of your neighbors have no idea how fucked their world is going to be for the foreseeable future. Shit’s hitting the fan in a way that may be even bigger than 2008, and I feel like so many of us never actually recovered from that…

All that to say, “gardening” is really, really important now

Infrastructure and/or stagflation

They are going to destroy things we deeply love and hold to be sacred, as casual as we may normally feel about defining things as “sacred”

I feel like The Onion should host their own PeerTube instance, just for the sake of using an incredibly cheeky domain name like ifuckinghatewatching.video or something cooler like onion.media or something

My body is not ready for the amount of alcohol and dancing I am going to force myself to take part in on the day this motherfucker dies and goes to hell.

Literally, the most destructive and evil human on the planet since Hitler. I can’t wait until the worms get him. I kind of feel bad for them, but I guess it’s part of the job.

“Socially liberal” right up until the point that we start talking about worker’s rights, the dignity of poor people, and the exploitation of cheap slave labor on the other side of the world

You are very wise, wise_pancake

How about we remove tariffs from Chinese EVs in addition to this?

Local breweries and unions are two of my favourite things in the world, so maybe we should listen to these concerns.

He’s not taking on Trump. He’s undercutting and backstabbing PP so that he can take over leadership of the CPC at some point in the medium-term.

For all of his many shortcomings (which, yes, there are a lot of them and many of them are pretty awful), I’m proud of how he’s handled this. I hope that he enjoys a peaceful and happy retirement with his family.

We need to support this company as much as possible. If I recall, they also had amazingly worker-friendly policies during the height of COVID. They are a Canadian gem that really needs to be protected with our support. Go treat yourself to some ice cream this weekend!