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I hate watched the Melania movie last night with my best friend. I thought it would be fun to roast together.
The film is widely understood as a vehicle to bribe the Trump family by billionaire Jeff Bezos. His payment of $28M to the criminal family paid off; the billionaire’s company subsequently received a $7B tax break. The project was helmed by disgraced director and sexual predator Brett Ratner.
(more…)Conservative strategists concocted a panic around trans people as a proxy issue to rob cis women of their agency. This manufactured panic has been so successful that even liberals are portraying trans people as threats to be eliminated:
In 2012, a Bramfekta at Ottawa’s Bramasole Diner was $11.89:
In 2014, it was the same price:
In 2017, it was $13:
In 2019, it was $14:
In 2022, it was $16:
In 2023, it was $21:
Today, in 2026, it’s $22.50:
As a chart:
The price hike is comparable to general food inflation in Canada:
Media discourse has it that deepening polarization is core to current domestic discord.
In this piece, I’ll argue that “polarization” isn’t the right word for what’s occurring. That would imply a comparable split towards two extremes for what is in fact one-sided: mainstream conservatism adopting the extremist, self-destructive, and nihilistic rhetoric of its once fringes.
There is no comparable shift by mainstream liberal parties, contrary to the the claims of conservative podcasters. I would venture that such assertions fall into the “every accusation is a confession” line of political messaging.
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I learned too late in life that staple foods could taste good.
Being on the same diet as virtually every other white North American, I was habituated to basics being combined with copious sugars and fats from the factory or afterwards to render them palatable.
It’s been a revelation that:
As well as for all of this to be accomplished with a handful of ingredients, none of them artificial/natural flavours.
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