I guess proving (again) so many pick up truck owners do not really need a pick up, they just need to feel manly for a change

We wish… the good/bad neighbour analogy is very apt here; whatever happens in the USA spills over here all the time.

We are about to enter our own Trump shit show when PP is elected next year.

So what you are saying is:

“Hmmm I get to choose between a turd sandwich and a burger. We tried the turd sandwich before and almost died of food poisoning so we went with the burger and noticeably, everybody avoided the hospital after that meal. The burger seems to be in decline though, they are serving it cold now… but the turd sandwich is just as smeared and stinky as before… I guess we got to try the turd sandwich again?”

Biden’s cognitive problems were laid bare to the whole world to see. imagine a president of the strongest country in the world.

So you didn’t hear the diarreah of the mouth that Trump spewed? It seemed to me Trump was not even aware of what they were asking of him in half the questions

who cares about those?, when the Secretaries and all the high level officials running everything can be bought

regular federal officials were up for sale way before this… the combined “corporations are people” and “money is free speech” nonsense meant anyone can openly throw money at anyone up for election and that’s A-OK because free speech

Precedent? I don’t even know why they bother when they can simply legally and openly bribe whomever wins anyway

And with this final blow… the entire government of the USA is up for sale!

I’m going to assume (against common sense, this is an honest question)…

Most recent example

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-underspent-health-budget-by-17-billion-in-2022-23-watchdog/

Less money = less staff, less maintenance, less services => more people with no choice but to go to Emerg, hospitals that work putting out fires all the time with less staff to go by… long term, it also causes people NOT too go into health care as a profession

They are literally planning to shrink hospital capacity

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/03/08/ontario-health-care-spending-doug-ford-hospitals-long-term-care/

well the USA was circling the drain after Trump’s first win… they are now at the toilet gargling stage

Think of it this way…

You take all your money and you have a lawyer form a charity (no tax) that you control. The charity rakes in even more money and all they make (via investment) is tax free (or practically so)

Meanwhile, since you are employed by that charity, it pays for your mansions, trips, fancy foods, vacations, yachts, whatever you want… Basically it is like having a rich daddy that buys everything for you and you never have to worry about money

Exactly right… what should happen is that the Satanic Church, any Islam denomination, the Spaghetti Monster, etc should all start putting up their own billboards everywhere…

While SCOTUS is compromised, there is no point in playing their game

yes

Canada here… yes wait times are a bitch

But it must be clarified this is not a result of socialized medicine… this is mostly a result of Politicians (largely Conservatives) starving the system as hard as they can just to justify Private Medicine as the only solution.

Because it’s the only path left they have to attain power. They cannot win on merit, debate, ideas, track record, etc… it’s been like that for a while but now they are getting more and more desperate

well, I think putting a child in someone without their consent is a kind of rape even if it did not include sexual intercourse

Faith is just a personal trait. I did not mean “respect” as in “revered”, I meant respected as in “not my business, not gonna judge”.

To clarify further, I believe we all have faith in something. Scientists have faith/hope/expectations without direct evidence, that science will answer all questions given time. I have faith/hopes/expectations that my sport teams will prevail one day. I don’t think there is anything wrong with having faith (as in hopes without direct evidence) about anything. The problem is when that faith becomes the driving force of your life and you want to impose it on others.

I respect people who have faith… but those religious idiots out there using religion as a weapon and the scum of society, and those from, the ones that think Trump is a kind of messiah, are so completely utterly brained fucked that should be legally declared incapacitated

By this logic, we would have never moved from horses… which may have actually been a good thing hehehe

I find breaking the momentum (good or bad) is the hard part.

Since last year I adopted a “work all week, play all weekend” strategy; I basically work my 8 to 4, then immediately start working around the house, in projects, in hobbies, anything. I set myself a 7 pm warning to start wrapping up so I don’t leave a mess behind, shower and chill until it’s time for bed.

On weekends it’s all fun stuff unless we need to do some special project around the house that could not be done during the week (usually some gardening stuff).

On the exercise front, I run 3 to 5 KM 3 times a week and literally play with some dumbbells also 3 times a week (usually during boring “listen only” meetings)

I have never accomplished more and felt progress than before. Now that the rhythm is going, I get restless if I can’t do stuff (say due to weather or other commitments). Just yesterday my wife told me not to do as planned because we are undergoing a heat wave and it was “horrible” outside, yet I couldn’t contain myself and decided to do what I could… I ended up completing the task of removing an old shurb we wanted to get rid of and I slept great with a sense of accomplishment and a bit of “good pain” from all the exercise