You dropped an x. <–Take this and put it back where it belongs.

They knew.

My dog sleeps right in between me and my wife. She likes to be the big spoon and the little spoon.

US counterterror officials plan Antifa summit, sources say.

Not for a club. More like a scene in a group discussion in Schitts Creek or Arrested Development.

TL/DR - yes. Hell yes even.

What is art or what is good art?

One of my fav definitions of art is "that which was created with the primary intention of invoking an emotional response in the observing subject.

Some would say art that art which provokes positive or negative emotions is good art, even if it was intended to be positive. The more powerful the emotional response the better the art. So the Brandenburg Concertos are potentially on the same level of art as say Tiny Tims Tiptoe through the tulips, or Rebecca Black’s Friday. As music they are all galaxies apart, but as art. Strong emotions.

Other would say good art provokes strong intended emotions. Like a performance piece about domestic violence is supposed to make you feel strong andger and revulsion. To these same “intentionists” if you found the same piece triggers a dark humour reponse and you lol, it’s bad art because it didn’t demonstrate mastery of emotional provocation. I could go on, but why.

I’m just gonna go home and rethink my life.

Apparently my comedy isn’t ready for the road, let alone a lemmy shitpost.

Does deontology pay well?

At first I was gonna say, maybe morality isn’t subjective. Maybe its just our perception of morality that is, and that as an intelligence constrained by our meat, the subjectivity is just a naturally occuring conceptual filter construct that creates the illusion of subjectivity.

Then I realized, I should have just said “yeah”.

With apologies to Mitch Hedberg.

Or if you don’t have the means, including libraries a last resort could include crooksmaxxing.

Top level comments, yes.

Where to begin? Carney. Carney Carney carney. Is partial truth. Whole truth is Canada has has a hard hate-on for Iran since the CIA blowback that led to revolution. For no real reason than Anglo-American oil interests wanted a good hate for Iran for fucking up their plans. Was never really our business, nor in our interests. All governments since, both conservative and liberal have continued this hostile stance toward them. Why single out Carney? He is in a long list here, and our position under Carney didn’t change one bit.

Canada can and has made arguments about Iran’s opressive government, hostile treatment of its peoples, human rights violations and that too is a partial truth. We’re happy to look the other way elsewhere. Why is Saudi Arabia and ally and gets a pass when Iran gets a hate? If we really cared about human rights and democracy, SA and many others wouldn’t get such an easy diplomatic pass. SA lets in Anglo American oil companies and buys arms. Iran doesn’t. We don’t say this because the Canadian public prefers the half truths and the plausable sounding lies.

“Cheering”: He did speak of Canada support for US/ Israeli actions against the regime, not the war on its people, or the economic disruptions caused by US/Israeli shitting the bed. Another half truth. He calibrated that his support is " not a blank cheque" and does not support the war and won’t participate directly. That’s not cheering.

Why does the Van Alen belt look so much like booty? Stupid sexy radiation.

Just raise tarrifs on American good and services! Poof! Money and deintegration asap.

It’s going down. I’m yelling timber.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

-Adam Smith

Like many claim satire is dead because it is indistinguishable from real news, this makes me think shitposting will suffer the same fate.

Now where can I buy this?

Nothing more American than killing Americans.

In short, Dutch disease. The period of parity and beyond was oil driven, but also because Canadian non-energy economy was also humming, while the US was stumbling domestically.

Today, high oil prices exist, but we don’t have the export infra to fetch top dollar. (Not the US anyways). Plus our non-energy economy is taking a Trump tarrif induced shitkicking.