Oh, I do hope he ramps up the racist rhetoric. Please demonsize brown people and immigrants, that will play so well in the vote-rich 905 belt.

Maybe he’ll pull out “old stock” while he’s at it.

Isn’t this the same spineless snotbag who was palling around the Diagolon members after the group threatened to rape his wife?

Fuck, what a disingenuous piece of shit he is.

Considering how reflexively partisan Poillievre is, and how much he’s encouraged unthinking partisanship among the conservative voting base, I can’t see him supporting much of anything Carney does.

The concern is that Carney pulls a Starmer, do conservative things anyways, and just make right-wing nonsense the default.

Any government that isn’t banning Facebook or Twitter is basically sticking a “coup me” sign on it’s back

Putin was a mid/upper KGB functionary.

And that a very large number of the people who did very well put of the collapse of the USSR were former communist party officials who got in early on raiding the USSR’s corpse.

Trump isn’t acting on behalf of the USSR in general, but he definitely is funded by and owes favours to older wealthy Russians.

One older Russian, in particular.

Trump was honeytrappable buffoon and business fuckup desperate for funding when the USSR was still a going concern.

It’s completely possible.

Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/dg27mx/akg_k7xx_elastic_band_repair_guide_will_work_for/

I used hair elastics, based on a repair tutorial I found on Youtube; let me see if I can find it.

I have a set of nearly-10 year old Q701s (same headphones, just lime green and branded Quincy Jones)

Other than the elastic suspenders weakening (looks like yours did the same; they all do!) and the plastic sliders cracking, they’ve been great. I replaced the elastics and the pads, but I wish the sliders were easy to do.

As a Canadian, I can say with certainty: check eBay, they’re usually listed for a lot less.

At this point, it’s just virtue (vice?) signalling.

To be a good member of the right-wing-nutjob club, you have to know all the shibboleths: anti-climate change, vaccine denialism, performative bigtory, anti-urban, performative environmental abuses, transphobia, etc. Tribalism is fundamental to human psychology, and–despite people bitching about purity tests on the left–the right has been purity-testing it’s members, purging non-conformers and othering enemies for a while.

Poillevre knows he must go all-in, lest he be replaced by someone with even less shame.

I disagree.

Jail the CFO and COO too. Maybe the veep of HR while we’re at it.

Taxing their employers to pay for services for everyone?

When I was younger, this was the case on the TTC, and it still pisses me off to this day.

I was a university student, I barely had any money at all. There were more than a few days where it was “do I take the bus this week, or do I buy some extra groceries?” and a full-price Metropass was out of the question. Older people, who owned their homes, had jobs and incomes, and, in many cases, cars, could get a discount. And this was in the 1990s, when old people, as a cohort, had less money than they do today.

Now, I’d rather see lower fares for everyone and congestion pricing for cars, but if I can have that, scrap the seniors discounts before scrapping ones for young people.

For sure.

Tax the rich.

You know what’s interesting?

This is also good counterpoint to the “if we tax the rich, they’ll leave!” argument because, when the supply leaves, the demand doesn’t. Just like here, where Canadian (and central/south American, European, African, Asian, etc) products step up to fill the gap, if a rich person fucks off because we’re asking them to pay their fair share, there’s a really good chance that someone less greedy will step in to fill the gap because the demand is still there.

We spend far, far too much time lionizing the supply side of the economy, but it’s the demand-side that really matters.

Are we going to either ensure people get paid enough to afford houses, or build homes that people can afford to live in?

No?

Then no, it won’t get fixed. Right now, the market is making too much money off of exacerbating the problem, and the idea of government providing solutions went out of fashion in 1992.

“Liberal” doesn’t mean what many people think it means.

It doesn’t mean “leftist” or “progressive” or “humane”. There might be some overlap, but these are not the same things, despite conservatives trying to define them as such.

I think the issue with friction shifters was that you can miss or end up between gears, but with eleven speeds and almost no space between them, you have a good point.

I spoke with a guy who has the Shimano Di2. One of the main benefits is that you don’t have to index the derailleur… it automatically does it and always puts you in gear without any BS.

^^^ This.

Cables work fine when you’re dealing with nine or ten rear gears, but going up from that to eleven or more gears, indexing becomes a problem, and an electrically-operated derailleur that can hit a gear correctly, quickly, every single time is nice.

For casual riders this probably doesn’t matter, since people ride around on badly-tuned derailleurs all day long and just put up with it. Heck, even recreational racers probably don’t need it. This is for guys wearing yellow or polka-dot jerseys around France, for whom milliseconds lost to shifting make a real difference.

I’m nowhere near good enough for this to make a difference for me, and I wouldn’t want the complexity, which is why my commuter has no gears at all–I was tired of fiddling and wanted something that would never, ever break.

I feel a wired solution would be better, more reliable and more secure, but wireless is the new black.