He recently got over that the earth is not flat

jfk, my comrade in crisis, you have the patience of a saint.

Some fun facts for everyone:

Advanced voting has finished, here are the final numbers.

• over 1/4th of registered voters (1 million) have already voted!
• the number of advance voters in 2024 is more than 50% of the number of total voters in 2017 and 2020
• Oct 16 was the highest single day of advance voting, with over 222,000 votes cast
• North Saanich and the islands had the highest advance voting percentage: 37.5% of registered voters cast a vote
• North Coast-Haida Gwaii had the lowest advance voting turnout: 20.1% of registered voters cast a vote

This is gonna be an election for the record books, it’s gonna be tight, and lots of people have already voted. Don’t miss out! Make your vote count! If you haven’t votes yet, make a plan, find a buddy, and go vote on October 18!

Still too low, go vote!

… And make Ottawa pay for it? #TrumpNorth

Remember when banks were allowed to weaken regulation and move towards self-assessing risk and capital adequacy levels?

As far as I can tell? No, but I just did a search of the onimbus for some keywords. The mental image feels very Adamsish though, doesn’t it? I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from somewhere. Props to you if you can find the source. Maybe it’s a Pratchettian quote? Or Giamanic?

When given a robot voice, all it learned how to do was scream endlessly.

Get ready for some Danielle Smith and Doug Ford shenanigans BCers!

Housing problem solved?

Seems like we’re overdue.

agents

And if we had spent the tens of billions on healthcare or housing we would have created as many or more jobs and also had something useful to show for it.

No Italian rebel crisis, no more Cato, no more independent Pompeii, Julias Ceaser got married, this Cicero guy really knows how to argue. So much better than the 70s.

I mean, they are? They are additional consumers in an economy increasingly being driven by consumer spending, where spending per person is falling. So, adding more people keeps things afloat even though each person is spending less.

The main issue is that high immigration is a bandaid (doesn’t address the issues causing spending to fall in the first place, and new spenders just get sucked into the same crappy economic climate once they get here as everyone else) and it comes with a host of other issues (e.g. increasing scarcity of high-quality, appropriate and affordable housing leading to further reduction in consumer spending).

but have nothing to back it up with

Didn’t read the article eh? How 'bout this:

Higher interest rates alongside decades-high inflation in 2022-23 ate away at household purchasing power.

Weaker demand spurred a rise in the unemployment rate of a size that historically only happens in recessions.

For six of the past seven quarters, real per-person output has fallen alongside rising unemployment.

Per capita GDP has fallen to 3.1 per cent below 2019 levels.

The economists noted the only thing that prevented negative GDP growth in consecutive quarters – the typical definition of a recession – was a wave of new consumers

Consumer spending accounts for more than half of GDP

Seems like a lot to “back it up with,” as it were.