it does have that aftertaste, doesn’t it? Given Mamdani win there’s a chance she did the math and figured that indeed spending time and energy in place where she’s doomed to lose is counterproductive. Or it could be that she’s been informed to not interfere in Big Boys’ game so she decided to bow out.

We’ve got a “range” but most fall into friendly category. People will stop to help you when you’re stuck.

alberta politics is awkward but people are friendly in larger communities. Some remote small communities may be awkward but not always.

will we be going back to Sheer? I mean their past several generations of leaders were all with Carisma in sub-zero territory, I think Harper kind of set the trend there.

drone fleet can do wonders on “superior force”. Luckily China is still stuck in bigger-meaner-better mentality so pivoting to more agile warfare methodology would work… except most drone components are made in china

so after reading another article where Europeans discovered that Chinese EV bus can be remotely “switched off”. Concern is real. Did anyone try the same with US vehicles? This whole “Software defined vehicle” is a security nightmare. Car manufacturers care very little about cybersecurity …so the only difference with China, is that manufacturers have deep ties with government so control of vehicles can serve political goals as much as economical.

identity politics is the easiest way to give populous something they didn’t ask for but feel like they always needed it

funny that QAnon stuff circled around Dems having pedo-leanings and that was an OUTRAGE yet now it turns out to be OK, Humane even… wtf? Their morals exist only to stick it to anyone opposing them and they evaporate the second one of their own is caught doing exact thing