Right on! It’s a neat feeling for sure, seeing your creations come to life, and it’s all uphill from here too! You never forget your first printed model.

Mine was when I was in college, I created a set of rims for an RC car in my solids class, and the reward for the projects best design was I got time on the schools printer to create them. You should have seen this contraption, thing basically looked like a coca-cola vending machine, it was roughly about that size too. It was quite a sight, but for the time it was a super big deal. Real cutting edge. Probably took 30 hours to print what my Bambu could burp out in under a half hour.

If you told me back then I’d have a machine 20 times as capable, and a tenth of the size on the workshop of my bench at home 25 years later, for under $1k, I’m not sure I’d have believed you. Real story.

I’m really struggling to think of if this is a bad thing, in actuality. I mean the premise, obviously yikes, but this inadvertently also might be the best thing Russia has done for their youth in years.

I get it, but are you a fan of hockey? Like did you watch the Gretzky years specifically? You’ll know what I’m referring to, if you did.

CTE is definitely a real bitch though, btw.

Wayne wasn’t the subject of very many hits in hockey. CTE isn’t a factor that you can blame. As it goes with shit stains, everyone around him probably has the CTE as they were collateral damage, guys like Dave Semenko (it’s never been publically disclosed but he was post-mortem investigated for it after dying of cancer) or Marty McSorley (who is not dead but he states he has memory loss and other symptoms).

I’m not from Brantford, but I’m from SOnt, and he was a god to a kid in the 80s. I remember fighting every ounce of my energy trying to stay up to watch the late night games as a little tiny kid. I remember saying as a 3 or 4 year old that I’m going to Edmonton when I grow up, I’m going to work and watch Wayne Gretzky (and it’s funny how that almost actually played out, but I got the wrong city). It breaks my fucking heart. You broke our hearts Wayne. Never meet your heroes they say, and it’s a funny saying because most of my heroes have actually turned out to be pretty stand up in person too. All but one.

Foreign ownership is a red herring.

You actually want to end this? End the principle residence tax exemption.

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They tried. It was the compromise necessary to unite us as a nation.

Ya think?

It’s going to be another cycle too. Someone else will get in for four years, they’ve got an absolute dumpster fire on their plate, they’ll chop away at that for four years, and then Albertans (who show that they collectively have 34 brain cells to split amongst the 9 or 10 million people that live here, when it comes to politics), will vote the UCP back in because “those years were horrible” and “thanks (replacement Rachel Notley, probably Nenshi).”

UCP has been doing it for years, for anyone who dares question them.

And no, it shouldn’t be allowed. Even in threatening or harassment situations, where the appropriate response would be calling in a third party like the police to evaluate, they shouldn’t be allowed to prevent others from speaking and to be heard. Because if we’ve learned anything from these government officials as of late, they are doing everything in their power to suppress freedom of thought, association, or speech. Any barrier that enables that, like this does, needs to be broken down.

I mean I’m all for humanity, but at the same time I wish they’d just get to the Kool aid part quicker. I’m ready to move on. I have no desire to live in Gilead.

It’s a cult. Don’t expect logic or grammar from cults. Kool aid and bullshit. And Jesus, hallelujah Jesus.

Sunridge Mazda is still a sleaze den. Orangeville Mazda set the bar though. I think it was the first dealer, or one of the first that OMVIC moved to shut down, I can’t remember if they got to it or Mazda pulled the franchise first.

There’s been some real memorable ones in Canada. They put a guy in jail for awhile a couple years ago. It’s an industry that attracts the fraudsters.

To the shock and awe of no one.

I started my career in dealerships. OMVIC needs to be three times the size it is, and it needs to be independent. A lot of their board members and whatnot are dealer principles, its basically self policing.

Advertisements have been a problem for 30+ years.

Just think, all those pedals for the price of one Boss pedal. That’s got a 45 year old unchanged circuitry design, but has also gone up 200%+ in price over the years.

It’s a very conservative-ish budget. The liberals are now the conservatives, and the conservatives are now the anti-christ.

Quaint to think you are getting another election ever again.

Hopefully our dance with darkness is coming to a close. Every finger crossed. Maybe the conservatives can get back to centrality, instead of trying to rule like authoritarian nutcases.

Yeah the UCP is questionably concerned about where my kids go to the bathroom. What is it with cons and bathrooms, anyways?

Great question, I haven’t convinced the other half just yet. Working on it.

I love the lifestyle and the life that we’ve built out here, but I also believe in decency and promise. Neither of which exist here anymore. I ideally don’t want my kids growing up in this place. It’s turned into fucking Utah, a place with extraordinary beauty but controlled by wackadoodle religious cults that bring nothing but misery, anger and darkness.