I suspect the plastic bag/straw issue is politicians virtue signalling to the Oil and Gas lobby, like “I’ll make sure you still get pennies for your nurdles, Boss!”

[edit - link’s to a vox article from 2022 explaining what nurdles are]

Challenge accepitebbted

How everyone in Parliament doesn’t have an aneurysm from having to deal with him is beyond me. Just 3 minutes of his blatant bullshit gives me an ice cream headache.

Highlight of the debate imo: Skippy says I’m “living in terror” here in Toronto, because of car theft.

Sweet mother of god, someone muzzle the attack poodle. I really want to hear everything everyone has to say tonight, but SkiPPy is working his ass off to make me turn off the radio. Everyone’s losing continuity and intelligibility with the amount he’s talking over and interrupting.

The Manning Centre trained him well.

Don’t worry. They changed some visa requirements, but it looks like the “deporting 500 Americans” part is disinfo meant to rile up the internet. The President had to put out a press release denying it, asking people to only use info from the government before sharing.

Exactly. It’ll rile up the “eating dogs and cats” nazis, for sure. But just like here, it’ll get amplified as well by people who love the idea of Namibia kicking Yankees out of the country, or who are just excited to contribute commentary about Namibia’s awesome, stylin’ Pres.

And anyone deliberately amplifying it can easily post a link to Namibia’s visa requirement changes, knowing hardly anyone’s going to click through, much less check the details. Sucks that she had to take time out of her workday to issue the denial. It’s so frigging frustrating. I’d like to post her press release everywhere as a heads-up, but I know the accelerationists want that as well (they don’t care about sides, just making the talking point louder).

Not trying to preach to the choir or educate here; just venting.

np!

btw, didn’t mean to imply you were a bad actor (apologies if it came across that way). I replied because you were the only person here to post anything that looked like a source. No harm to you intended.

Such a good company. I used their sunscreen for ages. They have a body lotion with Labrador tea and shea that I still love too.

I used the “Fresh Verve” deo for a few years and it really is fantastic. So disappointed the price of it went up so much from pre-pandemic to now (iirc, it was 5-6$ and now I can’t find it for under 13$, which is more than I’m willing to pay for pit stick. Back to DIY until the price comes down, unfortunately).

Alpen Secrets is made in Montreal. You know that bar soap with the goats on it that you see everywhere? That’s them. Their body wash with almond oil is absolutely lovely.

I did a quick lookup of the quote you posted. Except for facebook and insta reposts, I found nothing. otoh, from yesterday’s news:

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.

A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.

The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.

Not to be a party pooper, but where tf are you folk hearing about this? I can’t get a fact check on this story anywhere. msn.com “reporting” what people are sharing on social media doesn’t count, as Yankee mass media cannot be trusted any more than Russian.

This feels very disinfo to me - using the black female president of another country to accelerate the race war in the USA. Just because it’s something I like to hear, or something I agree with, doesn’t mean it’s legit.

What I have found, from The Namibian today,

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has slammed circulating claims that Namibia is planning to deport 500 American citizens, calling the allegations false and urging the public to be vigilant of fake social media posts.

A press release issued by the Presidency on Wednesday said it has noted with concern the circulation of social media posts and online articles alleging that Nandi-Ndaitwah ordered the deportation of the American nationals on the grounds of visa reciprocity.

The statement pointed out that various social media accounts circulated this fabrication attributed to the president. “These posts feature fabricated quotes and images containing misinformation and disinformation intended to tarnish the image of the president, the Namibian government and to create potential diplomatic embarrassment,” it read.

I hope everyone holds off sharing this “story” til a reliable site backs it up. There’s a reason it’s posted as a text image in a humour community, and not on worldnews or something.

Very cool to see all the breweries that’ve signed on.

Some great names too: Together We’re Bitter Co-operative Brewing, Kick and Push, Dildo Brewing Co. & Museum.

More mainstream and big budget, so everyone probably already knows this one. But if you like puzzles and wish your gameplay was narrated by Prometheus gentle-parenting manbaby Zeus through your hero’s journey, Immortals: Fenyx Rising is fluffy fun. It’s an ubisoft game, and they’re still a Quebec company so it absolutely counts.

[There’s no indication any of the officers or jailers at any of the detention locations were women. Every reference gives male pronouns (unless I missed something).]

Moved her to 4 different states in 1 night, kept her awake and hungry after fasting all day for Ramadan, 4 o’clock in the morning, made a point of letting her know they saw pics of her without her hijab. Then someone taking the scarf off her head without asking (to cure her asthma! who knew it was so easy! /s), while she’s protesting. Absolutely, I’d assume cruel sarcasm on the part of both these people.

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The only reason we know this is happening, is because Lyft fucked up once by sending her the transcript. I’d assume it’s happening in every vehicle.

The personal responsibility/choice narrative silicon valley loves so much when it comes to deregulation of labour standards and constant aggressive privacy violations is not useful irl. Any gig worker for lyft/uber/fuckworkers.com isn’t going to feel free to say no (if they have any choice at all).

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The only reason we know this is happening, is because Lyft fucked up once by sending her the transcript. Assume it’s happening in every vehicle.

The personal responsibility/choice narrative silicon valley loves so much when it comes to deregulation of labour standards and constant aggressive privacy violations is not useful irl. Any gig worker for lyft/uber/fuckworkers.com isn’t going to feel free to say no (if they have any choice at all) and putting the onus on riders doesn’t make sense here at all.

Canada has privacy laws that techbro companies from the USA simply ignore. Now is the best time to start enforcing them.

During their reunion in E.’s hometown, the first time they’d been together since the summer, the friends looked up know-your-rights tutorials and discussed whether Öztürk should cut short her doctoral program. They spent their last day together filling out intake forms for legal aid groups — just in case.

Right up until their last minutes together at the train station, they wrestled with how cautious Öztürk should be when she returned to Massachusetts. Öztürk wondered if she should avoid communal dinners, a feature of Muslim social life during the holy month of Ramadan.

“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” E. recalled, her voice breaking.

“And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”

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“What broke me was her screaming. And knowing that the same thing had just happened to almost 400 people in the Boston area the week before,” said [Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League], referring to a recent six-day ICE operation.

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Her last stop [after they moved her over 4 states in one night] was a detention center in Basile about an hour away, where she remains, one of two dozen women in a damp, mouse-infested cell built to hold 14, according to court filings.

Whole thing’s a fucking brutal read, but worth it.

Was watching cbc last night and saw a good bit where they investigate con and lib crowd number claims.

Liberals claimed 2,000 in a 1,100 capacity room, and a crowd science expert counted 756.
Conservatives claimed 5,500, and the cbc counted 1,522.
Cons also claimed 15,000; expert counted 1,772.
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Posting a quote from the entrepreneur in question, jic anyone doesn’t know who this good man is (link’s to a interview with him on CBC’s show the Next Chapter).

"I always say that Syria is my home by birth and Canada is my home by choice. I knew this country stands for human rights, for freedom, for supporting immigrants and refugees to start their new lives on this amazing land of opportunity. I’ve heard a lot of stories of Canadian immigrants starting from scratch like newborn babies.

“From the moment that I landed at the Canadian airport is certainly when the feeling became a reality. I was treated like I belonged — like I was born in Canada and taken away to the Middle East for 25 years of my life and then brought back. That’s how it felt because I was treated like a Canadian. I had every single right to do everything I wanted, everything I dreamed of.” Tareq Hadhad, founder of Peace by Chocolate, 2021

She’s the reason city council can’t meet in person anymore. Even trying to meet online, they’re bombarded.

The link is the 13 min video (linked in the article) the City of Pickering council put together in Dec documenting some of the harassment they’re dealing with, as well as how she encourages it.

(Antihate’s one of the best resources Canada has going atm, keeping track of all this nazi shit. ty for linking, OP.)