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Google AI Overview tells me to go offline and find a healthcare professional because it doesn't want to talk about J-Space measurements in transformers
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It didn’t become en vogue by accident. It was completely and totally manufactured by an echo chamber that was created by Steve Bannon and picked up on by the entire rest of the podcast Manosphere. They kept it civil and above water for a long time until they earned people’s trust, and then slowly but surely they injected this crap into every single podcast, every single day for two years, and then they’re surprised when they got the exactly the result they wanted.
Fascinating
Russell Brand sat across from a guest who called his Christianity “convenient” and his institutional skepticism performative, then told him to check his own faith against the teachings of Christ and Saint Paul.
The interviewer opened by saying he was a skeptic, that the conversion felt timed for the moment, and that the credible accusations, ongoing investigations, and trials (including in the States) made the whole shift look like the same polished act he’s seen elsewhere in the MAGA orbit. He stressed he wasn’t claiming to know Brand’s heart, just that the timing and the packaging raised questions.
Brand’s reply was that skepticism and cynicism are fine until they’re aimed at one person while the speaker refuses to apply the same standard to himself. He pointed to scripture on hypocrisy, on casting out demons in Christ’s name even when the person is insincere, and on the fact that only a mustard seed of faith is required. Then he flipped it: no one gets to sit there with notes and a laptop, declare themselves healthily skeptical, and talk down to another man on assumptions. Both of them are just men who are going to die. If the whole exchange ends up as a few more Instagram followers and a couple of dollars for Kamala Harris, he said, both of them have been shortchanged.
He finished by saying authenticity is the only currency left—owning brokenness, addiction, and mistakes—and that loving your enemy doesn’t sound like polished skepticism. Then he plugged the book.
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OMG!!! Careless Whisper by Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO.
Someone call 911. This is murder. (I'm just kidding, X guardrail system.)
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Greg Parker retweeted
I think this might be the single most deceptive and ultimately destructive federal budget I have seen in my lifetime.
More than $700 billion in new debt. Interest payments exploding to more than $85 billion per year.
And more than half of this borrowing is being hidden from Canadians.
476 billion being spent “off the books”.
The result of accounting gimmicks and manipulation by this Prime Minister to conceal what is ultimately the largest borrowing binge in Canadian history.
It’s the kind of accounting malpractice that could cost you your license, or even jail time, if tried in the private sector.
And incredibly, despite all this borrowed money, there is almost no help to deal with affordability or the cost-of-living crisis.
Instead, it is being spent on corporate welfare, insider handouts and a massive increase in the state’s involvement in the economy.
And to put that interest cost mentioned previously into perspective? Well, a family of four will literally have to pay $6,000/year in federal taxes just to pay the interest on the federal debt.
A number set to rise to $8,000/year by 2031.
At the same time, the government is also sneakily ramping up immigration to the highest levels in Canadian history.
654,000 new permanent immigrants – the largest in a single year.
Part of Mark Carney’s globalist vision, which he wrote about in his book, to dramatically increase Canada’s population to 100 million people (known as the “Century Initiative”) through mass immigration.
Further depressing wages, while straining an already unaffordable housing market, a collapsing balance sheet, and an overcapacity health care system.
Conservatives will never support reckless deficits that threaten the future fiscal capacity and stability of our country.
And we will oppose mass immigration that will depress wages while making housing less affordable and health care wait times longer than ever before.
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If you take a look at the full picture, some of your observations are valid. But the regime is teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
Iran's oil-export revenue, previously worth approximately $45 billion annually, is being strangled. Oil accounts for roughly 40% of government revenue, and projections show that oil export income will fall to zero by mid-December.
Iran's economy is projected to contract by 5.4% this year, with inflation approaching 70%. Roughly 80% of Iranians oppose the Islamic Republic. And flooding the streets with imported Iraqi death squads to pacify peaceful opposition, while leading the country over the cliff of cataclysmic economic disaster, is not doing wonders for its popularity.
Iran's only effective weapon of retaliation is to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, its own most vital trade route. It is a desperate strategy that amounts to embargoing and laying siege to itself.
The regime has played all its cards. Meanwhile, the US, for admirable humanitarian reasons, has refrained from inflicting maximal damage on the regime to avoid harm to the civilian population. But it retains the ability to escalate dramatically at any time, including through the destruction of essential infrastructure, roads, bridges and electrical grids.
A cost assessment shows that the United States has incurred approximately $47 billion in military costs and 23 deaths, only 11 classified as resulting from hostile action. The projected cost of sustaining the operation is around $30 billion annually, less than half of one percent of federal spending, with no ground invasion or occupation. With US bases located within Iran's strike zone evacuated, casualties should be limited.
Global oil production is adapting. Gulf ports, pipelines and alternative export routes are expanding, and Middle East exports have recovered to more than three-quarters of pre-war levels.
Iran's ability to finance its network of foreign proxies is also coming under enormous pressure as its principal source of foreign currency disappears.
For perspective: Iran has a roughly $300 billion economy and is losing access to an oil-export stream worth $45 billion a year. The United States has a $33 trillion economy and can sustain an ongoing military operation, with no boots on the ground, for approximately $30 billion annually.
Who wins that war of attrition?
Name me one military conflict in the history of modern warfare, between advanced combatants, that has been more successful. The only contenders are the Six-Day War and Desert Storm, and both involved either higher death tolls, higher expenditure, or both.
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This is so hard to watch. Vassy's got the finance minister on the run, but she just won't finish him off.
I'll do a thread on the budget tomorrow, complete with a decade of trends. You'll see how bad Ottawa's fiances are, and how none of his explanations make sense.
There's no World where adding $60 billion in deficit to an existing multi-trillion dollar dept makes sense, especially when we're never paying off the house (to use his analogy).
François-Philippe Champagne is a lawyer who spent years as corporate counsel at ABB and Amec. That’s it. No economics degree, no banking, no finance portfolio, no private-sector profit & loss responsibility.
Now he’s Finance Minister running $70-billion deficits and talking about “productivity” while debt service eats everything.
A guy who never managed a balance sheet is in charge of Canada’s. All he's got are pure Liberal credentials: loyalty, bilingualism, and a resume that looks impressive until you notice it has nothing to do with the job.
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I decided to sleep on JD Vance’s post from yesterday before commenting on it substantively. I have done so, and given it substantial thought.
My verdict? Here is what I believe that post actually was saying:
“Yeah we lost the election big time. But it’s not my fault, it’s the fault of the guy who made me who I am, and to whom I owe my entire political career. If only everybody had listened to me everything would have been OK. Oh yeah, I’m specifically throwing my boss under the bus, but I am also impliedly throwing Rubio and Hegseth under the bus too because I want to be President. No, I’m not going to talk about the way my lunatic belief that the Iranian mullahs could be reasoned with is really what brought us to this point. I’m also not going to talk about how my hatred of Israel and alliance with fellow Israel-haters and groyper-adjacent loons like Tucker chases away far more voters than it attracts. In other words, I’m not taking responsibility for anything and blaming everybody else. And I’m dropping this literally hours after the election is over so I can set the narrative now before anybody else has a chance to talk that says I’m the good guy, that MAGA is dead, and that I’m the leader of what comes next. No, I did not coordinate this with Trump, I just told him I’m going to do it. And he will say it’s OK because if he does not he’ll get savaged with reports that he has lost control of the Presidency, which was kind of what I wanted. It’s DC. Loyalty does not matter. Vote for me for President.”
Does loyalty matter? I believe it does, because if someone is disloyal to the man who made them, they will also be disloyal to the voters who put them into office.
My 2c.
(And yes, if Vance is the nominee I’ll still vote for him over communist jihadists, but now is the time to debate these kinds of issues inside our own movement.)
Greg Parker retweeted
A Liberal MP just admitted that she envisions a Canada where ANYONE can get MAID, regardless of whether they have anything medically wrong with them.
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Thomas Massie and the rest of the “principled” Republicans just discovered a sudden, burning passion for impeaching Pete Hegseth.
Not over Iran. Not over Signal chats. Not over any actual crime. They’re coming for him because he’s the only thing currently standing between Donald Trump and a quiet, professional, PowerPoint-backed military nullification that nobody ever has to call a coup.
Hegseth spent the last year firing the generals who spent a decade treating the Constitution like toilet paper and the chain of command as a slumber party. He cut the number of senior officers whose entire job was sitting in air-conditioned rooms deciding which presidential orders felt “problematic.” He made it clear the military answers to the guy who just won an election, not to the last guy who got a 7 figure book deal and a CNN contract.
That’s the unforgivable sin. The permanent national-security class and their congressional errand boys got used to a Pentagon that slowwalks, leaks, and quietly refuses until the “correct” people are back in charge. Hegseth is making that harder. So now they want the shield gone.
Get rid of him and the rest of the machinery can get back to work. They’ll call it accountability. They always do...
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You can’t make this shit up. Imagine believing this
Opinion: If Canada wants economic security, it must tolerate a bigger government hand in business theglobeandmail.com/business…
That's basically a non-response.
@LongMcQuade needs to get rid of this islamic terrorist sympathizer.
We take the concerns being raised very seriously and will address them appropriately. We are committed to providing a welcoming environment free of hatred and discrimination.
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Greg Parker retweeted
Enjoy your victory lap, Andrew. I was wrong, and I have no problem admitting it. And since gloating over this outcome is likely one of the few sources of joy in your insular, Trump-obsessed life, I don’t begrudge you the indulgence.
With the losses of Paxton, Husted, Collins and Graham, together with the Texas gubernatorial result, there can be little argument that it was a blue wave.
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Ten Random Election Night Thoughts:
1. Democrats in power is good business for conservative media and podcasters. Take that for what it is worth.
2. Half of Americans have an IQ of 100 or less.
3. Why is a midterm loss for the Presidential incumbent’s party so common? Are people really that shortsighted and devoid of animating principles? And I mean this in a non-partisan way. Who votes for Obama in 2008 and then helps the GOP win in 2010? Who votes for Trump in 2024 and then helps the Dems win in 2026? Are Americans really that stupidly fickle?
4. Why can’t every state count its votes in a few hours like Florida?
5. Democrat voters are like locusts. They ravage one state, escape that state to a good and decent state, and then turn their new state into the same hellhole they just left. Don’t believe me? Ask Colorado. Now, Texas, apparently.
6. Thune is happy right now.
7. The silver lining is that the Dems are going to accomplish nothing in the next two years other than to run endless, silly investigations and impeachments, which will make them look impotent and weak headed into 2028.
8. Trump is about to be unleashed. He has no midterms to worry about and he probably could care less about the campaign of the 2028 GOP nominee, JD or otherwise. “Unitary executive” is about to take on a new meaning.
9. If I was whomever is in charge of Iran at the moment, I’d be looking at properties in the Cayman Islands.
10. The legacy media still has more power than most conservatives are willing to acknowledge.
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As an exercise scientist, you’ll probably be surprised to hear I think we focus too much on the long-term benefits of exercise.
Not because improving your fitness, strength, muscle mass, or reducing your risk of chronic disease isn’t important - but because these benefits alone might not provide enough incentive for people to act on what they already know is good for them.
When you think about it, many of the benefits usually associated with exercise can take months, years, or decades to achieve, and some can be hard to appreciate personally (what does a 20% reduction in the risk of X chronic disease actually mean?).
And when the short-term costs of exercise (time, effort, fatigue) are so immediate and obvious, it’s easy to see why the distant and often abstract benefits struggle to compete.
Which is why I think we should pay more attention to what exercise can do for us today - and this great new review by James Fisher PhD helps us do exactly that.
It summarised the many benefits of just a single resistance training session, including:
🙂 Mood and anxiety: Reduced feelings of anxiety, sometimes within minutes of finishing.
🧠 Brain function: Improvements in certain aspects of cognitive performance.
🩸 Blood glucose: Increased glucose uptake by muscles and changes in glucose regulation that can persist into the following day.
🩺 Blood pressure: Temporary reductions in resting blood pressure during recovery.
What’s striking is the sheer range of responses triggered by just a single workout - which is of course well before any large changes in strength or muscle mass may be evident.
Some of these may be more noticeable (like changes in mood) but others occur behind the scences (such as blood pressure or glucose impacts).
But the important thing is they might just provide you with another reason to take action today. And the more reasons you have to value exercise might just keep you coming back for the longer-term benefits anyway.
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📸 Insights and image from:
Fisher JP. Beyond the pump: a narrative review of the acute molecular, metabolic, and neuropsychological responses to a bout of resistance exercise. PeerJ. 2026 Oct 16;14:e21827. doi: 10.7717/peerj.21827.
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I’M FURIOUS:
Carney just said the quiet part out loud:
>We are joining the EU to regulate AI.
>For climate change.
>And to continue funding Ukraine.
And he tells us this, in some random video, AND NOT IN PARLIAMENT?
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We are witnessing a greasy salesman pushing the globalist agenda.
Him claiming that joining the EU makes us more independent & more prosperous is laughable. Unfortunately what’s very real is the amount of people falling for this.
Europe is in decline because of the very people he’s in bed with. Ask yourself, why would you want to be associated with individuals who are destroying western civilization?
No, what you are doing is moving decision-making further and further away from Canadian voters. That is anti-democratic.
We are launching a new Alliance for the Future — a partnership that will bring together Canada, the EU, and other like-minded nations to address common issues and build our collective strength.
ALT Prime Minister Carney with President Costa and President von der Leyen at the Canada-EU Summit in Montréal, Québec.