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[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

No offence to Lilley whose perspective I respect, but I'm getting tired of the endless "Pierre Poilievre just needs this one software update to become prime minister" takes. Has everyone forgotten he's a career politician? If anyone should know what it takes to win an election, it's him.

A quick recap: he couldn't win the election. He couldn't hold his own seat. He's struggled to keep his MPs. And the Conservatives are polling no better than they did under previous leaders. He's still running yesterday's campaign in tomorrow's election.

The endless advice by his well-wishers that he just needs to adjust this or fix that reeks of desperation. Politics is ultimately about results. If the evidence keeps pointing in the same direction, it's time to accept that his path to becoming prime minister is narrow and that the Conservatives should start looking for new leadership and fresh blood in the form of a genuine political outsider, not a career politician.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

“The PM keeps talking about the C$70bn [US$49bn] UAE commitment he secured on his first visit in November. None of that has been deployed,” said one Canadian official.
🧐 Canada tells UAE it is not ready for its $70 billion investment @FT
https://t.co/tiFJvwZ3kM

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@globeandmail https://t.co/nHV8mTNmNK

[James McMurdock MP @JMcMurdockMP]

I can’t let this go unchallenged.

That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault.

The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.

The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.

What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.

The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.

In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Insanity.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

People are saying this is ridiculously expensive.

Bubby. They are banging Indian H-1B’s all day. Imagine that horror.

Surprised they’re not charging $30k an hour

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

It should also be noted that public order is conducive to class justice.

When public spaces become unsafe, the wealthy can always retreat to their cars and backyards, but lower-income citizens have few such alternatives. Ultimately, the working class and law-abiding poor bear the brunt of crime and public disorder, yet their needs are ignored because many social justice activists condescendingly conflate poverty with criminality.

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@Mattxduchak @bob676577130776 @JustTryin2GetBy You're a moron

https://t.co/OCFGRItgMi

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Pasquale Sasso 🇨🇦 @PasqualeSasso]

The only thing holding Canada back from becoming one of the most prosperous countries in the world is the mindset captured by this headline.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Central Canadian elites are as much to blame for Alberta’s separatist movement as anyone else https://t.co/f98URBghQs

[John Dunn @SkaraBraeRanch]

Much in this thread is obvious to anyone familiar with global energy markets yet, sadly it will remain incomprehensible to the Liberal Party and its Laurentian acolytes. Everything Mr. McKenzie said today is readily verifiable, but facts are unlikely to shield him from being branded an arsonist ... or something even less charitable ... for stating them plainly. ⬇️

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@PeterKane386957 @SatireSquadHQ Not surprised you didn't address the actual point. I think it's because you're a retard.

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@Austkarr @Bratt_world

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@Bratt_world What's a residential school denier? Everyone knows there were residential schools. What's being denied?

You should look up the word genocide so you understand what it actually means.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

@MarcMillerVM I don't know man. This is a bizarre cast of characters. Most of them hate Jews and Israel. https://t.co/4e58XRFKga

[Free Speech Union of Canada @FSU_Canada]

"The impulse is not merely to stop 'hate' (as if one could stop a basic human emotion) but to stop criticism, offence, dissent, and even factual disagreement.

Criminalizing 'denialism' of contested perspectives is a road Canada must not go down." @LDBildy https://t.co/iPmHVwGTlW

[Reverend @DrReverendBoon]

@CalgaryDave Retard

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

[Razor Oil @RazorOil]

The wild thing about punishing Canadian bitumen producers with a carbon tax is that they produce the heaviest oil on Earth, a product used in unique and essential applications ranging from jet fuel on the lighter end to asphalt roads and roof shingles on the heavier end.

We have no real alternatives to asphalt, shingles, or many other heavy-oil applications, regardless of what anyone drives, EVs or ICE vehicles....

Extracting this bitumen requires significantly more energy, and therefore more emissions,than producing lighter oils, much like how BBQ propane flows easily from a reservoir while asphalt demands far more effort to produce.
Think about lifting a young child vs. an adult, would you need more energy?

Even if you fracture a hockey-puck-like piece of bitumen, it still won’t flow to the surface without thermal energy to melt it and allow production.

At what point did we stop making sense and started punishing companies simply for extracting a viable, in-demand product that virtually everyone relies on in daily life, just because it’s heavy and takes more energy to produce?

Labeling it “dirty” to satisfy our biases ignores the fundamental reasons we need this oil in the first place. Also, why don't we start calling heavy ppl "dirty", same logic. Heavy oil is just that, heavy... and needs more energy to be produced.🫡🪒

[Braxton McCoy @braxton_mccoy]

Please take a minute to understand the concept of "taqiyya." It's happening all around you rn and it's imperative you develop a grounded and realistic view of islam.