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[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Carney got asked point-blank about Canada’s well-earned reputation for being slow — the kind of slowness that makes capital walk. He gave the investor-summit version of the speech: time kills deals, “one project, one review, one year,” cooperation deals with eight provinces, more legislation coming, let’s all focus on what we’re for

What he didn’t mention is the extra machinery he bolted on top of the existing mess

Instead of ripping out the duplicative reviews, endless conditions, and risk-averse culture that actually make projects crawl, Ottawa stood up new parallel offices (Major Projects Office, Build Canada Homes, Defence Investment Agency) staffed with private-sector names and given special carve-outs. That’s not streamlining. That’s another layer of process, another set of conditions, another political filter deciding which projects get the fast lane. Many here have been saying the quiet part out loud for months: you don’t fix a bloated system by creating more offices to work around it

The “quick no” and one-year clock sound great in a room full of global investors. They land differently when the same government has already expanded ministerial exemption powers, added new coordinators and hubs, and still has the old Impact Assessment machinery sitting there for everything that isn’t politically designated a “nation-building” favourite

Recognition of the problem is cheap. Pretending the extra bureaucracy you just created isn’t part of the problem is why capital still has choices — and why a lot of it will choose to allocate elsewhere

Centrally planned projects, self-selected and promoted by politicians, under side skirted existing legislation and underwritten by gullible taxpayers will fix that too, right? @MarkJCarney

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

The fact that it's "stunning and brave" when Lizzo does it but "male gaze" when Sydney Sweeney does it would seem to suggest that a psychological threat response is playing at least some roll in your reaction to either.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

This is a basic description of the feminization of society.

[i/o @avidseries]

In any purely-merit-based highly-cognitively-demanding area or field or competition, a black share of about 1% (or lower) is likeliest.

This is abundantly clear from the admissions data of any elite school or grad program.

In super-elite competitions (like Math Olympiads), black representation disappears. Any group IQ distribution table clearly shows why this is the predicted outcome.

You cannot expand "equity and inclusion" (i.e., expand black representation) without degrading academic excellence. The evidence for this is endless, and much of it is recent.

The black cognitive disadvantage is an albatross that hangs around the neck of America. When combined with an institutional terror of honestly confronting group differences, it has resulted in the gutting of gifted programs, dumbing-down of standardized testing (or its complete elimination), and the reduction of academic rigor all across the country.

As long as the left and the polite center hold on to statistically-unsupported views about group abilities, and have the power to impose these views in our institutions, excellence will continue to be under threat.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

The mask drops. And it was barely on to begin with.

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

> Imported from a dysfunctional third world slum
> Given free housing and education by native taxpayers
> Gorges herself fat on our national largesse
> Practices backward tribal religion that destroyed her home country
> Gains access to our political system
> Uses power to confer patronage on non-whites and her coreligionists at our expense
> Accuses anyone who complains of racism and Islamophobia

I'm so sick of these people. They don't need to be here. We shouldn't be paying for them. We don't have to put up with this.

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

This makes sense. It suggests a lack of commitment, a willingness to have one foot out of the door.

[Grime Square @grime_square]

our new columnist says that we're in "Late Stage Hinge"

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Also, shooting. There's more than one recent case in which someone unloaded an illegal firearm into their victim at close range, and a court ruled it wasn't murder. (Yes, a lot of these cases involve Indigenous offenders intentionally being given lax sentences).

[Mike Jones @technopopulist]

They can’t afford to live there under proper market conditions, which is why so many are in social housing.

You basically have a social housing underclass, who either don’t work or work in very low-skilled jobs that do little to boost productivity. Then you have a social housing aristocracy, working in politics, the public sector or the charity world. These are jobs that add little to productivity, yet come with big salaries and enormous influence over how the capital is run.

And more often than not, they’re not very good at their jobs either.

But they love the status quo because it gives them a form of patronage. It allows them to punch wildly above their weight while helping to hold London back.

That’s what is happening.

[hedoήist @hedo_ist]

God-tier marketing: “my AI company will end humanity.”
Also: “this is not a marketing stunt.” 😂

4 colossal live wallpapers

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

Just in case you were wondering how easy it is to expose these people:

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

WATCH THIS! The new Hungarian government has nationalized the Terror Haza, Hungary's private museum dedicated to memorializing the horrors of Communism (& the brief Fascist period), and is re-examining the "historical accuracy" of what the museum says about Communism. Shocking!

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Are ‘climate,’ ‘racism,’ and AI apocalypticism all different manifestations of ‘the airborne toxic event’ from Don DeLillo’s White Noise?

[Eternal ♚ @s0urpatchkiid]

Starting to believe those rumors that he was a high end Hollywood sex worker 😵‍💫

[mural of famous Serbs on Irving Park & Sacramento @GarlicCorgi]

One of the things hunger/squid games gets really wrong is portraying this kind of entertainment for elites when in reality it has always been a form of entertainment enjoyed by the masses

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

In Russian, we don't say "there's no free lunch." We say, "The only free cheese is in a mousetrap."

[FanZcene 📼💿 @FZscene]

You want a conspiracy theory, I'll give you a conspiracy theory.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

To be fair to @hasanthehun, he wasn’t living in the US at all growing up and wasn’t here for 9/11 so he had zero idea what the experience was actually like!

[Mary Harrington @moveincircles]

If they have any sense, progressives will fight the breakup of Britain tooth and nail

Without the composite identity conferred by “Britain” as distinct from “England”, there will be nothing standing between the English and full re-tribalisation