@idealpragmatist.bsky.social
This is the handle of my thinking cap. Former political activist turned philosopher dad based in Thunder Bay, Ontario
For the future, we have to face the decisions that corporations will either be of communities or exploiting communities. Every company or corporation should choose the community that it belongs to perhaps most broadly the international community and be subject to the rules that community sets.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For the future, we have to face the decisions that corporations will either be of communities or exploiting communities. Every company or corporation should choose the community that it belongs to perhaps most broadly the international community and be subject to the rules that community sets.
History will remember us as the ones who turned off human intelligence and shitcanned civilization because we wanted the ai generated memes instead.
October 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
History will remember us as the ones who turned off human intelligence and shitcanned civilization because we wanted the ai generated memes instead.
So Trump doesn’t even know how to pronounce acetaminophen but he thinks Americans should heed his medical advice. 🫡
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So Trump doesn’t even know how to pronounce acetaminophen but he thinks Americans should heed his medical advice. 🫡
By most measures China has been nothing but winning compared with the USA and other western countries this century. Granted a lot of this has been the “catch-up” but seriously….. like them or not China is better governed, while USA is barely keeping the lights on much less long term thinking.
647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.
Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2025-09-19 · 1h 2m
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September 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
By most measures China has been nothing but winning compared with the USA and other western countries this century. Granted a lot of this has been the “catch-up” but seriously….. like them or not China is better governed, while USA is barely keeping the lights on much less long term thinking.
Who killed Charlie Kirk? Really there’s only four possible explanations number one. It was the work of a violent American political extremist. two it was a nut three it was someone who had a grudge against Kirk for non-political reasons. four it was an assassination directed by a foreign power.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Who killed Charlie Kirk? Really there’s only four possible explanations number one. It was the work of a violent American political extremist. two it was a nut three it was someone who had a grudge against Kirk for non-political reasons. four it was an assassination directed by a foreign power.
Sooooo ….. is it illegal to operate a cult in Canada? They were certainly nuttier than a bag of O Henry bars, but the powers that be seem to be struggling to justify the crackdown. I have concerns.
Health officials declare ‘Queen of Canada’s’ compound a threat to public safety
Provincial officials in Saskatchewan say parts of a former school that was serving as a compound for the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” and her followers have been declared unfit for human habitati...
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September 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sooooo ….. is it illegal to operate a cult in Canada? They were certainly nuttier than a bag of O Henry bars, but the powers that be seem to be struggling to justify the crackdown. I have concerns.
Corn Lund needs to write a song about this ….
Excavator-turned-landmark stuck in Saskatchewan lake removed 11 years later
It took 11 years, loads of equipment and multiple attempts to pull an excavator-turned-landmark out of Quill Lakes, north of Regina.
leaderpost.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Corn Lund needs to write a song about this ….
When the internet was first a thing there was a lot of talk about how it could revolutionize democracy and make the world a better place…. Now in the same phase of emergence of AI people just talking about how it can make them rich……
August 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When the internet was first a thing there was a lot of talk about how it could revolutionize democracy and make the world a better place…. Now in the same phase of emergence of AI people just talking about how it can make them rich……
Esra Klein just keeps impressing me. For being able to question the world and question himself. He’s a lighthouse of inquisitive reason in unreasonable times.
The Ezra Klein Show
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Semimonthly · Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the l...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Esra Klein just keeps impressing me. For being able to question the world and question himself. He’s a lighthouse of inquisitive reason in unreasonable times.
The sad truth is the Elizabeth May and her allies (Annamie Paul) killed the Green Party of Canada. They killed it because they couldn’t control it. If actual bottom up democracy can’t live inside the Green Party, it can’t live anywhere in politics and that’s the real issue. And it’s not ok.
The Green Party of Canada is Dead—And That’s Okay
It’s been a tough few years for the Green Party of Canada, and the 2025 election was no exception: after being kicked out of the leader’s debates, the Greens fell to 1.2% popular suppor…
saulbottcher.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The sad truth is the Elizabeth May and her allies (Annamie Paul) killed the Green Party of Canada. They killed it because they couldn’t control it. If actual bottom up democracy can’t live inside the Green Party, it can’t live anywhere in politics and that’s the real issue. And it’s not ok.
Gen X didn’t have much going its way but at least we got first pick of the email addresses. Don’t have to go through life as joesquirrel1234!@email
August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Gen X didn’t have much going its way but at least we got first pick of the email addresses. Don’t have to go through life as joesquirrel1234!@email
So weary of anti globalist conspiracy thinking. Hey ding dongs….the only ones who benefit from undermining a lawful world order are the 0.01 percent rich enough to be above the law and the rogue states and their kleptocratic elites. Everyone else loses. Reform is what we need.
August 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So weary of anti globalist conspiracy thinking. Hey ding dongs….the only ones who benefit from undermining a lawful world order are the 0.01 percent rich enough to be above the law and the rogue states and their kleptocratic elites. Everyone else loses. Reform is what we need.
It’s somewhere between sickening and ludicrous that Trump is forcing nations to be co-conspirators in his long con of the American people. These extorted promises of foreign direct investment in America are exactly as good as any of Trump‘s promises.
August 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s somewhere between sickening and ludicrous that Trump is forcing nations to be co-conspirators in his long con of the American people. These extorted promises of foreign direct investment in America are exactly as good as any of Trump‘s promises.
Was a zero tariff globalized world ever a good idea? No. A rules based global economic order was a good idea. But the rules based world order failed because of?
A) unchecked corporate greed
B) great power hypocrisy
C) humans just not ready
A) unchecked corporate greed
B) great power hypocrisy
C) humans just not ready
July 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Was a zero tariff globalized world ever a good idea? No. A rules based global economic order was a good idea. But the rules based world order failed because of?
A) unchecked corporate greed
B) great power hypocrisy
C) humans just not ready
A) unchecked corporate greed
B) great power hypocrisy
C) humans just not ready
Really though . . . who is the guilty party in this trial? The justice system. All these kids, and really they were just that, have their lives ruined by this 7 year ordeal. One really has to ask the Crown in this case . . . what was the conceivable win to be had here?
Judge in Hockey Canada sexual assault trial detailing players' evidence as she delivers ruling | CBC
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July 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Really though . . . who is the guilty party in this trial? The justice system. All these kids, and really they were just that, have their lives ruined by this 7 year ordeal. One really has to ask the Crown in this case . . . what was the conceivable win to be had here?
Honestly, we are lucky to live in a very safe country. But I have questions about these statistics. Nunavut, Yukon, Northwest Territories, what the hell is going on and what can we do about it?
The Daily — Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2024
The police-reported Crime Severity Index (CSI) decreased 4% in 2024, following three consecutive years of increases. This marked the second annual decrease in a decade, with the other decline coincidi...
www150.statcan.gc.ca
July 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Honestly, we are lucky to live in a very safe country. But I have questions about these statistics. Nunavut, Yukon, Northwest Territories, what the hell is going on and what can we do about it?
There’s a lot of interesting details here. Most importantly, the ridiculous amount of power that major retailers have over producers in our economy. This is wealth inequality in action.
They tried Made in the USA - it was too expensive for their customers
When Plufl co-founders Yuki Kinoshita and Noah Silverman pitched their “dog beds for humans” prototype to Shark Tank in 2022, they envisioned making the plush, snuggly, memory foam beds in China and s...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There’s a lot of interesting details here. Most importantly, the ridiculous amount of power that major retailers have over producers in our economy. This is wealth inequality in action.
So if the world’s biggest narcissist dropped the world’s heaviest bomb on the world’s shadiest theocracy….. I have other things to worry about. As you were.
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So if the world’s biggest narcissist dropped the world’s heaviest bomb on the world’s shadiest theocracy….. I have other things to worry about. As you were.
GTA elementary school teacher making 120K a year can’t afford Toronto. ….. this is what we have to fix.
June 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
GTA elementary school teacher making 120K a year can’t afford Toronto. ….. this is what we have to fix.
It’s 2025 and central Africa is back full circle to where it was when Romeo Dallaire was assigned with the UN to protect a fragile peace deal in Rwanda. His book, equally gripping and grim needs to be required reading in our schools. Can humans learn from history? Can we do better?
Shake Hands with the Devil
Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. ...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s 2025 and central Africa is back full circle to where it was when Romeo Dallaire was assigned with the UN to protect a fragile peace deal in Rwanda. His book, equally gripping and grim needs to be required reading in our schools. Can humans learn from history? Can we do better?
August 4, 1987 was the day America started becoming less great. Any discussion on how to fix politics needs to start here. Ending "The Fairness Doctrine" that broadcasters need be balanced created (surprise!) an unbalanced and decades went by an increasingly toxic media environment.
Fairness doctrine - Wikipedia
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June 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
August 4, 1987 was the day America started becoming less great. Any discussion on how to fix politics needs to start here. Ending "The Fairness Doctrine" that broadcasters need be balanced created (surprise!) an unbalanced and decades went by an increasingly toxic media environment.
What do we really want as citizens? What do we currently get? Currently a right to scratch on a piece of paper every few years, which probably doesn’t do much. A right to wade thru a confusing morass of doublespeak from politicians. A right to protest which probably doesn’t do much, and a tax bill.
June 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What do we really want as citizens? What do we currently get? Currently a right to scratch on a piece of paper every few years, which probably doesn’t do much. A right to wade thru a confusing morass of doublespeak from politicians. A right to protest which probably doesn’t do much, and a tax bill.
Cyril Ramaphosa struggled for years and worked alongside Nelson Mandela to end Apartheid in South Africa. He should not have to listen to racist pro-Afrikaner conspiracy theories in the White House.
Trump confronts South African leader with baseless claims of targeted killing of white farmers | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump’s baseless claim of widespread a...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Cyril Ramaphosa struggled for years and worked alongside Nelson Mandela to end Apartheid in South Africa. He should not have to listen to racist pro-Afrikaner conspiracy theories in the White House.
A history of the modern evangelical Christian right in America. Crank this up another few notches and it’s not that much different from the mullahs of Iran. But still I feel like there’s a moderate middle ground here that seems to be passed over in the discussion.
May 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A history of the modern evangelical Christian right in America. Crank this up another few notches and it’s not that much different from the mullahs of Iran. But still I feel like there’s a moderate middle ground here that seems to be passed over in the discussion.
A fascinating and nuanced examination on how the Washington Post has evolved under Bezos
All the Billionaire's Men from The New Yorker - Listen on NYT Audio
1 hour 6 min listen - Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?
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May 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A fascinating and nuanced examination on how the Washington Post has evolved under Bezos