Mr. Micawber
@mrmicawber.bsky.social
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Hmmm… let’s see:
This hospital will charge $250,000 for my open heart surgery - but Scalpels ‘R Us only wants $5,000…
This hospital will charge $250,000 for my open heart surgery - but Scalpels ‘R Us only wants $5,000…
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hmmm… let’s see:
This hospital will charge $250,000 for my open heart surgery - but Scalpels ‘R Us only wants $5,000…
This hospital will charge $250,000 for my open heart surgery - but Scalpels ‘R Us only wants $5,000…
The US runs a massive deficit.
The only way to fix that is to increase taxes: but the dilemma is, tax the rich, don’t get re-elected; tax the middle class, don’t get re-elected.
Mangolini’s brilliant idea is to tax the middle class, but tell them someone else is paying.
The only way to fix that is to increase taxes: but the dilemma is, tax the rich, don’t get re-elected; tax the middle class, don’t get re-elected.
Mangolini’s brilliant idea is to tax the middle class, but tell them someone else is paying.
December 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The US runs a massive deficit.
The only way to fix that is to increase taxes: but the dilemma is, tax the rich, don’t get re-elected; tax the middle class, don’t get re-elected.
Mangolini’s brilliant idea is to tax the middle class, but tell them someone else is paying.
The only way to fix that is to increase taxes: but the dilemma is, tax the rich, don’t get re-elected; tax the middle class, don’t get re-elected.
Mangolini’s brilliant idea is to tax the middle class, but tell them someone else is paying.
Any place that has “rule of law” is now perceived as an enemy.
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Any place that has “rule of law” is now perceived as an enemy.
“I don’t like the constituents I have now - I think I’ll go shopping for new ones” is an interesting evolution in electoral politics.
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“I don’t like the constituents I have now - I think I’ll go shopping for new ones” is an interesting evolution in electoral politics.
It certainly draws a red line - Canadians who are willing to submit to these measures and go to the US anyway are probably lost to us.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It certainly draws a red line - Canadians who are willing to submit to these measures and go to the US anyway are probably lost to us.
The Canadians won the coin toss and picked snowshoes.
On the first night of the exercise, the Canadians snuck into the US camp and destroyed all the fuel supplies.
The exercise was over.
On the first night of the exercise, the Canadians snuck into the US camp and destroyed all the fuel supplies.
The exercise was over.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Canadians won the coin toss and picked snowshoes.
On the first night of the exercise, the Canadians snuck into the US camp and destroyed all the fuel supplies.
The exercise was over.
On the first night of the exercise, the Canadians snuck into the US camp and destroyed all the fuel supplies.
The exercise was over.
My brother - who was in the Canadian Black Watch - told a possibly apocryphal story:
On a Winter Scheme, US and CDN soldiers were opposed to each other. A coin flip decided whether one side or the other got snowmobiles or snowshoes.
On a Winter Scheme, US and CDN soldiers were opposed to each other. A coin flip decided whether one side or the other got snowmobiles or snowshoes.
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My brother - who was in the Canadian Black Watch - told a possibly apocryphal story:
On a Winter Scheme, US and CDN soldiers were opposed to each other. A coin flip decided whether one side or the other got snowmobiles or snowshoes.
On a Winter Scheme, US and CDN soldiers were opposed to each other. A coin flip decided whether one side or the other got snowmobiles or snowshoes.
It’s the right policy - the US threat cannot be ignored.
We probably can’t stop them at the border - but we can make life nasty short and brutish for any US soldiers occupying any portion of our massive - and thus unconquerable - country.
We probably can’t stop them at the border - but we can make life nasty short and brutish for any US soldiers occupying any portion of our massive - and thus unconquerable - country.
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s the right policy - the US threat cannot be ignored.
We probably can’t stop them at the border - but we can make life nasty short and brutish for any US soldiers occupying any portion of our massive - and thus unconquerable - country.
We probably can’t stop them at the border - but we can make life nasty short and brutish for any US soldiers occupying any portion of our massive - and thus unconquerable - country.
Sure, Putin will happily give up his nukes even though his media threatens the world with them daily.
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sure, Putin will happily give up his nukes even though his media threatens the world with them daily.
A few years ago, a documentary called “The Corporation” pointed out that Corporations are Psychopaths.
AI will be worse.
Elon Musk thinks that empathy is a big problem in “Western Civilization” - and he is reportedly human.
Imagine what his AI will think…
AI will be worse.
Elon Musk thinks that empathy is a big problem in “Western Civilization” - and he is reportedly human.
Imagine what his AI will think…
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A few years ago, a documentary called “The Corporation” pointed out that Corporations are Psychopaths.
AI will be worse.
Elon Musk thinks that empathy is a big problem in “Western Civilization” - and he is reportedly human.
Imagine what his AI will think…
AI will be worse.
Elon Musk thinks that empathy is a big problem in “Western Civilization” - and he is reportedly human.
Imagine what his AI will think…
AI is a psychopath.
Would you expect a machine to have compassion? Can a machine feel sorry when a human dies?
Cold, logical, uncaring. Consider that Musk said that the biggest problem we face is empathy - and he’s reportedly human.
We grant authority to AI at our extreme peril.
Would you expect a machine to have compassion? Can a machine feel sorry when a human dies?
Cold, logical, uncaring. Consider that Musk said that the biggest problem we face is empathy - and he’s reportedly human.
We grant authority to AI at our extreme peril.
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
AI is a psychopath.
Would you expect a machine to have compassion? Can a machine feel sorry when a human dies?
Cold, logical, uncaring. Consider that Musk said that the biggest problem we face is empathy - and he’s reportedly human.
We grant authority to AI at our extreme peril.
Would you expect a machine to have compassion? Can a machine feel sorry when a human dies?
Cold, logical, uncaring. Consider that Musk said that the biggest problem we face is empathy - and he’s reportedly human.
We grant authority to AI at our extreme peril.
What a laugh Poilievre provides.
He thinks Ma will have to answer to his constituents - while Poilievre’s constituents booted him out, his party lost the election, and instead of “answering to his constituents, he just went shopping for new ones.
He thinks Ma will have to answer to his constituents - while Poilievre’s constituents booted him out, his party lost the election, and instead of “answering to his constituents, he just went shopping for new ones.
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What a laugh Poilievre provides.
He thinks Ma will have to answer to his constituents - while Poilievre’s constituents booted him out, his party lost the election, and instead of “answering to his constituents, he just went shopping for new ones.
He thinks Ma will have to answer to his constituents - while Poilievre’s constituents booted him out, his party lost the election, and instead of “answering to his constituents, he just went shopping for new ones.
Gee, I wonder why the US gets such poor health outcomes while spending so much money?
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Gee, I wonder why the US gets such poor health outcomes while spending so much money?
It’s just a miracle that the US is the ONLY DEVELOPED COUNTRY WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.
I guess, what Mark’s saying is that Americans are just too stupid to make it work in the US.
I guess, what Mark’s saying is that Americans are just too stupid to make it work in the US.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s just a miracle that the US is the ONLY DEVELOPED COUNTRY WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.
I guess, what Mark’s saying is that Americans are just too stupid to make it work in the US.
I guess, what Mark’s saying is that Americans are just too stupid to make it work in the US.
And everybody else can just die, I suppose…
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
And everybody else can just die, I suppose…
And shut the barn door before changing horses in midstream.
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And shut the barn door before changing horses in midstream.
Oh… you’re a twerp!
Sorry, I didn’t know.
Sorry, I didn’t know.
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Oh… you’re a twerp!
Sorry, I didn’t know.
Sorry, I didn’t know.
Images of W-t-P are banned in China not because they are racist - but because Xi literally looks like him.
What’s racist about that?
What’s racist about that?
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Images of W-t-P are banned in China not because they are racist - but because Xi literally looks like him.
What’s racist about that?
What’s racist about that?
And whether Chairman Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
And whether Chairman Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh
Ask it if Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh!
It wouldn’t be a surprise if it exploded.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if it exploded.
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ask it if Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh!
It wouldn’t be a surprise if it exploded.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if it exploded.
UK banks made out very well with Russian money over the years - it was a preferred destination for Oligarchs who wanted to hide their stolen money outside Russia.
They don’t want to upset that cosy relationship.
They don’t want to upset that cosy relationship.
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
UK banks made out very well with Russian money over the years - it was a preferred destination for Oligarchs who wanted to hide their stolen money outside Russia.
They don’t want to upset that cosy relationship.
They don’t want to upset that cosy relationship.
If you think we’re going backwards, it’s clear you never rode the Turbo.
I was onboard the stalled Turbo once when passengers took over the intercom to warn that 1st class passengers were told to leave the train and board another headed for Montreal.
The rest of us were expected to suck eggs.
I was onboard the stalled Turbo once when passengers took over the intercom to warn that 1st class passengers were told to leave the train and board another headed for Montreal.
The rest of us were expected to suck eggs.
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If you think we’re going backwards, it’s clear you never rode the Turbo.
I was onboard the stalled Turbo once when passengers took over the intercom to warn that 1st class passengers were told to leave the train and board another headed for Montreal.
The rest of us were expected to suck eggs.
I was onboard the stalled Turbo once when passengers took over the intercom to warn that 1st class passengers were told to leave the train and board another headed for Montreal.
The rest of us were expected to suck eggs.
It’s like they think we’re really, really scared.
They should punish us by not buying any more gas, oil, potash, lumber, uranium and electricity.
That would teach us!
They should punish us by not buying any more gas, oil, potash, lumber, uranium and electricity.
That would teach us!
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s like they think we’re really, really scared.
They should punish us by not buying any more gas, oil, potash, lumber, uranium and electricity.
That would teach us!
They should punish us by not buying any more gas, oil, potash, lumber, uranium and electricity.
That would teach us!