Dr. Dinner’s Lament feat. Luke Savage

Even if the "food professor" were correct, it's like talking about the Postal Service in the US. It doesn't "lose" money, it *costs* money, because that's how a service works. Plus providing people with more security and stability, like letting them get food for free, frees them up to spend more money elsewhere, stimulating the economy as a whole

Can’t believe Milo isn’t on an episode about a Canadian food professor called Dr. Dinner

i think part of the function of highly-paid idiot consultants like, and I cannot believe I'm typing these words, The Food Professor doing the infomercial "I can't perform mundane tasks" bit is to model performative ignorance as intelligentsia for the reader. they aren't actually trying to convince you of any specific argument, they are demonstrating how to switch your brain off by doing the Huh Emoji (google it) at a bag of price-fixed bread the moment someone says "things could be better than this", and that you are not in fact being a credulous and heinously malicious dipshit by doing so

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I can hear Mayor Pete skittering around in the background

I also the "NDP has an antisemitism problem" article go past and my reactions seeing it was about Israel shit was "oh go FUCK yourself" and then "wow this guy sounds based as hell"

Me listening to Riley reading the new NDP policy programme is basically the Vince McMahon reaction meme

Hello, grocery soldier here. We do in fact have a person who's whole job is walking about the store and looking at tags, replacing them, etc.

As children in late 1960s Saskatchewan, we still saw two-dollar Canadian bills with the corners torn off; a legacy from Alberta of the 1930s, when 'Bible Bill' declared them "the Devil's currency".

also shout out to the whole Québec independence movement that literally only became about woman wearing the hidjab. CAQ and PQ now have a Supreme Leader of Iran-level obsession about women wearing the hidjab but it's in the opposite direction

also shout out to the whole Singh-era NDP who tried to go big by embracing Diet Woke and it just ran the party into the ground completely

really appreciate all the Conservative to Liberal defectors who are completely giving up the game. I, too, agree that the Liberals are better at implementing Tory politics than the Tories are I just don't think it's a *good* thing

wow a new "Corbyn/Sanders moment"? I wonder how that'll end

Trying to decide from this episode and no awareness of Canada’s general cost of living whether there’s genuinely meaningful change being proposed from the left (compared to Australia) because: A. Canadian politicians are more meaningfully leftwing than our Greens because of cultural differences in the political sphere or B. it’s just Going A Lot Worse Over There and that’s motivating greater propositions for change

As a produce manager for loblaws I would love to run a government owned store and lend any expertise I have to making sure it succeeds. Fuck this shitty company, fuck the food professor, fuck galen weston.

bottlemen mentioned 🗣️

It does make me feel a little insane how it feels like your average person seems to think Carney's a relatively social progressive moderate when in fact if you look at anything he says or does he is a sneering imperialist/colonialist dead eyed finance psycho. I mean for example feeding into anti-immigrant narratives and cutting international student and foreign worker numbers as a market based way to lower rent costs rather than investing in public housing. Will thousands upon thousands of staff layoffs at colleges and universities have any negative knock on consequences? It's probably fine! The rent is down somewhat (please ignore that homelessness is still skyrocketing). We did it!

Much Politics

As a Canadian, it's nice to see some home town horrors and hope, if just to mix it up a bit. Looking forward to next episode when something incomprehensibly British will be brought up so my inability to understand will soften the psychic damage a little.

In Project Hail Mary an 1870s technology Jules Verne-ass species jury-rigs their first ever spacecraft which has absolutely no right to work to make an interstellar voyage to see if there's any way that they can keep their star from dying and then everyone on it dies except the stoker (the guy who shovels coal into the engine) because they don't even know what radiation is Incredible things have been possible for a very long time. 'The supermarket but it's not as expensive' is so far from being pie-in-the-sky fantasy that I flatly refuse to believe that the people who are claiming it is impossible actually in their heart of hearts believe it

Supply teacher wheeling in the TV and hitting play on "Oh, Canada" our favorite rainy day program.

From Marx Carney to Mark KKKarney. You hate to see it.

Seeing supermarkets as a form of lost technology that we can't replicate anymore is so cooked. I hate that "it's difficult so we can't do it" shit. I really miss the space age idea of "of course this thing is difficult. You're the*government.* Figure it out. It's also: an absolutely ludicrous thing to say as a reactionary, because chances are you're going to support AI data center buildout, which is an extremely complicated task.

It would be so funny if Alberta becomes independent but Quebec stays

They had to strategically disable Nova’s internet, they know she’s a load-bearing podcaster. Also, does this episode count as CanCon?

It also doesnt help when my premier, Don Ford, is actively just cutting up and selling my province for parts to the mob

Alberta talk and no November? heresy

also amazing how easy you can get people to straight up jork it to the idea of 21st century canadian de gaulle by going "murmur murmur international system maybe not great???? not gonna do anything bout it tho" at an international meeting

it's fun when you get a little teaser of the incomprehensible bit of the week in the title

It warms my heart to think about people in the UK and around the world all laughing at the food professor. Imagine the cartoonish frown he would make if he knew.

Milo still trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz

Nate should change his band's name to "The Mark Carney Project"