Neck and neck with US? As an American I feel like the UK is both better (some social protections and healthcare), worse (social mobility, pay, legacy monarchy shite like hereditary house of lords BS), and the same (private companies and the wealthy lobbying away what is right, elected officials selling the silverware by privatizing shit, debt, shooting themselves in the foot with economic suicides credit, tarrifs…).

Anyone else have thoughts? Which is the worse country to live in for the average person?

It’s on AFI’s top 100 movies, yeah you’d better watch it. It’s great to see bogart not playing suave, suited characters ala cary Grant.

John Huston was super interesting and influential filmmaker in his own right.

Found the anti-feminist! /s

Classic blunder? What about getting involved in a land war in Asia?!?

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

Holy shit…do other states not have this already? We passed this like 15 years ago…and that was before driving turned into night of the living dead meets 2Fast.

Their corporate donation spice must flow, and a progressive platform isn’t what is requested.

As an American whose ISP was just bought by Bell, I assume the prioritization of US markets over CAN is because of the opportunity to bring competitive pricing, privacy basics and reduced wholesaling of private info to a citizenry with increasingly hostile federal government? 😬

Oregon has bonding time for fathers as well and paid family leave, actually the most generous pay rates and broadest application in the US. 100% of pay up to ~$60k indexed to inflationary measure and benefits tapers down for higher earners.

Oh good, a new Godzilla plot.

The irony of this great piece being published by the NYT as opinion rather than front page news and a rallying cry is the sad irony of the NYT business putting it’s political, advertising or financial fortunes ahead of the country it was founded in that is deeply wounded. That is of course the point of the oped.

“heckuvajob” is the established nomenclature.

Trogdor!!!

And double down on car infrastructure that costs enormously more per mile per year per passenger, while ruining public health, urban planning and destroying the environment leading to accelerating disasters.

All christofacists want is to have it both ways, what’s so hard to accept?

Could be…unfortunately in these uncertain times on the internet it’s anyone’s guess.

Concentration of population, wealth of state, corruption metrics of state and lobbying power established in state.

“Take for granted” is the expression, granted being something that does not need to be proved, to the extent it is a point given freely in a discussion or debate.

An American, I wasn’t brought up to understand the divide between Alberta and some of the more visible parts of Canadian culture, economy or politics. I’ve been puzzling learning more about Alberta, their ascendent conservatism extremism over the last 5 years and trying to understand the sudden change. This brief article made me realize the “Texas” psychosis goes back decades and has laid the groundwork and produced the same sort of wealthy, entitled, selfish brood in Alberta that the US failed to stop spreading.

Going to check out the book mentioned for a more full read but excellent excerpts and TLDR for the “WTF is up with Alberta?”.

Hope you Canadians go hard on them and stamp it out, they will ruin your country too if you don’t.