The presence of a laugh track is irrelevant. The necessity of one for people to find the show funny is a different matter.

This isn’t new.

I stopped watching TV in the mid-90s when Star Trek TNG turned out to be a disaster, and there was nothing else good on.

Most of the shows from that era (Seinfeld, Married with Children, Malcolm in the Middle), are about horrible people being horrible to each other - with a laugh track! - or about unrealistic people behaving in ridiculous ways (Friends, I’m looking at you!).

Sitcoms are rarely funny, but that’s a long-standing tradition. Shitty and/or cringe-inducing behaviour rule the time slots.

Because in addition to racists, homophobes and bigots, separatists are misogynists?

I would LOVE to see Carney lose his majority. I think the NDP could make some gains and be the hand holding the government’s leash.

Calgary was facing a big infrastructure cost to update our EOL fluoridation system. Three counsellors drove the charge to get rid of fluoridation entirely: a ‘stop all government spending!’ con, an anti-science earth mother type, and a progressive who kept screaming ‘we need to address dental care as a societal issue!’

And so we saw tooth decay climb for a decade. When we finally decided to put it back in, the cost was higher than the initial upgrade plus a decade of maintenance would have cost.

Idjits,

A24 did such a spectacular job of totally fucking up the rerelease of Stop Making Sense, to the point that I have no expectations of decent action from them.

I don’t know anyone who disinfects their blades, or generally takes them out between shaves. Just rinse the razor in hot water and hang it in a stand to dry.

Different blades work for different people - hair, skin, sensitivity, and technique vary, so try a dozen different blades and decide what works best for you.

After 30 years of different products, Henri et Victoria have become my go-to for soap. They make great shaving stuff in general, and have a vegan option.

As you get more comfortable with your razor, pay close attention to its angle to your skin.

Ai generated ads are heartless, meaningless, slimy, and inauthentic. Sounds perfectly on-brand for the CPC.

“I met a lady at the airport…”

No you didn’t. Stop making up bullshit glurge stories, you pathetic lying shit-for-brains wannabe fascist.

Sorry, don’t care about this right-wing sellout anymore. Nothing he says can be trusted.

I would argue that liberal voters don’t wear the party like a brand in the same way that CPC voters do.

I know a lot of people who voted Liberal grudgingly, to keep Poilievre out of power. Carney seemed like a decent sort, although decidedly more conservative than they’d like.

They are PISSED at the party now.

I predict huge gains for the NDP, if Lewis can do a better job of managing his image than Singh did. (Sadly, it helps that he’s white.)

No pre-orders, ever.

Stand strong.

She needs to check herself. Fucking psychopathic traitor.

Thing us, planning to sell secrets (or commit violence) is sufficient cause, which implies that promises to leak secrets they don’t (yet) have would be a criminal act.

She’s been working with the separatist vermin who have directly been lobbying the US for the breakup of Canada. If they can show that Sylvestre et al have committed treason, then 46.2(e) might be applicable.

Honestly, they should have gone with sedition.

“Stop requiring oversight or safety on our farms.”

I thought I recognised her name: she is chief of staff to David Bexte, the MP who is trying to pushbthour automatic approval after 90 days for new fertilizers and pesticides. He is also the father of recist and misogynist Keean Bexte.

Racist bullshit.

Didn’t mulch the beets enough - they’re still alive.

Waterfox.

We moved a few weeks ago. Yesterday afternoon, my new neighbour who I had not yet met yelled over the fence at me. We met up out front, introduced ourselves, did the social thing, and then he said “hey, your new house has an air conditioner, and there’s a cover on it. You probably want to take that off.”

He was right. I did. Thanks new neighbour, for being…well, for being a neighbour.