Playin in the dirt, hoping to leave things better than I found them

Joined March 2011
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Almost every single person on Earth lives with rats. Only 5 million people out of 8 billion live rat free. They are the Albertans. Alberta is the only significantly human-inhabited place on Earth that is rat free. It achieved this in the 1950s as rats invaded from the East, by introducing a rodent surveillance state, obliging every citizen of the province to report them and terminating any sightings with extreme prejudice. They laid 63,000 kg of arsenic across a 600-kilometre-long, 29-kilometre-wide Rat Control Zone along the province's Eastern border. Back then, rats were so unfamiliar in Alberta that officials distributed preserved rat corpses to teach people what the enemy looked like. One pest-control officer held public meetings at which he ate warfarin-soaked oatmeal to show it was safe. And it worked! They held rats off and numbers remained so low that the surveillance and eradication system could keep numbers at essentially zero for years, at extremely low costs – Alberta spends about 11 cents per resident on rat control measures, much less than neighbouring provinces that are infested. Today, Albertans have grown so unfamiliar with rats that they frequently mistake squirrels, gophers, and other small animals for them: of 875 reported sightings in 2025, only 47 turned out to be actual rats. Pet rats are banned, vehicles entering Alberta are checked, and sightings are responded to with overwhelming force. Could the rest of the world manage it? Probably not. The secret was to stop them before they could establish themselves. For the rest of us, we probably need gene drives. Read the story of how Alberta won the war on rats at Works in Progress now. worksinprogress.co/issue/alb…
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A Canadian Army training film from 1942 demonstrates the .55 inch Boys anti-tank rifle. The film, entitled 'Stop That Tank,' was produced by none other than Walt Disney.
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Honestly this is embarrassing.

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On this day in 1908, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley passed away. He gave the world the greatest trophy in all of sports @StanleyCup #Hockey365
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Great digging by @KanwarSierah here. There are 28K refugees from Uganda being processed for permanent residency of Canada… … BUT Uganda itself accepts refugees from Somalia. I think we may be witnessing the Refugee Industrial Complex in its full splendour.
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He's not wrong. It's going to take some good men to do bad things to right this course we are on.
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“The only word I can put to it is treason” Our Government clearly lied when they claimed they properly vetted millions of immigrants entering our country.
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🚨NEWS: It has been reported that Stephen Ogilvie, the man attacked by a migrant in Belfast has sadly lost sight in both eyes
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According to Saxo Grammaticus, in medieval Danish law when a foreigner slew a Dane, two foreigners must be put to death. Disproportionate penalty was seen as justice because foreigners lacked the same kinship and legal protections (weregild) that Danes enjoyed, so the society mandated a harsher, collective penalty for them. They believed rulers owed their people an uncompromising deterrent to prevent outsiders from disturbing the peace or assaulting native Danes. Something to think about.
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Travis Pastrana doing backflips in front of the White House. America, fuck yeah.

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Dad with the massive W
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The Shire only survives when decent people stop pretending evil is just a misunderstanding. That is Carney’s Liberal Canada in one line: comfortable people, protected by other people’s sacrifice, lecturing the rest of us to stay polite while the country gets weaker, poorer, less safe, and less free. They call it compassion. They call it progress. They call it “expert management.” But ordinary Canadians know what it feels like: higher costs, weaker borders, rising crime, collapsing services, punished energy, and a political class that treats national decline like a branding problem. You do not save the Shire by pretending Mordor is a diversity seminar. You save it by waking up.
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Swedish man: "My son has been robbed three times. Twice by Somalis, once by Arabs. He is 19 years old and marked for life. He doesn't dare go out alone. Sweden had to lower the criminal lavalder to 13 years due to migrant violence and organized crime. Norway needs to follow suit. We need to close the borders from these countries that are so overrepresented on all the wrong statistics. We need to do this before it is too late.
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German tour guide is using a German flag in Germany to guide his group. 5 police officers stop him. The flag is offensive to those who are not identifying with Germany. What the f&ck?

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Well, damn.

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SpaceX is now worth more than Canada
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Europe is about to wake up in a fucking nightmare
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Oh no! This is Islamophobic forbidden knowledge.
Denmark publishes crime by country of origin, not nationality. I looked at 2021-2025 data. Overall: Somali-origin 7.8x the Danish rate. American-origin 0.34x. Thread of Top Five and Bottom Five.
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Ayn Rand’s warning was not about some distant dystopia. It was about the moment a country starts punishing production and rewarding political access. Look at Liberal Canada. If you want to build, drill, mine, farm, hire, invest, or expand, you need permission from people who produce nothing but paperwork. If you play the subsidy game, hire the right lobbyist, repeat the right slogans, and flatter the right ministers, money magically appears. Work gets taxed. Risk gets regulated. Failure gets funded. Competence gets buried under process. Graft gets renamed “partnership.” Waste gets called “investment.” Favours get dressed up as policy. This is how countries decline. Not all at once. Slowly, stupidly, and with press releases. Canada does not need more managers of decline. It needs a government that respects the people who actually produce the wealth in the first place.
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