Random Rants ΠΕ': You're standing on my neck.

[JohannaK]

Hope your face is feeling ok! Mine is not. I have some sort of stupid head virus and it's making me somewhat light intolerant.

Coronaviruuuuuus!

 

[Farm Boy]

Why do I hear footsteps on the stairs?

 

[JohannaK]

They're nailing the door shut.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

We had a byelection in my provincial district yesterday. The voter turnout rate was 35.72%.

Oh, and we elected a Progressive Conservative. Sheesh.

Spoiler :

Sorry I'll get my politics out of the rants thread now.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Why do I hear footsteps on the stairs?

Aftereffects from punching yourself in the face?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Maybe the wormhole in my closet opened up near Farm Boy's stairs

 

[choxorn]

"Progessive Conservative" is surely an oxymoron, isn't it?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think @Valka D'Ur has another name for them that's more fitting

 

[The_J]

The video in itself is a rave, but I was responding to Takhisis.

Ah, I thought your scientist recently gained that knowledge. Sorry, my bad .

 

[Takhisis]

"Progessive Conservative" is surely an oxymoron, isn't it?

They get more conservative as time elapses. It's called siege mentality.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We had a byelection in my provincial district yesterday. The voter turnout rate was 35.72%.

Oh, and we elected a Progressive Conservative. Sheesh.

Spoiler :

You have my sympathy.

"Progessive Conservative" is surely an oxymoron, isn't it?

I think @Valka D'Ur has another name for them that's more fitting

Yes, "Progressive Conservative" is an oxymoron, and always has been, with a tiny exception (in my experience). The only decent PC premier Alberta ever had was Peter Lougheed. He did a lot of good things for Alberta and Albertans, and is probably metaphorically spinning in his grave right now, over how the current government is destroying what's good here.

The term we used while Alberta still had the PCs running things was "Regressive Conservatives." That was the term both provincially and federally, but of course that party is extinct now in both Alberta and in Canadian federal politics.

The party currently running Alberta is the UCP, which formally stands for "United Conservative Party" (an abominable hybrid thing created from a merger of the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives).

Informally, there are numerous names for this party:

United Clown Posse
United Clown Party
United Corruption Party (my own preference)

There are others, some referring to the fact that Jason Kenney did not win his party leadership honestly (it's blatant electoral fraud, the RCMP are "investigating", and the Election Commissioner was investigating until Kenney fired him). Kenney has been pushing for a provincial police force, and as much as I don't entirely trust the RCMP anymore, I'd trust one created by this party even less.

Federally, the "Conservative Party of Canada" (after a backroom merger of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties) is called by a number of other names by its detractors:

CRAP party: After the remnants of the Progressive Conservatives refused to allow the new hybrid party to use the 'Progressive Conservative' name as part of its own, a bunch of backroom suggestions were made, and one of them was "Conservative Reform Alliance Party" - in homage to the successive parties that eventually made up this new one. They almost adopted it, until someone realized what the party's acronym would spell. They decided they didn't want the party to be abbreviated as "CRAP" and eventually settled for their present name, abbreviated as "CPC." However, there are still some people who enjoy referring to them as "the CRAP party" on the CBC.ca comment boards.

Reformacon: "REFORM-Alliance-CONservative"... it acknowledges the parties that merged, but this term is not meant as anything complimentary.

Reform-Conservative: This is the term I coined years ago on CBC.ca, after noticing that a lot of posts using the word "Reformacon" tended to get pinked (deleted). I also wanted to make it crystal clear that there's a definite difference between the old Progressive Conservative party and the Reformacons (the latter still pretend to be the former, just under another name). There are few original PCs in the federal party now, as the two parties' ideals are quite different. I will say that at least the PCs did try to govern. The Reformacons are all about power. They don't care about the "good government" part of Canada's motto ("Peace, Order, and Good Government").

Originally I coined the term to try to avoid having my own posts censored, but over the weeks, months, and years, I've noticed other people picking it up and using it (sometimes without the hyphen, or altering it to "Reformed Conservatives"). But I'm vain enough to feel a bit pleased that I added to the Canadian political vocabulary in a small way.

The UCP is an offshoot of the federal Reformacons (our premier was once one of Stephen Harper's cabinet ministers).

So any time I post about the "Reformacons" I'm talking about the federal Conservative party (currently led by Andrew Scheer; they're in the midst of a leadership race as Scheer resigned and is only staying on until the new leader is chosen).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: While trying to do something in Calibre, I accidentally wiped my reading list. AGAIN. And of course, it set all the books as read again.

I am not smart.

EDIT: Then my eReader went and bricked itself. I was able to get it fixed though.

 

[Lohrenswald]

University has decided to cancel all non-teaching activities and to make it so that lectures are only recorded and uploaded online.
I'm so mad about this, it's such a disturbance to like the progress of working and studying.
Particularly now I'm taking a class which is centered on lab exercises, which can only be done by showing up there. I'm going to be so immensely distraught if I have to like finish it during the summer or even worse during a following semester

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Maybe like get some like perspective.

 

[Arakhor]

This is the Rants thread.

 

[JohannaK]

No classes tomorrow, at least for two weeks.

OTOH I would rather not be infected or infect anyone so, it is what it is.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Maybe like get some like perspective.

Imagine having several

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Imagine having several

Well the "I'm so mad about this" did suggest a rather tunnel-visioned take on it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

EDIT: Then my eReader went and bricked itself. I was able to get it fixed though.

Apparently the eReader's firmware updated when I plugged it in, but I was using a version of Calibre slightly out-of-date (newest update adds support for the new firmware). I guess that's what broke things.

 

[Synobun]

Damn, March is almost half over already?

I've been sick for two weeks?!

I'm cosplaying as the Year of Hell from Voyager.