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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • It would be just the same with Jill Stein or Chase Oliver as leader, Wall Street will benefit. There is obviously outsized influence of rich people in government, but big money makes money with money, doesn’t matter what the politics are.

    It’s more important that A. The US doesn’t put a leader who has real plans to become dictator and the Project2025 yes-men lined up behind it, and B. The US chooses a leader who better represents the national interests of common people, which will not happen if too many would-be Harris voters choose 3rd party or abstains.



  • The important thing is that the distinction between bikes and motorcycles are a little different in Japan than elsewhere.

    Elsewhere, there’s a speed or weight limit, where if the e-bike can travel at greater than that speed without pedaling, it’s classed as a motorbike, otherwise it’s a electrically assisted bicycle and follows bicycle rules.

    In Japan, the distinction is if the bike can move at all on its own without human input (i.e. it has a throttle), then it is a moped and classed the same as a motorbike, requiring a licence (a <50cc motorbike or general automobile licence), registration plate, liability insurance, helmet, and a prohibition against drunk and distracted driving (note: now manual bicycles are subject to the same prohibitions as well). The law was clarified this year that for a moped-class e-bike, even if the motor is switched off, is still the same, it doesn’t drop to a bicycle class.










  • Good showing for NDP in Regina and Saskatoon. However, Sask Party has a convincing majority mandate from the rest of the province. I guess they want to keep the province in irrelevance for 4 years.

    SK-NDP are in a good position for next time, now that they know the real battlegrounds to win and the resources they will be provisioned from the legislature.

    I guess the BC election is essentially the same story with parties flipped. The opposition coming together in a surprise wave of momentum, the incumbent holds the majority but by a surprisingly close margin.


  • Is this the watch thread? Vote tallies taking a long time because the Sask Party likes doing things the Stone Age way, and also because there are fewer ballot boxes to make things harder for the cities, of course.

    • barring an upset in Moose Jaw Wakamaw it appears the Sask party has it, but barely (est. 31 to 35)/61. A 1 seat above majority is still a very plausible outcome which would be a very weak majority with the Speaker selection.
    • CBC projects Sask Party Majority at least 32.


  • 変わりそうでも変わらないだろうか。。。

    立憲民主党か自由民主党が他の野党らと力合わせ過半数を得られるかが現在の注目だ。この時点ではあり得ないことはないが、やっぱ国会は国民のために改善するのはむずかしいですな。