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  • Want to sabotage a protest? Encourage advocacy for increasingly tangential issues. Focus splits, folks start disagreeing on new issues, folks start disagreeing on how issues get prioritized, everything falls apart.

    Sadly, this doesn’t even require a malicious actor encouraging it. Well-meaning folks see a potentially sympathetic audience for their pet issue and boom.

    I’ll happily debate political beliefs, but not here. In vegan communities, I’m here for the animals and welcome anyone here with similar motivations. Fragmenting the community by requiring increasingly narrow adherence to beliefs X, Y, and Z is not helpful.


  • Probably worth distinguishing the cross-party ERRE survey from the LPC push-poll that was mydemocracy.ca.

    Compare as an example the quality of questions and their inherent biases:

    The former asked people to rate how much they agreed with statements like

    • Independent candidates should be able to be elected to Parliament
    • The current electoral system adequately reflects voters’ intentions
    • Seats should be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received by each political party
    • Voters should elect local candidates to represent them in Parliament
    • The current electoral system should be changed

    Whereas the latter asked more loaded questions:

    • There should be parties in Parliament that represent the views of all Canadians, even if some are radical or extreme.
    • Governments should have to negotiate their policy decisions with other parties in Parliament, even if it is less clear who is accountable for the resulting policy.
    • It is better for several parties to have to govern together than for one party to make all the decisions in government, even if it takes longer for government to get things done.





  • Agar is only going to work if you heat it. Xanthan gum might be the best alternative here that requires no heating. It’ll certainly make it more viscous, but might result in a less than appealing texture. I’d experiment with maybe heating a xanthan gum and agar mix, then removing from heat and stirring in the yogurt. I dunno, requires playing around depending on desired results.