Dan Hoover

Farmer, gardener, maker of things. Sustainability stuff. L.C. and health protection policies.

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2024-07-17 18:33:52

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@npub1mmf…eknq The system certainly rewards those who will sell their talents into serving it. Choosing to guard the human condition instead, not so much.

2024-06-16 13:57:54

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@npub19mj…ugjc The most unnerving part of stories like this is the realization that there exists a portion within our population who care deeply about how they might cause the most harm and suffering to others.
How did we get here?

2024-06-08 13:35:42

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@npub1mmf…eknq The entities who perceive any loss of wealth and power should democracies enact more progressive climate and human rights policies are pumping massive resources into making sure these things do not happen.

2024-05-11 14:31:12

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@npub1py8…y6e8 Absolutely, the message is : Do not ever challenge the corporate agenda, the real owners of the State.

2024-05-06 02:46:56

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@npub1mmf…eknq I just don't understand why they would be doing this? On Red Shirt Day makes it double stupid, this has got to make the news.

2024-05-06 02:39:16

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@npub1mmf…eknq What in the ???

2024-04-28 04:05:01

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@npub1mmf…eknq Yesterday I didn't know the name Kristi Noem . Today I wish I didn't.

2024-04-25 00:54:47

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@npub1mmf…eknq I'm sure it's not just me, does it feel like we jumped back into 1970?

2024-04-20 16:53:36

https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/304/587/313/709/895/original/d2cfa971851eaec8.mp4

2024-03-30 15:21:10

New favourite sandwich. Built in this order: A slice of bread, mozza, pineapple, shaved ham, red onion, bread slice, mayo, finely chopped garlic, sauerkraut, thick cut smoked bacon, soft cheddar, another slice of bread. Butter the outsides of the top and bottom bread and grill until nicely toasted. #sandwich #cooking #garlic
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2024-03-19 14:05:28

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@npub1mmf…eknq Don't forget Moe and the contempt he shares with these premiers for unions. Dismantling and weakening labour organizations is a cornerstone of the long game to privatize more and more profits from the public sector.

2024-03-10 17:33:27

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@npub1mmf…eknq That's an important life lesson. Never ever give any subscription, utility or other service direct access to a bank account but use a credit card instead and if they are difficult to un-sub just cancel the card. No mess no fuss no waiting on the phone forever.

2024-02-22 14:50:24

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@npub14ka…um78 From this point on shouldn't we be referring to the guy leading the christo-fascist party of Canada simply as "Jeff"?

2024-02-07 14:52:17

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@npub14ka…um78 Exactly. What is difficult to communicate is that the fascist extreme right is every bit as awful as communism. Once democracy is lost, whether to a fascist or a corrupt maniac like Stalin, it can not be regained without bloodshed.

2024-02-07 13:35:29

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@npub14ka…um78 UK politicians are downplaying the warning from their military about the likelihood of war with Russia and near term needs for conscription. Is this just a warm up act, to float the idea or do they really think their generals are idiots?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/24/army-chief-says-people-of-uk-are-prewar-generation-who-must-be-ready-to-fight-russia

2024-02-07 13:19:10

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@npub14ka…um78 Most of my Ukrainian Canadian friends & family enjoy political discussion but when it comes to connecting the Canadian right to any sort of danger to democracy, including Putin, they fear and hate the Canadian Left more. The indoctrination through years of r.w. media and certain faiths has been very powerful.

2024-02-07 13:00:11

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@npub14ka…um78 So this Tucker dude was just in Alberta chumming up the far right at the invitation of Premier Daniel Smith, correct? His job there was to hype Right Wing extremism, as has been his shtick, since forever.
Just days later same dude, same shtick, is going to do P.R. for Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, his war on democracy.
How blatant does this connection have to be before Canadians realize the right wing's long game for Canada is to kill democracy?

2024-02-04 18:10:06

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@npub14ka…um78 Thanks, I'll try and catch up. It's been in Saskatchewan for a number of years, but I've not encountered a lot of information as to how and where it came from.

2024-02-04 14:58:35

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@npub1uw8…88kr Walk atop high rail fences or scale sheer granite walls anytime, but an inch of water and it's a no-go.

2024-01-19 23:27:37

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 "...and proposed more than $200,000 in fines."
What is a fine to a corporation?
Either significant jail time for executives or complete liquidation of the entire company for such events, those are the only measures strong enough to get the directors attention to balance safety against profit.
Anything less is just seen as a cost of doing business.

2024-01-17 16:59:50

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@npub1uw8…88kr Yikes, frozen drain pipes! That's no fun. I've been there, for the very same reason. Definetly want to sort that out before next winter, but for now best of luck to you, it has to warm up soon. On the air hose thing, try and have at least one real rubber air hose around, (just one-they cost way more) any type of plastic is a pain in cold weather.

2024-01-15 17:09:05

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@npub14ka…um78 Looks like either lazy journalism or a biased editor. Did they just cut and paste the D.S. talking points for the lead up to the private nuclear power plant announcement?

2024-01-02 21:34:45

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@npub1uw8…88kr Temporary fix = an 60watt or so incandescent light bulb under the water bowl?
If so I had one of those that I "forgot" to fix for years because it worked more reliably than the original heating eq.. It has since been upgraded to a safer setup now, but a light bulb can get you by in a pinch.

2023-11-25 16:46:40

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@npub1mmf…eknq Yes but it is sad that these sorts of tactics work at all, it's not just Israel manipulating public opinions to justify actions resulting in mass death and suffering. They do it because it still works.

2023-11-25 16:34:03

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@npub1mmf…eknq Yes they are certainly burning some of the P.R. fuel they stoked, but this has been the plan all along. The buildup to this conflict has been decades in the making and their broad-ranging P.R. tactics were ramping up around the world the whole time.

2023-11-25 16:04:09

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@npub1mmf…eknq If you're going to commit atrocities in broad daylight you better have some good P.R..
That pretty much sums up every Western war justification since the 1970's.

2023-11-04 17:05:53

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@npub14ka…um78 Well put: "...given that oil is traded on the basis of grade and price, not on the need to alleviate energy poverty. In fact, one could argue that low-income countries are more likely to adopt low-cost energy like solar and microgrids than expensive oil and gas infrastructure, just like they skipped over telephone landlines and embraced cellular technology."

2023-10-29 17:03:13

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@npub1dm5…5sqe We processed more tomatoes so that was the perfect time to have a go at doing scratch pizza. Basic kitchenaid dough (really good) and 2.5 C of flour was plenty for a 15" and a similar sized baking pan pizza. I highly recommend this sauce recipe : https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/233549/dads-ultimate-pizza-sauce/ , we made our own including the tomato paste, most ingredients from our garden. Anyhow really enjoyed a thin ham/pineapple and a very thick all dressed 10 layer version. Cooking with family is always time well spent!
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2023-10-22 15:17:44

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Well thanks for your inspiration to add to this week's meal menu, I hadn't been thinking pizza until I saw yours, now I must have one(maybe two).

2023-10-22 15:08:48

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@npub1dm5…5sqe I've done my own many times (always in tomato surplus season) but have yet to find what I consider the perfect recipe, sadly some of the commercial ones just seem to have something I'm missing. Going to experiment again this week, maybe this time will be the one.
I want to find something I consider good enough to put in the canner, to have it on my shelf all winter.

2023-10-22 14:44:25

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Got a stone many years ago too, it has seen a lot of use, then was gifted a set of perf trays when a friend closed his shop and we still enjoy them both, but with very different results.
Do you do your own sauce from scratch? If so do you have a favourite recipe? I'm looking for interesting things to do with some extra tomatoes real soon.

2023-10-22 14:23:54

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Thanks. Now I'm going to have homemade pizza on the brain until I can put one together. Have you ever experimented with a baking stone vs metal pizza baking pan? The crust texture is very different from one to the other, depending on what you like.

2023-10-13 14:21:06

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@npub14ka…um78 Absolutely the network of fundamentalist churches are the backbone of the convoy actions, as well as being the source of much of the right wing anti-science/conspiratorial world views.

2023-10-05 13:45:48

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@npub14ka…um78 Spot on.

2023-09-25 14:58:58

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@npub14ka…um78 The drive for ever increasing growth of profits causes all sorts of inhumane behaviors, even to accepting disease and death as costs of doing business.

2023-09-24 16:21:35

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@npub14ka…um78 Food inspections are important to ensure that processors and food handlers follow rules designed to protect us.
The E Coli 157 situation, in regards to the Canadian meat industry, is entirely preventable at the source. Entirely preventable through simple management practices.
Why do we continue to allow this pathogen to be produced when we know how to stop it entirely?

2023-08-22 17:33:01

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@npub1qzc…yetl Saskatchewan built one of the first functional CCS systems, which did a much better job of subsidizing the fracking business than reducing coal fired carbon emissions. The government subsidies poured in to that one project would have been more than enough to pay for solar power for ever household in the entire province of a million people.
Bottom line here is: "green" projects that benefit fossil growth get govt. funding first.

2023-08-08 16:39:24

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1v58…u2q5 Harper never went away. Still trying to mold societies into fascist utopias, still living off of our tax revenues to fund his efforts.

2023-07-16 15:14:50

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@npub1qzc…yetl We used to have fireflies at a certain time each summer. Their numbers dwindled to near zero here the past few decades.
We always had loads of other insects. In the last few weeks most of the flying insects seem to be gone? Really strange not to be set upon by mosquito swarms or get your car windshield coated on a hot summer night. IDK if this is something to do with the forest fire smoke in the air? or something else? but this is very unusual for our part of the world.

2023-07-11 14:00:30

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@npub1qzc…yetl Climate feedback loops hinging upon other feedback loops, all with exponential consequences, but let's see just how far we can push things, because what we really need is more growth right?...

2023-07-06 14:38:59

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@npub15dz…6wus Our part of Sk is enjoying near perfect growing conditions this year aside from that frost scare thing. There is a line dividing most of Alberta and parts of Sk that, past that line, are seriously short on moisture but still getting the heat and winds. The weather patterns keep getting stuck as the jet stream stalls repeatedly.

2023-07-06 14:23:26

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@npub15dz…6wus On the prairies we got way too close to that, the other night. 30+ all last month, then frost warnings for two nights, back to 30 again. The jet stream has gone completely wonky.

2023-06-25 02:41:01

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@npub1kfa…6hg0 I would be reluctant to use Metformin without first exhausting safer ways to control blood sugars and metabolism, but the fact that this has been proven effective for many people, indicates to me that diet and metabolism play a huge role in managing L.C.. #LongCovid

2023-06-13 14:51:35

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@npub1ace…nh8a Covid-insomnia is so frustrating, but keep looking for ways to defeat it. I don't think there is any simple fix, more so that finding your personal balance of daily habits, such as diet, metabolism, exercise and stress management is key?

2023-06-13 01:28:35

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@npub1ace…nh8a Definitely!

2023-06-13 00:11:12

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@npub1ace…nh8a It's not that the pineapple ratio is too high, per se, but the ham ratio appears too low to get the proper H&P balance here.

2023-06-06 14:09:02

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@npub1ace…nh8a Can't imagine what it is like living near those fires.
Two weeks ago the air was thick with smoke and it smelled as if we were having a house fire-inside the house while the nearest fire was well over a thousand kms away.

2023-05-28 22:46:20

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@npub1ace…nh8a They done got suckered by some alt-fact scam using their loyalty to the self appointed king of alt-facts? Isn't that a real shame.
This has the possibility of being a very long running game...

2023-05-07 20:58:41

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@npub17pd…pvlw Remember right after the Fort Mac Fire, how it was too just "too soon" to discuss anything regarding fossil energy and climate change?
It's been since 2016, wonder if it's still too soon?

2023-04-22 14:19:13

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#[0] I have not seen this before. I watched a couple of their videos, very neat systems for urban rain water catchment. We do something similar but not nearly so well designed. This is the very best quality water for house plants and gardens and if it became popular could lower the municipal water treatment plant chemical+energy loads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3H8A4eNN2M&t=332s

2023-01-17 16:59:15

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@npub1r5j…ky3p They have a standard M.O..
1.a. Destabilize the public service through under-funding and mismanagement.
!.b collect cash & favors
2.a. Disrupt labour supply to a target sector.
2.b. collect cash & favors
3.a. Offer limited-replacement of services through new private channels.
3.b. collect cash & favors
4.a. Dismantle the public service.
4.b. retire