Look, I don’t know what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms, and I don’t think it’s my place to ask.

We waited for 30 years to know who Deep Throat was. Does that mean Woodward and Bernstein were full of shit?

We could be witnessing the birth of a meme!

Yes, we mustn’t do that, instead we should filibuster for 16 hours.

Or, just perhaps, different cultures have different standards for how they protest in a debate.

Which isn’t a bad philosophy if the rewards match. If they don’t, why would you do more than the minimum?

Completely off topic, but your username made me look up a Latin translation site. Joe Haldeman fan?

I’ve said elsewhere there were only 3 real options available to them, and this was one of them. The fact of the matter is, the leader of the Conservative Party is chosen by Conservatives and he gets elected by a riding, and those are two different things. Now, if the people in this new riding think he should be gone, then he most likely will be, both from that riding and the party. And if Conservatives in general think this was the wrong choice for the party, we will see the results of that in the next general election if not sooner.

Now, I’m not saying I disagree with your assessment, and I personally think the Conservatives made the wrong choice (not surprising, I didn’t vote for them), but these are the choices we’ve established in our system. Perhaps this is one that should be changed, perhaps not.

My bad, he was in fact elected in a general election, although there were rumors about him running in a by-election shortly before that, and all of that was before he was even leadervof the Liberals. I honestly, don’t remember anything about him in politics prior to leading the Liberals except that half-remembered by-election tidbit.

Another relevant example would be when Preston Manning resigned and Stephen Harper ran in his riding after being newly chosen to lead the Conservatives. There were a number of reasons for that to happen, and a bit of political maneuvering to have them all happen at the same time.

If I was looking for a more awkward bathroom experience than using a trough, this would be on the list.

I just have to say that image is a work of journalistic art.

This isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened, provincially or federally, and it tends to be resolved pretty quickly. The same thing happened when Trudeau took leadership, for reference. Now, certainly this happens a lot less often when a party leader loses in a riding he previously held, but the mechanics are the same. Get a new leader, have a leader who can’t vote or perhaps speak in Parliament, or have a by-election in a safe riding.

If by strawman, you mean fundamental laws of physics, then yes, you’re correct. If we find ways to break basic laws of thermodynamics, then I won’t be worrying about ways to sterilize water, I’ll be worrying about how to make faster-than-light starship.

The part you’re studiously ignoring is plenty of people saying yes, you could do this, but that it’s wildly inefficient. You could also power a bike by getting the biggest rock you could throw, tying a rope to it, applying the brakes on your bike, throwing the rock, releasing the brakes, and then pulling on the rope until you’ve collected your rock, and repeating until you’ve reached your destination. This will always work. But as long as your bike is in earthlike conditions, there will always be easier ways to do it. This is also the case for your idea.

Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.

This is simple math. We would need to increase our energy production by 1000 times to just treat water, maybe only 250 times if we used more efficient systems than simply heating it and letting the heat dissipate. If we doubled our energy production every year, it would still take a decade to do it (8 years if we were aiming at 250 times). That isn’t a realistic amount for a civilization at our tech level.

What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?

While you aren’t wrong overall, heat exchangers and heat pumps could drastically reduce the energy requirements, perhaps getting the energy requirements down to 4 or even 2 times the national capacity. This doesn’t means that it’s impossible, it just changes how impossible. It also doesn’t change that there would be cheaper ways than just heating all the water, or that those ways would also be cheaper with more efficient heat management systems.

No one has nudes of me because…I don’t take nudes or give them to others. It’s that easy.

Not unlike what I said to my children (all sons), “If you are having sex and not taking an active role in contraceptives, then you are saying you’re fine with your partner deciding to have children.” If you give out nudes, then you have explicitly decided to give that person the option to distribute them. This isn’t a statement of legality, but a statement of reality.

My favorite Minecraft builds.

I’m not saying your desires are wrong, but this hasn’t been reflected in reality in ever, and dismissing what was generally believed to be a guaranteed win for the conservatives just a couple months ago being turned into a minority by the Liberals as being too close is just surreal.