Crowstep
1d ago
I see /r/Canada issued an obligatory reminder to not spread hate or misinformation. It is important to be careful.
They were deleting any comments about the shooter's identity until it was 'confirmed by the authorities'.
Which sounds fine, until you realise that the authorities were explicitly and deliberately lying. The shooter was not a female in a dress, he was a male in a dress.
Crowstep
2d ago
Did you know that 10 people were killed by a (potentially transgender) school shooter in Canada yesterday?
The Telegraph, a right-wing paper, quoted the Canadian Police to say that the shooter was 'a female in a dress' before updating the headline to describe him as a 'gunperson in a dress', also a quote from the Canadian Police.
I'd have loved to be in the room when then Canadian law enforcement were deciding how to present the killing. Its as if someone genuinely thought they could keep the killer's sex a secret, or perhaps 'female in a dress' was a deliberate piece of malicious compliance.
EDIT: The police have now released the name of the perpetrator, it's this guy.
Crowstep
2d ago
Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, while fairly historically accurate, completely fails to capture the medieval mindset
Having read the book, I do kind of get what you mean, but I'm not sure whether it's just the plain, modern language that the book is written in. Could you elaborate?
Crowstep
2d ago
Spanish people (like Puerto Ricans and Brazilians and Chileans and Mexicans) are not white
I assume you don't literally believe this, unless you genuinely don't class the Spanish royal family with their blonde daughters as white (or European, a much more useful term. White is a colour, not a race or ethnicity).
I can get why you wouldn't class a Spanish-speaking mestizo whose ancestry in mostly Amerindian as European, since they're mostly not European. But what about someone like Marco Rubio? Is his 100% European DNA not 'white', by your definition? What percentage of European ancestry is required for someone to be classified as white?
And if Spanish people are complely excluded, are there any other European ethnic groups that don't count? What about Italians, French, Poles? Are they 'white'?
Your question implying Puerto Rico is somehow akin to Eastern Europe is absurd.
I think you're referring to someone else's comment.
Crowstep
3d ago
It was also devoid of white peoke completely
Are we ignoring Bad Bunny himself? Or are Spanish people their own race which is somehow separate from all the other European ethnic groups?
Crowstep
4d ago
From what I've learned, it makes people have their next children quicker, but doesn't make them have more of them
Which is not to say it isn't helpful. Moving births earlier still improves a country's demographic situation, because children born earlier will come to childbearing age earlier.
For a toy example, imagine two countries with a completed fertility rate (CFR) of exactly two, but one country has the children at ages 18 and 20, and the other has them at 38 and 40. Two parents who live to 80 in country one will have 16 great great grandchildren, while their equivalents in country two will only have four grandchildren.
Crowstep
5d ago
I remember watching Veggietales in Religious Studies classes at school. We watched the episode where King David covets Bathsheba, even though he already had hundreds of other concubines rubber ducks.
Looking back at it now, I think it's pretty good given the limitations it sets itself (Old Testament stories, told in a child-friendly way, with 90s CGI).
I mean, it's no Recess, but it's pretty good.
A knife? Why on earth do you need a knife to eat an apple?
Eat the whole damn thing, core and all! (You have my permission to throw away the stem)
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