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realaccountname
1yr ago
To be fair, Phillips certainly panders to the crowd. In Calgary, he apologized to us for Californians getting lost on the way to Texas and ending up in Calgary.
realaccountname
1yr ago
Bugs look horrific under a microscope. Likely because their features are so different from mammals, and in less asthetically pleasing ways than most fish or birds. Scale that up to cow size and people would call for the abomimation to be excised.
realaccountname
1yr ago
Quebec gets special recognition as a distinct nation within Canada. While it probably doean't mean all that much in a strict legal manner, they tend to go their own in a lot of ways that other provinces don't. Quebec mamages their own Old Age Security plan seperate from CPP, they have their own tax collectors instead of letting CRA do it, Quebec practices civil code instead of common law at the Provincial level.
Quebec also gets privilidges such as extra Senators and nice carve outs from equilization schemes (power generation revenue not counting being a big one). Quebec also doesn't get shamed when it uses the Notwithstanding Act to compromise what are seen as core freedoms. The Official Languages Act bans English on signs in Quebec, an unconstitutional law that Quebec that Quebec maintaimed with the Notwithstanding clause amd the Federal Government turned a blind eye to. Alberta tried the same trick with an abortion ban but drew the ire of the Federal Government and was forced to back down.
realaccountname
1yr ago
That sub is mostly trans posters. If a place isn't a total hug box it's "toxic." I guess this is how all pressure groups operate though.
realaccountname
3mo ago
CHL hazing is notoriously wild. Former Philidelphia Flyer Dan Carcillo's class action lawsuit against the CHL alleges rookies in his CHL team, Sarnia, routinely being urinated on or beaten while naked.
realaccountname
11mo ago
Given that Catholics made the Dodgers disinvite the Sisterhood of Eternal Indulgence for Pride Night, it seems the right is finding its feet.
realaccountname
1yr ago
On the gripping hand, we've had some pretty big fan revolts recently. Marvel fans hated She Hulk and no one can defend Dr. Strange. The Ring of Power seems to be badly written Tolkien fanfic hiding behind a woke facade. No one the Star Wars sequels anymore.
We're seeing some tentpole IPs recede, for sure.
realaccountname
3mo ago
One Sens fan to another: how do you reconcile the treatment of Drake Batherson? Poor guy has been hounded by the prog side of the fanbase ever since he misheard Claire Hannah's question in 2022. Now that he's not involved in the charges, they've doubled down with "well he didn't do anything to help" or " I was fine to be uncomfortable then and saying I should have waited for details before vocalizing that is sexist "
Frankly, it feels supremely unfair. We have no idea whether he was involved or not. and not even a sorry for him getting dragged on socials for over a year. Especially when Formenton was exiled and Batherson wasn't.
realaccountname
4mo ago
Not Kulak but 50-50. The CBC has been slipping in public conciousness ever since they lost the NHL rights to Roger's in 2015 and Peter Mansbridge retired. The only people who watch CBC news are old Lauerntian boomers. The only relevant CBC show in the last decade was Schitts Creek which ends this year. I'm not sure the majority of Canadians would notice or care.
realaccountname
1yr ago
They desist. Turns out for most marginalized people, getting away from high school greatly improves the quality of their life.
realaccountname
1yr ago
We had an Italian grad student in a lab my wife worked in. We started getting Hawaiian pizzas just to fuck with him. It was great.
realaccountname
11mo ago
I'm not a misogynistic incel, but whenever I talk about my dating woes a good portion of people feel the need to tell me "Don't be an incel!" when I haven't said or done anything remotely misogynistic. I figure the Motte is probably a good place to find people who understand my perspective.
Incel outside its original context essentially means shorthand for "whiny downer whining about no bitches." So, you were probably ruining the vibes and the other party wanted a fast way to shut it down with zero effort and no oppurtunity to argue it.
realaccountname
4mo ago
It is not saying that Sam and his parents did not care about other people's wants, although of course that could well be true.
It does suggest that "I don't care to think about you enough to have an idea of what you want, so I'm going to eschew that responsibility altogether." A key part of gift giving is the thoughtfulness that went in to getting the right gift. Not doing that sends a message.
realaccountname
1yr ago
The Japanese unit has a ton of content about how Socialsm is better than capitalism. I was suprised to see people dunking on Duo in the comment section. More recently added sections seem to have less of that
realaccountname
1yr ago
Classes have major issues issues in common that bind them together. That does not mean they share the same opinion on all causes. Israel is a cause with conflicting opinions in the PMC previsely because it isn't a fully animating issue for the PMC. Hence the only reason you see a flaw in his model is you seem to posit anti-semetism /should/ be an animating issue.
realaccountname
1yr ago
I honestly doubt Canadians would fight back. Consecutive Canadian governments have used the crowns' power to suspend a parliment when things were getting too spicy and a vote of confidence neared. Harper's Conservatives twice and Trudeau's Liberals once (in the middle of a pandemic) so far. A modern Canadian wouldn't bat an eye if something like the King-Byng affair happened again.
realaccountname
1yr ago
Yeah, party selected poll monitors are part of the election process Canada too. Kind of dull work but important to ensure the count is acceptable to each party. Is it not a normal thing in the US?
realaccountname
3mo ago
During a live Q and A, she asked about the 2018 WJC he was on. He misheard it as a question about the 2022 Senators and gave a banal answer about looking forward to having fun with the boys. Anither journalost at TSN then used that exchange to make Batherson look tone deaf in a print article.
realaccountname
4mo ago
The 1948 UN partition plan was exactly that. The Arabs invaded anyway.
realaccountname
1yr ago
I'll have to search this up, but I though the US' high incarceration rate was a function of a higher clearance rate.
realaccountname
4mo ago
From the rest of the post it seems like that's just a typo.
realaccountname
4mo ago
According to the Catholic Church, Eaater and Good Friday are #1 and #2. We worship Christ because of his passion, execution, and resurrection. He died and came back so that those who believe shall live.
Any Christian that celebrates Christmas over Easter has missed the point.
realaccountname
10mo ago
If anything, I've found cultural appropriation has been used a stick to prevent cultural transmission and enforce hedgemony at home.
"Don't wear the Aisan dress 2nd gen immigrant, wear the American one. Wouldn't want to appropriate now would we?"
realaccountname
4mo ago
Over the long run, economic growth is tends more to its flexible price/potential GDP groeth. Potential GDP is typically your Cobb-Douglas type Productivity/Capital/Labour mix. Canada's productivity growth has been anemic compared to the US and Germany. Funds for capital is pretty mobile between countries, allowing it go to its most productive uses. So labour growth drives GDP growth in Canada. According to Statcan's most recent demographic estimates, almost all of Canada's population growth is due to net migration. Natural increase is almost negligible. Cutring off migration without finding ways to increase productivity and increase capital would cause a pretty big shock to potential GDP, leading to stagflation.
Their take is certainly a doomer take, but it isn't indefensible.
This article was doing the rounds on Twitter yesterday and has two problems.
Data Definitions: The UK disposible income definition was post tax pre transfer while the EU definitions was post transfer. The OECD database wasnt clear if they took the pre or post transfer definition from BEA for the US. The disposable income of the lowest decile Britions (which most of the hullabaloo is being made of despite the medians looking healthy) would improve dramatically. I woildn't be suprised if this is the case, since a lot of inequality work falls in this pitfall, including pretty much all of Piketty's work.
Second, Notice that the US is where you would expect it in the median. Given that income typically follows a Pareto distribution with a right tail the median is near the central mass of the distro. Thus for the median to be higher with a lower 10% decile, the slope of the left hamd side of the distro has to be much higher. the UK and US income deciles likely surpass the EU ones and near the Swiss ones at the 20%-30% mark.
Its amazing how much damage bad infographics can do.
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