Glassnoser
5mo ago
Yes, but it doesn't count land purchases.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I don't think they're that concentrated. Every province is getting a lot of immigrants.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
That's not typical though. A lot of that is temporary residents. The government is targeting 500,000 a year, so you can expect that to be the long run average.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Then you're just paying through your taxes, and you're getting far less for your money.
Technically, the NDP and the Liberal Party are not in a coalition which would be if they were both part of the government, but only the Liberal Party is. They support them in votes of confidence, but they don't have any of their caucus in the cabinet, so it is not a coalition government, which we've never had.
high land costs mean new building also consumes more and more GDP
Land costs have no effect on GDP because GDP only counts the production of new goods and services. Existing assets like land aren't part of GDP.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Kulak is a man.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I thought the only thing that was illegal was that the campaign contribution was not reported. I didn't think the payment itself was illegal.
It seems like a bit of stretch to call this campaign contribution just because it makes him look good. Is them anything you do to make yourself look good a campaign contribution? Alao, reporting the contribution would defeat the purpose of the payment, which was to conceal information. Is it now illegal to conceal information about yourself to make yourself look good while running for election?
Twitter is noticeably worse for me. About 40% of the time the app is in a state in which no images or videos will load. It's full of bots, which I never noticed before. I get follow requests from bots several times a week, even though I have a private account and have never posted anything.
There are more ads and oftentimes I am shown the same ad three or four times in a row. The recommendation algorithm sometimes does weird things. Recently, about a third of the recommended Tweets were in Turkish. I don't speak a word of Turkish.
I do like that there is less censorship, but I don't believe for a second that firing so many people hasn't caused serious problems.
Other companies that have done mass layoffs are having similar problems, though not as severe. Most software I use has gotten worse lately. Facebook Messenger is especially bad.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
No, it's through contact with the Britons, not the French.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
England lost a lot of people to emigration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Maybe the ambitious ones mostly left.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Nova Scotia does have a lot of people of Scottish descent (including me), but it was actually given its name when the colony was granted to a Scottish Earl at a time when the inhabitants were all French or indigenous and 150 years before Scots began to settle there in significant numbers.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
These don't look like hipsters at all though. They look like preppy rich kids.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I was describing my own experience, not that of others at my university. I actually didn't really make friends with anyone in university. My friends were all friends from high school and were mostly guys. Most of the women I knew were my friends girlfriends.
I was in engineering at a mid-sized school, so about 85% of my classmates were men. I didn't really know much about the dating life of my classmates, but among my friends, there wasn't a huge amount of hooking up that I was aware of. People mostly pursued relationships that would last about a year to a few years.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Thankfully, I encountered very little of this sort of thing, maybe because I didn't know any geeky women. Good thing, because I was already shy enough as it was. I didn't need any more reasons to be afraid of approaching women.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
In Canada at least, the indigenous fertility rate is 2.7. The Inuit have a fertility rate of 2.8. From what I've heard, they have a completely different attitude towards having children than the rest of the country does. Teenage pregnancy followed by single motherhood after a few years is common and many very young people really want to have babies.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
I don't think that explains much of it. I don't find the women on there to be noticeably higher class on average than the ones on Hinge or Bumble, and despite there not being many East Asians here, most of the women on there are East Asian. The vast majority of educated upper middle class career having women here are white.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
I thought they'd wait longer than most people to ask that.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
That reminds me of some useless (for me) advice I've read online, where people say that, to socialize more, you should start accepting any social invitations you get. I and many other people already do that. The hard part is getting the invitations in the first place.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
What do you mean it isn't wrong? My friend with by far the most successful love live in high school and university told me that getting a girlfriend is something that "just happens" and that you don't need to try. Is that what you're referring to? Because that doesn't work.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
I've noticed the best women I meet on dating apps downloaded it about a week ago, haven't been on a date yet, and are about to delete it because it's overwhelming.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
Can you elaborate on this behaviour?
Glassnoser
6mo ago
I don't have much experience dating East Asians, but one did ask me to be her boyfriend on the third date before we'd even kissed. I thought that was odd.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
These girls also have their preference profiles shaped by the most asinine Kdrama shit, and their expectations for male behavior are simultaneously low and ridiculously high.
As someone with zero familiarity with K-dramas, I'm interested to know what this means.
Nova Scotia is also getting a lot of immigration. Most my life, we had very little and there was basically no population growth. Now, it seems like half the population downtown is Indian. I also see a lot of immigrants in smaller towns. Most of them are only here temporarily to get their PR though before they move to Toronto. But the immigration rate of any Canadian province is about as high as any US state.
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