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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
What's wrong with Bing? I find I like it better than Google nowadays, even if Bing doean't tell me to kill myself anymore.
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
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
They've been dropping more
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
2yr ago
Our governor generals are appointed by the Crown. The PM recommends, but it is still a royal function.
realaccountname
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
IIRC, implementations of Georgism also include Land Transfer taxes to mitigate people earning that windfall.
realaccountname
2yr ago
Minimodding has to be the most annoying thing that can happen in a forum. Stop being a weenie.
realaccountname
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
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.
realaccountname
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
Thanks for all the hard work, and it's a shame it didn't work out over on leddit.
Can we start our own collection of Marseys like on the parent site?
They desist. Turns out for most marginalized people, getting away from high school greatly improves the quality of their life.
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