the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.

lol linguists hate this one weird trick that killed entire branches of studies

A: No

You can enjoy the art, and remember that the artist is a piece of shit, and that will affect the enjoyment of the art in various degrees, and that informs later decisions on supporting/platforming that art and/or artist - all on a case by case and very personal/individual basis. I don’t even see how there’s a debate to be had here.

I agree.

Letting Russia chew through Europe would mean EU has less influence in global politics, that’s not really a factor with Canada.

And this whole proxy war against Russia has been not that bad of a deal for the US, which is why it’s so regrettable that the US is now withdrawing its support.

But letting Russia encroach via Canada is basically the opposite situation of letting the US (through NATO) encroach via Ukraine. Their stupid golden dome is not as effective if Russia can just move underneath.

The classic old tale of measuring living standards as GDP per Capita.

This is the perfect metric for the US, since deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can create a fiction that somehow the country is working just fine. While billionaires put cars and penises in orbit and their workers are denied SNAP benefits, we can always celebrate their beautiful GDP per Capita graph. Congratulations.

It solves this problem of rich people having too much of a hard time getting ahead of poor people for medical treatment.

And it solves the issue in a way that the middle class thinks they’re on the winning side, but in fact they’re on the losing side, so it ends up solving a second problem: how to further deepen inequality in a way that the mass populace stays under a delusion of fairness.

And it solves the issue in yet another relevant way, in that the poorest segment of society gets to die off without care. What we call politics of extermination, where falling off to the edges of economic activity doesn’t merely make you marginalized, it actually erases you of the surface of the earth.

Triple win for the wealthy, double loss for the working class, and a final loss for the poor - death.

I too feel bad for the kids that are having to detransition.

But then what? What does that have to do with these laws?

You keep dancing around the issue instead of just saying it out loud: you think that, because some kids suffer with detransition, we should make it harder to get access to gender affirming care. Yes or no? If no, then cool. If yes, then you need to inform yourself on the already enormous hardship that is getting gender affirming care and the overwhelmingly positive outcomes it generates.

I’ve tried Diesel and ProteinCo. The latter was the only truly “plain” flavour I’ve found so far, Diesel sent me “vanilla” instead which is not the same thing.

But other than flavour options, I don’t have any strong opinions regarding these two brands. They were both fine.

Super interested too. From BC I often buy from New Zealand but there should be a Canadian brand

I don’t disagree that if we had more and more present family doctors this would have been significantly mitigated.

But it’s primarily the fault of antivax morons. There are populations with fewer family doctors per capita that have higher vaccination rates.

The thing you’re quoting talks about current number of cases, but also talks about the large outbreak in Alberta. Maybe you forgot to remove that second sentence?

Or maybe you think that losing eradication status came from the current count of cases instead of the two outbreaks followed by endemic cases?

Canadaland seems to have been going downhill

Having an issue with “ideology” is like disliking pronouns, it’s a part of everyday life that you can’t just sensibly try to distance yourself from

Me saying “the rest of country turns it’s brain off”, may have been a little more loaded than I realised, I will take accountability for that, honest mistake on my part.

That’s healthy. But if you can be this generous with yourself, try doing it for others too.

I’m at the same time terribly sorry that you get so much flack for things you’re not responsible for. But you also you’re the one responsible for growing a patience bone and understanding that this is just how stereotypes work, and almost literally everyone in this world carries a few of these on their backs. Hope you can use this experience to empathize with how other communities struggle with their own stereotypes, and incorporate that in your activism.

But the contrary seems to be happening, you seem to be missing the opportunity to self reflect. You’re not respectfully asking for respect, so you won’t get much. I understand you might have some emotions running high right now, but then again you don’t seem to be giving others any leeway either.

This is not a computer game. You can’t just stop producing a crop and go do something else. You can shift slowly over time, but not fast enough to prevent economic damage.

Yea of course they’ll use this power shift to their advantage. Just like we’re being taken advantage of by our old partner. No one should expect different from the two largest economies and military powers.

But it is what must be done now. It’s better to even the reliance on them rather than concentrate on one. This is exactly what Brazil has done better than everyone else in the last decade and the result shows. Trump tried to escalate, but tariffs just aren’t hitting as hard and the country easily shifted their relationship. Canada integrated its economy to the US and now will need life threatening surgery to change course.

Assuming this is about soccer…

Even with teams that have players that are notoriously bad at this, the total time the game waits on those is like 5 minutes

There are many options for partnerships in Asia, e.g., Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, and many others. Canada should strengthen ties with them imo.

That’s also already happening, so the question on what to do differently remains

I walked by a clinic on my way to the bakery, took their contact info, called them and asked if they were accepting patients. They were, so me and my wife signed up.

wtf