>For further reading
Can't recommend Citizen Irving by John DeMont enough! The book explains how the Irvings acquired and moved their capital offshore (Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Etc.) oh and hey, did you hear they were in the Panama Papers too?
I would like to congratulate The Guardian for purposefully using the marijuana-leaf Canada flag in a relevant setting as opposed to accidentally using it a story that has nothing to do with weed.
Here you go
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/disney-princess-moanas-adventure-outfit/6000196060274
maybe you like amazon instead?
https://www.amazon.ca/Moana-Disney-Adventure-Outfit-Costume/dp/B01GCIJRWK
Conservatives don't really have much sense of humour. Perusing though my local bookstore selection only reveals scant titles with even a conservative bent, and even then the joke tends to just be "look at this strawman, isn't this ridiculous!" like the Social Justice Warriors handbook or my personal favorite Reasons to vote for democrats which is just an empty book similar to a journal, and that's almost like a joke right -the democrats have no plans, see? But then you realise that someone sold an empty book at full price and the joke is you just wasted your time and money.
Throwback to when the UK's The Guardian accidentally used a photo of a Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf instead of a maple leaf in an article.
Cereal boxes are the same height but much thinner than even a year or two ago.
Quaker oats new flavours only have 6 packets in the same size box that used to have 10. And they cost more!
Green unions used to come with 10-15 in a bundle, now it's 6-12.
Soup broth is 900ml now instead of 1 liter.
Many breweries sell beer in 330ml bottles not 350.
Beer cans that used to be 500ml for imports are now 473ml.
Potato chip bags have 28% less chips in them than they did 9 years ago, across the board. The small bags are now 40 grams, they used to be 55 grams. http://www.nearof.com/food-fight-old-dutch-ketchup-chips-baked-vs-fried/ Look at the pics. https://www.amazon.ca/DUTCH-Original-Potato-Chips-40x40g/dp/B07ND18HVH
It just keeps going.
100%, I wish there were some deeper Karma system to help identify good-faith/bad-faith participants. No idea what that would look like.
As a fellow mod (on an alt), I recommend reddit enhancement suite to help label harassers/bad-faith participants. I personally don't like banning or muting, but it helps me keep an eye if a thread's being brigaded by "questionable" actors.
> He was not an environmentalist. The very idea is ludicrous.
Ludicrous! Preposterous! The very idea!
> And your attempt to cast an innocent girl into the Nazi uniform is really quite out there. Wayyyyy out there.
Yes, when I said I didn’t care what Lindsay Shepard believes, what I actually meant was that I care passionately what she believes, and it’s Nazism.
> She shares no philosophical characteristics with Hitler.
Except the two you just admitted, which is vegetarianism and animal welfare. And in your math, 2=0.
> The fact I like beef doesn't make me Churchill.
There’s a difference between arguing that vegetarianism doesn’t disprove Nazism and that vegetarianism proves Nazism. Keep up, kiddo.
> And Adolph wasn't in a romantic relationship with another ethnicity.
I didn’t claim he was. So, three-for-four? Not that that would’ve changed anything of your opinion anyway, so it’s kind of irrelevant, isn’t it.
> Nor was he ever a SJW.
Now what are you arguing? That Sheperd is an SJW? Or that I am? Or that I’m a Nazi?
> Of course you will, because first of all, that is not what I said, and second of all, you have no effective counter to the argument I did make.
You’re right. Of the tens of thousands of stupid arguments being made on the Internet at any one time, I engage in all of them all the time except the ones I can’t counter.
I feel like I’m competing in the Logic Olympics tonight but the other teams didn’t show up.
If anything /u/Squidiculus was being kind. The colonies, all of them, were seen as a drain for siphoning of Britain's undesirable population be they ethnic groups like the Irish or just poor people.
Check out White Trash. It's more about the south eastern US but there are plenty of parallels between us and them.
> The Liberals are left. Deal with it.
There's a wealth of scholarship to challenge this notion, by myself and others (https://www.amazon.ca/Constant-Libfral-Organized-Canadian-Democratic/dp/0774837136) as well as the fact that wherever the NDP is strong, the Liberals and Conservatives unite to oppose them (this is the case in BC, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan)
And this isn't the party's raison d'etre, but it is a more than plausible outcome in 2019. And the CCF-NDP is the only party outside the original two to not eventually fade away. It may not win federal power, but it has an essential role to play in our politics. It wouldn't be around anymore of this wasn't the case.
If you don't see this, I don't know what to tell you.
I would recommend this book as one I've read recently. it contains a pretty exhaustive history on the residential schools (much of which was not widely known among the Canadian public until fairly recently) as well as a picture of what reconciliation looks like.
Yeah, very little is based in evidence, and the stuff that is based in even the vaguest of evidence is blatantly stolen from other places. Like, "clean your room" is in literally every self-help book published since the invention of the printing press. The US Navy SEALS went semi-viral for talking about how making your bed every morning sets you up for success--article here. Note the year: 2014, long before Peterson was fleecing people. If you ignore the blatantly incendiary political crap and bullshit philosophizing on Frozen, what's left over still contributes nothing to society.
In Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, by John Toland: the author states
>Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history ... He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”
That is the most relevant quote I could find, maybe I'll look again after more coffee.
> BuzzFeed's Joseph Bernstein tells the story of Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream. Reporting from a cache of Breitbart documents, the story depicts in exhaustive detail how white supremacist thought was laundered through Milo Yiannopoulos and repackaged for Breitbart's audience, with stops along the way to discuss the hidden support Milo received from tech workers and media figures, the role of the Mercer family in backing the entire operation, Nazi-themed passwords, and Steve Bannon, who emails Yiannopoulos to describe mosques as "ALL ‘factories of hate.'" Not to mention the video of Yiannopoulos performing a karaoke version of "America the Beautiful" for well known white supremacists doing Nazi salutes.
via MetaFilter.
Thank you. So maybe he joined early on without realizing what it was and has since abandoned it.
I did find Maxime Bernier and he appears to still post, but he isn't really relevant to our country in the same way that the CPC leader is.
There wasn't a moment where we should not have curbed the power of corporations.
> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
> What tv show could you watch over and over again and not get sick of?
Adventure Time. It's got a ton of wacky shit and constant tone changes to keep things fresh.
> Favourite book?
I really don't have one at the moment; I'm a pretty voracious reader and I've been on a bit of a nonfiction kick. I just finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and I think it's probably the best book I've read so far this year, though I don't even remember much of it because I was practically comatose on painkillers after getting my wisdom teeth out. I should probably read it again...
> If you had to pick one burger topping to have only that on burgers for the rest of your life, what would you pick?
Jalapeno and garlic relish. Ez.
You might want to check out Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by Sean Penn (yes, that Sean Penn). It's 160 pages of incoherent ramblings, and misogynistic edge-lord power fantasies. Perfect for this kind of audience.
https://www.amazon.ca/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273
in case you want to understand why that word keeps coming up. (it explained why a trump like figure rising to power was inevitable, while being released in 2007 which is kind of neat)
>Even with relatively high vaccination rates, some people are vulnerable to infection. They include children under one who have not yet been vaccinated, people with compromised immune systems and the vaccine hesitant — those who have not been vaccinated.
More people need to understand this. And, in past outbreaks, people who didn't die from measles often died from complications like pneumonia. And the disease can permanently weaken and damage people's immune system. It shortens life expectancies.
That Vanity Fair article is since outdated... Breitbart said Alexa had a technical glitch and decertified them, and now its US ranking is back up to 63.
If you'd like to read the full article, go here: https://archive.fo/Lw0yT
In the future you can Download "Bypass Paywalls" which is a web browser extension that helps bypass paywalls for many selected sites to give you access to many paid articles: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
I use Private Internet Access. There are many bad ones so do your research (or look at what others recommend in this thread).
They should be easy to use, just pick a region, activate it and you're done.
I have rooted my phones, hardened the kernels and only download open source apps from F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/
That article is really interesting though. Most of it I already knew about considering Google runs the Play Store and apps can be uploaded by anyone, basically, with all kinds of backend permissions and things that allow them to rake in your data from phone use. But you know that, it's in the article.
I also don't use my real name in my phone either. I don't download things that I can't openly monitor and control (open source apps ftw) and I have a Pi Hole running on my network to begin with. https://pi-hole.net/
And those are just the basic security precautions that I take, I have a few others running too. I don't care if people find out who I am, I care that my data is going somewhere I can't see or control or monitor or take back eventually if I don't like it. It bothers me to the nth degree.
That would depend on the structure of the business. You could still have cooperative ownership and a limited liability model that corporations have. The only difference is that the workers are the only shareholders in the company. This is how Huawei works for example.
> In principle, that would be impossible because it's blatant corruption.
If you think the government is in any way above blatant corruption, I have a bridge to sell you.
Check this out at the library.
The most important things to look for are VPNs that aren’t based in the US and don’t keep logs of the traffic sent through them. And added bonus are ones that let you pay with anonymous forms of payment, such as gift cards.
I, personally, use Private Internet Access, and have for several years. I’ve also heard good things about NordVPN.
My wife is a nurse who wears prescription glasses, and I am a chemist who wears safety glasses in the lab for most of the day (while wearing a mask as well). We use these, they work very well. A single application is good for a couple hours of fog-free living.
Amazon delivers: https://www.amazon.ca/KD-KRAFT-Dinner-Original-Macaroni/dp/B003VSF792/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3RKL3RH9QOSJ4&keywords=kraft+dinner&qid=1666397137&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjE1IiwicXNhIjoiMy45OCIsInFzcCI6IjMuNjgifQ%3D%3D&s=grocery&sprefix=kraft+di... and it looks like it's under $1.25/box.
And here's a great way to promote a graphic novel I enjoyed...
https://www.amazon.ca/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960
We need immigration, no matter what these same retiring boomers have ranting against for years
Remember Boom, Bust & Echo? Generation X was told we'd just have to wait for the Boomers to retire and then there would be a labour shortage and we'd get those sweet Boomer gigs.
But it hasn't happened like that. GenX now faces age discrimination and that is coming for Millennials too. Employers are looking to outsource and automate as much as possible, and hire workers on contracts for as little as possible. Those sweet Boomer jobs usually just disappear when Boomers leave them.
https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Bust-Echo-Profit-Demographic/dp/0921912978
The CPC meet virtually, if not, all the criteria on the list...
But I'm sure you have evidence supporting your position too, right?
How many commenters actually know the working definition? How many of you came here to say fuck Israel on the topic of antisemitism? Shouting Fuck Israel when discussing antisemitism is problematic.
How many came to actually discuss the definition or the issues with the examples. How many are aware of clarification that have been made that criticism of Israel based on policy and practice isn’t antisemitic on its own?
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities”
“However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.“
Criticism of Israel the same as which may be leveled against any other nation is not antisemitism. The collective blaming of Jews for Israel and the targeting of the Jewish state because of its Jewishness specifically and not because of its policies and practices but because of its Jewishness is. So think about it, did you come here to say fuck Israel when discussing antisemitism despite this very clear clarification? Do you feel like you are contributing to a healthy conversation on how to define antisemitism or do you think perhaps your gut to post fuck Israel on anything to do with Jews and antisemitism is maybe part of the problem?
Most of the comments here lead me to believe people don’t well understand antisemitism, and could benefit from reading Jews don’t count.
The single most impactful book I've read (and consequently studied, and lived) in the past few years is the Anger Management Workbook for Men by Aaron Karmin.
It taught me how to express myself without aggression. It taught me how to deal with my emotions without getting violent. It taught me how to be a good man.
This book is the real fucking deal.
tis a risky search!
https://www.amazon.ca/Handheld-SOOSI-Stainless-T-Adapter-Polished/dp/B07N6425W8
this is the one you want (but probably not from amazon tbh)
Replacing a radiator is 3X expensive as a tire.
This is not way and endorsement for private property damage, but one should know this fact especially if you are First Nations, and are worried about these morons crashing your meeting with the pontiff.
And never use these, for roadside "auto repair" as they are engineered for construction, not automotive endeavors.
Just a PSA
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Yeah, the ongoing idea that natives are almost non-existent is really insulting to those still definitely still alive. The July National Geographic issue has Quannah Chasinghorse on the cover with the text "We are still here" on the photograph.
A great book, for anyone interested on the topic, is written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
You're right, it's not her specifically, it's the entire party.
I'm disappointed in her mainly because she wrote a whole damn book about how we're getting screwed by the super-rich, and now spends her life doing them favours.
There's only so much incompetence we can tolerate from the Liberal Party before it's just plain malice. Their ideology is flat our harmful to anyone who isn't a wealthy elite. If they truly believe they can fix the excesses of Neoliberalism with the right patchwork of tax credits, platitudes and means-tested bullshit, then yes, they are incompetent, but at a certain point we have to concede that they're just gaslighting us while ruining people's lives.
I used to wear a Thin Green Line flag proudly because I work in Environmental Services. Like there as a brief moment where a thin line flag was just a way to show your professional pride through a harmless prism of harmless patriotism. I'll never use it again, for fear of being labeled some braindead sister-loving hillbread redneck. Not even labelled, really. Just assumed to be by passersby. There's few things that would bother me more than someone assuming I'm a conservative/republican before actually meeting me.
It's a shame, because there's really not a lot of common symbiology for people in my line of work to get behind.
I assumed that they meant they had 144,000 people - but searching it immediately pings: https://www.amazon.ca/144-000-Points-Light-Resurrection/dp/0972723226
Which. Uh.
“There are 144,000 souls in the Christ Vibration. They hold the electro-magnetic blueprint for our planet. Our collective destiny is Heaven on Earth; the operating system is Love. The 144K are the spiritual elders and the spiritual leadership. This group must ascend (raise their consciousness) first and then take their chosen place in society. Through quantum entanglement and law of attraction, the rest of Earth's inhabitants will follow.”
Fun times. Wonder if they got a deal on flavor-aid.
Yeah, they have them.
They probably took this long to issue the press release because they were waiting for said book to be delivered from Amazon. Unfortunately it does not qualify for free shipping, even you are a Prime member.
>Lots of police agencies are giving their officers
>
>"warrior-style training"
Here's a more in-depth look at "killology". Frightening stuff.
Its worse than "help cops survive and go home for the end of each shift". Its also training cops that every person is a threat to their safety, every person is trying to kill them, and there's a threatening person in every shadow.
No sadly he's kind of right, in major cities, we have some of the fastest mobile internet in the world ([#6 for mobile](https://www.speedtest.net/global-index)) but absolutely garbage for fixed broadband.
BUT we are also the most expensive
I was curious and you can't find it on amazon.
Someone probably sells it but it's not as easy as just searching.
You are making the big mistake to think these things are race based. And again, OP wrote "world wide". I doubt very much white supremacy is on the rise in Japan, China or India (just to name three).
You clearly do not understand the problem, maybe because you don't want to.
Here's a book recommendation, maybe that clues you in: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Civil-Wars-Start-Stop/dp/0593137787/
it's proabably a r/quityourbullshit moment.
Yestersday's high in Bathhurst Inlet was 18*C according to accuweather.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/bathurst-inlet/x0c/august-weather/54862
This is a great book that addresses that argument. Not that I think most of the people making these arguments will read a non-fiction book.
No moral judgment, just math. There would be a slight increase (if your a USAian) in social security payouts (not healthcare) but they would be more than covered by decrease in healthcare costs, even taking into account the decreased tobacco tax revenue.
https://www.amazon.com/After-Tobacco-Americans-Stopped-Smoking/dp/0231157770
Yes, of course, exactly like the holocaust.
For sure. For that matter, you can be pretty productive indoors as well, but you’re going to pay more for electricity.
Summary:
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Laura Kruse (former host of the political analysis film podcast Kino Lefter) takes a look at how the new fear of child sex trafficking is far from new, as well as discussion on Bill C-36 and how people create a fantasy version of the injustices in this world.
Now, imagine paying people to do this kind of stuff locally. If there are any open source Citizen Science projects that interest you, I highly recommend contributing to them. If I was going to live and travel in a tiny house on wheels, I am aiming to incorporate scientific instrumentation, or placeholder spots, with the goal of cranking out Citizen Science data.
There's one off the top of my head, that anyone with a PC can do:
> Rural networks prioritize streaming over downloads
Downloading and streaming are fundamentally the same operation: moving data from a provider to your computer. The only difference is whether your computer stores that data to disk, or throws it out after playing it. However, you're right to say that some particularly crappy ISPs do prioritize traffic to some providers more than others. That's why Netflix runs their own speed test, Fast.com, from their own infrastructure: comparing that speed test to others will help you understand whether your ISP is throttling or prioritizing Netflix traffic. But even that's not a guarantee. Many ISPs (Virgin, for example) will prioritize traffic to known speedtest sites.
> YouTube's stats for geeks is the best way to actually gauge streaming speeds.
For the uninformed: right-click on a YouTube video plyaer, and click “Stats for nerds” on the context menu. This speed test operates on the same principle as Fast.com: it's run from the same infrastructure as the rest of the streaming service, so any throttling or prioritization your ISP applies to YouTube should be visible there. But it's a bad general-purpose speed test, because the test itself caps out at 10 Mbps.
But all of that's irrelevant: I don't really care about the connection speed. mdslktr seems to know what their connection speed is, and their point is that their download speed tanks when their upload is being used. So what I want to test for is the presence of a particular effect called bufferbloat, and the DSLReports speed test is the easiest way to measure bufferbloat.
I agree with you. I was looking at his tweeted video on his claims
His points are: - There are other news streaming options, so CBC isn't necessary - Trudeau boosted CBC spending by $600M over 5 years*. He claims that boost has damaged local newspapers since they take away traffic (and hence ad revenue) from them. - In fact, that 10% boost to CBC funding was a direct cause or major contributor to declining newspaper revenues and hence Liberals created a $600M bailout for struggling newspapers.
He's drawing a causation line between funding and diminishing traffic levels to local newspaper sites, but just look at the traffic numbers for Canada and you'll see Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit draw more Canadian traffic than the CBC. I don't think it's a giant leap to assume these other sites are the ones actually winning the attention economy over the Kingston Whig-Standard, etc. I wish I could see these traffic numbers over time to prove my point, but looks like I have to pay to see them
*That's $120M/yr or about 10% by my earlier calculations. Which works out to $3.87/yr or $0.32/month on avg per taxpaying Canadian.
Simple CSS rule to disable paywall for people who can't subscribe:
.paidaccess { display: block; }
(Use with a browser extension like Stylus or manually edit the CSS)
But, if you can support the Winnipeg Free Press directly, I'd highly recommend you do so. This kind of journalism is hard to come by.
You are correct on Staling not invading Japan. But Japan was mostly bombed to smithereens by the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.
There are a number of countries which have nuclear weapons which could have attacked countries outside of superpowers. E.g. the US *could* have nuked Iran/Iraq/Syria/etc. but did not even though there is no MAD. MAD did work, but only between the superpowers. The "Mutual" part demands both sides be armed with them.
Iran doesn't have them. They did consider them but decided against it. They would never reach parity with Israel anyway. Stuxnet was an attack against industrial controls but in all sorts of industrial applications. Countries outside Iran were affected too.
The US has been claiming that Iran is the root of all evil in the middle east for quite a while. But no major attacks. (I didn't say invade--attack.)
Let me connect the dots--Iran has significant conventional weaponry. Modern missile systems, and possibly modern missile defense systems etc. The US could attack Iran but it would have to be a major air war and there would be significant US casualties because US bases that surround Iran are a liability due to their missile systems. And Isreal, and Saudi Arabia and any country where attacks were launched from. (UAE?) Their missiles were one of the 12 US demands for them to have sanctions lifted: abandonment of their missile systems as well as the mythical nuclear weapons.
Remember when they shot down the drone at 30k feet up? And said they spared the spy plane in the vicinity because it was manned?
US nukes are not a deterrent in that conflict. But conventional missiles are.
> Implemented properly there should be next to no skim for this program. A little bit of effort setting up a script on a CRA computer to do the calculations should be all that's needed.
That's the key word. Governments rarely implement to most efficient options. Look at this $86 million dollar project someone replicated with 57 lines of code. It's for this reason I believe in concepts such as UBI as welfare reform, to slash the waste of inefficient programs.
The Canadian government forcibly imposed the Band Council on us in 1889. We held a referendum, the Traditional Government won, but the Band Council was forced on us anyway. For more details, see this book.
https://www.amazon.ca/Kahnaw%C3%A0-Factionalism-Traditionalism-Nationalism-Community/dp/0803222556
>”I could be wrong, but it was my understanding this is not a Punisher patch, it actually is a blue line patch.”
It’s both. It’s a blue line patch that incorporates a version of the stylized skull logo from The Punisher.
The website that sells the patch just refers to it as “a skull”, but if you Google “Punisher logo”, that’s the skull you’ll see. It’s very recognizable.
I don't know specifically if any of these people went to the capitol, but there are a hell of a lot of Trump supporters in Calgary. Given it's a city of roughly 1 Million, it's way more than 1 in a million
https://rumble.com/vbmdft-calgary-freedom-rally-canada-loves-trump.html
yeah you can mail it as a gift with few problems from customs.
just make sure that specific phone works with both UK/EU and North American frequency bands.
I disagree with you. Same as a medical professional. If for some extremely unlikely reason you can’t get vaccinated, then unfortunately you’ll have to choose a different profession.
Protecting our most vulnerable members of society should be the priority.
same/similiar as how the techies build the best and safest i think https://github.com/
with enough contributions opensource could turn one of those open source ventilators into a robot nurse of the future...theoretically
also there is this angle here https://foldingathome.org/covid19/ i know some of the bitcoiners are helping out with that angle and can also help on cures for cancer etc
bitcoin is opensource and now it in every country of the world free for anyone to use
but basically opensource means sharing and building upon each others ideas and open for anyone to use for free with millions of eyes potentially scrutinizing for mistakes or weakspots in the project
I use Jitsi's legacy SIP client for other purposes. Their new platform that supports full-fledged videoconferencing is reportedly one of the better open-source solutions at the moment.
Unfortunately a common struggle with Jitsi self-hosting is that it's less than intuitive, but it's otherwise on par with its competitors.
the context is regard to climate change and mining/fossil fuel extraction. So canadian companies like Belo Sun, Kinross Gold, Yamana Gol are trying to buy up land in the Amazon that Brasil is pledging to accelerate the deforestation.
then you have Trudeau backing the pipeline and trying to run roughshot over native objections to it
While you believe that faulty polling makes the statistic unreliable and worthless. This is taught in every first year undergraduate stats course.
From datapine on misleading statistics
The manner in which questions are phrased can have a huge impact on the way an audience answers them. Specific wording patterns have a persuasive effect and induce respondents to answer in a predictable manner. For example, on a poll seeking tax opinions, let’s look at the two potential questions:
– Do you believe that you should be taxed so other citizens don’t have to work?
– Do you think that the government should help those people who cannot find work?
These two questions are likely to provoke far different responses, even though they deal with the same topic of government assistance. These are examples of “loaded questions.”
A more accurate way of wording the question would be, “Do you support government’s assistance programs for unemployment?” or, (even more neutrally) “What is your point of view regarding unemployment assistance?”
The latter two examples of the original questions eliminate any inference or suggestion from the poller, and thus, are significantly more impartial. Another unfair method of polling is to ask a question, but precede it with a conditional statement or a statement of fact. Staying with our example, that would look like this: “Given the rising costs to the middle class, do you support government assistance programs?”
A good rule of thumb is to always take polling with a grain of salt, and to try to review the questions that were actually presented. They provide great insight, often more so than the answers.
You might enjoy Fire and Ice: The United States Canada And The Myth Of Converging Values. The author, Michael Adams, released a follow up book called Could It Happen Here?: Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit.
Where does she stand?
Chrystia is a freedom crusader & is the thin red line between Democracy and authoritarianism.
She also authored this book:
Plutocrats,The rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else
https://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-Rise-Global-Super-Rich-Everyone/dp/1594204098
Link to the consultation.
Also, just going to plug this here: r/privacytoolsIO currently recommends three VPN services, if anyone is interested. And if you don't want to follow a link, the three VPN providers are:
Even if you aren't interested in pirating (Linux distros, of course), a VPN is highly recommended for general privacy and thwarting potential censorship and mass surveillance, which is always a possibility in a Five Eyes country.
It wasn’t ‘way down’. It was two clicks.
Mapox Corp. Canada is Already Great Cap with Canadian Flag Adjustable Baseball Hat Red https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07V21M3M7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_i_Q8BBYZJ4F2DXKXWA6352
It’s in the title.
Jordan Peterson uses Evolutionary Biology in the same way that Deepak Chopra uses Quantum Theory.
Neither of them is an expert in the actual field, but uses it's catchphrases and cherry picks data that agrees with their theories while completely ignoring anything that doesn't.
If you want to learn about evolutionary biology, read a book from an evolutionary biologist.
I'd recommend Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
It won't help you to justify any existing biases you may have against feminism or trans people, but it will give you a good framework about what 'evolutionary biology' really is and why it's interesting
Don't blame immigrants for problems caused by wealthy elites. Both economists and small business organizations think immigration is needed for our economy. We as a country have always relied on immigration to meet our demands for both menial labour and more recently at least professionals too.
I had to read this book for Uni, it does a great job explaining why most peoples wages have stagnated since the 80s and why the wealthiest in our society have keep getting richer.
There's a bunch, so it's good to do your research before picking one since some can be dubious, but I personally use Mullvad which I'm really happy with. Others I've seen recommended and seem reputable are NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and WindScribe.
Dunno, haven't tried. Try it and see. Your local walmart needs to support it, not all do yet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.walmart.instoreapp&hl=en_CA
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/my-walmart-in-store-shopping/id1137999557
https://www.amazon.ca/Exxoneration-Richard-H-Rohmer/dp/0771077025
>Fiction - Thriller - A chilling and realistic vision of a major clash between Canada and the United States. Dealing with the fictional Canadian take-over of EXXON
also there are mask straps you can buy that's like $1-2 each that can hook the loops around the strap on the back of your neck. seen them at walmart, $5 for a pack of 4. I use them regularly to take the stress off the back of my ear.
The Americans have a few good books like that :( I'm jealous - you might also like An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
I've recently read a book - stories of ppl who decided, one way or another, to spend their life making stuff with their hands. She says that we make things "in order to slow down. To connect with others. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting." So much of what we do, and consume, brings only temporary gratification and yearning for more.
Wealth inequality is most definitely a biggest problem of our age. It is at the root of other kinds of inequalities.
Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Anyone have any thoughts on this VPN? They have their own subreddit too; r/ProtonVPN.
I use airvpn. VPNs will always come with a reduction in torrent speed, but it's a necessary price to pay for not having your IP freely available to copyright trolls.
You should pick a provider that doesn't log traffic, ie. not TorVPN. Head here, and look at the LOGGING, SPEEDS and AVAILABILITY columns.
> I think it would be incorrect to attribute the majority of the loss to genocide when infection/disease that the natives had no immunity to are probably the leading cause across the continents.
Hi, I'm studying the immune system and diseases, including some historical context.
There's a book - In the days of the Red River Rebellion - that we were shown as part of learning about the history of smallpox that contains accounts that allege that smallpox was sent ahead of European explorers on purpose in order to clear out the land of the Indigenous peoples so that Europeans could take over.
Check out page 130 in this archival view. I haven't read the whole book myself, but this page was shown during a lecture I had from Dr. Evans. He's been researching smallpox and variola virus for his entire career and is one of the world's best known experts on the disease.
The initial spread of smallpox and the mortality it caused may initially have been an accident, but once the settlers realized the damage it could cause, they absolutely spread it on purpose. The Haida of the West coast were reduced from perhaps 30,000 people in 1774 to only 800 by 1885.
The article I linked you to addresses this and proves it misleading and outright false. I would quote the relevant sections, but I genuinely suggest reading it yourself, as it's a comprehensive piece and displays the ways the World Bank and IMF abuse their data and consistently shift what qualifies as poverty to make it appear poverty is reducing. In reality, global poverty is increasing. For starters, you'll note that in this graph the poverty number has been shifted from the previous use of $1.25/day to $1.90/day.
Hickel's relatively new book goes into the topic a lot further, of course, and is an exceptional read and necessary for anyone wishing to discuss global poverty.