Overfishing is their ancestral right!

Or maybe we should just protect the salmon from all people.

There was a time when those productive jobs paid as well or better than white collar jobs.

Not anymore. Not unless you own the business.

Somehow I missed that you qualified those two groups as innocent and guilty.

Better to ruin the lives of a million people than to take the life of one?

You’re going to have to provide some serious philosophy to back that up.

Because the poor little corporation couldn’t possibly source another tool, or develop another manufacturing process.

If those jobs fucking paid well we wouldn’t have a problem with it.

Our low skill labour is already right here in the country. People aren’t taking those because they don’t pay enough to cover bills.

This, like every argument about executive pay, just demonstrates how overpaid those similar private sector jobs are.

You are making an argument against private sector pay, not for MP pay.

We have actual data going back 30+ years that watching TV limits attention span in children and is also addictive.

Nobody gives a shit about that though. What makes tiktok so much more important?

So the developers claim, but the users still encounter it, and the bug report stays open for 22 years … possibly more.

I’m not against immigration by any means. I just don’t hear anyone else talking about schooling capacity.

I just want to point out that “speak no ill of the dead” is a fucking stupid idea, and nobody should ever say that phrase.

People should be remembered for what they did and who they were, even if (or maybe especially) they were bad.

Why are people so obsessed with getting new doctors from immigration? Where’s the call to increase schooling capacity?

Our capacity for training doctors and nurses hasn’t increased in decades. Every year hundreds of potential health care workers get turned away from schooling because we don’t have the capacity. And everyone big idea is to … not fix the root problem.

Any way you spin it this problem will take years to solve. Whether through immigration or through increased training capacity, it’s going to take years. So we might as well let Canadians get trained for these jobs. We clearly want to, as evidenced by the greater number of applicants than seats.

You wrote all that out and it doesn’t even answer his question.

Caffeine is pretty well studied and it’s known that the long term health effects are nothing close to cocaine. I doubt if there was any good science back then on the long term effects of cocaine, let alone enough education for the populace to know and understand it.

However social perceptions may change anyway. What we consider as not serious may be considered much more serious in the future. For example many people get headaches or even migraines as a withdrawal symptom of caffeine, and we don’t consider a headache to be serious.

But I saw a Star Trek episode once where Picard gets a headache and it was a big deal because those had been solved for hundreds of years by that time! Turns out the ferengi were controlling his mind or something. So caffeine may be considered a serious drug in the future if it interferes with the detection of alien mind control devices.

Have they not switched to paper for those disposable mouthpieces that go on the breathalyzer?

Because that would be just so hilariously typical of our “fight” against climate change.

It’s the same in Canada, not to mention schooling capacity for doctors and nurses has not changed in decades, despite our population booming.

Okay but that doesn’t make that shirt in particular racist. Horribly insensitive, and I’ll admit I laughed a little in shock, but racism is really a stretch. There are plenty of other good ways to denounce this without using a term that can be disputed.

I actually think that’s an important part of communication that many people, particularly on the left, overlook: if your phrasing can be disputed, your words are called into question even if your underlying point is sound.

It would be wise to sidestep the issue using phrasing that is not disputable, or at least easily defensible.

As you can see, lots of people don’t read those explanations.

Perhaps clearer communication would be beneficial.

I see, that makes sense.

I don’t really think it’s reasonable to expect businesses will do anything to benefit customers though. Right now they have those costs accounted for in pricing, as you’ve stated. If they are allowed to charge fees for credit card use, they will keep their prices the same and simply add a further cost to the customers using cards. They’re not going to lower prices.

I believe your situation will simply result in higher costs for everyone while the business profits more than ever.

I don’t really get your complaint in the last paragraph. How are you losing money on transactions?

If people find credit cards more convenient then that is great, but others shouldn’t have to pay for their preferences.

It sounds like you’re saying that people who don’t use credits cards are somehow subsidizing those who do. I’ve never heard of that before and it sounds wrong to me. Merchants are usually the ones who pay transaction fees, not customers.

Wasn’t there a big thing a while ago about telecoms charging credit card fees? I was pretty sure they lost that battle.

It seems unwise to rely on the uneducated masses to interpret things correctly. Perhaps clearer communication would be helpful.

“Wage” is rather poor wording then.

Can we stop calling rich assholes “elite”?

They’re not elite, they’re clearly just a bunch of cunts.

My favourite is the “upload your genitals as jpeg”

No, they’ll spend all their money on end of life care. Nursing and retirement homes have skyrocketed in price just like everything else. Their money is going back up the chain to the billionaires, not to our inheritance.

We are WAY past that point

Why is this post 60% advertisements for the CBC?

Huh, interesting. I didn’t realize Dassaults makes both solidworks and catia.

It’s made by Seimens, the industrial equipment manufacturer. IIRC it’s one of the oldest CAD systems there is, from the 80s when they started developing it in house for their own use.

It’s just the simplest way to explain extrusion.

“A profile through which material is pushed, forming a part of uniform section and indeterminate length” just confuses people. But then you say “ya know those playdoh things?” And they instantly understand.

Wtf is “regulatory relief”?

His point about the headline stands. They directly contradict themselves in the very first two sentences.

There is such a thing as parents rights, but those rights have limitations, just like every right we hold.

They make most of their money on luxury items and processed foods, not essentials.

99% of the products in a grocery store are not essential.

Essential foods are things like flour and oil and potatoes.

What, you think big investment firms can’t wrangle all the loopholes?

Alzheimer’s and dementia aren’t really mental illnesses. They’re neurological diseases but not really a mental illness.

Are they including those in their definition of mental illness?

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They don’t even try to show you anything relevant. “Here’s some random shit, watch it instead.”

It does nothing to improve security and everything to worsen it. Not to mention the obscene cost this app has run, all on taxpayer dollars.