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The "considerate culture" you are advocating for is only possible when the material conditions for poverty are absent. You need a really strong social safety net. Poverty is more s…

"Blogging websites also exist but there's just too much noise." https://xkcd.com/927/

In Canada we have fiduciaries, but most people aren't that financially literate. If you walk into a bank and ask for a financial advisor they're just going to pass you to a sales r…

Almost all "financial advisors" are really just in sales.

True, and absolutely the most crazy part of this whole debacle so far. Even if the old plates were launched by the previous Liberal government... so what? They were as neutral as p…

Ridiculous situation: MPP Lisa Thompson defends new Ontario licence plates. Video clip from Question Period, she calls previous license plates "Liberal plates". https://www.reddit.…

An alternative take is that they just sacked one of the "monkeys". ;)

The pictures are worth the click, though.

I'll point out a couple highlights of why I down-voted you: * The CBC is not a "branch of government", it's a crown corporation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporations_…

Don't know why you're being downvoted... this isn't wrong, just unsavoury.

The U.S., through employer-provided private healthcare, has not just wage slavery, but pseudo medical-slavery. If you quit your job (In the U.S.), you lose health your employer-pro…

Well there certainly won't be so many non-ethnic / non-Japanese kids in local Japanese schools with that attitude.

Or if you're "Japanese" but with Korean heritage... I've heard stories of people who had Korean ancestry and they had a deep terror of anyone ever finding out.

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/black-mirr... (EDIT: Disclaimer... spoilers, obviously) In my opinion it did feel superficial because a lot of the decision paths …

What a humdinger of a Table of Contents...

This is a bad analogy that makes it sound like you're defending flat-earthers. It's like saying you use Hermeticism's Principle of Rhythm to build a pendulum-powered clock... And u…

If this even remotely interests you, then I'd highly recommend "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari

For whoever down-voted this: Finding a spouse is not specifically challenging due to having achieved your goals... it is, however, coloured by money. "Is she only dating me for my …

Well, yes and no, the article does grapple with the issues of becoming rich. So... both things can be true.

I mean, maybe it uses blockchain technology and definitely deserves a crazy valuation?

It wasn't that long ago that people seriously debated whether animals were actually conscious or not.

I think the point was that if aliens are to us as we are to cows, then... well... you can draw your own conclusions.

"How does one preform actions?" Is this some epistemological Zeno's paradox type incredulity?

Or, alternatively, not ideal. For example: https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/174/make-http-post-... On Fetch: https://gomakethings.com/why-i-still-use-xhr-instead-of-the-...…

Also, (forgive me if I get the jargon wrong here...) isn't the vaping health crisis the article mentions due to sketchy THC vaping solutions that have Vitamin E oil in them? Not Ju…