VancouverMan

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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> a residential area Have you ever actually been to downtown Ottawa, where those protests were held? It's not "a residential area" in any sense. The moderately-wide Ottawa River forms the north-west edge of the downtown ar
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Some people seem to get immense satisfaction and pleasure out of censoring other people online. It's something I've seen time and time again, in a wide variety of discussions forums, for decades now. Such people will happily do it
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> Pricewise, things start favoring PCs if you need more RAM, as Mac upgrades are costly. That's the position I'm in, along with some other people I've talked to recently, too. For our situations, the M4 would likely offer
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
It goes well beyond fresh produce. Over that time period in Canada, I've also seen a 2 to 3 times increase in the unit price of many other basic grocery items, including dried pasta, rice, bread, canned goods, bags of frozen vegetables
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Canada doesn't have any "hard right" party of note at the federal level. Today, the Conservative Party is a centre-left party. They support big government, taxation, immigration, interventionism, and other policies that are i
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
The last time I got an ID photo taken, I got to wait and watch as the dark-skinned Indian photographer repeatedly struggled to take a suitable passport photo of the light-skinned white woman who was in line directly ahead of me. This was at
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Left wing, due to the use of large and intrusive government, collectivism, government-run make-work projects, government-run infrastructure projects, central economic planning, conscription, a disregard for individualism, and other policies
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> Will we start to constantly question human advice or responses and what does that do to the human condition. I'm surprised when people don't already engage in questioning like that. I've had to be doing it for decades at
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
This entity you're describing clearly isn't "right wing" if it uses left-wing practices like taxation, public debt, and government-funded "cultural institutions" (whatever that actually means). Taxation is inhe
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
That isn't "my definition". Left-wing ideologies inherently promote concepts like collectivist big government, high taxation, massive government spending, and government-controlled infrastructure. Right-wing ideologies, on th
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
You're absolutely right that some political parties wrongly use a term like "conservative" in their party name, or otherwise incorrectly portray themselves as being "right wing". Ultimately, though, they're sti
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I don't see how any government, regardless of location, that spends large sums of taxpayer money on a construction project could ever be considered to be "right wing" in any way, let alone "far-right". Such behaviou
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
High costs are certainly present in socialist medical systems, they're just somewhat obscured. I'm more familiar with Canada's taxpayer-funded, "universal" provincial health care systems than the European ones, so I
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
The widespread need for medical insurance only exists because regulation has introduced many artificial inefficiencies within the health care sector that in turn severely distort the pricing of medical services and medical products. We&#x27
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I don't particularly care who owns such outlets. What matters to me is the validity of the content being produced, regardless of who produces it. If foreign-owned outlets do a better job than locally-owned outlets at providing factual,
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for current customers and potential customers to be concerned and cautious when a company shows a willingness to resort to knee-jerk reactions, especially when such reactions can suddenly harm the customer and
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I don't think it's that surprising that such items are being discarded today. They might have had value at some point in the past, but they probably haven't retained that value well at all. For example, enough of the informat
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Just over a decade ago, there was a job ad for a host role with the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that explicitly required applicants to be "Any race except Caucasian". https://nationalpost.com/new
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Bringing in culturally-incompatible foreigners has certainly been a significant problem in Canada. Bringing in low-skill, low-productivity, and often criminally-inclined foreigners (especially refugees) has also been a significant and socia
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I'm not sure. But I also don't consider Canada Post to be offering comparable service to FedEx and UPS these days, too. For example, based on my experience and the experiences of other people in Canada I've talked to, Canada
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
From what I remember of my occasional pre-acquisition visits to those chains, they certainly weren't competing on price. Their drawing power was due to offering ethnic and/or specialty foods (Middle Eastern and Mediterranean produ
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
The numerous problems that Canada is facing today are ultimately caused by government interference. While we've certainly seen technology cause and enable change in the private sector, the public sector can basically just ignore disrup
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
The mainstream media and established parties have wrongly tried to portray them as "extremists" or "fringe", but the People's Party of Canada's platform is by far the most reasonable, balanced, and sensible out
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> Everyone else is experiencing outrageous costs of housing, education, and medical care ... This shouldn't come as a surprise. Those three sectors you list have tremendously invasive and widespread government interference, and it h
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I've never had any success creating a GitHub account with a throwaway email address. The last time I tried, I'm pretty sure the email address was rejected right away, and the account couldn't be created. Not being able to rea
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
If you're using Firefox because you think it offers you "privacy", please be sure to read the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Currently, you'll see w
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
What you mischaracterize as "racist generalizations" are simply objective descriptions of what a lot of people in Canada (of many different origins and appearances) are currently experiencing and witnessing for themselves each and
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Something like that would probably end up similar to GLib or the Apache Portable Runtime. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/ https://apr.apache.org/
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
What kind of data are you looking for? A census was performed in 2021, but I wouldn't trust its findings to be relevant. It was done in the middle of harsh government-imposed lockdowns and other severe disruptions throughout the whole
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
For the 2020-2022 situation, I see Section 1 as the problem. But Quebec, for example, has repeatedly invoked Section 33 over the years, including for legislation limiting expression in non-French languages, among other matters. Any country

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