mfoy_

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by mfoy_ 3y ago
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 strongly correlated with criminality than any other
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by mfoy_ 4y ago
"Blogging websites also exist but there's just too much noise." https://xkcd.com/927/
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 rep. Enjoy your TD e-Series! (Although, admittedly,
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Almost all "financial advisors" are really just in sales.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 possibly imaginable.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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.com/r/ontario/comments&#
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
An alternative take is that they just sacked one of the "monkeys". ;)
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
The pictures are worth the click, though.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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_of_Canada ) * FOIA i
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted... this isn't wrong, just unsavoury.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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-provided health insurance and could be stuck footing the $28k b
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Well there certainly won't be so many non-ethnic / non-Japanese kids in local Japanese schools with that attitude.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 collapsed or dead-ended immediate
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
What a humdinger of a Table of Contents...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 unlike both Flat-Earth theory and Hermetics, N
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
If this even remotely interests you, then I'd highly recommend "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 wealth?" is not something that occurs to someone w
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Well, yes and no, the article does grapple with the issues of becoming rich. So... both things can be true.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I mean, maybe it uses blockchain technology and definitely deserves a crazy valuation?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
It wasn't that long ago that people seriously debated whether animals were actually conscious or not.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I think the point was that if aliens are to us as we are to cows, then... well... you can draw your own conclusions.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
"How does one preform actions?" Is this some epistemological Zeno's paradox type incredulity?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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-...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
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 Juul's nicotine stuff? I.e. because THC isn't w
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Outline: https://outline.com/XZ7M3t
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
"If X was a problem it would already be outlawed" is so riddled with fallacies...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Positive discrimination. If you're a young, white male you can include a headshot and get a better-than-average crack at the job.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
>Asking why makes little sense. Foucault would like a word.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I'm sorry... I mean, really? I thought you were just trolling originally, playing up the "I don't see race" trope. Well, I'll spell it out very plainly for you then: A profile picture facilitates hiring discriminati

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