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MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

We Can Do It!


Stephen Woodworth: What a loving whiner

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MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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cowofwar posted:

So is there any city in Canada where council actually runs the city in planning mode and not just constant catch up and whack a mole?

Compared to a lot of US cities Canada is more like a libertarian utopia.

Waterloo Region (minus Cambridge) is (sort of) trying to. :shobon: The LRT is happening, but I bet the Cambridge extension won't happen until their shithead mayor retires.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Dr. Stab posted:

The best pornhub picture


Looks like PT6A should move to New Brunswick. He'd be popular.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Leofish posted:

The real up-and-coming industry is in ketchup.

Ketchup pipelines, to pipe French's from Leamington, Ontario to Fort MacMurray.

Jesus Christ it's like all my dad loving talks about these days. Locally made ketchup: apparently a major loving issue for white people.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Ikantski posted:

No shills required, here's the straight talking answer from a straight talking guy.

Man, liberals really do gotta lib. Jesus.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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PT6A posted:

Magical thinking, by definition, doesn't follow rules, so I don't think it really matters.

Can four angels dance on the head of a pin?

If there are four balls on the edge of a cliff, does time work the same way for a superstitious person?

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Who the gently caress thought this video was good. who.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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eXXon posted:

Don't miss future prime minister Kevin O'Leary laying down truth bombs about Ontario Liberal corruption:

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/28/open-letter-to-ontario-premier-kathleen-wynne-part-2

I like that he doesn't mention the sell off of Ontario Hydro at all. Probably wishes he could get in on the sale.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Ikantski posted:

There could be a potential link between autism and vaccines we haven't discovered yet. No link has been discovered but it hasn't been categorically disproven. Don't put potential in the question if you want a straight answer.

Oh gently caress off. "It's incredibly unlikely that there's a teapot orbiting Saturn, but it hasn't been categorically disproven yet!"

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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PT6A posted:

No excuse. I've never been to any city that has as many delays on a metro or LRT as Calgary. Presumably they, too, must perform maintenance and deal with funding issues.

Just wait until the KW LRT is done.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Civics at my school was taught by the head of the history department, it was enjoyable and useful, wish it had been the whole term, careers was garbage because it didn't actually help me with a drat thing.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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PT6A posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/803309276357861376

Too bad. I really wanted him to attend and be a ceremonial pallbearer. This is just weak and lovely, to not even show up.

Eh. The Governor General is still going. We still have a state representative there. It's not like Trudeau Jr. was friends with him.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Jimbozig posted:

The main arguments against UBI from the right are that it is too expensive and would require tax increases, and that it disincentivizes work.

From the left, you have the actual communists who don't like it because it is still capitalist, and you have the fact that the versions of UBI supported by right-wingers is a bit lovely. Chapo Trap House this week made the argument that people receiving a UBI and not working would have no leverage to bargain with capitalists as they cannot deny them their labor - this argument kind of falls under the first category.

Coming up with counterarguments for each of these is an exercise for the reader - some of them are stupider than others.

Wait... no. With a good UBI and not working you explicitly can deny capitalists your labour. Just say "I won't work for that little, get bent, I can still eat thank you very much".

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/transportation/2017/08/28/metrolinx-pressured-to-approve-go-station-in-ministers-riding.html

I love pork barrel projects that make transit worse.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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namaste faggots posted:

on that topic, i have this theory that silicon valley techno fetishists are just the trying to get as close as they can to god without the whole god thing because gently caress YOU DAD I AIN'T GOING TO CHURCH AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME NOW THAT I'M BIG

Theory nothing, have you heard of Roko's Basilisk? They invented a techno-devil that will torture simulations of you for eternity because you didn't help create it as quickly as possible.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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EngineerJoe posted:

Apparently the opioid epidemic is getting out of hand in Southern Ontario, Cambridge in particular.

The owner of a retro video game store explains his reasons for moving his store to Waterloo. It really shows how the downtown core has gone to poo poo over the past few years:


The group has lots of pics of scary needles and condom packs and they collected 100 needles during a 3 hour cleanup on October 21. That's probably quaint by Vancouver standards but Cambridge is a really small town

I mean, being from KW, this isn't surprising really. it's like as you move southward from Waterloo, to Kitchener, to Cambridge you can see society start to unravel. I used to get offended by kids from Toronto coming here for school talking about how downtown Kitchener is sketchy, but honestly, they probably have at least some of a point. gently caress.

MatchaZed fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Oct 27, 2017

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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namaste faggots posted:

So who's still against rural genocide

Not Stalin, that's for sure.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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How is it Kent didn't get purged after his comments to the thaliomide survivors?

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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PhilippAchtel posted:

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8379843-local-mpp-michael-harris-stepping-down-over-health-concerns/


So, first of all, this condition sounds pretty debilitating. He had impaired vision for month at a time, which was so severe that he walked into a door, breaking his nose. Why was he still driving with such a condition? The Record is a bit of a conservative rag, particularly this election, so I'm not surprised their article chose to cast him in a sympathetic light, but this anecdote shows a pretty bad lack of judgement on his part, while also revealing yet again our cultural addiction to the personal automobile.

One would think the transportation critic with a debilitating vision problem would voluntarily surrender his driver's license and work to boost transit options, but in other news...

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8382310-tories-oust-mpp-harris-over-sexually-inappropriate-texts-/


Oops.

They're going to elect a PC again anyway. We're so dumb here in SW Ontario. It's loving amazing.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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It's pretty funny that they tried to go to UW after the failed attempt at Laurier and then were scared off by sticker shock.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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CRISPYBABY posted:

I spent seven years at UW. One year a goose pinned a rare wild turkey in a courtyard and traumatized it till it decided that it's best escape was to try to fly through a plate glass window into the English building. It shattered the window, severed an artery and bled out on the hallway floor.

Bullying an animal until it kills itself is the most goose thing I've ever seen.

The geese are a loving menace

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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EngineerJoe posted:

I'm really feeling Kelly Dick in Kitchener Conestoga... I have faith that NDP is gonna do it!

Good luck on beating Mike Harris Jr. (who is definitely not Michael Harris). What a dumb situation, replace one disgraced candidate with the son of a former Premier, all with the same loving name.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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infernal machines posted:

"disgraced"

The party dismissed him over inappropriate text messages that no complaint had been filed for, that had been used as evidence in something completely unrelated, because he backed the wrong leadership candidate and Ford is chummy with Mike Harris Sr. and needed somewhere to parachute his son.

I mean sure, but I don't trust the people of Kitchener-Conestoga to be upset enough at the PCs to not vote for them, or to even hate the heir to the Common Sense Revolution.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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I worked at a polling place in Kitchener Centre today. gently caress those printers, they suck. Also, I really want to get some legal weed now because gently caress this stupid rear end province.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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T.C. posted:

Screw the quality argument. I much prefer the idea of supply managment in comparison to subsidy, oversupply and an unsustainable race to the bottom and consolidation of agriculture.

I'd prefer it if we moved back towards supply management of major agriculture.

It's bullshit that the structure of trade agreements illegitimates completely reasonable non market solutions to problems of resource distribution.

What, you don't want corn syrup in everything because corn is overproduced like crazy?

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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So this happened.

All three adult members of polyamorous family deemed child's parents by Newfoundland judge

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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People who don't understand statistics are worried about immigration without understanding numbers. Remember, people are scared of formulas.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Online voting was a dumb idea and I hate all the municipalities that hosed the dog on it.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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At least we didn't elect the fascist school board trustee. Jason Erb can gently caress himself. Auschwitz had movie theatres and swimming pools gently caress offfffff.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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TKAM, The Chrysalids, can't remember anything besides those and Shakespeare.

Post-apocalyptic fiction set in Labrador was fun.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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They've all forgotten how to set up crown corps because they're all so used to selling them off. Also, have incentives to underestimate weed buying because they definitely didn't want to have too much and have to sell it under market rates because that would actually undercut black market ra... Wait a minute they're all just dumb, okay.

MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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CRISPYBABY posted:

DriveTest is insanely garbage and I was blown away this year that it took me four trips there to get my Alberta license transferred into an Ontario one, each one being a multi-hour visit. The first time I showed up 3 hours before closing on a Saturday and was told they probably wouldn't have time to see me. The second time I waited an hour before realizing I didn't have my passport (ok this one was my fault). The third time I waited for two hours before they yelled out that the provincial transfer system was down...and had been all morning. Of course, that didn't stop them from having machines that still handed out waiting tickets for it, or for them putting up any signs saying that it was down. I asked them why they didn't just put up a sign and they looked at me like I was stupid and told me they weren't allowed. Apparently I whined enough that they gave me a coupon to come back and skip the line next time, so I finally got things done in a reasonable time on the fourth trip. You know, for a 30 second eyetest and a photograph.

You can't go into the Kitchener Drivetest without waiting at least an hour, probably much more. It's one of the "take a whole day off" locations. They will literally have hour lineups at opening because people line up so far before it opens. I don't know how anyone in this province gets a license.

My personal pet peeve is: public or private. loving pick one. Ontario seems to like these things (DriveTest, Beer Store) where they license a private company to be the single distributor of an item or service, and surprise, a private monopoly does some bullshit. Either run it as a public service, or let some competition in. Right now it's the worst of both worlds. Alberta's DMV's are....well, they're still DMV's, but they're about 10x faster than DriveTest.


Quote from a local grumpy opinion piece. Our centre is insanely bad. I think 2/3 times I was there I was sitting beside someone mumbling swears under their breath. I hope to never have to go to it again.

Getting my G1 there and taking the test in that alcove off of the lobby sucked poo poo, not excited to go back.

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MatchaZed
Feb 14, 2010

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Maneck posted:

As long as it's not another effort towards proportional representation. Parties who can't get elected in a single riding should't have elected members. Also, computers overcome the reasons for not doing ranked ballots.

Seems to work fine in Germany.

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