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Syfe posted:I should also note that the safer people feel in their wages, the better they work. I always think of the old Chris Rock bit on earning minimum wage and how it's your boss saying "Hey, if I could pay you less I would, but it's against the law".
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Sep 2, 2019 05:17
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infernal machines posted:"efficiencies", vyelkin. Don't you believe in efficiencies? People who bitch about efficiencies have never worked in anything vaguely public sector and don't realize how drat close to the bone everything is run compared to the private sector. It's the assumption that things are still running and therefore there must be *further efficiencies* somewhere because it hasn't all collapsed yet. Especially in healthcare. Yeah sure payroll barely functions, elevators break all of the time, door handles just fall off of stairwell doors, and we had like five fires one week but hey, sure I guess the ICU hasn't literally exploded so I'm sure we can get by with even less funding. It's the same people who bitch about how long it takes to implement anything in the public sector then scream bloody murder about "mah tax dollars" if things aren't done with a perfect paper trail and airtight process. I don't know, a lot of Ontario hospitals are going through some rough budget issues right now no thanks to the province while also getting hit with pressure to look like they're reducing "hallway medicine" and it's just incredibly frustrating.
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Sep 4, 2019 21:52
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infernal machines posted:It turns out the easiest way to get rid of hallway medicine was to get rid of the hallways, who knew? I mean you joke but some hospitals are reopening old wards that closed due to lack of funding, filling them with beds and calling it "Emergency Overflow". So now patients aren't literally in the hallway but they didn't magic up more nurses and doctors and there aren't any more beds in actual wards to admit them to so yeah, you do the math.
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Sep 4, 2019 22:11
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Arcsquad12 posted:loving Chick-Fil-A shouldn't be in Canada. Goddammit Toronto. I live near where it opened and there was a line around the block all weekend. This loving dumbshit city will line up for literally anything food related no matter how mediocre the food is. Not even rampant homophobia can stop it. Like come on there's a perfectly good Popeyes a block away AND a block past that is a recently opened Church's Chicken. There's really no excuse for it.
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Sep 9, 2019 18:14
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cappaj posted:Isn't "too expensive" kind of a subjective value though, depending on where you live? Like, if you said "$400,000 is a reasonable limit for house cost" that means a much different house to someone in rural Ontario vs. someone in downtown Vancouver. From what I've seen here in Ottawa, in parts of the city, $600,000+ is often paid by a middle-class family for a middle-class house. I'm assuming he's referring to the fact that it's unreasonably expensive and maybe we shouldn't be continuously subsidising people buying them because maybe the cost will go down if nobody is buying them at that price? I mean, I know people nobody would describe as upper class who've tried to buy houses in that price range though. The secret is lots of debt, multigenerational help on a downpayment (both parents and grandparents pitching in), and maybe a thrifty wedding to raise some money on gifts all together to get a downpayment. It's dumb as hell though. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Sep 12, 2019 22:50
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RBC posted:That's me, the middle class member with a $4000 mortgage payment. A quick punch in TD's mortgage calculator shows after a 20% downpayment (that's a different story but stay with me), monthly payments on a 2.87% fixed rate are a bit under $3k/month for an 800k house. Which is around what a two bedroom apartment in Toronto are approaching. Don't get me wrong it's all dumb as hell but unless you're saying a person making 70k/year in Toronto is upper class (drat good salary I know but well within the range of what's considered middle-class these days), then two of those could shoulder that even if it wouldn't be fun and that's a stupid amount to have to spend on housing. Assuming they somehow get the downpayment together. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 13, 2019 |
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Sep 13, 2019 01:17
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mediaphage posted:Ah. Funny story I was reading through my work benefits package and discovered it covered Christian Science Practitioners. Like the literal 19th century "Modern medicine doesn't work pray away the disease" crazies.
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Sep 17, 2019 22:33
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Well five years of an even more conservative hellworld here we come.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:05
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There's a lot of small things outside of stated policy that Cons tend to do that can really gently caress things up as well. I've got some friends in the provincial government and one big change that apparently happened after Ford got in was suddenly all the ministries weren't allowed to talk to each other directly. Like under Wynn if you were in the Education ministry and you needed to work with your colleague in Health, you could just like, email or call them. Now apparently all inter-ministry communication has to go through the minister's office directly and it's really hamstrung things.
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Sep 23, 2019 22:30
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Man I always get Faith Goldy and Lauren Southern confused and can never remember which one got banned from Europe for intentionally endangering the lives of refugees out of malice and which one is a huge piece of poo poo for more local white supremacist reasons. Thanks for reminding me Southern is the first one.
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Oct 1, 2019 01:56
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Haha holy poo poo. I was reviewing the candidates in the riding I grew up in (Pickering) and apparently the old CPC MP who lost in 2015 jumped ship to Bernier's monstrosity... That's going to confuse the hell out of the old people there what with the name recognition and the one letter party difference. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 22:52
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Jan posted:Please, it's the Animal Protection Party of Canada. Clearly the APPC wanted to compete with the PPC. Going to lock in the Battletech nerd vote and start the "Equal Rights - Political Party of Canada"
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Oct 7, 2019 22:58
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How the gently caress do those idiots expect to sell their precious oil if they separate?
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Oct 8, 2019 16:28
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Yeah I somehow doubt the people threatening to shoot Trudeau are the ones upset because his policies aren't progressive enough...
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Oct 14, 2019 15:59
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mila kunis posted:The volunteer told me any mark would do, so I used a check mark instead of an X. That's not going to be an issue is it? I'm not sure that's completely true. I was talking to my folks over Thanksgiving and my mother got hired as a deputy DRO for election day. According to the training she got the mark can't be some sort of recognizable, distinct symbol. So no numbers, letters (well other than an X), characters, etc... The idea being to discourage vote buying so as when the votes are counted, a party's observer can't recognize a ballot as being one he made a deal with to pay someone for their vote (i.e. "That one has a 12 in the box, better pay Bob for coming through on the vote"). A checkmark should be fine but don't get too creative.
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Oct 14, 2019 19:31
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Mr. Apollo posted:lol at Sheer saying that the party with the most seats gets to form the government and Canadians need to be ready in case Trudeau tries to make a grab for power by trying to form a government first even if he doesn’t win the most seats. Lmao "It's not my fault nobody wants to form a government with me due to my garbage policies they should be forced to because of 'modern political convention' What a greaseball. On a different note I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of NDP outreach in my riding. It's the middle of Toronto at least try even if it'll likely go to Morneau. Seriously I've received multiple mailers from the Liberals, door knockers, the works. Not one thing from the NDP. Like I get the CPC not really campaigning here but come on. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Oct 18, 2019 01:12
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Did my part, voted for NDP despite being real tempted to vote Rhino. Probably would have the same result since this is Morneau's riding and it's super locked in Liberal but hey.
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Oct 21, 2019 15:24
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I can actually see the PPC getting a non-trivial amount of votes in Ajax-Pickering because the candidate is the old Conservative MP and there's a lot of confused old people in Durham 
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Oct 22, 2019 00:31
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Gatts posted:What's this Rhinoceros party about? Building a giant ramp so you can coast from coast to coast among other things.
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Oct 22, 2019 00:36
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MakaVillian posted:I'd love if they did fairly well so the right can have it's vote split again A reminder though that last time that happened they soon merged into the mainstream conservatives and moved them even further to the right.
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Oct 22, 2019 02:36
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Well if the Liberals govern with the support of the NDP and it pushes them a little more to the left it's probably the best result that could have realistically happened.
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Oct 22, 2019 04:18
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So does Scheer stay on or do the knives come out tomorrow?
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Oct 22, 2019 05:20
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Helsing posted:
I will vote that he passed it, but in the spirit of the new parliament I first need the promise of a new international airport somewhere in rural Quebec.
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Oct 22, 2019 19:49
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Chuka Umana posted:Does Trudeau really have any other options other than an NDP coalition? Bribe Quebec for occasional Bloc support?
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Oct 22, 2019 20:09
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I think it's pretty telling how much Ontario has soured on Ford given the number of suburbs that went Conservative last year that the Liberals managed to keep/pick up.
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Oct 23, 2019 15:21
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Kraftwerk posted:The only good thing about my pension fund is that my employer matches contributions up to 4%. That’s where the profit is for me. The actual fund barely beats inflation after fees. It’s a scam. Congrats on your gold plated pension fund though. In an ideal world we’d still have a government plan that actually pays decent, an affordable cost of living to make that easier and lastly we’d still have defined benefit programs. I work for a hospital, and one thing that keeps a lot of us here despite salaries being way below market even without the province loving with them is HOOPP is an amazing defined benefit pension. Like I may never be able to afford a house but at least there's a chance I'll be able to retire one day.
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Oct 23, 2019 16:46
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Kraftwerk posted:Are they actually empty though? I used to rent in one of the Fort York ones lmao. The construction quality of them is shockingly bad. Fixtures installed with just wood screws into drywall, bathtubs installed without caulking...Hell, we used to get ice on the inside of our windows every winter because of how poor quality they were. And yeah it's ridiculous what the rent of those has become. In my experience the end result is they're mostly occupied by couples who are still putting in way too much of their income (and forcing couples to move in with each other way before they're ready due to financial reasons. I've seen that destroy more than a few relationships). That and dens being rented as full bedrooms is even more common than it was a few years ago.
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Oct 23, 2019 19:24
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Not to mention as much as I'm opposed to Quebec separating at least they have the argument that they have a distinct language and history. The gently caress does Alberta have?
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Oct 23, 2019 21:32
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One thing that would help is if someone just ran a big media campaign explaining to boomers how government debt works and no, it can't just be "called in". I swear to god 95% of my political conversations with boomer relatives end up at "But...the debt! It's going to collapse society! Ontario bonds downgraded from AAA! Your generation will thank us someday and cutting services is the only way to balance budgets" It's goddamn infuriating.
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Oct 24, 2019 20:04
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DariusLikewise posted:What we really need is someone to reunite the Marxist-Leninist Party and the Communist Party of Canada under a United Communist Party banner. Cursed to fight for all eternity over which now non-existent regime had the one true working path to communism. Bunkerization will finally bring Canada the prosperity it deserves.
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lmao when it looked like there was even a slight chance Quebec was going to separate in the referendum the military started quietly shipping any important equipment the gently caress out of Quebec. Why the gently caress would they just leave it all in Alberta if they separated? Fojar38 posted:I'm 99% certain that the narrative here is that when Alberta seperates are troops will all side with the Albertan Freedom Fighters against the tyrannical regime in Ottawa because they are all True Patriots Seriously. The few people I know currently/previously in the Forces might trend conservative but there is zero loving way they would side with some dipshits trying to break up the country. More the exact opposite. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Jan posted:The theoretical model of socialisation dictates that workers should directly control the means of production, rather than the state, but I don't see how that could be applied outside of textbooks. At a very small scale, there are anarcho-communist communes who achieve this, but that's incredibly hard to scale up. So nationalisation of key industries is the best compromise we've successfully come up with so far. Maybe when the singularity happens and humans are all part of a communal mind, we can do away with government and govern by consensus instead? I mean, a business where all employees are equal, voting shareholders (and only employees can be/employees become shareholders by joining the company) seems simple and scalable enough. You can still have multiple businesses in a field competing and innovating and whatnot, but the profits stay within the company and the employees through their equal shares own their own means of production. The state controlling businesses on behalf of the workers I guess makes sense for owning the means of production in an open and democratic society. The issue I've always had with it though is when that gets applied to authoritarian societies. If the state owns the means of production, but I as a worker have no easy access to political power how do I own my means of production? Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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Out of curiosity, how much of Alberta is First Nations land that would likely just "lol nope" at the idea of an independent Alberta and either do their own independent thing or stay in Canada? And how much would that gently caress with their dumb oil plans?
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That's also, as far as I know, not how constitutions work. Alberta can't unilaterally decide to alter the Canadian constitution like lmao.
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infernal machines posted:I mean, if they think they're going to pass their own Clarity Act in the HoC, sure, but as it is that doesn't exist for Alberta. As far as I know the current Clarity Act applies to any province that might want to leave, not just Quebec.
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Nov 8, 2019 06:03
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RIP Fabric Land's stock price
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Yeah if I recall the reparations Germany had to pay weren't that far off, adjusted for time, than the reparations France had to pay Germany after the Franco-Prussian war. Germany just didn't want to pay out of pride and was willing to trash their own economy to do so. The number owed was reduced several times and floated by extremely cheap US loans and the depression cutting off those loans did a bunch of damage on top of the general worldwide economic clusterfuck.
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Nov 12, 2019 22:20
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My supplemental health insurance through my work covers Christian Science practitioners for some bizarre reason.
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Nobody should be working 18-hour shifts, period. Doubly so in any safety critical industry. Even 12 hour shifts are a bad idea from a human factors/safety point of view.
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