Hah. Nope. You miss all those stories in the news and even here on/. over the last couple of years of people being forced to train their replacements and being replaced by H1B's? Guess so, there's no shortage of stories on it. These companies are gaming the system. Just like companies in Canada are abusing the TFW(temporary foreign worker) program. The difference between H1B and TFW if anyone is wondering is that a TFW can work any job. The shittiest companies at the very bottom(janitorial/fast food), to big name companies like Royal Bank of Canada have been caught gaming the system up here too.
This type of stuff is what causes violent revolutions, and neither governments or businesses seem to give a shit that they're contributing to something that will bite them in the ass. Only upside is down there in the US, Trump wants to gut and fix that program. In Canada, Trudeau decided to undo what the conservatives had put in place in order to limit how companies could abuse the TFW program.
Nothing but a race to the fucking bottom, and it's very easy to see where this shit started. Those people who used to seasonally work as farm workers(fruit/tobacco/etc). When I was a teen, you could make 30-50% more per hour then min wage. Then the government changed the rule to allow imported foreign labor. Hourly wages went away, people were paid by weight/count. And people who lived in the country stopped doing the work because it was an absolute shit wage being paid.
It's called "southwestern ontario" but watch out for the high electricity prices, insane green energy policies which are driving people broke and getting repeatedly fucked over by Toronto(because that's who the provincial government panders to). Or, you can move to eastern canada and work in the fisheries. Harder work, very seasonal, good pay, cheap lobster(aka poor people food as it's known there). But most of the people I know especially newfies work half the year in manitoba or alberta and go home for the seasonal stuff.
Bonuses aren't really bonuses if they're incentives for doing more work.
That's the exact idea behind a bonus. It's not because of altruism. The only case where this is different is if your company is a co-op or has profit sharing. The company I work for has profit sharing, which means I usually get a nice check for $10k-$15k/year. A friend of mine works for a co-op business(related to farming where this is common), and if there's more money being made everyone gets a cut and the rest goes into the "rainy day" fund for when times are bad.
And $2-$5 above minimum wage is pretty much nothing, which is why only teenagers, illegal immigrants,and total fuck-ups work for such a rate.
Then you should really turn around and get your high school diploma and either pick a trade, become a bus or truck driver or a worthwhile major instead of majoring in genders/womens studies shouldn't you? These jobs weren't meant to be filled by anyone but teenagers and young adults, but most of the people in those jobs are now 30+ To be realistic, around here your brand new hire at walmart is making around $14/hr. Now where I live as a part time job(under 30hrs/week), you can live comfortably on that in a good apt, or saving up to buy a house and have spending money to spare. If you live in Toronto, Ottawa, London? Well no. That's the reality if you don't live in major cities, at $14/hr even with a min wage of $11.25/hr you're going to be fine.
I agree but give credit where it's due. Do you see the Waltons giving bonuses to their employees?
They give bonuses every year. They even have monthly incentive bonuses, track bonuses, scan bonuses(people who clear checkouts fast), sign-up bonuses for their credit card(pay for each app, and a monthly bonus for the most signups), employee with highest customer approval call-ins, and so on. I'm constantly amused at the number of people that think walmart is some evil sweat shop and the people there get paid nothing. When in most places they're paid above min. wage by $2-5/hr. It is a bottom level job, but that also doesn't stop you from moving up in the company into white collar positions.
A lot of this has to do directly with need and desire to show the world that it's going directly after corrupt practices. There have been a lot of problems over the last 15 years, some of them not so bad, some of them very bad. Whether it's at a government level or at a business level. S.Korea passed new anti-graft and anti-corruption laws ~2 years ago directly targeting that because it had started moving in the direction of Chinese corruption. If you want to read on some of the stuff you can look here. There's also summaries on the differences on how corruption is considered there, compared to North America or Europe. Including the lower burden of proofs required, allowing for auditors and investigators to launch investigations into businesses or government at what would be considered circumstantial here in NA or EU. And allowing the use of CFE's(forensic accountants) for those investigations.
Grab a physics or geology text book from your local library from 1950's through to 1982 and you'll find that it was a commonly discussed theory, and you'll find your references too. People can try and scrub this out as much as they want, but reality and especially hard print make it much more difficult to do.
I can't answer their questions, but a buddy of mine who retired a few years ago did something similar. The whole teardown/rebuild depending on where you live usually takes less then 8-15 weeks. If you're fully tearing down and not getting someone in to pull things out like hardwood floors or late-1800's wood accents, copper wiring and things, can be done on a weekend with the foundation torn out too. There's a demand for K&T copper wire because it contains no radioactive elements since it was put in place before the first nukes were dropped. Same with galvanized piping, again big demand for it because it contains no radioactive material. You can offset a good chunk of costs by stripping an older house down, especially since it contains so much pristine wood too. The walls, floor lay, and so on were usually pine or maple and it has a very low knot count in it. Making it valuable to wood workers.
Come to Australia. Nationwide our house prices are 10x - 12x salary.
You've got the same problem we have in Canada, huge numbers of foreign investors buying up property which then sites vacant. In the west of Canada and Toronto(east), the big problems with this are due directly to chinese "new money" buying up. Same as in AUS. But in Canada? 2-3 years if you're not in a big city is still mostly normal if you're not in Southern Ontario or Southern BC.
Actually it goes back to the period of Chretien around ~20 years ago when he decided to change how the head of the RCMP was selected. His government of the day pushed hard that police chiefs and so on shouldn't rise through the ranks based on their ability, but should be appointees. A lot of other police services in Canada did something similar. It's one of the big problems currently with policing in Canada, you have people in the upper ranks who shouldn't actually be there. Every police service or force(RCMP/OPP/SdQ) and so on that follows that policy has varying levels of problems like this. It actually gets worse when there's civilian oversight boards who have a huge amount of say in who should be the next police chief as well. Again something that the Chretien Liberals of yester-decade pushed.
That was also the era where appointees were pushing the big "diversity" junk. And hiring not the best people, but *insert race/gender/etc* for positions. Gigantic clusterfuck, and the big services like the RCMP and OPP are still paying for that one. The kicker is that these "high up" people in many cases are so out of touch with beat cops, that they absolutely refuse to hear what's happening on the ground. The whole mess doesn't exist just in politics, but in a lot of government bodies.
You think a franchise agreement is bad? Come to Canada where 3 companies effectively own 97% of the cell, cable TV/internet and DSL/fiber internet. It gets worse because these companies also basically work in a no-compete environment. You can't get Shaw in Ontario, your only choice is Rogers or satellite TV. So with that, Rogers, Bell and Telus effectively own the entire cell market. Bell and Shaw effectively own the satellite TV market(US dishes are illegal in Canada). Rogers owns 95% of the cable TV market and cable internet in the eastern half of the country. Shaw owns 90% of the western half plus a large segment of the satellite TV market and cable internet. Bell owns the rest of the satellite TV market. Bell and Telus hold a monopoly on DSL/Fiber based services across Canada(though Telus mainly holds to the western half of the country for DSL/fiber).
Up until ~10 years ago, independent ISP's that offered services outside of their geographical area didn't exist at all. These days, if I want to get Teksavvy, Distributel, Ebox or whatever I can. Because the CRTC forced these incumbents to lease their last mile to small providers. That's the way it used to be in the US too.
There is a video of the guy saying that Obama was going to lead the United Nations and invade Lubbock, Texas. You can ignore the "propaganda" and just listen to the judge in his own words if you are afraid of being infected by the dangerous thoughts of Think Progress..
Having worked in Texas, it's very similar to working in Alberta. They've got a strong independent streak, and a similar belief that their place is theirs. You could have of course linked to the video without giving clicks to think progress though right? But you didn't. It's also not the "dangerous thoughts" it's the outright fabrications, lies by omission, quote mining and full-on narrative crafting that they engage in. They're a pure propaganda organization, and using them as any form of a source would be like using "anti-vaxxer news" to show people why vaccines cause autism.
I mean, I don't know if you've ever been to Lubbock, Texas, but don't nobody go there by choice.
Really? I've been in quite a few shitholes before, but Lubbock doesn't even rank in the top 50. That's reserved for places like Chicago, Shanghai, Toronto and so on.
Yeah, and linking to think progress is the best example of a self-reinforcing echo chamber with a side of propaganda.
After all, one can see what happens when progressive replacements get into power. Laws? Nope, those are for little people. And illegals? No, those are "guests" who should just be set free. That also includes violent offenders who've committed murder, rapes and so on. I'm sure you're happy with that policy right? Who doesn't want a murderer simply released back on the street. Or putting a rapist right back out, it's not like rape isn't a repeat offender crime or anything. Or a crime that escalates into further violent acts.
Trump, is simply vocalizing what a lot of people already think on the state of the media. And him vocalizing what people already believe is one of the big reasons why he was elected, round that out with the out-right refusal to bow to political correctness. Why do you think trust of it is so low in western countries? It's not because of Trump. It's because of the media.
Well if companies decided to start charging them because of the number of false claims, this problem would likely fix itself in the span of a couple of weeks. You can bet some company would stomp their feet and take it to court, and the court would likely agree that with the high percentage of false claims that the company has a reasonable expectation to recoup losses from false claims.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, where is your evidence of this?
Neogaf isn't a hive mind? Or will you claim that *insert thing isn't a source* like you usually do? Feel free to hit your favorite search engine and use "neogaf" "ban". Sites like ceddit/go1dfish.me do a good job of covering the deletion of things. Subs like/r/subredditcancer show individual case-by-case examples. You can now claim that these show nothing, and there are no problems like you usually do.
You signature makes no sense. Since anyone can go find a person who supports social justice, and has a pro-authoritarian slant to boot. In turn, you can find a few people who post here and support said social justice values and also have a pro-authoritarian slant.
The reality is, if someone considers my comment "toxic" because it hurts their feelings. They probably need to spend some time outside of their social bubbles and realize that the world isn't a happy place where people give you what you want if you cry loud enough. The sad thing is, it *is* the left(not all of it), that are pro-censorship and anti-free speech. It's the same situation that we saw back in the 80's and 90's. Remember? When you had the religious nuts holding power in quite a few places, claiming that video games are gonna make mass murders. D&D will make you summon demons. Those things that happened all those years ago. Then there was a very subtle change in the 90's as those on the left started taking up those mantles themselves. Note tipper gore, hillary clinton, joe liberman and so on. Who said videogames will make murders, censoring TV is right, banning some types of music is proper. The last 20 years have shown that the left were happy to take up that mantle. You've got an entire generation of students in universities that believe that "those old people trying to censor things" were right. In Europe, you've got politicians who are trying to hold onto their political power by censoring. Elitists in universities doing the same.
The left currently has an authoritarian and extremism problem. Pretending it doesn't exist, will do nothing to help either side or anyone at all. And the political spectrum right now is in a fundamental shift. People on the left and right are becoming more libertarian, and there is a large segment of the left and a small segment on the right that's shifting to authoritarian. But as it stands right now? The problem is mainly on the left. Check your local university, see how much anti-free speech and pro-censorship policies have been put into place in the last decade to protect peoples feelings. How words have been twisted, where the label troll/racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/etc has become "anyone who disagrees with my point of view."
Guess you haven't kept up with what's been going on for the last ~10 years. Because the old definition of trolling has long gone out the window, and trolling is basically considered "anyone who disagrees with me" or "has a viewpoint contrary to my world view." You enjoying the era where social justice reinvents something or changes the definitions of words in order to self-victimize yet?
It's kinda like the casual use of sexism, or racism. As a response to anything, especially by those who are heavily into identity politics.
So you're a bigot. Censoring speech of bad view points doesn't make it go away, it makes it fester. On top of that, it's also used as a method to block views that people express if it's contrary to official policies. That's one of the reasons why you're seeing extremist parties start to rise in European countries, because views contrary to the government/elites are being blocked/ignored/etc. And those groups, offer a way for people vent/make statements/etc without being censored by the powers in place.
Why do you think the trust in government in Canada is the lowest it has been in 17 years? That was the last time the Liberal Party was in power and are in power now. And 80% of people feel that the elites in power are dangerously out of touch. It's because the elites live in a bubble and view points are filtered and censored before they reach them. This is the shit that leads to violent revolutions, and usually before that happens you see people enacting their view of justice on the streets. Something that's happening in some European countries now. Where "average people" are gathering into posses and enacting justice against people. Because they see that the state is failing to uphold their part of the social contract. Laws aren't being applied equally, people committing violent crimes are given slaps on the wrist. People who commit the same crimes if they are of a different sex get light sentences and so on. An example of the last one, a man rapes a 13 yr old girl, 5-10 years in prison. A women rapes a 13yr old boy, 2 months suspended sentence or time in a half-way house.
Yeah here's the problem. Let's look at a site like neogaf, ever wonder why at one time it was the place to go and developers would post there and people would leak information. And now developers don't? Active participation is down? It was the moderation as you pointed out, but let's look at their definition of a troll, which basically boils down to "anyone who doesn't subscribe to the narrative." Let's look now, at what will get you banned. Have a contrary view of feminism? Banned. Support some ideas of a MRA? Banned. Have differing view points on global warming? Banned. Prefer the xbox vs playstation? Likely banned. Don't like your vidya characters to look like they were hit with a bat? Banned.
The problem is in many cases, moderators especially in this day and age use that as a form of power projection. A good example of this is/r/politics or/r/canadapolitics where you have moderators who ban people for pointing out factual information because it goes against the prevailing group think. Have a nice article about how forums become infiltrated by people pushing authoritarian viewpoints.
I ran a BBS in my teens, and it got large enough that I was considering applying for a regional fido:net hub. At nearly 700 people and 4 nodes, I picked moderators for my forums who weren't assholes, who usually worked, and if they stepped over the line they were given one warning then booted. As sysop, I expected my mods to be impartial. And if a friend was involved to pass the issue to another mod to deal with. I ran on Renegade.
This might be new to you, but the left have been pushing for speech controls for years at google. It's not Trump, it's not those on the right. The right are the ones defending free speech, and it's the left who are trying to censor it. Whether it be no-platforming, violent assaults on people, using bomb threats or other tactics to shut down venues. The social justice brigade has been doing this for a long time, it's why github is such a steaming pile of shit now. You can see this when companies start instituting "codes of conduct" which push race/sexuality/etc instead of skill/ability as a core value. That garbage is a antithesis to a meritocracy.
Well, let's all bow down the moral arbiters of justice then. I'm sure that they'll be right on top of removing speech they disagree with. Then moving onto the useful idiots that cheered this on in the first place.
If you're willing to remove some speech because it makes you upset, there's nothing stopping others from doing the same to you later.
If you must really keep a cat, get two. They're mostly layabout, but if they get bored they'll wreck your shit and not feel slightly remorseful about it. Another cat will give them something to do when you're not around instead of causing random mayhem in your domicile.
Nope. I'm gonna mark this type of shit down like with what you'd see with dog owners. No such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner. Dogs can be trained, so can cats. Dogs are far easier to train then cats though, having trained both? If you think of a cat like a 3-4 year old which requires positive reinforcement to stop them from doing stupid things and the occasional punishment it all falls into place. You can train a cat just like a dog, to get you when they need something. Want to play, go outside, yard train them(so they don't go wandering off), beg, and so on. Find a really good cat or dog, you can even train them to somewhat vocalize human speech. My parents last cat I had trained to say "out" when it wanted to go into their garage(it's favorite place to sleep in the summer). When I was a kid, there was a neighbor a block away who used to voice train and litter box train rabbits.
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Hah. Nope. You miss all those stories in the news and even here on /. over the last couple of years of people being forced to train their replacements and being replaced by H1B's? Guess so, there's no shortage of stories on it. These companies are gaming the system. Just like companies in Canada are abusing the TFW(temporary foreign worker) program. The difference between H1B and TFW if anyone is wondering is that a TFW can work any job. The shittiest companies at the very bottom(janitorial/fast food), to big name companies like Royal Bank of Canada have been caught gaming the system up here too.
This type of stuff is what causes violent revolutions, and neither governments or businesses seem to give a shit that they're contributing to something that will bite them in the ass. Only upside is down there in the US, Trump wants to gut and fix that program. In Canada, Trudeau decided to undo what the conservatives had put in place in order to limit how companies could abuse the TFW program.
Nothing but a race to the fucking bottom, and it's very easy to see where this shit started. Those people who used to seasonally work as farm workers(fruit/tobacco/etc). When I was a teen, you could make 30-50% more per hour then min wage. Then the government changed the rule to allow imported foreign labor. Hourly wages went away, people were paid by weight/count. And people who lived in the country stopped doing the work because it was an absolute shit wage being paid.
Where is this place?
It's called "southwestern ontario" but watch out for the high electricity prices, insane green energy policies which are driving people broke and getting repeatedly fucked over by Toronto(because that's who the provincial government panders to). Or, you can move to eastern canada and work in the fisheries. Harder work, very seasonal, good pay, cheap lobster(aka poor people food as it's known there). But most of the people I know especially newfies work half the year in manitoba or alberta and go home for the seasonal stuff.
Bonuses aren't really bonuses if they're incentives for doing more work.
That's the exact idea behind a bonus. It's not because of altruism. The only case where this is different is if your company is a co-op or has profit sharing. The company I work for has profit sharing, which means I usually get a nice check for $10k-$15k/year. A friend of mine works for a co-op business(related to farming where this is common), and if there's more money being made everyone gets a cut and the rest goes into the "rainy day" fund for when times are bad.
And $2-$5 above minimum wage is pretty much nothing, which is why only teenagers, illegal immigrants,and total fuck-ups work for such a rate.
Then you should really turn around and get your high school diploma and either pick a trade, become a bus or truck driver or a worthwhile major instead of majoring in genders/womens studies shouldn't you? These jobs weren't meant to be filled by anyone but teenagers and young adults, but most of the people in those jobs are now 30+ To be realistic, around here your brand new hire at walmart is making around $14/hr. Now where I live as a part time job(under 30hrs/week), you can live comfortably on that in a good apt, or saving up to buy a house and have spending money to spare. If you live in Toronto, Ottawa, London? Well no. That's the reality if you don't live in major cities, at $14/hr even with a min wage of $11.25/hr you're going to be fine.
I agree but give credit where it's due. Do you see the Waltons giving bonuses to their employees?
They give bonuses every year. They even have monthly incentive bonuses, track bonuses, scan bonuses(people who clear checkouts fast), sign-up bonuses for their credit card(pay for each app, and a monthly bonus for the most signups), employee with highest customer approval call-ins, and so on. I'm constantly amused at the number of people that think walmart is some evil sweat shop and the people there get paid nothing. When in most places they're paid above min. wage by $2-5/hr. It is a bottom level job, but that also doesn't stop you from moving up in the company into white collar positions.
A lot of this has to do directly with need and desire to show the world that it's going directly after corrupt practices. There have been a lot of problems over the last 15 years, some of them not so bad, some of them very bad. Whether it's at a government level or at a business level. S.Korea passed new anti-graft and anti-corruption laws ~2 years ago directly targeting that because it had started moving in the direction of Chinese corruption. If you want to read on some of the stuff you can look here. There's also summaries on the differences on how corruption is considered there, compared to North America or Europe. Including the lower burden of proofs required, allowing for auditors and investigators to launch investigations into businesses or government at what would be considered circumstantial here in NA or EU. And allowing the use of CFE's(forensic accountants) for those investigations.
Grab a physics or geology text book from your local library from 1950's through to 1982 and you'll find that it was a commonly discussed theory, and you'll find your references too. People can try and scrub this out as much as they want, but reality and especially hard print make it much more difficult to do.
I can't answer their questions, but a buddy of mine who retired a few years ago did something similar. The whole teardown/rebuild depending on where you live usually takes less then 8-15 weeks. If you're fully tearing down and not getting someone in to pull things out like hardwood floors or late-1800's wood accents, copper wiring and things, can be done on a weekend with the foundation torn out too. There's a demand for K&T copper wire because it contains no radioactive elements since it was put in place before the first nukes were dropped. Same with galvanized piping, again big demand for it because it contains no radioactive material. You can offset a good chunk of costs by stripping an older house down, especially since it contains so much pristine wood too. The walls, floor lay, and so on were usually pine or maple and it has a very low knot count in it. Making it valuable to wood workers.
Come to Australia. Nationwide our house prices are 10x - 12x salary.
You've got the same problem we have in Canada, huge numbers of foreign investors buying up property which then sites vacant. In the west of Canada and Toronto(east), the big problems with this are due directly to chinese "new money" buying up. Same as in AUS. But in Canada? 2-3 years if you're not in a big city is still mostly normal if you're not in Southern Ontario or Southern BC.
Actually it goes back to the period of Chretien around ~20 years ago when he decided to change how the head of the RCMP was selected. His government of the day pushed hard that police chiefs and so on shouldn't rise through the ranks based on their ability, but should be appointees. A lot of other police services in Canada did something similar. It's one of the big problems currently with policing in Canada, you have people in the upper ranks who shouldn't actually be there. Every police service or force(RCMP/OPP/SdQ) and so on that follows that policy has varying levels of problems like this. It actually gets worse when there's civilian oversight boards who have a huge amount of say in who should be the next police chief as well. Again something that the Chretien Liberals of yester-decade pushed.
That was also the era where appointees were pushing the big "diversity" junk. And hiring not the best people, but *insert race/gender/etc* for positions. Gigantic clusterfuck, and the big services like the RCMP and OPP are still paying for that one. The kicker is that these "high up" people in many cases are so out of touch with beat cops, that they absolutely refuse to hear what's happening on the ground. The whole mess doesn't exist just in politics, but in a lot of government bodies.
You think a franchise agreement is bad? Come to Canada where 3 companies effectively own 97% of the cell, cable TV/internet and DSL/fiber internet. It gets worse because these companies also basically work in a no-compete environment. You can't get Shaw in Ontario, your only choice is Rogers or satellite TV. So with that, Rogers, Bell and Telus effectively own the entire cell market. Bell and Shaw effectively own the satellite TV market(US dishes are illegal in Canada). Rogers owns 95% of the cable TV market and cable internet in the eastern half of the country. Shaw owns 90% of the western half plus a large segment of the satellite TV market and cable internet. Bell owns the rest of the satellite TV market. Bell and Telus hold a monopoly on DSL/Fiber based services across Canada(though Telus mainly holds to the western half of the country for DSL/fiber).
Up until ~10 years ago, independent ISP's that offered services outside of their geographical area didn't exist at all. These days, if I want to get Teksavvy, Distributel, Ebox or whatever I can. Because the CRTC forced these incumbents to lease their last mile to small providers. That's the way it used to be in the US too.
There is a video of the guy saying that Obama was going to lead the United Nations and invade Lubbock, Texas. You can ignore the "propaganda" and just listen to the judge in his own words if you are afraid of being infected by the dangerous thoughts of Think Progress..
Having worked in Texas, it's very similar to working in Alberta. They've got a strong independent streak, and a similar belief that their place is theirs. You could have of course linked to the video without giving clicks to think progress though right? But you didn't. It's also not the "dangerous thoughts" it's the outright fabrications, lies by omission, quote mining and full-on narrative crafting that they engage in. They're a pure propaganda organization, and using them as any form of a source would be like using "anti-vaxxer news" to show people why vaccines cause autism.
I mean, I don't know if you've ever been to Lubbock, Texas, but don't nobody go there by choice.
Really? I've been in quite a few shitholes before, but Lubbock doesn't even rank in the top 50. That's reserved for places like Chicago, Shanghai, Toronto and so on.
Yeah, and linking to think progress is the best example of a self-reinforcing echo chamber with a side of propaganda.
After all, one can see what happens when progressive replacements get into power. Laws? Nope, those are for little people. And illegals? No, those are "guests" who should just be set free. That also includes violent offenders who've committed murder, rapes and so on. I'm sure you're happy with that policy right? Who doesn't want a murderer simply released back on the street. Or putting a rapist right back out, it's not like rape isn't a repeat offender crime or anything. Or a crime that escalates into further violent acts.
Trump, is simply vocalizing what a lot of people already think on the state of the media. And him vocalizing what people already believe is one of the big reasons why he was elected, round that out with the out-right refusal to bow to political correctness. Why do you think trust of it is so low in western countries? It's not because of Trump. It's because of the media.
If you're fighting against a cartoon frog, you've already lost. Just a FYI. Meme magic is superior anyway.
Well if companies decided to start charging them because of the number of false claims, this problem would likely fix itself in the span of a couple of weeks. You can bet some company would stomp their feet and take it to court, and the court would likely agree that with the high percentage of false claims that the company has a reasonable expectation to recoup losses from false claims.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, where is your evidence of this?
Neogaf isn't a hive mind? Or will you claim that *insert thing isn't a source* like you usually do? Feel free to hit your favorite search engine and use "neogaf" "ban". Sites like ceddit/go1dfish.me do a good job of covering the deletion of things. Subs like /r/subredditcancer show individual case-by-case examples. You can now claim that these show nothing, and there are no problems like you usually do.
You signature makes no sense. Since anyone can go find a person who supports social justice, and has a pro-authoritarian slant to boot. In turn, you can find a few people who post here and support said social justice values and also have a pro-authoritarian slant.
The reality is, if someone considers my comment "toxic" because it hurts their feelings. They probably need to spend some time outside of their social bubbles and realize that the world isn't a happy place where people give you what you want if you cry loud enough. The sad thing is, it *is* the left(not all of it), that are pro-censorship and anti-free speech. It's the same situation that we saw back in the 80's and 90's. Remember? When you had the religious nuts holding power in quite a few places, claiming that video games are gonna make mass murders. D&D will make you summon demons. Those things that happened all those years ago. Then there was a very subtle change in the 90's as those on the left started taking up those mantles themselves. Note tipper gore, hillary clinton, joe liberman and so on. Who said videogames will make murders, censoring TV is right, banning some types of music is proper. The last 20 years have shown that the left were happy to take up that mantle. You've got an entire generation of students in universities that believe that "those old people trying to censor things" were right. In Europe, you've got politicians who are trying to hold onto their political power by censoring. Elitists in universities doing the same.
The left currently has an authoritarian and extremism problem. Pretending it doesn't exist, will do nothing to help either side or anyone at all. And the political spectrum right now is in a fundamental shift. People on the left and right are becoming more libertarian, and there is a large segment of the left and a small segment on the right that's shifting to authoritarian. But as it stands right now? The problem is mainly on the left. Check your local university, see how much anti-free speech and pro-censorship policies have been put into place in the last decade to protect peoples feelings. How words have been twisted, where the label troll/racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/etc has become "anyone who disagrees with my point of view."
Guess you haven't kept up with what's been going on for the last ~10 years. Because the old definition of trolling has long gone out the window, and trolling is basically considered "anyone who disagrees with me" or "has a viewpoint contrary to my world view." You enjoying the era where social justice reinvents something or changes the definitions of words in order to self-victimize yet?
It's kinda like the casual use of sexism, or racism. As a response to anything, especially by those who are heavily into identity politics.
So you're a bigot. Censoring speech of bad view points doesn't make it go away, it makes it fester. On top of that, it's also used as a method to block views that people express if it's contrary to official policies. That's one of the reasons why you're seeing extremist parties start to rise in European countries, because views contrary to the government/elites are being blocked/ignored/etc. And those groups, offer a way for people vent/make statements/etc without being censored by the powers in place.
Why do you think the trust in government in Canada is the lowest it has been in 17 years? That was the last time the Liberal Party was in power and are in power now. And 80% of people feel that the elites in power are dangerously out of touch. It's because the elites live in a bubble and view points are filtered and censored before they reach them. This is the shit that leads to violent revolutions, and usually before that happens you see people enacting their view of justice on the streets. Something that's happening in some European countries now. Where "average people" are gathering into posses and enacting justice against people. Because they see that the state is failing to uphold their part of the social contract. Laws aren't being applied equally, people committing violent crimes are given slaps on the wrist. People who commit the same crimes if they are of a different sex get light sentences and so on. An example of the last one, a man rapes a 13 yr old girl, 5-10 years in prison. A women rapes a 13yr old boy, 2 months suspended sentence or time in a half-way house.
Yeah here's the problem. Let's look at a site like neogaf, ever wonder why at one time it was the place to go and developers would post there and people would leak information. And now developers don't? Active participation is down? It was the moderation as you pointed out, but let's look at their definition of a troll, which basically boils down to "anyone who doesn't subscribe to the narrative." Let's look now, at what will get you banned. Have a contrary view of feminism? Banned. Support some ideas of a MRA? Banned. Have differing view points on global warming? Banned. Prefer the xbox vs playstation? Likely banned. Don't like your vidya characters to look like they were hit with a bat? Banned.
The problem is in many cases, moderators especially in this day and age use that as a form of power projection. A good example of this is /r/politics or /r/canadapolitics where you have moderators who ban people for pointing out factual information because it goes against the prevailing group think. Have a nice article about how forums become infiltrated by people pushing authoritarian viewpoints.
I ran a BBS in my teens, and it got large enough that I was considering applying for a regional fido:net hub. At nearly 700 people and 4 nodes, I picked moderators for my forums who weren't assholes, who usually worked, and if they stepped over the line they were given one warning then booted. As sysop, I expected my mods to be impartial. And if a friend was involved to pass the issue to another mod to deal with. I ran on Renegade.
This might be new to you, but the left have been pushing for speech controls for years at google. It's not Trump, it's not those on the right. The right are the ones defending free speech, and it's the left who are trying to censor it. Whether it be no-platforming, violent assaults on people, using bomb threats or other tactics to shut down venues. The social justice brigade has been doing this for a long time, it's why github is such a steaming pile of shit now. You can see this when companies start instituting "codes of conduct" which push race/sexuality/etc instead of skill/ability as a core value. That garbage is a antithesis to a meritocracy.
Well, let's all bow down the moral arbiters of justice then. I'm sure that they'll be right on top of removing speech they disagree with. Then moving onto the useful idiots that cheered this on in the first place.
If you're willing to remove some speech because it makes you upset, there's nothing stopping others from doing the same to you later.
Rabbits hiss, and thump their feet on the ground. You can train them to use those to communicate basic things using classical conditioning.
If you must really keep a cat, get two. They're mostly layabout, but if they get bored they'll wreck your shit and not feel slightly remorseful about it. Another cat will give them something to do when you're not around instead of causing random mayhem in your domicile.
Nope. I'm gonna mark this type of shit down like with what you'd see with dog owners. No such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner. Dogs can be trained, so can cats. Dogs are far easier to train then cats though, having trained both? If you think of a cat like a 3-4 year old which requires positive reinforcement to stop them from doing stupid things and the occasional punishment it all falls into place. You can train a cat just like a dog, to get you when they need something. Want to play, go outside, yard train them(so they don't go wandering off), beg, and so on. Find a really good cat or dog, you can even train them to somewhat vocalize human speech. My parents last cat I had trained to say "out" when it wanted to go into their garage(it's favorite place to sleep in the summer). When I was a kid, there was a neighbor a block away who used to voice train and litter box train rabbits.