That's like saying socialism is great. But there's never been a true version of socialism. You know what the difference between a MRA and a feminist is? The first is trying to better the lives of men by looking at the issues, and trying to fix it. The latter is complaining about sexist air conditioning and getting buddy-buddy up with ideologies like Islam that promote that women are worth less then men.
Feminism itself has gone so far off the rails that you'll now hear adherents say "egalitarianism is a MRA construct." Enjoy that cult.
Portion sizes have likely changed a lot since you were a kid. I am only 30ish and remember a screw capsule glass bottle of coca cola lasting almost an entire week.
When I was a kid, we didn't have screw on bottle caps. You needed this device called a bottle opener.
And you don't consider that low paid? Canada must be in bad shape, then.
No. At $33/hr you're going to be doing incredibly well for yourself. The poverty level in Canada is around $30k/year. Min wage varies between $7-14/hr. Most people outside of the big cities(Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary) and so on make under $40k/year. In my backyard the average wage is $42k/year. The average Canadian wage is $52k/year.
You know what the difference between Canada and Norway is? Taxes and cheap energy. Something that the left wing is trying very hard to destroy with regulation and new taxes. The average wage monthly for a nurse is $5280CAD before taxes. That's $63k/year which is what? 20% more then the national average.
Maybe encourage them to get off their asses? Because governments spent decades pushing stranger danger, and going outside as dangerous as well. And you can't forget all those schools which stopped outdoor recesses, or punished kids for physical activity outside because they might get hurt. Strange how I ate the same stuff, and drank heavy laden sugar drinks as a kid and didn't have a weight problem as a kid. Neither did my parents. Almost seems like there's this correlation between a lack of physical activity...
No it's about waste. You can find the articles over the last couple of years on it, but some schools saw lunchroom garbage increase by 80%. The entire obama admin idea on lunch was garbage from the start.
Yes, because everyone wants to eat a couple of crackers, a piece of cauliflower and a few slices of meat. Which is considered a complete lunch under the Obama nutrition standards. I don't know about you, but when I was in school I would have been hungry again in about 45 minutes with that little food.
Nursing is a low paying job? You must live in a shit country. The average nurse makes $33/hr here in Canada. The only other job I can think of here where I could make that is where I'm risking my life in the oil patch, in a mine. Or have 20+ years experience in IT, or am in a specialized field.
You're making the common mistake of conflating real Feminists with the man-hating, power-seeking, vengeance-driven SJW ersatz, who don't want equality, they want supremacy. Real Feminists just want to be treated fairly.
That's the only right kind of feminist is the first type these days. Otherwise you're excommunicated, and viciously attacked by them as a women hater. The same garbage that you see in subs like/r/feminism is the same type of stuff that's pushed in schools from Canada and the US to Australia. Everything is men's fault, it's all the fault of the patriarchy, society is ruled by the patriarchy, etc, etc, etc. If you refuse to believe that you're a misogynist/sexist/etc. It's this same type of bullshit that's given birth to MRA's, Men's Rights Movements, MGTOW, and so on. There's an absolute fear of standing up to them as well, because they'll bring out the "you're a rapist, you commit sexual assault, etc" garbage and will attempt to ruin a persons life to boot. And if you refuse to fall in line with that? Or if you refuse to follow the 3/4 women will be raped/sexually assaulted/etc? Well you're a rape apologist now.
Ask those 2nd wave feminists who've been saying the 3rd/4th wave bullshit is literal bullshit for decades now. Take someone like Camille Paglia or C.H. Sommers, they're "not real feminists" according to the modern orthodoxy. Or ask those women who say they're not feminists, and are viciously attacked by those batshit insane feminists, the media, and so on. The current brand of feminism can fall into one of two categories depending on your view. It's either a religion, or a cult.
Hell take all those feminists who say "well if men want help on their own issues, they should make their own movement." And so they did...you guess what happens? They're attacked, their meetings are disrupted, and so on. Ask yourself why those same feminists who say "it's about equality" attack men who've been raped by women. Try to get men's shelters shut down. Try to block successfully in many cases to get rape laws changed so they're gender neutral. Ask yourself why feminists have their panties in such a twist over the documentary "The Red Pill" by Cassie Jaye. That they go as far as to attack her in the media and lie. Lie and threaten theaters who were showing it, force them to not show it. Say it's all rape apology, sexism, and so on. Disrupt private events from showing it. Ask yourself why feminists fight so hard against getting male suicide labeled an epidemic. It is. 80% in some countries are men, but the help they're able to get is close to non-existent in some cases. 83% of suicides in my own backyard are from men in the 16-40 range. There's two programs that exist to help men, there are 73 programs for women.
Then ask yourself, why so few people actually call themselves feminists. And why so many people see what the GP said, is believed by so many.
This is pretty well known for anyone who's been in training, or knows someone who was a cop prior to say 1980. Used to be performance was weighted based on the number of arrests/investigations/etc. Community Oriented Policing(COP) changed all that in say 1982-84ish when a lot of police forces went to police services. Policing in the US is still holds a military structure, and works in a pyramid type fashion, the guy at the top is the most important and the way a police force works and solves problems is dictated through the chain of command. Nearly all policing in the west(inc. Japan) however now works on an inverse pyramid. Meaning the guy at the bottom has wide leeway to determine the right way to deal with a problem and "how" that problem should be solved. COP changed the way policing was done from that metric to "how" a problem was solved based on what the individual did to solve it. There are still some parts of policing that are weighted on tickets/arrests/etc. Traffic police in many places performance is weighted on tickets for example, but even that's falling to the wayside.
The US in and of itself is still probably ~10-15 years out from the shift to a full-on COP style of policing. It's a better system by far and is much more like the early days(1880-1950) of policing where you have people who work the same areas day-in and day out, know the people, live in the same area, hiring is based on people who live there, etc. The 1950-1980ish era pushed the "roving police" idea, where the idea of driving around and never talking with people was a great(really terrible) idea.
So tobacco really is grown in Canada. I did not know that.
We used to grow so much tobacco here in Ontario, that folk songs were made of it. Tobacco was the backbone of the entire industry in places like Tillsonburg, Ontario. If you want an example, see Stompin' Tom Connors who's considered a country/western and folk legend here. Funny enough I spent several summers picking tobacco in the same fields he did as a kid, they don't exist anymore though. Good farmland now covered in solar panels instead of crops.
No the point/loss recovery doesn't balance out. You mean the point that there is no penalty for killing someone? Gee. Maybe you need to dust off your copy, or go buy one. It's cheap these days on steam, it'll take you less then 2hrs to get to that level. On top of that, this is the type of stuff she considered "sexualized". You're cheering on a person who is no different then Jack Thompson.
Here's what happened up here in Canada. In the late 1980's you could pick fruit/veggies/tobacco/etc and earn enough money to put you through a year of university, if you got on a good farm you could earn enough to put you through 2-3 years. This was still the norm in the early 90's, by say '94ish there was a great push of factory farms. And suddenly there were people saying "oh we can't afford to pay these people those wages." And suddenly they loosened the wage rate, and more followed suit. It went from hourly to bushel, and then you started hearing the "but people won't work for what we're paying!" So they relaxed the hiring regs, and allowed the importing of 3rd world labor to do those jobs. And the wages still fell.
If you want to fix the problem, the laws have to be changed. Most governments have no interest in changing the laws on this, and now it's the norm. Now people are seeing this with the abuse of H1B's in the US, and here in Canada with TFW's. The difference between the two is a TFW can be used in any job. The current area we're seeing a flood of people in is with business cleaning run by fly-by-night shops that hire people who are illegally in Canada. But businesses from the CIBC(big bank up here) replacing workers with TFW's, to skilled trades in the oil patch have been hit.
If you making 50K a year and paying $1466 for a studio then your basically putting half of your take home pay towards rent. That is not affordable.
People have been saying that for awhile. Though if you want to see what unaffordable looks like, try Toronto. Housing prices have gone up 70% in the last year(650k to 1,105,000) , and when that bubble pops it's going to be really interesting.
Well it takes between 4 and 9 years to get into low income housing in most of Canada. It's around 4-5 years here in Ontario, programs like section 8 don't exist in Canada in the same general terms either. There are "generational welfare" families in Canada without a doubt, but then there's also the people who don't want anything to do with it. You'll see a lot of seasonal people who work in eastern canada(fisheries/crab/lobster/etc), who work the other half year in Alberta's oil patch or in the potash mines in SK or MB. ~10-20 years ago before the war on coal was kicked into high gear, those people would work seasonally in the eastern canada coal mines. Lot of people would spend half a year or more on welfare because of that, it actually got worse and crime exploded in eastern canada when those mines shut down. Then it was compounded when the paper mills shut down because of environmental groups throwing a hissyfit. Huge drug abuse explosion from all of this as well. People like to think that solutions for this stuff is simple, but when you throw 10k people out of work things get desperate quick.
In Ontario, if you're living on your own and you're not in the GTA(Toronto). And all that you can live very well on $17k/year. Keep in mind that in Ontario, disability pays $9600-14k/year and you're expected to be able to survive on $9600 which is 1/3 the poverty rate. Now you can apply for welfare, there's some programs which give $200/mo to help for rent and so on. For someone who's on disability though? This would be a serious windfall, the smart people who already scrape day-by-day will likely bank all of the money.
Yes, that bit. In her talk she addresses the claim directly by pointing out that although you lose 100 points when you murder the innocent strippers, you get 100 points back as soon as you hide their corpses in the convenient chests placed right behind them.
You mean the: Killing civilians is an automatic -250 pt loss, it's -350 if you don't hide the body. Seriously, you're just digging yourself into a hole. In other words, she was wrong, you were wrong and she's lying out her ass. That's not even touching on the non-studies that she presents as factual. The DiGRA ones are among the worst, and anyone who's had a paper publish can tell that. Especially since the content of them are written with a conclusion first, and even when evidence is presented in the opposite direction and contradicts the main thesis it's ignored out of hand.
Sounds like you're showing your ignorance and making assumptions. Good job. Especially since I just flew back from Alberta, such a hard life. Don't worry, you can come to Ontario take my place and I'll just move back out west. Watch out for the economic crash that's just around the corner and just a useful tip: If you're want to buy a house? Don't. Housing prices here have jumped 70% in less then a year.
Too bad, Ontario's Liberal Party under Wynne has decided that "blue collar" work is bad. That the service industry is fine. High electricity prices are great, and they're fine without having any industry at all. The liberals over the last 15 years have fucked up this province more then any party before it, and fucked it up so badly that if the NDP and Progressive Conservatives ran pet rocks as leaders of their parties, they would win, and the Liberal Party would be a non-party at the end of the election.
At this point, I'm not sure what the hell their game plan is besides fucking everything up so badly that the entire province crashes.
Good thing you're showing your ignorance. I wouldn't want to let things like "the ability to move" or "having to work elsewhere." Why don't you come try a northern alberta winter on for size? You can even have a place right in the foothills of the mountains, enjoy the sudden 4ft snowfalls in a 18hrs period to boot. Just a useful tip: You have between 4 days and 2 weeks before the first blast of winter hits in middle to late September or sometimes early October when the first white show up on the peaks. Also, I hope you enjoy isolation because it's 6hrs in any direction to a major city. Hospital services? Well, just hope they can fly a copter in to get you. And try to avoid the spring melts, because well they like to wash out the highways and strand you for a couple of weeks. You should take some food with you too, normally 60 days is enough. Oh, and when the winds knock out the power? You'd best make sure you stocked up on firewood. Otherwise you're going to be either living at the mall or the city/firehall for the next couple of weeks. Because otherwise you're going to freeze to death.
No. But if you want, you can always stack the -43C with the -68C windchill that I went through this winter and my nephews and nieces. And that type of weather was the same type of weather I went through as a kid, under 10. I even fondly remember the -35C days when we'd go outside and play in it. Even those days when we were still required to go outside for things like recess in that cold weather.
You mean the part in her Hitman video which you are penalized for killing innocent people? That she doesn't even state, and claims the exact opposite. That those "scores" are the determining factor which allows the unlocking of new equipment. You should go play the game before you make a bigger ass out of yourself, then she made out of herself on it.
Tell you what, you had the brainwave idea you can go suggest it. You believe you have enough invested capital in it to make a go of it, so I'll wait.
Drum brakes for the most part are dead except in trucks. I'll point out the obvious mistake though. The self-adjuster triggers on every pedal depress, not when you use use the e-brake. The design of it is to keep the rear shoes at "near contact" with the drum. When I was an apprentice ~20 years ago, the guy I was under had been in the industry 50 years and had never seen a situation you're talking about. The shop I worked in? You could see 30k vehicles a year or sometimes even 80k vehicles, it wasn't a small place. A single me mechanic who owns a two-garage shop with an apprentice might see 5k cars in a busy year. A buddy of mine who got his cert ~10 years ago, and apprenticed under a guy who'd been in the industry 35 years had never seen that. He's never seen it in nearly 15 years either. Reminder that apprenticeships are a 4year deal, so by the time you have 20 years in you've already been working 24 years.
Cables rusting into place? Common around here, lots of salt used on the roads. The situation you're talking about though? It would be easy to spot, the vehicle would go through front shoes quickly, very quickly. As in new shoes every year. Then the real question would be is the shop incompetent? Because when you service the brakes, by law you have to inspect the rear as well. And most people repeatedly go to the same shop over and over again.
The supply chain here in Ontario is a pretty lean business. There's really only a few companies that process raw chicken into a "shipped" component. The rest are business that process whole chicken then ship to companies for processing into whatever component they want. I.e. you see a chain like this: Farmer -> processor(whole bird) who defeathers/removes internal organs/head/feet/etc -> Whole bird shipped to secondary processor who sort whole bird orders and part-only orders -> supply chain -> pre-consumer processor for fast food/already cooked/restaurant use(companies like Sysco, RED, Flanagan, etc) -> store front.
Should be noted that flanagan, Sysco and so on also do processing for fast food companies, hospitals, prisons, cafeterias and so on. So that beef burger you're buying at say burger king, or McD's? Those local "pita pit" you find in SW-Ontario? Also through Sysco, they get direct delivery. Unlike BK/McD's who would ship from a central warehouse unless they're too far out, in which case it would also be a direct delivery from that part of the chain. Likely came through the same company at least at one point. Supply chain lines are very clean here, where the test was done. There's the possibility of a supply chain screw-up because some customers like hospitals order 50/50 mixes and so on.
Well the city I live in was a village ~180 years ago. It was incorporated as town just after WWI, a city just after WWII. If you're dealing with Bell, there are many areas of the city where 5/1 DSL is it. There's no FTTN, no FTTH either. Telephone service? Most of the wiring is all original from the early 1900's, lots of homes still have the very old big block graphite lightening strike resistors in them too which cause more problems. Rogers? Well they offer 150/15Mbps because almost 20 years ago they rewired the entire city and upgraded the infrastructure. I can get internet though from teksavvy, start, mtl, execulink, and a dozen other companies because those last mile lines are rented at least. The US had that ~20 years ago, and I remember 5/1DSL being as cheap as $9/mo in places like detroit and indianapolis.
But, that still means in places like Oxford County(main city Woodstock) for example, there's still entire areas with no broadband even in the heart of southwestern ontario. If you cross to the south of the 401, most people there are stuck on either dialup still or use wireless. Execulink has been laying fiber there for the last year to bring broadband service to places just outside of Tillsonburg and so on, because neither rogers or bell want to. Even though 60% of the county's population is rural.
Interestingly enough Shaw used to be the provider here until around 1990 when rogers bought up all of their eastern canada territory. Telus can be a complete shit show, my sister lives in an incorperated town in a IA(industrial improvement area aka asshole of nowhere but within 4hrs of a city with a population of 10k). Getting basic DSL service was complete hit or miss because there were no ports for line cards available, and it took the previous provincial government threatening them to fine Telus for failing to provide the service that they were contractually obligated to provide.
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That's like saying socialism is great. But there's never been a true version of socialism. You know what the difference between a MRA and a feminist is? The first is trying to better the lives of men by looking at the issues, and trying to fix it. The latter is complaining about sexist air conditioning and getting buddy-buddy up with ideologies like Islam that promote that women are worth less then men.
Feminism itself has gone so far off the rails that you'll now hear adherents say "egalitarianism is a MRA construct." Enjoy that cult.
Portion sizes have likely changed a lot since you were a kid. I am only 30ish and remember a screw capsule glass bottle of coca cola lasting almost an entire week.
When I was a kid, we didn't have screw on bottle caps. You needed this device called a bottle opener.
And you don't consider that low paid? Canada must be in bad shape, then.
No. At $33/hr you're going to be doing incredibly well for yourself. The poverty level in Canada is around $30k/year. Min wage varies between $7-14/hr. Most people outside of the big cities(Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary) and so on make under $40k/year. In my backyard the average wage is $42k/year. The average Canadian wage is $52k/year.
You know what the difference between Canada and Norway is? Taxes and cheap energy. Something that the left wing is trying very hard to destroy with regulation and new taxes. The average wage monthly for a nurse is $5280CAD before taxes. That's $63k/year which is what? 20% more then the national average.
Maybe encourage them to get off their asses? Because governments spent decades pushing stranger danger, and going outside as dangerous as well. And you can't forget all those schools which stopped outdoor recesses, or punished kids for physical activity outside because they might get hurt. Strange how I ate the same stuff, and drank heavy laden sugar drinks as a kid and didn't have a weight problem as a kid. Neither did my parents. Almost seems like there's this correlation between a lack of physical activity...
No it's about waste. You can find the articles over the last couple of years on it, but some schools saw lunchroom garbage increase by 80%. The entire obama admin idea on lunch was garbage from the start.
Yes, because everyone wants to eat a couple of crackers, a piece of cauliflower and a few slices of meat. Which is considered a complete lunch under the Obama nutrition standards. I don't know about you, but when I was in school I would have been hungry again in about 45 minutes with that little food.
Nursing is a low paying job? You must live in a shit country. The average nurse makes $33/hr here in Canada. The only other job I can think of here where I could make that is where I'm risking my life in the oil patch, in a mine. Or have 20+ years experience in IT, or am in a specialized field.
You're making the common mistake of conflating real Feminists with the man-hating, power-seeking, vengeance-driven SJW ersatz, who don't want equality, they want supremacy. Real Feminists just want to be treated fairly.
That's the only right kind of feminist is the first type these days. Otherwise you're excommunicated, and viciously attacked by them as a women hater. The same garbage that you see in subs like /r/feminism is the same type of stuff that's pushed in schools from Canada and the US to Australia. Everything is men's fault, it's all the fault of the patriarchy, society is ruled by the patriarchy, etc, etc, etc. If you refuse to believe that you're a misogynist/sexist/etc. It's this same type of bullshit that's given birth to MRA's, Men's Rights Movements, MGTOW, and so on. There's an absolute fear of standing up to them as well, because they'll bring out the "you're a rapist, you commit sexual assault, etc" garbage and will attempt to ruin a persons life to boot. And if you refuse to fall in line with that? Or if you refuse to follow the 3/4 women will be raped/sexually assaulted/etc? Well you're a rape apologist now.
Ask those 2nd wave feminists who've been saying the 3rd/4th wave bullshit is literal bullshit for decades now. Take someone like Camille Paglia or C.H. Sommers, they're "not real feminists" according to the modern orthodoxy. Or ask those women who say they're not feminists, and are viciously attacked by those batshit insane feminists, the media, and so on. The current brand of feminism can fall into one of two categories depending on your view. It's either a religion, or a cult.
Hell take all those feminists who say "well if men want help on their own issues, they should make their own movement." And so they did...you guess what happens? They're attacked, their meetings are disrupted, and so on. Ask yourself why those same feminists who say "it's about equality" attack men who've been raped by women. Try to get men's shelters shut down. Try to block successfully in many cases to get rape laws changed so they're gender neutral. Ask yourself why feminists have their panties in such a twist over the documentary "The Red Pill" by Cassie Jaye. That they go as far as to attack her in the media and lie. Lie and threaten theaters who were showing it, force them to not show it. Say it's all rape apology, sexism, and so on. Disrupt private events from showing it. Ask yourself why feminists fight so hard against getting male suicide labeled an epidemic. It is. 80% in some countries are men, but the help they're able to get is close to non-existent in some cases. 83% of suicides in my own backyard are from men in the 16-40 range. There's two programs that exist to help men, there are 73 programs for women.
Then ask yourself, why so few people actually call themselves feminists. And why so many people see what the GP said, is believed by so many.
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This is pretty well known for anyone who's been in training, or knows someone who was a cop prior to say 1980. Used to be performance was weighted based on the number of arrests/investigations/etc. Community Oriented Policing(COP) changed all that in say 1982-84ish when a lot of police forces went to police services. Policing in the US is still holds a military structure, and works in a pyramid type fashion, the guy at the top is the most important and the way a police force works and solves problems is dictated through the chain of command. Nearly all policing in the west(inc. Japan) however now works on an inverse pyramid. Meaning the guy at the bottom has wide leeway to determine the right way to deal with a problem and "how" that problem should be solved. COP changed the way policing was done from that metric to "how" a problem was solved based on what the individual did to solve it. There are still some parts of policing that are weighted on tickets/arrests/etc. Traffic police in many places performance is weighted on tickets for example, but even that's falling to the wayside.
The US in and of itself is still probably ~10-15 years out from the shift to a full-on COP style of policing. It's a better system by far and is much more like the early days(1880-1950) of policing where you have people who work the same areas day-in and day out, know the people, live in the same area, hiring is based on people who live there, etc. The 1950-1980ish era pushed the "roving police" idea, where the idea of driving around and never talking with people was a great(really terrible) idea.
So tobacco really is grown in Canada. I did not know that.
We used to grow so much tobacco here in Ontario, that folk songs were made of it. Tobacco was the backbone of the entire industry in places like Tillsonburg, Ontario. If you want an example, see Stompin' Tom Connors who's considered a country/western and folk legend here. Funny enough I spent several summers picking tobacco in the same fields he did as a kid, they don't exist anymore though. Good farmland now covered in solar panels instead of crops.
No the point/loss recovery doesn't balance out. You mean the point that there is no penalty for killing someone? Gee. Maybe you need to dust off your copy, or go buy one. It's cheap these days on steam, it'll take you less then 2hrs to get to that level. On top of that, this is the type of stuff she considered "sexualized". You're cheering on a person who is no different then Jack Thompson.
Here's what happened up here in Canada. In the late 1980's you could pick fruit/veggies/tobacco/etc and earn enough money to put you through a year of university, if you got on a good farm you could earn enough to put you through 2-3 years. This was still the norm in the early 90's, by say '94ish there was a great push of factory farms. And suddenly there were people saying "oh we can't afford to pay these people those wages." And suddenly they loosened the wage rate, and more followed suit. It went from hourly to bushel, and then you started hearing the "but people won't work for what we're paying!" So they relaxed the hiring regs, and allowed the importing of 3rd world labor to do those jobs. And the wages still fell.
If you want to fix the problem, the laws have to be changed. Most governments have no interest in changing the laws on this, and now it's the norm. Now people are seeing this with the abuse of H1B's in the US, and here in Canada with TFW's. The difference between the two is a TFW can be used in any job. The current area we're seeing a flood of people in is with business cleaning run by fly-by-night shops that hire people who are illegally in Canada. But businesses from the CIBC(big bank up here) replacing workers with TFW's, to skilled trades in the oil patch have been hit.
If you making 50K a year and paying $1466 for a studio then your basically putting half of your take home pay towards rent. That is not affordable.
People have been saying that for awhile. Though if you want to see what unaffordable looks like, try Toronto. Housing prices have gone up 70% in the last year(650k to 1,105,000) , and when that bubble pops it's going to be really interesting.
Well it takes between 4 and 9 years to get into low income housing in most of Canada. It's around 4-5 years here in Ontario, programs like section 8 don't exist in Canada in the same general terms either. There are "generational welfare" families in Canada without a doubt, but then there's also the people who don't want anything to do with it. You'll see a lot of seasonal people who work in eastern canada(fisheries/crab/lobster/etc), who work the other half year in Alberta's oil patch or in the potash mines in SK or MB. ~10-20 years ago before the war on coal was kicked into high gear, those people would work seasonally in the eastern canada coal mines. Lot of people would spend half a year or more on welfare because of that, it actually got worse and crime exploded in eastern canada when those mines shut down. Then it was compounded when the paper mills shut down because of environmental groups throwing a hissyfit. Huge drug abuse explosion from all of this as well. People like to think that solutions for this stuff is simple, but when you throw 10k people out of work things get desperate quick.
In Ontario, if you're living on your own and you're not in the GTA(Toronto). And all that you can live very well on $17k/year. Keep in mind that in Ontario, disability pays $9600-14k/year and you're expected to be able to survive on $9600 which is 1/3 the poverty rate. Now you can apply for welfare, there's some programs which give $200/mo to help for rent and so on. For someone who's on disability though? This would be a serious windfall, the smart people who already scrape day-by-day will likely bank all of the money.
Yes, that bit. In her talk she addresses the claim directly by pointing out that although you lose 100 points when you murder the innocent strippers, you get 100 points back as soon as you hide their corpses in the convenient chests placed right behind them.
You mean the: Killing civilians is an automatic -250 pt loss, it's -350 if you don't hide the body. Seriously, you're just digging yourself into a hole. In other words, she was wrong, you were wrong and she's lying out her ass. That's not even touching on the non-studies that she presents as factual. The DiGRA ones are among the worst, and anyone who's had a paper publish can tell that. Especially since the content of them are written with a conclusion first, and even when evidence is presented in the opposite direction and contradicts the main thesis it's ignored out of hand.
Sounds like you're showing your ignorance and making assumptions. Good job. Especially since I just flew back from Alberta, such a hard life. Don't worry, you can come to Ontario take my place and I'll just move back out west. Watch out for the economic crash that's just around the corner and just a useful tip: If you're want to buy a house? Don't. Housing prices here have jumped 70% in less then a year.
Too bad, Ontario's Liberal Party under Wynne has decided that "blue collar" work is bad. That the service industry is fine. High electricity prices are great, and they're fine without having any industry at all. The liberals over the last 15 years have fucked up this province more then any party before it, and fucked it up so badly that if the NDP and Progressive Conservatives ran pet rocks as leaders of their parties, they would win, and the Liberal Party would be a non-party at the end of the election.
At this point, I'm not sure what the hell their game plan is besides fucking everything up so badly that the entire province crashes.
Good thing you're showing your ignorance. I wouldn't want to let things like "the ability to move" or "having to work elsewhere." Why don't you come try a northern alberta winter on for size? You can even have a place right in the foothills of the mountains, enjoy the sudden 4ft snowfalls in a 18hrs period to boot. Just a useful tip: You have between 4 days and 2 weeks before the first blast of winter hits in middle to late September or sometimes early October when the first white show up on the peaks. Also, I hope you enjoy isolation because it's 6hrs in any direction to a major city. Hospital services? Well, just hope they can fly a copter in to get you. And try to avoid the spring melts, because well they like to wash out the highways and strand you for a couple of weeks. You should take some food with you too, normally 60 days is enough. Oh, and when the winds knock out the power? You'd best make sure you stocked up on firewood. Otherwise you're going to be either living at the mall or the city/firehall for the next couple of weeks. Because otherwise you're going to freeze to death.
No. But if you want, you can always stack the -43C with the -68C windchill that I went through this winter and my nephews and nieces. And that type of weather was the same type of weather I went through as a kid, under 10. I even fondly remember the -35C days when we'd go outside and play in it. Even those days when we were still required to go outside for things like recess in that cold weather.
Oops. How are you enjoying that ignorance?
I walk my kids to school when it's nice out (too cold most of the winter)
Unless it get's to -60C where you are, it's not too cold. You're just putting comfort in front of health and rationalizing it.
You mean the part in her Hitman video which you are penalized for killing innocent people? That she doesn't even state, and claims the exact opposite. That those "scores" are the determining factor which allows the unlocking of new equipment. You should go play the game before you make a bigger ass out of yourself, then she made out of herself on it.
Tell you what, you had the brainwave idea you can go suggest it. You believe you have enough invested capital in it to make a go of it, so I'll wait.
Drum brakes for the most part are dead except in trucks. I'll point out the obvious mistake though. The self-adjuster triggers on every pedal depress, not when you use use the e-brake. The design of it is to keep the rear shoes at "near contact" with the drum. When I was an apprentice ~20 years ago, the guy I was under had been in the industry 50 years and had never seen a situation you're talking about. The shop I worked in? You could see 30k vehicles a year or sometimes even 80k vehicles, it wasn't a small place. A single me mechanic who owns a two-garage shop with an apprentice might see 5k cars in a busy year. A buddy of mine who got his cert ~10 years ago, and apprenticed under a guy who'd been in the industry 35 years had never seen that. He's never seen it in nearly 15 years either. Reminder that apprenticeships are a 4year deal, so by the time you have 20 years in you've already been working 24 years.
Cables rusting into place? Common around here, lots of salt used on the roads. The situation you're talking about though? It would be easy to spot, the vehicle would go through front shoes quickly, very quickly. As in new shoes every year. Then the real question would be is the shop incompetent? Because when you service the brakes, by law you have to inspect the rear as well. And most people repeatedly go to the same shop over and over again.
The supply chain here in Ontario is a pretty lean business. There's really only a few companies that process raw chicken into a "shipped" component. The rest are business that process whole chicken then ship to companies for processing into whatever component they want. I.e. you see a chain like this: Farmer -> processor(whole bird) who defeathers/removes internal organs/head/feet/etc -> Whole bird shipped to secondary processor who sort whole bird orders and part-only orders -> supply chain -> pre-consumer processor for fast food/already cooked/restaurant use(companies like Sysco, RED, Flanagan, etc) -> store front.
Should be noted that flanagan, Sysco and so on also do processing for fast food companies, hospitals, prisons, cafeterias and so on. So that beef burger you're buying at say burger king, or McD's? Those local "pita pit" you find in SW-Ontario? Also through Sysco, they get direct delivery. Unlike BK/McD's who would ship from a central warehouse unless they're too far out, in which case it would also be a direct delivery from that part of the chain. Likely came through the same company at least at one point. Supply chain lines are very clean here, where the test was done. There's the possibility of a supply chain screw-up because some customers like hospitals order 50/50 mixes and so on.
Well the city I live in was a village ~180 years ago. It was incorporated as town just after WWI, a city just after WWII. If you're dealing with Bell, there are many areas of the city where 5/1 DSL is it. There's no FTTN, no FTTH either. Telephone service? Most of the wiring is all original from the early 1900's, lots of homes still have the very old big block graphite lightening strike resistors in them too which cause more problems. Rogers? Well they offer 150/15Mbps because almost 20 years ago they rewired the entire city and upgraded the infrastructure. I can get internet though from teksavvy, start, mtl, execulink, and a dozen other companies because those last mile lines are rented at least. The US had that ~20 years ago, and I remember 5/1DSL being as cheap as $9/mo in places like detroit and indianapolis.
But, that still means in places like Oxford County(main city Woodstock) for example, there's still entire areas with no broadband even in the heart of southwestern ontario. If you cross to the south of the 401, most people there are stuck on either dialup still or use wireless. Execulink has been laying fiber there for the last year to bring broadband service to places just outside of Tillsonburg and so on, because neither rogers or bell want to. Even though 60% of the county's population is rural.
Interestingly enough Shaw used to be the provider here until around 1990 when rogers bought up all of their eastern canada territory. Telus can be a complete shit show, my sister lives in an incorperated town in a IA(industrial improvement area aka asshole of nowhere but within 4hrs of a city with a population of 10k). Getting basic DSL service was complete hit or miss because there were no ports for line cards available, and it took the previous provincial government threatening them to fine Telus for failing to provide the service that they were contractually obligated to provide.