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The Safe Third Country Agreement should never have been created. Asylum seekers were unlikely to get a fair hearing when it was created and are pretty much guaranteed not to now.

05.08.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Settings -> Moderation -> Mute words & tags?

05.06.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know if AI will get there, but the sooner we stop wasting our short lives with 'jobs' the better.

Was your last phone call made through the operator? Were the clothes you're wearing sewn by hand?

05.06.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why in the would did the article pivot to talk about US tariffs instead of discussing the 100% tariff we put on BYD and co?

17.05.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No thank you. We shouldn't aim to emulate the US with protectionist buying policies. Trade makes us all richer. Instead just don't buy from our enemies.

29.04.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the blame there falls at the feet of the LPC supporters. There was a ton of "don't split the vote, vote LPC" posts here. I was even called a troll and blocked by one for suggesting an LPC vote _was_ splitting the vote in some ridings.

29.04.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anything regulatory related is too far buried beneath the authors own EV FUD campaign. Sure 'Nanny Hynes' living rurally doesn't have plugs now, and regularly drives over 370km each way for basic services.

Strange they don't mention anything about matching the EUs ~30% tariffs on EV's from China.

27.04.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
SmartVoting

It depends on the riding. For some ridings a Liberal vote is the one that'll increase CPC chances.

Check smartvoting.ca/ridings/fede... first.

27.04.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I checked your profile and concluded that I have misread your original intentions. I thought you wanted to prevent PP from being elected. I now see you don't actually care about that and just want to spread misinformation in an attempt to scare people in to voting for the Liberals. Please stop.

25.04.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's great that you're trying to help, but would you consider your advice good if someoneβ€”after seeing your postβ€”voted Liberal in a riding that would have went NDP leading to the Conservatives winning instead?

25.04.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This can be bad advice. Voting Liberal in a riding likely to be won by another non-Cons party will result in exactly the vote splitting you're trying to avoid.

Instead use smartvoting.ca and/or 338canada.com to strategically Vote ABC (Anything But Conservative)

25.04.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I showed there's lots you can 'use' a book for, none that requires permission. Cheryl, have you not used any textbooks or school books to further your career? I know I have book I paid ~$100 for that have earned me at least 10x that. Should I have gotten permission?

07.04.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So where do I apply for permission to read a book? Is there a different permission form if I just want to use it to hold a door open?

I'm open to listening but I really don't get this "they read my book without permission" standpoint.

(and no one better read this reply without my say so)

07.04.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've said it before, but I don't get why some authors believe they should be able to control who reads their book and what they do with the information contained within.

07.04.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Strange you'd have to Google this, especially to then post a paper stating "It is also highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was released from a laboratory".

Anyway, I read the paper. It doesn't answer my previous question. If you come up with an actual answer in the future, I'm all ears to discuss.

31.03.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds rather hand-wavy . How does knowing the origin affect how we make better vaccines? How does it affect preventing spread?

Can you give me one concrete thing we could do differently going forward depending on the origin?

31.03.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How? I'm actually asking. Please tell me how knowing the origin (if that's even possible) will save lives.

31.03.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To what end though? Say you spend a lot of money/effort and eventually it's found that it was a lab leak, how does that change anything going forward?

31.03.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Canada doesn't have felonies. We do have indictable offences. This isn't one though. It's a summary offence. See Elections Act sections 325 & 495.

30.03.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need more trade, not protectionist trade-war policies. Are you happy with what the US is currently doing? Then please don't emulate them.

25.03.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As an author how much control do you think is reasonable for you to have over who reads your words and what is learned from them?

23.03.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I seriously don't get that view. Is it the cost of the twelve books that's the problem? Is it because they used the knowledge to make money?

We've all used knowledge from books we've read to make money.

21.03.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You say that but I've found it actually can fix it's own errors fairly frequently. While using Aider I've seen LLMs solve issues by do things like add debugging prints and asking for the output.

20.03.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We could have sold more to China but we followed the US in putting a 100% tariff on their EVs instead of going with a more reasonable ~30% like the EU. In response they added a tariff to our seafood.

18.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Why Do Americans Think That The US Saved France During WW2? Unpacking American Perspectives Β» Why do Americans think that the US saved France during WWII? This article dives into historical events, cultural perceptions, and the impact of media to

Keeping score 'eh. Are you British? No? Know why?

As to 'saved', you didn't, you helped
historyassist.com/why-do-ameri...

17.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Appreciate the sentiment. We know. We also know and are sorry you have to deal with this current mess at home.

And we need to thank you. Your mess has played a big part in it being at least possible that we don't elect our own nutjob soon.

16.03.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which matters why? Either origin is entirely possible so what difference does it make which one occurred?

13.03.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And exactly where it came from matters how? I've found that the people that most seem to care are typically anti-science, anti-humans-born-elsewhere, or both.

13.03.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No thank you. Trade makes us all richer. We need to trade more with our other trading partners, not copy what the States is doing.

Don't 'Buy Canadian', instead be like this pizza shop and Boycott American.

04.03.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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338Canada Ontario | Poll Analysis & Electoral Projections

Looking at 338canada.com/ontario/ it seems the results came out pretty close to the polling data. I'm all for higher voter turnout, but in this case it doesn't look like it would have made any difference. (Please correct me if I'm wrong though)

28.02.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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