Pogbom

@Pogbom@lemmy.world
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Seriously, can you imagine if it was a brown guy trying to kill 6 people because they're white?

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Hell yeah, we've got a heat pump and we're in Canada where it can get to -40°C (which is coincidentally also -40°F) and that thing works like a beast. Fortunately we also have the cheapest electricity in North America so the decision was easy.

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a month

More like 75 years but who's counting?

Ethically I agree completely but this should only be done if you're past your warranty (or don't care about it).

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I'm Canadian so I'm really asking this genuinely, but which liberties are being crushed in NY that aren't in other states?

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And let's not pretend that prisons don't regularly disregard inmates dietary restrictions, even the medically necessary ones. It's easy to laugh at this one because 'haha vegan' but it's still atrocious to ignore any dietary restriction, let alone such a common one.

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....so you don't have evidence.

Usually this bot is great but this is a pretty big one to miss:

And the same week NASA’s report came out, Mexican lawmakers were shown by journalist Jaime Maussan two tiny, 1,000-year-old bodies that he claimed were the remains of “non-human” beings. Scientists have called this claim fraudulent and say the mummies may have been looted from gravesites in Peru.

Wait, are there cars with lights/wipers on a touch screen?

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Do you have any evidence to go against the tests in the article or are you just rambling?

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"I wanna" Trump

Or trying to attract people that prefer Twitter :P

The first result on google for 'Australia gun ownership rates':

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/04/28/new-gun-ownership-figures-revealed-25-years-on-from-port-arthur.html

-Australian civilians now own more than 3.5 million registered firearms, an average of four for each licensed gun owner.

-The proportion of Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48 percent since 1997.

-The proportion of Australian households with a firearm has fallen by 75 percent in recent decades.

-Data indicates that people who already own guns have bought more rather than an increase in new gun owners.

And I don't know much about their mass shooting history, but here's an article explaining that homicides and suicides sharply declined after the ban:

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

What they found is a decline in both suicide and homicide rates after the NFA. The average firearm suicide rate in Australia in the seven years after the bill declined by 57 percent compared with the seven years prior. The average firearm homicide rate went down by about 42 percent.

They said that while you might be able to make it for sports, you certainly can't make it for chess. That doesn't mean they personally think there's a case for sports too.

Seriously, we need to return to pre-internet console mentality. You put out an N64 game, it better be goddamn finished. Companies rely way too much on "ehh can just patch it".

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Excellent progress! Now we can conscionably stop tipping in Chicago too :)

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You silly goose!

Gestures broadly

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Swap Muslim with Jewish and Israel with Palestine and it's the same problem... to be clear I think both are true but it's kinda weird to single one out.

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8zip?

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That's not a great analogy though... you would have to add that, even though most people use it responsibly, banning digital encryption would cause a very dramatic reduction in harm caused by the people that don't use it responsibly.

Furthermore digital encryption actually serves an inherent purpose so banning it would also cause some harm to society simultaneously. On the other hand, civilian gun ownership serves no inherent purpose so society wouldn't be harmed by banning it, and we would only lose the risk.

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Definitely aim for recreational, but it's still important to expand its medical purposes so that it can be protected for those who need it. What I mean by protected is that its use would be allowed for patients in situations that recreational use would still be prohibited, that it can be claimed as a medical expense on taxes, or subsidized for low income people.

Edit: Sorry, not to imply that you're against the medical part happening too!

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If they're gonna be forced to be part of the UK, they can also enjoy the privilege of shitting on it like the rest do.

Goddamn... as a fellow celiac sufferer, I'm very sorry to hear that. If the blood tests are pretty conclusive, you can probably assume it's celiac without the colonoscopy. The downside is that if you start a gluten-free diet now and decide to get a colonoscopy later, it might now show anything since you're off the gluten. Best of luck!

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in their right mind

I imagine that's part of it

Exactly, they gave it to them and said "do whatever you want with it" then just checked what they did later.

Yeah but there aren't laws making bigotry mandatory up there.

Addressing any of the points being made to you would be a great start. The first comment that you called shallow was a pretty good summary of why people support strict gun control, even if it was said sarcastically.

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Healthcare is provincially regulated here, but coverage in other countries is usually only at the rate that they would cover up here. Because of the huge discrepancies in pricing, most provinces recommend you buy travel insurance when going anywhere else.

In Ontario for example:

"Doctor services

OHIP will pay whichever of the following is less:

  • the actual amount billed by doctor(s) who treated you outside Canada
  • rates listed in and paid to Ontario physicians in the Ontario Schedule of Benefits for Physicians Services

Emergency outpatient services

OHIP will pay whichever of the following is less:

  • up to $50 (Canadian) per day
  • the amount billed by the hospital

Emergency inpatient services

OHIP will pay up to:

$400 (Canadian) per day for services provided in:

  • an operating room
  • a coronary care unit
  • an intensive care unit
  • a neonatal or pediatric special care unit

$200 (Canadian) per day for lower levels of care"

Posts in favour of employee rights.

Must support communist dictatorships!

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T'ed

tips fedora

Ehh I dunno... I'm as atheist as anyone with an IQ above 60, but I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here. I'm pretty sure someone who shoots strangers on the highway would have done it in a world without religion too, and they would say it's a different mystical force that made them do it. I don't think Christianity actually moved this person to do this.

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Translation: "I have money so you can go die, you stupid poor"

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I think the comment above is saying what the government would say... which is honestly fairly realistic.

Both can be true though. I don't support things like Uber and Lyft but only because of how horribly they treat their employees. I don't have much sympathy for the taxi industry that never bothered to modernized over the last 50 years.

I also hate SAGAs, and I also have to RMB trying to FIT. Agreed it's RBA!

What a shallow and dismissive thing to say

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Voting for any person means you approve of their actions and you are complicit and responsible for them.

I don't think it means that necessarily. It's just as valid to vote strategically against an even worse party if they have a chance of winning. It's not morally contentious to vote for the lesser of two evils.

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I don't think it's begging when people already want to give it out for free.

I'm in Canada where the minimum wage is the same for all employees, regardless of tips or not (with one small exception in Quebec, where it's $10.80 instead of $13.50).

I just looked up the US law and it seems so circular. There's a smaller minimum for those considered 'tipped employees', but the definition of 'tipped employee' is one who makes at least $30/month in tips in general.

So you could say it's incumbent on customers to pity these employees and top up their salaries, but it seems just as reasonable to stop tipping them so they no longer fit that definition and they get the actual minimum wage.

In other words, they only get a smaller minimum wage because they prefer being tipped employees. If they didn't, they would just refuse the tips.

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