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Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

“Oh uh… the cheque is in the mail!”

Pogbom ,

It’s so close to reality that I’ll forgive it :P

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

The internet has told me you don’t enjoy changing sponges then.

Pogbom , (edited )

Normally I’d agree with you on the basis of reason alone, but I think lottery companies can stand being gouged once in a while.

Edit: shows how little I know about lotteries haha

Pogbom ,

Ah yeah, that’s not as nice as I was picturing then. I still can’t help but side with the guy at least a bit though… it’s just something about the predatory nature of lotteries. In fact it’s almost more offensive that it’s run by a government haha.

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

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!

Pogbom ,

Listen, I’m super smart and I definitely know what the right context is, but could you explain it for our dumber friends here?

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

Or trying to attract people that prefer Twitter :P

Pogbom ,

I hear it goes great with leaded water.

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

Can confirm, I have zero plumbing experience and installed mine with zero issues. It’s about as simple as entry-level Ikea furniture.

Pogbom ,

So 30% of people can’t afford their own house and that doesn’t seem like inequality to you?

Here’s the wiki page on global income equality, to address your claim that Europe is worse than the US:

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_income_equa…

Pogbom ,

in their right mind

I imagine that’s part of it

Pogbom ,

I’ve always supported this approach too but I have to wonder… is there a point where it gets taxed so high that people will just go back to the black market? What would prevent anyone from going black (heh) if it’s cheaper than the legal option?

Pogbom ,

There’s the same amount of weeks though. It’s just spread over 13 months instead of 12 so it would be the same total bi-weekly pay periods.

Pogbom ,

a month

More like 75 years but who’s counting?

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

Well I Iive in Canada but point taken. I’m still not sure I agree that it’s on the voter to let the worse party win just to support a burgeoning better one. I’d say the responsibility is on that better party to secure their base and show a reasonable chance to win before asking voters to risk the worse party winning.

Pogbom ,

Posts in favour of employee rights.

Must support communist dictatorships!

Pogbom ,

There have obviously been tons of other improvements, but paid leave is not one of them. That’s the only point of this post, but instead of just accepting it, you have to turn it into some narrative about the Communist Manifesto. It’s just a meme about not getting vacation days.

Pogbom ,

…I agree? I’m in Canada myself. What’s ‘communist’ about saying people should paid leave, if you agree it’s so ubiquitous? Seems weird to take offense to it then.

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom , (edited )

But that wouldn’t be accurate because there are South American countries with even cheaper electricity than here, so it’s only the cheapest in North America.

Also not to be too pedantic but central America isn’t technically a continent, and it all falls under North America anyways.

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

The first result on google for ‘Australia gun ownership rates’:

…edu.au/…/new-gun-ownership-figures-revealed-25-y…

-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:

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.

Pogbom ,

Seriously, can you imagine if it was a brown guy trying to kill 6 people because they’re white?

Pogbom ,

Ben câlisse, comment ma apporter mon épicerie à maison sans un char d’assault?

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

Meat is pretty much the most expensive protein source. You can get tofu for like 1/5 the price of meat. The other guy summed it up well (although with some sarcasm) that eating vegan is only expensive when you try to replicate the meat. Just eat tofu and you’ll be healthier and richer :)

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

Not to say I agree with him but he didn’t compare those two things at all. He said it’s the same mentality that underlies racism and ‘breedism’ for lack of a better word.

Pogbom ,

You’re completely missing the point of an analogy. No one is comparing humans to animals. What’s similar is the thought process behind arriving at both conclusions. We could be talking about humans, animals, cars… the subject doesn’t matter, it’s the thought process that’s the same.

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

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”

Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

…so you don’t have evidence.

Pogbom ,

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

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

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.

Pogbom ,

Many non-arid Canadian provinces are on fire now. This guidance is given to anyone in a rural area in Vancouver, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and NWT.

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