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[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

See, the Coramoor gets it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Or, replace the chain link fence with a dodgy internet stream of the game. It's unjust that some people don't get to see the game, and other people who paid for a ticket do.

(only partially joking)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's also useful to ask "if you don't support DEI, is it diversity, equity or inclusion you have an issue with?"

Should certain people or certain kinds of people be excluded? Is that why inclusion is bad?

What's bad about equity? Should things be inequitable? Should certain people get preferential treatment? If so, which people and why?

Or, is it diversity that's the problem? Is uniformness important? Is it so important that it's reasonable to exclude people who don't come from the right backgrounds or don't look a certain way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

What kind of engineering work? That's a really broad category.

Like, are we talking aerospace engineering? Software engineering? Systems engineering?

I don't think the interviews angle means anything. Just because he was able to convince a journalist he knew the right words doesn't mean that he was actually contributing to the actual engineering of the rockets. If he spent 20 hours a week in engineering meetings, he might have absorbed enough to talk intelligently about it.

I also wouldn't give much credit to employees saying that he did engineering work. This is the same guy who bought the title of "founder" when he bought Tesla, and loves using NDAs to muzzle people.

I'm not saying I have doubts about his actual engineering because I think he's an asshole so he must be an idiot. I'm saying it because I've never heard him say anything technical that wasn't basically Star Trek technobabble, and at the same time I have seen him do a lot of shady things to make it seem like he's more involved than he is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

It's worth noting that there's been a shortage of doctors in Canada for decades now. The root of the problem is that to become a doctor, you need to complete a residency program. But, the number of residency slots is set extremely low. That means that there are a lot of med school graduates who never get into a residency program, and eventually have to do something other than becoming a doctor.

You would think that you could get around this by moving to Canada with an MD and years of experience. But, frequently foreign experience isn't counted as being on par with Canada's system, so foreign doctors need to do a Canadian residency. That means they compete with Canadian med school graduates to get into the same residency programs.

Why aren't there more residency slots? Part of it is political, many provincial governments want to shrink the healthcare budget, so by limiting the supply of doctors they limit the size of the healthcare budget. But, there are also indications that the doctors also don't want the competition, and lobby the government to limit the number of residency spots it pays for, and by doing that, limits the number of doctors.

So, doctors may be trying to move to Canada, but unless something changes, they might not be able to practice medicine here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's not really a small point though. It's a huge signal about how serious these people are.

Like, if a scientific paper has the text "as an AI language model" in it, you can be sure that there's no point in reading the paper deeply. Similarly, tariffs on uninhabited islands tells you that there's no "5d chess" being played here, these people are absolute morons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I'm the confused one here, to be honest with you, as shown by the other answers and upvotes in this thread

Yes, other people were confused. That doesn't mean that you're not confused.

The question is clearly asking if Americans are aware that they're now a rogue state, and I answered appropriately.

No, what you answered was "How do Americans feel about being a rogue state?" That's a completely different question, even though it's the one most people answered.

I fully understand and acknowledge that we're seen as a rogue state externally

The question was whether Americans in general understood and acknowledged that. I would say no, because most Americans don't follow foreign news sources. People who are getting their news from Fox News, OANN and Newsmax are probably not aware of that. Instead, they probably think the US is even more respected than ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

How can you be this confused?

You're basically proving the point of this meme.

The question is basically "Are Americans aware of how the world perceives them?"

Possible answers to that question are: "Yes, I read DW news in English, and BBC news too. I'm aware of how the world perceives the US." Or "No, I can imagine how the world must view the US, but I only read US news so I can only guess."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Are people in the US

Yes, go on...

aware that they are now definitely a rogue state

The question isn't your awareness of what the government is doing. It's your awareness of how the US is perceived by the rest of the world. A rogue state is "a nation that is considered very dangerous to other nations". To answer that question, you have to reference other nations views on the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Do you think they would have prosecuted if it had been a low level employee doing the same thing? Running their own private email server, doing government business on that server?

I think they would have, that's why I think it's important to note that they chose not to prosecute her despite it being something that would have been prosecuted for other less powerful people.

Was it as big a deal as the GOP made of it? No. But, it's still a rule that everybody else has to follow or they get charged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Saying what is inevitable? That other countries will consider the US a rogue state?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

You're one of the few people who actually understood the question. As a result, you're one of the few who actually got the right answer.

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First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they're buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won't have any effect for people buying used homes.

 

Currently the PM doesn't have a seat in the house. If he visited the house, he'd have to go to the visitor's gallery.

It's an interesting situation. The PM is the leader of the federal liberal party, but he's not a member of parliament. But, does he need to be? Is the PM sitting in the house of commons just a tradition that nobody has challenged yet? Could the PM delegate things inside the house of commons to their deputy-PM and then do things like give speeches, attend diplomatic functions, etc.?

The US has a very different system where the president isn't part of the legislative branch at all. But, typically presidents don't twiddle their thumbs waiting for something to do. Being the head of state keeps most presidents busy. It makes me wonder if technically Carney could choose not to run for office, and just spend his time doing head-of-state things rather than legislative things.

 

"Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release."

 

This sounds like a disaster.

For those who don't know, Football Manager has a yearly release schedule, and the highlight of the release is that it has a database of nearly every professional player in the world, the club they play for, and an attempt to "scout" them, giving all their various attributes from passing ability, to height and weight, to their determination.

By releasing in March 2025, they're going to release the game essentially at the end of the 2024/2025 season right before players start moving to new clubs and the database becomes obsolete. Typically, around March is when they're giving deep discounts on the yearly release because they know there won't be much remaining interest in playing a game that's almost out of date.

They really shot themselves in the foot. They could have released a Football Manager 25 that was 100% FM 24 but with an updated database, they've done it before. They could have called "Football Manager 25" something like "Football Manager Next Gen" and not tied themselves to a certain season. And, if they do manage to get Football Manager 25 out in March, are they really going to be able to do FM 26 half a year later? Will anybody buy FM 25 if they know there's a FM 26 coming out so soon?

 

It's amazing to me that they can even measure a 0.01 XG shot. This comes from James Benge's twitter account.

The XG graph is also interesting. Tottenham has a continuous stream of very low quality shots, resulting in the graph going up in tiny increments. Arsenal has a series of decent chances near minute 17, and then the one high-quality shot resulting in Gabriel's goal.

Arsenal vs. Tottenham XG graph

https://understat.com/match/26640

I'm sure part of it is Arsenal defending in a low block after scoring. But, it also smacks of desperation on Tottenham's part. If you're taking a shot that has a 1% chance of going in, rather than passing and waiting for a better opportunity, you don't believe that you're going to get a better opportunity.

 

Maybe the "great" America that Donald wants to take us back to is the 1860s?

 

Earlier today, Scottish adventurers Chris and Julie Ramsey were finally able to announce their completion of the nine-month, 17,000-mile "Pole To Pole EV" expedition, the world's first drive from the 1823 Magnetic North Pole to South Pole.

Other links:

https://expeditionportal.com/what-the-pole-to-pole-expedition-wants-you-to-know-about-long-term-ev-travel/

https://poletopoleev.com/

https://global.nissannews.com/en/releases/north-pole-to-south-pole-with-nissan-ariya

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