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pokeyman posted:How does someone come up with an estimate like "seven years"? The article just leaves it there and moves along. "We figure it will take people a few years to forget, and we know that a few more officers will be outed as rapists sooner rather than later"?
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Oct 26, 2021 15:04
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pokeyman posted:How does someone come up with an estimate like "seven years"? The article just leaves it there and moves along. Maybe that’s how long he estimates the prison sentence of sexual assaulters will last and they’ll re-enlist once they get out of the clink?
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Oct 26, 2021 15:44
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So, big cabinet shuffle today. Good loving riddance Garneau.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:07
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InfiniteZero posted:I'm sorry my French isn't up to where it should be: how do you say "shut the gently caress up Jean you stupid old man" in French again? Thanks. With a nice, firm handshake. The kind from Shawinigan.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:16
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Arc Hammer posted:So, big cabinet shuffle today. Good loving riddance Garneau. The astronaut?
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Oct 26, 2021 16:41
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Randalor posted:"We figure it will take people a few years to forget, and we know that a few more officers will be outed as rapists sooner rather than later"? Sadly this isnt far from the truth. I only realized it when I mentioned the RCMP going through the same thing years back and people not knowing what I was referencing. Its a rough combination of short term public memory and the media just failing miserably at their jobs to keep stuff like this in the public discourse. Also I like gives no fucks Charlie Angus, but where the gently caress was he when the NDP was campaigning for the election?
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Oct 26, 2021 16:56
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infernal machines posted:The astronaut? Got turfed from the cabinet.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:59
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Furnaceface posted:Also I like gives no fucks Charlie Angus, but where the gently caress was he when the NDP was campaigning for the election? I think they try to keep him away from the cameras because he'll be seen as too extreme or something 
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Oct 26, 2021 17:17
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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What's wrong with Garneau?
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Oct 26, 2021 17:19
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Two thirds of cast votes for ending equalization referendum in Alberta said yes. Idiot province.
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Oct 26, 2021 18:06
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I'm just glad we voted against 9:30AM sunrises in midwinter. Maybe next time we can include the sane option of "year-round standard time."
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Oct 26, 2021 18:11
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Arc Hammer posted:Two thirds of cast votes for ending equalization referendum in Alberta said yes. Idiot province. loving Dunning-Kruger rear end province.
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Oct 26, 2021 18:47
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Kenney is up in 40 minutes and he's gonna be screaming about Wilkinson being g the new Resources Minister and Guilbeault being Environment Minister. Those two look like a death sentence to Albertan oil prospects.
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Oct 26, 2021 18:50
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The Sun has gone from publishing columns like “10 reasons O’Toole should stay on” earlier this month to today’s “13 reasons why O’Toole has to go” column (he’s too woke is one of the reasons).
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Oct 26, 2021 18:55
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Arc Hammer posted:So, big cabinet shuffle today. Good loving riddance Garneau. I think he'll manage https://twitter.com/drainvillepm/status/1452804253203025923
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Oct 26, 2021 19:12
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Arc Hammer posted:Two thirds of cast votes for ending equalization referendum in Alberta said yes. Idiot province. This doesnt actually do anything though right? Its just basically permission for Kenney to attempt to renegotiate/withdraw/be a petulant whiny baby about the system? Or am I missing something (very possible since I thought Albertans would be smart enough to not gently caress around with equalizations given the impending doom of the oil industry and climate change loving their agriculture).
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Oct 26, 2021 19:36
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Furnaceface posted:This doesnt actually do anything though right? Its just basically permission for Kenney to attempt to renegotiate/withdraw/be a petulant whiny baby about the system? Or am I missing something (very possible since I thought Albertans would be smart enough to not gently caress around with equalizations given the impending doom of the oil industry and climate change loving their agriculture). Also, Kenney, it should be remembered, is the person who wrote the loving equalization formula in present use.
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Oct 26, 2021 19:48
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https://thenarwhal.ca/meet-environmentalist-running-federal-liberals-fall/ Two year old article on Guilbeault. Interesting choice he's minister now, he was a major opponent to Trans-Mountain, co-founded Équiterre and was active in Greenpeace for years and years. Hopefully it shows a switch to not giving a gently caress about the prairies screaming about oil. Hopefully.
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Oct 26, 2021 19:54
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Arc Hammer posted:Two thirds of cast votes for ending equalization referendum in Alberta said yes. Idiot province. lol Alberta. Wait— "CBC News posted:On daylight saving time, 50.1% were opposed and 49.9% in favour god drat it you loving bastards I hate you so much
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Oct 26, 2021 19:55
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PT6A posted:I'm just glad we voted against 9:30AM sunrises in midwinter. I'm not - BC is waiting on you guys to ditch clock changing :<. Way to ruin it for everyone! And more daylight in the evening is better anyway!
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Oct 26, 2021 19:58
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:lol Alberta. Wait— I saw that one meme circulating on social media that went "MDT DOESN'T WORK FOR ALBERTA'S LONGITUDINAL POSITION," so I guess that did what it was supposed to do
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Oct 26, 2021 20:00
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fartman posted:I saw that one meme circulating on social media that went "MDT DOESN'T WORK FOR ALBERTA'S LONGITUDINAL POSITION," so I guess that did what it was supposed to do I know, I know MST makes more sense, but we're not going to get anywhere if we don't start somewhere. 
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Oct 26, 2021 20:07
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PT6A posted:I'm just glad we voted against 9:30AM sunrises in midwinter. You're waking up in the dark anyway, I don't need light when I work, I need it when I go home. 10:30 to 630 would be even better. Standard time people love to talk about how the sun should peak at noon as if noon was actually midday for the western world. People work 9 to 5 and live after work. Sun should be at its peak at 3 or 4 PM not noon. And all the sleep arguments are garbage in Canada. If you have 8 hours of daylight in winter and 18 in summer you're going to have hosed up circadian rhythms no matter what. Now Albertans have hosed it up for everyone else who are in some weird "you go first" standoff.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:30
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Yea pitch darkness at 4 is bullshit.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:39
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considering how pointless the equalization referendum was, why don't we just have one asking for 16 hours of sunlight every day of the year.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:39
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BC originally said it will wait for Washington, Oregon, and California, not Alberta. The last update was that the switch to permanent DST was on hold until after the pandemic.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:41
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I mean, sure permanent standard time has been recommended by pretty much everyone who's actually studied the effects of DST on things like sleep, safety, etc. but I guess a general preference for evening light overrides expert opinion.
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Oct 26, 2021 21:07
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I just remembered that Charlie Angus was part of that international committee that was going to interview Zuckerberg a few years back until the guy decided to no-show and send some PR person instead. Wonder how much he would love to have that opportunity after the stuff coming out about Facebook today.
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Oct 26, 2021 21:14
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Bring back local noon, gently caress all schedules, timezones were a mistake.
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Oct 26, 2021 21:30
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Furnaceface posted:(…) I thought Albertans would be smart enough to not gently caress around with equalizations given the impending doom of the oil industry and climate change loving their agriculture According to my dad in Alberta, “everybody” out there working in the oil and gas industry “knows” that oil is here forever and Alberta is always going to be the richest most importantist province, even though Trudeau is loving everything up for them and that’s why Russia is building pipelines for all of Europe with China’s money and it should have been us building it all! And then an incoherent rant about recycling plastic, covid, and immigrants. Not sure if his opinions reflect the majority, but I’d be surprised if the average Albertan thinks the oil industry is going anywhere. Climate change seems like it should be an easier sell out there, with the +40 summers and -40 winters, but  Also I wish everyone would just pick a timezone and stick with it. It’s the switch twice per year that gets you.
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Oct 26, 2021 23:15
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Furnaceface posted:This doesnt actually do anything though right? Its just basically permission for Kenney to attempt to renegotiate/withdraw/be a petulant whiny baby about the system? Or am I missing something (very possible since I thought Albertans would be smart enough to not gently caress around with equalizations given the impending doom of the oil industry and climate change loving their agriculture). In theory, a provincial referendum can require Federal consideration and response, but that's it. From a panel discussion I watched once, the consensus was that this Alberta equalization payments referendum didn't even meet that bar, though I remember seeing that Trudeau was gonna respond anyway. Another Dirty Dish posted:According to my dad in Alberta, “everybody” out there working in the oil and gas industry “knows” that oil is here forever and Alberta is always going to be the richest most importantist province, even though Trudeau is loving everything up for them and that’s why Russia is building pipelines for all of Europe with China’s money and it should have been us building it all! And then an incoherent rant about recycling plastic, covid, and immigrants. Not sure if his opinions reflect the majority, but I’d be surprised if the average Albertan thinks the oil industry is going anywhere. Climate change seems like it should be an easier sell out there, with the +40 summers and -40 winters, but Same with my dad except he saw the oil industry downturn coming a mile away and got out. Still blames the usual suspects, interestingly, but acknowledges it's not coming back. At least not in a timeframe that's relevant to his working life.
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Oct 27, 2021 00:14
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Albino Squirrel posted:It does absolutely nothing. I think Albertans voted that way to show the rest of Canada that we're sick of not being listened to... the truth being that the rest of Canada listens quite well and thinks our opinions are bullshit. It should be remembered that Kenney, who has been an MP since 1997 (at 29) and was previously with various “taxpayer” federations, didn’t write anything. Nor has he likely ever produced anything on his own. He was part of the government that produced it though. I’m sure he understood it after someone explained it in simple words to him.
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Oct 27, 2021 00:44
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Time isn't real
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Oct 27, 2021 04:45
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Time is space and how many of you have gone up to space before hmmm
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Oct 27, 2021 06:02
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Having grown up in Yellowknife sunlight complaints remain hilarious to me.
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Oct 27, 2021 10:25
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Alctel posted:I'm not - BC is waiting on you guys to ditch clock changing :<. Way to ruin it for everyone! On behalf of morning people everywhere eat my rear end standard time rules.
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Oct 27, 2021 13:05
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PT6A posted:I mean, sure permanent standard time has been recommended by pretty much everyone who's actually studied the effects of DST on things like sleep, safety, etc. but I guess a general preference for evening light overrides expert opinion. I don't care which one they choose as long as we stop goddang changing twice per year. BC is in this stupid waiting game with Washington and Oregon (and California?) and then Ontario has the same thing with Quebec and New York. Someone's got to make the first move here.
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Oct 27, 2021 14:31
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Changing time twice a year owns
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Oct 27, 2021 15:46
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ColdBlooded posted:Changing time twice a year owns The change sucks, but the fact that a lot of people are basically evenly divided between "standard time is better" and "daylight savings time is better" explains why we do it! You end up with half the people shrieking about sunlight at 4am in summer, and the other half shrieking about the sun rising near 10AM in winter, and the natural solution is to.... change the clocks to avoid both of those situations.
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Oct 27, 2021 15:54
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We could also change business hours twice a year. Work from 9-5 one half of the year and 8-4 the other half.
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Oct 27, 2021 16:04
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