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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:Hi, scientist chiming here. I've had a massive career change and have been working on psychoactive substances in the past several years. You forgot to mention that these studies typically take years to produce any kind of answers or results. So saying that X helps or cures Y is in fact not really helping (and may actually be harmful), so dont do it.
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Kenney is so conservative that he would deny us of our childish 69 jokes. Enjoy your unfunny barren wasteland Alberta. 
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Alberta is such a loving joke of a place that it's a legit campaign strategy to use your pickup truck as your campaign set piece. You see, I am like you, fellow people. You have a truck, and I have a truck. Trucks are manly, and good. Trucks run on gas and diesel, which are good, and manly, and make the jobs. The jobs are good. The oil jobs, like you have. Look at my truck. Look at your truck. Look at the oil. Things are good, and will get better. More trucks, more oil, more manly.
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THC posted:Suit yourself I guess. it rubs me the wrong way when people do this and none of my bullies turned out to be gay but alright Doesn't excuse anyone, more it paints Kenney as an especially lovely, hypocritical religious fanatic.
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I mean, everyone also wears cowboy hats during Calgary Stampede too, otherwise Calgaryians will piss their pants in outrage over the audacity to not... Honestly, I don't disagree, but Edmonton is my home so I have to live with this crap
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Lol I hadn't realised they use "Alberta Strong" as their slogan. I always imagine those kind of slogans in the exaggerated 80s/90s cartoon Hulk voice. "Alberta ... strong..." "Canada ... proud."
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The Butcher posted:Alberta is such a loving joke of a place that it's a legit campaign strategy to use your pickup truck as your campaign set piece. This is spot on 
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Rachel isn’t manly, she woman. I am man. Manly man. She drives car. You drive truck. She’s not same. I drive truck. You drive truck. We same. I talk small, like you. We same. Vote for man with truck, we same I feel like this would be a winning campaign radio ad for Kenney
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Mar 23, 2019 03:04
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He really tells it like it is.
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Arabian Jesus posted:Would anyone here be willing to help soft through the thread and store the content somewhere off site? I don't mind providing hosting but I don't think even I would have the free time to go through every page of the last thread Here they are: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748577&userid=41058 Millions of Crows posted:I'm queer. I'll call Kenney what he is. He's the same as the high school bully that would constantly shout 'fag' at me and others because his misplaced self loathing. He's not a victim of anyone but himself and his idiotic beliefs. It's obvious to those of us that have seen this before. The "joke" about someone's virulent homophobia being a mask for their own LGBTQ+ness isn't funny because being gay isn't a punchline. Someone who actually is trying to shoot their own nation in the foot deserves to be called out for being the awful hypocrite they are.
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he's already on an epic level of hypocrisy by being a "christian" conservative capitalist, but anyway
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seeing a serious lack of signs around the area that aren't ndp in edmonton. and Kenny already looks tired. 
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I forced an AI to comb through 1000 hours of Alberta political campaign speeches. This is what it wrote afterwards.The Butcher posted:You see, I am like you, fellow people. You have a truck, and I have a truck. Trucks are manly, and good. Trucks run on gas and diesel, which are good, and manly, and make the jobs. The jobs are good. The oil jobs, like you have. Look at my truck. Look at your truck. Look at the oil. Things are good, and will get better. More trucks, more oil, more manly.
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The era of guy with truck to get oil is ending and they don't like it. It was an easy job that paid well so they are butthurt. but the problem is we need an alternative, and repeating "no u r bad" when people ask for options only gets the uncool version of Gamera's supporter elected. Heck it's part of the reason Trump got elected.
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When the "no ur bad" strategy doesn't work, use playbook strategy number two
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shades of eternity posted:The era of guy with truck to get oil is ending and they don't like it. It was an easy job that paid well so they are butthurt. Are they asking for options though?
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shades of eternity posted:The era of guy with truck to get oil is ending and they don't like it. It was an easy job that paid well so they are butthurt. I honestly dont think there is anything you can say or do to convince them to change or to accept an alternative at this point. We are seeing the results of 40 years of Conservative brainwashing, turning oil and trucks into being the entire Alberta identity.
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Then what can be done to mitigate their voting power? Best I can tell is convince them that kenny, u r bad and see if they'll vote for another party, thus splitting the vote. and alternative for jobs people that aren't based on waiting for a couple of year sure wouldn't hurt. infernal machines posted:Are they asking for options though? I'm asking for options. oh and have a new term: "Stampede of Stupid" 
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Mar 23, 2019 13:17
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Is this the government of Fun Police you want, Alberta? Probably.
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I think 2019 is either going to have me deliver a CM-style meltdown on my brother (minus the suicide part, mainly just calling him a massive piece of poo poo), or I will do the civil thing and just block him on social media and try to never talk anything social or political in front of him ever again. He always posts libertarian bullshit on Facebook, and periodically I will poke at the logical fallacies he is displaying. But with the Christchurch tragedy he has doubled down on that rhetoric and it is loving sickening. What frustrates me more is that our other sibling came out as gender-non-conforming about 4 years ago and he, his wife, and her family are the only ones of my relatives that will not do the easy part of using the requested pronouns. What I honestly feel is the worst about this is that his 4 kids get to grow up with his bigotry, insensitivity, and hatred.
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ITT: Ontarians slag Alberta (governed by the NDP) for being too conservative, while Ontario's PC government drops Orwellian bombs on education. Ms. Lisa Thompson, Education Minister posted:By increasing class sizes in high school, we're preparing them for the reality of post-secondary as well as the world of work... When students are currently preparing to go off to post-secondary education, we're hearing from professors and employers alike that they’re lacking coping skills and they’re lacking resiliency They're cutting on education and increasing class sizes to improve how well prepared students are for University. And to drive home what they're really doing, note the appearance of home schooled boy-dunder Mr. Sam Oosterhoff at the press conference announcing this rubish.
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Listen goat farmers and home schooled jesus bois know their way around education policy
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Maneck posted:ITT: Ontarians slag Alberta (governed by the NDP) for being too conservative, while Ontario's PC government drops Orwellian bombs on education. I listened to Matt Galloway’s interview with Thompson and holy poo poo she got pilloried. If they were honest about it I’d still be pissed but I’d respect it a little more that they’re saying sorry people, can’t afford it, not  resiliency or that bullshit.
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Maneck posted:ITT: Ontarians slag Alberta (governed by the NDP) for being too conservative, while Ontario's PC government drops Orwellian bombs on education. I feel like you don't really "get" CanPol.
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They're both bad. Also iirc we've talked about the reduce classroom size a few days ago itt. Also having a bad government in Ontario doesn't undermine the ability for Ontarians to look at other bad governments and call them bad. Hope this helps! The governments in power aren't teams that totally represent each individual's opinion that they govern, and individuals aren't responsible for what their government is doing, so it isn't hypocritical to hold an opinion that is different from the Ontario provincial government. (Lefty people don't disappear under conservative governments, their interests just aren't represented.) People are more concerned about how the Albertan provincial campaigning is going and how they're appealing to voters, which is totally fair. People can be concerned about a lot of things and it isn't Ontarians vs Albertans here.
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The one thing that can bring us all together from coast to coast is enthusiasm for Albertan separatism.
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RBC posted:i hate doug ford so much This. And Justin Trudeau. And Andrew Scheer. And Jagmeet Singh. And Francois Legault. And Jason Kenney. And Maxime Bernier... ... ... Is it any wonder that we're such a miserable bunch when none of our political leaders actually represent us?
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Jan posted:This. Not emptyquoting
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I like John Horgan I mean, he's no David Eby but still
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BGrifter posted:The one thing that can bring us all together from coast to coast is enthusiasm for Albertan separatism. I love that they see it as a threat to the rest of the country somehow. Do it you dumb fucks. Torpedo your own economy back to the stone age and provide us with weapons-grade CanPol fuel for the next 20 years.
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The Butcher posted:I love that they see it as a threat to the rest of the country somehow. Nah, it's not cost effective. We will hold back our transfer payments when we are a have province again. :p
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JawKnee posted:I like John Horgan Horgan has been a nice surprise. He’s not the fire-breathing socialist I’d prefer, but he’s easily clearing the incredibly low bar of “not as awful as the BC Libs”.
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shades of eternity posted:Nah, it's not cost effective. Okay, good luck! To that end, might I suggest transitioning your provincial economy to anything other than resource extraction? I guess the ship has sailed on the whole "collect royalties to help cover future costs of transitioning" but them's the breaks. Also, maybe don't count too heavily on beef farming, just a thought.
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I wonder what the polls for the various clusters in Alberta look like, where the NDP strongholds are
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Aces High posted:I wonder what the polls for the various clusters in Alberta look like, where the NDP strongholds are You've got Redmonton and Lethbridge in the NDP column, Calgary kinda competitive but leaning UCP, and the rest of the province strong UCP. Apparently the Mainstreet daily tracker is seeing a *rapidly* tightening race but otoh it's Mainstreet.
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Two threads. Normal country. https://twitter.com/GelekB/status/1108911915751956481 https://twitter.com/jonnywakefield/status/1109547093880770560?s=19
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Aces High posted:I wonder what the polls for the various clusters in Alberta look like, where the NDP strongholds are Edmonton, the Peace Country, and Lethbridge are the NDP core, having won outright majorities in their ridings there last year. They won most of Calgary last time around, but with the vote split out of action it seems like they'll lose most of the city.
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Furnaceface posted:You forgot to mention that these studies typically take years to produce any kind of answers or results. So saying that X helps or cures Y is in fact not really helping (and may actually be harmful), so dont do it. Most definitely. In addition, longer study periods add in more variables that cannot be controlled for, lose randomization, and become much more difficult to conduct (costs, follow-up, etc.). On top of that, an extremely large sample size would be needed to observe subtle effects occuring in ≤ 10% subjects. Enter non-interventional studies, which are cost-effective and flexible, but introduce more bias and error into the data. And the measures have their own limitations (e.g diagnostic codes lacking specificity). I'm not even talking about P-hacking and statistical bullshit. Discerning good data from bad data is fun! (It's not)
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