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TheKingofSprings posted:If Manitoba has a huge surplus of power and Ontarians pay out the rear end for it, why have our provinces not worked something out? That is a good question. Ontario actually has a huge surplus of power. We signed a lot of contracts guaranteeing wind turbines 10 cents a kwh for all the power they could deliver. When we don't need it which is pretty much all the time, we sell excess to the US for 1.5 cents a kwh. The 8.5 cents gets added onto our global adjustment which is part of why our power is so high, it adds up to hundreds of millions a month. There's all kind of other deals like that also in the global adjustment, I'm not singling out turbines but the jist is that our power is expensive partially because of our excess. Here's an article on it, https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/01/20/ontario_paid_1_billion_to_dump_excess_electricity_in_2013_ndp.html Skippy Granola posted:Look pal I appreciate the attempt. I also appreciate the liability issue if someone slips trying to lift their leg into a sink. So what? Some practices are objectively disgusting, why is it special if it's cultural? I can think truck nuts are gross despite it being an Alberta cultural practice. Chinese people shouldn't poo poo everywhere even if it's practiced where they come from.
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Yes, making GBS threads in the street is exactly the same thing. Cogent point. vyelkin posted:I think it might say something about this thread that our collective response to a story about domestic terrorism was to have a long debate about how appropriate washing your feet in the sink is. I think we all agree that threatening Muslims is bad. However there seems to be contention on some of the finer points of multiculturalism.
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EvilJoven posted:all sorts of crud from the cuff of your leg all over the counter top. What the gently caress is wrong with your legs and/or pants that they regularly have crud on them?
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Risky Bisquick posted:They would hit the finance towers you dolts no one cares about the cn tower Doesn't seem like a great target. There wouldn't be that many people in it at any given time, it's a narrow target so you might just shear a wing off instead of landing a direct hit, and to get it to fall on other stuff you'd have to hit it low and from the right direction because a significant portion needs to topple over to do any damage considering the tower is somewhat isolated from other big buildings.
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EvilJoven posted:No, sorry, in the west public sinks are for washing hands. And this is different from when youre wiping your rear end and some poo poo gets on the side of your finger and then you go use the taps. Bullshit
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Vintersorg posted:And this is different from when youre wiping your rear end and some poo poo gets on the side of your finger and then you go use the taps. Human poo poo.
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Washing your feet in the sink, whatever. But I once saw a dude giving himself an upper half sponge bath in an office bathroom and that's too far. Like seriously dude put your shirt on I know you're one of the lawyers from the next floor up you can afford a home with a real shower.
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Also on that note, prediction markets for the BC election are open as of today for any degenerates who want their gamble on this election season or just want to keep an eye on something likely more accurate than polls. https://predictionmarkets.ca/home.php edit: actually after looking at some historical data, I take back the likely more accurate bit. I think that can be true of larger markets with higher participation rates, but the UBC one might be too small fry. Called both last provincial and federal elections incorrectly and moved pretty close in line with polling. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Stanley Pain posted:Washing your feet in a sink in the bathroom is gross from the perspective of anyone involved. Not artisanal bomb gross though. The University should have a multi faith room available with a place to wash feet though. You say that as if campus conservatives wouldn't have a fit about that
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vyelkin posted:I think it might say something about this thread that our collective response to a story about domestic terrorism was to have a long debate about how appropriate washing your feet in the sink is. You can't seriously expect people who spend all day every day posting in this thread to ever discuss a topic that requires any kind of research, thoughtfulness or nuance. They simply don't have the time.
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Helsing posted:You can't seriously expect people who spend all day every day posting in this thread to ever discuss a topic that requires any kind of research, thoughtfulness or nuance. They simply don't have the time. I'd like to hear your thoughtful, nuanced take on a racially motivated bomb threat that specifically focuses on sweaty feet and handcrafted artisanal explosives. What is the other side of that story? How should the perpetrators be punished if caught? Do you think the threat is credible or is it extremely ham fisted satire? What are the layers to this matter?
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A lot of my colleagues are pretty shaken up about this. My friend had her 1 year old with her in the EV building when the evacuation began. 
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Skippy Granola posted:I'd like to hear your thoughtful, nuanced take on a racially motivated bomb threat that specifically focuses on sweaty feet and handcrafted artisanal explosives. The purpose of the threat is presumably to take away the feeling of safety and security that most people on a campus take for granted, and to heighten awareness among both Muslims and non-Muslims that they are different from one another, thus fomenting other divisions. I'm sure that they've succeeded in that goal to some degree so in that sense the threat is credible whether or not any bomb ever existed. We could look at other incidents of terrorism or terrorist threats in Canada and abroad, or what's happening at Carlton specifically, or how this relates to the right-wing mobilization of anti-Muslim sentiment, etc. But instead we're gonna get a lot of people just posting variations on "this is a bad thing", which is hard to argue with but hardly needs to be stated again and again and again so that for every interesting post containing some new information you have to wade through two dozen hot takes because people essentially use this thread to just blow off steam regarding whatever topic has them peeved at the moment.
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EvilJoven posted:No, sorry, in the west public sinks are for washing hands.
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PT6A posted:if caught, send them to gitmo imho At least they'd be able to wash feet comfortably quote:Brown & Root’s standard-issue Gitmo cell is a faded green metal box a little larger than a king-size mattress: 54 square feet. Next to the narrow wall-mounted bed is an Asian-style toilet, a hole in the floor, facing the open grille of the door. The guards, some of them women, are supposed to pass by the cell every 30 seconds. Next to the toilet is a small sink and a faucet, so low that the only way to use it is to kneel. It produces tepid water from a desalination plant. Like all the water at Gitmo, it’s a pale shade of yellow. (The Pentagon says the low faucets are designed to “accommodate foot-washing for Muslim prayer needs.”)
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Look at fuckin walking talking foreign policy magazine over here
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I'm trying to imagine how stupid you would have to be to write that. I mean beyond the hubris of publishing a racially motivated terrorist manifesto online nowadays, the use of language is grade school level at best. If this is from a student at Concordia, it doesn't bode well for their admissions criteria.
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Helsing posted:The purpose of the threat is presumably to take away the feeling of safety and security that most people on a campus take for granted, and to heighten awareness among both Muslims and non-Muslims that they are different from one another, thus fomenting other divisions. I'm sure that they've succeeded in that goal to some degree so in that sense the threat is credible whether or not any bomb ever existed. Seriously man, every time you post I want to argue with you but I can't. That was a good explanation and I'm grateful.
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namaste faggots posted:Look at fuckin walking talking foreign policy magazine over here This is the cruelest burn.
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infernal machines posted:If this is from a student at Concordia, it doesn't bode well for their admissions criteria. No joke: I was in a 3rd year International Relations poli sci class, and a kid put up his hand and asked where he could buy a 'political science dictionary' because he didn't understand the words the teacher was using. The word he wanted to look up? 'Coercion' English was his first language. lol 'admissions criteria'
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This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a quiz before commentingNRKbeta posted:
I bolded and selectively quoted certain lines so you don't have to read the whole article. Did Lobok bold and selectively quote certain lines in the article he posted? [_] Yes [_] No
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That's a gently caress sight more clever than trying to keep things civil by making people use their real names. I'm looking at you, CBC, you morons.
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We don't want to hurt Muslims we are targeting Moslems! completely different libtrads! - a white supremacist as they are being arrested
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Implementing that sort of system would require the people running the site to actually read the article or what ever regurgitated wire story they're throwing up.
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Lobok posted:This site is “taking the edge off rant mode” by making readers pass a quiz before commenting Thanks Lobok, you really improved my reading experience.
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Baronjutter posted:Implementing that sort of system would require the people running the site to actually read the article or what ever regurgitated wire story they're throwing up. Sounds like a good idea from all angles
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Until of course somebody puts out a chrome extension that fills the quiz for you
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Patrick Spens posted:Interesting reflection from a black professor who moved from Halifax to Pennsylvania on the differences between Canadian and American racism. Canada is a nation where the "white moderate" Martin Luther King warned against is seen as an ideal citizen.
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https://twitter.com/Abbynews/status/837071374644436994 guys, we need to open a dialogue with the working class white trash because
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Good. The logo controversy is dumb as poo poo and unimportant as gently caress. namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/Abbynews/status/837071374644436994 The Ironworkers donated $190 in January to the BC Liberals. Lain Iwakura fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/survey-says-quebecers-want-to-close-the-border-1.3306022#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=MCElEwVquote:Survey says Quebecers want to close the border oh quebec
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the federal governments admitted plan is to break our secessionist movement by flooding us with immigrants..... that and devaluate wages. Most of us probably oppose immigration for racist reasons tho im not gonna lie
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