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attackmole posted:I've been lazy and haven't read the platforms yet. Any reason I shouldn't just check the Nenshi box? I agree with him on most things and figured the other guys were probably reactionary conservative dick heads but haven't really done any reading tbh. Also, apparently a bunch of the school board trustees are in some kind of big-money, big-press bloc ("Students Count") that is supported by, or at least sympathetic to, Jason Kenney. And also there's some miscellaneous crazies: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/karen-draper-facebook-comments-1.4319730
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Dreylad posted:I think I've said it before but 1491 and 1493 are very good pre and post contact books. We actually do know a lot more about pre-contact civilizations than we did 20 years ago. That's probably how old the stuff I learned from was, as I'm an old. ONe of the things that surprised me when I took an Anthro class in the early 2000s was to find out that a number of First Nations people had a written language. It wasn't as complex as others, but it existed.
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attackmole posted:I've been lazy and haven't read the platforms yet. Any reason I shouldn't just check the Nenshi box? I agree with him on most things and figured the other guys were probably reactionary conservative dick heads but haven't really done any reading tbh. Yeah that's pretty much it. If you're really loving angry about moderate property tax increases in the city but still want to give $200M (maybe more!) of public money to literal billionaires, then those are the candidates for you. Also random shout-out to anyone in Ward 1, vote for my old friend Coral Bliss Taylor, she's pretty legit. Seat Safety Switch posted:Also, apparently a bunch of the school board trustees are in some kind of big-money, big-press bloc ("Students Count") that is supported by, or at least sympathetic to, Jason Kenney. Now this I want to hear more about. Sadly the alternatives to the Student's Count candidate in my ward are "I don't understand math" kind of crazies, I may be hooped either way on that front.
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Kent Hehr's father is, oddly enough, running for trustee in my ward (he's standing for wards 7 and 8), and his platform appears sane. I think he was actually involved in school administration at some level, but I'm not sure of the details. The other candidates in my ward are some Students Count person, and a chucklefuck who rambles on about "parent choice" in his platform (in general, but then again specifically as it relates to sex ed), so frankly I'd vote for a head of cabbage over either of those two. For other wards, check the City of Calgary website. They have platforms and short bios for all the candidates. Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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New poll from EKOS shows the Liberals and the Cons neck and neck, but also people realllly don't like Andrew Scheer http://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/full_report_october_3_2017a.pdf EDIT: Results were collected from September 15th-October 1st, still to early to see if there's any Jagmeet-effect so far, but his early press coverage has been less than favourable DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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DariusLikewise posted:New poll from EKOS shows the Liberals and the Cons neck and neck, but also people realllly don't like Andrew Scheer This kinda echoes what I was speculating about before, but with an interesting caveat:  
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The fact the working class are the biggest conservative bloc is crazy. So many people will just happily vote against their own interests
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A Typical Goon posted:The fact the working class are the biggest conservative bloc is crazy. So many people will just happily vote against their own interests They're the party of The Economy and Jobs. 
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Leofish posted:They're the party of The Economy and Jobs. Also, while I'm poor now, when I'm rich in a few years magically I'll want the Conservatives' policies to protect me!
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https://twitter.com/KateMedia/status/915668573699428356 oh Calgary 
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THC posted:oh Calgary In case anyone cares, I waited in line about 40 mins to vote at Southcentre mall. One lady who was on her way out after she voted said, "this line was even longer when I first got here." The woman who took my mayoral ballot (which was like... slightly narrower than an 8.5"x14", then folded into 1/3rds) asked me to fold it in half again, because her box was already getting full. Polls opened at noon, and I was out of there around 4:30pm. And this is on a weekday. So yeah, turnout is gonna be high, it looks like.
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A Typical Goon posted:The fact the working class are the biggest conservative bloc is crazy. So many people will just happily vote against their own interests It's funny cause I was just teaching Engels to a group of undergrads earlier this week and I got to the part where he's like "the long-term goal might be a revolution but the immediate way to benefit the working class is to let them vote" and here we are 150 years later
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I can't believe we thought drive through voting was a good idea.
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PittTheElder posted:I can't believe we thought drive through
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Extra laughing because Michael Ford somehow missed the vote. But this is all about Rob's memory! !!
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[quote="“PittTheElder”" post="“477071680”"] I can’t believe we thought drive through voting was a good idea. [/quote] Every McDonalds near me tends to have those two lane drive thrus just packed going right back and barely budging at all. Lots of empty parking spaces and the lobby has no line at all. Parking, getting out of the car, walking in, ordering, getting your delicious Quarter Pounder BLT with a side Caesar salad, walking over to the condiments station to take like half the loving napkins, walking out, getting back in your vehicle and going on about your day takes a fraction of the time than the drive through usually. That same pickup you saw at the tail end of the line as you were going in still hasn't even reached the speaker yet!
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Wirth1000 posted:Every McDonalds near me tends to have those two lane drive thrus just packed going right back and barely budging at all. This is way too specific to be a general example.
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That's a miracle because normally if there's a big line-up at any drive through 95% of the staff inside are working on their orders while the people who walk in to order just stand there waiting. Any franchise that includes a drive through operation prioritizes the drive through over walk in customers.
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I'm going to open up a drive-thru Keg and make all the loving money, you'll see! (Canadians are just stupid enough for this to work, so I'm only half-joking)
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Drive Throughs will be gone if the green revolution ever happens, the amount of idle car pollution they create is loving insane.
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PT6A posted:I'm going to open up a drive-thru Keg and make all the loving money, you'll see! I'll open a drive-through gently caress park and we'll see who makes more money.
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DariusLikewise posted:Drive Throughs will be gone if the green revolution ever happens, the amount of idle car pollution they create is loving insane. Yeah but when your self-driving Uber Tesla idles in a drive-thru it's no big deal
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vyelkin posted:I'll open a drive-through gently caress park and we'll see who makes more money. Drive in movies theatres didn't work bud. Sorry.
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DariusLikewise posted:Drive Throughs will be gone if the green revolution ever happens, the amount of idle car pollution they create is loving insane. The new BMWs automatically turn the engine off if you idle for more than a couple of seconds, like at stop signs and red lights and then pushing the pedal turns the engine back on. It works fine but I hate it. e: hated it. I don't have a bmw. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Last I checked it was up to something like 65k USD a month. I would love for Peterson to get into poo poo for breaking some obscure University policy in scamming idiots with his lovely videos or even better just plain old tax fraud/evasion.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:The new BMWs automatically turn the engine off if you idle for more than a couple of seconds, like at stop signs and red lights and then pushing the pedal turns the engine back on. It works fine but I hate it. So you have to double-tap to get going again? Sounds like one of those things that would take a long time to get used to if you've been driving for 10+ years. vyelkin posted:Yeah but when your self-driving Uber Tesla idles in a drive-thru it's no big deal lmao if you think that self-driving Uber Teslas will be for anyone but the ultra-rich. Also drive throughs
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DariusLikewise posted:So you have to double-tap to get going again? Sounds like one of those things that would take a long time to get used to if you've been driving for 10+ years. Apparently everybody hates it and it's been around since 2012, that's how much I know about cars. quote:With stop-start -- also known as idle-stop -- the car's engine is shut off when the vehicle is stopped and the driver applies the brakes. Releasing the brake pedal fires up the engine.
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That sounds awful, they should focus on actual emission reducing technology rather than this boutique feel-good bullshit. Energy East is dead and Trans-Canada is blaming the government. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/transcanada-energy-east-1.4338227 quote:TransCanada says it won't proceed with its Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline proposals. DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Seems to me like environmental decontamination was about to become the second-next big thing in Canada, so really it's like we're missing two great opportunities at once.
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DariusLikewise posted:That sounds awful, they sound focus on actual emission reducing technology rather than this boutique feel-good bullshit. I skimmed the articles about this quickly and every one either buries or fails to mention the low price of oil. This project has been unfeasible since the price collapse of 2014, and prices aren't projected to pick up until late 2019 (industry numbers not mine). I try to stay objective about oil politics, because I want to win arguments about them with relatives, and lots if industry people think oil may only have one or two boom bust cycles left as a commodity. Not a great place to sink our infrastructure money imo.
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I mean, I don't think investing heavily in boom or bust resources is the best idea either, but late 2019 is not exactly a long time from now from an infrastructure perspective.
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quote:"Pipelines are the only viable way to move large quantities of oil and natural gas to markets, safely and responsibly. With global demand for energy expected to rise[...] Global energy demand is expected to rise but I don't think consumption of non-renewables is expected to be fueling that demand.
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