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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:I'm cool with Amita and they seem like a decent candidate based on tweets I've seen. I like Svend better, though. Yeah, I think I might even volunteer a bit for him. I'd like to ask if he just saw an opportunity to grab some bourgeois bullshit and panic-ed when he say the camera, but he said it was just based on stress and bipolarity. I'll probably support him either way, but I'd prefer the former. Edit: Although there is a communist party candidate in this riding as well....Hmmm... Ardent Communist fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Being nonbinary and pansexual is cool because you can call yourself an enby pan. Also when the gently caress am I gonna get to get my actual gender on my birth certificate, quebec??
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I'll be sure to write my pretend vote for anything besides Conservative in crayon, and then set it on fire revving an ATV in a dust-dry forest somewhere in Alberta. It'd be worth just as much as actually voting here with FPTP. Thanks, Justin!
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https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1166894509835390981?s=20 Drama in Oshawa
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The Dark One posted:Also when the gently caress am I gonna get to get my actual gender on my birth certificate, quebec?? Had to renew a fishing license a couple weeks back and was curious if there would be an other/none category due to the passport thing, but doesn't seem to have filtered down that far yet. Eye colour and height to the cm, we better get that though. Even dumber I'm not sure how this is supposed to be any sort of enforcement mechanism, for $30 it just spits out a PDF which is trivial to edit, then you've just got the empty spaces to fill to claim your limited catch. This has to be almost pure honesty system because I haven't been pulled over by DFO in like 10 years, even in some of the hottest salmon spots in the country.
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Aug 29, 2019 06:25
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drat this might cost jagmeet the majority
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How the hell is a leader of the provincial wing of CUPE, and former leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour, not a lock for the NDP nomination?  fake edit: in Oshawa of all places
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tagesschau posted:How the hell is a leader of the provincial wing of CUPE, and former leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour, not a lock for the NDP nomination? Well he's run and lost in Oshawa four times. And he's personally unpopular within the party, both for personality-related reasons and because he's seen as having been too close to the Wynne government (including media hits supporting her) during his tenure as head of OFL.
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painted into a coroner posted:Sure, they said they will apply it to everything, Everyone applies their inherent biases to the things they say and do. There's nothing wrong with a candidate drawing a circle around that fact when they talk, and anyone who suggests it does probably has a bigger axe to grind with the candidates [prohibited grounds]-ness than with the topic being debated. tagesschau posted:How the hell is a leader of the provincial wing of CUPE, and former leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour, not a lock for the NDP nomination? The only way this makes sense is if they were acclaiming him when he felt he ought not to have been, but who in his right mind pulls the pin for that?
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tagesschau posted:How the hell is a leader of the provincial wing of CUPE, and former leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour, not a lock for the NDP nomination? At least we aren't hearing the NDP lament the plight of the "job creators" this election cycle.
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flakeloaf posted:The only way this makes sense is if they were acclaiming him when he felt he ought not to have been, but who in his right mind pulls the pin for that?
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Lassitude posted:At least we aren't hearing the NDP lament the plight of the "job creators" this election cycle. Uh quote:New Democrats are calling on the government to extend a helping hand to small businesses – the biggest job creators in Canada – and place a hard cap on credit card transaction fees that have been gouging our local businesses for years.
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Aug 29, 2019 14:03
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fuuuuuu Oh well, change the party from within etc.
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Wow, really going hard for those CFIB votes, huh?
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Lassitude posted:fuuuuuu Pinterest Mom posted:Nah, his reason for withdrawing checks out. The party was screwing him to make it hard for him to get the nomination, and if he read between the lines he understood he'd also have very little support in the general if he did win.
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Dippers... gonna... dip?
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Stop making me depressed guys.
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Lassitude posted:Stop making me depressed guys. quote:Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (Saanich – Gulf Islands), emphasized the Green Party’s commitment to Canadian small businesses owners at the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce.
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small business middle class small business middle class small business middle class SMALL BUSINESS MIDDLE CLASS SMALL BUSINESS MIDDLE CLASS SMALL BUSINESS MIDDLE CLASS
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I'm not in love with the small business framing but capping merchant fees is legitimately a good thing, Visa/MC are using their monopoly power to amass huge profits by skimming off the top of a huge portion of all transactions.
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It's the use of the American conservative terminology in an ostensibly left-wing party that's got me in a tizzy. The actual content of that plank is okay otherwise.
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Pinterest Mom posted:I'm not in love with the small business framing but capping merchant fees is legitimately a good thing, Visa/MC are using their monopoly power to amass huge profits by skimming off the top of a huge portion of all transactions. I was about to point out that Interac exists, but then I stopped and thought about how many retail transactions are made with the customer's own money.
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Green MPs would look at all new legislation through the lens of Small Businessquote:Bruce Hyer, Green Party Deputy Leader and candidate (Thunder Bay—Superior North), continued
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Small business and those working for them.
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flakeloaf posted:I was about to point out that Interac exists, but then I stopped and thought about how many retail transactions are made with the customer's own money. There are still merchant services fees on Interac, just lesser ones, I guess Postess with the Mostest posted:Green MPs would look at all new legislation through the lens of Small Business As a small business owner I often wonder if the major parties could be any more on my dick, the answer is no, no they could not.
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lmao at the greens reducing "red tape" they couldn't be more transparently neoliberal if they tried
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Just a reminder that Andrew Weaver is an advocate for school choice. gently caress all the Greens.
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flakeloaf posted:I was about to point out that Interac exists, but then I stopped and thought about how many retail transactions are made with the customer's own money. My BMO Interac card literally uses Mastercard, though.
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Hey The Butcher you should probably watch this to have a better idea of what "Gendered Lens" means and how it's actually super important for good legislation, and the effects it had in Sweden when it was applied https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSjBbGwJEg Then read the comments and see who you sound like Stop thinking yourself as the default "normal" and that everyone else is abnormal and should instead be more normal like you.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:My BMO Interac card literally uses Mastercard, though. TD and Scotia are Visa, too.
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NZAmoeba posted:Hey The Butcher you should probably watch this to have a better idea of what "Gendered Lens" means and how it's actually super important for good legislation, and the effects it had in Sweden when it was applied Also here is a cool article about how city planning through a gendered lens in Vienna led to a better city for everyone: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/14/city-with-a-female-face-how-modern-vienna-was-shaped-by-women
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infernal machines posted:There are still merchant services fees on Interac, just lesser ones, I guess Cheapest: Interac Debit: Merchant endpoint fees are fixed (not a percentage) and generally are like 25c - $1.00 Medium Cost: Visa/MC Debit transactions - roughly 1% of payment Higher Cost: Visa/MC Credit transactions - roughly 2%-3% of payment [depends on type of card] Highest Cost: Amex/speciality cards - 3.5-5% of payment
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unknown posted:Cheapest: Guess businesses either have a good reason to accept Amex or don't have a choice in the matter
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vyelkin posted:Also here is a cool article about how city planning through a gendered lens in Vienna led to a better city for everyone: Only thing I thought was stupid/wrong about the article was the expectation that only women or people with feminist views knew what was best. But they did call it out and say they are looking at making it a unisex type of view. From my point of view as a civil engineer all the design ideas they introduce are just common sense ideas that make the neighborhood better. It probably is just a failing of the article that they can't condense all the little bits that change the city from male dominated to unisex. I want walkable cities, I like parks, I like to bike around on protected pathways, Benches I never thought about but its nice to have areas to hang out and sit, extra Lighting I believe helps fight crime in general. In fact if you ignored the gendered lens it seems like its just making a city more sustainable, by enhancing non-car use.
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been rewatching Nardwuar's election videos... my question is: who will do the Hip Flip this time around?
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Chillyrabbit posted:Only thing I thought was stupid/wrong about the article was the expectation that only women or people with feminist views knew what was best. But they did call it out and say they are looking at making it a unisex type of view. It's CPTED by another name, and no worse an idea than it was the first time.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Guess businesses either have a good reason to accept Amex or don't have a choice in the matter Many don't. If a given business is likely to not accept any of the big credit cards, its probably Amex they wont take. But their fee differences aren't as big as they used to be because Amex kept losing market share. Nowadays its like 1.0-2.0% for visa/MC/disc and 1.5-2.5% for amex. Not a huge difference.
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Chillyrabbit posted:Only thing I thought was stupid/wrong about the article was the expectation that only women or people with feminist views knew what was best. But they did call it out and say they are looking at making it a unisex type of view. You might think it's commonsense from the point of view of someone who likes to walk and bike and so on. But I think a crucial part of the article is here: quote:Like most European cities then and now, Vienna was being designed by male planners for men like them: going between home and work, by car or public transport, at mostly set times. There was no accounting for unpaid labour such as childcare or shopping, carried out mostly by women, in many short journeys on foot during the day. Before gender mainstreaming, the city was designed around a lifestyle that is gendered extremely heavily towards men, the male breadwinner model of the man who drive to work in the morning and drives home at night, without even accounting for the needs of the other half of the breadwinner couple, the woman who stays at home but needs to go for walks with her children, or do the shopping, or whatever, while the man is out with the family car parked at work. Because the city was being designed by men who did that, and they were so blinded to others' perspectives that they never stopped to consider that people existed who lived lives other than the ones they personally experienced. The sections later on about, for example, inviting only female architects to submit designs for a housing project despite women only being 6% of all architects at the time, are conscious efforts to undo that existing bias in how the city was structured by men for men. And the bit about it being women versus being unisex is also an interesting point, because there it seems like they're mostly just following the data: quote:Later, a follow-up postal survey by the women’s organisation of the governing Social Democratic party led to a breakthrough revelation: roughly two-thirds of car journeys were made by men, while two-thirds of those on foot were by women. “That was really an ‘a-ha’ moment,” says Kail. For the first time, she was able to prove that men and women’s experiences of city living were different – and women’s were being overlooked entirely. You can read that data as saying "both men and women are making car journeys and foot journeys, and therefore helping foot journeys helps both genders" but there's a huge skew in the data that shows helping foot journeys disproportionately helps women and helping car journeys disproportionately helps men. There is absolutely an issue with how the particular way they've implemented gender mainstreaming may perpetuate essentialized gender norms. For example, there's no rule in male versus female brains that says men like cars and women like walking, or that men like basketball and women like volleyball, or that men like playing sports while women like watching sports from a nearby bench. In a perfectly gender-fluid utopia, all that infrastructure may be being used by men and women equally. But right now, in our heavily-gendered society, accounting for the things women are actually doing in their daily lives, and not what we wish women would be doing, seems to have made a big difference in including women in the city. And that's acknowledged in the article as well: quote:“It is very political, what is regulated and what is neglected,” she says. Gender mainstreaming has been criticised as cementing traditional gender roles – for example, by equating childcare with women’s work – but she takes a pragmatic view. “You can’t influence the share of unpaid work by architecture, but you can support it. We would hope it would support 50% of men as well – but statistics show it is still more women doing that work.” Hopefully gender mainstreaming will in the future help facilitate 50% of men taking walks and pushing prams and so on, but right now it specifically helps women because women are still pushed into those roles. And of course the conclusion, as you mention, is that the result doesn't feel like a feminist utopia, it just feels like good civil engineering: quote:Aspern doesn’t feel like a “feminist utopia”, as Kail once described the women’s office. Rather, it comes across – in its cohesion, sense of established community and lively public spaces – as simply a very well-designed neighbourhood. Therein lies the importance of gender mainstreaming, says Kail, as well as the difficulty in arguing its case: “If it didn’t happen, we would feel it. But as long as it happens, we don’t see it. Because it turns out that including the whole population when you plan a city, and not the handful of men who are drawing up the plans, benefits everyone. vyelkin fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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So someone on reddit, using papers he must have gotten from Google Scholar, is saying increasing minimum wage jobs is a net loss for society. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171445 https://www.nber.org/papers/w23532 quote:Alright, well enjoy your even higher prices and lower hours worked by minimum wage employees, and overall lower earnings on aggregate for all those who are in the minimum wage bracket. Is it just that theres papers on both sides?
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Vintersorg posted:So someone on reddit, using papers he must have gotten from Google Scholar, is saying increasing minimum wage jobs is a net loss for society. It’s one of the most contentious topics in economic research as referenced in the first sentence of that first paper. There have been rivalries of economists going back and forth with rebuttals of each other’s work on minimum wage. That being said I don’t see how that first paper is saying minimum wage increases are a net loss? It’s also actually published unlike the other one
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