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Somehow I don't think Pallister will be making an appearance any time soon: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Pallister-staff-hired-PI-to-find-dirt-on-Kinew-sources-574965801.html quote:Premier Brian Pallister ordered his senior political staff to hire a private investigator to dig up dirt on NDP Leader Wab Kinew in the prelude to the 2019 election, a violation of strict guidelines preventing partisan activities from intruding on the business of government.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 05:08 |
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 18:42 |
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How the heck does Alberta justify fining students, of all people, for not disclosing their student status? I recall my student days. I was poor as dirt trying to work and get through all my classes. A fine like this would be devastating. Why would they do this?
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 05:50 |
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Ok well, look, the free market only works if for workers it doesn't really work or look like a market. If they can actually withhold their labour to try to get higher wages, they might not be around to serve you your treats. So if you have a characteristic (being a student) that statutorily reduces the wage that's owed to you, you have to disclose that. For uh, market reasons. It's only fair.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 06:23 |
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unfunny bullshit aside, it's because they don't care. it's the same rationale as pulling testing as cases are rising again, and making it so even if you do test positive, you can go to still go to work if you want (need) to. because they want people to work, and where possible work for less, and gently caress you, that's why.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 06:31 |
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terrorist ambulance posted:even if you do test positive, you can go to still go to work if you want (need) to. https://twitter.com/xghostnotesx/status/1419389389864529924 I remember being a broke-rear end student and fuckin Ralph Bucks paid for my share of rent for a month when things were getting real desperate. There's no conservative "outreach" like that now (shallow as it was), it's just constant gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you towards almost every single person in the province with absolutely zero shame. And if they'd shown the barest thread of human decency, instead of constantly choosing the worst option to the point that even their sociopath supporters wound up asking what the gently caress, they'd easily cruise to 60% of the votes in every provincial election from now until the province roasts under constant 40C summers.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 06:55 |
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Vasler posted:How the heck does Alberta justify fining students, of all people, for not disclosing their student status? Don't you see? By giving them a pay cut we're doing them a favor. They should want it. it's because they hate them PT6A posted:There was a time when he was just normal incompetent, like Boris Johnson or something. Neither of these people were ever normal incompetent. They were always awful and always knew what they were doing. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jul 30, 2021 |
# ? Jul 30, 2021 07:41 |
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flakeloaf posted:It is a great day for catholicism, my interesting internet acquaintances. So not fired, never to work again for the catholic church. No, just banned from embarrassing them again. I'm not saying you should arson, but I'm also not saying you shouldn't.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 14:01 |
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I think the actual honest and decent thing to do would be to seize the church's assets in this country under whichever criminal organization laws we have, and distribute the assets to first nations. Also, drop all the court fights.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 15:17 |
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End charitable status and we won't have a church burning "problem". The seizing of assets will happen pretty efficiently from there, most churches struggle just to pay for heating.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 16:10 |
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Pallister is going to hold a news conference on August 3rd to discuss new public health orders. It'll be his first public appearance since showing how much of a racist shithead he is. Guaran-loving-teed that he's going to repeal the mask mandate because Conservatives are incapable of learning from previous mistakes. There is also a non-zero chance he tries to top Alberta's stupidity since that appears to be a thing amongst these POS premiers.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 20:45 |
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My predictions: -No third vaccine for those who recieved mixed vaccines -Removing the mask mandate -Asking for proof of vaccine is banned -Increasing indoor capacity to 75% -Mixed vaccines no longer considered fully vaccinated
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 20:49 |
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Predictions when the 4th wave hits: -No one could have seen this coming -"We are doing the best out of near most provinces the least-wise" -Churches 100% open -Private households must purchase a COVID pass weekly -"Natives got what they deserved"
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 20:59 |
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Despite being a crusty old shitstain - he has been fairly good with restrictions. Not fast enough but he hasn't been like Alberta. I hope to hell the mask mandate stays up. I'll continue to wear mine regardless but that's the only thing keeping things at bay.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 20:59 |
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Pallister has one and only one concern at this point and that is him being allowed into Costa Rica by October. He’s going to announce that they’re shipping millions of “spare” doses down there.
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# ? Jul 30, 2021 21:02 |
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Not content with just their stupid APC, the Winnipeg Police Service spent another couple hundred grand on a Boston Dynamics police robot. https://outline.com/UMY2JZ quote:In 2019, Massachusetts State Police reported numerous issues with a test run of the robot, including that it toppled while walking up stairs, according to internal records obtained by tech site OneZero. The bomb squad couldn’t get the device to assess a suspicious package as it kept going into "sit" mode instead of walking over, and it provided poor video quality.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 01:41 |
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Someone on the r/Winnipeg sub had a link to the manual and ways to disable the dog if they end up using it on you. Spray paint, blankets, anything really to cover the front as it works on visual aids. There’s a latch under the chest you can pull to disable it. And also there’s a hard power button on the back. What a stupid toy to buy. And people wonder where defund the police comes from.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 12:54 |
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To be honest after deactivating it I wanna steal it so I can reprogram it to be my robot buddy that doesn't trigger my allergies.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 13:26 |
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Vintersorg posted:Someone on the r/Winnipeg sub had a link to the manual and ways to disable the dog if they end up using it on you. I hear you just need to pull on the truck nuts and it deactivates.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 13:42 |
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Coxswain Balls posted:To be honest after deactivating it I wanna steal it so I can reprogram it to be my robot buddy that doesn't trigger my allergies. That thing is creepy af and going straight in the river sorry about your pet.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 14:50 |
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Vintersorg posted:Someone on the r/Winnipeg sub had a link to the manual and ways to disable the dog if they end up using it on you. Spray paint, blankets, anything really to cover the front as it works on visual aids. There’s a latch under the chest you can pull to disable it. And also there’s a hard power button on the back. I wonder how long until it gets stolen and dismantled for scrap metal.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 14:55 |
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EvilJoven posted:That thing is creepy af and going straight in the river sorry about your pet.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:36 |
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I heard the federal public service can't print anything. Anyone feel like carrying a printer for the Queen?
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:44 |
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EvilJoven posted:That thing is creepy af and going straight in the river sorry about your pet. tbh this is how I feel about actual dogs (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:48 |
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Bleck posted:tbh this is how I feel about actual dogs In at ground level
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:58 |
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Bleck posted:tbh this is how I feel about actual dogs Normal healthy thoughts.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 18:59 |
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Dogs are the most dangerous animal in the world and lots of breeds of dog are bred to intentionally have various problems that they constantly suffer from and owning one of those animals and then constantly espousing your appreciation for how it loves you unconditionally is very unsettling to me!
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:03 |
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Bleck posted:Dogs are the most dangerous animal in the world and lots of breeds of dog are bred to intentionally have various problems that they constantly suffer from and owning one of those animals and then constantly espousing your appreciation for how it loves you unconditionally is very unsettling to me!
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:05 |
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How I feel about humans
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:05 |
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Plenty of dogs enjoy a nice splash in the river. Great way to beat the heat.Bleck posted:Dogs are the most dangerous animal in the world (snip)
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:08 |
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Dogs are not the most dangerous animal in the world foh
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:11 |
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I guess they're behind snakes (and mosquitoes if you count being a vector for disease), but they're still disconcertingly high on the list as an animal that we regularly cohabitate with? Whatever, my point is I endorse the robot dogs.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:16 |
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I mean Wild Dogs are probably the most efficient hunters in the world but they are far from the most dangerous. Also possibly the cutest most efficient hunters in the world. Edit: wild dogs are their own unique species and not regular pets that have gone feral or live on the street.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:24 |
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e: ^oh definitely yes wild dogs are directly below "wu-tang clan" on things that are not to be hosed withBleck posted:Dogs are the most dangerous animal in the world no quote:and lots of breeds of dog are bred to intentionally have various problems that they constantly suffer from nah that's just pugs and some frenchies, and dog people hate them too quote:and owning one of those animals and then constantly espousing your appreciation for how it loves you unconditionally is very unsettling to me! sorry you've never had a dog, and literally prefer the existence of a mechanized remote-control jackboot to a creature that wants nothig more than to be where you are and do what you're doing
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:25 |
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flakeloaf posted:sorry you've never had a dog My family bred dogs for a long time.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:30 |
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Having one companion dog that pays attention to you-personally is very different from living in a house whose main feature is a revolving door of piddling, stinking, moody livestock, but ok I'll eat that one.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:36 |
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Can we all stop being surprised by goons and their bad opinions...
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:36 |
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Dogs are cool, but if you haven't been around a cool dog they can feel kind of overrated. Same goes for almost any animal/pet to be honest. Bleck posted:I guess they're behind snakes (and mosquitoes if you count being a vector for disease), but they're still disconcertingly high on the list as an animal that we regularly cohabitate with? please do not endorse the tool of police
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:38 |
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flakeloaf posted:Having one companion dog that pays attention to you-personally is very different from living in a house whose main feature is a revolving door of piddling, stinking, moody livestock, but ok I'll eat that one. I mean yeah, and we had those too. But holding a newborn pup squeezed out of a womb packed to nearly bursting of other pups because the breed was so utterly small that it's basically not possible for them to breed without intervention and having to carefully and forcefully whip it through the air to swing the plug of mucus and amniotic fluid out of its airways so that it could maybe start breathing and survive made me rethink people's relationships with dogs, and then doing that several other times solidified those feelings. [Your dog] is probably, like, fine and good and stuff! But, ugh, dogs. Oxyclean posted:please do not endorse the tool of police Clarification: I think it would be good if we didn't have police and also had robot dogs.
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:45 |
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Bleck posted:I mean yeah, and we had those too. But holding a newborn pup squeezed out of a womb packed to nearly bursting of other pups because the breed was so utterly small that it's basically not possible for them to breed without intervention and having to carefully and forcefully whip it through the air to swing the plug of mucus and amniotic fluid out of its airways so that it could maybe start breathing and survive made me rethink people's relationships with dogs, and then doing that several other times solidified those feelings. That's fair ball, and yeah there are a lot of lovely breeders out there who only care about cranking out more defective, brachycephalic monsters than they do about uniting people with serviceable pets. Some kinds of dogs are more likely to have desirable characteristics but of course loving humans have to establish "breed standards" and turn the whole goddamned thing up to eleven. And those wonderful people wouldn't exist if there weren't a horde of impressionable morons on the other side begging for a gasp-a-doodle cause they saw one on a tv show (after the producers found one that could cross the floor without a wheelchair and an oxygen concentrator) and decided the next 9 years of their life absolutely MUST be spent burning money at the vet's office to keep their pet in low orbit of death instead of permitting it to just crash headlong into it like nature would've done twice at birth if some hominid hadn't been there to shake the poor creature by its ankles. That's more of a "BYBs and their customers are terrible and should stop being those things" problem, but yeah i can see how growing up amidst it would lead to some negative associations with any part of it. You're probably fine. But like, ugh. Humans
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# ? Jul 31, 2021 19:54 |
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 18:42 |
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Well, a significant issue is that there's not a lot of mutts resulting from responsible pet owners because of the focus on spay/neuter (not entirely a bad thing). You end up with breeders, some of whom do especially questionable things but nearly all of whom want to maintain a pure breed or otherwise breed toward some end goal, or owners who don't give a poo poo. Very few people are trying to create good, healthy mutts, which would be ideal. At best, you have people breeding specific combos of pure-breeds to reach a desired end-state, which they then try to maintain and will eventually suffer all the same problems as any other established breed.
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