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Usually 'clean ups' like this are actually overtime for the garbage workers or parks workers who do them, since it's extra duties that come with some risk, it would be a volunteer sorta thing. So it's typically the fuckin chud workers who would sign up for this, get a little extra cashe for hurting people.
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Bleck posted:They're still fighting for it now because they still haven't done the only real solution, which involves trudging up the landlords to either a guillotine or a gallows. Umm have you considered voting????
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Apr 6, 2023 22:32
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This is it, folks. This is the one that matters. We all have to go out and vote for [party that will gut healthcare and give all of your money to landlords and cops], so that neither [party that will gut healthcare and give all of your money to landlords and cops] nor [party that will gut healthcare and give all of your money to landlords and cops] get back into power. This one's for all the marbles and if you don't believe that the system will work then you're a stupid tankie doomer and actually the biggest problem of all.
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Apr 6, 2023 23:03
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When will the masses learn that benevolent dictators is the way to go. Oh well until then I can just call voters rubes and act smug while doing it.
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Apr 6, 2023 23:25
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I would be an evil dictator tbh. Seems way more fun than benevolence
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DaysBefore posted:I would be an evil dictator tbh. Seems way more fun than benevolence It seems like it, but as some one who has played every version of Tropico I can tell you that oppression turns out to be a lot more work than just providing a good quality of life.
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Capital Letdown posted:Usually 'clean ups' like this are actually overtime for the garbage workers or parks workers who do them, since it's extra duties that come with some risk, it would be a volunteer sorta thing. I have a few friends working in union admin and this is a symptom of one of the main failings of sclerotic union locals. A lot of union workers (like I’m assuming those garbage truck drivers are) are sympathetic to the cops and to reaction. They have the benefits and safety of a union job but (truthfully or as performance) rail against that same union. They have no class consciousness and the union does nothing to educate or build that solidarity because, after a century of ideological conditioning, a lot of the membership just out and out reject it. So every time I see something like this I’m like “drat, wish our trade unions would do like the French and start turning off the power to police stations/march with protestors/not crunch up tents” but I have to remind myself that if the union wanted to a good chunk of their membership would respond “lol no destroying camps is based”. It’s not great! People in my own family with five weeks of vacation and double the average private sector wage grumble into their beers that their union is communiss and they’d prefer to keep their dues.
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Apr 7, 2023 16:24
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Where's the fiery "gently caress the bosses" spirit that should exist in good union persons? Cops are an extension of those bosses.
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Apr 7, 2023 16:27
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I'm "one of the bosses/scum" and I'm always arguing with the union guys from the left. It's really disheartening.
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Apr 7, 2023 20:11
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Charles Bukowski posted:Where's the fiery "gently caress the bosses" spirit that should exist in good union persons? Cops are an extension of those bosses. In my union experience "gently caress the boss" is not mutually exclusive with "gently caress those lazy poors" or "gently caress you".
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Apr 8, 2023 01:52
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Oh god, even the English are making fun of us, and they consider beans on potato a meal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bbc-race-across-the-world-1.6804863
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Apr 8, 2023 12:57
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Well that 45.5 hour power cut sure was fun. Has anyone considered not stringing them through trees? NZ buried all their lines and they don't even get freezing rain 3-4 times a year!
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Apr 8, 2023 13:43
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We went about 55 hours. Have some friends who are still out and nearing 72. Was cute to BBQ meals for the first 24. Got kind of grating afterwards. Legault says it'd be 100 billion to bury all power lines, but I'm thinking we can save some if we leave Saguenay in the dark.
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NZAmoeba posted:Well that 45.5 hour power cut sure was fun. Has anyone considered not stringing them through trees? I think I was out 60. And this is after losing it for 9 days last May. Forgot how long it was from the tornado back a few years ago, but at least 2 days. And oh boy, we still have storm season to go through! Looking forward to having a multi-day outage in the fall so I can just be paranoid all year round! Hydro Ottawa's communications teams have been a pretty consistent disappointment. Maybe they can find some of the bucks for burying the lines by just getting rid of them. Being told it's a "multi day outage" multiple days into the outage sure is helpful! Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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PT6A posted:Oh god, even the English are making fun of us, and they consider beans on potato a meal. 20 years ago the BC Liberals killed off BC Rail (almost) and we are still paying for it.
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Apr 8, 2023 15:28
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PT6A posted:Oh god, even the English are making fun of us, and they consider beans on potato a meal. The irony being it was a British company that bought and ultimately killed off Greyhound.
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Apr 8, 2023 19:38
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EightFlyingCars posted:there's this book called A Canticle For Leibowitz which is an extremely Catholic-flavoured story about reverence and guilt in a far-off, post-nuclear-war future where humanity bombed itself into a new dark age. i didn't get too far into it before getting drawn away by other things. i finished the first act and enjoyed what i read, but it didn't really light a fire under me. (i really should finish it sometime) It's a fine book. Basically the Catholic equivalent to Fallout. You may enjoy the works of Gene Wolfe if you'd like to explore more Catholic sci-fi.
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In the interior and Kootenays, greyhound has been replaced by, I poo poo you not, a shuttle service called Mountain Man Mike's that I'm pretty sure is a handful of people just running a few retro fitted ski shuttle buses up and down the trans Canada. It's all there is!
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Apr 9, 2023 07:29
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The market provides.
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It's almost like public transit should be a well-funded public service that is free from a profit obligation. Could be that it would be a step towards climate goals and vastly reducing the number of private vehicles on the road. Or something.
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No, clearly if anyone needed to traverse the BC interior they would pay what the market deems a reasonable price to do so. Since they're not, no one needs to traverse the BC interior, so why would the BD NDP waste money on infrastructure no one will use? Life as an economist is surprisingly straightforward
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Was just walking home from work a different route for the first time and i noticed a ton of cars parked illegally near a church service, and they all had little pieces of paper on their dashboards indicating they were with the church. I don't really care that much but those notes are bullshit right? Like there's nothing official from the city about that? Never really noticed before but I'm not usually out at 8am on a Sunday.
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Apr 9, 2023 14:07
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You might get some leeway for a funeral, but IDK about Easter Sunday service. They should just park in the bike lane like everyone else.
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Apr 9, 2023 14:11
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Call parking enforcement. I’m sure they’d love to know there’s a huge group of cars parked illegally, which even come with notes expressing implicit recognition that they’re parking illegally.
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Mister Speaker posted:Was just walking home from work a different route for the first time and i noticed a ton of cars parked illegally near a church service, and they all had little pieces of paper on their dashboards indicating they were with the church. I don't really care that much but those notes are bullshit right? Like there's nothing official from the city about that? Never really noticed before but I'm not usually out at 8am on a Sunday. I recall seeing something like this before. There's definitely nothing official about this but you're basically at the mercy of how much your councillor thinks Christians should get special privileges. It'll be one of those things where they 'off the books' advise bylaw to do nothing about these particular people. It does operate by being beneath notice for the most part so if you bring enough attention to it it'll probably get taken care of. Also depends if this is a regular occurrence or just on the big services like Easter and Christmas.
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oh right it's a holiday, that's like the third time I've forgotten this weekend, after the Good Friday parade woke me up and I was like "whoa downtown is empty wtf."
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The mild neighbourhood controversy in my neighbourhood is that there's a church across from the school, and the school has an arrangement to let church goers park on the gravel field on Sunday morning. Some people Get Mad about this injustice. because the park is for kids to play on, but there is also like many, many parks around so 
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Femtosecond posted:The mild neighbourhood controversy in my neighbourhood is that there's a church across from the school, and the school has an arrangement to let church goers park on the gravel field on Sunday morning. Imagine getting mad about someone using a gravel field from 8-12 on a Sunday
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Apr 9, 2023 20:27
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Conversely, everyone should always be antagonistic with the church
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I had a church lady very loud and angry with me because they waited until the last minute to request using a lot. My manager said no and lawdy that was not good enough, but after I figured out no 1 curr about her at all it was pretty funny.
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Pleads posted:Conversely, everyone should always be antagonistic with the cars
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Oh drat, I honestly thought I'd posted those church parking comments in the Toronto Thread, sorry, I hadn't slept.
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Pleads posted:Conversely, everyone should always be antagonistic with the church Yes indeed. A big service is a money-making enterprise for them whether they admit to it or not, they can pay for the land they use like everyone else.
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Mister Speaker posted:Was just walking home from work a different route for the first time and i noticed a ton of cars parked illegally near a church service, and they all had little pieces of paper on their dashboards indicating they were with the church. I don't really care that much but those notes are bullshit right? Like there's nothing official from the city about that? Never really noticed before but I'm not usually out at 8am on a Sunday.
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or people can take the bus or walk to church if there's no parking room. that feels more appropriate. If you think public transit is below you, then it's humbling. If it's too inconvenient, a little "suffering" is a good for the soul, and what better to say you love god and jesus then the extra effort spent? otherwise, you can be among the people! How can you expect to ascend to heaven and be among god's loved if you close you heart in your personal vehicle and hide away from the rest of the world? and let's not even start on about the sinful folk who take up multiple parking spaces with their F-150s.
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Oxyclean posted:or people can take the bus or walk to church if there's no parking room. that feels more appropriate. If you think public transit is below you, then it's humbling. If it's too inconvenient, a little "suffering" is a good for the soul, and what better to say you love god and jesus then the extra effort spent? otherwise, you can be among the people! How can you expect to ascend to heaven and be among god's loved if you close you heart in your personal vehicle and hide away from the rest of the world? .....go on.....
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I don't know, just as Kenneth Copeland declared commercial aircraft to be "tubes full of demons" surely the public transit system is rife with demons also?
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The dumbest story in recent Canadian history gets a credulous laundering by the CBC, written by three GROWN ADULT REPORTERS who have never suspected the RCMP of uttering a false word in their life. https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack
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StoicRomance posted:The dumbest story in recent Canadian history gets a credulous laundering by the CBC, written by three GROWN ADULT REPORTERS who have never suspected the RCMP of uttering a false word in their life. Meanwhie, the Globe and Mail ran big Saturday editorial about the RCMP. The headline speaks for itself The RCMP can’t do its job. It’s time to rebuild it from scratch
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StoicRomance posted:The dumbest story in recent Canadian history gets a credulous laundering by the CBC, written by three GROWN ADULT REPORTERS who have never suspected the RCMP of uttering a false word in their life. Hey there somebody typed the word anarchy onto a Facebook post, how many more dots do they need to connect for you.
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