Very interesting. I had no idea.

I don’t understand the posture you’re describing. How is it fighting dirty to use your elbows in a fight? Or are you talking about preemptively elbowing somebody in the jaw during a struggle for the puck? Like a sucker punch but with an elbow…?

I thought elbows up was about positioning your elbows to occupy space while digging for the puck in the corner. I don’t think it’s about fighting dirty but about asserting your entitlement to space. “This puck is mine, you’re going to have to go through me to get it” …but I haven’t played hockey in 25 years or so.

It’s all a bit moot because if somebody twice your size corners you and demands your lunch money, it’s not fighting dirty to use your elbows while trying to get away.

I don’t think the graphics are great. I think they get the posture wrong. I think the slogan is more about determination than strength. I don’t think Canadians should feel superior to Americans. But also I think it’s gross to see someone insisting we ought to feel shame about the suggestion we should protect ourselves.

Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada’s inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He’s right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.

Yeah we should totally ban drug smuggling!

The other thought I had was NORAD but my quick googling points to 1958 for that, and 59 for the arrow.

another one issue that I considered was the King-Byng affair, but that was in the 20s

How do American companies that operate Canadian subsidiaries get their earnings out of the country?

You should read the article.

But also here is a link to a video of the game the foul mentioned is at 1:07:50.

I don’t watch a lot of basketball but can anyone think of a reason other than transphobia that the white team coach (right end of the bench) would clap at that time?

I agree vertical speed looks high, wake turbulence seems like a good hypothesis given that they were trying to make up ground on the backlog.

Who could have predicted that building a movement around getting rid of one person could have any shortcomings.

I recall from elementary game theory that the ability to provably bind oneself to an action (ie make a promise you can’t back out of) is extremely valuable in negotiation. It is hugely important in our day to day lives (loans, service contracts etc), but also politics.

The US ability to have people believe their promises has been shredded by Trump (Eg Iran Nuclear Treaty). We just renegotiated NAFTA to the USMCA, and now all of a sudden it’s no good? How can we trust that this deal will last more than 15 minutes? How can we have any sort of partnership with an organization like this?

It’s really disappointing that there is so much opposition to the existence of sogi minority people. My position is that rainbow crosswalks should not be installed in places where people with minority sogi are not safe.

It’s sort of a self selection. We shouldn’t tell people with minority sogi they are safe and welcome if they are not.

This is not a good opinion piece. The piece title suggests that other parties cough conservatives cough have better plans, then doesn’t mention any, then says liberal bail reforms do seem to be working, then concludes with, “we need to collect more data”.

Wow “we should study violent crime to better understand its root causes” what a thought provoking opinion.

I had to look up what the crime severity index is.

The Crime Severity Index tracks changes in the severity of police-reported crime by accounting for both the amount of crime reported by police in a given jurisdiction and the relative seriousness of these crimes. It tells us not only how much crime is coming to the attention of police, but also about the seriousness of that crime.

The specific weight for any given type of offence consists of two parts. The first component is the incarceration rate for that offence type. This is the proportion of people convicted of the offence who are sentenced to time in prison. The second component is the average (mean) length of the prison sentence, in days, for the specific type of offence.

I’m still a little confused. If the number of all crimes including muggings stays the same but they start to punish mugging more severely, the index goes up? Even though the number of crimes is the same?

Also the data he is referencing is for 2022, like he can’t wait for 2022 data?

Canadians each own about $750 of that pipeline.

Put another way we each own about 0.03m of its length (that’s about 1-1/4").

$750 for 1-1/4" of pipe to help oil companies more profitably murder the planet.

Aren’t Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they’re the ones making the decision for capital that’s owned by the boomers right?

The generation that came of age in the peak of the “greed is good” era?

Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.

Super interesting! I had no idea this was on the table.

Thanks!

I haven’t been following the specifics of ai image generation.

How much does it cost to do this? I thought Dall-e was unrelated to chat gpt, did you link them somehow?

Yes, exactly why they should sell now before the prices tumble.

Recognize Palestine as UK? Like back to the Palestinian Mandate era? …oh nvm.