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People in small towns don’t care about this stuff. It’s like trying to organize a meetup for local plumbers.

This is fascism.

Also,

> malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent)

lol

What’s the point of protesting when they don’t even have elections? Why can’t the government just ignore the protesters with no consequences?

It looks very good but in 10 years everyone will think it looks awful. Remember when people thought Skyrim on Xbox 360 was good looking? lmao

> If you can’t do something in VR because of a limited range of motion in real life, I think that you have failed as a VR developer.

I have never disagreed with an opinion on VR more. The worst VR experiences are the ones that would be possible without the VR. I thought half life Alyx was bad because of this. I don’t want to treat my headset as just another screen.

I will not eat the bugs

Stop trying to convince me to eat bugs

This is dumb. We measure productivity because that’s what the people with the power to choose the important metrics care about. There’s no “we” that gets to choose anything! They don’t care about your wellbeing and would happily make you eat bugs if it meant their favourite numbers would go in the right direction.

Small book stores are one of the least deserving businesses I can think of. They are no different from drop shippers or amazon resellers. These people buy things they had no responsibility creating and sell it to you for a higher price, injecting themselves as middle men to a transaction where it’s not required and then justifying it with a hobby job they made up themselves. The author gets nothing if the book is used so there’s no reason not to pirate. Cheapest is a great metric when you’re dealing with books.

> I have to do chores when I get home for about an hour or two

How is this possible? Are you counting exercise as a chore? I probably do 2 hours of chores in a week and that includes a lot of things related to cooking which you don’t do

It’s honestly fascinating to me that women think bots are so interesting that they deserve an article like this. I feel like almost all men match with more bots than real women. We live in entirely different worlds.

That’s not true at all.. Almost nobody with a house in Canada has the income to buy it at current prices. The only way most people can do it is because they bought a long time ago or got an inheritance from somebody who bought a long time ago

> the infrastructure available isn’t capable of sustaining this type of population influx (regardless of where they’re from) and leads to a lower quality of life for the people already in the country.

This is exactly the problem.

Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US but any discussion of lowering this is considered racist. I have a top 5% income but I will never own a house in my life and can’t access a family doctor. We have way too many people! The population is expected to be 50% foreign born or children of immigrants by 2040 and it’s already majority foreign born in our biggest cities.

I honestly don’t expect this country to stay together for more than a few more decades. What is a Canadian? The “melting pot” theory of integration is also considered racist here because Canada is a “mosaic” where everyone has the right to keep their old culture and live in an ethnic enclave with no expectation of assimilation.

Can call centre employees afford their own workspace? I hope this comes with a big raise. Mom’s kitchen table is going to get busy!

Great news for all the parents who have a separate account from their kids

> Decreasing consumption doesn't necessarily imply a decrease in quality of life

Decreasing consumption in a more simplified way is just decreasing energy use. For 90% of people on earth this would be worse than climate change. It’s never going to happen.

Bill Gates in his climate book: “geoengineering is the only known way that we could hope to lower the earth’s temperature within years or even decades without crippling the economy.”

Pretty soon we’re going to start seeing authoritarian solutions to climate change. Rich and powerful people aren’t just going to sit around and watch the planet die. I think they’ll do whatever it takes no matter how many people are hurt.

In Canada we don’t feed kids at school. If a kid doesn’t bring lunch, it’s their parents fault. If that happens frequently it’s considered child abuse. Lots of elementary schools here (mine) don’t even have a cafeteria!

I was surprised when I found out that we’re one of the few developed countries that doesnt have any kind of lunch program. I feel like our system works fine though and since I’ve seen the garbage that American children are fed I think it’s actually better this way

A “startup” in Canada is just a dozen guys who stay afloat by chasing $50k government grants full time. It’s very good when these go out of business

Terrible advice when he lives in a high cost of living area.

Quebec

This is also sending your credit card information btw

> Every aspect of a typical Chinese person’s life, not just online but also off is conducted through [this] single app Every aspect of a typical Chinese person’s life, not just online but also off is conducted through [this] single app

What happens to people that get banned from WeChat?

Any job likely to be replaced by AI will have 1 person overseeing the machines or programs that replaced 10 old employees

ex. Person who remote controls a fleet of a dozen trucks to get them unstuck or person who approves AI drawings to verify they’re not offensive

If it was that simple I would pay hundreds of thousands to be 3 inches taller. I’m glad to see this is catching on!

That’s true but it’s not what they actually mean when they say “diversity” so all of this should be left out of the essay.

Stop trying to make me live in a pod

> Facebook dating team’s decision to avoid including a filter that would let users target or exclude potential love interests of a particular race

Lots of minorities actually love this feature because they can find people from their own community. If it were up to teams like this, they would remove the gender filter as well. I’m glad these crazy Twitter people were fired.

> they have a job to support their family

They can’t afford families because they can barely afford to rent a room in a basement an hour from the office. Sometimes they share a bedroom so they can send some money back to a developing country I guess?

If they were born early enough to be home owners then they probably increase their net worth by more than me every year and it makes me feel like shit for losing the real estate lottery