arrakark

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[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

This is such a teachable "leopards ate my face" moment for all Canadians.

Be Canada

Want to save money on healthcare

Agree to sell private firm to Americans

Get worse healthcare

Independence is reduced

Americans turn on you

Same thing is happening with the CBC right now, but nobody understands what's at stake!!

Be Canada

Want to save some money by not funding CBC, private media

Almost all conservative newspapers already owned by Americans

Agree to shut CBC down/defund/whatever

Americans start absolutely hammering us with propaganda

Have not a single way to defend ourselves

Not a single source of journalistic integrity left in Canada

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I wish CSIS had an office in Vancouver... Not everyone in Canada lives on the east coast...

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just wondering, what org specifically asks for 4chan use?

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

This article is great, super information sense, doesn't try to spin a narrative, just investigates the facts.

I find it crazy that as a system this guy of all people managed to slip though the cracks. An autist with Hitler's signature tatooed on his arm, combined with arrests and jail time for stalking and harassing women, and nobody thought to give this guy the mandatory anti radicalization treatment? Kind of insane. Lots of holes in the Swiss Cheese model.

On the other hand, what could have been done? The guy had no social support network, no family that would have taken care of him. You can't force someone to have friends, or to get them to take the prerequisite steps to overcome whatever might be holding them back. Getting rid of X? Maybe that would help things in aggregate, but I'm and optimist and believe that people are smart enough to no be racist just because their feed is.

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago

I think it's unlikely you can donate without any conversions...

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah haha I didn't write this well. What I'm trying to say is that where you have socialized healthcare people are way less likely to agree with the idea that you're free to not wear a helmet. I just worded that poorly.

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

But what about the reverse argument?

The elders know much more than the young generation, shouldn't they have a larger say?

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Basically, Japan is the most developed nation on earth. Not because of technology, or culture, or anything of the sort. But they were the first developed nation to have their birth rate drop and pyramid start shrinking. In that sense, their policies are ahead of every country on earth that still keeps admitting massive amounts of immigrants to keep their populations up.

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I've always thought that regular expressions are just specifications for state machines. They aren't that difficult.

[–] arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Hot take! 👨‍🚒

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