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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just flatout wrong to say it makes no sense because an acronym is pronounced as a word, not an abbreviation of its words. AIDS isn't pronounced "awh-ids", NASA isn't pronounced "N-eh-sa".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ethical business? Wat? Our economy is propped up by a housing bubble and resource extraction

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That would be true if Half Life 3 was a game that existed and not just a dream

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Monitor quality and calibration will always affect these sorts of things but your results are probably close enough to reality

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Singh had many reasonable opportunities to do this over the last few years, but finally pulls the rip cord when the Conservatives are polling way ahead? What the fuck? He's such a useless piece of shit, why do the NDP keep him around

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

This is strictly untrue for many climates. Where I live in Canada, 0F is average winter day, 100F is record-breaking "I might actually die" levels of heat.

-30C to 30C is not any more complicated or less intuitive than -22F to 86F

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

A degree Celsius is not coarse and does not require decimals in weather reports, and I suspect only a person who has never lived in a Celsius-using country could make such silly claims.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I love how much money taxpayers spend on this shit but it's the corpos that get to name the place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

They compete on prices just like the grocery stores competed on bread prices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the same argument that my original comment is against. You just labelled the Liberal + NDP bucket as "left".

If we had a ranked ballot (I don't actually want ranked ballot, but it's useful for demonstrating my point), I would rank NDP as 1 and not rank Liberals or CPC because I don't like either of them. Just because the Liberals are left of the CPC does not make them "left", and does not magically earn them every NDP vote.

Likewise, I'm sure there are Liberal voters who would rather have CPC than NDP.

There is no collective "left" of all NDP + Liberal voters.

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