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... if half of ducks are female, and female ducks aren't rapists, then not all ducks are rapists, and therefore some ducks could be nice....

Fair enough, though in this case it feels like it's not making assumptions, but showing unawareness of the one-way nature of American controlled media.

Female ducks are rapists?

I mean Republicans were the party of federally funded higher education, just ... under Lincoln.

Lol you don't need to explain how long the US election cycle lasts. The rest of the world is aware.

Republicans have literally been attacking public education for the entire 3+ decades of my life.

Order a bunch of plants that are native to your region, plant the medium and shade loving varieties under the trees, see what sticks

Buy a seam ripper, then spend every boring waste of time meeting picking out the logo stitching, find a new job when you're done.

and yeah, everything is an object, and I see how that can be a nice idea, but man, does that force you to select properties of those objects like crazy. Is this really a good thing, once you have it figured out

This is like the only thing I actually like about PowerShell.

Fair enough, point taken.

Jack Layton died as he was hitting some of his highest points of popularity, which leaves the trajectory of his plan as literally and fundamentally unknowable.

In May, the NDP, for the first time, won enough seats to form official Opposition, and then in August, Jack Layton died of cancer.

You never knew Tommy Douglas or how we would react to the situation, don't use his name to disparage Jack Layton. That is horizontal violence at best.

The literal entirety of Facebook / Instagram / Whatsapp's backend is built on PHP.

I'm not saying that was a good choice, but it does guarantee a lot of resources flowing to it's development.

Most overrated language imho.

Okay full disclosure I'm not Canadian I'm just here for the political drama, but Canada is trailing behind Europe in terms of peogressiveness no? No proportional representation for one, and until recently no dental healthcare.

That is a massive quibble / splitting of hairs over an incredibly subjective metric. Whether or not Canada is number 1 or 2 or top 5 is not relevant. The point stands.

I don't think anyone here, including me, has said that.

That is precisely what your previous comment implied.

They do represent the business as usual political establishment so the broad comparison tracks; Canada has issues that will lead to a conservative majority if not addressed and a minority government has a much better chance of addressing those issues in a satisfactory way than a liberal majority government.

Really. What evidence do you have for that? Please do educate us with your extensive knowledge of Canadian parliamentary history and the relative effectiveness of our minority governments.

Closing your eyes, slowly taking a deep breath, and calmly, breathing in, and breathing out, while focusing on the sensations in your body, and how much more relaxed you're feeling right now

i.e. meditation

Lol. It's crazy to me that progressive Canadians act like the Liberals are the devil incarnate when they live in one of the stablest and most progressive countries in the world, and it's been lead largely by Liberal governments for most of its history.

Like I don't agree with every decision they've made but it's also crazy to just view them as incompetent northern Democrats.

I would rather a law that extends many of the properties of physical ownership to digital sales.

VD: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VD

VE: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VE

I mean, say "CVE" out loud and see if anything comes to mind, then say "EUVD" out loud and see if anything comes to mind.

I'm very pro EU, but this is just a badly chosen acronym.

Lmao come on. Some people in the EU speak English and knew that naming your standard "European Union Venereal Disease" was a bad idea.