VancouverMan

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by VancouverMan 4y ago
It fell victim to the very same phenomenon it is describing. Online user-generated-content moderation systems (whether upvoting/downvoting, Slashdot-style, etc.) are just a type of "fact-checking" in practice. When the abilit
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
Who/what do you consider to be a "Canadian" in 2022? In Toronto and the surrounding cities, for example, about half of the population are foreign-born. A significant proportion of the population of many other Canadian urban a
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
There has been very questionable counting of the deaths in Canada, as well. For example, according to the public health unit of Canada's most populous city: "Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
In Canada, so-called scientists, academics, and medical doctors have consistently been among the most vocal initiators and proponents of the obviously-idiotic and useless restrictions that have caused widespread harm. They've also been
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
That's "supported" in a somewhat weak and contrived sense. I think a lot of people would, in practice, expect "supported" to mean that they can use their device to run the latest version of macOS.
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
I don't think that any profession or system with extensive state-imposed restrictions and regulations (education requirements, medical boards, licensing, exams, continuing education requirements, and so on) should be considered "p
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
When one set of government-imposed policies artificially inhibits travel, another set of government-imposed policies that artificially adds exceptions to that first set of policies shouldn't be seen as providing salvation. "Travel
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by VancouverMan 4y ago
We shouldn't rush to trust the numbers from Western nations. Consider the counting approach used in Toronto, which is Canada's most populous city, and the fourth most populous city in North America. According to Toronto Public Hea
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
Considering the massive amount of unnecessary and unjustifiable trouble that so many people have experienced over the years with systemd and PulseAudio, it's no wonder people would distrust everything coming from the developers and pro
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
I don't know if that's the case in Seattle, but it certainly is in Canada's largest (and very left-wing and socialist) cities. Reporting crime to the police is usually just an additional burden on the victim/reporter, of
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
Any unwanted medical procedure, regardless of what exactly that procedure entails, is a form of bodily molestation and bodily violation. We should expect somebody being coerced by an authority figure to undergo an unwanted medical procedure
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
Intentionally limiting the access of others to information, including by omission or by imposing artificial barriers, is still inherently censorship.
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
This isn't a new problem with the Canadian mass media. It has been like this for a while. It has just become far more blatant within the past decade than it was in the past. CBC News has gotten particularly bad.
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
-10 °C isn't unusual for Ottawa and surrounding areas at this time of the year. Even -25 °C is something most people who live in the region would be expecting and prepared to experience at various points throughout a typical winter.
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by VancouverMan 5y ago
Is it possible to do that without having to give a phone number? I tried to join once, several years back. I could create the account, and then use it for a few minutes. But even before posting anything, the account was suddenly locked and