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by soperj 3y ago
> Total value of all US residential homes is $44T and google tells me mortgage back securities have an outstanding debt of $24T, so about 50% of what the underlying asset is worth. Sorry for being pedantic, it's 45.45%, but the real
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by soperj 3y ago
They do in Canada. People call it a double double ;) Or if they really dislike coffee, the Wayne Gretzky.
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by soperj 3y ago
They wouldn't say lemon juice is delicious though, they'd say I like lemonade. Said as someone who actually loves lemons.
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by soperj 3y ago
I've heard lots of people who like the smell of coffee, I've never met anyone who's liked the taste of coffee the first time they drank it. There's a reason people put milk and sugar in it.
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by soperj 3y ago
Honestly can't recall the last time I've had to deposit a cheque.
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by soperj 3y ago
So is meth apparently if you can avoid the negative effects.
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by soperj 3y ago
Why would you start drinking coffee?
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by soperj 3y ago
I just use my banking website from my phone. Why install apps?
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by soperj 3y ago
And Apple now with their ad business. How are they fundamentally different?
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by soperj 3y ago
In BC we've had this for decades, everyone uses it. There's decomposable bags that you can put your compost in, and when you tie them, they take care of most of the odor issue.
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by soperj 3y ago
this is why suits for animating people on screen more accurately is bizarre to me. It's literally removing inventiveness from the whole medium.
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by soperj 3y ago
Just like the US isn't a capitalist country because they don't have a private military. If all you see is black and white, you'll miss all the good stuff in between.
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by soperj 3y ago
People aren't running from places like Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Australia last I checked.
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by soperj 3y ago
I'm guessing this will really be hell for whales.
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by soperj 3y ago
> Healthcare is most definitely producing goods Services? Unless you're talking pharma? > people will not call the fire department for the fun of it People phone 911 all the time for very stupid stuff.
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by soperj 3y ago
So, anything that isn't producing goods in a capitalist system should be publicly owned? Very good case for public health care then in the US.
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by soperj 3y ago
Modern capitalism has a lot of socialism in it. Socialized fire dept, sewage, roads, police, in most cases socialized healthcare, in the US they socialize bank & auto corporation losses whenever there's a recession, etc etc.
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by soperj 3y ago
I think people would agree with that though.
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by soperj 3y ago
Even of the people that do vote, it was only 32% of people that voted Liberal.
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by soperj 3y ago
They are though in the Canadian system, a vote in PEI is worth almost 3 times more than in BC for example. PEI: 4 MPs for 176,000 people. = 1 MP per 44000 people BC: 42 MPs for 5.43 million people. = 1 MP per 129,000 people.
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by soperj 3y ago
The Caveat being that we use first past the post, so the majority of the (already poor % of) votes get tossed, and we end up in a situation like we're in now where the party with the most seats actually lost the election. They also all
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by soperj 3y ago
Some octopuses only live for 6 months.
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by soperj 3y ago
Mushrooms could be the most intelligent organism on earth.
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by soperj 3y ago
I feel like we should settle it with something that nobody agrees on. Octopuswiches.
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by soperj 3y ago
Some early film is more innovative than most film these days.
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by soperj 3y ago
> There's plenty to disagree with RMS on, but he's absolutely right that Linux is not an OS; it's a kernel. Why bother posting who's opinion it is if you think it will cause disagreements? (curious)
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by soperj 3y ago
This makes sense. Would also make sense why AIDS hasn't evolved to become less deadly, but it also brings up that covid hasn't had a bottleneck in terms of transmission. The main reason why one strain has replaced another has been
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by soperj 3y ago
What are you basing this on? Looks like deaths peaked in 2004, but more people in Africa are receiving treatment. Without treatment the avg life expectancy seems to be 11 years, and doesn't look like that's changed.
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by soperj 3y ago
Because of better treatments? or has it really just been the AIDS virus evolving?
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by soperj 3y ago
Are you saying AIDS has gotten less deadly over time?

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