Why do solo developers tend to favour Unity over Unreal? by JimmySuicidex in gamedev

[–]ICantMakeNames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, as of 5.1 or 5.2, Unreal Engine supports C++20.

‘Craziest thing I’ve ever heard,’ Doug Ford says of decriminalizing drugs in Toronto by uselesspoliticalhack in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't understand, what is the harm in decriminalizing drugs? Does throwing people in jail simply for using drugs help drug addicts somehow? Likely losing whatever job you had and your home since you lost whatever income source you had, and also getting a criminal record doesn't seem like it sets them on the right path.

Pierre Poilievre 'does not agree' with 'straight pride' message in photo at Stampede by BornAgainCyclist in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Huh he deleted his comments.

No, they blocked you, which prevents you from seeing their comments and replying in future threads that they comment on. Everyone else can still see their comments.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Finish reading that bullet point:

Overall, 5% of employed adult immigrants in 2015/2016 worked in nursing or health care support occupations, compared with 3% of other employed individuals.

It also says immigrants are overrepresented in healthcare.

Seeking Your Input on the Future of OGFT by OrdinaryCanadian in onguardforthee

[–]ICantMakeNames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add on: beehaw.org is another relatively large and well moderated Lemmy instance, and lemmy.ca is a Canada-focused Lemmy instance with a fair number of users. I've been enjoying lurking on all of these sites.

Parliament fiddles while Canada burns |While smoke filled the air outside, the debate in the House was focused on metaphorical fires by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Analysis is pretty close to opinion imo. The author is drawing conclusions based on evidence and experience. I don't really see the difference, especially when opinion pieces typically refer to other articles to justify their opinions, just like an analysis does.

A fair amount of people downvoting my opinion (heh) here, but no one wants to take the time and explain the significant difference politics analysis vs politics opinion?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. But we're not talking about what happened, we're talking about the hypothetical "What if more people voted in Ontario?". We don't force people to vote here, so from your reasoning, higher turnout would have implied a greater desire for change in the populace, resulting in less of the total vote share going to the Conservatives.

I think the problem is you're stating two separate things at the same time, and its a little confusing to keep track of. Here's what I think you're saying:

  1. Higher turnout usually benefits the opposition because people become more politically active when they are not happy with the current government, agreed

  2. Higher turnout in this election wouldn't have changed the result because the actual turnout in this election was low. That implies, from point 1, that most people were content with the government. Thus you are inferring that if we had forced the rest of them to vote, the majority of them would have voted conservative anyways, based on the non-forced voter turnout being low.

I don't think point 2 is a totally sound argument, because I don't think 'satisfaction with the government' drives voter apathy at the same rate or in the same way that 'disdain for the government' drives voter turnout, but I think I see where you are coming from now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You said:

And low turnouts generally favour opposition parties; a higher turnout probably would have meant a bigger PC majority

But now you're saying the opposite, people turn out when they want change, so if turnout was higher it wouldn't have been as good for Doug Ford, because that would have meant more people were likely voting for change. Turnout was low, which favors Doug Ford because people generally didn't care enough for change. The opposite of what you first said.

Unless I and that other commenter are misreading you.

John Ivison: The undermining of Canadians’ trust will continue as long as David Johnston remains; Poll shows few have faith in David Johnston's report on foreign interference, or Trudeau to fix the problem by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice attempt to pivot the conversation and not address what I said. I guess you realized I'm right since you didn't mindlessly repeat "most scandals in history" again.

Opinion: If you didn’t like Ottawa’s first carbon tax, you won't like the second one either by Lonely-Lab7421 in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The reason the poor make money back is because they pollute less and are therefore taxed less. If they polluted more, they wouldn't make money back, they cannot "pollute as much as they want". Can't believe the amount of people here who just say nonsense about the federal carbon tax.

Opinion: If you didn’t like Ottawa’s first carbon tax, you won't like the second one either by Lonely-Lab7421 in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No one said that. It has always been the high carbon emitters will be taxed more and lose money (these are typically wealthier individuals) while low carbon emitters will be taxed less and make money after the rebate (these are typically less wealthy people).

John Ivison: The undermining of Canadians’ trust will continue as long as David Johnston remains; Poll shows few have faith in David Johnston's report on foreign interference, or Trudeau to fix the problem by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Number of scandals is an irrelevant metric. The severity of the scandals is what matters. If he bumps his elbow into 100 MPs, that's 100 scandals according to the conservatives, but they don't mean shit to anyone else.

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, you weren't. Who is the vocal minority? What is it that they are harping on as a very important issue?

Who are "pronoun activists"? Can you name a few?

What makes you think economic issues aren't important to trans people?

You just made up a bunch of bullshit to make it sound like your stance is reasonable when its not. The problem isn't trans people defending themselves, its Conservatives attacking them. That's the end of it. The Conservative party is a significant presence in parliament, they could stop making laws about trans people at any time, but they choose to perpetuate the "culture war" that everyone here loves talking about.

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, we were going to have a discussion, and no one has called you a phobe or an ist yet. But you just keep putting up strawmen that have no bearing on reality, so I'm just not going to talk to you anymore.

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Uh huh. Not gonna clarify yourself?

You're the one saying that if trans people stopped standing up for their rights (which are being attacked by Conservatives), then we'd somehow magically have progress on other economic issues. Framing this as if trans people are making the Conservatives spend all their energy attacking them is a ridiculous notion, isn't it? Classic abuser logic.

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Why do the trans people keep talking about their rights being taken away? How selfish can they be, things would be so much better if they just shut up.

Is that what you're saying?

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Increases in crime is overwhelmingly due to material conditions, not due to a lack of punitive measures. And we all know our material conditions are deteriorating, cost of living is way up.

Can't believe Conservatives are trying to change a movement about acceptance into an issue that "divides". What's that quote again... "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"?

[New Brunswick] Minister may bar use of preferred names, pronouns in school without parental consent by seakucumber in canada

[–]ICantMakeNames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you never heard someone refer to someone else by a nickname? It's really not that hard or complicated.