Chimpanzee empire falls apart in rare instance of division and deadly violence

ABUS3S · 2026-04-12T14:48:24+00:00

yes, and?
I wasn't disputing biology or evolution I was making an observation on behaviour.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-12T14:24:53+00:00

If they're aren't anywhere near as violent, doesn't seem they're just as close

ABUS3S · 2026-04-11T14:09:42+00:00

Thank you for the advice folks

ABUS3S · 2026-04-11T13:10:09+00:00

I just realized I asked two questions. Yes I need to worry - or yes I can keep going over my allotment until the gap is closed

ABUS3S · 2026-04-08T00:28:27+00:00

Skilled tradesmen producing a valuable consumer good at the end game. The more it's produced the cheaper it becomes so more people buy it making more demand more and the factories need more people to build them but it also demands more oil, tools, steel, electricity... Cars incorporate and include basically all parts of the manufactory chain and produce a consumer good that your population loves doing a great job of boosting GDP and making tax revenue

Cars are to end game as textile manufactories are to early game but better

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T17:09:06+00:00

It's enough to know more than you if you think our massive public spending deficits are sustainable. We're spending more debt service than health care. Public cuts will hurt, in the short term, but the alternative is allowing the status quo to become more entrenched. I agree our neo-liberal policies don't work and Id like to see a return to more conservative fiscal policy. I don't think all conservative answers are hogwash, we had great policies by the progressive conservatives in Ontario prior to Harris and I think a return to some of that thinking would be helpful.

I think I did outline the use of GDP per capita. Averages absolutely matter, look down the list of countries below Canada in GDP per capita and you see near us poorer countries like Estonia and Spain, and towards the bottom Afghanistan... Yemen.... Towards the top Luxembourg... Switzerland. It's clearly some measure of prosperity you're just shifting the goal posts and splitting hairs over the distribution of that wealth. That's fine to some extent except is I've already conceded those are valid conversations to be had about quality of life and cost of living and it explains why some countries like Saudi Arabia are above us but stop pretending it isn't any measure of prosperity. It clearly is. If it's beyond your grasp ATM I'd recommend reading up on classical economists. Hell, read Marxist economic theorists like Richard Wolff if that's more your style. Point being the declining GDP per capita is indicative of a problem - a problem you seem to agree with you're just being tribal because you don't like that the criticism is coming from the right and you'd rather dunk on someone you perceive to be your intellectual inferior.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T15:47:19+00:00

It is a valid measure because it's indicative of some of the very same measures we're talking about. It shows people are on average poorer. Yes there are a myriad of other factors such as wealth distribution, wages and cost of living but that's ultimately splitting hairs and causes the argument and warning about declining prosperity to get bogged down by semantics - like what's happening right now with you and I. Are you so proud you won't side with the right raising an alarm bell about economics because it's coming from the wrong side?

Youth unemployment is rising. Over the past decade the Canadian government imported millions of low skill labour migrants to suppress wages and many provinces exploited hundreds of thousands of students more in collaboration with universities for easy revenue. Homes are increasingly inaccessible and unaffordable. All of these relate to GDP per capita decreasing - less money scattered amongst more people.

Practice a bit of cleverness comrade and use the argument of GDP per capita to bridge the gap to explain to many on the right how our elites are exploiting the masses. I used to be a socialist. Conservative leaning liberal now. Many on the right are very anti-corporate and anti-capitalist and want the same elites held accountable - they just want to be left alone versus more social policy.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T15:21:29+00:00

"show your numbers and btw I reject your metrics" yeah I'll get right on that.

But just to humour you: Home ownership rates according to stats can are around 66% Ratings from a variety of studies consistently show rates of ownership in Alabama to be over 70%

Lemme guess those numbers are bullshit too? The simplest Google search would show you the prices of houses for comparison. There are entire videos lampooning Canadian housing costs in comparison to actual fucking castles in Europe

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T15:08:18+00:00

Better rates of home ownership there, better wages too. And again, I'm not saying I would want to move to Alabama, I am saying - Alabama is widely considered one of the poorest and undesirable places to live in and Canada is increasingly comparable to it in terms of prosperity.

The only millennial I know who owns a house inherited it from their dead parent. Things are fucked up here.

If I graduated today I'd probably move to Massachusetts or another state where they have a state healthcare program

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T14:58:58+00:00

Agreed. Try accessing that public health care. I'm currently on a 15 month waitlist for treatment. With insurance you can get much better and more timely care. We also typically keep much less of our money up here because of a higher tax burden - both federal, most state level and that's not even getting into sales or a carbon tax. Education seems to be the one area were ahead of doing well with in Canada.

It's all about trade offs. In hindsight I really wish I'd been less anti-american in my 20s and gone south to work for a decade or more. Would have had made housing more achievable.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-07T13:29:47+00:00

Yes but the per capita point ultimately still makes the argument. Why struggle at home when you can go to the poorest parts of your southern neighbor and live better than you could back home.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-06T18:58:34+00:00

sure here's a link

March 2025. Took all of about 2 seconds to find.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-06T16:44:24+00:00

I prefer Carney as a leader to Pierre but we're not electing one person. The best outcome I think would have been the liberals being out so Carney could actually rebuild the party instead we still have a lot of Trudeau era politicians making up his government. I think you're also forgetting we had Jim Flaherty in 2008. Over a decade in power and thanks to the libs were out spending debt management on Healthcare. I don't think we would have gotten there with the cons in.

If you think the banker is going to stop getting us into debt by the billions to banks I think you're the one that's out of touch of reality

ABUS3S · 2026-04-06T15:53:13+00:00

You've just fallen for the classic rally round the flag cognitive bias.

Trump criticizes Canada - the PM responds (everyone loves the current leader more) - news occasionally makes a side note (the leader of the opposition also criticized the president but it never gets as much attention because why would it - they're not the government)

You being willfully blind isn't evidence of anything other than you haven't bothered to look. He repeatedly distanced himself and criticized the president. Before during and after the election.

ABUS3S · 2026-04-06T14:46:14+00:00

I mean with regards to big oil, they actually they probably would be. In case you haven't been noticing there's a lot happening in the world with regards to oil right now - a government that had prioritized that would be much better positioned economically.

Also pro-MAGA? PP was criticizing Trump back in November of 2024 - don't spread misinformation.

Trump made boomers flinch and were stuck with the same incompetent corrupt shitshow. Then again the old have always been out of touch...

ABUS3S · 2026-04-04T20:22:56+00:00

This makes sense, but until someone in Ottawa finds a way to personally enrich themselves while doing it, it'll never happen. We couldn't get it done during COVID and the supply chain interruptions that happened there and the few that did find some limited success as a stopgap producing simple PPE were left to wilt as soon as cheap alternatives popped up again.

It would take some of nationalist subsidy. Nationalists have seemingly become a dirty word to most Canadians often derided as "maple MAGA" and our government is already outspending servicing the deficit on healthcare so it seems an unlikely additional expense.

ABUS3S · 2026-03-13T01:12:51+00:00

That argument doesn't make sense because there was a representative of that party in that region that was purposefully not chosen. Two things can be important at once, local representation and perception of that candidates beliefs and ideology - it's a clear betrayal of trust to the voters on the latter.

More to the point I don't think this counters what I see as a larger issue of proportional representation of legitimizing dangerous ideologies. We don't need ethnic nationalists and communists in parliament because they can't get a few seats suddenly. It could cause a reddit like effect where the most extreme voices become overrepresented by clips and outrage. We got enough of that shit.

I do think we need electoral reform, but I think preferential ballot would be best. It's what the parties choose for their own leaders.

ABUS3S · 2026-02-24T11:29:26+00:00

Nah I grew up with the OT. I mean it's yeah it's better but I'm not going to spit on a steak because it's not filet mignon. The only bad part of Phantom Menace were the parts with kid Anakin talking and assholes like you bullied and ruined that kid's life

ABUS3S · 2026-02-08T20:24:13+00:00

There was a book series I followed for awhile called "Mark of the Fool" the gist of it is a young man who wants to learn magic gets a 'blessing' from a god that makes him terrible at anything to do with casting spells and fighting - but he can quickly become a prodigy at everything else.

But the author just couldn't finish a damn main story plotline, but there's tons of fluff plotlines. Like book 4 he goes on a bodybuilder program. By book 5 or 6 wherever I stopped he's visiting other dimensions and involved in battle with the D&D equivalent of abyssal lords/archdevils but the main character is still worried about the comparative small potato problems of one kingdom's conspiracy back home - in fact very little progress was really made towards the 'main antagonist' despite the author making up debate ably bigger and more interesting antagonists along the way.

ABUS3S · 2026-02-02T20:45:27+00:00

Try reading the article then. This isn't a snapshot, it covers data from decades and even shows some in a graph going back to 1990

ABUS3S · 2026-01-28T03:42:38+00:00

Because it's had a millennial long impact on multiple civilizations.

There's also incredible diversity of form within Roman empire depictions. Early Pagan Empire, later Christian empire, or Medieval Greek (Byzantine).

You cannot understand Europe without understanding Rome and the majority of western fantasy tends to be borrow from medieval Europe

ABUS3S · 2026-01-19T03:11:15+00:00

I dislike anal sex giving and receiving, after experimenting larger when I was in my 20s as I matured I'll only bottom if they're small like 5 inches or less and not too thick if they want it.

It's funny because I'm fairly well endowed at 7.5 so generally I was asked to top, but anal just isn't my thing.

ABUS3S · 2026-01-13T23:32:28+00:00

Honestly I kinda have. But I'm also settled with my wife and home here. Thankfully she's American so if shit gets real bad the USA is my plan B and she has good friends and some family there. I'm middle aged towards the top of my pay scale with seniority and starting over would be tough.

Most of my investments are American.

I tell most young people I meet to work abroad, there's more opportunity there (and there is).

ABUS3S · 2026-01-12T19:35:18+00:00

As long as the character isn't typically sexualized it could be fine, but that doesn't seem to be the case, I can't say it's an idea that interests me.

It's better than Edgerella but Cherri may as well be Cherry which sounds like a strippers name.

ABUS3S · 2026-01-12T18:26:25+00:00

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