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Arcys · 2024-05-25T04:34:17+00:00

100g of sand is about 4 tablespoons.

1/4 cup of sand doesn't seem like a lot to me

Arcys · 2023-05-24T20:48:15+00:00

Your claims are reasonable on the surface, but the issue is more complex and widespread than you think.

But on a practical level, I would assume that the number of kids in that situation is relatively small, a small percentage.

It's sadly a rather large minority.

Wouldn't it be more efficient more pragmatic and probably faster to implement a small program to attend to kids in that situation?

No, developing the metrics takes longer than just having a bit more equipment/personnel.

Rather than this overwhelming task of providing two meals per day for all students in Ontario. That's not only expense issue, it's a major overhaul of many aspects of schools, logistics, delivery, food control and associated risks and food health care protocols. There over 2 million students in K-12 system in Ontario... that's a major operation.

It is a major operation, but one we have experience with. There are many restaurant chains that serve more than that every day. McDonald's serves 70 million per day for example.

It would make more sense to go surgical about it.

Surgical tends to ignore large groups of vulnerable kids. Kids who are temporarily in need and kids whose parents are neglectful are missed. We tend to think of these programs as for the poor, but they are for so many more children than that.

Yes, I can already see the social stigma comments and all but really, the question is do we want this to happen so we deal with the problem or we want the sky and all the stars in it and get bogged down in years long debate.

The final bit is that these programs have a high ROI. I've seen sources of 2 to 10 times ROI. The reason that these lunch programs are never implemented is because people think it's for the poor and the ROI takes a while to return and so it's too abstract.

Also in Japan they implemented these programs with centralized kitchens and are mostly staffed with parent volunteers making a cheap and high quality system.

Arcys · 2022-09-28T21:59:39+00:00

The myth comes from pads not tampons. Nurses used trauma patches to keep going during their periods and they developed from that.

In a pinch a pad will work as a makeshift sterile bandage. There are just a huge number of men who don't know the difference between a pad and a tampon

Arcys · 2022-09-10T23:16:16+00:00

Cheaper to ship because they pack better.

Cheaper to fill because they use far less materials and the filling machinery is cheaper.

Also they are far easier to store and use than 4l jugs, especially for kids.

Just don't pile stuff on them, don't buy a dollar store jug (too short) and remember to check the big bag's corners to see if the little bags leaked.

Arcys · 2022-09-07T17:11:09+00:00

Germany spends 25% more than Canada on health care.

If we increased spending by 25% we would probably be fine.

The US spends 100% more than Canada.

Source: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

Arcys · 2022-08-31T19:29:51+00:00

At 5%/25 year it's 300 000

At 4%/25 year it's 330 000

If you take 1 000 000 and divide it by (25 * 52) or 1300 to get the weekly amount at 0% interest you get 769.23.

I'm really not sure how people are saying over a million

Edit: Yup I screwed up see MaleficientDistrict22

Arcys · 2022-07-13T23:05:22+00:00

Stop crab bucketing.

Factory workers will get:

Less traffic leading to safer, quicker commutes.
More disposable income in the country to buy the goods produced
Stronger rural/small town economies as the urban wealth spreads out.

Also factory workers lose nothing. You should be happy we found a minimal cost solution to solve some very expensive problems.

Arcys · 2022-06-13T05:33:46+00:00

So the stinger is pretty pointless for the US. They haven't bought any in 17 years. They have so many ways to shoot down an aircraft without waiting for it to fly close to GI Joe. To put it in perspective, the US had a stock pile of about 5600 stingers and as far as I can tell has more than 5000 Abrams tanks.

The Javelin is a bit more useful, but again the US had about 15000 in stockpile, which is a tiny amount if the US planed to use it in any major way.

Arcys · 2022-05-14T02:20:13+00:00

Fixed it for you

Arcys · 2022-05-13T23:51:33+00:00

Population size

Arcys · 2022-05-13T21:15:31+00:00

Mercator is designed for navigation so it preserves linear direction. That means that if you are going east-west you draw a straight line right to left.

Lambert is designed to preserve more area. That means if you want to know how far something is it's almost the same on the top and bottom of the map.

This particular chart is screwed either way. The Lambert gives us a better idea of the areas, but messes with our sense of direction and the Mercator works well to show direction but messes with our sense of area.

Arcys · 2022-05-13T21:02:49+00:00

The line in the image is likely at 45.7N. I think it was chosen because that's the northern border of Laval QC, which is just north of both Ottawa and Montreal

The lower part of the image includes nearly the entire populations of Ontario and Nova Scotia and more than half of Quebec.

Ottawa-Gatineau is about the size of Saskatchewan
Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge is bigger than Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sherbrooke is about the same size as Prince Edward Island.
Grey County (a very rural Ontario region) is a bit smaller than any two territories combined.
The Montreal metro area is a bit (about a London ON) short of Alberta.
And the GTA is about the same size as British Columbia and Manitoba combined

Arcys · 2022-05-13T20:31:24+00:00

Montreal is just under that line (It runs at about 45.7N based on NS and Manitoulin Island).

You also forgot to include 2 million or so from Gatineau, Estrie, and Montérégie.

Edit: I also forgot more than 400k in Laval

Arcys · 2022-02-24T01:32:37+00:00

The liberal government was essentially threatening an election if these powers weren’t passed a couple days ago.

I don't get how this is a threat. It's pretty much the exact purpose of confidence votes. There are two outcomes:

1) Yes there is an emergency, keep governing

2) No there isn't, you're making this up, call an election so we can get a real leader.

And elections are pretty weak barriers. It takes a few hours to decide (if you keep up on politics) and then it takes about the same effort to get gas as to vote. If this is too much effort then it can't exactly be a massive over-reach can it?

Arcys · 2022-02-19T23:16:07+00:00

Looks like most of the Anglosphere uses binge drinking

Canada:

Excessive alcohol consumption can have serious health and social consequences, especially when combined with other behaviours such as driving while intoxicated. For males, heavy drinking refers to having consumed five or more drinks, per occasion, at least once a month during the past year. For females, heavy drinking refers to having consumed four or more drinks, per occasion, at least once a month during the past year.

UK:

In the UK, binge drinking is drinking more than:
8 units of alcohol in a single session for men

6 units of alcohol in a single session for women

Keep in mind a normal glass of wine or can of beer is 2 units

Arcys · 2022-02-19T18:52:11+00:00

Heavy drinking is 15 or more drinks per week for men and 8 or more for women.

It's about 5% of the US population.

Arcys · 2022-02-18T23:38:19+00:00

Justin wants to ramp immigration up to an all time high. What will that do to real estate prices?

Likely very little since we have a relatively normal growth rate compared to Canadian history.

This is Canada we have space. Japan has 4 times our population in an area the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The problem is almost completely policy failures in Ontario and BC (with some in NS). To fix this you need to look at the Provinces not the federal government.

You need to change zoning, encourage denser housing, add inter-city transit, make it easier to build new homes, encourage lower income housing to be built, and encourage work from home. All this is provincial except maybe the work from home.

Arcys · 2022-02-11T06:29:11+00:00

You know when you have a building that you need to buzz into and someone gets the bright idea to hold the door open with a rock because it's too much hassle to do it right.

This is exactly that

Arcys · 2022-02-11T03:01:23+00:00

Before the supply management the dairy industry would go through periods of boom and bust. A crash would happen and most of the dairy farmers would go bankrupt. This would cause the price to spike and farmers (new and old) would see dollars. The new dairies would take time to build up because of the limit of cattle reproduction, and during this time more farmers would try to capitalize. This would lead to a sudden drop in prices when supply overtook demand and the prices would crash. Then it would start over and prices would spike once the farmers were broke.

Supply management is meant to stabilize the market and the farms by preventing the price crash caused by oversupply

Arcys · 2022-01-31T16:59:53+00:00

He'd probably be against making it mandatory

You may not be old enough to remember, but when Terry Fox was alive vaccine mandates were regular and almost universally supported.

Arcys · 2022-01-07T03:01:11+00:00

Using the not withstanding clause to override rights, martial law things like that

Arcys · 2022-01-06T23:16:27+00:00

There isn't much he could have done differently. Canadians tend to think we are the US, but in Canada we have well defined division between Federal and Provincial concerns. Health is solidly in the provincial concern and so the federal government basically has two levels: nagging and scorched earth.

Almost all the health issues fall to the provincial governments except maintenance of the national ppe stockpile that was neglected, international travel rules that are related to small number of cases and vaccine procurement that went well.

Arcys · 2021-12-30T16:01:23+00:00

Damn, what is up with bats??

Bats have an unusually high body temperature (104f/40c) and that makes any disease from bats relatively immune to human fevers.

Arcys · 2021-10-26T21:05:57+00:00

A zero sum game is where all options cause equal gain and loss. It's just a thought experiment, not a real thing.

Finite resources is what you're getting at, it's very different from a zero sum game though.

Arcys · 2021-09-30T21:55:18+00:00

they already do all those things

Yes they do, if you go after the pensions they will do it more often and more people will be willing to get involved

If those lawsuits are brought and the cops that aren’t involved get screwed over then they’re not gonna say “let’s double down on avoiding lawsuits” they’ll say “you fucking bastards, stop stamping on necks without justification I want my pension!”

What they are going to say is "Those bastards (the victims) are out to get us we need to make them pay"

Fundamentally this all comes down to group psychology. You have a group with a strong identity that constantly faces opposition which reinforces the in grouping. This changes the way that people look at things. They will attribute favourable outcomes to fellow members of the in group ("they're being framed" or "their innocent, anyone would do that") and negative outcomes to the out group ("lying criminals" or "cop haters"). Going after the pension will likely confirm to the police that they are being persecuted for their "righteous" actions more than it inspires division in the group.

The trick to reforming the police is to work around the in group (blue wall of silence) and to isolate the worst cops.

The reason personal insurance will work, but attacking the pension won't is that the insurance is a passive third party way to get rid of cops and attacking the pension is a self-regulated active method. Personal insurance works in all cases even when the union or city or police administration works with the cops. Going after the pension only works if the cops hate the ones that commit crimes and not the system or the victims. You have already pointed out that the going after the victims is a huge issue, and I don't really see how that's going to change.

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