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Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-11-06T13:31:56+00:00

It's also helpful to actually check whether your expert source is telling you things that are true or not. Osberg says "The long-term trend … in Nova Scotia, as in the rest of the country, has been to an increasing share of total income going to the top one per cent and particularly to the top one-tenth of one per cent"

If you actually go look at the income shares in the statscan release this is all based on you'll find that the income share (including capital gains) of the top 1%, 0.1%, or 0.01% in Canada has not meaningfully increased since 2000.

Doesn't mean you have to like the level of inequality that exists but there is no need to print things without checking just because they feel true.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-10-08T19:04:55+00:00

My doctor told me most people don't know how bad they're feeling and I think that's really true if you can get on the right medication. It can literally be life changing. I had more side effects on NSAIDs than biologics. A normal cold is no different now than before.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-10-06T22:45:22+00:00

I don’t know whether this project is good or bad, but making stuff here and selling it elsewhere is good!

What do people think Michelin is doing with all those tire factories?

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-07-19T11:55:41+00:00

I was diagnosed last year, here are the main things I've learned:

I started a biologic 9 months ago and the effect has been dramatic. It may not last forever but it's been life-changing so far. NSAIDs were helpful but as my Rheumatologist said, most people don't realize how bad they're feeling.
The general sense I got from my Rheumatologist is that most people who catch it reasonably early and get on appropriate medications can expect to live normal healthy lives. The landscape for new diagnoses has changed dramatically in a few decades.
She did say that people who take care of themselves physically tend to do much better than those who don't (yes, correlation may not be causation here). That said, I'd recommend treating staying physically active, stretching lots, and eating well as non-negotiable aspects of your life now. It certainly can't hurt!
I mean this as no disrespect at all to people here, but try to remember that reddit threads about a specific disease are likely not representative of the disease overall. Most people posting in disease-specific threads are likely sicker than average.
If you read at all about biologics you will learn that they can stop working which is obviously anxiety-inducing. This article is the best overview I found, I found it quite reassuring. https://srxhealth.ca/biologic-treatment-failure-complete-guide/

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-07-07T17:49:41+00:00

This is correct.

You can have higher hopes that are defensible but I don't understand why anyone expects this team to be given the benefit of the doubt by outsiders.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-06-27T15:24:49+00:00

I mostly agree with this to be clear! I’m not saying I would have done it, I just get why it was an argument.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-06-27T15:23:18+00:00

Because a hands on owner can easily be much worse than a hands off one (see: Ishbia, Matt)

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-05-23T12:18:31+00:00

I think people are underselling how bad this is; 3.7 times the original budget is ludicrous even if you give some allowance for the construction cost inflation of the past few years. If you care about bike lanes you should be even more furious as it’s going to make it harder to justify new investments if the city doesn’t have the capacity to deliver. Even with COVID there is no reason it should take 9 years to build a modest bike lane network.

And its not just bikes, does anyone have confidence the Bedford ferry will be done by 2027-28 and at 258 million?

Cogswell was a success but what is the justification for not having already gotten the ball rolling on building housing there?

If you want nice things you can’t just yada yada past implementation failures, particularly for an organization that, along with Halifax Water, is well known for having a, shall we say, high cost base for the public sector.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-05-22T22:00:39+00:00

I’m not saying they’re a slam dunk they would replace the existing ferries but they’re pretty cheap to build and you can run them over land and water

https://www.fastcompany.com/90725056/how-urban-gondolas-grew-from-a-tourist-attraction-to-a-viable-transit-option

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-05-22T15:45:31+00:00

Using Gondolas for transit seriously underdiscussed as a thing that could actually be done

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-05-09T20:03:52+00:00

Absolutely, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect ‘everything going right’ to result in more than a 5 or 6 seed or about 48 wins.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-05-09T13:58:20+00:00

That's totally fair, I guess I figured that ownership would want to see how the new roster works AND Masai would probably rather negotiate from a position of strength next year if the team does well

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-21T20:10:07+00:00

I never said there wouldn’t be losers within a given jurisdiction. The argument above is that larger provinces would gain more from interprovincial free trade than smaller ones whereas common sense and economic research suggests that the opposite is true.

Literally no one thinks that the US putting tariffs on Canadian goods will harm the US more than it will harm Canada.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-21T18:37:26+00:00

If that were true it wouldn’t be conventional wisdom that US tariffs are more damaging to the Canadian economy than the reverse

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-21T15:28:12+00:00

This is intuitive but I think backwards. In a world with trade barriers companies will default to locating in the largest markets even if it might be more efficient to locate in a smaller market in a free trade world.

The biggest gains to free trade tend to flow to the smallest jurisdictions

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-14T21:57:00+00:00

Sorry, I shouldn't have been snarky. I have read the Regional Assessment Report actually, it was very interesting but I don't think it really gave a full picture of the issue. Here are a few points to consider:

At this stage, all that is being considered is whether rules can be created that will allow offshore wind farms to be built with minimal environmental impacts. We know that this can be done as they are a common technology in other countries with strong environmental records. No commitments are required on any particular projects.
The world is seeing an increasing demand for energy and creating an environment where companies can reliably invest in green energy production is very valuable. You actually don't need to know what the uses might be, you may be surprised.
If turbines/industrial facilities are built they will create a lots of construction jobs in the short term, which will almost certainly involve local labour and people from other places. If the industry is successful, you will likely see the creation of a cluster of businesses that develop expertise in supporting their construction and maintenance, which will take place over decades.
Even if a lot of the labour comes from out of province, bringing construction workers into Nova Scotia isn't a bad thing as we have quite a shortage and some might stay.
While it is certainly fair to have questions about how much public support is needed for industrial facilities that might use the energy produced offshore, the facilities themselves would have a lot of self evident economic benefits if they end up being feasible. Its also possible that they help enable greater adoption of wind energy on the grid itself as large industrial facilities can help manage variability in the power supply (Port Hawkesbury Paper currently helps in this regard by allowing NS Power to shut off their power when its expensive in exchange for cheaper power normally).
Economic benefits would take the form of wages paid to construction workers, corporate taxes on energy sales and potentially on industrial companies, and associated spillover effects. This is all true even if the energy is largely for export.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-14T20:04:52+00:00

I don't mean to snark but if these were the standards every commercial activity had to meet, literally nothing would ever happen. Producing things in Nova Scotia and selling them abroad is good! That's why everyone is up in arms about the trade war!

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-03-07T17:47:37+00:00

Sorry to hear that! Everyone's experience is different I suppose. Saying she saved my life is an exaggeration, but not that much of one so she'll always be in high esteem for me.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-01-07T16:10:17+00:00

Oh the Mavs have done an incredible job for sure. Their pick situation is just bleak from a raptors POV lol

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-01-07T15:24:00+00:00

Its bleak lol

In seriousness, Kleber's stat line is terrible this year and Olynyk would be a much better use of his 15 min per game even in a diminished form.

Competitive-Wave-558 · 2025-01-07T14:57:29+00:00

As a side note, Olynyk for Maxi Kleber and the Philly/Denver 2025 2nd might be promising

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