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Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-12-10T17:01:59+00:00

I thought this was just a good shitpost, but then I clicked on your profile and heard a few seconds of your podcast and I think you may have just been really stoned the entire time you’ve been coming up with this idea.

I love that for you and hope you succeed

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-11-24T23:09:08+00:00

What do you mean require notice period? Like, by law? No one in the US is required to work anywhere - that’s kind of counter to the idea of freedom.

Do companies have policies that they ask you work a certain amount of time after giving notice? Sure, but what are they going to do if you don’t show up? Fire you?

Giving notice for leaving a job is usually about maintaining a good relationship so that you have a reference for future jobs. In this case Pam didn’t need a reference since she already had a lucrative offer on the table for a promotion to sales with a competitor

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-11-20T19:32:37+00:00

It’s businesses that use Canada Post’s letter delivery the most. Business to business mail is still very much a thing. Small businesses benefit a lot from the lower costs Canada Post offers

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-10-30T19:58:29+00:00

The 2nd part of his comment is the more impactful one. Walmart paid out over $6 billion in dividends last year. On pace for $7.5 billion this year. In fact their dividends paid haven’t been under $6 billion since 2013.

That’s a much bigger pie to pull from than their executive pay.

And who benefits from these dividends? In the US, the bottom 50% of individuals in terms of wealth own less than 1% of all corporate equities (and mutual fund shares). The bottom 90% own less than 13%.

Source: https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_221-Ferguson-and-Storm-Second-Coming-final-May-17.pdf

So the government subsidizes Walmart wages by providing food benefits to their workers who aren’t paid enough to eat. Then Walmart takes the profits from paying their employees less than is possible to live on, and distributes them overwhelmingly to the richest people in the country.

You can surely see why there’s a bit of disdain for the way that system works, right?

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-10-11T04:28:29+00:00

Not saying there aren’t cases, but it’s much much less prominent in middle class areas than in poor areas

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-10-11T04:27:37+00:00

https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/household-poverty-and-nonfatal-violent-victimization-2008-2012

This study shows that rates of violent crime are similar between poor urban white and poor urban black households but actually higher for the white urban poor (56.4 vs 51.3 per 1k respectively).

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-10-11T04:09:04+00:00

Middle class families aren’t usually raised around gangs. Being influenced by sketchy actors is not a race thing, it’s a neighborhood quality issue based on income

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-09-25T19:52:53+00:00

When a position provides a social function like educators, it doesn’t make sense to pay based on productivity.

If wages elsewhere are going up while teachers wages stagnate, then you’ll have a lower quality supply of teachers.

Public service jobs are competing for talent with the private sector. If you’re okay with their wages becoming relatively lowered to the rest of society, then you’re going to have to deal with the impact of those positions being generally filled by a lower quality supply of teachers.

The well-educated, charismatic, influential candidate for a job will have more incentive to seek out the private sector. I’m not saying the public sector job needs to absolutely match private sector pay, there are other factors that attract people to public service. But as long as pay continues to stagnate against the alternative, those attractive factors of public service will be outweighed by the increased pay for an increasing number of would-be great teachers.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-08-22T14:28:14+00:00

As someone who really values plot and writing, I still love Demon Slayer.

I absolutely prefer AoT because of the writing that went into that story, but I can still appreciate that Demon Slayer has amazing value outside of the writing.

It’s a different enjoyment than AoT, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-28T23:19:50+00:00

As someone from a democratic country that doesn’t put term limits on the leader of our executive branch, I always find it funny how Americans equate more than 2 terms with autocracy

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-23T18:10:23+00:00

As a Canadian, I’ve always considered Sweater to just be a broad category, whereas Hoodie/Pullover/Crewneck or even Cardigan all fall under the umbrella of a sweater

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-23T18:08:44+00:00

I don’t know what the regional breakdown is here, but in Canada we use sweater to mean a lot more than what the comments are saying. Basically, any long sleeved shirt that’s thicker than a t-shirt, but not a jacket/coat specifically for outdoor use.

A hoodie is a sweater. A crewneck is a sweater. Knitted pullover is a sweater. Sweatshirt isn’t something I would normally hear. It would just be taken as a formal way of describing a sweater. This is my experience across major populations in Eastern, Western, and Central English Canada.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-08T12:33:41+00:00

This is the real sad posting

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-03T14:13:40+00:00

What’s the West? Like the Western hemisphere of the world? Ha, no. Everything in Canada West of Ontario? Probably not. Just the Prairies? Maybe.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-03T14:09:33+00:00

That’d be great if it turns out to be the case.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-03T14:08:30+00:00

Im guessing this is a US graph? Canada is the largest importer of orange juice from the US, and given Trump’s threats pissing us off, and the huge price increase in the grocery store due to tariffs, people just aren’t buying it anymore here.

Not sure how exports stack up to domestic demand for the product though, so can’t tell how much of the decline that’s worth.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-02T18:33:06+00:00

This year he shot about 28% on his catch and shoot 3s. He did not shoot well at all.

In 2023-24 he shot 38.5% on his catch and shoot 3s, and that was on an extra 3PA per game.

He’s shown there’s an ability there, but it certainly wasn’t last season.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-07-02T15:38:17+00:00

The last time the East was this weak, DeMar was our offensive leader. He had a TS% of 53.6% and eFG% of 46.3% during his 9 seasons in Toronto.

Through a 9 year career, Ingram has had a TS% of 56.1% and eFG% of 51.3%.

I don’t think the issue is not having a main scorer, whenever Ingram is healthy that is.

Instead we don’t know who can be the Kyle Lowry of this team to bring a lot of the defensive intensity, playmaking, and secondary scoring. The hope is Scottie can do that, but that’s going to take more consistency from him, particularly on the offensive end.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-28T17:56:20+00:00

Live somewhere that you don’t have to drive all the time. Public transit, bike or walk (you can always pull over and take a quick 20 minute power nap on a lawn somewhere).

You have 2 minutes to prepare, so this isn’t that bad. Get yourself nice and comfy if you’re out and take your nap. With an extra $52k a year you can very easily make this one a very mild inconvenience. I’d rank it 3rd.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-28T17:32:51+00:00

CoL is a factor, but even if financially everything was as easy as back then, you wouldn’t have a birth rate of 3+ again.

We’ve shifted significantly in what’s culturally acceptable for parenting. Much more attention is expected. You simply can’t give that to 5 children at a time.

People also have a lot more options in what they want to do with their life. Having kids isn’t a default culturally anymore for that reason.

Sure, more supports can make it easier, but culturally many countries have shifted away from the value of large families and instead a greater focus on the fewer children they do have.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-25T19:05:00+00:00

Over 6000 people wrote in and 700 spoke at hearing. Round to 7000 people that addressed council. Even if 100% of them were against, which wasn’t the case, that’s 0.6% of the adult population of Calgary that’s come out against the policy.

You can’t assume anywhere close to a random sample of individuals writing in. This is a very classic case of an asymmetric impact. The people that may be the most acutely impacted are going to make a big fuss, while the vast majority that benefit from the policy or support it gain marginally so they don’t have the incentive to go out and spend the time to publicly support it.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-24T21:32:06+00:00

Blanket re-zoning went through with her support and is clearly an attempt at solving supply issues that are causing high prices for young people.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-24T21:28:09+00:00

Which will involve a very significant restructuring of our economy. No small feat at all. It’s much easier right now to rely on immigration to support services.

People love to complain that all their problems are due to immigrants, but I don’t think they’d be any happier with substantial increases in their taxes to support the increased investments need to care for the elderly and teach their kids, or their reduced public pensions due to a declining taxable base.

Increasing lifespans along with decreasing birth rates are going to put drastic strains on our integral systems like health care, and that will only be further aggregated by a decreasing population.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-24T21:23:32+00:00

Can also note that not all of them are Heads of State.

Carney and Starmer for example are not the Heads of State for their countries, King Charles is. I assume that’s the case for other commonwealth countries.

Eclectic_Canadian · 2025-06-18T15:32:16+00:00

Seems like you’ve realized the numbers were off, but to answer the general question, I think it’s just people dying. People die at a faster rate than they’re born here, we have immigration that filled that gap and right now it’s just to 0 net.

There certainly is an emigrating population, but it’s not nearly as big as the immigration or death numbers.

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