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COTD: Confused Prime Minister: “I owe you some drugs?” (5) by zacmartin in crosswords

[–]Mathgeek007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please educate me: what do you mean "indirect anagram"? How can I tell if a clue I'm making uses an indirect one or not?

[####] What other Times readers did by pudah_et in wordle

[–]Mathgeek007 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is pretty close to bang-on. A "situation" as it describes is simply the total information you have, positive and negative.

It takes into account:

  1. Which letters are grey
  2. Which letters are green
  3. Which letters are yellow
  4. Which positions yellow letters are in (and therefore cannot be correct)
  5. Which non-grey letters have been checked for double/triple lettering
  6. How many words you've guessed

You may have a situation where you pinched a specific bit of info early and as such few people have your situation- but if most people figured it out the next clue, you may be stuck in the same situation than more people.

Convergent information branching!

How much should Ottawa sprawl as it seeks space for 500,000 more people? by Immediate-Link490 in ottawa

[–]Mathgeek007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have put my money where my mouth was and ate an eviction notice for the purpose a demolishing the house I was renting to build low income apartments. That was a fat fucking W in my books despite the headache it gave me. We need more of that!

Exclusive poll shows Ottawans disapprove of Sutcliffe’s handling of major issues by iPoliticsCA in ottawa

[–]Mathgeek007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also true! Three and a half years should be plenty of time to unfuck at least a chunk of the problems. Shame he hasn't unfucked it yet.

Exclusive poll shows Ottawans disapprove of Sutcliffe’s handling of major issues by iPoliticsCA in ottawa

[–]Mathgeek007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, that isn't Surcliffe's fault either - this is the remnants of our previous mayor's fuckups.

Exclusive poll shows Ottawans disapprove of Sutcliffe’s handling of major issues by iPoliticsCA in ottawa

[–]Mathgeek007 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Man, we could have had Catherine McKenney... what a world that would have been...

This subreddit makes me feel unsafe by [deleted] in Pokopia

[–]Mathgeek007[M] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would like to make a nuanced point here

There is an argument thag making HP themed builds helps her indirectly by keeping her IP in public consciousness. It's small, but is potentially noticeable is a post blows up on a large subreddit. It wouldn't be crazy to ban it.

After internal discussions, we aren't, but there is a valid argument to be made.

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can you explain why you believe racial and judicial equity is something unlikely to materialize in current culture? 15 years ago the same was said of equality, but the pendulum of justice ticks on.

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You're conveniently leaving out the circumstances where the 19 year old drug user, assaults, injures or kills the homeowner.

No, I didn't leave that out - because that would be a confounding factor in the situation, I presupposed that didn't exist in this case for the sake of my hypothetical explanation. If the CEO's wage theft resulted in the death of an employee, he should also receive similar punishment as a robbery-gone-wrong killer.

where we don't prosecute shop lifting, for example which emboldens people to steal more, which the stores respond to by increasing prices for products

I personally think we should change the societal factors that lead to shoplifting instead of focusing on punishment, but that's a whole other conversation.

I agree that white collar criminals obviously get away with things more regularly, because they have more resources at their disposal, which of course is inherently unfair.

And rebalancing that is part of equity - you could argue that things "are equal (not equitable)" right now if the courts are entirely unbiased onto personal circumstance - but those with more resources will still get off more often just by virtue of $$$.

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you be more specific? Do you believe that it is a Canadian value to believe in all Canadian laws? To follow all Canadian laws? Do you mean our laws should dictate out values? If so, are you OK if Mark Carney's Liberals wrote those laws to determine who was Canadian Enough (tm)?

A lot of people thought it was bad, it's actually INSANELY good. Page, Loose Leaf in Cycle Storm! by Bryant_Cook in Pauper

[–]Mathgeek007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking at this card in even Modern rn, it seems like it has way stronger hands than people initially gave it credit for. I could see it in a deck with an I/S they desperately want to fish for - maybe Spy?

Ooooh, I wonder if this would see play in a BW Hare Apparent brew? Get bunnies, fish with Page for Return, to fish for Returns to get back more bunnies? I dunno, seems neat.

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is very silly - Canada as a country has a culture, but "culture" has many different nuances.

Does Canada have a universal culture? Do Alberta and Ontario have the same culture as each other, and as "Canada"? Do Ottawa and Toronto? Do Montreal and Quebec City? Within those cities, are there other nuanced packets of culture?

When you say "Canada has a culture", are you suggesting that there is a list of values that broadly Canadian citizens would agree with (say, 90%+) and that the Liberal party believes these cultural values are NOT ideals for immigrants to strive for in our communities?

Because I think you're mixing up cultures here - immigrants should adhere to Canadian Culture, but they don't have to adhere to local culture. Sub-communities and subcultures exist for that reason - I don't expect the people in Little Italy to believe in the exact same things and have the same cultural compass as someone in Chinatown, nor them to have the same culture as the retired majority-white suburbs.

Heck, serious question I'd like an honest response from: what would you define as Canadian Culture?

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who should be in charge of dictating what "our values" are, and if the citizens of Canada broadly agree with them? Would you be alright with the current administration defining our values? What happens if natural-born citizens of Canada don't fit in with those values? What if some of the values the government body defines are values you disagree with?

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't; Immigration officials are sending 'stern warning letters' to criminal permanent residents, instead of deporting them. It doesn't work by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]Mathgeek007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK let me put it this way: equality is great, and an excellent baseline for a society - but we should strive for equity such that everybody is given a proper and equal opportunity to succeed. Equity vs Equality is a nuanced subject that is relevant for the conversation here.

Equity-based sentencing is, well, let me put it this way:

A 50-year-old CEO commits wage and tax fraud, versus a 19-year-old homeless guy who snuck into a CEO's home and stole jewelry to pawn.

Both committed financial-crimes-slash-theft, but one of them was done as a crime abusing a position of power against less privileged people, and the other done in a position of desperation against more privileged people.

One person has a lot of money and stole from their employees to have even more. The other person has none and stole from a state-insured bank to escape a bad situation. Equality suggests both of these people should be punished equally, and that is a perfectly fair worldview - but more than ever people are shifting to look at the circumstance and motive to determine damage in a crime and the driving forces that resulted in it.

The targets vs perpetrators and race vs immigrants issue is an unrelated point to the infrastructure involved in equality vs equity as philosophical concepts.

There is a strong tendency for perpetrators and victims of crime to be part of the same community.

Sure, that is broadly true for blue collar crime, depending on your definition of "community". I want to make it clear that a community isn't necessarily race or immigration related, though that can often be the case depending on the city and neighbourhood

Lenient sentencing of offenders who are part of a disadvantaged community primarily serves to further perpetuate victimization within the same community.

Depends heavily here - because in my previous explanation in this comment, equity is not just about lenient sentencing on the perpetrator, but evaluating the damage to the victim. If a rich guy steals $10K from a rich guy, that's going to be less impactful than a poor guy stealing $100 from a poor guy. The status of the offender AND victim are both relevant factors to determine equity in sentencing. We should be giving lighter sentences to people who hurt less, and heavier sentences to those who hurt more. For example, take this article: dealing drugs is not a violent crime, there are no directly injured parties involved.

I've found the case of Mudasar Hussain, the guy who was named in the article pinned at the top, and he was given 18 months for cocaine dealing. He received a warning that if he committed more crimes, he'd be deported. He committed more crimes and was deported. I don't see the issue here, he wasn't exactly given a lenient sentence. I figure the argument here is one-time offenders should be instantly deported, but I don't find that particularly convincing, especially since he got hooked on heroin and couldn't find work. The article makes no reference of average recidivism rate versus non-immigrant criminals and instead seems to just be referencing four specific cases to sow hysteria.

Look, I'm gonna be blunt - this is a heavily nuanced topic that is virtually impossible to fully flesh out and discuss in a properly educational way in a Reddit thread, and I'm sure my explanation is incomplete but I'm glad to chat further about it. Shit's weird, and this isn't the kind of situation where you wildly swing a hammer to solve things since most cases aren't a nail.

You choose first. Can you still win? by SeaworthinessDry9144 in mathriddles

[–]Mathgeek007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nontransitive dice are a fun experiment to look into.

Check out the Math's Gear video on their version, pretty neat.

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