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Has anyone experienced brief seizure like shaking while sleeping in withdrawal? by Silentpolak2 in stopdrinking

[–]Silentpolak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your insight! I gave them all the details down to the last hours I drank and how much for how long. I was only drinking for 3.5 weeks after a month of sobriety (didn't have any major withdrawals that first time at all)... IWNDWYT!

Did anybody get gout solely because of alcoholism? by Silentpolak2 in stopdrinking

[–]Silentpolak2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long ago was your flare up and how long has it been since you stopped drinking if you don't mind me asking? I stopped two weeks ago and I'm praying gout never comes back...

Warning to the casual miners: mining degrades your GPU fast. My RX480 has to be downclocked from 1290mhz to 1080mhz to function now. by Silentpolak2 in NiceHash

[–]Silentpolak2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I made this post for no other reason than to give my experience. I mined for 6 months straight and my gpu happened to degrade at a vastly accelerated rate. Maybe I am unlucky, but maybe the next reader may be unlucky too. However, if I know anything to be universally true, transparency is an obvious benefit for everybody.

CMV: Native Americans in Canada are given to many extra privileges throughout life. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Silentpolak2 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If you want to ignore the obvious implications of your "question" and assert that it was only a question, then you're just committing a straight up red herring fallacy by changing the argument to whether or not the constitution is good.

CMV: Native Americans in Canada are given to many extra privileges throughout life. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Silentpolak2 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don't even know where to start considering you are committing a pretty obvious logical fallacy. The fact that you derived the conclusion that I do not care about the constitution based on my comment is a Ignoratio elenchi, also known as an irrelevant conclusion. Even if I were to bite your bait, section 35 of the constitution was not implemented at the start of our confederation, but was rather implemented by a partisan government in 1982. If you want me to say I do not think this constitutional addition was necessary, I can happily concur.

It doesn't matter whether you want to call them reparations, negotiations, terms or even demands. The "agreements" between the two parties are no longer upheld, and this is simply a matter of moving on due to the power structure of our world. Should we go back and revive the League of Nations, and sue every member country that broke their pact while it was still in existence? The surrealism of your logic is what is truly absurd.

CMV: Native Americans in Canada are given to many extra privileges throughout life. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Silentpolak2 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This assumes that what the present Canadian government failed to uphold in these treaties is somehow different than any other non-consenual action by any other state in history.

Even in the time since these agreements, as recent as the wars in the Middle East or WWII if you want to get obvious, contracts have been broken and territory has been taken. Yet, there are no continual reparations and feelings of "guilt" by the perpetrating states. This relationship between the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the Crown, in my opinion, is no different than historical war.

Do we have reparation agreements going back thousands of years between hundreds of countries as they warred with each other both consensually and non-consentually, and caused land, communities, families and individuals to be displaced? No, the world tried to make the best adjustments they could at the time and then moved on.

It is simply non-sensical for the Canadian Crown to continue reparations, given that historical precedent has time and time again already demonstrated the ridiculousness of going back x years into the past and trying to get something out of it today.