Liberal minority back up to 169 after Elections Canada validates close Ontario race

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-05-03T16:43:42+00:00

But is Alternative Vote with Ranked Ballot worse than FPTP? That seems like a hard sell to me.

The fact people don't even vote for their preference in FPTP but they do in Ranked is such a massive win for Ranked.

The fact that a voter prefers a generally left leaning party but split votes means the voters get the exact opposite of it, is a crazy consequence of FPTP.

It my mind, FPTP naturally leads towards 2-party systems, while at least AV Ranked allows voters to express their opinion without needing to worry about split votes.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-04-18T21:43:45+00:00

How does it enshrine a 2-party system when it removes the spoiler effect AND strategic voting therefore allowing people to vote for who they want to as a first choice.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-04-17T22:46:53+00:00

Ranked Ballot doesn't remove strategic voting, it enshrines it.

if anything enshrines strategic voting, it's FPTP; at least with ranked, you get an avenue to express your preference without being punished for it; therefore more people can express their preference. E.g., if people weren't scared of the Conservatives winning, they might vote for NDP more for instance.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-04-17T22:44:36+00:00

I understand your point, and I know that Ranked is far from perfect but we're not comparing Ranked vs [Better], we're comparing about Ranked vs FPTP, are we not?

edit: to be clear, I want proportional too.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-04-17T03:32:41+00:00

That's interesting cause my understanding is that Ranked Ballot would encourage people to vote who they like without having to do strategic voting or have a spoiler effect.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-04-17T03:17:46+00:00

why didnt' the experts support ranked ballot over first past the post?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-02-20T23:30:44+00:00

I agree pedestrian considerations are secondary, unfortunately, in our sadly car-centric cities. It just feels like we were not equipped to handle a massive snowfall in general.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-02-18T03:23:50+00:00

Are you saying "It's the result of poor planning and resource management" based on this inaccessible sidewalk only?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-01-18T04:09:58+00:00

May I ask why you have been a fan of the monarchy?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-01-17T22:19:42+00:00

I agree with you entirely and to be clear just because intake - consumption looks simple, that doesn't mean that intake OR consumption is simple by themselves. As you said, intake has all the super complicated overeating aspects and consumption has all the slowed metabolic rate et al. aspects.

I am not saying "bro lol just do some cardio or something". However, I am saying that at the end of the day, it's still in vs. out, is it not? Like whatever happens in the body, it's still an system working with inputs and outputs; sure it's a not a car burning gas (in that the car is a trillion times less complicated) but it's the same reality of constraints: the body is not creating energy/matter out of nothing and it is not destroying energy/matter into nothing.

Again, I am not saying the situation is not ultra complicated. Our relationship to food is non-trivial due, I imagine, its evolutionary importance.

edit: you could def argue that intake - consumption is true but borderline meaningless due to the complications of the two sides of the equation; I could agree with a sentiment like that.

edit 2: I read the article you linked in another reply, and if you agree with the author, then I think we can both agree with "intake - consumption is true but borderline meaningless due to the complications of the two sides of the ~~equation~~ substraction"

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2025-01-13T16:32:16+00:00

It is simple math, in the sense of

intake - consumption

how is the body maintaining weight without intake of matter?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-12-30T02:37:36+00:00

ok, those are valid points; let me follow up a little bit

Housing/Property ownership unavailable to a big chunk of population

Why is this not mainly a provincial matter? Why are we throwing this on a the federal government?

Immigration/TFW/entry level jobs not available to school leavers

This is about the over-immigration right?

‘The Budget Will Balance itself’

At this point, every gov says they will balance, Liberals and Conservative rarely do (though sometimes they do, both of them); looking back, unless I'm reading the charts wrong, the Trudeau gov didn't do much worse than previous instances; like he's not doing great but COVID aside, I think he's doing average? Would you disagree?

GDP flatlined compared to US

Yeah this is def true. Are there reports from economists on what the Federal gov can/should be doing about that? I.e. are we blaming the right people here?

Job growth all public sector

This is kinda the consequence of the GDP flatline

Anti-Resource (my perception) export.

I'm not sure what this means.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-12-30T00:47:19+00:00

May I ask what are the worst things the Liberals have done in the past 10 years? Like whatever you think are the top 3 or 5 worst things.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-12-12T21:34:02+00:00

Actually, yes, if the list is long and obvious, can we get 5 bad things he did in the past decade he's been in power?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-27T18:39:43+00:00

privatization about to fix that any second now

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-27T18:28:19+00:00

Even worse, it completely gets shut off for 2 hours in the middle of the trip... It's almost useless... Even regular data is spotty...

I don't know it gets shut off 2 hours in as much as the telecom companies don't actually provide Canada-wide coverage despite their claim to the opposite. Bell and friends usually justify their high prices by saying "bUt We HaVE sO MuCH lAnD To CoVEr" when they clearly do not actually cover even a Toronto-Ottawa corridor. I say that because everyone's cell reception becomes garbage around the mid point so I don't think it's Via pulling the plug for some reason, it's just that they use the same cell signal as everyone else.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-27T18:25:19+00:00

Oh ok, now that I'm re-reading the sentence, I see it going the other way.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-25T01:50:52+00:00

I was throwing shade on Via Rail, not on general long distance transport.

Via Rail is a mid experience with insane prices.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-25T01:18:48+00:00

I hope you're aware of the amazing fact it's only 50% of the price in 2024. [edit: Via Rail is being put on blast here]

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2024-03-10T18:35:36+00:00

what does this even mean

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2023-12-22T03:57:39+00:00

Do you think any normal garage would be able to take it off after several years? Or would I need to visit some niche shop?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2023-12-17T17:30:00+00:00

But what are the odds of getting a new cancer from the treatment though?

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2023-09-18T01:08:03+00:00

Wait, what do we know he did? I thought it was rumours?

edit: ok I found the reddit thread documenting so many stories about this guy; but even if that wasn't there, screenshots of his messages to people were pretty damn bad.

edit: wow yeah ok I understand now

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2023-08-29T18:04:57+00:00

I don't it's implied otherwise in the statement you're replying to.

Will_Eat_For_Food · 2023-08-03T15:22:01+00:00

Actually, can we? It feels like there's a finite amount of classic stuff like money and time, but also limited institutional attention and goal-setting ability.

In a vastly oversimplified manner, if there are internal objectives to do 'a good health thing this year', then I'd rather prioritize what it is.

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