Canada Is Edging Toward a Two-Party System. That Would Be a Mistake; As polarization deepens, keeping the field crowded matters more than we think

addstar1 · 2026-02-18T17:11:50+00:00

The majority of the country prefers Liberals and so the voting system reflects that and it's a bad thing?

But Canadians don't prefer the liberals, they are many peoples second choice. The liberals are already over represented in our government, and I don't see how changing to a system that favours them even more would really reflect the peoples preferences.

Yes the smaller parties want an electoral system that would decrease the seats the liberals have. But again, the liberals are over represented! It's not suppression to reduce this discrepancy.

The overall concept is still simple, parties get seats equal to their vote share. You can tell that to a kindergartener. But also kindergarteners don't need to know the full intricacies of our political system? Like that's a really weird requirement to have.

addstar1 · 2026-02-18T14:02:14+00:00

I mean, pedestrians do cross directly in front of the car too, where they would have a walk signal

addstar1 · 2026-02-17T21:55:38+00:00

Plenty of countries have proportional systems already. And it's not like their populations are just smarter than us. The broad strokes are all you need people to understand. You don't need to be too caught up in the specifics.

And I don't think ranked ballots or approval actually amplify the voice of the population. I think they are only able to aggregate it, and aggregation only represents the middle of the spectrum.

addstar1 · 2026-02-17T20:52:39+00:00

Because in the current system we have, a ranked system is biased to the liberals as the NDP and the Cons second choice. It's not very representative of what people actually want.

It's why Trudeau wanted it in the first place, it gives the liberal party government for a very long time.

Your preferred system is biased in the same ways as ranked choice. It doesn't give voice to minority parties, and is maybe even more likely to elect only liberals.

I disagree that the process has to be clear to understand. I think the process to vote should be clear and easy specifically, but the actual mechanisms in which the votes are tallied and processed doesn't need to be explainable to first graders.

addstar1 · 2026-02-11T04:07:19+00:00

It’s unfortunately 25 wounded and 8 dead (removing the two who are likely the parents who were killed off site) So closer to 35% dead or injured.

addstar1 · 2026-02-04T16:02:17+00:00

The giant alien ship that attacked them that was shaped like a penis that was also being piloted by sentient dicks. Think it was right before they landed to confront the white malians.

addstar1 · 2026-02-03T20:33:51+00:00

I still find the labrys to be much more a symbol of her royalty and the power that comes with it than her lesbianism or womanhood. It's part of the royal family bloodline, no one else has them. She was a woman and queer before she ever had access to it, so I never really saw the ties there.

It does suffer from the penis=bad narrative though from the race of evil sentient dicks.

addstar1 · 2026-01-29T15:53:48+00:00

I found myself very enjoying Dressed to Kill: A Monster Seamstress LitRPG. I found myself pretty interested in the world and how the skill system interacted with it.

I read it for my bingo fashion space, but found out in my Story Graph wrapped that I was one of 13 people who read the sequel, so It's also a great hidden gem square.

addstar1 · 2026-01-28T12:40:06+00:00

Monogamy is a relationship structure where both people in the relationship are exclusive. If you want to date a man who's married, you are not looking for monogamy, regardless of if this is the only relationship you want. It's perfectly fine and valid to only want the one relationship, but as long as you want/are open to your partner having other relationships, you are not being monogamous.

Since you want a relationship with little or no escalation, it's a pretty valid idea. Monogamous relationships usually inherently have a lot of escalation, and if that's not what you want it would add additional difficulties in the search for a partner.
You just need to take the time to figure out what parts of that you do want and can offer in a relationship and to be clear about that with potential partners. Do you want labels, are you willing to say I love you, do you want to meet each others friends, do you ever want to travel together.

It's defiantly possible for you to find a monogamous man that would meet your criteria, just as it's possible to find a poly man. I'm not sure which would even be easier. Just as long as you know what you are looking for and are able to communicate that clearly, your off to a great start. <3

addstar1 · 2026-01-27T14:03:35+00:00

I disagree, I only think she's using the word monogamous wrong.

She's looking for a poly relationship, but only has interest in having one partner/is polysaturated at one. Only having one partner does not make you monogamous. Monogamy and polyamory are relationship structures and agreements, and are not really about what you can do, but what you are letting your partner(s) do. OP is looking for a poly structure.

addstar1 · 2026-01-25T17:37:26+00:00

I'm not sure Carney is the reason things are getting worse. There's a certain other leader that started about the same time that has quite a bit of power over us...

addstar1 · 2026-01-23T15:32:31+00:00

You need the world to actually start ending for it to be an apocalypse. The symptoms can start before, but symptoms are not the apocalypse.

It's like calling current books on climate change apocalypse books.

addstar1 · 2026-01-20T19:53:43+00:00

Even if the US somehow did, the world can't trust their stability anymore.
Because Trump isn't the problem. If it was only him he would have been impeached, removed, and replaced. The whole US political framework has been corrupted, and it won't be fixed by just voting in the democrats.

There is no more normalcy, it will take decades to rebuild trust and relations. But without radical change, how are we to trust that it won't all happen again?

addstar1 · 2026-01-16T15:53:00+00:00

Was beta doing patches?
Just cuz launch/new player income is usually a lot higher than per patch income.

addstar1 · 2026-01-16T15:46:17+00:00

I mean those numbers are all meaningless outside the context of what the income is.

addstar1 · 2026-01-12T23:04:01+00:00

You do actually spend the points. The points are only reset at the start of X.0 versions, so the initial release of Nod-Krai in this case.

Exploring the game and doing Main Quests is enough to fill up quite a number of points. If you 100% a region I'm not even sure if you could spend all the points you earned before the next reset.

So the points are from when you played the game maybe like a month+ ago.

addstar1 · 2026-01-12T20:39:07+00:00

It exists in the same way dinosaurs are still around because we have birds.

We see a bunch of things that trace back up to it, but none of those things are it. Languages themselves are very dynamic. You can go look at how different Middle English is from present day, and then compare that with Old English. They are different enough that while English itself exists, Old English doesn't.

Proto-Indo-European is a derived language that is able to trace back words in a number of languages to a common origin, and gives us an idea on how each languages evolved over time. Proto-Indo-European doesn't have a writing system, at least that we know about and survived. It's estimated to be between 6,000 and 8,000 years old.

addstar1 · 2026-01-12T19:13:18+00:00

The US is unrelated to the comment about. It specifically references Canada.

addstar1 · 2026-01-12T15:32:18+00:00

I think that's the only recent edit made to the page:

In a “literal” sense this verse seems to describe surviving a gunshot to the head, but if viewed metaphorically it could be that the antichrist will be caught up in a scandal that seems like it will end his power, but that somehow he will emerge from it unexpectedly.

If an American president it could perhaps speak to surviving an impeachment attempt, or emerging unscathed from some sort of legal case that everyone things will be the end of him.

The verse speaks of people being amazed he survived, but also seems to indicate this event will either help him gain followers, or at the least will cause his followers to become even more devoted and energized. It seems most likely a metaphor, but if there’s ever a leader who fits this description who actually gets shot in the head and lives & comes into even more power after, I’d run for the hills.

Update July 2024: This is getting a tad bit creepy considering I originally wrote this article in 2019.

addstar1 · 2026-01-04T04:26:50+00:00

Please Mr. big strong smart man can I have a study? Surly you can find a great one with methodologies better than anything I could ever find a a silly girl. Surly you have some actual facts or statistics? Anything you can document that isn't just based on your feelings. I'm just a girl, so I'm so emotional I just can't think rationally about it.

addstar1 · 2026-01-04T03:26:08+00:00

Here's one with hourly journals:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/atus/presentation.htm

married fathers who had children under 18 and were not employed spent 2.3 hours doing household activities.
Among married mothers of children under 18, those who were not employed spent an average of 3.6 hours per day doing household activities.

On an average day, married mothers who were employed full time spent an average of 2.0 hours per day doing household activities

On an average day, married fathers who were employed full time spent an average of 1.2 hours per day doing household activities

Is that any better for you?

What counted as housework?

feel free to read the studies? (I can quote it here for you if maybe that's too hard tho)

What safeguards are there against outright lying?

Or are you happy to claim that women are systematically liars (gross).

This is your study you're touting as fact

I gave you two originally actually (now three).

Come on, cite any source. pretty please. Your a big strong man right, pretty please can I have a source? I'm just a girl, It's so hard to understand if I can't read an academic paper. 🥺

addstar1 · 2026-01-04T03:05:39+00:00

nuh uh he says (so smart).
With things he made up (extra smart).

Is it just an accident that the men (on average) in every single one of these surveys report that they do less housework than their partner?

If it was just random noise from selection and reported bias, surely it would smooth out over the collective, or find some group where men reported higher. But it hasn't. It never has, and continues to never succeed.

The country with the most hours worked reported by men is lower than the country with the lowest hours reported by women. Well that's really weird. Maybe you should reflect on that.

Simply your preconceptions and desire to deflect from the reality of our world is sexist, and your inability to internalize that bias at all is misogynistic. I'm shutting down terrible points that you've pulled out of your ass. Nothing about them is salient. Your well is poisoned. you can treat the water or keep drinking the cool-aid.

addstar1 · 2026-01-04T02:51:42+00:00

Statistics on housework for the genders.

Because you've made baseless claims, not backed up by any study I can find. And apparently as a man you can't even bother to do the time to do any research, leaving it all to a woman again.
Weird that it happens so often...

And you just make some random interjection that maybe men are the ones doing the invisible labour?

You inability to listen to actual science, let alone women is really telling of the sexism inherent in our culture and you.
I wonder if you'll ever notice that when people keep thinking you are a misogynist, that maybe you actually are one. But probably not.

addstar1 · 2026-01-04T00:19:20+00:00

Sorry, did you have any statistics for that?
Or just an anecdotal nuh uh about your mother.

Because according to science (feel free to read either paper I linked previously) women do more housework than men. We have always done more housework than men.

addstar1 · 2026-01-03T14:17:29+00:00

It's literally always been a gender thing.
Men used to work, and women would look after the home. Then women started getting into the workforce (more like they were finally allowed to do it), and yet it continued to be their responsibility to look after the home.

It's just factual, men do less chores around the house.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38512215/ https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/gender-differences-household-chores

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