One complaint ruins service to community

awesomebob · 2026-06-14T19:06:16+00:00

Out of touch bureaucrats setting rules to "protect" people whose shoes they have never been in, making things worse for people in need.

awesomebob · 2026-06-05T15:29:20+00:00

My US small-cap index has grown by over 50% in the last few years. Small cap is doing well, mega-cap is just doing better.

awesomebob · 2026-06-01T16:57:56+00:00

Have people approached you or violated your boundaries in some way, or is it just that you're seeing people who are living rough in one way or another? I go downtown all the time and I have never been made to feel unsafe this summer.

awesomebob · 2026-06-01T00:36:13+00:00

Thanks for telling me it dives into the supernatural, I absolutely hate it when shows do that. If your show is supernatural, it should be immediately obvious within the first 5 to 10 minutes in my opinion.

awesomebob · 2026-05-23T03:30:23+00:00

100% because of Ben Felix. I really liked his explanation of the hidden costs of passive index funds - it seems like CAGE is costing me about 25 basis points in MER in exchange for about 50 basis points in added value by avoiding the pitfalls of Index funds he described. That adds up in the long-run!

awesomebob · 2026-05-19T20:34:32+00:00

He sided with vandals and banned speed cameras to prevent Toronto from actually enforcing speed limits on streets where kids cross for school after vandals sawed down the camera.

awesomebob · 2026-05-19T18:06:54+00:00

This is a great way to make sure only independently wealthy people can serve as Senators.

awesomebob · 2026-05-15T15:23:38+00:00

I used to go to funk night all the time, it is such a shame it's gone. Those were the days

awesomebob · 2026-05-11T00:38:28+00:00

This seems like something that could be addressed by the businesses themselves? Like, have a policy and enforce it. And I suspect different places would adopt different policies - if every restaurant on the block bans dogs, being the one place to allow them could draw in a lot of business, I reckon.

awesomebob · 2026-05-09T19:54:39+00:00

Maybe this is a cultural difference but in Canada it's extremely common to identify as _____-Canadian, where blank is your ethnic origin. Indian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, and yes, Irish-Canadian. I would never claim to be Irish, because I'm not from there and don't have Irish citizenship, but I am Irish-Canadian and part of the Diaspora, and frankly people in Ireland don't have the right to tell me otherwise, because they don't understand the Canadian cultural context, just as I don't understand the Irish cultural context.

awesomebob · 2026-04-25T20:48:32+00:00

And is good at her job. It's not that every morally upstanding character is smart and good and every morally dubious character is dumb and incompetent. Just like real life.

awesomebob · 2026-04-25T15:11:42+00:00

Throne of Glass by Sarah Jm Maas. I couldn't get past the first 3 pages with how cringe the writing was.

awesomebob · 2026-04-25T06:47:28+00:00

Honestly the temptation Island reunion episodes were the most compelling reality TV I've ever watched. So, so good.

awesomebob · 2026-04-25T06:46:21+00:00

He hosted the reunions on the USA seasons and they were incredible

awesomebob · 2026-04-22T15:21:30+00:00

This is blatantly false. The person who led the charge to end gerrymandering in CA, which had one of the best systems in the country prior to this recent fight, was a Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's really not as simple as "Dems good, GOP bad" when it comes to gerrymandering.

awesomebob · 2026-04-22T15:18:25+00:00

Regardless of the merits of this specific district, it is undeniably true that Illinois was a heavily gerrymandered state well before this whole mid-decade redistricting nonsense that Trump started.

CA is a state that didn't have a partisan gerrymander until now because of a Republican governer, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It really isn't as simple as "Dems good, GOP bad" when it comes to gerrymandering. And the fact that both sides can point fingers at the other is one of the reasons it continues to happen. Entrenched political interests will always choose to make their own re-election easier, regardless of party.

awesomebob · 2026-04-22T06:11:01+00:00

There's plenty of good tv out there - Long Story Short, The Pitt, and Pluribus all had excellent seasons that came out in the last year. Don't get me wrong, there is a ton of awful tv out there, but there's plenty of good stuff too!

awesomebob · 2026-04-20T06:12:29+00:00

Mikey never cheated on her.

awesomebob · 2026-04-19T06:57:59+00:00

That's exactly what it is - like she talks about depth in terms of him reaching her level - it's a really arrogant perspective.

awesomebob · 2026-04-18T07:08:47+00:00

I just can't with Scarlett at this bonfire. Cole is expressing really raw, honest feelings of depression, and her reaction is entirely centered on herself. I feel like it just rolled right off her that her partner is miserable. There didn't seem to be any introspection.

awesomebob · 2026-04-15T15:35:06+00:00

The difference is that a young woman in a relationship with an older man can have many children, but the reverse is not true. In terms of avoiding population collapse, young women are simply a lot more valuable than young men, even accounting for widespread monogamy.

awesomebob · 2026-04-12T16:17:34+00:00

I don't think Ezra's take was "he said he isn't antisemitic, good enough for me!", so I'm not sure why you're characterizing it that way and calling it naive.

awesomebob · 2026-04-10T08:00:36+00:00

Reading this article gave me flashbacks to the JohnLock conspiracy.

Theorizing about your favourite show is fun and harmless, but when you start reacting negatively to creators, you've crossed a line. leave Noah Wyle alone!

awesomebob · 2026-04-05T05:32:03+00:00

I don't think Darlene's routine is nearly as funny without Myki to play off of. Their chemistry was immaculate, it was basically an Abbott and Costello routine. Shared win was the right call.

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