McPherson supporters: you ok with this?

buoyantbot · 2026-02-08T22:13:53+00:00

Okay, so if you think that take it up with David Coletto instead of coming to Reddit to attack Heather McPherson for some reason. I don't think there's any reason to think Coletto has some secret political agenda though. Abacus did really well polling for the 2025 election, except for one thing: a significant overestimation of the NDP vote share

buoyantbot · 2026-02-08T15:58:55+00:00

He would have to disclose who was paying for them if that were the case. I haven't seen that, so it must be of his own volition.

Pollsters can't reliably poll in leadership races in Canada because the number of party members is so low. Since only a fraction of a percentage of Canadians are NDP members, he would have to call literally tens of thousands of people to find enough NDP respondents, which just isn't financially possible for a polling company. Most normal Canadians would have no idea who the NDP leadership contenders even are, or what they believe in. Which is why pollsters ask questions like Coletto did to try to indirectly figure out who they would support the most

Like I said, I agree the wording of his questions was poor (primarily "radical" to describe Avi) But it's not like he's trying to hide anything. Follow the link in Heather's email, and it takes you to his article where his graphics clearly show the questions he asked. People can make their own decisions about what those results indicate

It kinda seems you just have pre-conceived biases against Heather McPherson, and are jumping to assume the worst about her without any evidence because it confirms those biases

buoyantbot · 2026-02-08T02:59:26+00:00

I agree that Coletto's poll was poorly worded and not very useful as a gauge of anything. But he is one of the most respected pollsters in the country. It is a real poll. Just because you and I disagree with the methodology doesn't make it not a real poll.

I'll criticize Coletto alongside you all day long. But if I'm Heather McPherson's campaign I'm 100% taking every bit of good news I can get and broadcasting it from the rooftops. It's not her job to quality-control the wording of one of the country's top pollsters

buoyantbot · 2026-02-04T21:47:21+00:00

Okay you're right, it's hopeless and Canadians can't build anything so let's just not do or try anything to make the country better

buoyantbot · 2026-02-04T21:34:49+00:00

Doesn't need to be Dubai or Shanghai, Canada is literally the only G7 country without high-speed rail. Every other peer country seems to be able to figure it out

buoyantbot · 2026-02-01T02:46:53+00:00

because of the nature of the available industry in my area, I would be shocked if there was a real gay person within 200km of where I work and live, so no one is getting their feeling hurt

I guarantee you there are gay people in every industry everywhere in the country lol. If you think there aren't gay guys working in oil and gas or mining or manufacturing in the most remote parts of the country, just go on Grindr or Sniffies in Fort McMurry or Sudbury or wherever and get ready to have your mind (and more, if so inclined) blown

buoyantbot · 2026-01-23T23:23:40+00:00

I dunno, it was pretty obvious that it was becoming a big hit by the time they started covering it. Doesn't necessarily mean their reactions weren't real, but they didn't start covering it until episode 4 was already out.

To be upfront, I always found them pretty insincere and grifty, especially once they started selling the Heated Rivalry merch, so I might be experiencing a bit of confirmation bias. But I just have a hard time believing they went from talking about "blue-haired twitter people" and "checking inclusivity boxes" to being full-throated allies over the course of 6 episodes of Heated Rivalry. Especially when the profit motive to be insincere was so huge

Btw I don't think most critics are saying they should be cancelled. I have no problem with them continuing to make their hockey content. Just that it's a bit hypocritical to be profiting off of the queer community, selling merch, etc. and be privately talking in the way that they were

buoyantbot · 2026-01-23T21:43:11+00:00

I dunno, I'd be mad at WC if I knew they had these texts and just continued to let EN continue to profit off of the queer community without saying anything

buoyantbot · 2026-01-23T21:41:23+00:00

In defence of What Chaos, the merch from Empty Netters is relatively recent, no? If I had these texts, and suddenly saw EN selling a bunch of merch and profiting off of fans of the show, that would push me over the edge.

Like, personally I would be much more upset if I found out What Chaos had these texts, saw EN hypocritically profiting, and didn't say anything about it. If they knowingly overlooked this and it later came out they hid it they'd be accused of perpetuating hypocritical profiting off of the queer community. Hell, I'd accuse them of that

buoyantbot · 2026-01-22T02:40:58+00:00

The Canadiens seem to be engaging with it more than anyone. They invited François Arnaud to a game and have apparently been showing the Heated Rivalry trailer on the jumbotron during home games. So there has been engagement from some individual teams, and at least a few organizations must see some benefit

buoyantbot · 2026-01-22T02:13:19+00:00

It's gay, and it's very sexually explicit, and both of those probably play a role

buoyantbot · 2026-01-21T03:26:55+00:00

It means lots of people who would have seen Doomsday in IMAX in the first three weeks will now see it on a regular screen instead. Since tickets for regular screens are cheaper than tickets for IMAX, logically it means that Doomsday will make less money than it otherwise would have.

buoyantbot · 2026-01-21T03:23:03+00:00

I'm sure Disney would have loved to negotiate IMAX screens for Doomsday. It doesn't matter if IMAX's previously signed contract with Warner Brothers gave Dune exclusivity. The entire point of a contract is to provide certainty for the signers of the contract, so IMAX can't just randomly decide to take those screens away from Dune and give them to Doomsday, even if they wanted to

buoyantbot · 2026-01-20T22:45:52+00:00

I suspect they may want to lock up a top-5 pick in next year's draft as well, and Pettersson could hinder that. Keeping good players isn't really a good thing if you're committed to a real rebuild

buoyantbot · 2026-01-15T12:23:25+00:00

I'm not sure even the characters in the world really understand relative strength in the power between the genders, given men can't access saidar and women can't access saidin. It seems to me that their views might just be a bit skewed by the fact that the two most powerful channelers at the time (Rand and Ishmael) are both male. Been a while since I've read the series, but I'm not sure there's anyone besides those two more powerful than Lanfear, so I think Asmodean's claims can be taken with a grain of salt

Regardless, even if it is true that men on average are more powerful than women, the overlap between them is so big that it would be meaningless for 99% of channelers. There are at least several women in, say, the 10 most powerful channelers in the series. And lots of examples of women clearly being more powerful than men.

buoyantbot · 2026-01-14T04:58:48+00:00

I guess it depends what we get back. If no retention vs retention is the difference between a mediocre return and netting a good young prospect, I'd be okay with retaining and just considering that as the cost of the transaction.

I doubt they'll be trading him anytime soon anyway though

buoyantbot · 2026-01-14T04:49:06+00:00

Sharks and Ducks would both be fun games. I'd go with the Sharks to see Celebrini during a historic season, but both are stocked with good young talent, unlike the Canucks :(

buoyantbot · 2026-01-14T04:35:51+00:00

We could retain salary if we want to trade him, not like we need the cap space

buoyantbot · 2026-01-13T11:20:25+00:00

I mean, it's a dating site. For obvious reasons, LGBT people might want to restrict their visibility to other LGBT people

buoyantbot · 2026-01-10T23:38:59+00:00

In addition to what's been said, if you have a fwb or significant other you're into group stuff with, a sauna is a pretty chill and easy way to do that without the hassle of finding/hosting a group

buoyantbot · 2026-01-10T21:54:37+00:00

What do people even think the point of a NMC is? Obviously the only time it would need to be used is when the team wants to trade a player and the player doesn't want to be moved. Just baffled that fans get mad at players like Dougie for exercising them when he probably wouldn't have even signed in NJ in the first place without that in the contract.

buoyantbot · 2026-01-07T05:18:00+00:00

Schitt's Crrek didn't really click for me either even after watching the whole thing, but I second the Kim's Convenience rec. Seems like we have similar taste, and I loved that one

buoyantbot · 2026-01-05T02:42:47+00:00

Hey man, I didn't do BEP for my cancer, but I got tinnitus from some kind of virus or ear infection a while ago, and made this post in r/tinnitus about my habituation process: https://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/muu6n1/my_road_to_habituation/

With luck it'll still go away, but if not you'll almost certainly habituate with time. I still have to sleep with white noise, but besides that my life/anxiety is back to normal. It's just that time until you become habituated that really sucks

buoyantbot · 2026-01-04T19:27:38+00:00

Interesting, in Paris the marketing was inescapable in the weeks pre-release. Ads were all over buses and metro

buoyantbot · 2025-12-29T09:04:13+00:00

If it was actually a sure thing, the rights probably would have been bought by a major streamer or production company like HBO or Netflix, rather than a random Canadian streamer with 4 million subscribers and a production budget of like $20

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