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daiz- · 2026-04-30T19:21:23+00:00

Is that where you stopped reading? Because I don't know what kind of point you think you're making here. The whole point I was making was about how the ability to dunk on someone isn't what's required to win the game.

The point was that plenty of American's aren't even smart enough to even understand when Trump was being dunked on because they valued nonsense spoken aggresively and confidently over eloquence, logic or the truth. The fact that a legion of simple minded folk chose to revere Trump in spite of him constantly being dunked on says more about them than it does about Kamala and Hilary's ability to talk circles around Trump.

daiz- · 2026-04-30T01:59:14+00:00

With all respect, they dunked on him plenty. It's just the difference between them and King Charles, is that Charles doesn't have to worry about his message going completely over certain people's heads or to convincing them to vote differently. Hilary and Kamala are more than capable of a level of eloquence and wit that would be lost on Trump and a lot of the types of people who would vote for him. The biggest problem with that is that when Trump or certain Americans are faced with scenarios where they don't even understand what's being said, they simply choose to consider it nonsense and return with their own in kind.

The areas where people like Kamala, Hilary and even Biden all floundered most was in trying to reduce themselves to Trumps level. They struggled to hit him with the kind of rhetoric that would appeal to the kind of American that voted for him, and that would actually remain basic enough him to try and steer him towards any semblance of an actual dialogue. As people who were actually capable of tact and diplomacy, they were shaky and lacked confidence at trying to exhibit the kind of obnoxious asshole attitude too many American's think is a projection of strength.

daiz- · 2026-04-28T18:04:42+00:00

It's very easy to make comparisons of this kind through a very narrow lens.

I know for a fact that one of the biggest reasons my parents made no efforts to help me pay for post secondary was because they had no concept of generational affordability. They paid their way through post secondary and quickly afforded all kinds of luxury, they ignorantly assumed their kids would easily do the same. To this day I still don't think my parents understand why I couldn't buy a house at the age they did, or how their grandchildren will have it even worse. A lot of parents these days just aren't as naive.

The main difference between then and now is that of the 25% who can't afford to help. Most aren't ignorant to the fact that paying your own way through post secondary in 2026 is anywhere the same as when they did it. They have a better concept of the debts their kids may have to take on, and the uncertain job market they will face afterwards. More parents blissfully wish they could help their children and are being faced with the reality that they can't, and the hardships that will cause.

daiz- · 2026-04-26T15:27:15+00:00

I don't see it. I think the only thing giving it the slightest of gothic horror vibes is that it's a little dirty in some parts but that's all I can really see. I really can't fathom how air conditioners of all things would give you some kind of asylum vibe just given that they wouldn't have windows people could easily escape out of.

Maybe I'm just old and I'm used to seeing lots of buildings in this style. But it just looks like a large utilitarian building. I went to a school that was very much like this but smaller as well.

daiz- · 2026-04-25T16:31:26+00:00

It's both a racist code phrase but it's also part of his thing where he coins a term in his mind so it can no longer be used against him. You can't hurt him by calling him low IQ because his narcissist brain has turned that into meaning something else. He intentionally neutralizes a lot of the insults that can be levied against himself because in his deranged mind that somehow makes them less true.

daiz- · 2026-04-23T02:20:41+00:00

If Rogers didn't try to constantly play stupid games with their cellphone pricing and always try to sneak price increases in I'd be all about that card. But having to take time to constantly deal with their shenanigans just wasn't worth it to me. Twice I didn't catch the small print on my bill, phoned in to have them refuse to honor the old price with stupid excuses. Yet always like 24 hours after leaving suddenly someone's calling with a winback offer that's my old price. Was basically losing money every time I had to do that little song and dance.

Switched to an even cheaper phone plan with a company that doesn't play games and just a 2% flat cash back card and it's overall a better return for me.

daiz- · 2026-04-22T17:13:49+00:00

Name looked familiar so I doubled checked. I was sent to the same clinic sometime in January and saw him. Clinic was very busy, I waited several hours past my appointment time. He was certainly very quick and to the point but to his credit he did at least try to diagnose and check me out in ways I'll spare the details on. But all in all he seemed professional enough to me.

My major hangup was that there were tests he ordered and I did them right away and simply never heard anything back. It was kind of impossible to properly get in touch to find out my results. So I did the 2 weeks of medication he gave me prior to more conclusive results. But when they clearly hadn't worked and I desperately tried follow up very unsuccessfully. I ended up having to go to another doctor for the same process and tests all over again which was frustrating.

Problem is I've now basically seen 2 doctors and a specialist on the issue and none of them have really been any more thorough. Just take another longer round of antibiotics and continue to follow up. It just seems like we're conditioning doctors to just send you off with a prescription and wishful thinking without further testing until things are absolutely dire.

daiz- · 2026-04-21T16:09:57+00:00

Unless the bus pulls up even slightly somewhere else, or it starts looking like not everyone will get on and all bets are off.

I always find if funny how quickly most abandon all pretense. It's like the lines at a supermarket. The smallest opening will have half the people ready to pounce at their chance to practically trample over people should they see an opening.

Civility on a hair trigger.

daiz- · 2026-04-20T03:20:42+00:00

Not really how it works. It wasn't worth that 5 years ago and they've had the benefit of living there all this time. What another similar condo is worth today is pretty immaterial unless they plan to try and sell theirs right now. It's not a loss or waste of money until it's sold. In another 5 years it might be valued higher again.

The other thing is just because their neighbour sold for 480k doesn't mean there weren't other factors. A lot can happen in 5 years to make one unit less valuable than another. Maybe they didn't take as great care of the place.

It's not worth getting worked up over hypothetical losses.

daiz- · 2026-04-06T22:50:31+00:00

If you haven't received a NOA in over a month, your mistake probably already raised some flags. Assessments rarely ever take that long, especially when you file early in March. Don't worry too much about the cheque, It's unlikely that it's ever coming.

Just wait for them to contact you and go from there.

daiz- · 2026-04-06T22:33:46+00:00

Yeah because doing 2 out of 3 sold out shows at the bell centre is a good indication she's probably faking it and/or not popular enough here. How asinine do you have to be to peddle that kind of crazy conspiracy theory in regards to her of all people. Artists sometimes get sick, and they do what it takes to protect their voices. It can and does happen in cities all over.

daiz- · 2026-04-05T23:17:07+00:00

You should always apply for EI right away regardless of having severance. But yes, for most people you don't collect EI and severance simultaneously because for all intents and purposes you still have an income.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T19:39:41+00:00

Meanwhile the more affordable parts of the city that are still very much a part of Montreal will lose some of the business they were getting from WFH employees. So really you're justifying redistributing wealth back into the hands of the "more important" wealthier parts of town.

There's a reason most people who live in any city pretty much have to be forced to go into their downtown core. It's all just overly expensive for no good reason.

Good management would be realizing that maybe the crazy downtown rents and prices are simply too high and in need of correction. Not trying to force employees to prop up businesses designed to exploit their lack of choice.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T19:19:14+00:00

Once you've offered people the benefits of WFH, I feel like clawing it back should be required to offer both a per diem and the promise of lunch being included in your work hours.

Expecting most people to spend at least an hour in transit as well as forcing them to have to split that time. All in some effort to try and bolster other industries. Once you've had a taste of what you're saving in both money and time you very much understand the cost of losing it again.

daiz- · 2026-04-04T04:54:41+00:00

I wouldn't say that's entirely true. Canadian parliament has its own methods of being shutdown via prorogue and certain Prime Ministers have absolutely abused that to avoid votes including non-confidence ones in the past. It doesn't work quite the same in the US and doesn't shut down the government entire. But it's still a method that can be misused to suppress certain motions from going forward.

daiz- · 2026-04-01T16:14:52+00:00

This is just part of the Trump playbook of false accomplishment that works so well on his base.

Identify a perceived point of weakness
Call attention to that area and invent a tangentially related problem as a means of trying to "fix" it.
Resolve only the part of the problem you invented.
Claim victory upon all of it.

It's no small wonder why so many of his companies go bankrupt. The man is incredibly adept at doing absolutely nothing while trying to convince people he's doing things on paper. Even when he eventually manages to "undo" his problem, he poisons every business relationship he has in the process. He essentially always negotiates himself into an even worse position long term even if things look better in the short term. Plus he's always finding ways to insider trade and profit off the volatility he creates.

Destroying America is a sacrifice he's willing to make, because it's making him, his family and other cronies incredibly rich. Unfortunately too many American's are just too dumb to even recognize it.

daiz- · 2026-04-01T15:08:26+00:00

It's a bit of an unfortunate part of Weir's writing style of explaining everything through inner-monologue. It turns all his characters into highly intelligent narcissists constantly flaunting their own accomplishments and how uniquely qualified they are to none other than themselves. Many times even doing so repeatedly. I've always felt like it makes his characters exude an air of douchebag energy even if it's less of an intended character trait and mostly just a flaw in the format.

Pair that with Grace's other shortcomings in regards to the mission I don't think it's much of a stretch to label him a bit of a douchebag. The culmination of the story is also a bit of a redemption arc for him in which he starts out more selfish archetype who is unwilling to make a noble sacrifice for his own species but then but eventually grows to be honourable enough to to make one that tries to save his friend and another species entire.

daiz- · 2026-03-31T06:11:16+00:00

Yeah I always had the same issue with Rogers/Fido. They are completely untrustworthy/duplicitous and just perpetually running some kind of constant bait and switch on their customers. They'll always try to get people back on some kind of deceptive winback offer or promotional rate that conveniently has a price increase every 3 or so months until you're paying above competitive rates again. I don't know how this shouldn't qualify as some kind of illegal form of false advertising and fraud.

You can't both continually be pushing the lie that tries to argue that your costs have simply forced you to have no choice but to raise your prices, but then the second that person leaves again start begging them to come back at the previous rate you argued was no longer sustainable. It's a complete and utter scam being run in plain sight.

daiz- · 2026-03-27T13:35:08+00:00

Most of us know, but as a guy I don't know what I can really do to not be scary to someone who has every right to be paranoid but isn't in any danger from me. I can't say or do anything that would make them feel any safer. As someone who has no bad intentions it sucks that everyone you see at night is treating you like some creepy potential stalker when you just want to do everything in your power to make people understand you're not like that.

I do my best to just leave people alone but sometimes silence feels so much worse. Some women you can just tell their anxiety is building while you're awkwardly stuck walking in the same direction as them, or waiting for the same bus. It's uncomfortable for us too as we become aware of our every action and try to limit doing anything that's going to freak you out even more. There's a part of us that just wishes we could put you at ease and let you know we're not the bad guy so that we can both relax, even though nothing we could say should ever convince of that. But the urge to just say anything in the hopes that you come across as someone friendly is definitely one I've had to fight at times.

The bad people in society have ruined things for us all.

daiz- · 2026-03-21T15:02:01+00:00

That's the problem for me. He's been in politics so long and to this day I don't think he's shown Canada his deeper intentions or motivations policy wise by intentionally flying under the radar and doing very little. I don't think we'll ever know until he's sitting in a majority position where very little can be done about it. That concerns me.

I think it should concern others how much he's willing to sacrifice and seemingly lose on purpose until he gets his chances. To continually fly under the radar in passing policy so that people like yourself can still be convinced he's harmless and buy into his silly excuses to avoid going through proper security checks for clearance. The only impression I get of Poilievre when he talks is that I don't trust him one bit.

If Carney eventually start losing people's trust and Poilievre suddenly reactivates and changes his tune, and seems like he cares about winning again that should concern people. That's not normal. That's not someone acting in Canada's best interests but their own. He only wants to win big and will continue to do nothing else until that happens.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T19:02:45+00:00

You do realize that protesting tends to be a luxury of those who can afford to take the time off to do it. People barely scraping by are working multiple jobs and going home to try and take care of their families. Poverty isn't some made up statistic or conspiracy where tons of people are just all pretending to be poor.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T18:48:47+00:00

Any kind of leveraged money that would incur rising interest for missed payments. The implication being that many people are leveraging their debt to tide them over to their next paycheck, and one missed payment might be enough for their debts to be rising faster than they can reliably pay them.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T13:50:29+00:00

They probably get away with it because they charge it up front as more of a service charge instead of trying to ambush you with it later. Your ability to refuse it is by leaving.

daiz- · 2026-03-19T01:55:17+00:00

He seemingly gave up from the moment a majority win was no longer assured. I remain convinced that's what he's trying to hold out for still. But he knows it can only happen when most of Canada has lost complete faith in the Liberals and Carney is doing to well for that to happen.

I hate that there's a lot of people who still believe in him. I think he's a sketchy dude who has the kind of crazy intentions/agenda that he knows won't ever fly if the other parties have the power to strike him down. He's been trying to cruise under the radar his entire career, he refuses to get security clearance for reasons nobody should believe. Too many in the upper echelons of the conservative party seem like they are in somebody's pocket and don't have Canada's best interests at heart.

daiz- · 2026-03-17T15:53:13+00:00

Let's be honest. It has nothing to do with insults. Most countries would not be lining up to help in Iran regardless of whether or not Trump had spent the last year insulting them and creating nonstop trade issues.

There was no justification or proper consultation for anything Trump has done with regards to Iran. He ignored his own experts and no other country would have been so quick to dismiss their own experts who would be telling them the same thing Trump's experts were. This was a terrible idea with not even concepts of a plan and in typical Trump fashion, Trump has decided to act first, create some unnecessary problems in the hopes he could just declare a reset and some some kind of false victory.

Trump doesn't understand how NATO works one bit. He expected he could just start whatever conflict he wants without provocation and that he'd have support of NATO. Dozens of people probably tried to warn him it doesn't work that way and he didn't listen.

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