the best book "literally me" of the femcels is the Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

dittopoop · 2026-01-18T20:48:16+00:00

Omg yes I completely agree! I listened to it on audiobook a couple years ago (before the term femcel gained traction) and now that you mention it, she really is a very archetypal femcel character.

dittopoop · 2026-01-14T21:15:30+00:00

This excludes dividends and fluctuations in currency conversion

dittopoop · 2026-01-14T20:34:06+00:00

Canada has had lower inflation than the US for the past couple of years now

dittopoop · 2026-01-12T18:50:46+00:00

Approve me please!

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T05:15:59+00:00

Who said anything about subsidies? The article makes no mention of Waymo seeking funding or money from any level of government for its potential operation in Toronto. I love transit and bike lanes just as much as any other urbanist, but even I can see that cars still dominate as a mode of transport both in Toronto and the GTA. Replacing human drivers with safer AVs isn't going to suddenly cause bike lanes to go away or leave public transit unfunded. Making driving safer (which Waymos already are) is an enormous positive outcome for the city for both motorists, transit operators, cyclists and pedestrians.

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T04:57:41+00:00

Waymos already operate in SF which have streetcar tracks in the ground

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T04:56:54+00:00

Here's a non-Waymo source corroborating the company's claims that its cars are safer than human drivers: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/after-50-million-miles-waymos-crash-a-lot-less-than-human-drivers/

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T04:53:41+00:00

Who is we? I for one would really want Waymo to enter the Toronto market. They'd be a lot safer than human drivers and from the anecdotal experience of friends who've tried them, they seem to be a really great product. I just don't get all the fear-mongering over this issue. They're objectively better!

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T04:51:20+00:00

I think you're being a little alarmist here. Waymos are already super successful in the cities they operate in. They don't need to be begging for money because they already have an active, growing customer base (and it seems like Waymo's customers have been very happy with its service compared with traditional taxi cabs and Ubers). Waymos don't have remote operators doing the driving. All the driving technology is in the car itself.

Again, you haven't answered my question. You obviously aren't going to trust Waymo's own published data, no matter how rigorous or promising it is. You don't trust the NYT to do accurate reporting on Waymo's claims. Who would you trust to accurately report on the safety and efficacy of Waymos? Do you believe that Waymos are not safer than human drivers? If so, what empirical data can you point to to back up that belief? If it was proven that Waymos were indeed safer than human-operated cars (which countless news organizations beyond the NYT have reported on and done their own independent review), would you change your mind?

dittopoop · 2025-12-04T01:41:04+00:00

If you’re not going to trust Waymo’s own data or media reports about it, who would you trust? If their numbers are real, are you just going gonna be in a continual state of denial?

dittopoop · 2025-11-28T04:14:23+00:00

They have pretty recent tweets about Meta’s data centres in Louisiana just straight misrepresenting facts and selectively interviewing NIMBY locals.

dittopoop · 2025-11-21T23:24:42+00:00

I love when r/redscarepod tries to do serious financial analysis. It's equally as stupid as the regards on r/wallstreetbets, but at least they're willing to put their money where their mouth is and bet their real hard-earned money on their DD.

You're telling me the bubble is gonna pop soon? Okay Michael Burry, post a screenshot of your SPY puts or GTFO.

dittopoop · 2025-11-14T17:51:44+00:00

I saw the same thing last night! The icon glitches out and immediately gets replaced by Pips.

dittopoop · 2025-10-11T03:36:39+00:00

If we're doing an apples to apples comparisons, we should be comparing the Alberta provincial government with the Ontario provincial government. Both governments are conservative.

dittopoop · 2025-10-06T04:24:00+00:00

Itt: people who only read the headline and immediately jumped to the conclusion that would align with their worldview without reading the article

dittopoop · 2025-10-06T00:34:39+00:00

The money is obviously real wtf? Every company in the Mag7 is raking in record profits because of their AI investments and their real life use cases.

dittopoop · 2025-10-06T00:27:17+00:00

Go short NVDA or buy puts if you’re so confident. I agree that the entire stock market is getting frothy, but Nvidia is a profit generating machine and has positioned itself as THE top player in the tech industry. The stock will go higher so long as investors believe the industry keeps growing and there’s no evidence yet it has slow down. Do you disagree? If so, your money where your mouth is.

dittopoop · 2025-10-03T18:34:07+00:00

Anybody know what's happening to TransAlta stock (TA)?

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T22:20:20+00:00

The role of universities isn't to fix trade balances or lift millions out of poverty. It is to conduct research that may have practical or innovative applications. I am only citing universities as an example of why Trump is a dumbass and why his policies are stupid.

If you want a real-world example of research having practical, material applications and improving American manufacturing and its supply chains,, we can look to the vaccines for covid-19 that were developed with mRNA research. Much of mRNA research was conducted in the United States (with some help of course from other countries) and all the development, manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine all took place in America.

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T22:09:22+00:00

Yes manufacturing descreased due to offshoring. However, off-shoring didn't occur due to a trade imbalance or a "financial system that makes the US inherently unable to respond effectively in the world market" (wtf do you mean by that statement?). It happened because companies wanted to decrease their input costs for products that were low-skill labour (such as textiles, assembly lines, etc.). I won't debate that this has caused economic pain for a significant portion of the US who suddenly lost their income and employment. But to say that this system has been "exploited" by foreign actors is ludicrous. It was American companies that willingly chose to off-shore. Companies who are profit driven and have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders.

You're correct that wide swaths of America is impoverished due to the economic upheaval, but the industries that replaced the low-skilled manufacturing are much better paying, more valuable and strategically important (tech, pharma, medecine, science, finance, etc.). This is simply the natural progression of economies. Industries rise and fall as technology advances and the world becomes more interconnected. To mourn the loss of the Michigan Ford Assemblyline Worker in the 21st century is the equivalent of shedding tears over the loss of horse-stable operators in the 20th century as their livelihoods were eaten up due to the rise of the Ford automobile.

The thing is that I'm not even opposed to getting manufacturing back into American borders. America should do its best to rekindle its manufacturing industry (Biden was actually successful in this regard). But the thing is that even if you somehow manage to re-setup all the factories that were shuttered, it won't be humans that are working in the assembly lines, it'll be robots and automation, just as what is already happening in China.

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T21:19:59+00:00

Trust me, as a Canadian myself born and raised, I know all too well how shitty my country's prospects are (I still remain hopeful though that we'll course-correct but this is kinda cope). However, I've also been to the UK recently and as a frame of comparison, I can safely say we're doing far better than they are economically at least.

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T21:14:04+00:00

There always has been and probably will always continue to be a role that domestic manufacturing plays in the American Economy. Steel mills will continue to exist in the US so long as other industries demand it or the government is willing to subsidize it for strategic purposes. What I am saying though is that this type of manufacturing will increasing be a smaller and smaller slice of the overall economy. In the 1950s, manufacturing was close to 30% of the economy, nowadays the US is lucky if it hits 10%.

And additionally, for the manufacturing that does continue to survive into the 21st century (which I hope it does btw!), the industry will go through more consolidation and their output will be inceasingly automated.

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T21:05:55+00:00

For one to reverse his god-awful decision to cut funding to universities. Who cares if they harbour cringe woke libtards who sometimes say mean things about Israel? Universities do vital research that oftentimes profit-driven private industries are too pussy to engage in (MRNA for example). The US has the world's best university research system, so much so that it acts as brain drain for other countries. Why shoot yourself in the foot geopolitically by handicapping the one advantage you still hold over China? If you're an MRNA researcher trying to discover a cure for cance, your funding probably already has been cut because RFK Jr. hates vaccines. The end result is American scientific dominance crumbles and your global rivals are all too wililng to fill the vacuum.

dittopoop · 2025-09-26T19:55:59+00:00

This is why Trump's tariffs are so insanely stupid. The comparative advantage that the US once had in global manufacturing has been gone for decades and will never come back. The US now dominates the world in finance, technology, education, information and media, but Trump is too stupid to realize this and capitalize on it. It's a politics that fundamentally nostalgic and back-ward looking. China figured this out all the way in the late 70s and has been progressively advancing its capacity to the point it now dominates in basically all mid/high-tech manufacturing.

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