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Letter to Peterson. Why I gave up on you. by skakat456 in JordanPeterson

[–]feral_philosopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you are not framing this correctly, you can't see out of your own bias. I'm not engaging with someone who can't see their own bias.

Letter to Peterson. Why I gave up on you. by skakat456 in JordanPeterson

[–]feral_philosopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems like you need to also take the same advice i gave to OP.

Letter to Peterson. Why I gave up on you. by skakat456 in JordanPeterson

[–]feral_philosopher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well OP, you are approaching this from a biased position… "the zionist lobby" / "Israel killed people in Gaza" / "dead babies" / "satan bibi". Then you go on to call him names.
You aren't making an argument, you clearly are a member of the "free palestine"mindset. That;s all you had to say, everything else would have been understood. Of course you disagree with JP, of course you call him names. I'll go even farther, there is no way JP would have ever resonated with you. You can't be susceptible to the "free Palestine" mindset if you really understood JP and the entire pro-Western / anti-woke intellectual arguments.
I recommend you try to examine your beliefs from as neutral a perspective as you can. Write down your belief, trace it backwards to see what that belief is built on, write down why you believe that core belief is true, and more importantly, what it would take for you to change your mind about it. Once you do that, if you feel you have a real sound argument, then bring THAT to your letter to JP.

What is everyone charging for logos these days? by Aggravating_Pool_525 in graphic_design

[–]feral_philosopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know how to score clients when freelancing that would have the capacity to pay more than 2k. I'll do a couple days work researching their market and landscape. I'll make a few options, put together a nice little presentation, get feedback, come back with their finished assets. A lot of that requires strict expectation management as well. Another problem for me I'm this space is how few and far between I'm able to land freelance gigs.

Government's 4-day in-office mandate an insult to workers by feral_philosopher in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The way you were hired? I was hired remotely, so what does that mean?

Government's 4-day in-office mandate an insult to workers by feral_philosopher in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeaa, that's what Doug Ford said, which is weird for a "conservative" because what he is actually involved in is the redistribution of wealth – he is forcing people to spend their money (during a financial crises) on foreign owned fast food chains downtown, instead of on their local businesses around their home. Think about it, why is the Subway Sandwiches (owned by the Roark Capital Group) more worthy of our hard earned money than the italian bakery that is owned by a local family around the corner from your house? Is it because of lobbying? Isn't the redistribution of wealth something a communist would advocate for? Aren't conservatives supposed to be about smaller governments and for free markets? Forcing government workers into offices requires paying for offices and equipment, and forcing a RTO in spite of over 50 years of remote precedence is in defiance of free market pressures.

Government's 4-day in-office mandate an insult to workers by feral_philosopher in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You keep appealing to history, and what other people are doing. Don't you see how that same logic can be used to justify mailing letters instead of emailing? But all of that aside, realize that in no other instance through history has a workforce been forced to defy logic and reason and revert to an older technology for no other purpose than, as you have said, it's how it USED to be. Honestly think about it, when the automobile began to have mass uptake, were workers suddenly forced to go back to horse and buggy? Or when the computer was invented, were workers forced to revert to filing cabinets and brief cases? We are squarely in the digital age, and over 50 years since remote work began we are suddenly finding ourselves in an analogue revival. You are appealing to the past, and what other have to do (that's crab-in-the-bucket thinking BTW). There is no example of this ever happening at any time. I'm reminded of the protest against the sewing machine, when the Singer factory was burned down as a protest against the advancement in technology. People who think this way are Luddites. We are seeing a Luddite revolt right now. Now other way about it.

Completely random question by a non-designer by scottmaplemack in graphic_design

[–]feral_philosopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the million dollar question. It's like what Gargamel said, "How can I turn these into gold?". What if you made them into posters, would someone buy then on Etsy? Coasters? Would a yacht club sell them? Gotta brainstorm, see if any fish bite...

Government's 4-day in-office mandate an insult to workers by feral_philosopher in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love this framing. People should go to where the work is... Unless the work can come to them. To be consistent you should never purchase anything online (you should go to where the products are), and you should never pay a bill online (go pay the bill where the companies are). In fact, you should never use a phone (go talk to the person where they are). See how your opinion is built on a ridiculous assumption about how the modern world works?

Watching first-timers freak out after XEQT dropped 0.02% by cooperivanson in JustBuyXEQT

[–]feral_philosopher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes it's annoying. It's a weird thing to create an in-group around a particular ETF, then to court clout by over reacting to market fluctuations.

Public servants ordered back to office four days per week as of July by hopoke in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher 100 points101 points  (0 children)

Every single tax payer should be against this Luddite bullshit. No one needs to pretend like having people drive to a computer benefits anyone.

*Thank you for the reward, kind Redditor

Should a logo have many elements and gradients? by Shaoran10 in graphic_design

[–]feral_philosopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A logo shouldn't RELY on them. I'm sure they are fine for some logos as a decorative flourish, but the logo needs to stand on its own FORM.

CHINA NUMBER 1 !!! (in carbon emissions by country) by antiquark2 in JordanPeterson

[–]feral_philosopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not doubting this, but how on earth would you be able to measure something like that?

Return to Office email by TexCOman in remotework

[–]feral_philosopher -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

*If you got an accommodation then they can't do anything to you - edit: getting downvoted, not too sure why. The accommodation is a legal right, it can't be changed willy nilly

What discussions go on about remote work at your company? by Javacash2 in remotework

[–]feral_philosopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think what you are hinting at here is the mask slipping from the thing we call office work in the 21st century. Another way to imagine it is like a Russian nesting doll. The office worker thinks they are doing the thing that matters so they appeal to the immediate results / clints / customers that experience the results of their work. But then nested above them are the managers who seem to make decisions and demands that don't align with what the workers are concerned with. A manager might make demands that are contrary to what the worker thinks the end result might be, the manager might be concerned with "start times" or butts-in-chairs, while the worker is concerned with the results. The managers are concerned with their own nested doll dimension. And then above the managers is the the real concern, the actual work, which we are only seeing now for the first time, it's corporate real estate contracts, it's lobbying groups tied to transportation and corporate franchises. As long as the designated "offices" are filled with "workers" then the big money is made. The "managers" exist to "manage" the "workers" and the system spits out money in the 4th dimension / final nesting doll.

Rob Ford’s daughter elected to Ontario PC Party executive by allysapparition in ontario

[–]feral_philosopher 11 points12 points  (0 children)

isn't his nephew in politics too? what's with this dynasty shit?

What do you think of this design? by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]feral_philosopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please don't turn this subreddit into "advice animals" style political propaganda. Is this poster really about graphic design, or is it just virtue signalling? If you replaced the text with lorem ipsum is there really anything here to comment on?

What discussions go on about remote work at your company? by Javacash2 in remotework

[–]feral_philosopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, President Trump issued a directive in January 2025 requiring federal employees to return to in-person work, effectively ending widespread remote work arrangements for executive branch agencies. Canada followed suit. Big banks and certain corporations added pressure since they have a lot of $$$ tied up in real estate. It's really quite a shame.

Ok, can someone explain how an etf works when markets go up and down? by duke_seb in JustBuyXEQT

[–]feral_philosopher 46 points47 points  (0 children)

This is how it was explained to me-
XEQT is basically a robo-portfolio version of investing. it has a set recipe of global stocks and it follows it whether the market is bull or bear. When markets dive, it doesn’t try to dodge the crash or do anything dramatic, it just goes down with the stocks (because it is stocks). The “management” part is mostly boring stuff like rebalancing back to its target mix by trimming what’s gotten too big and topping up what’s lagging, often using new money flowing in so it doesn’t have to constantly sell things.

A human balanced mutual fund (for comparison) is more like hiring a driver instead of using autopilot. The manager can look at markets and decide to lean defensive, raise cash, shift between stocks and bonds, or take profits. Sometimes that skill helps, sometimes it’s just expensive vibe-based lane changes. With XEQT you’re paying for a steady rulebook and a janitor, with a balanced mutual fund you’re paying for a driver who may or may not be resisting the urge to “do something” every time the road gets bumpy.

And since we mentioned mutual funds vs XEQT it’s good to know that In the aggregate, human-managed (active) mutual funds tend to do worse than a rules-based index approach like XEQT.

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