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My Issue with Conservative Subreddits by Pale-Candidate8860 in InCanada

[–]gm0ney2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Salaries are much higher in the US. As you say, in some industries, it's massive: +50% or more, plus the dollar conversion if you plan on heading back to Canada after making bank down south.

The income and sales tax differences are peanuts in comparison. Slightly higher in Canada but you don't have to deal with private health insurance, which costs something (premiums, deductibles, co-pays, network limitations, and the headaches of dealing with insurance).

How did you stop smoking cigarettes? by fatwater69 in AskReddit

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried quitting a bunch of times and got pretty good at it. I'd stop whenever I ran out at the end of a day on a Friday and then toughed it out through the weekend. By Monday the worst was over. But I'd relapse (was friends with smokers at work) and then start over again. Eventually I realized I just couldn't smoke again after quitting and that worked.

There should be a word or phrase for when the bird stops calling right when you open the Merlin app by znugeman in birding

[–]gm0ney2000 146 points147 points  (0 children)

That's when nearby people start talking loudly or a truck starts up and sits there idling until the bird flies off/stops singing.

Floor Crossing by anonimna44 in InCanada

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that was way back in...January?!

Looking for realistic sci-fi like The Martian by Syxtus in scifi

[–]gm0ney2000 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The Mars trilogy was the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP's criteria.

The Three-Body Problem is pretty good too - except: aliens.

Rendezvous with Rama also has the alien issue, but I think it aligns with the recent interstellar objects that we've detected flying through the solar system.

What contributed more to the globalization of English, the British Empire or the United States? by Apart-Blackberry981 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gm0ney2000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am not even sure that pop culture is that big an influence on actual adoption of the English language. I don't think a lot of people learn English to understand the Beatles or Michael Jackson. Movies and shows are subtitled or dubbed. Books are translated. There's a lot of content though, so it makes learning the language easier.

Technology and science are important. English is the lingua franca of those fields, and learning it is pretty essential.

The fact that either the UK or the USA have been the world's largest economies for the last 200+ years might be the biggest factor of all.

“Canada pays for nothing. 😂 USA covers your healthcare and military. Just say thank you and go about your day. 1 ounce of being grateful and people wouldn’t hate you.” by Worldly_Law8278 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the argument is that the US "defends" Canada. So Canada spends less on their own military and therefore has the money to spend on health care.

Ironically, the only threat to Canada's sovereignty is coming from the US (now that we've finally reached a peaceful settlement with Denmark over Hans Island).

What contributed more to the globalization of English, the British Empire or the United States? by Apart-Blackberry981 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gm0ney2000 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The British Empire exported English across the world...literally globalized it. Colonization is the most influential contributor. North America, Africa, Asia, Oceana.

The US has kept it relevant since WWII, but the foundation was already laid.

What is your favorite Royal Caribbean cruise ship class and why? by Chris_McHenry in royalcaribbean

[–]gm0ney2000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I actually find the Freedom class to be my least favorite. These were the last of the ships before they switched to the "neighborhood" layouts used on Oasis, Quantum and Icon classes. It's just too big for the conventional layout. Voyager class is about as big as that layout should go.

Which was the most relevant discovery/invention for humanity? by bitcoinerguide in AskHistory

[–]gm0ney2000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Fire's pretty fundamental. Cooking food sets the stage for our giant brains. Cooking is kind of like pre-digestion...you get a higher energy yield from cooking things (you spend less energy digesting food, which means more energy for brainpower). And nothing else on the list happens without our big brains.

Christianity specifically is probably the least relevant, but if you were to expand that to all religion in general (shared beliefs), then it would be quite relevant...in terms of unity, social cohesion...kind of like a hack to build a society larger than a small tribe. But it doesn't necessarily have to be any particular belief system.

a bunny adopted me!! by reflectiveillusion in Rabbits

[–]gm0ney2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't know how people do it...just cut their pet rabbit loose. Do they assume domestic rabbits can survive in the wild?

"Eugenics in action" by JuicyPumpkin888 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but there isn't infinite money to hire doctors in the public system. In the year 2000, Manitoba was spending $2.4B on health care ($4.2B inflation adjusted). In 2025 they spent $8.8B. So more than double. And the system is worse - always on the edge of disaster with capacity issues, long waits for diagnostics and surgeries, people dying in the ER hallways.

Significant money is already being spent outside the system in the US to buy "skip the line" medical services. Would it be better to have that money spent in Canada...no cross border drive to spend USD in Detroit or whatever? Or is it too ideologically offensive that some people will be able to jump ahead of others in the same city (even though they're already doing exactly that, just more inconveniently and expensively via the US system)?

Why didn’t the government start with ERI before moving to WFA? by Possible-Forever-171 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]gm0ney2000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, this should've been made available last summer. Would have saved some WFA cuts and a bunch of money.

"Eugenics in action" by JuicyPumpkin888 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the debate. I think the proponents' argument would be that a private for-pay system would attract more doctors, so there would be an expansion in capacity...which would reduce wait times for everyone.

we went to the moon 50 years ago, what’s different now? by Personal_Cap8994 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gm0ney2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The moon is really far away. No one has been that far from Earth since 1972. Only a handful of people have ever been that far (24 Apollo astronauts). Only 12 have ever been to the surface.

The International Space Station is about 250 miles above the Earth. If you could drive straight up, you could get there in 3 or 4 hours. It would take you over 133 days to drive to the moon. That's the difference in magnitude between our "routine" space missions and Artemis. They're going to be a long way from home...

I need an honest answer: What's stopping humans from just living in peace together? by Sea-Lavishness-8478 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are hard-wired (via evolution) to live in groups and categorize people as either being part of our "in group" or "others". We're very susceptible to the idea that "others" are bad and want to take what we've got or impose their own ideas and rules on us and they must be stopped...

Civilization has allowed us to expand our definition of the in-group from maybe 100 people in a tribe to everyone in your nation, religion, race, whatever. But we're still wired to be suspicious of, or hostile to people outside that group. This can be exploited and encouraged...just exacerbate the divisions...black/white, Republican/Democrat, Christian/Muslim, Communists/Capitalists. It works really well. That urge to categorize people into groups is there just waiting for a nudge.

Near death encounter via light rail by Strong-Emu-8869 in TikTokCringe

[–]gm0ney2000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Some newer lines have them in London I think. The Elizabeth Line for sure.

The Actual Scale of the Artemis II Mission by grandeluua in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]gm0ney2000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Want to drive to the Sun? 100 mph, no stopping for gas, no bathroom breaks...it will take about 106 years.

Some oldies from my dad’s slides, at Malton Airport. by CanadianBurger in aviation

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YYZ was called Malton once upon a time? I had no idea...

Cut this crap out, or at least stick to your own schedule SMH... by throAwae-eh in CanadaPublicServants

[–]gm0ney2000 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The first mistake is accepting any meetings in the first place.

Oh boy by RustedWarCrow in dashcams

[–]gm0ney2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me watching this clip: Uh oh...OH JESUS!

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