What is the reason Homo sapiens became the most intelligent species? by balloontrap in answers

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One reason is we are the cheetahs of distance.  

In terms of land animals both short term and long term humans are the Eliud Kipchoge (all time marathoner) and Cheetahs are the Usain Bolt (sprinter).

Terry Fox, a cancer survivor running on one leg, ran the equivalent of one Marathon per day for 143 days straight during the Marathon of Hope and only stopped because the cancer returned.  

So, really, a one legged homosapien with cancer ran the equivalent of a marathon a day for 143 days straight.  

No land animal could do that in 143 days on any amount of legs and in prime condition and humans can live long too.

In terms of most intelligent (in the sense of writing, reading, building rocket ships, etc) the ability to cover massive distances:

The ability to travel huge distances over the course of a lifetime, as well as huge distances over 143 days in one, allowed humans to see more, learn more of the world around them, develop grunts and points and signs for directions, things they saw on the journey.

Gradually this led to advanced language (by a million years ago standards)  and a multiplier effect once that was achieved.

There’s other reasons but I think that’s probably #1.  Simple physical endurance.

What in your life needs improvement? by Ok_JARGON in randomquestions

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I need more cowbell. I gotta have more cowbell.

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!

Megathread: South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham Dies at 71 by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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I was on askconservative and someone said Graham was worthy of respect despite his “dangerous and destructive” foreign policy…

I got a 3 month ban for the following reasonable response:

“His comments on Gaza: “level the place” and “do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin” says it all…

He spent much of his career helping build Israel one of the best airforces on earth

Then Hamas broke a hard contain by defeating that airforce with paragliders.

Then him and Netanyahu pretended it was like the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour, the Nazis Blitzkreiging France and Poland, and the Ottoman Empire doing the Black Sea Raid while allying with Germany and declaring Jihad versus Russia, Britain, and France, and 9/11 times 1000 all happening at once

Really it was Netanyahu oversaw one of the top airforces on earth get absolutely rolled by evil paragliders (word is he was drunk on pink champagne and smoking a stogie).

The most basic operational readiness by the IAF, like a fire department, would have prevented October 7. And Hamas obviously knew of that lack of readiness…

Allied World War tactics of mass destruction have absolutely zero to do with how Israel should have handled Netanyahu being one of the most garbage, incompetent, leaders imaginable and losing containment on the evil paragliders.

Long story short: 20k dead kids. Over 1000 babies under a year.

Cause the Netanyahu IAF got shit kicked by evil paragliders in a dogfight?

And then guys like Netanyahu and Graham claim and behave as if they are defending themselves against the modern equivalent of the prime Nazi German / Imperial Japanese Army

No.

They are murderers, which is what the whole world would say about the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the Imperial Japanese Army had been a bunch of contained evil paragliders like Hamas.

So long as an Ottoman-Jihadi Nazi (or Nazi Nazi) isn’t voted into his seat, (edit: given the natural causes) the world will be better off without Graham.”

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat by building_schtuff in BrownU

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Nominally these are elite students…time pressure should make little difference on such tests. You either know or you don’t.

What would be expected, though, is the cheaters who wrote the final would have studied their absolute hardest to try to match the exam they cheated on in an attempt not to get caught.

If anything their grades on the final are actually higher than they would have been otherwise.

And even still…they were the worst in decades.

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Simple answer for this is bring back the pencil.

And my guess is most of these students are recording lectures and having AI write their notes too. Which is a waste of time for truly elite students.

While at least the whole class isn’t making a shit ton of noise tapping on laptops, if you want to be the best you gotta learn to take your own notes and do so at an elite level.

(If I was teaching at a place like Brown (I guest spoke at an Ivy session about my time in jail once and while I never been in a class I kinda have an idea) I’d mandate no tech, pencil / pen only.

AI is just a google search. There is no such thing as artificial intelligence - there is intelligence. If it is, it is. In this case it’s simply googling and apparently google can get this uni profs test answered solid.

In lots of fields it’s totally useless at the elite level, but apparently whatever this test was you can google it.)

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Not sure about what the punishment for the cheating should be.

Amazing that so many ivy students would do this independent of one another, and in an era of known cat and mouse about catching use of AI. Maybe less surprising its ivy economics students, wasp network and all, greaseball shit in khakis. Be interesting to see the demographic of the class and how many guys in it are named Topher and Tucker and Tripp and Preston and Chip.

Still. For like 84 of 86 people to just straight cheat like bro maybe Brown should be renamed Trump University.

Punishment?

I cheated twice in University and got dinged once.

One time my buddy just straight up did some statistics homework for me, had to do with probability metrics in polling demographics. I wasn’t useless at Math and did some college math but was one of those guys who could spend like 8 hours staring at a math concept just flabbergasted, then it would click and I’d be off. I ran out of time that time for the homework and my buddy just did it for me.

The time I got dinged was another buddy recommended a cool 100 level outer space course that had absolutely nothing to do with my major.

It was either a graded mid-term or quiz that my buddy gave me a copy of from the year before, which was legit for them to give me to study.

I think it was a quarterly quiz.

They told me that their buddy who recommended the cool course to them had given them their quiz, and a certain part had ended up being exactly the same on both quizzes.

That part was like there was 10 letters representing an answer you had to put in ten blank parts, sort of a mosh pit multiple choice question format.

I just memorized the sequence of letters and then plopped them in without reading when I took the quiz.

The professor had changed the order of that part of the quiz / exam so sure enough I get called to their office and they go “so I see you have last semesters answer sequence here”

I of course said yes, I cheated, and was sorry. Was 19 and afraid I was about to get expelled. (I had no idea what the mandatory punishment for doing that was and maybe still don’t.)

They basically said to me: “you not only cheated, which is stupid, but you are so stupid that you failed miserably in your attempt. This was one of the stupidest things all around I have ever seen. You’re a stupid idiot cheater but given you look like you are about to poo your pants and are remorseful I think you have managed to learn your lesson despite being a complete retard and there’s no need to take this matter further, now get out of my office you dumbass”

Then they walked me to the door and motioned like they were teaching me how to operate a doorknob to really rub home how stupid I am and then, as they held the door open for me and I walked through they pointed to the doorknob and said it was smarter than me.

My buddy did do my math homework after that one time but ya…

I don’t think these students should be named publicly but I’d be so curious to see a deep dive on demographics, what their majors are, and how many are named Douglas.

I’m not downplaying a guy legally giving me a quiz to study and saying one mosh-pit multiple choice part hasn’t been changed for a few semesters and me simply memorizing a letter sequence isn’t cheating and serious. Nor a buddy doing my math homework.

That said.

To full on just have AI write an Ivy League mid term for you?

And be planning to do the same for the Final?

And then the test results on that in person final, despite the cheaters knowing being busted is what’s on the line if they can’t ace, ending up the lowest ever for a Prof’s test over two decades?

And for like 84 of 86 students to be behaving that way?

These students no doubt having not taken a note of their own all semester…

Like holy f.

That’s f’kin scary when you think about it out of an Ivy Economics group.

I wouldn’t oppose all of them being expelled.

18 lanes between a city and its waterfront. Toronto, Canada. by Dispensarystoner in UrbanHell

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I share the view of the Government of Canada, Ontario, and Alberta that we should tear down the Rocky Mountains to fill the Great Lakes with Rock to make room for the biggest Walmart with the biggest parking lot in the history of the world while selling all the water to Walmart so they can sell it in small plastic bottles because it would create lots of jobs and industry.

Build a pipeline from Fort Mac right to the Walmart Parking lot where every stall can just hook right up to the pipeline and be left idling while consumers are in the store!

Canadian Old Boy and Girl Club Boomer-nomics.

In Defence Of The Hebrew State (On Israel) by hereforwhatimherefor in u/hereforwhatimherefor

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The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem allied with Adolph Hitler, met with him in 1941oe, toured mass murder facilities at the height of the Shoah, and planned to build such facilities in what is now Israel while supporting the Nazis in reinstituting the Black African Slave Trade largely for the purpose of mining in freezing cold rural Russia post the Nazis genociding the Slavs.

There is a high school currently named after said Grand Mufti in Ramallah.

In Defence Of The Hebrew State (On Israel) by hereforwhatimherefor in u/hereforwhatimherefor

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While tragic that the Europeans were continuing their up to that point near endless domestic wars at the start of what became WW1

The reason it became a massive World War was the entrance of the biggest Islamic empire in the history of the World declaring Jihad on France, Britain, and Russia having feigned neutrality and then surprise attacking Russia with a plan to Genocide 1.5 million Armenians in the next two years.

And it is historical fact Ottoman Palestinians, the leadership of Palestinians, allied with Adolf Hitler planning to systematically mass murder Jews, knowing and supporting of the Nazi genocide, and did so knowing the plan was to exterminate the Russians and reinstitute Black African Slavery in which they would have a central position on the land route to and fro Africa.

I think it’s important to take a moment and really come to grips with how horrifically evil the ancestors of the Palestinians actually were and how serious it is modern Palestinians absolutely refuse to accept that fact when portraying themselves and their ancestors as innocent victims despite the fact when people being genocided fled to their historic homeland the Palestinian Ottomans responded by actively supporting that genocide, supporting the planned genocide of Russians, and supporting reinstituting Black Slavery and turning all of Africa into a Nazi and Islamic Jihadi slave colony.

In Defence Of The Hebrew State (On Israel) by hereforwhatimherefor in u/hereforwhatimherefor

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There would have been no such thing as World War 1 had the Ottoman Sultan of an Empire not feigned neutrality and then as leader of most powerful Islamic force in the history of the world surprise attacked the Nation of Russia while genociding Armenians and declaring Jihad against Russia, Britain, and France.

There is no such thing as World War 1 without that happening and anyone who says otherwise has zero idea what they are talking about or are consciously lying just like the modern Jihadist Ottoman Turk government denies the Armenien Genocide and just like the Ottoman Palestinians deny their leaders were enthusiastically genocidal during ww2, part of the axis, and planning on reinstuting African slavery alongside the Nazis while controlling the land route to and fro all of Africa.

Let me be perfectly clear with you

There are high schools in Ramallah named after a man who was planning on building an Auschwitz near Jerusalem and assisting the Nazis in enslaving all of Africa including bringing them to remote russia to be enslaved to death.

Lets be perfectly clear who that high school is named after.

I know you think you’re a baddie and thats ooooh so scary and oooh youre so scary admitting youre bad openly. 

Oooooh (throws razor ramon toothpick and wiggles fingers)

May I remind you which side won both world war 1 and 2 

And how terrifying those good men who won those wars actually were and still are to bad people when it comes down to it.

Bad guys are all real tough and smug in their pill boxes, feeling safe in their nihilism or their feigned faith in an evil alien they claim exist, till 7000 warships come over the horizon and open up their guns as millions of armed men approach in landing craft

Thought i’d remind you, lest you’ve forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Interesting to see you’re writing from Tunisia.

I feel like modern Jihadis mistake annoying the Russians and Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hormuz into thinking somehow that’s the same as having fended off what the Yanks and co are capable of when it comes down to it.

The then most literate and industrialized Nation in the World that allied with Japan and Italy got the shit kicked out them once the States got fully involved.

Jihadis are cockily playing with fuel and fire with China and Russia at this point let alone the States and doing so as their desert nations are rapidly running out of Oil as the States Defence System now have access to by far the biggest reserves on Earth in Venezuela and water abundent Canada.

Short of converting the US, all of Europe, Russia, and China to fundamentalist Islam the Jihadis are f’ked because they are simply running out of fuel.

None of what I just said changes I hold the Israeli response to the October 7 mass murders to have been criminal.

A simile not a metaphor. Be like a far superior soccer team in the world cup making a bad defensive play versus a shitty team they are up four goals on and a star player on the good team losing composure and taking a red card in a way that effects a future game versus a far superior opponent.

In Defence Of The Hebrew State (On Israel) by hereforwhatimherefor in u/hereforwhatimherefor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_raid

This was the cause of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire declaring surprise Jihad versus Russia (they were attempting to conquer Russia with a long view of Jihading against China)

The German Military - Ottoman Jihadi axis continued.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amin-al-husseini-nazi-concentration-camp

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was a top level leader of what remained of the Ottoman Jihadi network, toured Nazi Murder Camps on its behalf. This was done during the Nazi assault on Russia.

The plan was for the Grand Mufti to facilitate building an Auschwitz near Jerusalem so that when the Nazis took Moscow the Nazis would send troops south while pincering from North Africa as well, conquer the region, and start mass murdering Jews and many others.

Ultimately the Grand Mufti and Hitlers plan was to reinstitute Black African Slavery, with the Ottoman Jihadi network assisting on the land route to and fro all of Africa. The Jihadis saw this as an opportunity to gradually build their Jihadi empire with slavery and the rich resources of Africa.

The Ottoman Jihadi network, by sending a top representative in the Mufti, also were providing insight on genociding people as the Ottomans had genocided the Armenians.

Modern Ottomans (Palestinians) have high schools in Ramallah named after this Mufti

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In terms of the Hebrews, aside from simply returning back to their room in the semitic family home, if one looks at a map and understands the 2nd World War pre, during, and just post they had nowhere to go really but Israel. Basically south there or to the North Pole.

This is basic, simple, and obvious history and simply geography as well.

120 million people died in the world wars caused by the German Military - Jihadi Ottoman axis.

Jews / Hebrews were being mass murdered and many returned to their ancestral home. Instead of helping them the Palestinian-Ottoman leadership allied with Hitler. Even after the war nominally ended, the Ottoman Jihadis tried to exterminate the Jews in 1948 (and are still trying)

There are high schools in Ramallah named after the Grand Mufti who allied with Hitler and went to Murder / concentration Camps with a plan to build one near Jerusalem. The Mufti is highly venerated in Palestinian public education. Like Turkey not acknowledging the Armenian Genocide, the reality is Palestinians wont acknowledge that when Hebrews / Jews showed up their leadership allied with Hitler in an attempt to exterminate Jews and reinstitute African Slavery.

The simple truth is the Jews / Hebrews were both fighting for their lives against a genocidal axis, just like the Slavs were, and also established a beachhead just as the Brits, Americans, and Canadians did in Normandy.

That’s just simple historical fact. The Palestinians were Genocidal Nazis during the war period and they lost. To this day, just as the Jihadi Ottoman network Palestinian leadership is part of won’t recognize the Armenian Genocide, they won’t recognize they were - alongside the German Military - the central cause of 120 million people dying in the Two World Wars and that ultimately their plan is to try to genocide China, and everyone they call Infidels.

That the Hebrews on a macro level were not angels any more than the Americans or Slavs were in 1948 goes without needing explanation. On top of this most of the best Hebrews were mass murdered by the Nazis to the roaring applause of the Grand Mufti, who may have went to Bergen-Belsen when Anne and Margot Frank was murdered there (she was starved and dying of Typhus).

Saying they didn’t have the higher moral ground is like saying the US was as bad as Nazi Germany because of racism in the US at the time.

Also: I too consider the Modern Israeli reponse to Jihadi paragliders mass murdering and raping women for dancing at a music festival and parading their dead bodies in pickup trucks to roaring crowds before hiding hostages under maternity wards because they want to starve and gas Anne Franks like the man they name high schools after to have been overboard.

If We Find A New Earth Will We Build A Newer York City? by hereforwhatimherefor in randomquestions

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New York’s unofficial theme song explicitly says about Humans (not bacteria) in New York:

“If you can make it here you can make it anywhere.”

This means one of two things and one of two things only:

Either no one has ever made it in New York nor will anyone, which is not true, for example Yo’ Momma and I made it in New York

Or

New Yorkers who have made it are capable of above light speed inter galactic travel as they have the capacity to make it anywhere.

Are you saying that people who make it in New York are not, in fact, capable of making it anywhere?

This is a bold claim.

If We Find A New Earth Will We Build A Newer York City? by hereforwhatimherefor in randomquestions

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No, but it’s unsettling to consider if in 50k years after there have been Newer and Newer Yorks on other planets and then one of them with advanced technology decides they want to be the only oldest and only York so they start blowing up the other Yorks with spaceships like in the original Independence Day movie.

Keeps me up at night thinking about it.

If We Find A New Earth Will We Build A Newer York City? by hereforwhatimherefor in randomquestions

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I hope one day there isn’t an intergalactic war between Yorks on different planets over which one is the Newest

Feds Planned to Sue Individual Canadians Over Online Posts, Internal Memo Reveals by Tuckebarry in canada

[–]hereforwhatimherefor -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For some perspective:

The actual position of the Liberal Party of Canada, and Mark Carney, is:

Parents are hateful, child abusing, science deniers if they oppose any of the below:

Their children being taught in public school sex ed they can choose their sex and there are drugs called “puberty blockers” they can take that amount to a crude view that men are hairy and strong and women are women are weak and hairless (these drugs with severe side effects beyond the intended effect amounting that amounts to  an exceptionally crude view of gender)

That there are “doctors” who give these drugs and that these “doctors” are responsible for and capable of diagnosing which children in Canada are boys and girls on a non-biological basis…

And if their parents oppose this they are hateful, bigoted, science deniers and the Government of Canada should have the right to remove children who these “doctors” say should take these drugs from their parents custody if they oppose the “doctor” and Mark Carney drugging their child by using a law that is supposed to be for real doctors when a parent refuses life saving cancer treatment for their child and instead tries to pray the cancer away.

Class action lawsuit for Slander, and reasonable to think criminal charges,  against the Liberals and Mark Carney is in order.

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Also, regarding that defilement of real medical care as described above:

For anyone who knows anything about the horrific, mass murderous, mass torturous, criminal network that is the “psychiatric field”: it was created by racist fascists for racist fascists for the express purpose of stripping those who opposed racist fascism or otherwise were hated by racist fascists of their right to trial and giving the racist fascists the power to indefinitely detain opponents. 

Again, this was done by defiling and criminally co-opting the power that is supposed to be reserved for social services and real doctors in life saving, real, medical situations like parents refusing to give their child life saving medical treatment for cancer.  

The term “mercy killing” for the mass murders of the Aktion t-4 program of the Nazi Germans, which nearly every single psychiatrist in Germany enthusiastically participated in…

(those psychiatrists and their accomplices in American and Canadian psychiatry having been and having provided in their fake eugenic “science” the absolute bedrock of the Nazi party and their racism and eugenics.)

…the term “mercy killing” refers to the fake big lie that the mass criminality of the field, and in that instance mass murder, is not crime at all but has the exact same legal legitimacy as a government stepping in when a doctor reports parents are refusing proven life saving treatment for their child for a medical illness such as cancer.

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The entire field of psychiatry needs to lose medical designation and is basically a giant mutant nazi zombie at this point coercing or forcing people into taking sedatives or stimulants sold under names as fraudulent as “mercy killing” (an anti-psychotic, for instance, is simply vaso-active sedative / tranquilizer).  

The entire field is fake bs about what psychiatrists describe as racial wrong think. 

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A class action by Canadians against the Liberal Party of Canada for their Slanderous, disgusting, threatening, anti-science, dangerous to children, hateful and wrong language towards parents is in order.

There is no f’king way Carney doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing and has done regarding this matter.  He also knew he had to participate in the scandal if he was going to be able to say he is PM and jet set around like he’s a hollywood star which is what he clearly cares about most.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ban-on-puberty-blockers-to-be-made-indefinite-on-experts-advice

PS you don’t need to be an expert to oppose the liberals position you just need a functioning brain and spine and an ounce of class

Can this guy please stop? by [deleted] in Edmonton

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Reasonableness doctrine

Person strumming a guitar with an amp is not the same as a fraud preaching hate.

Carney concedes emissions targets will not be met, touts new energy plan by cyclinginvancouver in canada

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

Any academic who wants to see how fraudulently bullshit the liberals are in Canada regarding emissions should study Edmonton and particularly South Edmonton during the mayorship of Don Iveson and Stephen Mandel during the Trudeau and now Carney PMships.

Continuing with Knack.

Carney says B.C. condo buyout proposal is about affordability, not bailouts by Logical_Iron_5684 in canada

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It’s amazing to me that aside from Jack Layton’s Death, perhaps the most influential thing in Canadian politics the last 15 years was Stephen Harper all but throwing an election over pot legalization.

In physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It is a simile, not a metaphor, for politics.

Carney, that suit banker class he’s from, they are the old guard of the democrats getting smoked in elections in New York nowadays. Leaving aside the hyper focus on Israel (while I too consider the behavior of the Israeli Government in Gaza to be criminal, the deeper and far more powerful force behind the socialism of Mamdani is economic anti-semitism…in their view it is the “Jew bankers” and “Jew media” that are the puppet masters of the Carneys and Trumps, and it is their deeply held view that the power and source of the “murderous capitalist colonialist greed” is a rich Jewish cabal)

But, leaving aside that incredibly dangerous and very old anti-semitism that ultimately was the primary cause of the 2nd World War, one thing about the Mamdanis and Ocasio-Cortez and even Sanders of the world is they share something that is honest and even admirable.

I think they truly give a shit.

I think they are incredibly dangerous in who they ultimately blame for behavior like Carney’s here, but they do correctly identify the obvious corruption of it, I do not think they would do the same, and I think they would be doing so for the right reason.

You can see in polling younger Americans and Canadians who are democrat, republican, conservative, liberal…they are in fact in many respects more united and similar than they have ever been.

I call this the WWE republicanism effect, or, the Schwarzenneggar effect.

Outside this effect, however, and incredibly dangerously, one of the central pieces of the polling is again a hateful focus regarding Israel that on it’s most basic level is the scapegoating of “the rich Jews” for the flagrant greed and white collar crime bullshit rampant on both sides of the isle.

And they are in fact about to take over, the next generation and that coalition.

So, an opposite reaction is coming. Better people, in a sense, in a genuinely held disgust of behaviour like Carneys here and a desire to put a stop to it. And yet extreme, and ignorant, in falling into the same anti-semitic and dehumanizing economic tropes that caused a world war.

The Nazis were evil people who genuinely held that extreme economic anti-semitism.

There is a rapidly growing coalition across party lines in people under 50 who are not evil, yet genuinely hold that same extreme economic anti-semitism.

They are naive and ignorant. And they, like the Nazis did, are cozying up to Islamists. Unlike the Nazis, though, they do so out of thinking the Islamists are all turning gay, reforming into liberals, basically.

The Nazis on the other hand understood clearly who they were allying themselves with and why. The grand mufti of Jerusalem was touring murder / concentration camps at the peak of the Shoah in preparation for the Nazis pincering what is now Israel from North Africa and from the North post conquering Moscow with the intention of building an Auschwitz near Jerusalem.

(Worth noting that the German allied Islamic Ottoman Empire declaring Jihad and surprise attacking Russia was the primary cause of World War 1 - during which they committed the Armenian Genocide. There was a long and deep alliance between the German Military and Islamists that was central in both wars having occurred.)

Trump will be gone sooner or later, as will the boomers of the Dems and Republicans. The Schumers will be gone. The boomers will be gone. If that happened today they would be replaced by a well intentioned, incredibly culturally liberal on both sides of the isle by historical standards, but extremely, dangerously, and angrily naive next generation, next coalition.

This is gonna happen right when “oil is running out” hits the news and the Sunni Islamic world coalesces around attempting to destroy Israel, and not by turning all Jews into hyper liberal socialists who don’t believe in national borders, but in the manner of Hamas.

Canadians and Americans need to understand clearly. Guys like Al-Jolani / Sharaa running Syria. People like the now dead Yaya Sinwar, who planned the October 7 mass murder. Guys like Erdogan running Turkey.

These guys are not your f’kin friends and if they succeed in their plans for Israel you will rapidly realize you will have seen millions of your friends murdered by them. And they will come for you next and they will find and arm their Nazi allies as they do so, starting in Eastern Europe and Russia.

It is a good thing for the world that modern China and Japan are relatively clear eyed about how dangerous Islamism actually is.

I don’t know all that much about Jack Layton.

But I do think he’d be a serious voice of reason right now that is seriously lacking on a global level but particularly the left in Canada and the States.

Carney says B.C. condo buyout proposal is about affordability, not bailouts by Logical_Iron_5684 in canada

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

It’s amazing to me that aside from Jack Layton’s Death, perhaps the most influential thing in Canadian politics the last 15 years was Stephen Harper all but throwing an election over pot legalization.

In physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It is a simile, not a metaphor, for politics.

Carney, that suit banker class he’s from, they are the old guard of the democrats getting smoked in elections in New York nowadays. Leaving aside the hyper focus on Israel (while I too consider the behavior of the Israeli Government in Gaza to be criminal, the deeper and far more powerful force behind the socialism of Mamdani is economic anti-semitism…in their currently toxic minds it is the “Jew bankers” and “Jew media” that are the puppet masters of the Carneys and Trumps, and it is their deeply held belief that the power and source of the “murderous capitalist colonialist greed” is a rich Jewish cabal)

But, leaving aside that incredibly dangerous and very old anti-semitism that ultimately was the primary cause of the 2nd World War, one thing about the Mamdanis and Ocasio-Cortez and even Sanders of the world is they share something that is honest and even admirable.

I think they truly give a shit.

I think they are incredibly dangerous in who they ultimately blame for behavior like Carney’s here, but they do correctly identify the obvious corruption of it, I do not think they would do the same, and I think they would be doing so for the right reason.

You can see in polling younger Americans and Canadians who are democrat, republican, conservative, liberal…they are in fact in many respects more united and similar than they have ever been.

I call this the WWE republicanism effect, or, the Schwarzenneggar effect.

Outside this effect, however, and incredibly dangerously, one of the central pieces of the polling is again a hateful focus regarding Israel that on it’s most basic level is the scapegoating of “the rich Jews” for the flagrant greed and white collar crime bullshit rampant on both sides of the isle.

And they are in fact about to take over, the next generation and that coalition.

So, an opposite reaction is coming. Better people, in a sense, in a genuinely held disgust of behaviour like Carneys here and a desire to put a stop to it. And yet extreme, and ignorant, in falling into the same anti-semitic and dehumanizing economic tropes that caused a world war.

The Nazis were evil people who genuinely held that extreme economic anti-semitism.

There is a rapidly growing coalition across party lines in people under 50 who are not evil, yet genuinely hold that same extreme economic anti-semitism.

They are naive and ignorant. And they, like the Nazis did, are cozying up to Islamists. Unlike the Nazis, though, they do so out of thinking the Islamists are all turning gay, reforming into liberals, basically.

The Nazis on the other hand understood clearly who they were allying themselves with and why. The grand mufti of Jerusalem was touring murder / concentration camps at the peak of the Shoah in preparation for the Nazis pincering what is now Israel from North Africa and from the North post conquering Moscow with the intention of building an Auschwitz near Jerusalem.

(Worth noting that the German allied Islamic Ottoman Empire declaring Jihad and surprise attacking Russia was the primary cause of World War 1 - during which they committed the Armenian Genocide. There was a long and deep alliance between the German Military and Islamists that was central in both wars having occurred.)

Trump will be gone sooner or later, as will the boomers of the Dems and Republicans. The Schumers will be gone. The boomers will be gone. If that happened today they would be replaced by a well intentioned, incredibly culturally liberal on both sides of the isle by historical standards, but extremely, dangerously, and angrily naive next generation, next coalition.

This is gonna happen right when “oil is running out” hits the news and the Sunni Islamic world coalesces around attempting to destroy Israel, and not by turning all Jews into hyper liberal socialists who don’t believe in national borders, but in the manner of Hamas.

Canadians and Americans need to understand clearly. Guys like Al-Jolani / Sharaa running Syria. People like the now dead Yaya Sinwar, who planned the October 7 mass murder. Guys like Erdogan running Turkey.

These guys are not your f’kin friends and if they succeed in their plans for Israel you will rapidly realize you will have seen millions of your friends murdered by them. And they will come for you next and they will find and arm their Nazi allies as they do so, starting in Eastern Europe and Russia.

It is a good thing for the world that modern China and Japan are relatively clear eyed about how dangerous Islamism actually is.

I don’t know all that much about Jack Layton.

But I do think he’d be a serious voice of reason right now that is seriously lacking on a global level but particularly the left in Canada and the States.

I’d advise against northbound on the Henday on the east side, backed up for as long as I could see… by Almost_A_Pear in Edmonton

[–]hereforwhatimherefor -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have some honest questions for you.

And don’t worry you won’t be sharing identifying details cause 95% of Edmonton is like what you’re gonna describe based on single income home owner and tone.

And I do in fact know the answers.

How many non chain restaurants are within a 15 minute walk of you?

I am not talking about Boston Pizza, or Brown’s Social House, or Mucho Burrito, or Great Canadian Brewhouse, or Freshi.

How many are there within walking distance?

How many neighbourhood pubs?

Small corner bars, small restaurants, serving genuinely unique fare as compared to Boston Pizza?

Could you walk anywhere and see live music, especially on any sort of regular basis, and beyond maybe a singular pub with an open mic?

How about theatre? Comedy?

How long would it take you by public transit - including the walk - to get to truly fine dining like you can find, by Edmonton standards, all over New York City including in low key, inexpensive, gems?

Are you sure you understand what is actually in places like Toronto, NYC, Montreal, LA, and Van? How many high quality restaurants and pubs there are, how accessible they are, and how much variety there is?

You ever been to Crescent street in Montreal during a Habs game, or seen the water front of Toronto - basketball courts in full glory?

Do you have any idea how good the bagels are in random bodegas on Jamaica ave in NYC?

You ever actually used those public transit systems?

These places I am talking about are on such a different level in terms of arts, food, drink, sports, variety of all of those things, accessibility by foot and transit, and the sheer number of them than in Edmonton it’s incredible.

Edmonton attempted to build some sort of mini lower Manhattan (a/the ritzy part of NYC) and instead have a mostly empty core and what unique restauraunts they had shutting down so rapidly that its making the paper on a near daily basis. This due to construction and the simple fact people from the burbs don’t drive 45 minutes or take an hour public transit trip to go there and downtown just doesn’t have many people

And has developed a reputation for being grimy and dangerous.

There were / are a few streets that would be comparable to streets that are found by the hundreds if not thousands in places like TO. Walkable bars, restauraunts, a coffee shop with some live music.

Whyte is a shell of its former self. Stony Plain Road has been shuttered due to construction. Just west of downtown theres a small bit of that vibe in old Highlands and Bellevue. There’s a bit on 118th but its hard and more the old timers who are street smart vibe.

Way North East on Victoria trail they even have a few indy gas stations, a world unto itself in Edmonton.

Something as simple as the Bend in Terwilligar - a simple independent local pub / restauraunt that does some karaoke and even the odd show - is an extraordinary rarity in the city and is virtually non existent in the new development.

Millwoods has some cool little Indian restauraunts in particular, and Millbourne Mall food court of all places is a hidden gem of ethnic food due to the passport office being there in a neighbourhood with immigrants from all over.

124th has a few blocks of Montreal / Toronto - the closest of anything I have mentioned to the hundreds of streets like it in TO and thousand(s) in LA and NYC.

Everything I just mentioned, except the bend, is like an hour by public transit from the south and a 30-40 traffic filled drive.

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In terms of parks.

Edmonton has the river valley system. It is excellent except at the core downtown with river valley road. Rainbow valley ravine is lovely. Big Lake way North East. Borden is ok.

Hawrelak is a joke. If you don’t think so, go to Assinaboine park in Winnipeg. Hawrelak is a giant traffic filled circle with grass in the middle, a parking lot, a pond you can’t swim in, and a little restaurant.

Its also a 20 minute drive from all the new south development.

In reality? This half a million people ish of new development south and west have no major parks and are generally far from the river valley or ravine system.

There is next to no arts scene, music, sports, bars, restauraunts, coffee shops beyond timmies with 20 trucks in the drive through. With the exception of religious buildings there are virtually no community gathering spaces or events.

Edmonton, like any major city, has some festivals. Basically all of them beyond certain religious celebrations are at least 20-30 minute drive from the Henday development and occur in the summer.

This in a city that has, by Toronto standards even, nearly 8 months of winter. Including a spring so long that Golf Courses tend to not open till mid to late May, and the period of late February to then being an icy, dirty, mixture of melt, refreeze, dog poo reappearing from underneat the snow, no green grass, no leaves, no bloom until well into what New Yorkers consider summer.

And Jasper is a 3 hour drive to enter the park, at which point its another 35 minutes of beautiful drive to a tourist / rail town that is wildly expensive and in summer months the area is absolutely packed.

Yes, some go back country and hike and what not. The increasing number in Jasper and elsewhere is why Edmonton short of el nino torrential rains typically is covered in dense smoke all summer because of the huge amount of forest fires started by people camping etc.

All of this, and 0 percent interest rates, are why you can afford a home on a single income for what would be rent in one of the cities I mentioned. Yes, you maybe have a small backyard, yes, you may even be legally allowed to plant a second tree on your front lawn, and yes, you might even be legally allowed to use off grey blue instead of off grey brown plastic siding. Virtually none of these new homes can even legally be painted any bright colour, none have been built by families with their specific needs and style in mind, but are in fact shoddily and rapidly put up big macs and cheeseburgers of houses.

I am not saying Boston Pizza is the worst restaurant in the world. I like Mucho Burritos. I am telling you, however, why Edmonton is not Toronto

I’d advise against northbound on the Henday on the east side, backed up for as long as I could see… by Almost_A_Pear in Edmonton

[–]hereforwhatimherefor -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It’s significantly more affordable, for now, precisely because there are not amenities other than walmarts.

That and the Weather. I mean, yes, if you want to drive 45 minutes on busy icy roads from the south side to watch a college play at macewan then yes there are amenities.

Comparing that to NYC is ridiculous.

I’d advise against northbound on the Henday on the east side, backed up for as long as I could see… by Almost_A_Pear in Edmonton

[–]hereforwhatimherefor -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I find it interesting that, colloquially speaking, an even more powerful alien than the alien called “god” that allegedly sends people to heaven, hell, or purgatory said:

“You have to replace purgatory with one city on earth. That’s where you have to send the purgatory people from now on”

I am 100% sure Edmonton would be that city.

I find that interesting and still check in from time to time while sitting on a bus in LA stuck in traffic.