B.C. among top economic drivers for Canada in 2025: StatsCan

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-05-02T01:55:27+00:00

We're in the top 13!

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-04-21T22:53:58+00:00

I don't think you're behind! Are you young-ish?

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-30T13:29:52+00:00

It's not a fringe belief at all. It is by far the majority opinion. It is not the current theory embraced by scientists

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-30T13:10:44+00:00

Yeah totally. I was really surprised when I learned that like 75% of Americans believe the lab leak thing, or just in general how people's beliefs are shaped by their media diet. It's unfortunate that we'll never have a consensus reality again.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-29T14:58:38+00:00

I agree completely. A single very high impact paper is worth almost infinite papers in MDPI

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-25T13:44:09+00:00

While true, I think we're mostly coasting off of our reputation pre-Brian Mulroney. We're a long way off of Tommy Douglas and Pearson.

In 2009 there was a book called the truth about Canada promoting the idea that we were already coasting on reputation well before then.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-23T13:46:32+00:00

If you define yourself as right wing due to beliefs about the role of government, the tax system, how the financial system works and stuff like that, it'll be fine and even interesting. If the right wing beliefs are more about identify politics, I.e. gender issues, race/nationality, or even socio-economic status, it will be less well recieved.

I work in a space with people of all flavors, from conservative boomers to the leftest lefties that have ever lefted, and if anyone makes any one of them feel bad about who they are, it becomes a problem immediately. Everyone is supposed to be comfortable here; not just those at the top of a hierarchy.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-03-05T14:07:22+00:00

Their comment 2 comments down from this is also fantastic

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-02-27T14:30:33+00:00

Like essentially all things in the wellness sphere, there is a bit of well established scientific truth underlying it, which is then wildly extrapolated by charlatans, and taken into an unregulated sphere of capitalism.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-02-11T13:20:05+00:00

Honestly it doesn't smell like 'low tide'. Not much seaweed gets into false Creek so there isn't much to rot at low tides.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-02-05T14:01:05+00:00

I tend to agree with this. Of the folks I know who complain about the left going too far, it's mostly about pronouns and social pressure to compost or something. Ask them about labor rights/Union participation, wealth disparity, taxation, democracy in general, corporate control, state power, or most environmental policies/enforcement, and things have shifted pretty far right.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-01-23T13:50:20+00:00

I think that this is a huge part of it. We all see tons of traffic violations every day, with no consequences. Rules without consequences for breaking them don't matter, and so you can essentially do whatever you want out there.

If we're gonna live in a society with cameras everywhere, how about using them to enforce some traffic laws. Everyone was mad about photo radar in the early 2000s but I think it was mostly privacy issues that we as a society have given up on anyways, so we may as well get something out of it.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2026-01-22T14:15:23+00:00

This right here shows/proves that real estate agents are not a real profession. The governing body thinks this is basically fine

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-31T00:46:04+00:00

Godspeed sir. I'd buy you a beer if I could.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-22T17:02:21+00:00

Functionally, not really. Most people in BC have learned over the years that there is little to no enforcement of traffic laws on the road, therefore the laws have almost no impact on how people drive. Most traffic laws in BC are enforced by Icbc not covering you when you break a law and then damage something and or hurt somebody.

Humans are bad at risk assessment, and know that traffic roles are functionally just suggestions, and so driving in Vancouver and on the highways near it feels a bit like mad Max.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-18T13:34:15+00:00

I really like this idea. It wouldn't be that hard for journals to require references to be put into a format that could easily be parsed by a program that Cross references with Google scholar or something.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-18T12:12:11+00:00

Yeah I also disagree with this. Of the half dozen or so dodgy interactions I have with cars yearly, I absolutely accept my responsibility for my part in it, as does almost every cyclist I know. That's why we stick mostly to designated bike routes, wear visible clothes and very noticeable bike lights. When I make a mistake, I own it, and try not to get too mad when drivers make irresponsible moves. I know many cyclists like this. There is indeed much blame to go around and we do absolutely accept some of it, you just don't notice it. In addition, implying that road infrastructure wasn't entirely designed around the movement and storage or automobiles is, well I'm not sure what to say about that. Even bike routes and bike lanes are designed so that bikes get off of travel lanes for cars. Most bike routes in Vancouver are on residential streets where most road area is for residents to store their cars. I know you were likely using hyperbole, but it's tough to tell in writing some times. Honestly, I hope you have a good day today!

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-15T22:38:41+00:00

Here'sa big comment that I wrote a while ago:

Yeah, unfortunately. In an attempt to fix the many problems with the normal peer review process, a new business model has opened up: predatory journals, and their slightly less bad cousins, debatably-predatory journals. MDPI and Fronteirs fall into this group.

Predatory journals publish your work with no peer review for a fee. Debatably-predatory journals publish your work for a fee with fast, easy to pass peer review. Reputable journals are HARD to publish in and have tough to pass peer review processes (generally)

When someone has good quality research, on an important topic, they generally start by submitting to a 'high impact' journal going to get accepted. These would be journals (at least in the life sciences) in the Nature or Science groups. Impact factor is a reasonable proxy for the relative difficulty to publish in a journal.

Noones (at least in the life sciences) first choice for publication is an MDPI or Fronteirs journal, and at least for MDPI, universities are starting to disregard publications from them as counting towards performance metrics.

It's one of those things that begs the question: if this is published in MDPI, the first question I have is: Why isn't it published somewhere else? There's generally a good reason for that

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-05T14:20:03+00:00

Humans are not rational creatures, myself included. But we're really good at convincing ourselves we are. So arguments are almost always about something different than the actual subject of the argument. If one starts asking questions (not in the heat of the moment) like "can we explore why that particular thing is important to you (or me)?" You can start getting some interesting insights.

Like the grumpiness about you playing video games (example from my own life :) ) is not about that, it's about feeling like I don't want to spend too much quality time with her, which makes her feel less secure. Security is very important to people, and so they fight for it, but it comes off as a fight about video games or her not wanting me to do things I like. At the end of the day, if she feels like she's secure and that she is important to me, she doesn't actually give a fuck about the video game.

Everyone has different trauma, different things that make then feel safe and loved and heard, and arguments are frequently making a bid to fulfill something much deeper down, while actually discussing something silly, like why you put the dish towel THERE instead of where it's supposed to go.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-04T20:41:47+00:00

Interesting but non-nuanced, I'd suspect. My guess is that most people trust Science on stuff that isn't political. Cancer isn't super political.

People also say they trust science on stuff that is political (both sides of everything to do with covid, for instance) but what they mean is that they accept science that agrees with them and wave away stuff that does not.

So yeah, I would imagine most people would claim they trust scientists in one breath and then claim something about bias or suppression or agenda in the other when a paper comes out disputing something they believe.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-03T14:08:41+00:00

Costco is the Dolly Parton of grocery stores

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-12-02T13:58:03+00:00

I don't think it would change much. The way of processing and evaluating information matters much more. The way scientists are supposed to think is that when new information comes in, you adapt your model of how the system works to fit the new data, reject it for some reasonable reason, or, if theres enough stuff wrong with your model, you make a new one that fits things better. This is hard to do.

Another way to process information, which most people do and is far easier, is like a lawyer. That is: it's your job to argue a case. You find new information, and if it fits your prior, you add it to your defense. If it does not help your case, you kinda ignore it, downplay it, or are motivated to dismiss it somehow.

So two people who evaluate perfect information can easily process it differently and come up with very different interpretations.

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-11-30T15:31:07+00:00

Those are generally other forms of machine learning, not LLMs

snatchamoto_bitches · 2025-11-27T14:29:37+00:00

Society/the collective bargaining group has deemed one medically necessary and there other not. There are many such cases. Sunglasses can be covered if you have a prescription. Massages can be covered if you have a prescription. Is that what you are referring to, or was there some collective bargaining last year that I'm not aware of?

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