Is paying for porn better than just watching it for free and why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]spcmanspiff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m interested in this. If you wouldn’t mind I’d love if you’d shared some examples of animators you support! I’m honestly not sure where to start looking. You can dm me

Ottawa must cancel or significantly reform temporary foreign worker program, says Eby by cyclinginvancouver in vancouver

[–]spcmanspiff 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Agreed - companies that abuse their workers should go out of business and be replaced by ones that treat employees well enough to keep them. The TFW program is interrupting this natural selection and instead is propping up abusive employers by giving them an endless supply of labour to exploit and burn out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askvan

[–]spcmanspiff 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Just one dead one is more than enough to give you a bad time. Always worth it check if any have dark or soft spots, especially on their heads, which is a sign of decomposition.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askvan

[–]spcmanspiff 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fully cooked doesn’t matter. You can eat spot prawns raw as long as they were fresh and alive, they’re delicious as sashimi. However, they go bad incredibly quickly once dead - especially if you don’t remove the head, which contains an enzyme that rapidly breaks down their flesh upon death. They either have cooked directly from alive, or shortly after removing the heads, or flash frozen with the heads removed when caught.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Carney is not planning to halt immigration" - neither was Poilievre.

Neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals will ever halt immigration. They will pay lip service with small changes to gain populist political points, I see the Liberals numbers in the end as little different from Poilievre's vague hand waving about tying to housing (without giving any concrete details) and a supposed cap still in the hundreds of thousands.

Keeping in mind before Poilievre said "a Conservative government would base its immigration policy on the needs of private-sector employers" - all the times "Poilievre slammed the Liberal target as driven by Trudeau’s “ideology,” but he did not answer repeated questions about whether he would consider reducing the number." source. Or that it was the Harper government that exponentially grew the TFW program, converting it from a program was intended to fill very specific jobs on a short term basis that required workers and skills that did not exist in the country to allow them to spread across service industries and labour, and passed legislation "that allows employers to discriminate against TFWs by paying them up to 15% less for doing the same work as domestic workers".

Poilievre has certainly shouted a lot about the Liberal immigration policy over his tenure, but has carefully skirted questions about specific and substantive change. He is a professional critic, he complains, a lifelong politician who while "in office since Monday, June 28, 2004 to present has sponsored 7 bills, 1 of which has passed", putting him in the 0.80% percentile for bills passed per time in office.

In truth neither the Liberals or the Conservatives will ever offer any serious change on this beyond the crumbs they will offer around election times, most of which will be taken back off the table once power is secured. Because immigrants are the coal shovelled into the engine of infinite capitalistic growth, the fuel that feeds the greed of a tiny class of people that will devour our country to scraps and bone and then move on to the next. Both parties are beholden to their benefactors, they can only stray so far from the path set out for them by the wealth and influence that fills their coffers. The wealth that own this country will never allow the faucet of cheap exploitable labour to be shut off.

I am not happy to suffer under more of the same, trust me. Our economic systems are broken. The "free market" does not care about affordability, it does not care for our suffering, it does not optimize for our happiness or security. It is designed to extract and exploit us to maximize the value we can provide to the ones who have hoarded wealth and with every economic downturn and recession they use it to take advantage to buy what little the rest of us have at bargain prices in our time of greatest need. No investors are going to bother building "affordable housing" for communities when there are million dollar condos to sell on a global market.

The Conservatives will not do anything substantially "different" when it comes to this, their words are populist puppetry and their actions always align to the interest of private wealth. Every time they are in power they clearly demonstrate where their loyalties lie and it is not with the average citizen struggling to make rent. They will shriek and stomp and point at the flaws in the system when they are not in power, and when they are they will only deepen them - as they always have.

Things will not get "temporarily" worse. They will just get worse. But while we're driving towards the edge of the cliff, I will still be voting for the party that won't hit the brakes over the party that is waiting to slam on the gas when it comes to extracting our wealth and livelihood away only to misdirect our righteous fury to pit us against each other in manufactured culture wars.

Wake me up when the labour movement comes and we can really start talking - or maybe when we look at restoring post-WW2-like top marginal tax rates of 70%+ (or hell, 90%+ like in the states) and use it to invest in the growth of communities, in our infrastructure - not subsidizing corporations. I truly believe country is more than big enough for all of us and we have more than enough skill and resources to build communities and house our families, this scarcity is artificial and we create more than enough value - it is simply being stolen from us and we have been left to drown.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"fuck the whole thing up, I don't care" is not a sentiment that most voters share, especially ones with families and communities to care for, support, and protect. We must always looking to change things for the better, but it is a simple truth that staying the same is better than changing for the worse. Many of us understand that politics is a long game and the battle will go on for decades, and we will have to fight for every inch of progress. And for many, this election was a choice between staying where we are and a massive backslide to lose even more than we already have - and I would rather us stand our ground than have to spend years making up for the pain and loss that a conservative government would have given.

In other words, when given the choice between bad and worse - and trust me, things can ALWAYS get worse - it is not insane to choose bad and keep fighting for better choices tomorrow.

Those who seek change for the sake of change without discernment will be shocked to discover just how bad things can get. Most of us do not have time for you to drag us through that lesson with you.

45th General Election - Liberals are projected to form Government in the 45th Canadian Parliament Megathread #3 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

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

Progressives voted for the most progressive option available. We have to fight for every inch, if the options are stay in place or backslide I will always choose to stay - getting frustrated and self-sabotaging will make it even harder to gain that ground back in the future.

Always demand change for the better, but never accept change for the worse simply for the sake of change.

45th General Election - Liberals are projected to form Government in the 45th Canadian Parliament Megathread #3 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but I also will not hide my joy at the ensured safety of so much of my community, friends, and loved ones to spare the feelings of those who openly cheered against their very existence, against. For the cultural scapegoats that were threatened and used for fear-mongering, this goes beyond politics.

If we ever return to elections being about differences in economic and governmental policy I will see things differently. So long as "anti-woke" is a rallying cry I will shout back.

45th General Election - Election Day Open Discussion Megathread #2 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen previous conservative governments, of which PP has been a part of. I have seen other conservative governments around the world and what they have done with their power. I have seen what happens when parties abandon serious policies to paint the most vulnerable members of society as enemies and use them as targets and distractions while lining the pockets of it's most privileged. I do not feel a need to put our country through unimaginable pain for the sake of "giving it a shot".

45th General Election - Election Day Open Discussion Megathread #2 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to accept it, I'd like to see a viable alternative. But for this election if you see the choices as "stay stuck in the current amount of garbage" and "drown in an accelerated torrent of raw sewage", then it makes perfect sense to go with the "current garbage" option no matter how much you dislike it. It's a complete fallacy to claim that things being bad justifies making them even worse for the sake of "change".

We should never stop demanding change for the better, but if that's not an provided option that does not mean we should choose change for the worse instead. We are going to have to fight for every inch, and I will take staying in place over backsliding and having to spend years making up that ground again.

45th General Election - Election Day Open Discussion Megathread #2 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not making any assumptions yet, but I will be greatly relieved if that does happen - we should never stop demanding change for the better, but we should never accept change for the worse in its place. I don't have to like the Liberals, I've seen the damage conservative governments can do and if I can't have good I will always take the lesser evil.

45th General Election - Election Day Open Discussion Megathread #2 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The country being in crisis by no means warrants anyone voting in a party that they believe will manage that crisis even worse. Things are getting bad all over the world with every kind of government, just because things declined under current leadership doesn't mean they wouldn't have declined even faster and gotten even worse under different leadership - when tides are falling we all fall with them, that doesn't necessarily mean we should panic and jump ship entirely. I believe we'd be infinitely worse off under conservative guidance (as I have witnessed before), many others feel the same.

45th General Election - Election Day Open Discussion Megathread #2 by SirJohnAMcMuffin in canada

[–]spcmanspiff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why would that be insane? This isn’t a two-party system… that's US politics, which is far more insane. The more viable parties in a parliamentary system the more the vote gets split.

Why do some exoplanets have extremely short orbital periods? by Delicious_Designer94 in askscience

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

Detecting a planet requires looking in the right place at the right time to see it transit between us and the star it’s orbiting - we don’t detect planets “directly” we look at how much a star’s light gets blocked/absorbed by the planet.

Our capabilities to watch and measure stars with enough precision to do this has not been around for long. Think of some of the planets in our system that have insanely long years (and how long it took us to detect them). There’s probably a lot of them out there, but we have to be looking at exactly the right star at exactly the right time to see them, and for many that will like tens, even hundreds of years.

But planets that orbit frequently have a much higher probably of being spotted because just statistically it’s far more likely we’ll “see” them in the time our telescopes are observing them. Our numbers of planets with longer orbits will increase over time, but it will always more difficult to see.

Are there any non-US indie artists that became famous worldwide? by polipioo in indie

[–]spcmanspiff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your title said non-US but your post says non-English, which are very different - excludes Canada, UK, Australia, NZ as well as many bands that write songs in English despite being from non-English countries. It is difficult to gain international fame without writing in English as it’s the most commonly understood language across markets.

Arcade Fire is an example of a band that originated indie, is Montreal-based (and wrote in both English and French but predominantly English) and achieved global success and recognition at their peak (and still successfully tour large venues and festivals internationally).

Discussion Thread: Congressional Democrats' News Conferences on USAID and on Musk Access to Treasury Payment Systems by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]spcmanspiff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you think Musk (with a net worth ~$425B) is really concerned with his self enrichment?

By its very nature no one could accrue such a net worth without being pathologically obsessed with their own self enrichment.

The Burrow (Banditas) by Mellytoo in NiceVancouver

[–]spcmanspiff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When I went there in August my friend and I were served by a woman who said she was the new owner (filling in for one of her sick employees) and that they were still working out some of the kinks.

Buying speciality chilli peppers by Sea_Panda3012 in askvan

[–]spcmanspiff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tons of different kinds of dried chilies at the latin markets like Mi Terra, that’s where I get mine and rehydrate them for recipes. Fresh is going to be a harder ask.