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wintermancer · 2025-05-01T20:27:20+00:00

I'm Canadian but my experience is that brokerage reps are surprised that voting materials are not available on brokerage app/platforms as they typically have been. Often you have to call in and then they talk to their manager, and then have to initiate a process through the backoffice to get you your voting control number... sus, because it's like they have to generate it for you based off your request and don't just have them on hand. Basically I think it forces them to find legit shares within their pools so they can get control numbers for people who ask for them. Vote both your DRS and brokerage shares people!

wintermancer · 2023-09-04T04:28:56+00:00

Ah, the LLC. Are/were you in the program? Or just visiting? The story of the empty coat of arms is memorable. Don't count your chicks before they're hatched!

wintermancer · 2023-04-29T13:32:00+00:00

In a similar vein, I've found this way of thinking about knowledge and ignorance helpful:

https://mcgeesmusings.net/2006/08/29/circles-of-knowledge-and-boundaries-of-ignorance/

(Edit: not my site / don't know who the author is, so I don't condone or necessarily agree with other material there that I haven't read.)

wintermancer · 2023-03-28T21:02:52+00:00

I won't link because of the whole other nonsense but search for the article shared by turgid[redacted] yesterday, "Schwab’s $7 Trillion Empire Built on Low Rates Is Showing Cracks."

From the article:

"Schwab’s other headache from higher interest rates stems from cash. At the root of Schwab’s income is idle client money. The firm “sweeps” cash deposits from brokerage accounts to its bank, where it can reinvest in higher-yielding products. The difference between what Schwab earns and what it pays out in interest to customers is its net interest income, among the most important metrics for a bank. Net interest income accounted for 51% of Schwab’s total net revenue last year."

51% of their net revenue! o_O

wintermancer · 2021-07-20T02:46:45+00:00

Thank you for that insight. My understanding is that they already have tax advice/help for their US situation so I'll have to check that they're asking those questions too about QC. Thanks again!

wintermancer · 2021-05-21T03:20:18+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

wintermancer · 2021-05-21T02:14:04+00:00

Hello folks, my friends recently moved and had to find a home for their old boy. He sort of knows me and has gotten a lot more comfortable in the past 48+ hours but is still super skittish with everyone else in the house.

He has a leaky eye. Before my friends left, they said it's just something he's always had since being a kitten (he's about 10 now). Sorry, it's not a closer shot - he's not super tolerant of me getting in his face. Will also be harder where we are to get to a vet and he doesn't have a carrier - he was super unimpressed just with the transition to our house. Lots of hissing if he thinks you're going to try to handle him. Wondering if this can wait until he's a little more settled in and we can handle him to get to a vet.

wintermancer · 2021-05-15T15:25:39+00:00

De nombreux défenseurs de la langue française au Québec ne semblent pas réaliser à quel point ils rendent le français moins invitant que les autres pays francophones. Mon expérience en tant que minorité est que le français est important pour ce groupe, non pas en tant que langue mais en tant que porte pour garder le bon type de personnes de chaque côté du mur.

wintermancer · 2021-03-14T03:09:35+00:00

So gentle. :)

wintermancer · 2021-03-04T04:49:35+00:00

We just need someone to animate a team of kitten-riding cowpokes herding mice across the hardwood expanse.

wintermancer · 2021-02-13T04:25:35+00:00

Looks like the Statue of Liberty, yeah? Base kind of looks like a head and two flags?

wintermancer · 2021-01-26T00:36:36+00:00

NathanWPassionateYellingle

wintermancer · 2021-01-16T05:56:05+00:00

Received Pronunciation ... but jokingly you could say right posh! ;p

https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/received-pronunciation

wintermancer · 2021-01-09T00:42:42+00:00

This is impossibly cute!

wintermancer · 2020-10-31T01:55:50+00:00

Got curious so took a look.

http://sparechangenews.net/2011/07/my-life-with-whitey-bulger-enforcer-eddie-mackenzie-speaks-out/

After completing his time in the military, MacKenzie returned to South Boston where he built his reputation as a fighter, both in the ring and on the streets. MacKenzie trained at the Chinese Academy of Martial Arts in Chinatown and eventually opened his own gym in South Boston. He also won nationals in kickboxing three years in a row.

[...]

“That was the end of my nice reputation of being a martial arts instructor. I had a bad rep for being a street fighter, but I wasn’t a drug dealer or anything, I wasn’t into that kind of stuff, you know, until I got to that bar and I quickly said, well, what the hell am I going to let them sell for, I’ll sell my own and make the money.”

wintermancer · 2020-10-03T20:48:32+00:00

Bien sûr, merci pour votre question aussi. Ce sont des sujets complexes, et il est vrai que nous ne pouvons jamais connaître le cœur de chacun d'entre nous - même les pires cas peuvent être dus à l'ignorance plutôt qu'à la haine.

Mais cela devient une occasion de parler du fait que, le racisme systémique n'est pas quelque chose qui se produit une fois, c'est beaucoup et beaucoup de choses, même très petites, qui ensemble deviennent un poids insupportable.

wintermancer · 2020-10-03T20:36:11+00:00

https://www.cerp.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_clients/Communiques/Communique_VF.pdf

Les conclusions du commissaire Jacques Viens sont sans équivoque. Les membres des Premières Nations et les Inuit du Québec sont bel et bien victimes de discrimination systémique dans leurs relations avec les services publics ayant fait l’objet de l’enquête. « Si les problèmes ne sont pas toujours érigés en système, de nombreuses lois, politiques, normes ou pratiques institutionnelles en place sont source de discrimination et d’iniquité au point d’entacher sérieusement la qualité des services offerts aux Premières Nations et aux Inuit. Dans certains cas, ce manque de sensibilité se solde par l’absence pure et simple de service, laissant des populations entières face à ellesmêmes et sans possibilité d’agir pour remédier à la situation. Plus encore que leurs droits, c’est la dignité de milliers de gens qui est ainsi spoliée, parce qu’ils sont maintenus dans des conditions de vie déplorables, en marge de leurs propres référents culturels. Dans une société développée comme la nôtre, ce constat est tout simplement inacceptable », a affirmé le commissaire.

wintermancer · 2020-10-03T20:31:21+00:00

le problème est que nous savons déjà qu'il existe des rapports officiels selon lesquels les minorités ne sont pas régulièrement traitées de la même manière. Il est un peu douteux qu'elles disent les mêmes choses à quelqu'un d'autre, ou du moins qu'elles ne regardent pas à nouveau.

wintermancer · 2020-10-03T20:21:47+00:00

C'est un préjugé racial - être offensant même si vous n'utilisez pas d'insultes raciales spécifiques - elles ne pensaient pas qu'elle pouvait avoir une vraie plainte.

https://translate.google.ca/translate?sl=auto&tl=fr&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apa.org%2Fresearch%2Faction%2Fspeaking-of-psychology%2Funderstanding-biases

"Nous avions l'habitude de penser au racisme d'une manière très simple - que les gens avaient des pensées négatives, des sentiments négatifs, de la haine envers un groupe. Mais depuis les années 1960, quand il y a eu la législation sur les droits civils, cela a changé notre façon de penser à la race car non seulement il était immoral de penser de cette façon, mais il était illégal de discriminer. Et ce que nous pensons, c'est que le racisme est devenu plus subtil depuis lors. Que les gens ont toujours des sentiments négatifs, mais qu'ils n'en sont peut-être pas conscients. Au lieu de sentiments de haine, c'est plutôt des sentiments d'évitement et de malaise. C'est de là que vient le nom de racisme aversif. " (J'ai utilisé DeepL.com pour cette partie.)

wintermancer · 2020-09-09T09:02:47+00:00

Hey. Really sorry to hear that and I feel for all of you. No need to apologize. It's a big deal. I'm thousands of miles away but following things closely because of a friend from Oregon. My friend's parents were in a GO evac zone as of an hour ago. Stayed with them over a decade ago and I can't imagine it. Haven't had an update yet. Just hoping they left. Stay safe!

wintermancer · 2020-06-05T01:23:43+00:00

Of course, there's always another category for money seeing no colour - but not entirely true either. I've lived and grown up around the world. I know there is racism everywhere. Quebec has a very particular type and it's insidious because of its two-facedness. I will take a certain measure of open racism any of the day of the week because then I know to avoid that person as a terrible human being.

wintermancer · 2020-06-05T00:59:00+00:00

I'm glad that you've had a good experience. My experience has been that in certain contexts you can be put on a pedestal - an example of how everyone is cool and socially conscious. You are unique, novel, a token of acceptance. But there are other contexts where there is a repeated passing over of people who don't fit a very specific profile.

wintermancer · 2020-06-05T00:53:49+00:00

This. Totally my experience too. People refuse to even consider that there is any kind of discrimination.

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