The country has been ruined by increasing immigration numbers to double of what it was previously while failing to even build the necessary homes needed for the growing young adulthood demographic. It’s sad that some of my peers are even starting to utter racist remarks in resentment of common knowledge that migrants are keeping wage stagnation constant and rent increase is obviously related. I fear that the liberals won’t be able to ever recover from the mistrust they’ve created by allowing things to get so out of hand. I love my immigrant friends but it’s bad to know born Canadians aren’t having a good time because of all this nonsense.
I'm surprised you're being downvoted when almost all the lack of infrastructure for the future of Canadian youth doesn't just hint at what you're expressing, but instead screams it. Almost all politicians in Canada are landlords, multiple property holders, and have decided that what's best for Canada is increasing immigration, where young-born Canadians are having their wages suppressed because of it. Additionally, they are locked into living with their parents because rent has skyrocketed to absurd levels for just a small studio apartment. All for the benefit of the existing established boomer generation.
I'm confused, are you arguing the constraints on their finances and upward mobility due to everything outside their control hints that their circumstances are due to their own vacuity (or whatever parent was on about)?
I'd argue it's not worth trying to acquire the things boomers, and subsequently gen-xers and older millennials sought, but it's worth finding a way to secure some other kind of financial security in whatever way that's feasible.
It's not worth listening to politicians of any sort who say they'll be able to bring that down to earth in the next 5 years.
The tech industry needs an association similar to how doctors join the American Medical Association, where they can collectively agree on ethics and guidelines that must be followed. Any person in tech is behaving unethically if they assist in implementing software to restrict children in Florida from accessing information on the internet that their peers in other states can access. Florida shows little concern for the potential harm to children resulting from information restrictions. Kids in abusive environments greatly benefit from the social connections online communities provide, as well as the diverse information and perspectives from other people. Florida has created this bill as a means to censor content it deems immoral, whether it be abortion information for girls, understanding sexuality, the existence of trans kids, or any other topic arbitrarily designated as immoral by the ruling political party. It is disconcerting to target the rights of children, who have the lowest chance of having the resources needed to challenge something like this bill in court, which should happen under the first amendment.
The AMA has many problems but Ill just mention one - they artificially restrict the number of graduates each year WHILE reporting nation wide shortages. Its not a silver bullet for ethical behavior or efficient economics.
The impact that corporate shills have on public perception is quite powerful. It's peculiar how the general public acknowledges it in other fields such as entertainment, such as with Hollywood movie stars or prominent musicians. However, people often become frustrated when someone points it out within their own field. Kudos to you for noticing it.
> What is your motivation for this, beyond that it would be interesting, helpful to mods against abuse, and more transparency as to why the vote? That all may be enough, of course, especially the latter two reasons. More transparency and accountability might make discussions even less prone to devolving into emotional reactions?
Exactly, all of that is beneficial. I was reading something the other day, and you highlighted it very well: transparency is of the utmost importance for credibility, curbing corrupt behaviour, and sharing knowledge.
Thanks for sharing! I'm personally a fan of the idea that life has always existed, meaning we have always existed as well. It's very cool to listen to someone like Roger Penrose expressing his thoughts on what possibly happened before the big bang. In my opinion, everything in Nature repeats, and nothing is so special that it cannot happen again when we understand the concept of infinity. People who favor the idea of believing in God might be against such a notion, but I think it's worth exploring along with all the philosophy that can emerge from it.
I agree; it feels like what could happen a lot with this system is similar to what people did to get past captchas with their bot software. They might hire some less fortunate individuals to attempt solving it. I found the video funny, but I am definitely aware of how privileged I am not to have been born into the circumstances that would lead to becoming one of these 'damned folks' – the scammers or the victims.
How come your comment history says otherwise (Judaism). I'm perplexed that the new approach to selling religion is pretending to be raised secular and or have others perceive oneself to once be an atheist but then later found the truth in life. Religion was the worst, the worst thing for me to experience in life, and I wish everyone could've experienced similar to me. Since religious people tend to not care about people that have been greatly harmed in life by what they continue to practice, keeping it alive to harm more people. A lot of members of LGBTQ+ classification know what the harm is truly like.
I think you answered your own question to a degree. As I was being raised in an extremely high cost religion, I remember converts were given a very special glow and respect. Oh, they may never be full members of the tribe nor expected to lead very often, but their stories were affirmations that our religion must be right to convince people to join.
Also, these converts were used in proselyting from the populations they came from.
I've noticed most atheists are by default "converts" in a sense, and the now-religious conversion parallels appear to have a few dimensions to it.
There are many secular Jews in the U.S. - people for whom Judaism is a culture and ethnicity that's part of their background, but who don't believe in a higher power or any of the scriptures.
I remember asking a friend's dad "So are you Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform?" and he was like "We're kinda beyond Reform."
I think with rent being a lot higher nowadays including with inflation of goods and add wage stagnation to the equation is making living situations worse for Gen Z; and resulting in less social gatherings. Less space at home from living in a studio or living in an overcrowded apartment with roommates is going to be an outcome of less get togethers at home as well.
