SilentWorld

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Is the intent to use the tax policy to encourage people to at least go out and drink socially instead of holing up by themselves at home with their booze? I've suspected that's what the point was since I noticed the discrepancy but I've never been able to track down an actual answer.

I really don't think there's any intent to encourage people to drink their alcohol at restaurants/bars. You're still paying significantly more to buy alcohol at a bar than you would at a liquor store. There just isn't cheap alcohol here like there is in the USA. 

28 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

No, the CFL loses $10-$20 million per year as a whole, while some teams make money. Also, workers (and athletes) are currently receiving the $2,000/mo CERB benefit, though it is current set to expire at the end of September and transition to normal EI (% of income).

I don’t believe this is true. $20 million? No way. The CFL as a whole doesn’t make much profit but there’s no way they’re losing $20 million in a typical season. 

This was a bad decision. The CFL wasn’t asking for much anyway (literally just no interest). To the argument that “we shouldn’t be bailing out professional athletes”— what makes professional athletes less important than artists and other performers that have been bailed out?

And 3 of the 9 teams are community owned so it’s not really fair to describe it as bailing out billionaires either.

7 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Not that I doubt he would do it, but 1) it would be easy to add that as a troll job, 2) do you think Shapiro handles web design At DW? Almost guaranteed this is somebody trolling.

It is a troll job. 

Venezuelan court sentences two former US Green Berets to 20 years in prison for failed coup

2 minutes ago, silentbob said:

 

poor bastards are going to try the bubble method and play all their games in *checks notes* Winnipeg

from what i understand they’ll only do that if the feds give them a loan which the government doesn’t seem to want to do. so it’s unlikely we’ll have a season this year at all. 

3 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

No college athlete is going to play college if they were smart. They'd be better off going to play in the CFL, get paid, and play in a country that has a much better handle on pandemic.

 

This virus may possibly ruin NFL careers for these kids even if they're at no risk of death.

you’re a lot more optimistic than i am. forget the 2020 season. i don’t think i’d be willing to make an even money bet that the CFL will put on another season ever again (at least not without being down multiple franchises). 

4 hours ago, IdeaOfEvil said:

12 more months will give time for a vaccine to be created - then add 6 more months for mass production and rollouts of the drug to the entire country (with variables being availability of vaccination materials, "staff" to administer the drug, the standard 5% of the population who it won't work on who will need to be hospitalized, and the inevitable private companies who are going to try and monetize the drug through their own system).

if things continue like they are, and we don’t have a vaccine developed for 12 months, things are going to get wild. i really hope the oxford vaccine proves effective. 

Oh jeeze 

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

A COVID-19 positive California woman was instructed to quarantine, isolate, and inform the people she had been in contact with. Instead she went to work while contagious, didn't tell her roommates, and infected all 16 people in her household.

 

As a result of her and other, similar people:

 

 

Fuck people.

She probably couldn’t afford to take time off work. 

7 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Why do you think that? I don't have any strong feelings on her either way, but I am curious.

It's bad enough that Freeland is pulling the strings right now. A Freeland led government would be even worse for marching in lockstep with American foreign policy. At least with Trudeau in power I can hope that he wouldn't send troops into some disastrous war in the future. People said that if Harper was PM in 2003 that Canadians would be in Iraq. Well if Freeland ends up leading the LPC it won't matter what party is in charge in the future, we'll back up the Americans in whatever military adventurism they wish to undertake.

It will be a dark day if Christia Freeland becomes PM. 

holy 

3 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Imagine that you're stopped at a stoplight, check ing your phone (as so many people do) get honked at for not going after the light turns green, you gas it to only hit someone right in front of you. Not out of the realm of possibility! It doesn't have to be a cell phone so don't get hung up on that point, it could be the radio or talking to a passenger. People aren't perfect and that's why we should engineer safety for, well, everything where humans have control.

 

I've driven dozens of types of cars when I used to travel for work, hell I owned a truck for about ten years, and I can tell you that trucks have great sightlines, they're not perfect and do have blind spots, and those can be very dangerous to pedestrians. This isn't controversial! And the research backs this up. 

I agree that trucks should be engineered better. I just disagree that they should require a separate license. I also disagree that these blind spots themselves are some huge pedestrian killer. The research you linked to backs up that trucks are more likely to severely injure or kill a pedestrian when a collision occurs. It does not say in any way that the blind spots themselves cause collisions with pedestrians. Your link also said that the typical pedestrian fatality occurs mid block, on an arterial street, in the dark. Not the kind of scenario that being able to see exactly 1 foot in front of the bumper would prevent. 

3 hours ago, Jason said:

As for pickup-on-car rear end collisions, look at how the pickup barely even looks damaged here, compared to how fucked up the sedan is:

 

 

This is a far more reasonable criticism, IMO. To add some context to that picture, that's a Toyota Tacoma (so not even a full-size truck) and it doesn't look lifted to me. The picture would be worse if it was a full size truck and far worse if it was a full size truck with a lift kit. 

7 hours ago, Jason said:

 

 

Now imagine that's a couple of kids in front of you in the crosswalk. Bullshit you'd be able to see them.

Okay first of all I agree with you guys in general about the anti-car sentiment and I don't really like this trend of trucks getting bigger and bigger either. THAT BEING SAID... it's pretty obvious some of you guys have never driven a pickup truck before. You're acting like the average truck driver is completely blind, incapable of any level of situational awareness and is driving over pedestrians left and right. Even in the case of that monster truck above (that thing absolutely has an aftermarket lift kit), while you wouldn't be able to see a kid that was literally a foot in front, you would see them before they walked in front of the truck and after, and under most circumstances you WOULD see them in front of your truck because they're not going to be literally one foot away from you. 

1 hour ago, SlipperySlope said:

Trucks should require additional driving certifications. 

If someone can:

A) be licensed to drive a passenger vehicle AND

B) be so unaware of what's going on around them that they would be likely to drive over someone directly in front of them, 

that speaks to a major problem in the licensing system itself that will not be solved by simply saying "pickup trucks need additional licensing." I am not okay with that person driving a Corolla. 

holy shit 

oh good 

19 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

They aren’t the only person going through life with that condition. Mocking the disability necessarily mocks all who have the same disability.

I have a friend with strabismus (lazy eye) and it makes her feel uncomfortable and stigmatized when people mock Crenshaw for only having one eye. 

On 6/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

 

hell yeah 

3 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:

Beijing reimposes lockdown measures after new Covid-19 outbreak (The Guardian)

 

Six people test positive, so they test hundreds more, find 45 asymptomatic cases and plan to test 10,000 more that work at the market where the outbreak occurred, all the while reimposing lockdown measures.

That's how this pandemic should be handled everywhere. Sadly, we'll suffer with this for far longer than we need to because few countries are responding in such a manner. 

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

Where is our resident CCP defender @SilentWorldat to explain how it’s really not that bad or whatever 

What do you want me to respond to?

edit: this seems like a bad faith mention. Isn’t that supposed to be against the rules. 
 

edit2: I don’t think I explain how it’s not really that bad as much as I ask for clarification when people (especially you) say it is REALLY REALLY BAD. If that makes me a china defender then so be it. 
 

I’m still waiting for you to tell me how much community spread is actually occurring in China. But I guess I’m such a defender to even ask for clarification on that point. 

42 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

That's attempted murder.

Shit 

If he donated to Bernier he’s a fucken chud I don’t give a shit about any board he sits on 

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

The CDC is a bit behind in their reporting (they still have total US COVID-19 deaths at around 77k), but that would indicate that the real death count for the US is likely 170k+.

 

 

170,000 hot damn 

so when do people start getting militant.

Darn! I was hoping they’d pull a challenger and go forward regardless of the weather.