tleb

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[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just flatout wrong to say it makes no sense because an acronym is pronounced as a word, not an abbreviation of its words. AIDS isn't pronounced "awh-ids", NASA isn't pronounced "N-eh-sa".

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ethical business? Wat? Our economy is propped up by a housing bubble and resource extraction

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

That would be true if Half Life 3 was a game that existed and not just a dream

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Singh had many reasonable opportunities to do this over the last few years, but finally pulls the rip cord when the Conservatives are polling way ahead? What the fuck? He's such a useless piece of shit, why do the NDP keep him around

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

This is strictly untrue for many climates. Where I live in Canada, 0F is average winter day, 100F is record-breaking "I might actually die" levels of heat.

-30C to 30C is not any more complicated or less intuitive than -22F to 86F

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

A degree Celsius is not coarse and does not require decimals in weather reports, and I suspect only a person who has never lived in a Celsius-using country could make such silly claims.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

They compete on prices just like the grocery stores competed on bread prices

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the same argument that my original comment is against. You just labelled the Liberal + NDP bucket as "left".

If we had a ranked ballot (I don't actually want ranked ballot, but it's useful for demonstrating my point), I would rank NDP as 1 and not rank Liberals or CPC because I don't like either of them. Just because the Liberals are left of the CPC does not make them "left", and does not magically earn them every NDP vote.

Likewise, I'm sure there are Liberal voters who would rather have CPC than NDP.

There is no collective "left" of all NDP + Liberal voters.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

That's probably true for NDP voters (i.e. they'd rather have a Liberal government than CPC), but I don't think it's true that Liberal voters would rather have NDP than Conservative.

We're both just speculating though, there's probably some actual info on this from people studying ranked ballots

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I hate this mentality of bucketing Liberals and NDP together. They're different parties with different policies, and one of the main benefits of PR is that leftists don't have to compromise our values and vote Liberal just to prevent Conservatives from winning. Treating it like left vs right just pushes us towards the Democrat vs Republican in the US.

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