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dom

@dom@mstdn.ca

Weird guy from Montreal. Into heavy metal, science, books, video games, cats, beer, whisky, scaring-people-because-they-can't-categorize-me.

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dom, to climate
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People might call me cold-hearted but I think it is actually a good thing if you can't get a mortgage for a house located in a high-risk flood zone.

People don't seem to want to adapt to the impacts of climate change but when a crisis hit, it's everyone that need to foot the bill.

What needs to happen now is for governments to support these people for moving away from these areas. Yes, everyone pays but one last time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/quebec-desjardins-flooding-mortgage-1.7129986

Rasta, to random
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A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.

"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive.

In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

dom,
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@Rasta Looks like the person saying that doesn't know Spanish!

"Si No Si" = Yes
"No No Si" = Yes
"No Si No" = No

😂😂😂

skaly, to queer
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Proudly non-binary. Proudly intersex-female (PCOS). Proudly pansexual. Proudly non-monogamous. Proudly neurodivergent (NVLD, ADD). Proudly African and Middle Eastern. Proudly Israeli. Proudly Jewish.

And my identity, to all of the different groups who try to erase me? Is proudly non-debatable! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🇮🇱

dom,
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@skaly Hi Skaly!
I'm not knowledgeable about this so honest question: What does "intersex-female (PCOS)" means? It's different than "lesbian" when someone doesn't necessarily identify as "female"?

Thanks for the info and happy weekend!

dom, to Quebec
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"The Quebecois government should be looking for ways to encourage students to fall in love with its province and language by making engagement with both exciting and inviting. Enforcing financial penalties and requirements approaching assimilation won’t preserve the French language or French universities as they hope it will."

I've been saying that for years. Your kid will not get to like broccoli by shoving it down his throat!

https://www.queensjournal.ca/quebec-government-has-lessons-to-learn-in-diversity/

dom, to VegetableGardening
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Here's what many may disagree with:

  • In this day and age, farmers (both at small and large scales) are rarely good stewards of the environment. Money is still the driving force of their operations. This is why governmental legislations often have to be implemented because it's a myth that those who work the land knows what's best for it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68218907

fkamiah17, to random
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Ladies and gentlemen, John Cusack, in his own words. He's one of the few major celebrities to put his money where his mouth is. He's just been declared "Antisemite of the Week" by Stop Antisemitism USA.

dom,
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@fkamiah17 I think the problem is that a lot of powerful groups on this planet deny that highlighting the atrocities of a country doesn't mean you hate the people coming from said country. Having been historically mistreated is never an excuse to do the same to others.

Jewish people in Israel have the right to live in peace BUT NOT by indiscriminately killing people they perceive as "others". Doing so is as bad as what Hitler did.

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 2.5 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes inside feel nothing but gravity.

Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves — ripples in the curvature of spacetime — with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.

It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should see mergers of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)

It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation": the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. These gravitational waves were created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So they're older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.

It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2035.

dom,
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@johncarlosbaez Sorry but WE should be proud of our own technological and scientific development. An alien civilization arriving here after travelling light-years would laugh at our low understanding of the universe.

dom, to random
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Saw this cat resting under an abandoned car in a parking lot in Mexico.

He looks like he has a toupet parted in the middle. 😂

dom, to Quebec
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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2024/quebec-force-teaching-french-mcgill-concordia/

dom,
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@mpjgregoire The thing is:

  • These universities have a grandfathered agreement that they are anglophone universities and they are some of the best in the world.
  • Adding French courses in addition of the normal cursus inflates programs as opposed to all the others similar in Canada.
  • Why are we penalizing Canadians students but not European ones? An anglophone from Ottawa is much more culturally similar to us than a European from France. Language is not the only thing in our culture.
dom,
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@mpjgregoire I agree that the statu quo worked fine. I also agree that promoting the learning of French is important but this shouldvhave been done through discussions when restructuring specific programs and not imposed as an additional charge.

This additional charge, evaluated at about an extra 20 credits workload, automatically makes the programs of these universities as uncompetitive with similar ones across Canada.

We all know that it's never been about promoting French in the province.

dom, to Quebec
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You can't make this stuff up. Even the OQLF own studies demonstrate it.

Once again, French is NOT in decline in Quebec!
Le français n'est pas en déclin au Québec!

C'est plutôt le QI moyen de la population qui semble l'être. 🙄

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/there-are-more-english-and-allophone-students-in-quebec-going-to-french-school-oqlf-study-1.6695418

skaly, to random
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And here you can see a Gazan child once again saying her dream is to kill all Jews. This is on Gaza's TV, this is in their schools.
Hamas is basically a factory for suicidal terrorists who are controlled by their billionaire puppeteers in Qatar and Iran. Jews in Israel are not their final goal, only the first one. I grew up Israeli Jewish. You think I was ever taught to kill Muslims? Never. Nor does ANYONE I know.

See:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz9W67oLUJa/?igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ==

dom,
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@skaly But there IS a difference between "Palestinians" and the Hamas. A lot of people in North America are being brainwashed by yes, let's say it, Israel-related politicians into thinking that "Palestine" as a whole is a threat.

Regardless of someone's faith/religion, it is never acceptable to normalize the death of people.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Should Sex Work be legalized?

Obviously, if you have more to say about it, comment below!

dom,
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@RickiTarr I mean, prostitution has existed for thousands of years and even the most "purist" religious people will use this service.

It's more than due time that we accept it as "normal". It's probably much better for society than smoking so...

luckytran, to random
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Out-of-touch people keep saying "why are people complaining, the economy is great!"

Here's one reason: “The most recent data shows that the top 1% now owns 31.4% of American wealth, more than that of the entire bottom 90%."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/opinion/why-voters-arent-buying-bidens-boasts-about-bidenomics.html

dom,
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@luckytran I mean, from an outsider perspective (Disclaimer: I'm Canadian), it seems to me that Americans consistently vote for politicians (at all national, state, municipal levels) with promises of money and not for those with promises of health and education.

Unless I'm missing something, I think there's a dire need for more awareness about the danger of an economy that is completely free from governmental interventions.

dom, to Montreal
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Pour ceux qui, tout comme moi, sont contre la hausse des frais de scolarité pour les étudiants hors Québec (et surtout anglophones), voici une pétition à l'Assemblée Nationale du Québec.

https://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-10517/index.html

TheConversationUS, to USpolitics
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Why are we so into campaign polls?

Sure, reporters – and readers – like a sense of what lies ahead, but polls are at best inaccurate and as we’ve seen in history, often wrong

https://theconversation.com/often-in-error-but-still-seductive-why-we-cant-quit-election-polls-213835

dom,
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@TheConversationUS Because it seems that a large portion of the population wants to receive information, regardless of their value. It is, after all, a "Fast Food" society.

ned, to random
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The same people who took away your right to peace of mind that you can send your kids to school without them getting shot down or run over are the same people who tell you that kids shouldn't be allowed to live if they aren't heteronormal, are the same people who tell you that their children shouldn't have to learn that other children were taken and forced into Residential Schools, are the same people who claim to be "protecting the children" and "everybody else is a pedophile".

dom,
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@ned And the same people to yell "Stop indoctrinating our kids!" but then force their kids to go through all that Christening BS without letting them choose their own religion (or if they want one at all). If that is not indoctrination, then nothing is.

georgetakei, to random

A top advisor to Zelensky states that Elon Musk's decision to assist Russia by disabling Starlink for the Ukrainians led to the deaths of civilians, including children.

dom,
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@georgetakei If you have money, it always seems ok in the United States to destroy lives.

(Trump) Families destroyed at the Mexican border because of ICE operations? Meh, you can't prove it's me that did that!
(Musk's Starlink) Kids dying in Ukraine? Meh, you can't prove it was my decision that did that.
(Apple & Foxconn) People committing suicide in electronics factories in China because of deplorable living conditions? Meh, you can't prove it's my business model that did that.

dom, to random
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How people mentioned the Internet in 1998...
"... information resources available over the WWW..."
😂😂😂

ned, to random
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Controversial take but...
BIRDS ARE REAL!

dom,
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@MichaelPorter @shimriez @ned Well, we often confuse humans as "Homo sapiens" (we're Home sapiens sapiens, a subspecies of Homo sapiens).... Just like us, Lemurs are part of the Homo sapiens species so this little guy makes a lot of sense as a common ancestor.

dom,
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@MichaelPorter @shimriez @ned

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins/understanding-our-past/living-primates

dom,
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@MichaelPorter @shimriez @ned My mistake then. I thought humans were a subspecies of Homo sapiens, that we were "Homo sapiens sapiens"? Maybe I got confused with the overarching "Primates" then.

ned, to random
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If this is you, then do not fear. You can exert more parental control over your "property" with your vote.

Look for Key Words: "Parental Rights" (as opposed to the Rights of the Child, established by the United Nations), "Choice in Education" (ie, pulling public funds out of public education that teaches to global standards, and putting it into private chartered schools which teach religion and indoctrination instead), "Conscious Rights" (the Right to Discriminate). @DamienMarieAtHope

dom,
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@ned @DamienMarieAtHope "Takes an interest in history and philosophy"...

What kind of f*cking imbecile would think that this is actually a bad thing? Crisse de tabarnak...I would love to treat ALL people equally but some people on the far-right spectrum are behaving in a way that makes it very difficult to consider them as Homo sapiens sapiens. It's as if they WANT to be considered as sub-humans! 🙄

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

dom,
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@lowqualityfacts To be fair, remote working doesn't work for everyone. Just like working in an office might not work for everyone either. Thinking that remote working is a "catch all" solution is as bad as thinking that work needs to be done 100% of the time face-to-face.

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