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I'm saying the same thing I said from the beginning, days ago: Surveys of employees on how productive they say they are when working remote isn't an accurate gauge of actual their productivity. It's an indication of which work arrangement they prefer. You're citing a "report" by this tiny team of post-pubescent tech-bloggers: who apparently surveyed 1000 "business leaders" on how productive they think they are, and concluded that the ones who are fully remote tended to believe they are more productive. I can only imagine the titans of industry that responded to their survey. That's the data you're relying on? 🤣

Now that contamination of the DNA packaged into the lipid nanoparticles has been confirmed many times over (including by Health Canada), a few may be asking "How does this affect those who got jabbed?" In spite of the alphabet authorities assurances that it is **shrug** "no big deal", other researchers and scientists decided to find out. MPs | Free Full-Text | Methodological Considerations Regarding the Quantification of DNA Impurities in the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Comirnaty® (mdpi.com) According to the researchers, it turns out that Pfizer may have slightly under-reported the amounts of DNA contamination in its magic spike protein elixirs. Behold my shocked face: And by "slightly" under-reported, I mean by orders of magnitude. Their conclusion included the alarming determination that contaminant DNA enters patients’ cells. In the study authors’ own words: Haha, “unexpected introduction of mRNA” into the global market. See, what you really DON'T want in a vaccine is a cellular delivery system for random bacterial DNA. What could go wrong? One thing that could go wrong is cancer, or ‘oncogenesis’ in public health’s dialect. Speculation: Could be why Pfizer and Moderna are switching focus to cancer meds and why cancer rates are rising.

The next Trailer Park Boys movie should have the son of a former president in it. This fictional character could be banging his widowed sister-in-law, cheating on her with hookers, he could be on the "hunt" for crack, and have an out-of-wedlock child that he's rejecting. He could also be involved with family crimes with his his dad, who's an old kid-sniffer that showers with his young teen daughter. The son, "Tracker", could be Mr Lahey's lawyer, and "the smartest guy that anyone knows" Are those guys too "white trash" for the a wholesome show like the Trailer Park Boys?

Presumably as a factory defect

No, they would have just claimed it was 'classified' and arrested him for not turning it in when he left puberty when he was supposed to LOL

This was just wrong. And shows a very clear misunderstanding of what tarrifs are designed to do. If widgets are 10 dollars from the us and 5 from china currently then most likely that's partially because its not worth it for the US companies to invest the money and energy necessary to make it cheaper. But if it suddenly jumps to 7 dollars then suddenly it's worth it for them to invest in the gear to bring their costs down to 7 dollars because they know there's suddenly going to be a big market. Then they compete on shorter supply chain etc. Price is not the only factor in buying a product. But more importantly tarrifs can force other countries to start to make other trade concessions. And that's usually what happens with tarrifs. Tarrifs as a form of protectionism aren't great. THey CAN work and DO work but at a cost of increasing the cost to business and slowing the economy. In the end it's the consumer who pays the tarrif. So it's a bit of a blunt tool. But used correctly it can force other govt's to improve other trade conditions that make it worth while. Right now the US can't sell much in china, it's a very one way trade.

20240510-Political-Package-report-with-formatted-tabs.pdf (nanos.co) So - short version, this is a complete disaster for the libs, but it's also a horrific disaster for the ndp if this trend continues. The libs have been pulling into disaster territory for quite some time of course, but this is about the worst we've seen and suggests that they haven't found bottom yet. However, this is a new low for the NDP. They have at least been sort of holding their head slightly above where they finished the last election but there has been signs that their relationship with the liberals has been weakening them, and if this poll result turns out to hold over the next couple of polls then they are now in complete disaster territory as well. Also worth noting is that after the budget concerns about deficits went up. And once again Poilievre Has reached new heights in preferred pm and popularity. This isn't just people hating Justin, people are growing ever Pierre himself. I am sure that the liberals do not know what to do with this point. Complete collapse and a disaster similar to Kim Campbell's is a very real possibility no matter what direction they take. All they can do is hold on and hope somehow by some miracle something changes

It's as I described in my first post. It does drive up the costs for goods from the foreign nations but there is no guarantee--or even probability--of that making domestic goods more competitive. Because there aren't infinite options or choices in a marketplace, markets aren't linear. Rather, they are stepped or driven by tipping points. If making a widget in the US costs $10 and importing a widget from China costs $5 then there is a $5 gap before the US version becomes competitive. If the government levies a $2 tariff on Chinese imports the goods become more expensive, hurting consumers, but they still have a $3 advantage over US goods. So US manufacturers aren't really any more likely to eat the startup costs and enter the market at a $3 price disadvantage. And it gets even less likely when we consider that it's a global marketplace. Chinese widget $5 Vietnamese widget $7 US widget $10 So if the government imposes a $2 tariff on Chinese goods, likely nothing happens. If it's a $3 tariff, importers are just switching to the Vietnamese manufacturers. Importers and retailers are disrupted (hurt) and consumers are hurt, and there is no benefit to US manufacturing. That's a pretty basic version. There are other considerations, like how the tariffs collected are reinvested (or not) in US manufacturing and other interests like strategic or military interests. So to recap, that's why broad tariffs are generally frowned upon. They have historically caused more pain than benefit. To be effective tariffs need to be strategically focused and scaled.

I went back to look at how this thread started, and your post was the most relevant and first... that went unanswered. Imagine that. Like the claims of genocide, those who claim war crimes are never quite able to support their assertions and explain themselves.

You have literally nothing Gaetan. No facts, no insights, no worthwhile commentary at all. You can't participate in any thoughtful, sincere dialogue, you just spew bigotry and stupidity like a diarrhea firehose.

It has to be this way. Yes, they know. You can trust them. You have to.

The problem with many people is that they don't realize that it actually started on October 7th 2023. On that day hamas and Gaza made a decision to start a war. Prior to that they were not at war. It actually did not. Regardless of what happened before, no matter what occurred to get them to that point, no matter what you might think of the history, on October 6th 2023 there was no war and on October 7th there was prior to the attack they had many choices as to how they would like to move forward. They could have chosen peace. They did not. Nothing the Israelis are doing is even remotely close to anything that the germans did. Israel was attacked and is defending itself Well thank god we have you to tell us what is correct seeing as you are apparently the only sane human being on the planet according to you. The current war is happening because gaza chose violence. It's that simple. Everything else is excusing terrorist behavior. You are literally apologizing for people who slaughtered women and children by intent without warning and raped and mutilated them. That would make you the bad person, not Israel.

Basically this is what you always say when you know you're wrong and can't make an intelligent argument. Of course, what i said was 100% true. Which is why you couldn't argue against it. It's like listening to you roll over and whine - ok ok, you know you're wrong, we get it. Right now a full-blown war with Iran is not terribly difficult. They have a small amount of very old gear and Russia is in no position to resupply them as they can barely keep themselves resupplied for their war. The nearest threat of war is more than enough to force the Iranians to reel in some of their surrogates. We are already seeing this with the radicals in Yemen backing off and stopping their attacks on shipping. Iran does not want a war. It is the last thing they want. And before full-blown war were to happen they could lose a ton of their infrastructure in strikes that they simply have no capacity to respond to. the serious threat of war alone is enough and if public opinion supports Israel and is against Iran then they know that becomes a very real possible thing Have you seen the interviews? They have no idea what their institutions are doing that they want them to stop. They aren't trying to realistically pressure their institutions to do anything meaningful. That's just an excuse for why they are on the campus, many of whom are even students. The majority aren't by many accounts. What they are doing is what the protesters have been attempting to do since day one. Create civil unrest in the hopes that canadian public opinion will either turn against Israel or that people will be so afraid of further disruption that they will suggest to the Canadian government that we should stay out of it. It's kind of sad you needed this explain to you.

Both israel and hamas and it's masters ahve shown they do care about international opinion. That is abundently clear. When it turns against them it causes a lot of problems for them, so it matters. They both take many actions to make sure that international opinion is on their side or at least not against them. This is simple fact. Arguing they don't is just dumb. And i love how when they're pro-palestinian protesters its' not 'virtue signalling' but is when it's pro israeli As always your hypocrisy is off the charts Calling for our government to do the right thing and pressure hamas and it's parent organizations to surrender or release the prisoners is not virtue signaling. Gay people waving a Palestinian flag demanding that the Jews be slaughtered from the river to the sea in support of a group who would happily throw them from a tall building for their sexual orientation is virtue signaling.

legit one of the dumbest things you've ever said and that's an extremely competitive category. The problem with this is when you're dealing with a state that is already an international pariah there's not very many levers you can work to influence them. Sanctions? The U.S. has had Iran under sanctions for almost 50 years. Military action? You think anyone wants to start a full blown regional war over a few dozen kibbutzim? The protesters aren't trying to pressure the government, they're pressuring their institutions. Again, you obviously have no idea what these protests are about.

So you still can't actually answer the simple question "how many should we have and why". Kid - i'm pretty hard conservative. But as a true conservative i believe in thinking rather than just regurgitating talking points. if you're going to argue that the number of mp's is too high you'll have to explain what the correct number is and why - not just "we shud lower cause austrailia." If you can't do that then you're just talking out of your ass, in which case it sounds like it's YOU who's qualified to work for the gov't Now - do you have an answer or are you just a bag of wind?

The problem with many people is they think this all started on October 7th, 2023. It actually started in the late 40s and if you go further back, the late 10s. And what Israel is doing is worse than what the Nazis did. In fact Amnesty International calls for Israel to put an end to apartheid. Strange how people forget about the definition of apartheid. You'll never find a fair criminal tribunal when it is run by those that commit crimes. Hell, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would have been good candidates.

You're basing your belief that a "high volume" of protesters don't know what they're protesting based on a small cherrypicked sample of ones you've seen interviewed? You don't see the problem here? In other words, you want more empty virtue signalling. Israel has shown it does not care about international pressure. The only thing that would actually make them stop is if the US turned off the tap, but that won't happen. Israel has shown it does not care about international laws. The efficacy of the protests wasn't the question.

The less correct you are, the less coherent you are.

Guess you don't know all the so-called Palestinian territory actually belongs to Israel.. It is kind of like the natives in B.C. who claim all of B.C. (and more) as their territory. They claim it but it doesn't really belong to them. It is crown land and much is private land. FNs have been given ownership or control over certain specified areas but they don't own the vast territories they claim as their territory. It is the same in Israel. The land belong to Israel. It doesn't matter what the U.N. says. Israel does not recognize the U.N. which is basically an antisemitic organization. All you have to do is look at all the endless anti-Israel motions the U.N. passed over the decades to know that. If Israel listened to the U.N. they would not even exist.

Dude - you're entirely in the wrong here. @I am Groot Is correct. Justin has radically increased the size of the federal employees both in number and employees per capita and expanded many programs and added new ones within the various ministries. Look for yourself: Population of the federal public service - Canada.ca And online accessibility is not up at all. If anything overall it's down due to some major failures like the arrivecan app which wound up very negatively impacting productivity. Here's just a handful of some of the new initiatives and programs. Programs and initiatives (canada.ca) And there is a difference between DEPARTMENT or PROGRAM efficiency and individual worker efficiency. They are not the same. If you have a poorly organized or run department your employees can be very productive and still achieve nothing over all. Basically going nowhere fast. An example going back to arrivecan would be the individual efforts of security assisting people going up, while delays also went up due to the effect of the arrivecan app requiring them to provide customer support. The stats and data that the gov't has collected so far strongly indicates that individual remote worker productivity is up. Even if overall efficency of the various orgs is down. And we both know you're not talking to 'hundreds' of people about this.

Your mistake is thinking that Netanyahu is Putin in this story. He's not. He's Zelenskyy. His county was invaded by a hostile force and his people killed. and now he's fighting back. The international judges didn't bring charges against zelenskyy and they didn't bring charges against netanyahu. They will bring charges against putin and the hamas leaders if they get their hands on them.

Trump is wildly popular compared to Biden. People are energized and happy to meet Trump, but no one wants to be around Joe. In theory, all black people would hate trump and love Biden, but in reality there are some black people who love trump, and Biden's biggest supporters in the black community have to plug their noses to vote for him. No one loves Joe. He's a shell of a man.

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You underestimate his ability to keep lying and saying stupid things. Just imagine Joe Biden, but with more energy. His official opinion has still never changed from "The vaccines are safe, and if you take them then you don't have to worry about getting covid or passing it on to anyone. Kids needed the vaccine to protect them from covid, and no one was forced to take it." Facts mean nothing to that guy and he's completely shameless. You can catch him lying 50 times today and he'll tell all the same lies again tomorrow.